Trump is not invincible. He can be defeated. When people show spine and stand up to him, when civil society bands together rather than capitulating, he often backs down. Our real problem is the appeasers. @monacharen.bsky.social is good on this. Our exchange: newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Thousands of pounds of garbage collected from Richmond shorelines

Sam Sniderman was a Toronto icon. His store, Sam the Record Man, was a landmark of the city. His company expanded across Canada and at one point had 140 locations. This is the story of Sam Sniderman and his famous business. 🧵 1/12

Ken Danby's paintings were some of the most spectacular of the 20th century. From his hyper-realistic portrait of Gordon Lightfoot, to his iconic At The Crease, his work is known by Canadians coast-to-coast. This is the story of a great Canadian artist. 🧵 1/10

We've all written some version of this column by now but this one is among the very best.

Vancouver's Penthouse strip club takes shot at U.S. late night censorship debate

SCOTUS: Bought and paid for by MAGA and Mitch McConnell and is essentially now a rubber stamp for a twice impeached convicted felon.

Don't think I've ever felt this embarrassed to be an American. There's shame and anger too. But mostly embarrassment. We're the laughingstock of the developed world. And we should be.

Nexstar is a private company with the right to not air programming it objects to. Disney (owner of ABC) is a private company with the right to take Monday Night Football and other programming to local affiliates that will air all of it. If they don't, they're asking to be pushed around. We'll see.

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Pritzer gets the mechanics of authoritarianism – systemic intimidation, seizing control of elections, etc. – in a way others in national democratic leadership don't or won't say out loud.

Some of us do.

Pritzker: "One of the reasons Trump wants to send troops into cities is bc he wants to be able to take control of the 2026 elections...if they've got troops in cities, & it becomes a kind of norm for people, then it won't be abnormal for them when they're going to vote having troops at ballot boxes"

Note the slight of hand there -- the poll asks about firing people who celebrated Kirk's murder and then the article pretends this is relevant to Kimmel's firing, when he absolutely did not celebrate Kirk's murder. I'm starting to think Sinclair isn't an objective outlet or something.

I never believed Trump's claims that he made us respected in the world again, but look at this rapt audience of global leaders.

We haven't been in a long time and have no desire to do so while MAGA fascism rules and the twice impeached convicted felon (and close friend of Jeffrey Epstein) Donald Trump threatens our sovereignty.

Rapture is cancelled again 😂

Canadian-resident return trips from U.S. in July was down 32.4 per cent

"Trump wants to [do a thing] no matter how much suffering it causes women" has a lot of explanatory power.

They are running this ad in blue cities in blue states. It’s propaganda intended to create an “internal opposition force”

Disney has backed down, but there's no evidence that Sinclair or Nexstar have learned their lesson. If you haven't already done so, check the links in the thread below for stations in your area. Find the advertisers and let them know you're boycotting them until they remove ads from these stations.

Like I read headlines about #POTUS as "Twice Impeached Convicted Felon Donald Trump", I now read headlines about the top court as "McConnell/MAGA Bought and Paid For #SCOTUS" (Feel free to add that the convicted felon was close personal friends with Jeffrey Epstein.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...

Apparently #Disney / #ABC is bringing Kimmel back. However, we're not going to rush back. They broke our trust & there seems to be no acknowledgement of their wrongdoing. So we'll wait and see. If they can earn back our trust, we'll consider renewing.

The boycott is growing variety.com/2025/scene/c...

Is it Christian to publicly call for the murder of all homeless people? That's what Brian Kilmeade did on Fox a week ago. He still has his job.

We cancelled our #Disney+ subscription. We don't want our money going directly to a corporation that is complicit with and bows to the Fascist regime of twice impeached convicted felon Donald Trump.

Likewise, Fascists like the twice impeached convicted felon Trump fear librarians, archivists, and curators. Hence the attacks on libraries, archives, and museums. Same goes for comedians, satirists, and late night talk show hosts - they all expose the lies and hypocrisy of the regime.

Appeasement never works.

“The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen” — Tommy Smothers

Stephen Colbert: “Tonight we’re all Jimmy Kimmel…. With an autocrat, you can’t give an inch. If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive, and clearly they've never read The Children's Book If You Give a Mouse A Kimmel.”

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

What we are witnessing is an outright abuse of power. This administration is attacking critics and using fear as a weapon to silence anyone who would speak out. Media corporations — from television networks to newspapers — are capitulating to these threats.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

He raged at his minions that he needed something big to distract everyone, and he certainly got it. The Epstein files must be so much worse than we can even imagine. Trump knows that even his cult won't stand for whatever evidence there is of his abuse and depredation. Keep up the pressure.

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

A solution in search of a problem that doesn't exist. It's a means to divide us by using the ruse of protecting democracy. #BCPoli

I figured back in November that the twice impeached convicted felon would go after all the late night comedians, because free speech is a threat to his Fascist regime. Since we still have freedom of speech in Canada, fuck Trump, fuck Brendan Carr, and fuck the FCC. Oh, and fuck ABC for caving.

This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment. This is the litmus test. Learn from history. Who will step up and fight? Who will bend the knee and be complicit? History will remember.

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

If this became a weekly series, it would run longer than The Simpsons.

Applications are now open for the annual session of the British Columbia Youth Parliament, which takes place in the Parliament Buildings in Victoria. An excellent opportunity for education and service for young people ages 16 to 21. #BCYP bcyp.org/session

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

I got this great @sandraboynton.bsky.social puzzle for my birthday. 😁

Brian Kilmeade suggested we execute homeless people. How the actual fuck does he still have a job?!?

I’m old enough to remember when openly calling for the mass murder of innocent people was not really considered acceptable. Seems like it wasn’t all that long ago, in fact.