The CEO-ification of movie stars has taken a bunch of people who got famous making things customers wanted to buy and turned them into ambassadors for things CEOs want to sell.

At some point the endless string of corrupt behaviour has got to catch up to Doug Ford. How will this play with all the rubes who see him as 'one of them'?

Oh shiiiiiiiiiit

Solomon as a minister was always terrible judgement, and Solomon as a minister recruiting a convoy enthusiast into the Liberal caucus is terrible judgement, but magnified. Just ridiculous.

Wilhoit’s law remains undefeated.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

if a leftist says he's anti-zionist because of the war crimes of a sovereign nation the times will suggest he is an anti-semite.

if a conservative says that he is "j-pilled" the times will say it's about foreign policy.

wishing a very happy opening day to people who love the endurance, whimsy, and small victories throughout a baseball season. wishing a very unhappy opening day to people who call players assets and complain about their market value.

There's a specific tone of cheer when a guy and his bros realize a complicated low-stakes scheme is going to work. It's the sound of dudes rocking and it's the most beautiful sound in the world.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention.

“It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

Netanyahu sees Diaspora Jews who oppose him as a greater threat than antisemitism

A number of Jewish organizations are shrilly insisting that any criticism of Israeli genocide and warmongering is an illegitimate attack on Jews. At the same time, an increasing number of non-Jewish people are insisting that any attack on Jews is a legitimate attack on Israel.

This sucks, man

9/11 was a mutagenic event leveling up the most potent class of fucking losers this country has ever seen

Yes,the emerging line is wily, ruthless Israel tricked poor, trusting, naive Donald Trump into a stupid, reckless war. GMAFB. Israel has absolutely pushed for this but ultimately it’s DONALD TRUMP who decided to take the US to war. He likes war! He likes blowing things up! He literally says it’s fun

Ford government to allow ‘bring-your-own’ alcoholic beverages at outdoor public events By Richard Southern Posted March 17, 2026 6:30 am. Last Updated March 17, 2026 6:31 am. It will soon be bring-your-own-booze in Ontario. The Ford government will soon be allowing provincial residents to bring their own alcoholic beverages to outdoor public events, 680 NewsRadio has exclusively learned. Starting on April 30, Ontarians can bring their own booze to municipally designated cultural or community events, including farmers’ markets, movie screenings, art exhibits, and neighbourhood festivals. Currently, only organizers of live sporting events can obtain this type of tailgate permit.

I've been around Ontario long enough to know that whenever they dangle booze in front of the voters like keys in front of a baby they're about to do something *unbelievably* corrupt.

At THIS level of "Drinks Some Beer, Losers", I have to imagine Algonquin Park is becoming a chemical weapons plant

maybe we shouldn’t accept that everything we ever want should be hand delivered to our house immediately by an underpaid worker which also puts more cars on the street, just increasing pollution and risk of accidents. Maybe.

Doug Ford defends FOI changes, warns of enemies seeking government secrets Ford said he's tightening the laws to "protect" himself and his cabinet ministers from "communist China" and other hostile powers.

Ontario's privacy commissioner warned that Doug Ford’s “shocking announcement” was “about hiding government-related business to evade public accountability.”

Just in from @robertbenzie.bsky.social and @moirawelsh.bsky.social:

you fuckin pricks i have to say you should keep getting to make infinity money when you're striking a year from now

This is a nuclear bomb to Ontario's democracy. The Ford government wants to obfuscate absolutely everything it does.

“i wanna leave and go to the spelling bee” is going to fuck me up forever.

fuck everyone who voted for this, i hope the rest of your pitiful life is agonizing and lonely

This is very good from JMM. There is so much to write about this that it’s difficult to narrow it down to once column. I hope more do (the water carriers are), and that your interest is sustained. This is the right question: why is this a priority and who wants it?

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Women are my favorite guy"

Screenshot from the Planet of the Bass Tiktok where lyrics on screen say "Tell the world 'stop the war'"

This song feels incredibly relevant today.

It's a shame he has to pwotect the NYPD's feefees but "don't bother the tender little police officers, I on the other hand can take it" is a neat little trick

There are plenty of other terrible things about generative AI but overall my objection to it is spiritual and I just can’t really get into arguments about that. That objection doesn’t extend to every use case for it, but as far as generating anything “imaginative”, those are all graven images to me

Sorry, which university courses did you pick when you earned a degree, you rancid silver-spooned loser?

Why The Hottest New Pro Wrestling Chant Is "Fuck ICE" | Defector The most intriguing storyline in pro wrestling this month is not a title chase or a bloody feud, but whether or not fans are going to keep chanting “Fuck ICE” at shows. I am more than happy to explain...

here's a helpful explainer if you've heard something or other about wrestling fans chanting "Fuck ICE" defector.com/why-the-hott...

One thing you see in both the smug dope from the Plain Dealer and the Cruise/Pitt clip is profound resentment at the idea that creative work is a skill with human variables--experience, instinct, practice, imagination. There is real anger at the very idea that non-technological human talent matters.

They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.

social media in general needs aggressive regulation but the whole world would be markedly better off if Meta in particular were just nuked from orbit

With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Ring is a wildly dangerous company. Always has been. But it has sort of flown under the radar the last couple years as it tried to soften its image. Make no mistake that this is an extremely dangerous surveillance dragnet:

www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way