Policing swallows 15% of municipal taxes. The 3.87% increase could've been 3.29%, if policing's $16.14m increase wasn't granted. That $16m was 5x more than the library, bd of health, conservation auth., MPAC, beach rescue, the RBG, farmers' market, and enrichment fund got, put together.

Kash Patel's challenge coin reminds me of some of the clients I used to take on as a young graphic designer "Looks great bro, we're so close. The little eye socket spiders - so dope btw - can they each be smoking little blunts? Also if you can fit in 5-6 more guns, really want that to come across"

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Honestly how do I find more music like this youtu.be/HUL4T8WcFdA?...

I feel like social media is more addictive these days because at any given moment - it - could happen

I think if you're let's say 43 years old and you're asked by a cashier if you're eligible for the seniors discount, you should get the discount by default. Theoretical of course

Is there a polymarket or whatever on whether school gets cancelled tomorrow

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

“Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley called the province’s letter “arrogance” and a “huge intrusion” into local government.” Maybe other parts of Ontario are waking up to what Toronto has known since 2018. Doug Ford’s fetishes are your burden.

We’ve also got a written version that people can read on our Substack. open.substack.com/pub/hatchetm...

Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath is pressuring the Hamilton Public Library to accept a smaller budget than they require in the face of cyberattacks and opioid overdoses. They’re closing the Central branch on Sundays but she wants more cuts. This is the “left wing” leader 😡

Downhill skiing is just a risk I could never be compelled to take

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

Well clearly these guys just need more training

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

This is a mass murder death cult. Any politician pushing for anything other than putting everyone involved in jail is materially supporting child trafficking, abuse, torture, and concentration camps

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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

He's really ruined thank you for your attention to this matter for the rest of us

One more reason my soul shrivels up every time I hear someone say "I just used chatgpt to ____"

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Children make up about 30% of the over 70,000 people killed in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

What housing crisis?

The zone has never been more flooded

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

ICE's treatment of children blows a giant hole in this phony MAGA narrative that the right wing embraces families, moms, kids & all that. The msm has done way too many stories about White House babies, fertility policies & the like without also acknowledging this grotesque split screen.

“6. Improve conditions at the uh. At the concentration camps.”

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom: "If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."

When seeing ICE abuses, Cndns have little to feel smug about: "A [Black Cndn woman] lawyer was left bloody & swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers slammed her head on a desk w/o provocation, ripped off her head scarf & dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse."

🚨Want to know which Canadian companies are profiting off of ICE and Trump’s violent mass deportation agenda? Well I just spent the last few days digging into exactly that. Here are the companies I found, how much they’re making, and whether they’re getting Canadian taxpayer dollars. Sneak peek:

“A lawyer says she was left bloody and swollen after multiple Durham Regional police officers allegedly slammed her head on a desk without provocation, ripped off her head scarf and dragged her to the basement cells of the Oshawa courthouse last week.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

we should save up all the leap days and then every hundred years have Huge February

In a world of Blippis, be a Ms. Rachel

My feeling is that it's immoral to make big profits on things people need to live - housing, food, water, education, medical care amongst others. We understand this piecemeal in this country - people like single-payer healthcare, but they think it's a God-given right to make big profits on housing.

Less money for libraries and more money for police. With NDPers like this, who needs conservatives?

She declined to answer specifics last week. She walked away when I asked about the police budget. thepublicrecord.ca/2026/01/tran...

Get ready for the worst podcast in the history of the medium

OpenAI’s president is a Trump mega-donor

Galen Weston Jr literally lives in a castle

"(crushed) ICE", oil on watercolour paper, 5 3/4 x 7 3/4", 2025- $150(Cdn) #art

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Bolsonaro supporters protesting and demanding that he is set free got hit by a lightning bolt, 3 persons are in hospital now.

There should be a separate social media platform for sports

Canadian-made vehicle being used to terrorize people in Minneapolis