Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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The WNBA has never had a trans woman play in the league’s 30-year history and now the right and other anti-trans activists are hammering the league over something that has never been an issue, proving once again it isn’t about protection but exhibiting cruelty toward trans people.

Michael J. Fox To Receive TV Academy’s Bob Hope Humanitarian Award At This Year’s Emmys deadline.com/2026/07/mich...

Michael J. Fox To Receive 2026 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award At Emmys

The Television Academy said Wednesday that Michael J. Fox will receive the organization's 2026 Bob Hope Humanitarian Award.

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This has been my feelings of the trans community since as far back as I can remember & it will be how I feel about them until the day I die.

Peter Navarro went to prison for refusing a subpoena related to his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the capital. He has spread baseless claims about the 2020 election. Clearly he is a bad actor, as defined by @jayrosen.bsky.social and yet the National Post trots him out. 1

scott dagostino@scottdagostino.ca · 2w ago

Once again, the Canadian newspaper owned by Americans has hired one of the worst Americans to tell Canadians in this “Canadian” paper that we suck. Stop giving government grants to this shit, @liberalca.bsky.social 😡

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

Powered by SimpleSurvey.com | Build and manage your own online survey, voting, form and panel management applications.

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Like all Canadian government surveys on AI, this is hilariously pro-AI. But it only takes like 5 minutes to fill out, and at the end you can make it clear that the only focus of the government when it comes to AI and culture is that Canadian artists need copyright protections from AI scraping.

Sonja Boon@storiedselves.bsky.social · 2w ago

Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change

5 tips for reporting on unprecedented weather without mentioning climate change

So here are 5 handy tips for finding your inner coward when it comes to writing articles about the effects of the climate crisis while avoiding mentioning the climate crisis.

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I think one reason data center outrage is so pronounced is people spent decades recycling and composting and otherwise scrimping to offset energy use and protect clean water, and the second we hit an inflection point for cheap electricity the banking industry said we’re taking all of it, fuck you

Such a good thread. Encapsulates our current political economy as well as anything you'll ever read.

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 3w ago

Market theory goes like this: even the best of us can fall prey to selfishness and rationalization, so let's arrange society so people acting on their most selfish impulses end up producing benefit for all of us. That'll be easier and more reliable than convincing everyone to be more generous. 1/

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Carney was asked about the bridge today, and it seems pretty clear his earlier description of the deal was wrong. Debt servicing/repayment is not part of the bridge's expenses. It's instead taken from the net revenue Canada will now split with the US for 15 years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Carney Defends Deal With Trump to Split Bridge Toll Profits

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his decision to give the US a share of the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan, saying there will be little to no proceeds to split at fi...

bloomberg.com

Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn

Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...

nationalobserver.com

This piece by @juliusgoat.bsky.social captures everything I have been thinking about Ezra Klein (and all the other Ezra Kleins of the world) for the past couple of years, and it does so completely and clearly. Highly recommend. www.the-reframe.com/eventually-y...

Eventually You're Going to Have to Stand for Something

On accepting the fascist offer and being better than Ezra.

the-reframe.com

Tonight, on Infowars: Is Alex Jones a fake? Tune in on any channel to watch the live stream at 8 ET /7 CT to find out.

Toni Morrison said, “Art does not cleanse you and make you morally superior... even when it has a very strong political content. The artist himself is not made any better. I still have to try to be the best person I can be.” Art, scholarship, or activism––there’s the work and then there’s the work.

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

We have an even bigger problem than Graham Platner

The candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media

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Even before Carney, for every dollar Canada invested in renewable energy, we spent $19 on expanding fossil fuels. Now we've abandoned any climate action beyond the most dishonest lip service, fully devoted to maximizing climate warming at top speed. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/07/09/n...

New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20.  - Environmental Defence

ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, OIL CHANGE INTERNATIONAL New Report Shows Canada is the Worst Public Financier of Fossil Fuels in the G20 Toronto | Treaty Lands

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There’s a scene in the dystopian sci-fi movie Minority Report where Tom Cruise’s character is riding in an autonomous vehicle that gets remotely commandeered by the police to bring him into custody. The audience is supposed to see this as flagrant disregard for privacy and due process.

Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 4w ago

Waymo car delivers misbehaving teen passengers to San Mateo police

"Some questioned whether a mixed message was being sent by fighting back against perceived far left “wokeness” while dressed like “White Party Ken” from a Honduran knockoff Barbie doll line. However, the opposition leader held firm."

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 4w ago

Poilievre vows to "fight woke culture" following new galactic disco cowboy makeover

It is the dawn of a new era. Hear our battle anthem. Welcome to the new InfoWars.

How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House.

Canada is literally handing over refugees rejected at border to ICE in the US. Haitian refugee Markens Appolon, for eg, sought refuge but Canada handed him to ICE agents. He is still in ICE detention. There is a seamless connection between Canada's new anti-migrant laws, like C12, and ICE terror.

‘Canada is handing people over to ICE’: refugees rejected at border face US detention

As Canada tightens asylum rules, refugees reuniting with family say they are being turned over to ICE and jailed for months after failed border claims

theguardian.com

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

Last few weeks I have a "radio" (old school) on in the evenings in the house, background, always on CBC Radio 2 ("CBC Music"). It's really good. Curation! Just heard this fantastic tech-house track & I shazam & it's Rich Aucoin, a Cdn musician I don't know but will dig into. Radio is good.

This is not justice. You never have to listen to an Ontario Progressive Conservative talk about law & order again. Put this back in their face. Every minister, every back bencher. They all voted for secret govt.

TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Two legal battles over Greenbelt records ‘likely’ quashed by PCs’ FOI restrictions

37,964 games have been played in the NBA since the 1996-97 season, regular season & playoffs. Knicks/Hawks is the first game where the road team scored 100 points before the home team had 50.