Simon Little 🍁

Simon Little 🍁

@simonplittle.ca

East Vancouver caricature, cat dad, local hockey fan and avid walker. CRJ evangelist. Wheel of the year adherent. I write the little news articles you read on your little phone.

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Jas Johal
@jasjohal.bsky.social

NEW: BC Conservatives brought in a priest to exorcise bad spirits before election night at Rocky Mountaineer Station. Same venue where Kerry-Lynne Findlay was crowned leader months ago, right before her disastrous run. Divine intervention clearly worked. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

Someone at the Washington post heard him say that and was like, "yeah, let's print it verbatim."

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com

President Trump called Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed a “jihadist” during a campaign rally in Michigan, urging his supporters to fight El-Sayed, who may be the first Muslim senator, in the same way Americans battled terrorists on 9/11.

washingtonpost.comTrump calls El-Sayed a ‘jihadist’ as he escalates campaign rhetoricPresident Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Michigan urged supporters to fight Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed the way Americans battled terrorists on 9/11.
Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

This is just overt white supremacism

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com

Rally speaker: "Mike Rogers is an American. Abdul has a birth certificate. The birth certificate says he's a citizen of America. You know what? a birth certificate doesn't make you an American."

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Andrew Kurjata
@akurjata.ca

Remember, this all started with Kevin Falcon kicking John Rustad out of the B.C. Liberals for retweeting climate science denialism

Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

About 891,000 advance ballots cast tonight, and it looks like some of them are starting to report.

Simon Little 🍁@simonplittle.ca

Polls have closed in B.C.'s provincial election. Elections BC says votes cast in advance will be electronically scanned, so there may be a batch of early results. Votes cast today, however, will be hand counted. We're expecting those results to start to roll in around 9 p.m.

Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

Polls have closed in B.C.'s provincial election. Elections BC says votes cast in advance will be electronically scanned, so there may be a batch of early results. Votes cast today, however, will be hand counted. We're expecting those results to start to roll in around 9 p.m.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦
@jmcelroy.bsky.social

tapping this sign so hard at so many people this week

Justin McElroy 🇨🇦@jmcelroy.bsky.social

Getting this out of the way early: if you share vote prediction screenshots for individual ridings from election projection websites And frame it as a poll or something with authority And there has been no actual polling done in that riding I will think much less of you please don't annoy me

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Emily St. James
@emilystjams.bsky.social

We are right on the cusp of AI utopia*. *-agentic AI makes the internet both unsafe and unusable, so I am forced to go outside and write everything longhand by candlelight

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Tyler Olsen
@tyolsen.bsky.social

i.e. There are more federal Liberal voters in Alberta than separatists. (And it's only even somewhat close if one grants that those voting for option 2 are actual genuine separatists.)

Carrie Tait@carrietait.bsky.social

2025 federal election in Alberta: Liberals: 27.8% of valid votes --> 631,929 of 2,267,230 2026 Alberta referendum on (1) staying in Canada vs (2) starting the legal process for binding secession vote: Option 2: 24.9% of valid votes, w 99% polls in --> 514,128 of 2,059,140

Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

seems bad

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

The DOJ's suing to stop Alaska officials from certifying the results of next month’s Senate contest if the GOP candidate loses, claiming there’s a risk of “voter confusion” because two individuals with similar names are on the ballot

bloom.bgDOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Race Certification If GOP LosesThe Trump administration is suing to preemptively stop Alaska election officials from certifying the results of next month’s US Senate contest if the Republican candidate loses, claiming there’s a risk of “voter confusion” because two individuals with similar names will be on the ballot.
Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

Half a billion

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com

With a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and becomes one of the biggest-ever contributors to such groups

bloom.bgMusk Giving Tops $445 Million in Midterm Election Push for GOPWith a fresh infusion of cash to his super political action committee in the first two weeks of October, Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle and become one of the biggest-ever contributors to such groups.
Simon Little 🍁
@simonplittle.ca

Absolutely wild they kept this under wraps while these guys were out there in the news every day presenting themselves as representatives

Jeremy Appel 🍉@readtheorchard.org

Jeffrey Rath and Mitch Sylvestre were terminated from their roles with the Alberta Prosperity Project "with cause" in September. This is particularly strange, since both men were at the group's referendum watch party and spoke to media on its behalf.

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Jeremy Appel 🍉
@readtheorchard.org

Jeffrey Rath and Mitch Sylvestre were terminated from their roles with the Alberta Prosperity Project "with cause" in September. This is particularly strange, since both men were at the group's referendum watch party and spoke to media on its behalf.