On this day in 1861, the first documented game of what became Canadian football was played at the University of Toronto. It was a practice game between students and it predates the first recorded American football game by eight years.

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

LOL Okay, we have a plot synopsis for "Jingle All the Way Pt 2"... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

This is kinda funny. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

NB: every line of this poem is a quote from a senior manager at said Russell Group university.

Someone at a Russell Group university was moved to almost-poetry by their Faculty Meeting… Can anyone do better?

The restored East Wing.

one will power the globe for generations to come if not forever, while the other one convinces vulnerable people to kill themselves and/or others. a tough question

There are no words for how evil this is

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

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Can't imagine how this might possibly be misused... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Read about this as a kid, and it impressed the hell out of me.

The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.

Once upon a time, American soldiers handed out food to Germans because *they* had followed a fascist madman into national ruin. How times change.

There is absolutely nothing more powerful than a candidate willing to actually knock the doors and talk to the people, even if they're unknown (coughMamdanicough) or have no hope of winning. Just ask Bruce Fanjoy, who defeated Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre this year after DOING THE WORK.

Or to cast that same thought in a slightly different form, "the case for Universal Basic Income, part 246,974."

Remember when RFK Jr swam in raw sewage, and everybody had headlines asking what kind of whackaloon would do that? Well...

Maybe pundits should spend more time in densely packed, left leaning urban areas where the "real Americans" live

Backstab the blue. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Domestic manufacturing rose sharply under Biden and is falling under Trump

Another often overlooked but important election. Loudoun County Public Schools has been ground zero for targeting by the Trump administration over trans students, and chose to protect their students. Pro-trans candidates Chandler and Svenson are winning, and anti-trans Munoz-Melendez is losing.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

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Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Absolute malpractice by the sandwich jury if they do not demand reenactments, varying the sandwich trajectory, bread, meats and condiments.

New in PN: Mike Johnson's lies keep getting lost in the facts "Nearly every time he appears before cameras to sell the GOP’s lies, he manages to unintentionally tell the truth. These admissions have advertised the fact the regime is intent on using the shutdown to torment vulnerable Americans."

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Re-upping this:

"Which is to say, if you have to choose a 'pedia' to trust, you might choose the one assembled by a bunch of pedantic nerds saying 'well, ACTUALLY' to each other until the heat death of the universe, over the one assembled by an LLM controlled by an insecure Nazi salute-throwing billionaire..."

New awareness campaign

It's baby quail time again! First hatch from the new incubator. Forty-ish to date, and many more still in the incubator in various stages of hatching.

Functional hypothalamic amenorrhea is an understudied condition. Please help me get two important studies filled by spreading the word! open.substack.com/pub/vajenda/...

Facts matter…this is true. 💙

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Apropos of which, if you should think a change of govt is the quick fix for this, a reminder that a) the Conservatives were in power for almost half of this period; and b) Poilievre himself is a landlord and real estate investor.

Want to see a microcosm of America? Immigrants won the World Series for the Dodgers and immigrants will be unwelcome and hunted at the victory parade.

We often think of problems as separate buckets: disease, malnutrition, affordability or economic development. But “Climate change is not a separate bucket,” Hayhoe says. “The reason we care about climate change is that it’s the hole in every bucket.”