This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

Kimmel’s show tomorrow will likely be his highest ratings ever. So Sinclair’s commissions-based ad salespeople can watch those dollars fly to other ABC affiliates

Canadian gasoline sales level off as EV adoption rises (Canada)

Today, I was laid off from Cascade PBS along with my entire team and most of the newsroom. I'll have more to say, but I have loved my time as news editor alongside some of the best journalists I have ever worked with. Every time a newsroom closes, stories go with it. The silence that follows is loud

Basically a transcript of John Oliver’s comments on the Kimmel incident, useful for us Canadians geoblocked from seeing the clip.

Bluesky is my home base. You guys have supported me and @resistanceschool.bsky.social. Y'all are my homies ✊🏾

Carl Sagan wrote this in 1995 and I think about it a lot.

The Great Escape is one of the most famous movies from the 1960s. Based off a true story, the film greatly exaggerated American involvement. In reality, one of the main figures of the escape was Canadian, along with the 150 Canadians who assisted. This is the story. 🧵 1/12

Later that week the NYT published the following piece by a dipshit parroting JD Vance that “the people’s representatives” should set interest rates. You know, like in Türkiye. Caution: contains dog whistles including “globalist” and “elite.”

Ooof! “He criticized Mr. Trump’s lawyers for waiting until the 80th page to lodge a formal allegation of defamation, and for including, ahead of it, dozens of “florid and enervating” pages lavishing praise on the president and enumerating a range of grievances. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

“WKRP In Cincinnati” premieres 47 years ago today — a show that creator Hugh Wilson based on radio staff he knew from his days in advertising. “Every call letter that I ran through my mind was already taken,” he said. “I think WKRP was not taken because it can be said that it spells ‘crap.'”

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

EDMONTON – Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to invoke the Charter’s notwithstanding clause this fall on three laws affecting transgender people.

Soon, the only comedian left on TV will be Karoline Leavitt.

Why have I not seen one Seattle news outlet localize what the Jimmy Kimmel thing means on the local level? Because it means a lot. Sinclair - the company that did this to him - owns KOMO. And they're bowing to the FCC so they can merge with Nextstar/TEGNA, which just bought KING 5.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

*SUPREME COURT SETS NOV. 5 ORAL ARGUMENTS IN TRUMP TARIFFS CASES

McCarthy with his Red Menace crusade was in disgrace, America needed to be scared of something else. It also needed high-minded writing and boobs, obv.

Sounds made by Rice Krispies in seven languages… 7. Snap! Crackle! Pop! (English) 6. Knap! Knaetter! Knak! (Afrikaans) 5. Riks! Raks! Poks! (Finnish) 4. Pim! Pum! Pam! (Mexican Spanish) 3. Cric! Crac! Croc! (Canadian French) 2. Knisper! Knasper! Knusper! (German) 1. Piff! Paff! Puff! (Swedish)

Excellent, non-dipshit writing despite being NYT. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/m...

Simply put, government clampdowns on free expression (not to be confused with negative social consequences of rude speech) are both a symptom and a driver of democratic backsliding around the world.

Ouch Or maybe oof

Wowww

Good to see SFU's Fir, the fastest supercomputer in Canada, and the 78th most powerful supercomputer in the world, go online following an $80M upgrade. #technology #supercomputing

Every word of this, including “we have decided to do the journalistically correct thing and capitulate entirely.”

Last Public Bathroom Dies in Captivity: tinyurl.com/uj28p7v3

Robert Redford warned us in 2020: “Four more years [of Trump] would accelerate our slide toward autocracy. It would be taken as free license to punish more so-called ‘traitors’ and wage more petty vendettas – with the full weight of the Justice Department behind them.”

Thank you, Chrystia, for your dedication, many contributions to Canada, friendship, and continued partnership.

Nice Canadian connection (sub-post of vg account that stopped posting here) #cars

OTTAWA – The early-1960s revelation that British spy Kim Philby had worked for Moscow alarmed Canadian intelligence officials who feared that he had betrayed confidences gleaned from Soviet defector Igor Gouzenko, once-secret archival records show.

Since the election of Obama, a huge portion of the US right has decided that they want to secede from what the US had become--a religiously and culturally pluralistic, multi-racial democracy. They consider themselves to be the victims of a nation thusly constituted and they want "our country back."

art deco is short for arthur decoration. not many people know this

New: BC’s updated forecast “shows a deficit of $11.6 billion, $665 million higher than at budget, followed by $12.6 billion next year and $12.3 billion in 2027-28.” #bcpoli @citynewsvancouver.bsky.social

Never mind that in this case “they” are the far-far right. Thanks for adding so much to our understanding of this terrible time, especially the historical context.

Interesting interview with a top journalist who examined six words: Freedom Democracy Truth Woke Choice Taxes

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

“How you die does not redeem how you lived.”

The Bluesky version of the Japanese Classics account has stopped posting here, I’m not on Instagram, and I give almost no likes or RTs on the hatescape, so here’s a subpost of a wonderful sports car. #cars #classiccars

This was the story I needed today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Someday, “Bongo and Kash” will be the funniest bumbling cop movie of all time

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

A retired banker in Toronto

Fascists have always hated jazz. They consider it to be dangerously influenced by Black culture. Kennedy Center fires head of jazz programming, adding to string of exits

It's incredible I somehow made it 10 years in the news biz without being laid off but my luck ran out today. Sad to see a quality team torn apart. Spare a thought for your local journos who are ever being asked to do more with less, especially if you're tempted to dunk on the MSM.

Landscape, Algonquin Park Tom Thomson 1916

Starting to repost some of the items I Like, a tiny contribution to this social media community. Also, corn chowder.

The trouble with the helter-skelter life we lead Is coffee in a cardboard cup. The trouble, the psychologists have all agreed, Is coffee in a cardboard cup.

Bellingham Expels Citizen with Normal Name: tinyurl.com/5e9m6wna