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The Washington Post with a story about how remaking an institution to appeal to the pro-Trump right doesn't help the bottom line.

Indeed. That was a few more resets, mind you

Spicy!

Also generations raised on the sort of computers journalists tend to get issued

Yeah, me too.

Opinion: Carney wants a China ‘reset.’ May he avoid the mistakes of the previous four To be sure, the Prime Minister has good reasons to attempt this century’s fifth reset

If Canadian PM Carney manages a “reset” with China, it will be the fifth reset in 20 years under three Prime Ministers. Two of those resets have required their own reset, by the same PM, after they went south. Heavy lies the hand on the China Reset button

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I would really rather not have a public broadcaster paying most of its budget to bid for sports broadcast rights and thus be dependent on the advertising necessary to support those deals. That was the case for decades. Public outlets should do what private ones don’t or can’t.

This, by the way, is a strong if obscure argument for population tripling. Only a reasonable-sized national audience/market will enable advertisers to afford multiple TV spots in a national campaign. Ok, not the biggest case for pop growth, but it is one

That is true. Buffalo just has a knack for cheap advertising

I would kill for a “Hit by a car? Call William Mattar”

Repeat offenders: Blue Jays fans are getting sick of seeing the same ads on TV Few have deep enough pockets to buy in to Canadian-aired blockbuster live events, where airtime is getting increasingly expensive

Thanks to @simonhoupt.bsky.social for reporting on what we’ve all been saying.

I’ve found in agencies, creatives never take into account what the media buyers will do to their stuff by forcing 20 views/hour and turning a clever ad into an account killer

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Exactly

I’ve been watching it, and it does what all good works about fascists should do: shows them to be pathetic, insecure pieces of shit underneath it all.

Yeah. It‘s consistent with the Canadian approach in the first Trump term of working those sectors of the United States— including international-minded ‘liberal’ Republican leaders and their voters — that are likely to favour more open trade.

I can see it. "For the good of Canada..."

The treaty properly known as the Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence.

Why Latvia is the only EU country with significant parliamentary opposition to this treaty, including from its governing coalition, is mystifying. Putin opposes it

Maybe they’ll be principled enough not to accept. Lot of maybes here

I can't stand the guy -- as a resident of the city he's worked hard to destroy, that's to be expected -- but the ads were good and strategically wise

Those who think the Reagan ads were a bad idea for having irrationally annoyed the president for reasons having nothing to do with their merits are, I assume, writing urgent letters to the Toronto Blue Jays organization urging them to lose the World Series for the same reason

i do think vance is mostly just regurgitating the half remembered ideas of dead slaveholder extremists but also this gives off the unmistakable scent of “i’ll say whatever you hogs want me to say,” which is fitting coming from america’s premier hogman

Opinion: Carney’s better off without a big Trump trade deal. Just ask the Europeans There has been plenty of buyer’s remorse in countries that signed hasty agreements with Washington. Canada would be wise to wait

Here I explain why PM Carney is fortunate to have offended Trump away from negotiating a big tariff-cutting deal right now

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Best guess, based on language and priors: A de facto or de jure royal court, somewhat inspired by the Élysée Palace (that president gets to receive guests there! And watch giant military parades there!), but way tackier, perhaps branded as something else but built for performative obeisance

Well, you've found someone in the resistance who's even more delusional and irrationally paranoid than Trump himself

There's already an absolutely huge bunker filled with screens, which he isn't touching. He's not interested in bunkers.

And the whole problem is he's destroyed that US system and replaced it with a de facto command economy. We need to work together to rescue the progressive forces of neoliberalism!

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

And then he spoke to somebody else. There's no predicting this stuff.

I think he wants the sort of palatial structure the president of the French Republic enjoys, for reviewing grand parades and being received by de facto courtiers. I don’t think he cares at all about bunkers or things for the benefit of the wider public

Those who think the Reagan ads were a bad idea for having irrationally annoyed the president for reasons having nothing to do with their merits are, I assume, writing urgent letters to the Toronto Blue Jays organization urging them to lose the World Series for the same reason

Trust Mark Hamill to be ahead of the curve

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That’s what I suspect. The bigass bunker is already there