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Doug Ford says he needs a “mandate” to govern and respond to Trump, but his party won’t let its candidates debate and is counting on winning a majority with less than half the vote from a 35 percent turnout. So very democratic!

submitted 17 hours ago • 17 comments

New PBO Report estimates a Guaranteed Basic Income can reduce poverty by 40% nationwide at a net cost of just $3.6B/year and 1% impact on hours worked. Poverty costs Canada $80B+/year.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The math is that if Canada were to spend $3.6 billion more per year to reduce poverty with a guaranteed basic income, they would spend at least $32 billion less on the costs of poverty. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

By the way, if anyone has the slightest doubt that Donald is full of shit about Canadians getting “the best treatment” and “better care” should their country be annexed by the US, I encourage them to note the relative positions of Canada and the USA on this graph.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

:-) thank you so much for reading open.substack.com/pub/thecivre...

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 17 days ago • 724 comments

I want to make it clear that Biden’s expansion of the detention facilities in the U.S., as well as Obamas bullshit with Guantanamo, made this possible. When you see so many people yelling that liberal policy leads to fascism, this is what we mean.

submitted 29 days ago • 29 comments

The glove of doom!

submitted 30 days ago • 4 comments

the democrats already destroyed gaza. it wasn't a case of 'not doing enough,' biden did absolutely nothing to stop the genocide. it is supremely misguided and patronizing and to see him lose votes for that and scold anyone but him

submitted 32 days ago • 47 comments

New episode of Cacked Off Hours just went up on the Cracked YT channel (where I now work again icymi)! It's fresh and new, that's what's so nice about it. Does this mean After Hours is essentially back? Yes maybe I don't know you keep thinking that chief. [REPOST] www.youtube.com/watch?v=beZW...

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

RedNote has Americans realizing they are being extremely overcharged for corn

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submitted 45 days ago • 17 comments

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 55 days ago • 138 comments

Alex Ovechkin has 17 goals in 20 games. At 39. That is fucking bonkers, man. The best 20-game start to a season in his career was 18 goals in 2009-10. This is the second-best 20-game start to his career. He is 39.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

new republican day one priority: making it harder and more expensive to file your taxes

submitted 78 days ago • 90 comments

Only thankful for one thing this year

submitted 91 days ago • 14 comments

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Decent little drag and shot by jbd

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing. They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays. The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k. www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

submitted 94 days ago • 739 comments

We're getting the old gang back together! 🍕

submitted 93 days ago • 24 comments

“The phenomenon is known as induced demand. The result is an endless cycle in which congestion leads to highway expansion, which invites more trips, which brings back traffic…The pattern is so inevitable that economists have dubbed it the iron law of congestion.” slate.com/business/202...

submitted 105 days ago • 12 comments

Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪

submitted 105 days ago • 133 comments

Lots of people know that prehistoric sea turtles got big, but it can be easy to underestimate just how huge these things got. The largest verified specimen of a modern Leatherback turtle weighed in at 1,433 lbs, but this Archelon would have been closer to 11,300 lbs. #scicomm #paleosky #paleontology

submitted 483 days ago • 82 comments