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I was foolishly invited to a swanky business awards dinner Tuesday night where I mingled with the Great and the Good and found myself chatting with a proud Trump voter. Look at me, all patient and understanding of the other side! Here’s a little thread of my adventure in reasoning 👇🏼

it feels like its kinda being ignored but outside a couple outliers the only thing republicans are running on in the midterms is that theyre white and democrats arent

finally remembered to import all my Goodreads stuff over to Storygraph so I could get off the Amazon-owned thing, if we were friends on Goodreads or if you just want to be reading buddies here I am: app.thestorygraph.com/profile/duck...

happy bday writer Sylvia Plath, b.1932, Boston, died too young by suicide age 30. “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.” “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

and this is what a functioning state does. you try to do a coup or you try to steal an election and there are fucking consequences. you don't get to retire to your ranch and paint or go on to run again.

No woke? Go broke!

I can pull a bigger crowd than that on a fucking street, can I have 40 mins on the BBC?

When will a mediocre straight white guy ever be able to get ahead, asks Conor Friedersdorf?

The citizen who yelled "Shove that ballroom up your fat ass" is, in this hard time, a patriot. Honestly, what is left to say about this level of misrule? What careful critique hasn't been already offered? What reasoned response to this full-on run at fascism and kleptocracy remained unspoken?

Congrats to @dianachanmcnally.bsky.social, a strong advocate for what’s right and a deeply needed voice on Toronto council ⭐️

Oh god, Denzil Minnan-Wong is on my television. Why does CP24 hate people?

Make Gutter Racism Disqualifying Again

HOW do the people in Toronto’s Ward 2 keep re-electing Stephen Holyday? It’s mindboggling. Just zero self-respect 🤷‍♂️

Mississauga just ushered in a historic, long overdue generational shift. Alvin Tedjo skipped the political games and spent the campaign meeting people where they are: cafes, restaurants, community spaces Now he’s the first racialized mayor of Canada’s 6th largest city. www.cp24.com/news/2026/10...

Two episodes in, I’m forced to admit I was wrong. While there’s still no *need* for a fourth(!) version of CARRIE, this new version is a smart and serious update. Not sure about the conspiracy B-plot mixing in other King ideas (the way CASTLE ROCK did) but the bullying focus gives this real power 🔥

The political media is visibly chafing at the current situation, where Republicans are glaringly awful, fucking everything up, running deviant candidates everyone hates, and Dems are just being normal & winning. The force is out of balance. They are viscerally eager to go after Dems about something.

I know it’s really distasteful and dispiriting and gross to think about, but you won’t understand Trumpist politics or the status of women if you don’t understand that a lot of people aren’t just in denial about the prevalence of rape; they are affirmatively pro-rape.

The UCP might make Edmonton pay up to $170M to rip out its own bike lanes. I've heard reports that the UCP has been asking for costs of full network removals. City numbers put that at $150-170M This is the same gov't that just spent $130M on a glorified opinion poll.

Meta TV? The hardest of NO, HARD PASS possible 👎🏼

Corporate profits are at record highs — but revenue from corporate taxes has plummeted thanks to the tax cuts in Trump and Republicans’ big, ugly bill. Meanwhile, workers’ wages are stagnant and their share of the nation’s income is at a record low. Trickle-down economics was always a hoax.

Many such stories 🫤👇🏼

everyone is saying Eby made the worst political blunder of all time, but I still think the time Parliament gave a standing ovation to a literal Nazi holds that title.

I would like to thank my local municipal election worker for exclaiming “whee, democracy” in a monotone voice as the vote tabulator sucked in my ballot

Career Experts Advise Job Applicants To Send Interviewer Follow-Up Blackmail https://theonion.com/career-experts-advise-job-applicants-to-send-interviewer-follow-up-blackmail/

Of all Trump’s vampire clowns, this is the one I despise most 👎🏼

It's almost as if he's for once trying to tell a fundamental truth, but he can't name names.

Superb ⭐️😃

Sorry for posting *This Fucking Guy Again* but this just a 10/10 example of his well-rewarded liberal pundit brain at work. No understanding whatsoever that we all might be a tad excitable about the Brazilian election results because of THE GODDAMNED AMAZON RAINFOREST OUR ATMOSPHERE DEPENDS UPON 😡

Few writers have directly enriched my life more Kurt Vonnegut ❤️

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

10 years ago today, Trump’s DC hotel opened. It taught him people will pay a sitting president, and there will be no repercussions. Want to understand the second term’s corruption? Start with the hotel:

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Today I wrote about Abdul El Sayed's encounter with a Christian fascist named "Tommy," and the fine art of digging up the shameful things fascists bury under their accusations, exposing them for what they are, and then burying their lies in the hole left behind. www.the-reframe.com/taking-our-c...

Everything from the recent BC election to Brexit to Trump is understandable as an attempt to manipulate democracy by limiting voters' options to either what the back room wants, or something really against their own interests, and voters sending a long term message no matter the short term price.

In which it is demonstrated that treating voters like hostages has consequences... Electoral reforms are urgently needed. In the meantime, using the tools available to them, NDP voters have sent a message to the NDP Inc. political machine.

The #SaveMassEffect movement reminds me of when the century-old bookshop I worked for closed in 1999 and we were all put out of work. “What’s going to happen to this beautiful store??” asked one old customer. I, fearing eviction, said, “I’m sure it’ll become a lovely Starbucks.” AND IT DID 😮

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.