Bob’s Your Uncle

Refreshing to listen to Olivia Chow, a Hongkonger who believes in democracy. It’s nice to be reminded what a proper election is supposed to be like

Whether it's Republicans not being allowed within 200 feet of a Chuck E. Cheese or Democrats making jokes about a Cheesecake Factory, both side have a fraught relationship with chain restaurants.

Robert's Right ✅️.......

It’s peak Trumpism when Republicans blow up a school full of Iranian Muslim girls and then call an American politician a terrorist because he’s Muslim.

Very good article on the UAE’s involvement in the war in Sudan: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Bloomberg has called it

Sen. Adam Schiff tells NBC that Pete Hegseth and "anyone who has knowledge of what happened" should testify before the Senate on Ukraine's Starlink disruptions. "Somebody is lying here. Maybe they're all lying in different ways, but we need to find out."

The Conservatives will end the night fairly close to the 900,000 or so votes they got in 2024. The NDP will go from just under 950,000 votes in 2024 to less than 700,000 this time. Turnout was down — but how much of it was demotivated 2017-2024 NDP voters who stayed home is a massive question.

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/09/davi...

Democrats should really feature these creeps their extensive ties to this administration.

White House sources:   In the past few hours, there has apparently been a change in the American position in favor of a preemptive strike on Iran.

Nationalize Starlink.

If Zohran Mamdani or Abdul El-Sayed had used the word “Shylock” as an insult, the ADL would be attacking them by name relentlessly. But Donald Trump used it, so we get a generic condemnation of the word without any specific reference to who actually used it, and with no assumption of intent.

The undercard to Smith’s referendum really needs more attention. It’s anti-urban, anti-immigration, absolutely built on the falsehood of modern rural life and ‘the family farm’ and who deserves to have cultural power.

NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right. I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party. And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”

So Alberta is voting 'yes' to all the questions asking if they are racists? Sounds about right. #cdnpoli

Kindly fuck off parroting this "western alienation" 💩. I've lived in this province since I was 2 years old. Grew up in rural central AB. I was in 4H club. I grew up reading Alberta freaking Report. I attended U of C whose poli sci dept birthed the Reform Party. I've never, ever related to this shit.

The thing that drives me nuts — especially as someone who lived in Alberta for most of my life — is that everything that underpins western alienation & Alberta grievance is a fiction created by politicians & other bad actors for shitty, selfish political reasons.

CBC Indigenous is reporting about how ballots have run out within Indigenous communities in Alberta. Elections Alberta might have anticipated significantly lower turnout than what actually occured.

The separatists are going to lose today’s vote. But if Alberta’s political class doesn’t stop feeding and inflaming their bottomless sense of grievance and victimhood, we’ll all end up losing in the end. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

I spat out my peppermint tea 🤭

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will starve to death, if they have not been killed by Israeli missile strikes before that

A lot of Western "leftists" fawn over China, but a lot of actual Chinese policies (e.g. on immigration, treatment of Muslims, power of employers over workers, state surveillance) are to the right of most of the far right parties rising in Europe that people are (with good reason) fretting about.

Mr. El-Sayed do you disavow the Hamburglar and his reign of terror on the citizens of McDonaldland

Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.

Voters choose change in Vancouver, Surrey mayoral races. RECAP.

IT'S GAME OVER FOR SIM CITY PETE FRY HAS BEEN PROJECTED BY CBC NEWS AS THE NEXT MAYOR OF VANCOUVER

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

"Never play fair in a game where others cheat." (Machiavelli). It doesn't mean you should become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty & goodness to people who manipulate, lie, make shịt up, don't care who they harm if it advances them. Being smart & effective isn't wrong.

The US and the West welcomed Russia into the community of nations after the Cold War. Investment poured in. The G7 turned into G8. The idea that Poland, Estonia, etc. forming their own foreign relations was so unfair to Moscow that Russia is entitled to murder Ukrainians 20 years later is insane.

On X, users have circulated nonconsenual AI videos created by Grok of a woman they think is Jane Doe. They continue to spread her name. People have praised X for staying relevant for AI and tech conversation. But it also is the main vector for a doxing. That is X. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/n...

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

It’s taking a long time for people to wake up to the fact that these platforms are not public forums but privately owned companies with terrible agendas and total control. If you lay down with these dogs…

Zelenskyy that restrictions on Starlink systems remain. Interceptor drones can't function, logistics and operations hobbled. The maximum speed is 161 kph; "exceeding this limit causes the Starlink connection to cut out completely, resulting in the loss of the drone." www.ft.com/content/e267...

❗️Putin’s envoy Kirill Dmitriev says Russia and the US are discussing a range of economic and investment projects beyond the diesel deal, including energy, LNG and Arctic projects, as well as increased Russian supplies of fertilizer, aluminum and rare earth metals to the US. #Russia

This is treason. Literal treason. And every Republican who stands in the way of removing this traitor from office is complicit in his crimes.

Four sources identify Elon Musk as personally proposing Starshield restrictions to Trump, while three officials trace the order to the White House. Ukraine received no warning. Its interceptor drones were disrupted as Russia launched hundreds of drones and dozens of ballistic missiles.

An amazing guy, who’s suffering for simply standing up for democracy

Today, he is one of nearly 2,000 prisoners of conscience in the city. Read Joshua Wong’s story and how his life has unfolded alongside Hong Kong’s descent into authoritarianism. hrf.org/latest/joshu...

MS NOW airs compilation of Katie Zacharia referring to herself as a lawyer (Zacharia never passed the bar exam)