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Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 12 hours ago • 246 comments

Friends, protesting works. The republicans are cowards. With enough pushback they may alter course. We must keep up the pressure. Turn your rage into action. Don't give in to feelings of helplessness. #weekinprotest theblop.org www.fiftyfifty.one June 14! 🚫👑 actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

You have three days, starting today, to leave a public comment with the FDA about, say, why COVID-19 boosters should remain available to everyone and also free. "Individual consumer" is the category you most likely want (unless you are one of the other categories; if so, choose that).

submitted 13 hours ago • 77 comments

Amber Scorah and Psst are building a “digital safe” to help people shine a light on the bad things their bosses are doing, without getting found out. www.wired.com/story/amber-...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Babe, wake up. We can share news on Facebook and Instagram again. Sharethenews.ca

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

They’re making tech bros the new NRA.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This ends 30 years of madness that gave Moscow a giant lever of influence over the whole of Europe www.ft.com/content/e99e...

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I have been working on stablecoin policy for five years. Every word Sen Warren says here is spot on. With this bill advancing, I feel like I’m watching a car crash in slow motion and there’s nothing I can do to stop it. It’s devastating

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

In Canada, the Leafs fall in the spring.

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Russell Vought, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to introduce new rules designed to limit the ability of US data brokers to sell Americans’ most sensitive data, credit history, and Social Security numbers.

submitted 2 days ago • 506 comments

NEW: Ottawa Police deny inviting convoy figure to help them with anti-LGBTQ+ protest at elementary school Community groups are now calling for police to face an investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was “invited” to help police manage aggressive protests

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

More monstrous, more stupid…

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This is truly egregious. On May 13th, someone put $25 million in premium, 10,000x volume, in United Health, $UNH, $300 puts expiring 09/19/2025. Then news of DOJ investigating for fraud came out. $UNH dropped, and is down 50% in last month. This trader is up $80 million. Unusual.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

How can the timeline continue to get stupider and more monstrous at the same time? It’s like a Marvel villain movie gone badly wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

Weaponized incompetence.

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submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The U.S. government invited reports against Canadian doctors who provide gender-affirming care — in Canada. This was a direct threat to our sovereignty. We should pay attention to it. “If it were any other group being targeted, we would be in a moment of national scandal..." — @celeste.lgbt

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

imagining time traveling to the early 00s and trying to explain to my precocious teen debater friends that the criticisms of the Nanny State that they engaged with so earnestly would culminate in armed officers making sure grown adults were using the right bathroom

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"Canada has what everyone wants. We're a confident nation that celebrates our diversity, that believes in and practices free speech, that respects the rule of law, that has a vibrant democracy," Carney said.

submitted 18 days ago • 51 comments

The possibility that RFK Jr. is going to undermine herd immunity in the United States grows increasingly likely. This would mean that US will be responsible for starting numerous pandemics and potentially destroying the effectiveness of the entire globe’s vaccine arsenal. This is bioterrorism.

submitted 19 days ago • 320 comments

So grateful to be able to chuckle at that one.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

A great piece in the New Yorker by Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 21 days ago • 976 comments

As the federal government scales back funding for research, Johns Hopkins is launching its own grant programs to keep the work going. Read the story ➔ www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

submitted 22 days ago • 16 comments

How can they all be so terrible? All the time?

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

A nice Citizen piece on Bruce Fanjoy. My favourite detail is that the victory party was at the Legion, next to Poilievre's campaign office. (The cultural position of the Legion in Canadian towns is a whole thing.)

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

submitted 22 days ago • 549 comments

The typical Canadian has a higher standard of living than the typical American. We are healthier, live 3 years longer, face much less inequality and are happier. These outcomes are not accidents. They reflect deliberate policy choices.” @jimbostanford.bsky.social on Canada’s GDP per capita:

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

The Police Department that stood by and did nothing during an illegal occupation of a city. The one that said it didn’t have the resources. Supports the Party that bought the convoyers coffee & donuts - probably the cops too. Poilievre will stand by and do nothing as trump takes Canada

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

"Law students organize to give Trump-caving firms a recruitment problem" Georgetown Law students made a spreadsheet. National coverage followed. Now, the world's richest firms face PR & recruitment headaches. An organizer on how it unfolded @www.AllRiseNews.com www.allrisenews.com/p/skadden-st...

submitted 26 days ago • 75 comments

Pierre Poilievre promised a 15% tax cut for working Canadians. He then waited until advance polls closed to release his platform. Turns out it’s a 2.25% cut…in 2029. The “trust me bro” platform. #PierrePoilievreIsLying Again . #NEVERpoilievre

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

A year of hate: what I learned when I went undercover with the far right

submitted 26 days ago • 10 comments

Last night was the annual dinner for the US Holocaust Museum. Every speaker spoke about antisemitism as being not just about Jews, but as a cudgel to attack democracy and the rule of law. No one directly alluded to Trump. To me, it was clear.

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

"Canada Proud often posts news updates, citing mainstream news sources that are barred from sharing their content on Facebook. But the posts sometime add misleading details not found in the original reports, according to a review by The Times." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/t...

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Vote for Bruce Fanjoy 🇨🇦 - Carleton does deserve better. #cdnpoli

submitted 28 days ago • 98 comments

What a great initiative. It's so important to hear the stories of silenced scientists. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

I have seen a half-dozen false “sponsored” posts today using @cbcnews-rss.bsky.social @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social logos and landing pages - various messages all lead to the same financial scam. Never experienced anything like this!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Surely Poilievre’s promise to cut funding to universities whose speech he disagrees with will also extend to universities AND NEWSPAPERS that platform Residential School denialism. Given the actual violence it inspires. www.montrealgazette.com/news/article...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

Poilievre is dangerous to all of us. Glad to hear people talking about Poilievre’s relationship to Rebel News and True North—the cause of the media scrum shut down at the Leaders’ Debate—as some of us have lived through years of harassment condoned by Poilievre and far-right media. #CanadaStrong 🇨🇦

submitted 32 days ago • 52 comments

Imagine an MP who egged on the trucker convoy with inaccurate pics of empty grocery stores as a Poilievre cabinet minister. It could happen. #NeverVoteCPC #cdnpoli #FederalElection pressprogress.ca/conservative...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

I recommend that anyone who still thinks this is all too unhinged to be what it looks like, go see the Big Short.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

So, the brutal dictator hired by the stupidest dictator was making deals with MS-13, which included springing violent gang members from US jails to deport them to El Salvador for release? Who would have thought you couldn’t trust these guys, huh?

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Knowing your rights when encountering U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps our communities safe. #AbolishICE www.amnestyusa.org/toolkits/kno...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments