Dave Bidini

BREAKING WaPo: Brazil's right-wing Flávio Bolsonaro just effectively conceded defeat to the incumbent left-wing president — minutes after Trump indicated he would not intervene on his behalf.

More late stage capitalism sports. Gross.

Wakey wakey it’s municipal election day! If you have a West End Toronto polling station … @davebidini.bsky.social and the folks of the @westendphoenix.bsky.social remind us that the Richard Underhill brass band (with sousaphone!) is… us16.campaign-archive.com?e=800f54ebba...

And in Toronto

ah, so that's why Trump is getting bent out of shape about the Alaska Senate race:

Don’t vote Conservative unless they get their shit together

"[Donald Trump] has got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory." --Barack Obama

Come on our brass band march on Election Day on Monday. We gather at 5 pm at Gladstone Library!

Canadians can’t afford rent. Food bank use is at a record high. Wages are stagnant while the rich are getting richer than ever before. Of all the people who could use this kind of federal support right now, venture capitalists are at the bottom of that list. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

Now would be the worst possible time for Toronto to reverse paths. Give the mayor 4 more years. 

"If I had gone a little while without gambling, they would literally send me thousands of dollars to say 'free money' to keep you going," she recalled. www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

This is clear, strong, and correct: It's Toronto Brexit moment. We can choose to continue to build a better city with Olivia Chow, or to follow the path of resentment, grievance and decline with Brad Bradford.

This mayoral race is potentially Toronto’s Brexit moment. Get it wrong and things could be very bad. Vote this Monday to keep Toronto moving forward.

Alternately, you could take your Google home speakers out back and shoot them.

New newsletter today from our publisher @davebidini.bsky.social with his thoughts on the municipal election, plus an interview with Ward 11 candidate @dianayoon.bsky.social mailchi.mp/e751f4b4e18f...

loved @davebidini.bsky.social's storytelling about Goddo in On A Cold Road.

Pete Fry, what a night! 🌿 Vancouver chose a mayor who’ll fight for renters, affordable homes, and a city that works for the people who keep it running. Congrats to you and all the progressives who took council by storm!

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…

Apparently at around 1:30 PM ET, the main accounts for the No Kings coalition on Instagram were frozen and pulled down. Admins have lost access to the account and are unable to log in. This happened at the peak of the organization's national day of action. Instagram, of course, is owned by Meta.

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

Habs suck. But this is truly great.

No, no. We've been assured it's too hilly and too snowy for Toronto to be a great cycling city. So this can't be true for the hillier and snowier Montreal.

Ontario makes a lot of money from online gambling - $3 billion a year, according to the latest data. That windfall has come at a cost to public health, critics say, as evidence of harm mounts. Suicides & insolvencies in which gambling is cited as an issue have both increased. Helpline calls, too.

If you have 8 minutes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU1Y... A community celebrates its print newspaper

Always about the business, ain’t it?

Ontario government hid study on rates of problem gambling, internal documents reveal www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

Surprise surprise: www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Go to your local council meetings and be like this woman. Get right to the shits

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Toronto cops are tops

The seasonally appropriate ‘Satan is a Whistler’ by @davebidini.bsky.social , Martin Tielli and the Rheostatics is in my head this morning: m.youtube.com/watch?v=fzK0...

Crime is so bad in Toronto, dozens of cops are available to stand and watch construction.

Under Trump: -Gas prices are up 43.7% -Grocery prices are up 3.7% -Household electricity prices are up 12.7% -Healthcare costs are up 14.6% -Childcare costs are up 7.6% -Rent is up 5.1% and mortgage rates are at 7.6% Tired of "winning" yet?

Bravo

Some great words from our publisher about the biggest little newspaper in town.

You can now pre-order the new book, my fourteenth (krazy) ecwpress.com/products/sav...

I’m excited to read Dave’s new one!

I'm betting that a lot of people who respond to polls saying they feel more unsafe in Toronto now are conflating the feeling of "I am physically unsafe and under threat in my environment" with "there was a homeless man on the sidewalk on my way to the Eaton Centre and I don't want to see that."

I expect to love this. Dave is a great writer. Buy it!