Luke Côté

Democrat oriented!

Reality’s well know liberal bias rears its ugly head again.

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

The premiers violating your Charter rights don’t want the courts to weigh in | Xtra Magazine When it comes to the Notwithstanding Clause, premiers opposed to the federal government’s factum are showing their true colours

For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column: The premiers violating your Charter rights don't want the courts to weigh in #canqueer #cdnpoli

Release the Epstein Files.

went out on my patio to document the hellscape

I guess they didn’t like Trump’s new 100% tariffs on China today, added on to the previous tariffs.

If anyone has a case for being thrown out of NATO, it’s the member that has actually threatened to violate the territorial sovereignty of two of its fellow member-states… 😬

‘Alternative facts’ was a first term Conway creation.

Now it’s a thing of the left, apparently.

But I believe people who believe a work of fiction is real and the basis for Earth’s ‘creation’ and everything there after…

Those people should not be questioning anyone else’s grasp of reality.

Indian immigrant fights deportation after police mistake perfume labeled 'Opium' for the narcotic Kapil Raghu, 28, was arrested in May after an officer in central Arkansas spotted the rollerball perfume bottle in his car during a routine traffic stop.

Calling these things “mistakes” is disingenuous and lazy. A 45 year old fragrance in a bottle that is scented like the fucking fragrance is not a damn drug and everyone knows that. www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-a...

Funny they can't say the name of protests because saying "No Kings" makes it soooo clear it's the opposite of a "hate America rally"

No Kings protests, and anti-regime protests in general, serve two main positive functions:

1) Reminding participants and observers that they’re very far from alone, countering regime efforts to divide and isolate

2) Showing the absurdity of regime lies about the peaceful, pro-democracy opposition

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest. There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day. What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid. It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Update: Bari Weiss’s first pitch at CBS — a roundtable with Antony Blinken, Mike Pompeo, and Hillary Clinton that ended up being a virtual interview with Clinton & Condoleezza Rice — has about 150 viewers on YouTube.

Added with the 24/7 CBS stream, it’s just over 1200 viewers.

“BEZOS SUPPORTS THIS GOVERNMENT,” Neil Young writes. “IT DOES NOT SUPPORT YOU OR ME.”

www.stereogum.com/2325956/neil...

Democracy!

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

These people are absolutely pathetic in their subservience to Trump

Can’t let a younger generation take the wheel.

Just think of all the damage they’d do???

I mean look at the glorious state of things in America! Who would want to change that?

Trump has done more to harm peace and human progress than anyone else this century. He's demonised the world's most vulnerable people, undermined global law & order, waged war on science & medicine and is dismantling his own democracy.

He's in 8,249,937,355th place to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

Historians argue that Trump indicting his enemies one-by-one rather than having them murdered in a single night proves he’s not a fascist.

Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

(Published June)

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

It's really too bad there are no governments responsible for housing in the Toronto area.

www.tvo.org/article/anal...

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

Small progressive change can be used in all kinds of situations.

Not here.

Humans have caused a mass extinction event, Holocene.

The planet is dying and we are causing it.

This isn’t a case of ‘slow and steady wins the race.’

Slow and steady means the planet and most of its life die.

Rights aren’t rights if the government can take them away.

-George Carlin

Without context this comment could be about ICE.