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This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 1005 comments

wow sure would be great to have high speed rail literally anywhere on this continent right now huh

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

3 weeks ago I interviewed @kofie.bsky.social for Creator Spotlight. 2 days before the podcast's publication, he and a couple of colleagues were laid off. 3/4 of my most recent interviews have been laid off by Vox in the last few years. So I scrapped my planned profile and wrote about it!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It’s pretty fucked up of them to kill off the Pope just for an Oscars campaign, it used to just be about the art, you know?

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This bombshell investigation from yesterday with six bylines is already off the NYT homepage. Behind the scenes on how Senator Tillis flipped to support Hegseth amid threats of retaliation from Trump. Give it a read. 🎁 Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/u...

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

my favorite moments from the three who were laid off from secret base today:

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

God DAMMIT

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Shopify selling Kanye’s Heil Hitler Swastika t-shirts seems about as good as any for a thread on Shopify’s role as a far-right political business venture disguised as a typical tech company and their reputation for not taking down hate merch. 🧵 ⬇️

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

@mapquest.com is back, baby!

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Leave @jonbois.bsky.social and @kofie.bsky.social and the rest of them alone! They’re the only good thing left on the Internet!

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Hell yeah, fight back

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

she’s the best Ottawa poster

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Best thing I've read all week. www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

if the president can say “i don’t like the department of energy,” and within a week it’s closed, then the constitution means nothing, and the president’s entire claim to power is the loyalty of the military. either he is constrained by the constitution or he’s a dictator, there isn’t a middle ground

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

gotta be serious here .... it sure feels like we are a hair away from some SV fker just doing A Modest Proposal for real web.archive.org/web/20250204...

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

None of this is legal.

submitted 19 days ago • 136 comments

The most annoying part of this fake cold war was that the two most insufferable people in my life (Donald Trump and Doug Ford) both get to claim victory

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

If we had a significant populist left in Canada, they could frame this like “profiteering by our own corporate overlords only enables the fascist Trump regime by joining with him in punishing the working class” but alas do not have such a thing

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Arguably the biggest national security breach in U.S. history. Private employees downloading personnel data on every federal employee and tax and social security data on every American onto private unsecured servers. Needless to say, completely illegal and subject to major prison sentences.

submitted 21 days ago • 240 comments

do you know how bad you have to be as president to make the Luka to Lakers thing the 2nd dumbest trade related news of the last 24hrs

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life: 1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues. 2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites. 3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing. 4. Democrats double down on economic issues.

submitted 26 days ago • 119 comments

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

submitted 26 days ago • 126 comments

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

submitted 31 days ago • 291 comments

The thing is, I feel like if someone truly, accidentally, & unintentionally made a n*zi salute on a national stage, they would be appropriately horrified by it and apologize. And when they don’t ….. it says everything.

submitted 32 days ago • 465 comments

it’s becoming increasingly clear the goal of the far right is to defund and buy up every source of reliable information until there is no more objective reality to counter them

submitted 32 days ago • 498 comments

You know what’s really messed up? That amidst all of the shit going on down in the States, the best place for me to focus my limited political attention is on: the Liberal leadership race, one of the most already-settled federal elections in the last 50 years, and then…Doug Ford AGAIN?

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

this is incredible stuff. most state DOTs would spend tens of billions on highway expansions to try and see numbers like this (that wouldn’t even pan out anyway thanks to induced demand lol)

submitted 40 days ago • 165 comments

Reading the OTT - PIT scoreline and involuntarily making a sound I can only describe as an villainous snicker

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1. Hundreds of companies who pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 4 years But we've identified 10 promise keepers: Farmers Airbnb Expedia Nike Clorox General Mills Holland & Hart Qurate Whirlpool Lyft

submitted 47 days ago • 913 comments

There is some resistance to the far-right within this subculture, but it tends to be on the margins. Red gyms, anarchist and antifascist self-defense trainings exist but are marginal in comparison to the right-wing presence.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

Was so hyped to watch Johnny Mnemonic to ring in 2021, and now it looks like I have my pick to ring in 2025. Let’s goooo Futuresport!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 68 days ago • 1126 comments

Really good writing and analysis here imo, in a blog that is incredibly rich in Phrases That Do Not Appear In The Bible. defector.com/the-hawk-tua...

submitted 74 days ago • 83 comments

No, Canadians don't think Canada should be a part of the United States

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

every time a community tests ubi or free housing for the homeless the result is always "holy fuck this works incredibly well and costs less than existing solutions!" and then every politician alive does this

submitted 319 days ago • 34 comments

Take the extra lane on Strandherd Road back and convert it into Barrhaven’s first streetcar line

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Heard that Michael Polowin is set to be appointed as a new member of the Ottawa Police Board. He is well known for conflating criticism of Israel as antisemitism (as can be seen below). He also notably served as the lawyer for Timbercreek during the Heron Gate mass evictions.

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment