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“In similar experiments conducted during the lead-ups to the 2025 Canadian federal election and the 2025 Polish presidential election, the team found an even larger effect. The chatbots shifted opposition voters’ attitudes by about 10 points”

Iron Circus Comics Iron Circus Comics is the premiere publisher of award-winning, critically-acclaimed graphic novels in the American Midwest, a small-mid house built from the ground up by founder C. Spike Trotman.

A reminder that Iron Circus is gonna get WALLOPED with Baker & Taylor bankruptcy backdraft for the next several months, turning our usual distro payout into bills.

If you'd like to help a small business making weird-ass comics weather the storm, a 💥30% OFF💥 sale is on now!

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My Japanese is better... 🎧😎

Recently, I got so mad that I started writing up analyses of job posting scams I've been getting to expose their shady tactics. 💪

I take scam fighting personally, been doing it for over 25 years.

It pisses me off.

GSE is bringing people together to offer simple tools to keep us all safe online.

I’m putting my money where my mouth is.

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The Best of Big D 2025 Winners - D Magazine In a world where megastores and restaurant chains reign supreme, an elite squad of Dallas editors, critics, writers, and tastemakers joined forces to celebrate the local people and places that make ou...

"Writing for the Texas Observer, the Dallas-based journalist, with help from Tristan Lee of Bellingcat, has exposed several neo-Nazis, including an ICE prosecutor who was operating a White supremacist X account."

That's right

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A thread . Please read . Because when Black women say this and have for years and get hit with

“You know who I am “ and “this is spreading awareness”

No it’s enabling abuse and exploiting “friendship”

Glad the media wasted 7 months of ink on this while Carney was dismantling the country.

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HOMELESSNESS IS NOT A DRUG PROBLEM IT'S A HOUSING PROBLEM

I'm so sick of y'all in my mentions with this talking point, just stop.

PEOPLE CANNOT AFFORD RENT. Half of renters are paying over 30% of their income on rent, another quarter are paying over 50%!!!

People need homes they can afford!

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country.

Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

How to retire rich:

1. Get a$2M Ontario Skills Development Fund grant to teach yourself how to become an education advisor for Paul Calandra

2. Make $1500 a day as an education advisor

3. Pay down your cottage mortgage

4. Bank the $2M

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Photo shared by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025 tagging @naomi.marie__, @nathanmiller612, @rubyscher, @holaarepa, @birksg, @chefjholig, and @haihaimpls. May be an image of text that says 'AS SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE HEARD, I.C.E. PAID US A VISIT AT AREPA YESTERDAY. OUR GM NAOMI & TEAM MEMBERS FOLLOWED OUR ICE PROTOCOL PERFECTLY, THE AGENTS LEFT & NO ONE WAS DETAINED. tO WHOEVER NEEDS THIS: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS WHEN IT COMES TO I.C.E. (1/5)'. christinanguyenmpls 11h We had an ICE scare yesterday and even though we’re afraid of the repercussions of being vocal, we feel that it’s also important to inform people that this is right at our front door. ICE is not some far away boogeyman. They are here right now, spreading fear in our community. We’re so grateful to our entire staff and their bravery. They did the right things and couldn’t have dealt with this situation in a better way. We are grateful to our community activists that came to support us from @miracmn @litosonlake and Monarcha. We hope that if you find yourself in the same situation, that you find these resources helpful. Peace and take care of each other ❤️

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: UNLESS THE AGENTS HAVE A SIGNED JUDICIAL WARRANT, THEY CANNOT ENTER A PRIVATE AREA LIKE THE KITCHEN WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION EVEN IF THEY LIE AND SAY THY DON'T NEED A WARRANT, STAND YOUR GROUND AND INSIST THAT YOU NEED PAPERWORK (2/5)'.

Photo by Christina Nguyen on December 04, 2025. May be an image of text that says 'IF I.C.E. COMES TO YOUR RESTAURANT: HAVE OTHER STAFF OR PEOPLE PRESENT RECORD THEM AND EVERYTHING THEY ARE SAYING. (PEOPLE DOING UNLAWFUL THINGS HATE BEING CAUGHT IN TH ACT) YOU HAVE THE RIGHT to REFUSE SERVICE & YOU CAN ASK M tO LEAVE YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY IF THY DON'T HAVE A WARRANT. (3/5)'.

WE ARE HEARTBROKEN THAT OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES IN THE TWIN CITIES ARE BEING TARGETED AND TERRORIZED BY THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION. THESE ARE REAL PEOPLE THAT ARE BEING USED AS POLITICAL PAWNS AND IT'S APPALLING. REGARDLESS OF THEIR LEGAL STATUS, THERE ARE SO MANY LATINOS & SOMALIANS WHO ARE AFRAID OF BEING DETAINED DUE TO MISTAKEN IDENTITY BECAUSE THEY KNOW THEY MIGHT NOT GET DUE PROCESS & A FAIR TRIAL. THEY WILL JUST END UP IN DETENTION CENTERS & A LEGAL PROCESS THAT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS A BLACK HOLE. WE STAND IN SUPPORT OF OUR IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY, WHO ARE THE BACKBONE OF THIS COUNTRY. WITHOUT IMMIGRANTS, AMERICA IS NOT THE SAME PLACE. STAY SAFE OUT THERE & TAKE CARE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS. LOVE, HOLA AREPA & HAI HAI (5/5)

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Photo of a hand holding up a sticker with a cute illustrated grey cat's face, its eyes are wide and distressed while smiling and sweating and the words "I could get so much done if not for the mental illness" is above their head in a green melting shape.

I'm packing some shop orders and braving the cold to go to the post office this afternoon. So if you'd like something from my shop that will ship out immediately, place your order before 3pm(EST) today! shop.breelundberg.com

How can anyone take seriously the claims of national "taxpayer federation" with 5-6 members, does not disclose its finances/donors, and has zero transparency - yet demands transparency from others. It is time to investigate the Canadian Taxpayers Federation.

I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Stock price chart showing the 64% decline over the last six months for duolingo

Duolingo announced it was going “AI-first” just over six months ago. Since then its stock is down 64%.

The country's biggest anti-vaccine lawyer, the guy behind weakened school mandates in Mississippi and West Virginia, who pulls in millions a year harassing the CDC on behalf of Del Bigtree's anti-vaxx org is ... presenting at ACIP. This panel is anti-vaccine theater. It's a cruel joke.

Just Six Corporations Remain

Just Six Corporations Remain https://theonion.com/just-six-corporations-remain-1819564741/

Alberta isn’t fixing healthcare. It’s abandoning it. “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets.”

New CHW Perspective:

an Alberta pediatrician describes how structural gaps in care are shaping families' lives, and argues that the province’s new “dual-practice” model risks making things worse.

Full analysis:
canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/12/05/a...

This Alberta pediatrician captures something clinicians everywhere feel but rarely articulate this clearly:

Systems fail in patterned ways.
Families absorb the cost.
Governments sell “choice” while walking away from their duties.

Worth your time:

Why Canada needs to recognize the crime of femicide — on Dec. 6 and beyond More than 1,100 Canadian women and girls have been killed by men since 2018. So why is the federal government dragging its heels in adding femicide to the Criminal Code?

"But to call the crime femicide — a sex- or gender-specific term — is in fact a radical rethink in a climate of neutrality that too often masks the disproportionate burden women and girls bear for some forms of male violence."

LAST APPEARANCE OF 2025, this Sunday in Toronto.
Check effinbirds.com/appearances for 2026's schedule so far.

The upside is the force's mentality and approach to cyclists is not hidden.

2 Alberta cabinet ministers say money a key factor in using Charter override on teachers | CBC News Two Alberta cabinet ministers say money was a key factor in the United Conservative government's decision to use the Charter's notwithstanding clause to override teachers' rights and shut down a provi...

Growing up in the household of two teachers, it was always interesting when talk of work came up. My dad used to say there was a contingent of right-wing political thinking that 'hated teachers.' I always thought that was weird and didn't make sense. But now, I get it. This is evidence of it.

It’s not a mistake. It’s deliberate.

Everyone who supported the anti-science quacks, who voted to install them, who backed the pro-infection crowd: you got what you asked for.

You shat in your bed. Now sleep in it.

The War on Christmas

I think they should hold a mural contest and paint city highlights/landmarks on each bus. I'm tired of those fugly wrap adverts on transit.

1/5 On this National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we remember those who have been murdered in acts of gender-based violence. It’s everyone’s responsibility to take collective action to end GBV in Canada: psacunion.ca/ending-gende...