oh I was talking about streetcar replacement buses lol

carrying a large bag and a 20- pound baby and I could have walked faster than this lol

Evergree! Pour one out for the replacement bus drivers today.

We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons “Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

we're doing glossy profiles of shitheads again? ok cool ok cool

www.404media.co/we-have-lear...

Thanks, Ben

The Little House on the Prairie Was Built on Native American Land Yesterday was Laura Ingalls Wilder's 150th birthday. It's time to take a critical look at her work

& this @smithsonianmag.bsky.social essay by @keschner.bsky.social goes much deeper into those complex & important questions:

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...

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ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.

We don't really know how many children are in immigration jail. A few thousand. Many are being held long past the permitted time (20 days, which, ...). Some are babies.
www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...

SPJ-led coalition demands DOJ explain intrusive FBI raid of Washington Post reporter’s home | Society of Professional Journalists Society of Professional Journalists, improving and protecting journalism since 1909

Last week, NASW joined The Society of Professional Journalists and 17+ orgs in calling on the Dept. of Justice and "all public officials to remember a fundamental truth: When journalists are silenced, all Americans pay the price."

Read the letter:

Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures Company has secured a project with ICE that involves ‘social listening’ after cancelling a contract in 2020 over employee backlash

Two huge scoops in the Globe today that tell you everything you need to know about where Canada is at right now:

Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion

Vancouver company Hootsuite seeks business with ICE amid financial pressures

without municipal waste collection we have pestilence and suffering, so, yeah.

is anyone doing good indie crosswords anymore?

Richard Warnica: In Minnesota, I witnessed Donald Trump’s American carnage made real As confrontations between ICE and protestors and activists grow more common, the tension only rises.

I spent the week in Minneapolis. About the only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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jacob tierney made a show out of heated rivalry and the SOUNDTRACK

shoe?

I think it‘s simply that Trump is, at heart, a starfucker.

is it money because I've been to parksville

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suddenly extremely nostalgic

ugh hard to pick but

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In 2021 I asked the Canadian government how much it was spending fighting First Nations in court - one access-to-info request specifying four cases. Today they got back to me.

much like exposure, you can’t eat GDP

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every time I run into one of the TTC’s significant issues I try to remind myself that this is what happens when you try to fund one of the largest transit systems on the continent out of the farebox

bought a chocolate eclair and walked around the neighborhood eating it and looking at the leaves. 11/10 activity

replace the video store with a pot shop.

“I don’t smoke cannabis”

very much

I always find it refreshing when people who work at small retail are somewhat disaffected and grumpy