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#cdnpoli this is the best premier in my opinion @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social

If you need to explain to an idiot why Tolkien would have despised these goons, I have already grabbed a picture of the relevant passage (and I doubt I was the first):

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Tim Walz: “People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we’re talking about a damn ballroom. Don’t lose the plot.”

That’s the line of the week. While Republicans obsess over Trump’s décor, Walz is talking about hungry families.

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

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U.S. ambassador to Canada goes on expletive-laced tirade at Ontario’s trade representative, witnesses say | CBC News The U.S. ambassador to Canada delivered an expletive-laced tirade at Ontario's trade representative at an event in Ottawa on Monday, multiple witnesses tell CBC News

And yet I still see some Americans not getting why Canadians are pissed off, why we are turning our backs on America when we are able, and why we are actively fostering relationships elsewhere.

You collectively elected a POS and the world is reacting, starting next-door

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Alberta is the richest province in the country — except where it really counts How does the province with the highest fiscal capacity in the country also have the lowest per-capita funding for students in its public schools? Because it wants it that way

Alberta is the wealthiest province in Confederation, but you'd never know that by looking at the way it funds its public schools and their students. At some point, voters might want to think about what that says — and means — @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

YouTube video by Union of BC Municipalities Implications from the Cowichan Tribes decision

👆This is very much worth watching re: Cowichan/Richmond decision. Great context, grapples with the uncertainty of the ruling without the fearmongering and trying to score political points. I would put it on 1.5x though, these guys talk deliberately youtu.be/-VxnZB5OhXQ?...

Patron-Supported Journalism Can’t Be the Future of News Writing about the failure of patron-supported journalism is itself a kind of...

I did not enjoy writing this; it can't even serve as an ad for my newsletter, which I've suspended due to an overbilling situation that has me almost regretting leaving Substack. But, you know, it's evidence for the piece I just didn't get to include.

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It is Twitter! Like guys I’m telling you the thing that is collapsing basic norms and making white supremacy mainstream again and giving our formally centrist pundits a Strange New Respect for completely overt neo-Nazis is Twitter! You HAVE to stop ignoring it. It is going to destroy our society

I just made this video for my astro-for-non-physicist course on the solar system, to illustrate celestial motion. The separate clips are all winners/honorable mentions of the @astro4edu.bsky.social astrophoto contest 2022. So nice to have this material! 🧪🔭🎢

Seeing some people think this references Friday Lakeview / Saturday Old Irving gas attacks. Nope, Thursday's rampage in Little Village.

Attorneys are working as fast as they can, just emphasizing that feds have attacked Chicago neighborhoods almost every day since the TRO was entered.

Why Won’t Farmers Rebel Against Trumponomics? Because They’re Rich. The majority of family farmers aren’t working-class strivers. They’re affluent, politically connected businessmen who know when their next bailout is coming.

Farmers didn't vote against their interests and they weren't duped. They knew what they were getting with Trump: slashed environmental regulations, greater leeway in exploiting laborers, exemptions on estate taxes, and generous subsidies and bailouts to minimize their risk.

Canadians care about the world and we care about each other. So we’re going to fight climate change and build a stronger, more competitive economy – together.

He needs to say something way out there to get invited back into the group chat with the rest.

Worse, it’s not just the federal government that can bring suit, but individual racist, bigoted, transphobic “whistleblowers.”

Who receive 10-30% of the settlements, which can balloon b/c mandatory *per-violation* fees of $14,000-28,000.

To me, this looks like bounties. It looks suffocating.

10. UVA's president shall certify under penalty of perjury cach quarterly report as to the report's accuracy and UVA's full compliance with all the provisions in this Agreement. Such certification will state: → [Interim President or President] of the University of Virginia, hereby certify, to the best of my knowledge, and after reasonable review and investigation, that the accompanying quarterly report is accurate, and that the University of Virginia has maintained and implemented policies and procedures as well as training programs to ensure material compliance with the Agreement between the United States and the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia dated [Effective Date]. The United States may make such inquiries as it deems necessary to verify the accuracy of such certification. If the United States concludes that the certifications are accurate, at the end of this Agreement, it will close the remaining Investigations and shall pursue no enforcement actions, grant or funding terminations, or monetary fines for alleged violations of Civil Rights Laws that took place prior to the pendency of this Agreement, and shall treat UVA as eligible for further grants, contracts, and awards in the ordinary course, without disfavored treatment based on events that took place prior 10 the date of the last such certification.

I did something unusual w/my first briefing point this week b/c the UVA deal raises my hackles.

No fees? Assurances of academic freedom? Great. where’s the catch?

I think it’s really odd that UVA president is required to *personally attest* there’s “no DEI here!” every 3 months until 2028.

Why?

Phoebe the pug has 200 certifications, thanks to AI | CBC News With over 200 different certifications to her name, Phoebe the pug could — in theory — safely drive a truck, steer a boat and operate a forklift, to name a few.

I swear AI is going to be the death of us all...

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Image of the mechanical ladder outside the Louvre Text below says WENN'S MAL WIEDER SCHNELL GEHEN MUSS (When you need to move fast) Underneath is more German text which translates as "The Böcker Agilo transports your treasures weighing up to 400kg at 42m/min - quiet as a whisper."

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast'

10/10 response, no notes

This is him. From Facebook

I remember an old joke, something like:

Answer: free

Good answer: $1

Right answer: $10

And I think it kind of applies here too. You can get answers all day for free. But we expect the right answers, and nobody wants to pay the people who figure them out. So, answers it is.

Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"

just in general, as a victim of bullying for much of my life, and as someone who lives in a country taken over by bullies, i simply do not agree that "we should go back to stuffing nerds in lockers" or that there's a moral quality that makes you deserve cruelty from others because you annoy them

Yup.
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This should be Time Magazine’s 2025 Photo of the Year:

Ex-MP Used Forged Docs To Accuse Reporter Of Being KGB Asset: Report David Pugliese places Chris Alexander’s assault on his character in the context of an “ongoing attack on Canadian journalism.”

I don't want this lost sight of. Intentionally deceiving Parliament to blacken a man's reputation might not be compensable in court, but it is punishable by law. Alexander corruptly sought an advantage--how corruptly demands investigation--by lying to Parliament. www.readthemaple.com/ex-mp-used-f...

Someone who saw the evidence in that case and wanted to have dinner with Epstein is not anyone who should be allowed near children.

Good for parents. My kids won't eat em, more for me!

So good! And so impossible to chew