Niels 🇨🇦

You don’t get to name your kid X Æ A-12 and then say “or whatever his name is” about anyone else.

Also interesting to see this style of climate skepticism has been picked up by Bari Weiss (who now runs CBS 🤮) I imagine this won’t be the last we see of these talking points being pushed.

In Defence of Climate Alarmism Fresh off their purchase by Paramount, The Free Press is pushing climate change skepticism in slick social media videos made to go viral.

I saw a short viral video from the Free Press that was pushing climate change misinfo and it bugged me enough that I wrote a whole post going through a few of the graphs and debunking them. I wrote this partly as a personal exercise but might be interesting to those who follow climate stuff.

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Mamdani did a whole video about ticket pricing for the world cup next year

Respirators are seriously underused in construction but this is even more egregious.

I keep oscillating between thinking that 1. America is an irredeemably messed up country because his approval has been kind of steady around 40%.

and

2. He is a historically unpopular president who is going further and further underwater. I’ll be back to number 1 by the next NYT poll

Roughly 17% of Canada’a population is rural. Despite being gigantic we are a relatively urbanized country.

The myth that there are "hundreds of thousands" of vacant units wasn't true when local NIMBYs said it in 2024 and it's not true when the Attorney General of Ontario says it today. Tenants shouldn't have their rights weakened because of the Ford government's failure to build.

He was the best Chess educator out there and a true all time great in the Blitz format. This is so terrible.

Sometimes we forget just how stupid she is.

Trump posted an AI video of the BOMBING of my friend @harryjsisson.bsky.social with FECES and I can't find any instance of corporate media mentioning it

CNN is now reporting over 7 million people joined the #nokings protest which would definitely make it one of if not the biggest single day protests in the last 50 years. And this is the top story on the NYT…

Second "No Kings Day" protests likely the largest single-day political demonstration since 1970, with 4.2-7.6 million participants Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates

Good evening. We estimate that between 4.2 and 7.6 million people turned out for the No Kings Day demonstrations held around the country on Saturday. This makes Oct 18 very likely the biggest single-day U.S. protest event since 1970. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/second-no-...

In Argentina

Yes but people are concerned the DSCC is putting their weight behind Mills. Dan Pfeiffer had an interesting newsletter about it this morning.

Damn the regime has now lost JCal 💔

MAJOR NEWS: @GavinNewsom signed SB 79, my bill allowing more housing near public transit — rail, subway, rapid bus.

It’s a huge step for housing in California. It’ll create more homes, strengthen our transit systems & reduce traffic & carbon emissions.

Thank you, Governor!

One day someone will win a Nobel for the courageous struggle to bring democracy back to US after this regime.

I think Doug Ford benefits a lot from his Queen's Park opposition always tending to assume that his populist instincts are correct, and so they water down their criticism with too much nuance and hedging. He doesn't always know what voters want — sometimes it's just personal grievance.

The Venn diagram of urban density and average household GHG emissions is pretty much a circle. Interesting study on “Mapping household GHG emissions in the Greater Golden Horseshoe” from the University of Toronto School of Cities schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/mapping-hous...

He’s probably trying to get disqualified so he can cry foul and claim the process is rigged against him. It’s a lot easier than running a real campaign.

@Sec_Noem on X: Chicago, we’re here for you.

If you showed this tweet to James Madison, he would be like, "yes, this is why I wrote the 2nd Amendment"

Gavin @governor.ca.gov as a Canadian and non-US citizen I must inform you that if you veto SB-79 my illegal alien dominion vote for you in the primary is as good as gone!

Ugh it’s already watered down to appease nimbys and it’s still not enough! He’s gotta just push ahead on this one and ignore the whiners. Memes are great but they won’t end the housing crisis.

Albanian PM Edi Rama mocked Trump to Macron: “You should congratulate Ilham Aliyev and me. Trump has ended the conflict between Albania and Azerbaijan”

Earlier Trump claimed he ended a war between Albania and Azerbaijan. It was a war between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Common Natalie W take

So Brad Bradford is running for mayor. Probably good for Chow but there is so much animus towards her I do still worry about a head to head even with someone as unlikable as Brad . #TOpoli

Part of that danger comes from spreading the falsehood that there was widespread celebration of Kirk’s murder on bluesky while virtually every single verified account and public figure completely condemned it while Tim Urban’s buddy Elon called for war and proclaimed the left is the party of murder

Do we have an accounting of lost revenue over this period given the fact that the growth induced by the TCJA was negligible?