A classic Reason magazine writer take where he has to try to "both sides" Trump putting his face on our currency, our passports, and on giant banners all around DC by pointing out that... uh... some random people put Obama's face on some t-shirts?

The Office for Students needs shutting down. This judgement makes clearer than ever that it's simply a partisan organisation used by the right, including government ministers, to suppress academic freedom and freedom of expression of left-wing staff and students. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Fun and maybe surprising that'd he do it, but not crazy in a substantive sense, since the Westminster parliamentary system has proven infinitely better than the much-vaunted American system of checks and balances on this very issue.

This kinda of legitimizing noise from @pnas.org deeply disappointing. THOUSANDS of studies on acupuncture. All iffy or pretty underwhelming. If it worked well, we'd know. Stop "Western science" BS. There is SCIENCE. The toleration & normalization of pseudoscience helped create the current crisis.

This update conflates universality with inclusion. Universal programs that don't address structural barriers end up benefiting the people who were already best positioned — and that's the pattern across the Canada Strong Fund, Team Canada Strong, the DTC list, and the housing measures.

The difference between right-wing populism and left-wing populism in Canada today is that one is stupid and dangerous and the other is just stupid.

This isn’t the behaviour of a regime that will gracefully step aside if voters ask them to in 2028…

Fox News reports that former FBI director James Comey has been indicted in relation to his “8647” post on Instagram last year.

Dictator shit.

Wait. The Pope gets a "motorcade escort level" that's more than the PM or a visiting President? Someone explain/justify this to me.

From 2023, on the moral panic around kids, pronouns, and schools. "When we remove the ability of educators to exercise good judgment, all we’re left with is less good judgment, and significantly increased risks of harm for at least some children." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/rights-tal...

one time the biden administration politely asked social media platforms to take down covid misinformation to save lives and the rightwing ecosystem spent years screeching about the perils of censorship

From 2023, on the moral panic around kids, pronouns, and schools. "When we remove the ability of educators to exercise good judgment, all we’re left with is less good judgment, and significantly increased risks of harm for at least some children." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/rights-tal...

Barely articulate grunts like this might be expected from internet trolls, but is it too much to expect that leading legal academics hold themselves to a higher standard?

"Slush fund" was 1000% my first thought, because that's exactly what it is.

This "last living framer" nonsense is ridiculous. Senator Serge Joyal was the chair of the parliamentary committee who drafted the Charter. He's still alive and kicking. There are others, and they're not cranks like this one.

Imagine parliamentary privilege being destroyed by someone associated with the MacDonald-Laurier institute. Perfect summation of the times we live in.

Uh... these are just colors.

HALF its workforce? This is a company raking in billions of profit every year. We should be regulating oligopolies within an inch of their miserable lives.

Hoo boy, SCC will release its decision in Ryan Alford v. Canada on Friday. Either the Court will uphold the Court of Appeal judgment, or it will make a mockery of constitutional coherence and the very definition of parliamentary privilege. There's little in-between here.

Huh. Imagine if the OLP actually selects a good leader.

Toronto: What we’re seeing now is that (police) are not even distinguishing between protests, academic events or cultural events. Any time there are Palestinians speaking about Palestine, they are viewed as potentially anti-semitic or promoting violence.” www.thegrindmag.ca/cops-keep-sh...

Hockey players always talk about having a code but 80% of what goes on in NHL games is just objectively unsportsmanlike goonery that only psychopaths would teach kids.

Indeed. A person rushed at POTUS's security perimeter and was stopped there. A person whose plan is to do a one-man charge through POTUS's security perimeter is, ipso facto, irrational. To the extent anything can be done to prevent this, it's universal free healthcare including mental healthcare.

"Do you regret your heated rhetoric?" "No. Do you regret your chilled rhetoric? Do you regret sitting on the sidelines as norms fell away and so many laws were broken? Do you regret pretending like this was all normal and you alone were savvy enough to see that Both Sides Are To Blame?"

Just a bit of context, when Mintz hand picked people when he started his policy school, he selected, not via open competitions but via his own selection methods, 100% men. And the university let him.

a generational assault on the scientific enterprise

BRENNAN: The shooter had multiple weapons. You said he traveled from CA across the country by train. How did he do that? BLANCHE: This isn't about making laws more restrictive BRENNAN: I'm asking about crossing state lines w/firearms BLANCHE: I don't think that's something we should be focused on

Occasionally the absolutely inept MLB video review system goes the Jays' way.

I would love to play poker against whoever wrote this tripe.

Er, no one is calling for John Schneider's head because the Jays have been decimated by injuries. If they had this record with a healthy roster, believe me there'd be questions.

This is such bizarro stuff. It means they think controlling 100% of the population is easier than controlling a handful of bad actors on the internet. 😵‍💫🙃

Brilliant logic, if you think that driver's licenses carry the same privacy implications as *online age verification* systems. Unfortunately, they don't, so your comparison is instead astonishingly stupid.

Just wild that the Secret Service shot a Donald Trump supporter dead at Mar-a-Lago two months ago because he had a gun & was trying to kill the president over the Epstein files but—speaking only for myself—I haven’t heard a word about it amid the coverage tonight www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

He means an assault on basic Internet privacy is coming for us all.

Just a reminder that past motives for assassination attempts have included: "because the ghost of William McKinley told me to," "to save the trees" and "to impress Jodie Foster."

9 GW is flat out insane. If you assume 80% utilization, that's 56 TWh of electricity. That's more than 26 states used in 2024.

I for one will never, ever forget how quickly and easily American institutions and businesses embraced fascism when this loser took power

Thank you for your helpful and supportive comment. 🙄

Welp. Yesterday I agreed to serve as Head of Political Science over here at UWaterloo. We are heading into the implementation year of a Faculty of Arts 'reorganization', with Departments administratively becoming part of Schools. Part of my work will be to ensure programs retain autonomy. 1/n

So someone made this. And in a time when no one seems to be fighting back against these awful, racist, useless referendum(b) questions, this gave me a glimmer of hope. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #referendumb #Alberta

"A history professor course could not allocate instructional time to the Stonewall riots or the gay rights movement. If a U.S. history textbook includes a chapter on the AIDS crisis, the professor must skip it." www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

This is an astute distinction and makes me realize why I DO still like Bluesky — as I use it, it’s the 2010s model (chronological, relational, active as well as passive, made by humans) vs a Reels, say

We can't continue to let the "pro life" movement get away with this bullshit branding. They stand for "slow painful death" and "forced pregnancy". That's it.

It isn't your fucking business how people choose to exercise autonomy over life and death decisions, motherfuckers.

If you’re like, “Wait, everyone is shackled on ICE flights?! Wait, there are 50 ICE flights a day?! Wait, they’re sending people to countries they’ve never been to?!” I am begging you to please read my ICE Air FAQ. 🙏 gillianbrockell.com/what-is-ice-...

actually, it's a 500% rise (and 83% drop)

Also shout out to the "Pope's clear liberal political bent", a strong reference to Jesus' dictate to hate your enemy. 🤔