the ice raids have increased in kc since the world cup started 👍

Residents are shaken and said they never thought they would see an ICE raid in their neighborhood.

“Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place.”

Hey, Vancouverites, when recommending things to FIFA tourists, please remember that these people can and should pay for things, and do not reveal to them the good, free places and things around town. Because I’d still like those good free things to not be overrun right now.

“A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for incorrect information presented by its AI Overviews platform, according to a report by The Decoder. The [court] …has classified Google as a direct infringer because the AI Overview is its own content and not just a list of search results.”

The real reason Mark Carney wants to build so many AI data centres? @jenstden.bsky.social and I report on internal govt documents explaining one of the top 'public policy benefits to Canada' of data centres is they 'provide markets' for gas producers. www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m... @desmog.com

Today we have @parismarx.com in our pages, arguing that ordinary Canadians are right to be concerned about AI, but "the government is positioning... the public’s skepticism as the product of a knowledge gap." thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

Here’s my story on the “Mexican Barrio” in the Downtown Eastside, and how it relates (and doesn’t) to the World Cup. thank you to producers who allowed me to say “trying to make fetch happen” on the national broadcaster

Here are the Chicks performing “Not Ready to Make Nice” on Kimmel last night on the 23rd anniversary of them being right about the Iraq War and getting actually canceled for it: youtu.be/Gc84Qk7f-pg

Please Use AI

This is a huge lesson for Canadians and Canadian media. You don’t have to vote for the two dominant parties to vote for a winner. And you shouldn’t overlook or underestimate any candidate.

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

Actually a very big deal.

27 people were made homeless after Tuesday night's violence in Belfast, including children.

The first Europeans who saw a platypus thought it was a fraud.⁣ ⁣ Not because it was fake. Because it didn't fit the model they had in their heads.⁣ ⁣ I worry we sometimes make the same mistake with economic data.⁣ ⁣ https://newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/why-i-still-trust-the-jobs-report

As we anticipate a social media ban to be proposed by the Canadian government tomorrow, it's worth noting in the Charter of Rights: "everyone" includes young people and "media of communication" includes social media.

My friend Bob did this...

Yes, and Gary will ask who wants to head up the curriculum committee that will meet three times over the summer, but only for three hours at a time and always on Fridays in the un-air-conditioned school. Yes, and I don’t have tenure, so I will volunteer.

The biggest story of our time that we're not talking about nearly enough www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

🚨 Here we go -> Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan denied entry to the US. This referee, who was due to be first official from his country to be involved in a World Cup game, had a diplomatic passport but was turned away in Miami. www.thetimes.com/article/f565...

Today is the last day of Dreams on a Pillow's main campaign. Despite Israel massacring people in several countries including Palestine - here's a courageous Palestinian-made game about where it all started -about the 1948 Nakba- and on how things were before it. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

a huge thank you to pamela for sharing her story with us and her friend carrie, mentioned in @mjgault.bsky.social’s story, who have all become organizers and PR people and comms all at once to fight against the data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

So Toronto is scalping its own World Cup tickets, NYC is giving them away for free, and Vancouver is labelling the DTES as a “Mexican Barrio”? Wtf.

MAKE THE MUMMY BREAD DRINK THE BOG BEER FUCK IT, MAKE CORPSE YOGURT AND DOOM PICKLES AND MONSTROUS MARMITE NOTHING MATTERS ANYMORE

"The best public health measure would be to allow FIFA fans to bring their own water, and avoid generating mountains of polluting plastic waste and unintended health harms." Thanks @tiffycrawford.bsky.social for interviewing me for this piece: vancouversun.com/news/fifa-ba... @cape-acme.bsky.social

Palestinian death toll, according to numerous reliable sources including the Lancet, have estimated over 680,000 Palestinian have perished in the Genocide. We’ve repeatedly been given numbers of 70,000 for months. Even while we’ve known it must be higher. That’s a colossal heartbreaking amount.🇵🇸

Well, that's terrifying

What's up Bluesky, can yall help me get a Northside neighbor, a single mom with 3 kids, caught up on bills after being affected by Metro Surge? my ca$happ and venmo are both jackadrianlope pls include a 🏡 emoji so I know where the money is going goal is $723 !

Why do I only ever feel like live-blogging when I’m sick. Like, having a brilliant time at a hockey game? Nothing to say. On day 2 of lying in bed with norovirus? “Hold on, everyone, this is huge! I’m about to try eating toast!”

Our full video on the American billionaire buy-out of BC farmland 🚨 We heard your feedback on our fast-paced edits and tried to slow this one down a bit! HOW TO HELP: Sign and share our petition (link in bio) - and stay tuned for further actions❤️‍🔥 youtu.be/T_PM0Aeu2g8

A coroner's inquest into the death of Tatyanna Harrison will begin July 2. Tatyanna was one of three Indigenous women/youth who went missing and were found dead in the Vancouver are within a 6-month period in 2022. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

- Carney is heavily invested in Brookfield, - Brookfield is invested in AI and energy infrastructure, - as PM Carney is pushing AI and energy infrastructure.. All good though, it's in a "blind trust"!

run for your local school board in this octobers civic elections )because you know that some very unpleasant people definitely are doing that) #bcpoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

I don’t want this at all. I do want an election.

No one could have foreseen this. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/04/n...

Just a reminder that I have an ongoing podcast miniseries wherein I detail some classroom activities that bring board games into the classroom! The most recent episode is about @restorationgames.bsky.social's Unmatched: www.iheart.com/podcast/269-...

As seen in Yaletown.

Good news everyone!

Amazing. Why would a world-class event need to be accessible, when instead you could heard thousands of humans like cattle.

This:

We all agree — AI corporations need to be regulated. 71% of British Columbians are opposed to AI data centres. They threaten our water supply, our energy and jobs.

🧵Human warming did not begin in our lifetimes. It began in the 1830s, at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. We know because coral skeletons, ice cores, and tree rings kept the record. The Arctic and the tropics warmed first. This signal is nearly 200 years old. None of it is sudden.

Honoré Jaxon, age 90, outside his New York apartment in 1951, after eviction, along with his books, magazines, and personal correspondence with Louis Riel from 1884-85, when he served as Riel's personal secretary. His papers and books were sold as waste paper by the city. Jaxon died on the

The cost of Solar panels and batteries has come down massively over the last 2-4 years. We should have these systems everywhere! Oil is a necessary evil, for now. But we need to rapidly move to renewables everywhere.

Trump calls me ‘crooked as hell’. That’s rich coming from him | Representative Ilhan Omar

I don’t want any of these. I want a national government that actually invests in the future of this planet and its people.

"Low-income youth & working-age adults are still adding full-priced transit fares to their soaring list of expenses." The fight for an affordable city includes public transit. Sign up by 5pm Tues to speak in support of Sean Orr's motion for a low-income transit pass: vancouver.ca/your-governm...

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼