it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self:

the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

There is no more sacred American tradition than dunking on the Confederacy, the biggest bunch of racist crybaby losers the nation has ever completely fucking smoked.

Sucks that they are temporarily occupying DC but they'll lose this round too, give it time.

Virginia Governor Ends Tax Breaks for Confederate Groups

abigail spanberger is out here canceling tax breaks for confederate groups and getting rid of confederate license plates and i for one think this is absolutely wonderful for the centrist wing of the democratic party

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/u...

www.13newsnow.com/article/news...

Nobody will forget the Confederacy, the biggest bunch of racist crybaby losers in the nation's history, but if you really think the nation needs monuments to the civil war, Grant and Sherman are right there, I'd fully support it.

The United daughters of the Confederacy, which has a "stars and bars" logo and explicitly promotes the "lost cause" nonsense, white supremacy, and the Klan, is literally the first such organization mentioned in the article.

Tax anyone who upholds the most evil government in our nation's history into bankruptcy. Burn every confederate flag, wreck every monument, and uphold the glorious history of redemption during Reconstruction while cursing elites that stole that brighter future for the South from us.

Former MAGA Influencer Describes the Exact Platform Where Political Operatives Pay for Posts — and the Loophole That Keeps It Hidden Ashley St. Clair spent nearly a decade inside the MAGA influence machine. She says she was recruited around 19 through Turning Point USA, built a ... Read More

this is the much more sinister version of that music digital marketing story and it’s an entire ecosystem built around manipulating the news and the algorithms (explained by an elon musk baby mama doing a get ready with me) www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Let's count the ways this is terrible policy, shall we?

1) it punishes students with anxiety and other health reasons for missing class
2) it distorts transcript grades for post-sec applications
3) it disincentivizes improved attendance mid-stream (why start attending if the damage is done?)

Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

Here's why we should have a basic income for artists program - Halifax Examiner We should do anything we can to revalue what it is to be human, and that starts with the arts.

Here’s why we should have a basic income for artists program

Morning File by me

Two Trump Judges Block Criminal Contempt Inquiry Into Trump Officials The judges have blocked a probe into officials who ignored court order deportation flights.

Trump officials defied a court order. Planes kept flying. Men ended up in a Salvadoran gulag. And today, Trump’s own judges killed the investigation into it. This is corruption. Full stop.

#RuleOfLaw
#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt

www.wired.com/story/govern...

If Rosedale so desperately needs jets downtown, then move the airport to Moore Park, see how well that goes over

Possibly the only time the word 'normal' can be applied to the Poilievre-led Conservatives

🇳🇴🇺🇦 Zelensky: As always, a good and productive meeting with Prime Minister of Norway Jonas Gahr Store.

We discussed in detail our cooperation in the production and use of drones. Our experience is already being used in the Middle East and the Gulf.

Today is the one year anniversary of when I decided to try to learn how to do pixel art! I'm really excited that I've stuck with it for an entire year, so I'm celebrating today and rambling in the replies a bit

Please enjoy this isometric scene I got way too into! 💙

#pixelart #isometric

When violence is the system speaking: What Ontario’s schools are telling us - CCPA Violence in classrooms is the result of underfunding, staffing erosion, and the offloading of social crises onto unprepared schools

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... 'What the data now shows—and what educators have been saying for years—is that violence rises precisely where supports disappear.' @nigelbme.bsky.social @elemteachersto.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca

AB 2624: Privacy for immigration support services providers. | Digital Democracy Digital Democracy overview of bill AB 2624: Privacy for immigration support services providers.

An interesting case (that is really riling up the slopagandists atm)... With the obligatory IANAL caveat, this appears to be an attempt to deal with a very real, very dangerous problem: racialized disinfo and networked incitement against non-white communities. 1/

traffic on a highway. City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence.

City Hopeful Prioritizing The Car Will Alleviate Traffic Woes Despite 100 Years Of Evidence It Doesn't.

As the author of the screenshot, let me state it clearly: I do not consider myself a "bully" but if "bullying" is necessary to keep influential people from working on behalf of scams like Kalshi and Coinbase, I think it's worth the cost. Working for private enterprise is fine. Selling their BS isn't

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive effects...

There is nothing keeping a trial subscriber from reading all five-and-a-half years of Defector during your $1 intro month and then tapping out. But I think the blogs sell themselves, and we're extruding new ones daily: defector.com/achieve-info...

404 Media Rebels by Jason Koebler on Surf Surf - Tech builders, writers and thinkers making a difference. Filtered by Tech topic

Have you checked out @jasonkoebler.bsky.social's 404 Media Rebels Surf feed? It's full of tech builders, writers and thinkers, like Eugen Rochko, @jay.bsky.team, @timnitgebru.blacksky.app, @edzitron.com, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and more, filtered for tech talk.

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Holy shit…how can this be real?

ON EASTER SUNDAY, US Department of Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins sent out an email titled “He has risen!” to the entire agency.

Tonda MacCharles: Pierre Poilievre called you badly educated in economics

Mark Carney: Did he? Wow.

A tweet criticizing JD Vance for telling the Pope to stay out of U.S. politics after traveling to Hungary to engage in its politics, with an embedded post showing Vance speaking in a Fox News clip labeled “Vatican Feud.”

Can’t make this up. But keep JD far away from this pope, please!

Mark McQueen: Why Billy Bishop airport is destined for expansion My advice for the airport’s perennial opponents is simple: stale arguments won’t defeat Ford’s dream. Voters won’t be galvanized by specious arguments about an airport that’s been in operation since

These pro-airport people have no real arguments. Asinine culture-war garbage from top to bottom.

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Last year, Dr. Ezequiel Véliz was named 2025 Resident of the Year at UT Health, Rio Grande Valley.

Last week, ICE detained him in McAllen, Texas—ripping him away from his family, his life, and his patients.

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

I understand the political theory of "attacking their strength" but there is a way to do it that works and then there is whatever this guy is trying lol. I can't believe they gave him 87% approval, incredible lol