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submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

All right, I take it back. You were right. He's just as much of a psychopath and an idiot as the rest of them. Where others see pain and suffering, billionaires see only nonsensical business deals.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

The Canadian establishment that lost its mind over a protest passing by Mount Sinai hospital has been entirely quiet over a Canadian company selling Nazi T-Shirts for the English world's most famous, out Nazi. I wrote about this and asked the question: why? noraloreto.substack.com/p/instrument...

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

More stuff like this please! This is (part of) what we need. You can speak and make noise even if you don't control the Executive or Legislative Branch of the federal government. Governors...you're up! Good on you Pritzger. www.nbcnews.com/video/illino...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

JUST IN: HNL Lab Medicine will begin subtyping all positive influenza A samples from hospitalized patients to detect H5N1 bird flu.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

BREAKING: Apple has pulled its Advanced Data Protection security feature, which end-to-end encrypts iCloud data, for UK users, saying that it “can no longer” offer the feature. The move to drop ADP comes after the UK government reportedly demanded backdoor access. techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

We are a stupid species.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

As the incomparable labor economist Richard Freeman said: Who owns the robots rules the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Remember when people thought Elon Musk was anything other than a psychopath?

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 2 days ago • 178 comments

I just read Stephen Harper's open letter and see he seems to be suggesting ratcheting up production of fossil fuels in Canada -- a resource largely owned and exploited by American shareholders -- as the solution to save Canada from Trump.

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Realize Im new here and have about two friends who even see my posts but if you haven’t heard of this guy @natogreen.bsky.social you must! He’s brilliant

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is an especially good episode. If you’re unfamiliar with the Bugle, or you fell off after John Oliver left, this is a good place to jump in.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1213 comments

“I am a king and my will is law” isn’t a clever distraction from what he’s doing, it’s the central underlying justification for everything he’s doing.

submitted 3 days ago • 297 comments

this is good, but at the same time

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

There are 3 types of people since Oct 7th. Those who condemn only the killing of Israeli kids. Those who condemn only the killing of Palestinian kids. And those of us who condemn the killing of both. Don’t be in the first 2 groups - the 1st one dominates our politics & media.

submitted 3 days ago • 94 comments

Wonder what Sen. Mike Lee and all the ‘constitutional conservatives’ and ‘limited government’ Republicans make of the GOP president calling himself a “king.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 216 comments

While I think we are now looking for plane accidents, the difference to me is that planes keep hitting each other instead of just crashing

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Declaring yourself a monarch because you hate the subway

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. forces land on Greenland's coast, spearheaded by units of Cybertanks. they make it three quarters of a mile before the cold weather drains their batteries. crews find themselves trapped inside when the fully electronic doors default to locked. most of the 70th Armored regiment starves to death

submitted 9 days ago • 118 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 4 days ago • 1065 comments

Very big decision here from the new FTC Chair, announcing he will continue with the framework built under Lina Khan, which the WSJ says will destroy the free world. Major defeat for organized capital.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

I just want people to look around and notice that politicians and pundits are accepting crazy ideas like taking over Canada and building concentration camps for immigrants and people on medication and debating them. The problem isn’t just Trump. He’s a symptom of a larger disease.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

Probably not a good idea to let Elon keep his wealth until he can buy a robot dog army

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I really wish Americans would stop treating the continued existence of Canada as the sort of thing they can do amusing thought experiments about.

submitted 4 days ago • 66 comments

No, Canadians will never vote for the Democrats – we would form a separatist party and vote for that

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Dear @nytimes.com Cut. This. Shit. Out. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

the plan? we fire hundreds of USDA employees during a bird flu outbreak that's causing the highest egg prices in US history

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

i need a 52 year old man with $800 billion to impregnate my wife . i am worried our offspring wont be sufficiently feeble and/or annoying

submitted 7 days ago • 369 comments

This is a disaster for the people of Louisiana, surrounding states, & everyone who needs to travel to or be in contact w/people traveling from there. People warned that "you do you" means eugenics when it comes to public health, & begged folks not to normalize it, but they weren't listened to.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez did inside Treasury payment systems, including which systems he accessed, security measures Treasury IT staff took to limit his access/activity, and whether he had ability to change source code on production systems.

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The most fitting end to a day in which the regime just curbstomped our outbreak response capacity: an H5N1 patient in a hospital that’s also presumably full of seasonal flu patients. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

Good stuff from @nicktsergas.ca www.importantcontext.news/p/trump-whit...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

The fact that Musk has time to faff about trying to shred the federal government from the inside out while allegedly simultaneously being the CEO of multiple companies tells you all you need to know about how irrelevant CEOs are to the actual operation of their companies.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments