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You threaten to conquer a country a whole bunch of times and all of a sudden people get all mad bsky.app/profile/step...

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

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Currently watching Sandman s2 with all the mixed feelings of the rest of its viewers Someone should give Tom Sturridge a medal I dont know how you carry a whole show with something like that going on in the background An amazing performance completely overshadowed by the author Havent got the words

You are allowed to, of course! If it helps, I try to feel 'vindictive'. Life is hard, some people don't get to this point but goddamit... I lived until now, so I won! Gonna eat my cake with spite basically 😅

Between this and the recent articles from Chronicle of Higher Ed and New York mag about AI-facilitated cheating, I have to wonder how many classes are now a closed loop of homework generated by ChatGPT, whose answers are written by ChatGPT, which are then graded by ChatGPT.

Tumblr post that reads: kill the imposter syndrome in your head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

grew up with the media depiction where they rip out a guy’s still-beating heart and eat monkey brains and we still managed to win all the spelling bees m, I think the white boys can survive the message of “don’t be a rapist”

Grëv

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

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We now go live to Bruce Fanjoy in Carleton.

Guess we should be thanking Trump, as well as Quebec, and the deep unpopularity of Pollievre in Quebec.

The good news is the Bloc Québécois hates trump more than the liberals

Still think it would be a stretch, though, if it helps!

I'm not sure how much immigration is a priority right now with tarifs and everything but could become an identity issue much later, if juxtaposed with federal 'meddling' in Québec's rulings. It all depends on the liberal's willingness to play ball. I'd imagine they will thread carefully!

haha this won't happen, don't worry. The BQ would loose all their support in Québec. They have very little in common.

With only 5/266 polls reporting, Pierre Poilievre is 14% behind the Liberal nominee for his riding.

PLEASE Carleton, please do this one thing for me.

An example of why American news doesn’t get Canada.

@nytimes.com 🎁 article states PM Carney has won a full term. He has not. If it’s a minority Liberal government, it could fall at any time.

Americans: get Canadian news about Canada - it’s accurate.

#Canada

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Hear me out. No more interviews of the weird pronatalist couple.

Interview the neighborhood dads. The guy who mows the lawn of an elderly neighbor. The people who live self-sacrificial lives that make other people’s lives better. Normalize that.

A crisis in masculinity? Highlight this man.

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

BREAKING: Pope Francis Dies at 88. Here's How He Should Be Remembered The late pontiff was a progressive pope who was outspoken on Trump, Gaza, the climate, and more.

"almost every night since Oct 2023, even during his hospitalization, Pope Francis made a daily phone call to the only Catholic parish in the Gaza Strip to check on their safety and offer words of prayer and support. His last public act, the day before he died, was to call for a ceasefire in Gaza."

Défi 1000 gestes pour la nature: «un bon vaccin contre l’écoanxiété» Si l’événement a permis l’an dernier plus de 13 600 gestes — l’équivalent de 11 tonnes de déchets retirés de l’environnement — les organisateurs se donnent comme objectifs d’atteindre 20 000 gestes à travers le Québec.

Défi 1000 gestes pour la nature: «un bon vaccin contre l’écoanxiété»

it's exhausting to constantly live in fear of harassment. cis allies need to advertise safety and solidarity in public places.

one simple thing people need to do is start hanging/wearing pride flags and trans flags as a show of solidarity, especially in public-facing businesses like cafes and shops.

Nearly 300 apply as French university offers US academics ‘scientific asylum’ Aix-Marseille University generates interest amid a US crackdown and calls for a ‘scientific refugee’ status

Most of the applications were sent using encrypted messaging, the university’s president, Eric Berton, wrote. “And with them came worrying, sometimes chilling, accounts from American researchers about the fate reserved for them by the Trump administration.”

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Google’s Ad Dominance Is Illegal, Federal Judge Rules | KQED A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google is operating an illegal monopoly in online advertising technology.

A federal judge mostly sided with the Justice Department in a case about online advertising that could reshape the basic economics of running a modern website. via @kqednews.kqed.org

2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.

Screeching about low birthrates is a stalking horse for stripping women of their rights. That's why all the well-meaning liberal solutions — better childcare, better healthcare, and especially men doing their fair share — fall on deaf ears.

1) Do something autocratic
2) Wait to see how people react
3) If they don't push back hard enough, carry on
4) If they do push back hard enough, "pause" it
5) Illegally consolidate more power
6) Repeat

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company

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