BCP Curt

Gord and MJ rule. TSN games are the best

Orange man gone isn't enough. We need you to all be so embarrassed about this shit that your dumbest uncle will just say he's never been into politics.

The things that these people think are cool always turns out to be the most pathetic loser shit you could possibly imagine. If a friend of mine walked into a room and caught me reading this dribble and taking is seriously, I think I would immediately die of shame.

Carney calls on world to invest in one of Canada’s 6 companies

You know,,,, it’s starting to sound like the president, who ran on and won because of a very real anger at people struggling to afford a comfortable life, then decided to pull every lever he possibly could to make the situation worse

"When one side rejects pluralism, electoral legitimacy, or epistemic accountability, then 'reconciliation' & even 'civility' function less as neutral civic virtues than as asymmetric constraints, & they risk unilaterally disarming pro-democracy forces." Gonna link to this piece every week, forever.

Is insider trading an "official act of the presidency"?

Holy shit.

i just want to note that as soon as i posted this i did think "oh yeah, this is just fukuyama's last man"

Once you look past superficial appearances, rambling blog posts, earnest fan fiction, and their own self-lionizing, what has always struck me with so many of these TESCREAL dudes is their profound intellectual laziness. Not true of all of them, certainly, but definitely true of the most vocal ones.

The hard part about housing policy discourse is that there has genuinely been movement at all three levels of government, beyond what I could have hoped for back when I started on the file, but that it doesn't come close to meeting the scale of the problem.

Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

The Leafs deciding to market themselves by having Nylander say “it’s always about the fuckin Leafs” is the first good thing they’ve done in my entire life

We? Bitch YOU do the messaging for Democrats, and it’s always “be more like Republicans.”

There's this really odd pattern with Bari Weiss, JD Vance, Richard Hanania etc, where they rise to prominence because their main skill is cultivating the friendship of wealthy patrons, but it's impossible to figure out how they do it because they constantly exude a pungent strain of anti-charisma.

15. Indie voters, who favored Trump two years ago, have turned on him by a breathtaking 99 points, according to Harry Enten. www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

this is a genuinely crazy story

The Washington Post has become a joke and their Opinion section is especially responsible for that decline.

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

I almost spat out my soda laughing at this. Like rats deserting the sinking MAGA ship.

What a brutal game.

the sum total of Sam Alito’s jurisprudence on voting adds up to “You have the right to vote for a Republican and if you aren’t likely to vote for a Republican, then Republicans are allowed to disenfranchise you.”

Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Dear Democrats, You will never be able to triangulate your way through racism/sexism/transphobia, because pushing a lighter, politer form of bigotry is always a lose-lose proposition. The bigots want the uncut stuff, while normal people aren't drawn to cowards who sell out. Stand your ground.

Since 1981, Democratic presidents have overseen the creation of 3 times as many private-sector jobs as their Republican counterparts. Excluding Reagan, the net private-sector job growth of the past 3 GOP presidents is zero.

I look forward to reading the Supreme Court's decision where they twist themselves into knots trying to explain how paying people for their votes is an "official act" of the presidency

really good interview with charlie cook about the midterms newrepublic.com/article/2151...

And put the digital services tax back in place while we're at it. It's insane that we backpedaled on that to begin with.

Honestly: Export tax on natural gas, electricity, aluminum, and fertilizer until mid-November.

this second session being impossible to schedule is the most D&D thing you could possibly imagine

i don't think it was chiefly or just the inconvenience, but that they couldn't buy their way out of the safety measures and restrictions everyone else faced (they actually could, but not everyone and not every restriction)

If this was about electoral advantage — the thing reactionary centrists claim as their expertise — they would be writing about how this entire issue is a distraction. If you are concerned about the influence of fringe radicals over policymaking, Republicans are the bigger threat. Of course they are.

Bullies are finely tuned to the margins of permission, and they tend to be whiny babies who operate within those margins. They’re cowards, bullies, who prefer beatings to fights. Offer them a fight. Or wait until everyone else is gone and they come for you. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...

As with American culture, Dolly sought to represent the best of what southern culture can be, in defiance of the no-good peckerwood assholes who try to define it at its worst

If you can find common ground with Jared kusher, but not zohran mamdani, you shouldn't be in democratic leadership

The Beaverton doing hard news now www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/art-...

You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.

Philosophers often bring up the "principle of charity": a willingness to assume good faith in an interlocutor and treat them accordingly. It's good to do in many circumstances. But it is worth formulating a principle of not being a fucking mark. If not during the rise of fascism, then when? 12/

EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.

if people are gonna criticize you no matter what, you may as well do the right thing not the wrong thing, my god

Canadian Blood Services supply drops nearly 20% since June, well below its summer dip, prompting call for urgent blood donations. Organization says it has only limited days of several blood types now on hand. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca @canadaslifeline.bsky.social

You ever think about how all this is happening after Orban lost in Hungary

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

The documents that Trump released and endorsed clearly validate and detail a massive Russian intelligence service operation to elect Donald Trump of which he and his entourage were aware and in which they knowingly participated. Russiagate is real, we learn.

Wrote about the Roberts Court’s highly selective aversion to identifying racism, echoing the logic of the infamous Korematsu decision, which the Roberts Court has both condemned and imitated. Call it Neo-Korematsu doctrine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...