drew brown

it's dope as hell that the world builds 100 million cars per year and all that plastic, metal, glass and rubber eventually ends up like this

Wakeham says no link between N.L. wildfires, oil industry in campaign where climate change largely absent | CBC News The 2025 provincial election is happening in the direct aftermath of one of the worst climate-related disasters in Newfoundland and Labrador’s recent history.

To be crystal clear: it's not about what the scientists "told CBC News", not just informed opinion. The science itself is very clear. You can question perhaps the degree of NL contribution to climate change, but it's fact that the oil from here is a contributor. Full stop. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

‘You’re a liar’: Fiery debate between PC and Liberal candidate in Grand Falls-Windsor sees both hurl accusations PC incumbent Chris Tibbs and Liberal challenger Barry Manuel spent time attacking each other, and afterwards said they would do it again. The CBC’s Troy Turner has the story.

i stand corrected. feeling a lot of hometown pride rn www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

unfortunately they don't make em like this anymore

Seismic shift needed to address N.L. housing crisis, experts say – The Independent Housing is a human right in Canada, yet unchecked rent hikes, Airbnb pressure, and landlord-lawmakers have left thousands in Newfoundland and Labrador one paycheck away from homelessness

Twelve out of 40 MHAs elected since 2021 are landlords, a higher percentage than most provinces and an unknown fact to most Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. #nlpoli #Election2025

Read the story from Isaac Peltz 👇
theindependent.ca/news/seismic...

How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

Read Part 2 of Drew Brown's analysis of N.L.'s political system ahead of the 2025 provincial election on Oct. 14.
#nlpoli
theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

How N.L. became the life (and death) of the party – The Independent We’re cutting through the undergrowth to find out why our political parties feel dead — and what might liven them up

for part 2/2 of my "NL Politics 101" series, I survey the breadth of newfoundland history to show that the reason all the problems keep repeating is because the party system hasn't changed since the last time it broke our democracy.

it doesn't have to be this way! theindependent.ca/commentary/a...

The Anna Karenina principle states that for success to occur in a complex endeavor, all key factors must be present and work correctly. The endeavor does not succeed when even one essential element is missing, meaning there are many different ways to fail. It is named for Leo Tolstoy's 1877 novel Anna Karenina, which begins: All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. This suggests happy families resemble one another because they possess the necessary traits for happiness, whereas unhappy families may have any variety of

The whole discourse about whether the plagiarism machine is a person, has been poisoned by the fact that the people on one side of it have used the plagiarism machine to destroy their ability to think.

Turn from the ruin. Turn and go *forward*.

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Naked & Famous selvedge jeans with Morty branding

I bet you the group of men who own rick and morty branded raw denim jeans are fun to talk to.

when the primary source is so good the secondary author prefaces it with "worth quoting at length" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

(part 2 is coming as soon as i get enough breathing room from school to type up the handwritten draft 😭)

wherein i break down politics in newfoundland & labrador to the absolute fundamentals. as in "what do 'Left' and 'Right' even mean?" fundamentals. part 1 of a 101-level crash course in everything you (n)ever wanted to know about the unique political dynamics of canada's other Distinct Society.

this archetype remains undefeated

#GoldenAgeOfFraud

#Crypto

this is something you just have to live with if you are even barely well-known online; people make up elaborate stories about you in their heads. it will always happen and you cannot give a shit about it, only stomp on it if they try to spread these weird tales to anybody you actually know.

they should let you put the group chat as a reference on your resume

The year is 1999. You are watching The Man Show with Adam Carolla and Jimmy Kimmel. By 2025 one will be a right wing grifter, the other will be fired as a bellwether of encroaching Fascism. You take a drink of Mountain Dew code red and change the channel.

If you aren't picking D you're out of your damn mind.

VOCM headline: "Premier Must Call Provincial Election Today" above photos of NDP leader Jim Dinn, Liberal leader John Hogan, and PC leader Tony Wakeham.

Text: "The minimum length of an election is 28 days. For Premier Hogan to meet the mandatory fixed election date of October 14 he has to make the call today. The betting is that the call will come at about 6:00 tonight."

you can really feel the enthusiasm for NL's 2025 provincial election!!!

(from vocm.com/2025/09/15/p...)

man. that first season of True Detective really is flawless television.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

You're going to see a lot of "he's a violent antifascist leftist" and "he's a groyper" but the core of Tyler Robinson's motivation is almost certainly that he's an online-poisoned idiot gamer.

"digital asbestos" is such a good term for the ai-ification of everything

gq insta post with pic of stavvy and caption: "The way out of being an incel is understanding you can be a fucking loser, you don't have to be the exact ideal. Be the ideal version of you. Even at your worst, there's more people in the world that want to fuck you than you'll ever be able to fuck."

at the end of the day, there's more people in the world that want to fuck you than you'll ever be able to fuck

wazzzaaaa dude happy birthday lol 😝

hope you’re having a good one wish i was there

Also we all know the secret we share. Into the depths of darkness men like us tread. The hunger that drives us away from the light.

New York Times: "Canadian candidate, who urinated into coffee cup, apologizes By the Associated Press September 7, 2015 TORONTO -- A candidate running for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper's party capped off a bad week for the party by apologizing for being caught on video urinating in a coffee cup while working as an appliance repairman."

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