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When asked at our city council meeting whether new growth is causing more power outages, Hydro Ottawa CEO said, “It’s not the growth, it’s the squirrels.”

Here's a fun thing that a top donor to Andrew Cuomo's super PAC just told me.

probably a good time to bring this back

nyt op-ed: we cannot normalize the left’s brazen attempt to win voters by talking to them

I think the effectiveness of working class horror comes from knowing the protagonist already exists at a base level of struggle: struggle to pay rent, buy food, settle bills, afford to go the dentist or get a haircut...when you come at horror from that angle it's so much heavier, so much more grim.

Hey, so you know how back when I got arrested in February and then went on the national talk shows and spoke about how Huntington Beach is a microcosm of what’s happening nationally? Yeah. This is the circle coming back home.

very easy to see what is happening. trump will run for a third term, he’ll try to bring the dispute to federal courts, where his election denying judges will rewrite the 22nd amendment to mean it only refers to “consecutive” terms.

I just don't understand what the NYT is trying to accomplish here. "Promise Closer Scrutiny" implies that there was a lack, that childhood vaccines had not been sufficiently studied, and further that the new ACIP is committing to affirmative steps to remedy a dereliction. None of that is true.

This kind of shit is, in its own way, Holocaust trivialization. It's hard not to find it morally revolting.

🍂 👿 National Science Foundation Employees Protest Take Over of their HQ by HUD 🧪 Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) will moove into NSF HQ Building in VA

Hoping the #Pacers draft #Nembhard tmmrw so we can have a monopoly on Canadian brother duos in the #NBA

WAIT ... are the Hawks one of the smart teams now? how did this happen? CAAA-CAWWWW!!!!

Bit rich complaining about New York being taken over by immigrants when there's a big fucking statue in the harbour that invites everyone to come live there.

"This being on TV I consider a victory for the shitposter community"

Lander deserves a ton of respect for his willingness to subordinate his desires to blow up a genuinely evil man's campaign.

Part of Zohran’s strength was a positive vision rather than an alternative to something worse but I think a lot of awful people were really banking on a result that allowed them to definitively close the book on the idea that MeToo shit is disqualifying, I wish them a harrowing night

Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

The bar is such that "craven sex pest asshole who hates everyone and clearly does not want to put in the work loses a popularity contest" is a cool drink on a hot day

A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.

there's not that many explanations at this point for the NYT's hallucinatory coverage of Trump. they like him, Occam's Razor. all that "they're reacting to right wing claims of bias" nonsense was cover for the reality that they want to cover Trump like he's their god king

Thank goodness we’re taking on those bizarre religious zealots in (checks notes) Iran.

"The entire 165-page [AG] report ... includes interviews with 179 witnesses and a review of tens of thousands of documents. It details sexual harassment of [Andrew Cuomo's] own staff in addition to other state employees—which includes a state trooper—as well as members of the public."

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.

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

🚨The Florida government is going to tear down Everglades wetlands so they can build a tent camp in the swamp to fuel Trump's mass deportation operations — and they’re going to get money from Trump that Congress intended for humanitarian care to recently arrived-migrants.

Elon Musk is one of the worst mass murderers of the 21st Century.

Kai Winn, failed emissary of the Pah Wraiths just endorsed Cuomo.

Whenever I open up BlueSky

"Iranians oppress women and LGBTQ people"-person who also does that

"It's deeper than a critique of journalists. You can say, 'Fine. 'Both sides.' The left is unhappy w/ how the media covers things.' But it’s a systemic problem. Our political institutions are uniquely unable to deal w/ the rise of what is now a far-right authoritarian party" — @mcopelov.bsky.social