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submitted 15 hours ago • 352 comments

This is absolutely wild and has me thinking I am unlikely to try and cross the border anytime soon. I don't think there is any obvious reason they would detain me, but why take the risk?

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

A man in Thunder Bay has been ordered to pay $380K in damages for running a Facebook page calling drag performers "groomers" and "pedophiles". Nice to finally see some consequences for this horrendous behaviour.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Hold on... the guy arguing "empathy is bad" thinks empathy is robotic. Could he make a more backwards and obviously idiotic statement? Is that possible?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

We've confirmed the US Bureau of Prisons has transferred trans women to men's prisons despite three court rulings blocking Trump's executive order “I’m continuing to be punished for existing. I'm a pawn in others' political games" -Whitney, 31-year-old woman taken to men's prison this week, told us

submitted 2 days ago • 249 comments

NY Times is reporting that Canadian leaders believe Trump is serious about the 51st state stuff. I want to be clear again that there is no possible way this could happen other than war. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

You can have the cops come beat the shit out of your students to prove you’re not a filthy commie and they’ll still do this to you and all you’ll have done is show everyone what a pathetic little coward you are. Might as well do the right thing the first time

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

What has Musk been up to up north? Tesla reported selling 8,600 vehicles at four locations in Canada in three days - resulting in $43 million in government EV rebates - just before the government stopped those rebates. A single Toronto showroom claimed over 1,200 sales in a single day.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

if you capitulate on trans kids playing sports with their friends the right will keep moving further until they are calling for “eradication” and you are telling me you are willing to join their calls if they move public opinion enough

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

Centrists bigots and right wingers have this all backward. YOU are the ones constantly bringing up trans issues. I would be happy to not think about this shit every day of my life unless I was talking to or reading something by one of my trans friends and thought of it in passing. SHUT THE FUCK UP

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

I think one of the main things voters want from politicians is the feeling that they will fight for you. Throwing trans people (or any other group) under the bus is immoral, but it's also strategically stupid; it sends the message "I'll throw you under the bus if it seems expedient, too."

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“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.”

submitted 3 days ago • 903 comments

i’m sorry, i’m tired of this shit. there was no pronoun policing. i have encountered exactly three or four land acknowledgments in like ten years, and the most you’ll hear about “intersectionality” is in liberal nonprofits. this is just freefloating resentment masquerading as analysis.

submitted 3 days ago • 440 comments

MO could soon lose millions in tax revenue, instead diverting it to anti-abortion pregnancy centers. Already, btwn the Dobbs ruling in June 2022-mid 2024, 23 states poured $500 million into CPCs. CPCs rarely provide real health care & serve mostly to lie to & harvest data of abortion seekers:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

People say they want more study into the effects of puberty blockers and HRT, but then mock actual studies into it.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Anyone that watches PP respond by saying tax cuts solve everything should have an amazingly clear perspective that he is not fit for the task of leadership (or much else of substance).

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you are reading any Post media outlets without recognizing that it is essentially pro-US/fascist propaganda... Like come on...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Supreme Court legalized bribery, took bribes themselves, and declared this was all just how democracy is supposed to work

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

one thing I've become very convinced of is the need for the civil service to do waaayyyy more propaganda. like you should know about how NOAA makes the weather app on your phone work. you should know that Uncle Sam runs GPS. you should know how impressive the US census data collection effort is, etc

submitted 5 days ago • 82 comments

Folks have got to stop trying to find a rational reason for the tariffs. Trump is an isolationist who doesn't understand economics; that's it, that's the whole thing. "A dumb guy is trying to blow up the global economy for very stupid reasons" is not a satisfying explanation but it's the real one.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This is cult like messaging. It's obviously the opposite of reality. Anyone repeating it is proving they are part of the cult. Anyone denying it isn't part of the cult. It's that simple.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The whole "we have no choice but to put tariffs on Canada because they won't meet our non-existent demands on non-existent fentanyl exports" saga has basically been the diplomatic equivalent of Mr. Burns going "Mattingly I thought I told you to shave those sideburns"

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

It seems like consensus among Very Serious People that obviously there's a bunch of waste and mismanagement in the federal government that needs to be cut, yet no one can actually find any substantial waste. It's one of those things people have decided must be true with or without evidence.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Anyone who doesn’t stand up against this stuff is a coward. Easiest fight ever. These people are freaks who want to look at children’s genitals. There is no public support for this insanity.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

"The Philadelphia School District has announced that it will not follow an executive order from Donald Trump, and that it will instead continue to allow transgender athletes to compete on teams that align with their gender identity."

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Canadian political leaders really should figure out where the actual soft spots in the US economy are. Things they import from Canada that are actually important to them. Potash is a huge one... The US imports 90% of what they consume, and 80% of that comes from Canada (72% of what they consume).

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 8 days ago • 921 comments

The US is basically a science hating theocracy with questionable interpretations of their religion of choice. Very disturbing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Kinda obvious that the more that Mexico and Canada align with US policy the more the US controls Mexican and Canadian policy. Might want to extricate ourselves from that drain circling doom loop. Just an idea.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Good. Fuck them. They're going to have to fight on against an unjust "peace" deal that will provide neither security nor justice while pillaging Ukraine. Shameful that as with Gaza, the US is shoulder to shoulder with the genocidal tyrant whose military forces seek to destroy an occupied people.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

it’s not even an outrageous claim to say this. this is what they want. this peter thiel backed operation praxis nation is openly stating this as their goal. the front man of praxis nation is currently the US ambassador to Denmark, and is the same guy who pushed the “let’s buy greenland” story

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

This is absurd. CNN should be able to track down recently fired employees of the FAA with knowledge of the state of the control system. One that doesn't stand to directly benefit from this change.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

Reminder that when the Freedom Convoy began, Doug Ford went AWOL snowmobiling in the Muskokas, did little to nothing to support the City of Ottawa as the second biggest city in the province descended into anarchy for 3 weeks, then later refused to testify at the emergencies act inquiry

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

It's layoff morning in America nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

There are a couple of possible explanations: (1) she’s this gullible about the IVF promises, or (2) she’s lying and voted Trump because she hates the people Trump hates. Which seems more plausible?

submitted 10 days ago • 201 comments

This point raises such a good comparison. In previous years, Andrew Tate moved to Romania so he could avoid the law in the UK and the US. Then Romania began prosecuting him, and he fled to the US. What does that say about the degradation of the threat of law in the US under Trump?

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

in many ways, "President Donald Trump and a billionaire rocket ship/electric car CEO run the US government with the express purpose of letting you say slurs to gay people" is like a 12-year-old from 1995's dream of what the future would look like

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know if it's possible to post or "create content" online 100% ethically, but you have to draw a line when you can. You can't just say fuck it and patronize every evil company.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

DEI includes people in wheelchairs and people who are deaf/blind and even veterans. Because DEI is ultimately about opening doors for people who are often overlooked despite being qualified. DEI is a pro-meritocracy approach.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Anyway buffoonish hack Ed Martin probably won’t approve charges against right-wingers. So if you’re in DC, deciding what level of force to use against a Trumpist, consider they can kill or assault or rape you without being charged or with the promise of a pardon, and act accordingly.

submitted 13 days ago • 93 comments