It's far more than he deserves.
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It's far more than he deserves.
average Dem strategist: we must focus on bipartisan policies that undercut Republican attacks average Dem voter: having studied the denazification of Germany, we must raze the RNC and leave JD Vance clutching a single wool blanket in a cell after we strip him of everything
Wishful thinking
Report: Entire world refreshing newsfeed for no particular reason
Now 14 dead in Kyiv. Russia will continue to do this until it faces crippling, well enforced sanctions, and more military pressure from Ukraine, aided by the West. Putin sees only weakness from Trump and the West, which encourages more attacks. Action - not "resolve to stand with" - is needed.
A former CDC staffer adds: “This is the work of a death cult.”
Overnight, this extremely well-funded tech company run by a billionaire has gone from “There’s no way we can possibly stop our plagiarism machine from convincing children to kill themselves” to “If you type anything we don’t like, we’re calling the cops.” Either way, they take zero responsibility.
Cartoon by Luojie. Yeah, wasn't AI supposed to free humans from drudgery, for more creative and fulfilling work?
This is good actually and we are going to need veterans to be the first waves of folks making things more uncomfortable for the fascist ground troops invading our cities. Make the dissonance unbearable for the troops working to destroy America
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Nova Scotia's iconic Blue Nose is refusing to travel to Trumpland. This is a huge decision given the role they play in the international schooner festivals. But they will not cross the border. The Blue Nose is your dime. If they can hold the line against fascism. So can you. Keep the boycott strong.
There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
I continue to think Americans who do not support open fascism are really under reacting to the moment
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The White House Twitter feed is now basically the old “black crime” tab from mid-2010s Breitbart. The editor of Breitbart back then was Steve Bannon, and a young senate staffer named Steven Miller was feeding him content from white nationalist sites. www.splcenter.org/resources/gu...
bragging about being a giant pussy is integral to the conservative mindset
The richest and most powerful people in the country live in Palo Alto and West Palm Beach and believe to their core that every other American city is The Warriors, a movie they have never seen
It's not a rehearsal or a distraction. It's the real thing, and it's permanent. They're going to do shit even more fucked up than they've done so far, including abandoning even the guise of fair elections. There is nothing they can't get away with at this point. America is no longer a Republic.
I have more or less arrived at the conclusion that the ultimate objective of EU defence policy should be not just to prepare for war with Russia but in fact to prepare to launch a preemptive strike and I am not even exaggerating
I was one of the columnists who left the Post after owner Jeff Bezos demanded the Opinion section largely focus on “personal liberties and free markets." Yes, they’re under pressure. But maybe these leaders kinda like what Trump’s doing. — Perry Bacon, TNR's newest team member trib.al/Xj7T00b
No, he’s not giving Putin Alaska, but he is giving Putin a huge gift: the legitimacy of touching down on US soil at the invitation of a US president. A reward for the full-scale invasion of a sovereign, democratic country that the United States and its European allies support.
This morning I watched my fella sleep gently, while reading about how Donald Trump wants to force Ukraine to just give away his home, where he grew up, where his family live + his ancestors are buried — a place Russian troops have not set foot in. The word “disgust” does not begin to cover it.
this one is even more bonkers. these things are dangerous, on both the individual and societal level, and nothing will convince me otherwise www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/t...
ChatGPT sent a guy into a delusional spiral believing he’d invented a new form of math, would make millions, and was possibly being watched by state security. Don’t use these things in any deep way. If you have a human brain, you are not immune. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/t...
If you’re worried about the young people today and their mental health crisis, it’s comforting to spend 5 minutes on Nextdoor. The old people are SO much crazier!
I’ve been quiet everywhere lately just because I am, but for the record I like Bluesky way more than the old place, am happier to read and have discussions here, and hope we all stay
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Rape a few children alongside some of history's greatest monsters, and all of a sudden, no more diner invites? What a world.
We stumbled on a restaurant in Ivano-Frankivsk called Canadian Food and it is the funniest thing
You know who isn’t cooperating with ICE sweeps in its parking lots? Lowe’s
I mean, on the one hand this is an absurd lie, and it drives me *insane* knowing how many people will gladly believe it. Then again, maybe the guy's just speaking his truth. I mean, if Stephen Miller, specifically, attempted to visit a Minneapolis park, I highly doubt he could do so in peace.
cnn editor: u got that story on ice? cnn reporter: sure did boss, real fuckin hypernormalized, just like u asked cnn editor: first of all, i love it
The agency? Dems still see a future in which they rehabilitate ICE and DHS? Fucking hell.
I can share memes too
Banned until he can figure out how to prevent it from telling the truth about Erdogan.
Anyone concerned that America will quietly succumb to fascism should look at what's happening in LA. This whole thread is wonderful If the United States decides to declare war on its own people, so be it. They can't defeat an insurgency overseas and they can't defeat one here
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the ideal political candidate agrees with me about everything, but is also charming enough to con all the rest of you suckers
it is simply no longer possible to successfully transmit factual information to a whole lot of people. I am so depressed
Almost every single video posted on Twitter, someone asks Grok to identify and explain the video. I have never seen Grok get it right on the first try, without being corrected by real live people. Why does anyone keep asking. Why have they not noticed the problem
Last week, Manitoba lost a legend of music education — and a teacher who changed my life forever. My tribute to Orv Anderson, in honour of every educator who can see what a student really needs. www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2025/0...
Soon, I’m gonna do a blog series on things I learned (and loved) in Ukraine that have nothing to do with war. One is the unkempt wildness of much urban green space. God, I wish we had more of this in Winnipeg. Back lanes and yards of blocky Soviet-era buildings so lush, overflowing with greenery.
the silicon valley technofascists are the definition of good times breed weak men
Even if you assume the legitimacy of ICE operations, the idea that a fucking truck-mounted machine gun is necessary to carry them out is insane. This is about intimidation. This is them letting us know that the streets of the United States have been militarized.
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X. Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
Unfortunately, this isn’t just a Texas thing. A horrifyingly large number of emergency alerts in this country appear to still be issued exclusively on Facebook, or MAYBE X - while both platforms are becoming both far more unpopular AND actively hostile to sharing timely disaster info.
Let's be clear. Those Canadians who intentionally lie and spread propaganda intended to weaken Canada when it is under threat are a fifth column. They are traitors. #CanadaStrong
The Trump administration is pissed over CNN’s report on ICEBlock, a real-time “early warning” app that alerts users when ICE is in the area. Now DHS is threatening legal action against CNN and wants to prosecute the app’s creator. I downloaded it.
A Labour MP calling for trans women to be banned from parkrun, which, as the name suggests, is people non-competitively running around a park. There are no winners in this event. There are no losers in this event - bar Jonathan Hinder MP, should he ever take part.
If you find this confusing you should never comment on American politics ever again. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
🔴Claims that Online Misinformation Fears Are Overblown ‘Radically Understates’ the Scale of the Threat Entire communities are now becoming locked into dangerous belief systems that are almost impossible to challenge, argues @eliothiggins.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/06/30/m...
I completely agree with you there. "AI" isn't going to rise up... it's going to kill us all because Big Balls is going to put it in charge of global wheat production or some shit like that.
There has been a ton of progress in almost every aspect of technology since 1968, but I don't see one shred of evidence that we are any closer to replicating independent thought. There is not even a blueprint on how it could ever be achieved. People are being catfished by a Speak & Spell.
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
We are no closer to inventing technology that can "think" than they were in 1968. "Artifical intelligence" is a marketing term. It's a fancy plagiarism chatbot.
Thank you President Zelenskyy!
Canadians are not shareholders. They are citizens. Canada is a nation not a corporation. Carney is not CEO. He was elected as Prime Minister of the Canadian people. The rights of citizenship and the obligations of political leadership should never be degraded to mere capitalist exchange.
Every time someone talks about how “why doesn’t Ukraine just give up some territory for peace,”forgetting to Ukrainians that is literally grandma and her house
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.
Putting aside how debatable two of those examples are... is the implication that they wouldn't have done those things if the reward were any less than ALL THE MONEY AT ANY COST? "Oh shit this guy invented the bicycle, guess we have to make him a fucking Pharaoh now. Shut down all the hospitals."
Every single one of these guys has a chapter of their story titled "and then I screwed over my business partner, who had done most of the work and now lives in poverty"
Some part of me will never get over the fact that she was killed on 16 June 2016, by a fascist, because she was a pro-European anti-racist. The whole political class went into shock, and then ONE WEEK later shrugged its collective shoulders as 17 million people voted for a racist Brexit.
Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"
This has been a long time coming. So many people who would of bought a Tesla were saying “no thanks” because they didn’t want to support Omead Afshar, vice president of manufacturing and operations
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.
He claimed (out loud) that he got a massage from an "old lady" when he was with Epstein... Is there any evidence whatsoever that Epstein ever employed an old masseuse? Of course not, because Alan Dershewitz is a fucking pedophile, just like Trump. Sue me, you creepy asshole.
I swear to god this is not photoshopped, this is his last tweet.
the anti zohran mamdani coalition gains yet another close friend and associate of jeffery epstein
Zohran: Imagine living in a city where you can afford your rent, your groceries and even a meal at a restaurant now and then without much stress Eric Adams: Imagine a platypus so powerful that it could destroy the city. We need more cops
The United States is a nation beyond the rule of law. People are being kidnapped on the streets by men in masks. They are being disappeared and deported to foreign concentration camps. A Canadian died in their hands. We must demand full access and independent investigation of his mistreatment.
A 33-year-old Democratic Socialist will become the next mayor of NYC and the worst, most corrupt people in the USA are losing their minds. God loves to see it.
i don’t practice trans sharia i aint got no crystal ball
Until the leadership can be replaced, they will always oppose progressive candidates. We can't teach them that democratic socialism will win landslides, because their donors and everyone else who matters would rather lose to literal nazis than to Bernie Sanders.
Dear Dems: this is what we want. This is who we want. Listen to us.
it's good to be reminded that while the zionists may be loud, they don't speak for all jews, a people with a proud tradition of activism and calling out and rejecting bigotry when they see it. proud of this city and proud of its history of immigrants somehow making it work together
louder for the people in the back
The New York Times is STUNNED that voters would prefer a competent, slightly left-of-center mayor over a failed, serial sexual harassing nepo-baby. The rabble must have missed the Bill Clinton and Harvey Weinstien endorsements! Work harder next time, NYT.
brad u should primary chuck schumer
This is today. Done by the russians that usa and eu cannot find the guts to even sanction properly. How is your peace going? #UkrainianView #UAView
The Trump administration said that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Really looking forward to your upcoming "Donald the Conservationist" op-ed.
I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.
🇩🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 Germany and Italy, holding the world’s second- and third-largest gold reserves, are under growing pressure to bring gold stored in New York, - FT ❗️Concerns stem from Trump’s attacks on Federal Reserve and instability. Over a third of their gold—worth over $245 billion—is kept at the NY Fed.
Most Trump stuff is too sad to be funny, but the fact that we can all seriously envision him sending masked ICE agents to take Germany and Italy's gold to Maralago in a dump truck is objectively hilarious.
Honestly, even the Chinese and Russians never made me do this to get a visa. Even the North Koreans, who made me hand over my phone for the duration of my visit, never made this demand.
The bees from My Girl have endorsed Cuomo
The Canucks win the Calder Cup! #Canucks #proudlyabbotsford
Someone replaced his usual coke/Adderall with MDMA?
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Arctic sea ice is disappearing, and changing life in the Far North — but the Inuit community of Cambridge Bay, Nvt., sees hope in a geoengineering experiment to refreeze the ocean. ✍️ by @chloewilliams.bsky.social & 📷 by @gjohnjournalism.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/real-ice-cam...
The resistance is taking place in song and in street action. We need every voice speaking up against the Trump/Netanyahu/Putin gangster gang. Jesse Welles is a great singer of the resistance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vcc3...
Cuomo and Bill Clinton are picking up Kevin Spacey then they’re all gonna break Harvey Weinstein out of jail to start a sexual predator Fantastic Four.
Americans have created the most lame and boring dystopia imaginable.
Those who support “regime change” because it will “help women” should remember how much Afghanistan women were “helped” by our war there. They don’t do regime changes for women. They do regime changes for oil, money, and power.
Please get back to Canada safely @doubleemmartin.bsky.social ! You're a national treasure. We need you if we're going to make it.
Generally speaking most women are helped best by not being bombed