I just discussed this with my students a few weeks ago. To protest the clothing optional beach in Toronto, he took off shirt in council (as one does). He later apologized for his anti-gay shit when he was an NDP MPP saying the church made him do it (as one does).
25.02.2026 19:13 — 👍 30 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Chiselled my frozen compost bin open just now with a cheese knife and thinking about all the decisions that led me to leave B.C.
18.02.2026 22:52 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nothing good has been written since the advent of the spinning jenny.
18.02.2026 21:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They were a husband and wife pair and of the two of them, she was more strident. She wasn't much of a fan of anything published since the fall of the ancient world.
18.02.2026 21:57 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I once met two American-trained English professors at a pub quiz in Kosovo who told me they had no interest in anything published in the last 200 years.
18.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 4 📌 0
EXCLUSIVE: ~400 Christian leaders have issued an Ash Wednesday statement decrying the Trump admin as "cruel and oppressive," arguing the govt has been corrupted by an aberrant form of the faith and calling on Christians to perform "greater acts of courage to resist." religionnews.com/2026/02/18/4...
18.02.2026 16:57 — 👍 362 🔁 172 💬 9 📌 16@amackendrick.bsky.social Hi Andrew - Can you follow so I can send a DM?
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Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ciao, bella
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Short of being there in person, a spy thriller is the best way to see the world.
16.02.2026 03:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Security guard held for slaying man in restaurant ruckus By EDNA BUCHANAN Herald Staff Writer Gary Robinson died hungry. He had a taste for Church's fried chicken. He wanted the three-piece box for $2.19, plus tax. Instead he got three bullets - from a security guard who shot him when he ran. Police jailed the guard on a murder charge. Robinson, 32, walked into Church's, at 2701 NW 54th St., on last Sunday at 11:45 p.m., 15 minutes before closing time. An ex-convict with an extensive arrest record, Robinson lived nearby, at 2905 NW 55th St. "He appeared drunk," Metro-Dade Homicide John Butchko said Saturday. "He was singing, loud and obnoxious." "He was intoxicated," Church's night manager, Shirley Fowlkes, 31, said. Robinson shoved his way in front of seven customers who were ahead of him. Asked to wait in line like everyone else, "he started to swear, yell and scream" at the young woman behind the counter,
Imagine if ChatGPT had written this story instead of Edna Buchanan.
16.02.2026 03:06 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3Also I don’t think any adult has ever looked younger than a young Matt Damon.
16.02.2026 03:20 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Forgot over the years that the second Bourne movie opens with Matt Damon jogging in Goa in shin-length cargo shorts then watching his girlfriend getting shot in the head. The 2000s, man.
16.02.2026 03:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.
The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Trump administration is forcing child rape victims to give birth in captivity in Texas. I sound like an insane person but that is actually what this news story says
12.02.2026 17:53 — 👍 68 🔁 33 💬 3 📌 1Scheduling this game for noon ET a Thursday is most hostile foreign action Canadians have faced this year.
12.02.2026 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
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On the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge:
www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
Donald Trump had dinner with this piece of garbage.
"Our number one enemy is women"
I amplify this only because it's the logical extension of everything this regime has done.
The @thestar.com editorial board on the tragedy in Tumbler Ridge www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...
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Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
The person photographed here who is in their bathrobe filming armed, masked federal agents in St. Paul is MPR News journalist @samstroozas.bsky.social @mprnews.org . She is an incredible journalist and person. We do not deserve her.
11.02.2026 21:26 — 👍 4838 🔁 1264 💬 55 📌 73What did you do for framing?
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Also, man oh man what a great job for someone. thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
10.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0People out this way probably don’t realize how groundbreaking and influential Dave has been. If we have lifetime achievement awards in Canadian journalism he should get them all.
10.02.2026 03:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
David Beers, one of the most influential editors in 21st Canadian journalism (and my first boss) is leaving the Tyee after 23 years. thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...
10.02.2026 03:34 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Fitting given the dick scandal that this seems to be the most popular brand of jumping ski.
09.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0To the extent that I can follow the stakes at all.
09.02.2026 01:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Realizing I don’t care about any of the stakes in Industry this season.
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