Malcolm French

What the map does *not* mention is that Olivia Chow beat Brad Bradford by 35.4 percent *in* *Bradford’s* *own* *ward.*

Disappointing result in BC, but good news from Brazil and Serbia. Now some more good news from Toronto, with @mayoroliviachow.ca reelected, and @mikelayton.bsky.social returning to Council. Israeli election tomorrow.

With 99.5 percent of polls reporting, @mayoroliviachow.ca is leading Brad Bradford by a bit more than 13 percent. And that’s pretty much a wrap.

His capacity to lie with such joy is . . . disturbing.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

TRUMP BLINKS #ElbowsUp

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Any future reference to Vivek Ramaswamy or JD Vance (or pretty much my other MAGA Republican) should be preceded by the words “rape apologist.” For example “Rape apologist Vivek Ramaswamy is trailing in the polls,” or “Rape apologist JD Vance wants to ensure the Epstein files remain sealed.”

Some people don’t understand that Halloween (aka All Hallows Eve or the Eve of All Saints Day) is actually part of the Christian calendar. They peddle silly ideas like “Jesusween,” whatever that’s supposed to be. Instead, like keeping Christ in Christmas, let’s keep the Hallow in Halloween.

The Greatest Canadian was born 122 years ago today in Falkirk, Scotland. Happy Tommy Douglas Day!

I actually find it a bit odd that the @albertandp.ca are advocating a “no” vote on Question 7. Abolition of the undemocratic Senate has been CCF-NDP policy from the very beginning of the movement. #AlbertaReferendum #albertapoli

What's extremely telling is that there is never once an article like this written from the perspective of the person who cut off their parent.

Hey, @theguardian.com !!! You mean: Russia and Ukraine resume strikes as Trump’s imaginary ‘energy ceasefire’ turns out to be ‘a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

Delusional

MAGA twitter now that the bots are dead.

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Military-base housing is “reserved for military who have earned those quarters from fighting in wars and defending our country... They should not be used for people in the White House. It’s an abuse.” www.vanityfair.com/story/stephe...

Fascinating. Ukrainian drones take out Russian data centres an far right online chatter immediately drips by more than 50 percent. Now, correlation is not causality, but . . .

I can’t understand why future Hague defendant Donald Trump is so keen to destroy the International Criminal Court. I’m sure that Trump, and Hegseth, and Rubio, and all the rest of them will be well treated as they await trial.

The Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals has vacated a manslaughter conviction based on the fact that the victim was a trans woman, which had not been raised at trial. So basically, the fact that the victims was trans could be justification for the killing. So tell me again that it’s not genocide.

A little older, but it includes gems like this: “Liturgy doesn’t distinguish between generations. It’s kind of like how I don’t play Xbox with my grandma, and she doesn’t knit with me. But we both know how to sit down and share a family meal.”

People in civilian clothes is and always has been stupid. It was a stupid Reagan invention, and it really needs to stop.

Watching the culture wars over Christmas heating up on social media. No one gets angrier about “not being allowed to celebrate Christmas ” than a completely secular white person who never attends church, couldn’t accurately tell you the Nativity Story, and who’s favourite carol is “Rudolph”. 🙄

Both @mark-carney.bsky.social and Pierre Poilievre are quick to condemn antisemitism. Rightly so. But when @nationalpost.bsky.social publishes an editorial openly calling for the murder of the only Jewish federal party leader, @avilewis.ca, it’s crickets. Carney & Poilievre: Profiles in Cowardice

The foreign owned @nationalpost.bsky.social has published an editorial calling for @NDP leader Avi Lewis (and possibly his family) to be murdered. I trust the RCMP and other agencies will investigate this hate crime.

If only. For Americans generally, words like “socialism” and “communism” have no objective meaning. They are merely random insults. When the Wall Street Journal says UK PM Andy Burnham is “unabashedly socialist,” it’s like a three year old calling the neighbour kid a “stoopy-poopyhead.”

Some people didn’t believe me when I said all transphobes were fascists. Don’t believe me. Believe the TERFs themselves . . . as transphobe celebrates the success of a neo Nazi party in a recent German state election.

Today's Labour party would have supported Mosley's fascist march through Jewish areas of London and condemned the anti-fascist coalition who stood in their way.

The Democratic establishment yet again seek to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

This belongs in the Smithsonian.

Random thought about the “I am” statements in John’s Gospel. The Living Water discourse really should have been the first “I am.” (Am I actually copy editing the author of John? Yes, I believe I am.)

I don’t know the provenance of the quote, but . . . well, yeah. "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."

In a few days, Prime Minister Carney is inviting some of the world’s richest CEOs to Toronto to buy up Canada’s resources, public infrastructure, and more. We won’t save Canada by selling it off to the highest bidder. Join us, and let's build a Canada for the many, not the money.

"Never mistake our tolerance for lack of determination. And never mistake our kindness for softness.” Sadly I doubt Hoekstra understood, an neither will Trump if he ever hears of it. They see our velvet glove. They are too stupid to notice the iron fist.

lilly wachowski is right to call out harry potter and jk rowling and other prominent ppl should also be doing that.

Abandoning vulnerable minorities who are under sustained attack from fascism is political violence. Not all violence involves bullets, bombs or bloody fights.