Jeff Samsonow

The "meritocracy" exposed: Internal emails reveal how the Trump administration hires legal interns “You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor.”

Yup. This checks out. "You MUST be aligned politically with President Trump… GPA is not a strong factor." popular.info/p/the-meritocra...

The Curruthers Caveat was defeated for the first time. Here’s what it means | CBC News Court of King’s Bench Justice Ayla Akgungor’s decision means the site at 138th Street and 102nd Avenue, located steps from a future LRT station, could potentially become a six-storey apartment building.

"This caveat has been seen as untouchable. And I think a lot of people haven't wanted to try." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmon...

‘What the [bleep] did I just watch?’ RFK Jr. posts workout video with Kid Rock urging Americans to ‘get active’ The video features clips of Kid Rock and RFK Jr. exercising, playing pickleball and lounging in a pool

This is what AI slop thinks a workout video is. ca.news.yahoo.com/bleep-did-...

you (stupid): spends thousands of dollars a month to pay for compute to run your AI agents so they can unsuccessfully do simple tasks and boilerplate code

me (genius): buys a 24-pack of modelo for some 19-year-old nonbinary college student once a week. their code works every time

That suuuuucks. People just don't understand what Valentine's Day is about anymore.

I gave my coworkers valentines and they (or the public library patrons) gave me another virus. Are we having fun living with Covid yet?

a man is wearing a black sweater and making a funny face . Alt: Schitts Creek gif of David making a disgusted grimace

Ewww!

Screenshot from The Weather Network app with a yellow warning for a snowstorm.

I still think it's funny to have yellow snow warnings. 🤭

James Van Der Beek's Best Role Was On This Underrated ABC Sitcom - SlashFilm If you haven't seen the cancelled-too-soon ABC sitcom Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23, you're missing out on James Van Der Beek's career-best performance.

"Put your cheeks in a Beek" is a line quoted often around here. James Van Der Beek brought comedy gold to Don't Trust the B in Apt 23, an absolute gem of a show with a stacked cast. He was a star that could do it all. www.slashfilm.com/2099132/ja...

CRASH Clock tracks growing collision risk in low-Earth orbit - The Weather Network Extreme solar activity or even a software glitch could put us just days away from a satellite collision in low-Earth orbit.

Add the CRASH Clock to your regular doomscrolling rotation. www.theweathernetwork.com/en...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Tumbler Ridge is a small planned resource community, a winding 90 minute drive from the nearest city of at least 10,000 people.

A massive number of people are going to descend there tomorrow.

May those that arrive have respect and grace for the unimaginable grief.

A small countertop espresso maker with a sign that reads "Hej! I'm just a display".

I like to think this sign is needed because so many people try to make espresso at Ikea.

Opinion | The Finance Industry Is a Grift. Let’s Start Treating It That Way.

"It’s the absurd endpoint of financial nihilism: an entire business model built on gaming the system without knowing or even caring what’s being traded." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

I am not ready to give up on the Internet, but we need broadcasting-style regulations, along with digitally-savvy rules. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...

When they say Me Too "went too far," they mean "got too close."

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

it's wild to me, how every random shitty man is vigorously defended by every other random shitty man on earth, without prompting, and at length

I helped conveners organize a community meeting for a fifteen block area, with "Preparing For ICE" as the theme.

Less than 48 hours before the event we had to switch to Zoom.

First meeting, so no email list to notify.

And we STILL peaked at 234 people on the call at once.

People are *done*

It’s easy to imagine agents of state violence — like ICE — as uniquely evil.

But history shows, under the right conditions, most humans are capable of horrors.

It’s only in confronting that reality that we can begin to inoculate ourselves against it.

@yveilleuxlepage.bsky.social helps explain:

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking.

I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

Seeking American help for Alberta’s independence is ‘treason,’ says B.C. Premier David Eby Advocates will be seeking a $500-billion credit facility to “bankroll the province” if an independence referendum succeeds, The Financial Times reports.

"There’s an old-fashioned word for that, and that word is 'treason'." www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In “[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo - - — Guys, enough is enough. Bullying is a s...

"It’s easy to throw stones if you think about the job displacement and ecological destruction caused by this pointless technology. But such black-and-white, not-wanting-billionaires-to-get-richer thinking is, quite frankly, cruel."

B.C.'s attorney general urges Canadian businesses to 'think about their role' in supporting ICE operations | CBC News B.C. billionaire Jim Pattison and Vancouver-based Hootsuite are among the Canadian companies facing backlash for business ties to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

"I think that calls on business leaders across this province... to think about their role in what is unfolding there, and to make decisions that would not lead to some of the outcomes that we're seeing unfold in the States"
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A list of Canadian companies profiting off of ICE and Trump's violent mass deportation regime Watch now | Several Canadian companies appear to be pocketing profits as this horrific agenda rolls out.

Canadian connections to ICE attacks in U.S. cities. rachelgilmore.substack.com/p...

apnews.com/article/amaz...

A photo by David Guttenfeld at the NY Times shows an ICE agent in the midst of the Minneapolis invasion.

Jeans, sneakers, and a grenade launcher full of tear gas. These murderous chuds really are cosplaying their stormtrooper dreams. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

We see a global failure in leadership. "No matter the government, a shift towards neo-imperialism and an Orwellian approach to governance will only serve to push the clock toward midnight." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

It’s really this simple.

Ah, ok, that's less scary and makes sense. Yes, three very similar buildings and it does seem strange to scrap the iconic part of something without a real reason.