1/ 🧵 Your toaster has a mandatory energy label in Europe. An AI data center that drinks 19 million liters of water a day does not. Why? Because Microsoft wrote the EU law that classified its own consumption data as a trade secret. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
Racism isn't "controversial," premier. It's wrong. Why isn't decency a foundational Alberta value?
If AIPAC's commitment to arming a rogue state isn't enough for you, I cannot emphasize enough that this organization is just a slush fund for GOP donors to influence Dem races. Their donor base is mostly conservatives who want Republicans to win.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
I was in the grocery store yesterday, buying South African lemons, because I refuse to buy American produce. I vividly remember the days when Canadians boycotted South African fruit and wine, to protest apartheid. Now, the world’s turned upside down.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoTrump: "Canada is nasty. They're nasty."
More than half of young adult women who grew up as Latter-day Saints have now left the church. Many are reacting against politics, purity culture and powerlessness.
Jana Riess: Why are so many young women leaving the LDS Church?
More than half of young adult women who grew up as Latter-day Saints have now left the church. Many are reacting against politics, purity culture and powerlessness.
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JUST IN: Convicted Felon Donald Trump is scrambling on an emergency basis to try to convince a federal judge to block production to the BBC of financial documents for more than 400 of his business entities
AIPAC is a lobby group for a foreign government that is openly hostile to liberal democracy and completely in bed with MAGA.
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 16h agoAIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
But they seemed like such nice, patriotic, community-minded chaps. (Except the ones currently facing murder, child abuse & assault charges, obviously.)
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
For the evening crowd, my Loonie Politics column on Carney giving police new powers they don't need as crime rates fall, because he's incurious and credulous when they tell him what they want #cdnpoli
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Never forget how hysterical Hannity was whenever AOC first hit the scene
"Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up." newrepublic.com/post/213959/...
Epstein Survivors Say Republicans Ghosted Them Before Blanche Vote
Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse say they were stood up after having scheduled a meeting to speak about Todd Blanche’s nomination for attorney general.
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On one hand, it's a good thing CBS finally told the truth. On the other hand, CBS can still go fuck themselves. Bullshit artist Bari Weiss and the Ellison family, even with all their money, can't buy back credibility. And smart Americans will never forgive them for what they did to Stephen Colbert.
UPDATE: CBS News reverses course, airs story on 9/11 families supporting Mamdani
Last week, CBS News New York falsely reported that “thousands of 9/11 victims’ families are asking New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani not to attend this year’s solemn remembrance ceremony.” The articl...
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Must admit that I don't really understand what it is about Mamdani that made Schumer deem him essentially persona non grata. (I do get that El Sayed is a *senatorial* candidate, so the stakes for Schumer are more direct).
Chuck Schumer endorses El-Sayed after win, knocks Rogers as 'Trump rubber stamp'
Schumer, who had backed Rep. Haley Stevens in race against El-Sayed, says Democrats are united by common purpose: 'putting a check on Donald Trump by defeating his Republican enablers and taking back ...
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"Cool dude, see you in discovery!" is the obvious UNO Reverse card to Trump's attempts to bully organizations by suing them for a trillion dollars. It's a massive indictment of the US system that one after another institutions and major organizations settled and paid bribes rather than play it.
Graham Lanktree@glanktree.bsky.social · 9h agoPresident Donald Trump is seeking to stave off a court order that requires him to begin giving the BBC financial details on his business empire by Thursday in connection with a defamation lawsuit he is pressing against the network. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
Here is a clear example of how corporate capitalist forces (and their media) try to undermine science & create their own counterfactuals (and enemies) - in this case using useful idiots. A clear example of false consciousness - where publics must be deceived to protect corporate capital accumulation
If history gets a chance to be written in a post-apocalyptic world, one lesson will be the disaster that is Elon. Turning over space travel, commerce and communications to an Afrikaner sociopath with a drug problem and toxic racist views is one of the most catastrophic errors America ever made.
There’s an entire online ecosystem that normalizes violence against women The “manfluencers” in this ecosystem are championed by MAGA & MAHA leaders—eg, see the friendship between Trump & Andrew Tate I discuss this MAGA-MAHA-manosphere merger in this new OpEd www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
Opinion | The Manosphere and MAHA Have Merged. I Worry for My Pre-Teen Son.
This culture is driving three main kinds of health risks
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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayTAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...
The man Badenoch thinks should be a candidate because "the Conservative Party believes in second chances". So you can be literally convicted and imprisoned on multiple accounts of antisemitic harassment and get the all-clear from Kemi
Gina Jolliffe@gina72.bsky.social · 2d agoKemi is a very stupid person. That's it. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
The only thing I can say is for sure.. Either I've gone completely insane, Or the world has. I can't get my head around any of this overwhelming continuous Trump term chaos and insanity.
What a surprise, the alleged abuser was jacking himself up on testosterone.
Donald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate
Donald Trump’s ‘art of the deal’ means reneging on them. That’s why Canada cannot capitulate
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an illusion.
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Iranian allegations that Kushner and Witkoff were deliberately manipulating the Iran negotiations in order to profit off oil market futures appear to align quite exactly with the sudden surges in futures trading that preceded Trump announcements about ceasefires and restarting the war.
The Big Ugly Bill, passed by Republicans slashes Medicare by over 500 billion dollars starting January 1. Seniors, veterans, disabled people - all pay the price for billionaire tax cuts. Its past time to vote Trump’s Republican enablers in Congress out of office in November. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
Leader of Canadian white nationalist organization resigns after *squints* "photos surfaced of him discussing his sexuality, supporting Pride events, and singing homoerotic parody songs"
Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · 2d agoA co-founder of Dominion Society of Canada, a group promoting "remigration," has quit. Greg Wycliffe resigned from its board on July 30 after photos and posts revealed his past work at a Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ radio station and participation in Pride events. www.antihate.ca/dominion_soc...
Deliberately worsening the global climate crisis that's raging ever further out of control to temporarily benefit foreign oil industry shareholders is Mark Carney's personal definition of "in the national interest." This is ecocidal anti-leadership. 1/ environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
This is the tamest, most sanitized version of the shift taking place in the party (and that has been going on for several years now). Absolutely nothing about sucking up to the far-right, MAGA adherents, or winking at authoritarian populism. No, it's just about online influencers. Come on.
Talk of Conservative 'infighting' misses the bigger story: the party is messily reinventing itself
For one longtime Tory, it’s another sign that the ground beneath his party’s intellectual movement is shifting violently.
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This is what happens when anti-racism norms erode, and elites bear a lot of the responsibility for norm erosion, as they have disproportionate power to set and enforce norms
Charles EP Murphy@cepmurphy.bsky.social · 2d agonews.sky.com/story/nhs-st... stereotypically this has been seen as Old People, but not only would the old people of now have often been born post-Windrush, lot of this will be younger people who've always lived in a diverse Britain. The guy with a pregnant wife likely millennial at oldest
Canada wasn't built by men like those leading the separatist movement. Let's not let it be ripped apart by them. open.substack.com/pub/theline/...
Jared Wesley: Alberta's separatists are all hat, no cattle
The thing about cowboys is that they don't run away when things get hard.
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