Matthew Arp

Here is a free NFL Playoff Simulator rbsdm.com#playoffs?tea...

The Dark Knight Rises, but with Heath Ledger still alive.

BIG NEW BRUNS WICK

trying to explain french-canadian politics to me, an american, is about as productive as trying to teach linear algebra to a dog

When Duverger's law doesn't apply to a FPTP election, this is what you get. - 13.4% of the popular vote nets you a grand total of 0 seats. - 12.4% of the popular vote nets you a grand total of 9 seats. Seems super democratic to me.

This concept of a "self-made billionaire" sounds great in theory. It sounds like all you have to do is work really hard and *check notes* have your ancestors benefit from slave labor and inherit generational wealth.

I can't believe Nolan straight ripped "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and set it in Ancient Greece.

Carter Hart must be sad that he missed his opportunity to visit the white house and hang out with guys with the same life experience.

This is the gold standard of schedule release videos. The amount of effort put into all the subtle references is beyond impressive.

Comparing the industry consensus big board with the actual draft position of prospects.

NFL Draft Consensus top-250 Big Board Viz available: public.tableau.com/views/2026Co...

@yetanotherjosh.bsky.social Don't ask me why I have this on my hard drive.

Here is a tease of this year's consensus big board, the biggest board to date (35+ boards included). The full top-250 drops Monday. #NFLDraft

336 BC "Above all, we are free men, and they are slaves" 633 AD "Milk the Persians, and when the milk runs dry, suck their blood" 1219 AD "If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you" 2026 AD "A whole civilization will die" Good luck with that.

"The problem is not that older Canadians conspired against younger ones. It is that we allowed a political economy to emerge in which the costs of drift were diffuse and easy to pass along to the next generation." thehub.ca/2026/03/24/a...

First they came for the Democratic norms, the rule of law, election integrity, peaceful transition of power, separation of church and state, health care, social programs, international aid, free speech & immigrants and I did not speak out. Then they came for the gas prices, and I lost my shit.

Isn't it great we as Canadians have to pay like 30-40 cents more a litre all because the dipshit down south had to bomb another country

The Trump-Patel-Team USA men's hockey lovefest personifies toxic masculinity. @edgeofsports.bsky.social & I wrote about it for @thenation.com & how the real Olympic heroes are the athletes who won’t—as the right-wing noise machine often blares—“shut up and skate” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

@lianafix.bsky.social‬ warns that Germany’s rearmament could foster competition and erode stability across Europe.

-- WEEK 16 #NFL 🏈 Seeding Probabilities -- For many teams, it is practically certain that they will play in the playoffs. This makes the question of possible seeds more interesting. The following table shows seed probabilities based on 50k simulations of the remaining season.

$26,000 dollars for SIDES?

I found my spirit animal.

How long before Thielen's agent asks for a release so he can go to a contender?

Natural selection is a mouse deciding to wander into the cat's room at 6 am.

To all the weirdos defending Megyn Kelly: 15 year olds are underage, and that is statutory rape. Pretty simple

"Americans—people in general—should not be subject to the whims of those who despise them. We deserve better than to be governed by those who disdain what we believe and how we live."

How tf did I miss this banger getting released a year ago. youtu.be/0ZPt2nTCtrw?...

Spoiler for an upcoming piece. I often hear people dismissing Canada's housing crisis by saying, "Mike, home prices skyrocketed everywhere, it's not just a Canada thing". Turns out... nope. It really is a Canada thing.

Toronto sports since 1968: Blue Jays won 2 World Series (and another appearance) Toronto FC won MLS Cup (and another appearance) Raptors won a NBA Championship Maple Leafs

Football 🤝Math

Feel free to disregard any mock draft that doesn't have the Browns drafting at least one offensive lineman with one of their 3 first and second round picks (all currently projected in the top 38).

We break down the latest Trump approval numbers compared to other contemporary presidents from @gelliottmorris.com in the context of the 2026 midterm elections. lispop.ca/nexus/trump-... In sum, we find that this is exceptionally informative and gives us pause to evaluate the current situation. /1

I can't wait for the Saudi-funded Netflix stream of this populist heavyweight cage match.

If the Voting Rights Act is deemed unconstitutional, it won't be long until these malicious cartoon villains come for the Civil Rights Act. The biggest trick the Devil ever played was the "both sides are the same" nonsense.

Toronto simply does not want to solve the housing crisis.

History won’t praise Democrats for playing by the rules if it’s the reason we lose our country.

Super thrilled to be back.

Normalize just posting a recipe with no backstory at all.

always kind of mystified by people who say stuff like “I don’t want to vote when it feels like a choice between stubbing your toe and getting shot” as though that’s a challenging dilemma

Republicans have long cast themselves as defenders of free speech against cancel culture and the censorial impulses of the political left. But now conservatives apparently see no problem policing speech, at least when they're the ones who are offended. reason.pub/46fkP2Z

Finland avoided full subjugation to Moscow thanks to a combination of the broader geopolitical context and its own defense preparedness—not by being friendly toward the Soviets.

That is too late defector.com/sports-shoul...

Spot on.

"Young Canadians are stuck in a holding pattern. They’re not less ambitious. They’re not unwilling to work. They’re just facing a system that no longer rewards effort the way it once did." #cdnpoli #GenZ #Canada thehub.ca/2025/08/26/n...

New MMI piece! Housing policy should not abandon the option of homeownership as a goal, and Gen X and Boomers must understand the corrosive impact of telling Millennials and Gen Z that it's okay for them to be denied the options that we took for granted.

Home ownership among young Canadians (under age 35) has recently surged to 44%, the highest level in five decades! 18% of them are mortgage-free. Why is this a worrisome sign? GenSqueeze founder, Dr. Paul Kershaw explains: www.gensqueeze.ca/globe_mail_i...

Joseph S. Nye, Jr., one of the great scholars of international relations, died this week at the age of 88. Here, read some of his contributions to Foreign Affairs over the past five decades: