Imagine being so tough and alpha male you need a special halftime show made just for you so your feeling doesn't get hurt.

One of the things that’s so special about the Olympics is that every country sends their very best and we know in our hearts that *these people*, these gifted, ambitious and hardworking people, are without fail a better representation of a nation and its character than whatever the fuck it’s govt is

On this day in 1879, Sir Sandford Fleming presented two papers ("Time Reckoning" and "Longitude and Time Reckoning") at a meeting of the Canadian Institute in Toronto. He suggested the creation of worldwide time zones. By 1929, all major countries had accepted time zones.

This was inevitable, and it is terrific 🤘 #NaziPunksFuckOff

an elder in Boston spent his life building a one-of-a-kind radical library, but he's aging and it needs a new home. Cooperation Jackson has agreed to take it, but they need help shipping it all there. blog.bl00cyb.org/2026/02/my-b...

We're still stuck at 1 percent of Hailey's goal. Can we get it to 10 percent today? 🏳️‍⚧️💖

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

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When the United States passed the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850, it led many to seek freedom outside the USA. From 1850 and 1860, between 15,000 to 20,000 escaped enslaved persons came to the Province of Canada, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. This is the story. 🧵 1/8

"Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who lead the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to /

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

LOL You'd think a rich guy might hire a consultant, or something?

Just bought them all. Why wouldn’t you. Great writing. Great cause.

Adobe discontinuing a tool that a huge chunk of the animation industry seems to actual use, for their jobs, to focus on stupid shit no one wants tech.yahoo.com/ai/deals/art...

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Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

As many of you know, I adore sci-fi for so many reasons, but especially because it depicts a world beyond the one we have now. I talked to @jamesfolta.com at Lit Hub about it late last year but I’m always looking for new recs: lithub.com/congressiona...

Cruelty is big business

My favorite part of Groundhog Day is reminding everybody that in Canada, "6 more weeks of winter" and "early spring" mean the same thing.

The world weighing in.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

Richard Pierpoint was kidnapped and enslaved for over two decades. He eventually escaped to the north and fought against the Americans in the American Revolution and the War of 1812. Today, he is honoured in Canada. This is his story. 📸Malcolm Jones 🧵1/10

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

A thread of ICE and CBP sex offenders and credibly accused sex pasts. Content-warning descriptions of abuse Yuma Sector CBP agent Ramon Marquez, 31, was arrested in May 2025 and has been charged with 15 felonies including 14 counts of sexual conduct with a 16-year-old between Dec 2024 and Apr 2025.

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These were the pages deleted now

Lucille Teasdale-Corti was a gifted surgeon from Montreal who devoted her life to helping the people of Uganda. Through revolution, civil war and more, she aided anyone who needed help. Even as she was dying of AIDS, she helped. This is her story. 🧵 1/12

I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.

Alberta activists’ covert meetings with US officials revealed, outlining group’s increasingly emboldened efforts

“Earlier this month, 404 Media reported that Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that ‘populates a map w/ potential deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, & provides a ‘confidence score’ on the person’s current address.” The tool reportedly obtains many…addresses from [HHS]”

New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse. @lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...

In a moment when Marvel is making a big bet on another Avengers event to get audiences excited about this universe again, Wonder Man is an example of how the studio can still put out strong stories that stand on their own. Our review from @charlespulliam.bsky.social is free to read today.

Welcome @cityoffredericton.bsky.social to Bluesky. I'm down the road in Kingston, but happy to see you've left The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter. Good choice. You'll find other New Brunswick residents here, for sure.

An important add/update to this story:

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries might go down as the worst leaders of any party in modern history. I can't think of anyone who comes close to their ineptness, foolishness, ineffectiveness, and weakness. I don't know that they could be worse or do worse if they tried.

My inner 8 year-old will be giggling all day.

Lines that go straight up in charts that track disease = VERY BAD.

Isn’t going to bed literally the opposite of woke?

My operating assumption is that he tried to do a hasty coup in 2020 that failed, and so everything he does in his second term should be understood as laying the groundwork for a second coup to succeed.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

THREAD H2A guest worker visas are finally a big enough program that farmers are ready to switch to that instead of undoc'd workers. That's why they're rounding up undoc'd people. Farms don't really need them anymore, & they're "too hard to control." That hasn't changed!

This is the only Alpha I recognize 🫡

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At a minimum. And yeah, this now looks like premeditation, and a lot of accessories-before-the-fact going up the command chain.

New from me: More Than 100 Gazans Have Been Accepted to Canadian Universities. Canada Isn’t Letting Them In.