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The election of our discontent, final column. Hardest one to wrote. Had to rewrite it from scratch to get the argument clear. City elections are a catch-all for angst that isn’t directed to the place where change can actually happen. It’s a kind of dysfunction. I hope you’ll read & share it.

Heather McPherson nails it, again. Because supporting genocide is so important to the Feds that they won't follow Canadian law?

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...

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I fucking hate him.

I truly don’t believe there’s any meaningful coming back from this without destroying the current system. Wealth is too concentrated and psychopathy is incentivized monetarily. It goes beyond punishment, we need to alter how our societal reward structure functions and level the field.

Mentor and Protege?

This American group apparently flew to Halifax yesterday. I’m not sure why you would want to visit a place just to be shitty and disrespectful to the people who live there.

1/ Chiara Padovani is one of the most committed and effective organizers I’ve ever known. In 3 years (off the side of her desk) she’s done more for her working class community of York South-Weston than most politicians do in 30. www.chiarapadovani.ca

BREAKING: To celebrate his victory, Ford has announced the public execution of a randomly chosen cycling group in Sankofa Square at dawn. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Well I wrote a thing for @thestar.com

I truly believe that Universal Health Care, and having the Canada Health Act enforced is worth fighting for. I don't care about Danielle Smith having a conniption. Are we so weak that we're just going to lose our fight for climate justice and Universal Health Care because of Dani and the Seppos?

Metrolinx is an enormous criminal operation, and a critical part of the bust out.

Each time I encounter a desert planet or ice planet with a breathable atmosphere in a sci-fi or fantasy, I’m reminded how little we have internalized the knowledge that Earth is only livable for us because of the organisms who share the world with us.

With "surveillance pricing," businesses have finally found something AI can do way, way, *way* better than people: price gouging. 1/

Represent Palestine solidarity defendants too effectively, and the state may prosecute you too.

Carney fans? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

New Yorkers: Tonight's forecast calls for potentially life-threatening flooding, especially for those living in basement apartments and neighborhoods that have flooded before.

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

Yes, how dare Toronto and its residents have a say in something that directly affects *checks notes* Toronto and its residents

Neighborhood kid who just learned to ride bike now logging 14-hour shift delivering Uber Eats

Republicans insist Mitch McConnell resting comfortably following routine taxidermy procedure

I feel this in my bones 💙

Debating the Cold War allows anticommunists to recite their favourite mantra indefinitely. Note: you might start hearing me use more of the language of Anton Jäger’s “hyperpolitics” going forward because as I get to know that analysis I find it pretty clarifying.

Powerlessnessmaxxing: watching the country careen toward unfettered oil and gas production as the country burns and drowns simultaneously, while people scream “yeah well he’s better than Poilievre” in your ear

I’m tired of seeing people compare Mitch McConnell to a turtle. I like turtles.

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social and @yrfatfriend.bsky.social have you done an episode on nightshades? I know so many people that avoid them because of “inflammation” and I feel like it’s a @maintenancephase.bsky.social episode in weighting (I know I know)

It's time to close the gaps in Toronto's remarkable potential 72 km Loop Trail (along with other potential loops), says @rzaichkowski.bsky.social #bikeTO spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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Liberal MPs have been playing playing passive, coy & cagey w their real island airport feelings, but they’re deeply implicated - even making concrete expansion plans! I go thru some of them in my @thestar.com column today & why they owe Torontonians some honest loyalty. They could stop it today.

Going to bed. I always though twitter wasn't a good place for me, so I never had an account. Wondering if Bluesky is the same. Just seems like a place to end up in arguments with strangers. Usually I can resist the impulse but sometimes a cave... ugh.

I think a lot of things are all simultaneously true right now: 1) we cannot confidently predict what will be effective 2) no one thing is going to be THE THING that makes all the difference 3) all of it matters in its own way Some fights are worth having, no matter the odds. Leave teeth marks.

Here is a list of businesses suing the city of Toronto for installing bike lanes on Bloor West, AFTER they already got the province to override the city.

Essential #ONelxn cartoon from @theomoudakis.bsky.social, now with alt-text added (it only takes a minute, Theo, please!)

Yes! The people defending this as trolling don’t understand what trolling is. “Libs will get offended by ANYTHING these days” only works if the thing you’re doing isn’t offensive!

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard