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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

The best thing about Brad Bradford’s crushing loss is that the toxic Warren Kinsella was one of his foremost and most confident supporters. 🤭 #topoli

One of the most intriguing and impressive messages of the Serbian student movement was its insistence on application of law - one simple strategy simply saying “we have rules, we have laws, we have judges, we have courts - all we are asking for is for the law to be applied correctly and fairly”.

If only there were a Nobel Prize for heckling

Neil Young Hits Trump With $10M Lawsuit for Playing ‘Rockin’ in the Free World’ at Rally — Again

I don't know anything about Toronto politics anymore, but from afar Olivia Chow's rise from 23% in 2014 to 37% in 2023 to 54% in 2026 seems fascinating.

You know, I find it hard to listen to people bitch about things in this city when I'm looking at voter turnout in various wards, and it's basically about 35-44%

Well that picked up fast! Olivia Chow is reelected as mayor of Toronto.

Wab Kinew on what could come after the Indian Act

Mark Carney on abolishing the Indian Act: "I'm committed to a process that moves Canada beyond the Indian Act."

Just voted. 🥳 #OttMunicipalElection

The shocking vilification of Muslims is one of the most troubling storylines of the midterms.

Absolutely FABULOUS news for all life on Earth, especially the Amazon rainforest!!!! Despite the fascists playing every dirty, cheating trick in the book to steal this election, the people of Brazil saw through the lies. So, so, happy and relieved this morning 🇧🇷 👏 share.google/UdpzcSkD5us7...

I have refused many invitations to be interviewed by Piers Morgan over the years. This time I made an exception, on the condition that it be one-on-one, not a scream fest, and that it actually be about the book Astra and I wrote. It was... an experience. youtu.be/SMFQBQx-qSU

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"David Eby didn't CONVINCE me to vote for him so THAT'S why the Conservatives won, not because voters didn't vote for him, but because HE didn't campaign well. I'd love to stay and chat, but I have to pack to move because as a minority, I'm going to be a third class citizen under Conservatives."

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

The #BCpoli election should be a wakeup call to Canadian political parties relying on a progressive base to always reliably just hold their nose and vote to prevent the even worse guys bsky.app/profile/bigc... #cdnpoli #abpoli @naheednenshi.bsky.social

Yep, just to add even more color for how bad this is—there are tons of American made vehicles that are basically only exported to Canada because they’re too expensive for most consumers in Mexico and too big for consumers in Europe/Asia. One of endless reasons it was dumb to start this trade war.

As the son of immigrants, FUCK YOU Rempel and FUCK Maple MAGAT Conservatives in general. The CPC, the party of hate and division, it's all they have. And by the way good luck BC your protest vote is going to bite you in the ass. Eby, you're a putz.

Your concluding paragraph is a good message for Mark Carney, too. Perhaps not now, is his continuing 'honeymoon' phase, but sometime down the road...when the honeymoon is over.

🧵Yesterday, British Columbia elected a Conservative majority government that ran on a platform of tax cuts and accelerating the pillaging of nature, or what the party calls “natural resources exploitation.” They also ran on attacking Indigenous sovereignty and trans rights.

Gary Mason on election interference: "There's one set of rules for them, and another set of rules for everybody else. And people are fed up with it. The rest of the world is fed up with it. And that's why the U.S. has become a pariah country. People don't like them. Canadians don't like them."

Stéphane Dion: "Is the White House happy with what we are doing with the EU? No, but we should not care. We are a sovereign country."

Nathan Cullen on rumours a Canada-U.S. trade deal is close: "I just don't trust the administration. And if they're being dragged and forced into making concessions, great, he's making them already. Do we need a trade deal writ large, written a couple of weeks before the midterms?"

Under the CPBC, I expect BC will follow AB, QC, ON by aggressively privatizing surgeries, diagnostics, long-term care CPBC platform calls for publicly funded vouchers for surgeries and long-term care. This will expand the private for-profit health care industry #bcpoli

While oil is known to float, new research finds that over time it can permeate even extremely deep marine habitats, with animal populations declining by as much as 80 percent.

I think one of the lessons here is that progressive governments will not win by trying to carve out cutesy conservative policies. Repealing the carbon tax, promising gas tax cuts: the NDP still got hammered. People see right through that shit. Run on what you’re good at, and how you’ll do better.

David Eby has resigned as leader of the B.C. NDP following election of Conservative majority government

So what happens to the robust harm reduction work there now? 😬

Did the residents of BC not see what Ford has done in Ontario? Healthcare and Education starved of funding to try and force privatization. Corruption beyond imagining. I feel sorry for BC. Please remember you were warned.

They’d have to be blind with bloodlust, or terrified of Trump, to pursue this case. But as we know, that describes them precisely. trib.al/kyq6aB9

Your concluding paragraph is a good message for Mark Carney, too. Perhaps not now, is his continuing 'honeymoon' phase, but sometime down the road...when the honeymoon is over.

I'm giving up on democracy. People - politicians and voters - are too stupid. It's socialist dictatorship from now on, for me.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Empathy and kindness are so needed in the world we now live in 🫶

"I can't pronounce that!" Except yeah you can. As an English speaker I found street names in Hawaii difficult to pronounce and remember at first, but then I got over that because I'm not a friggin' eejit. It's a logical way to connect places to the people who were there first. This 👇 is just sad.

there’s no such thing as “strategic bigotry.” I know this because there is no amount of money you could pay me to become a bigot. the democrats who do this agree to do it because they’re bigots

Why wouldn’t he admit it? The Supreme Court immunized this kind of stuff. It’s why Jack Smith had to take the Jeffrey Clark/DOJ/Trump conspiracy out of his Jan 6 indictment.