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Good thread with one addition: I think Eby defaulted to backroom politicking over making the public case. It wasn't just the disqualification but how he took on many files. While that can work as a Minister, it ultimately undermines a Premier who needs to be seen as open and accountable.

If true, lessons for the NDP are fourfold: 1. don't short circuit leadership races. 2. Figure out what the right policy is, and push it through. 3. Make sure you find ways to convincingly tell the story of those changes. 4. Don't make it all about polarizing partisan politics. Voters HATE that.

Instead, he increasingly relied on partisan politicking. He made case less for his own government, and more against the Conservatives. This election was brazen in its opportunism, and disheartening in its deliberate polarization. Voters responded very poorly to both—esp NDP voters who stayed home.

On issues like housing, where on his watch the province made long term bets (correctly IMO!), the lack of positive response also rattled him. I think he became overly sensitive to criticism and fearful of taking a wrong step, and on many files that meant taking no meaningful steps at all.

From that point on, I think he had trouble trusting his instincts and pushing things through. The contrast between his time as AG, pushing through difficult reforms on files like ICBC and his timid, indecisive approach as premier to everything from DRIPA to decriminalization was remarkable.

One more BC thread. The NDP are going to spend a lot of time figuring out what went wrong. I think Eby never found his stride as premier, and the path to leadership was where things started to go wrong. Eby wasn't used to being the bad guy, but the disqualification of Appadurai did not go over well.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

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They *very much* want people to die.

Marc Andreessen and the team at his fund a16z hired — as a *partner*! — a man who has no background in finance, in tech, in startups at all, simply because that man had strangled one of my unarmed neighbors to death on the subway. To send a signal about what they support.

David Heinemeier Hansson called for the extermination of Romani people, comparing them to animals. An entire roster of tech tycoons responded by each personally giving him $1 million for his open source software project, even though he’s already wealthy enough to have a personal race car team.

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Alberta - Calgary-Shaw Unofficial Results: 🟠NDP: 46.6% (+3.9) 🔵UCP: 43.0% (-13.3) 🟣PTT: 6.1% (New) 🔴LIB: 3.8% (New)

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There are many ways to describe the RSS. "Indian nonprofit" is the most ridiculous whitewash I have ever seen.

OneCity is the millennial keener party, and a millennial keener hates nothing more than putting in all the work and expecting to be rewarded for it because of meritocracy and then not getting it because people don’t vote for class president based on who studied the most

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Allam’s council team including a self-described socialist and someone who ran for the B.C. Conservatives last election probably stretches the idea of a “big tent” past the point you can honestly argue what values they would embody in office

this economy has got me editing the source of my OS so it doesn't see the SMART data saying my SSD is failing coz i don't want to hear it

I thought this was a typo but no, the (mostly) beloved 24-hour bakery/cafe is getting into real estate development, neat

I spoke with Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes tonight and then he was like "Oh, wait Lindsey Graham just showed up, wanna talk to him?"

Rough week for Grahams.

“We really are a city of neighbourhoods.” - every city ever

I see Ford have entered his Kathleen Wynne period

Alberta - "If Albertans vote against separation, separatists will never accept it" Agree: 69% Disagree: 20% Angus Reid / May 24, 2026

Rare author opinion incoming: I don’t care about faithful adaptations of source material. The source material exists, it will always be there. Anything that was inspired by it is new and deserves to be new and I don’t have to engage with it if I don’t want to. I love new perspectives.

This is about Alberta's dual system that will allow the rich to jump the queue for surgeries by paying for diagnostic tests/imaging. The author, Steven Lewis, knows far more about how healthcare systems work, and should work, than Adriana LaGrange.

Apple CEO Tim Cook Stepping Down, John Ternus Taking Over

I step away for lunch and... www.theverge.com/tech/915213/...

By the way, don't let anybody tell you that the lesson from "Viktor Orbán became deeply unpopular and lost by a landslide despite his attempts to establish a rigged 'illiberal democracy'" is actually "Don't worry about wannabe authoritarians"

It was destined to be.

I mean it was right there www.theverge.com/report/90181...

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TFW you show up on a major news outlet and make a 6-7 joke youtu.be/5RNly6a_j7g

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Hi I'm new to Quebec as an American century of humiliation refugee. I would like to vote for a progressive left-wing federalist party without corruption scandals. Lol said the Quebecois, lmao

welcome to Quebec we have The nationalist party (conservative) The liberal party (conservative) The Conservative Party 1 (conservative) And the Conservative Party 2 (fascist)

William Azaroff has won the OneCity mayoral nomination. He defeated Amanda Burrows by about 150 votes.

The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.