"You are a transformative President" ~Mark Carney -Frequently threatens to annex or invade Canada. -Waging a war against his own people. -Genocide of Palestinians. -Killing Venezuelan citizens. -Tariff wars and silencing free speech. -Targeting LGBTQ+ people, minorities, and immigrants.

The people who shape opinion in mainstream media are mostly from the upper middle and wealth classes. They got there because of nepotistic privilege and they keep their jobs, and make more money, because they tell the wealthy what they want to hear, even as that becomes more and more fascistic.

Doug Ford is gaslighting you. If you’re trying to obey the law in Toronto and driving by a speed camera up to 10km over, you won’t be fined. This tool should be used to catch people driving near schools at excessive speeds, recklessly endangering our kids. www.thestar.com/news/gta/wha...

Zodiac killer murders again, challenging legal bounds

reddit occupied government

I’m finding it increasingly uncomfortable for friends and family to talk me about their “fun” trips to the US. It takes extraordinary privilege and self-isolation to be so cheerful about visiting that place.

Israel has continued to illegally intercept vessels from the Sumud Flotilla. As Canada says it's “not able to guarantee the safety of Canadian travelers, or to provide them with security and protection abroad," the people are defending the flotilla. Protests are sparking around the world:

Extreme privilege rots and Trump and his progeny are a living, perfect example. Watching this lump of a person “succeed” because his family had wealth and everything was rigged in his favor, to the point he became president and millions want him as dictator is so nauseating I can barely stand it.

pretty insane, US pals! 😬

good for you that you're willing to kill trans people to save Palestinians or willing to kill Palestinians to save trans people but are you *sure* those are the only options

At fruit and veg shop on The Drive. #EastVan

To wit: if, having considered history & firepower, you genuinely believe the PNW is a unified political force that cld & wld militarily defeat an incursion by federal troops, well, I disagree, but fine. But if when you say it you "see" it--if a movie plays in your mind--question that narrative. 6/

As a co-resident in the Cascadia bioregion, the edict of deadly force against opponents of fascism in Portland is very alarming. A worthwhile thread here from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social about the stakes of how we describe and respond. Important for Canadians (like me) recalling Vichy France, too.

Chilling. The Enlightenment was fun while it lasted.

In Canada, dangerous drivers kill more than twice as many people than murderers do. These politicians are monstrous.

I certainly don’t intend to, at least.

Every Canadian city deserves a rapid transit system with a 9:00pm Saturday schedule that looks like this.

The question surprises me.

It’s deeply unfair to call today’s fascists “fascist” or “Nazis” just for doing bad things German Nazis did in the 1930s to advance their fascist project. And you better not say “fascism” or the fascists will come for you too!

Nothing about this sentence is false: Charlie Kirk was a racist, transphobic, homophobic, bigot who preached violence and hate. He does not deserve remembrance or public celebration of any kind.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The “fuck your feelings” regime to our South sure does have a lot of hurt feelings about the people they’re threatening and blackmailing.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

This Ksi Lisims LNG approval is terrible news. "It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs. Yup. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ezra Klein telling everyone in the theater to stop clapping when Darth Vader dies because he has a family and is misunderstood

Wild. $2.8 Billion less money to fund climate action, never mind schools, hospitals, transit, or housing, and gas prices are the same as a year ago. $2.8 Billion taken from your public services, from your pocket, to boost the record profits of oil companies. Good work all around, folks.

Has anyone started a “watchlist” of Canadians who are lying about Charlie Kirk or about Canadians on the left who condemn Kirk’s violent words and deeds? Our country is overrun by MAGA fifth columnists and it’s dangerous to ignore this.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Republican Flip Flop

I get called radical because I want affordable housing and rational, compassionate immigration policy and gun reform that helps keep kids safe. Radicals like me are never going to kill people for our ideology because that’s literally not our ideology.

We paid $4-$5 billion in illegally fixed prices for BREAD? Criminal charges would send a much clearer message to the Grocery Barons. Or how about breaking up the corporate clubs that price gouge, collude and control every sector of our economy? Broken systems need systemic solutions. #cdnpoli

Meanwhile, in Brazil…

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

If Charlie Kirk had been, say, a Black Panther or member of the Nation of Islam and went around college campuses saying white people weren't qualified to fly planes or deserved to die in mass shootings, no one would eulogize him by saying he was "practicing politics the right way."

Disturbing.

Today is alarming, but keep focused. Our oppressors and their servants (like CK) were violent hate-filled liars yesterday; they will still be violent hate-filled liars tomorrow.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

Again, who will speak up for Canada when Israel, the US, India or some other rogue state bombs an apartment building here? Solidarity with the survivors and victims of these illegal attacks.

The US president trafficked & raped underage girls, the evidence is overwhelming, everyone knows it, and this country's elites & institutions are so broken, so insular, so decadent that we can't even bring ourselves to state it clearly, much less do anything about it. Contemptible & pathetic.

turns out implausible deniability works pretty well too

More evidence that speed cameras work. "Since those cameras were put up, 57% of drivers were slowing down and adhering to the speed limit. In some school zones, it was as high as 90%" “Eighty-five per cent of people who have been issued one ticket have only been issued [that] one ticket”

Mom’s daughter would be much more likely to survive if a driver slammed into her at 35mph than at 42mph. Daughter just wants to feels safe, mom helps her understand that that’s not a priority to her or other drives. An important life lesson!

More priming for violent interventions by the Trump regime into Canada, against Canadians. A steady drip.

whether incompetence or deviously intentional, this rushed AI-slop makes me feel completely discombobulated. (screenshot mine, just now.)

Canada elected a neoliberal banker who scrapped the carbon tax and paused the EV car mandates while the country is on fire. He's demanding austerity for social programs while pouring billions into the military. While corporate profits soar so do mass layoffs. This sets the stage for fascism

The fossil industry is out of control and getting richer and richer while we all suffer more and more. > The extra heat being trapped by humanity’s CO2 now equals the explosions of 400,000 Hiroshima atomic bombs every day. And rising. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...

Rainbow crosswalks save lives. Not just as a visible community response to life-destroying right-wing rhetoric… but because drivers pay more attention.

Great short video by TransLink explaining “the empty bus lane myth”