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The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

remember this for every AI headline you read

but also keep this one in mind, too

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

The purpose of government is not to maximize earnings to investors

It's always good to see priests who still remember there are *seven* Catholic social principles. Also, that noise you hear is the USCCB screeching to the Vatican and getting back nothing, lol

I also note that the Canada Disability Benefit is listed as one of the benefits for automation. As @lindsaytedds.bsky.social and I have pointed out, with NGOs like Disability Without Poverty, the disability tax credit is a major obstacle to access to this (still too small) benefit. Progress!!!!

how many lower income Canadian pay to file to keep benefits, and how many Canadians have simple returns where the CRA could help. This seems like a commitment to finally help!

Other key voices on this have been @lindsaytedds.bsky.social @gillianpetit.bsky.social, & NGOs like Prosper Canada. 2/3

Announcement from PM Carney moments ago and this is good news. I've been working on this issue with @saulschwartz.bsky.social and @agenestgregoire.bsky.social for years. We've documented how many Canadians don't file and miss out on or loose benefits, .. 1/3

Yes well those of us who would got fired first and no one said shit so

New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate TORONTO - A popular new sportsbetting app, BetDuel Sportsbook & Casino, advertises "all the fun of sportsbetting and casino slots right in your pocket, plus 4 in 5 odds of developing a debilitating co...

New sportsbetting app boasts 80% addiction rate

As I said a couple hours ago about a different fake video, you don't need to feel stupid if you fell for it.

The entire internet is drowning in this AI shit. And there's no easy solution. We're just fucking cooked as a society.

Read This When Things Fall Apart by Kelly Hayes | Pilsen Community Books A bundle of letters to activists and organizers on the frontlines in catastrophic times from Let This Radicalize You co-author Kelly Hayes In social movements, some heartbreaks are all but inevitable.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

How Denmark Built a $50 Billion Innovation Economy: 8 Lessons for Global Business Leaders Discover eight key lessons from Denmark’s $50B innovation economy that global business leaders can apply to drive sustainable growth.

This is more interesting than it sounds.

“You don’t look sick” Thanks that’s the goal. But here is what you don’t see. I cancel plans, I rest for hours after a shower, I forget basic words mid sentence, I grieve a version of myself barely remember, fight everyday against a body that doesn’t cooperate. It is not just tired. It is chronic illness.

From my hemiplegic migraine group

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Things that are cash grabs: Ford selling 99 year lease of public park (Ontario Place) to private company; successive governments taking taxpayer money earmarked for health and education and giving it to private companies. Things that are not cash grabs: fines for breaking the law.

A 2025 indigenous media award for best feature story

Some new hardware in the mail!

Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday that his government will begin rolling out an automatic tax filing system for low-income Canadians and will make the school food program permanent, in advan...

Good. More of this. Less of cuts and pipelines and missile shields and appeasing Trump and undermining labour and going backwards on climate.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Perhaps the least hinged quote I've seen from this government so far.

1 to 2 Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth each day

"Bottom line: There are now one to two Starlink satellites falling back to Earth each day, burning up in the atmosphere with consequences not fully understood."

earthsky.org/human-world/...

TIER ONE: Americans who Donald Trump pedophiled with: They get shielded from prosecution for the crimes they did commit.

TIER TWO: Americans who brought Donald to justice for the crimes he did commit, they get prosecuted as revenge even if they committed no crimes whatsoever.

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

The Trillium is hammering this story.

"Months before he was put in charge of Ontario’s Ministry of Labour, cabinet minister David Piccini was at a Toronto Maple Leafs game in front-row seats with a director of a company his office would later give $7.5 million in taxpayer-funded grants to. #OnPoli

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

Rather than just taking their L and minding their damned business, the Ford government is spending its time and resources redesigning 500 metres of one street in a single municipality. Loser behaviour for a Provincial government.

The fascist leaders themselves, as we observed in chapter 1, called their movements ideologies, and many interpreters have taken them at their word. It is commonplace to see fascism defined by extracting common threads from party programs, by analogy with the other “isms.” This works better for the other “isms,” founded in the era of educated elite politics. I tried earlier to suggest that fascism bears a different relation to ideas than the nineteenth-century “isms,” and that intellectual positions (not basic mobilizing passions like racial hatreds, of course) were likely to be dropped or added according to the tactical needs of the moment. All the “isms” did this, but only fascism had such contempt for reason and intellect that it never even bothered to justify its shifts.

2a) Apart from featuring his definition of fascism (which he offers reluctantly), Paxton observes how the fascist relation to ideas is merely tactical and not grounded in intellectual consistency.

Useful for today's world to remember how fascists dont feel the need to "justify" changes in position.

Meta banned the Epoch Times from advertising. Then it accepted $300k in new ads targeting Canadians In the past 12 months, The Epoch Times has spent over $300,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads promoting political surveys to collect the emails of Canadians using a series of anonymous pages.

In the past 12 months, The Epoch Times has spent over $300,000 on Facebook and Instagram ads promoting political surveys to collect the emails of Canadians using a series of anonymous pages. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/21/i...

CivicSearchlight - by Canada's National Observer Search transcripts of municipal meetings across Canada. Find discussions about topics that matter to your community with Canada's National Observer's search tool.

Today we launch Civic Searchlight, a tool for searching local government meeting transcripts across 550 municipalities in Canada.

Access is open for researchers and journalists:

civicsearchlight.nationalobserver.com

A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly

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I'm a big fan of how much this cover is bent! You should all read the Canada in Decline series -- it makes sense of this moment from a left-wing perspective and will make you never trust a profiteerer again!

We Are Not Fascists, and If You Call Us Fascists, We Will Arrest You President Trump had another successful week of what is already the greatest presidency of all time, and yet, the woke leftist mob continues to deli...

"Fascist regimes have classic, telltale traits, like vilifying immigrants, adopting patriotic symbolism of their nation’s glorious past, and embracing a narrow definition of masculinity and family values. But just because we also do all of those things does not make us fascists."