This is why people don’t report domestic abuse. The cops love to say “This is a family fight” and “there are 2 sides to every story” until the abused party winds up dead.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

NN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.

Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.

CNBC@cnbc.com · yesterday

U.S. has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war: Reuters

this is actually the wife-beatingest reply possible. this is the platonic ideal of how a guy who beat his wife would respond to a question about beating his wife.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "These are incredibly serious criminal accusations. If these accusations were true, I would be in jail — I would be. My former wife would not have been offering to cook me dinner and inviting me to playgrounds. Think about that."

We're now at $22,805 of the $50,000 goal for our legal defence. Thanks to the 238 people who have donated! Can we get past halfway before the weekend, to over $25,000? E-transfer info@thegrindmag.ca or pay by card at buy.stripe.com/6oE02D00TgZ4...

The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · 6d ago

With huge thanks to the 190 people who've donated so far, we're now at $17,375, which is 35% of the way to our $50K legal defence goal! At this pace, we need about 350 more people to give. Read about the case and how to support.

A summary of Toronto's mayoral race. All I think now is that every city needs a fabulous Mamdani and Canada doesn't produce mayors, or any politicians, with that level of people skills now. Nenshi had it but I think Calgary broke him.

The Grind@thegrindto.bsky.social · last wk.

While Brad Bradford can be mocked for flip-flopping on bike lanes and other issues, his support keeps climbing. Olivia Chow, meanwhile, is polling well, but is her base energized enough by her record to really show up this fall? New from @dgrdon.bsky.social.

If someone cornered you at a cocktail party and said something like this, you wouldn't just try to get away from them. You'd bounce from the whole event because wtf. But elected Republicans get up every day and say unhinged stuff like this in Congress and I honestly do not know how to unfuck this.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

Rep. John McGuire: "I don't know if you heard about the BLT sandwich -- using human fetus baby parts in the vaccine when they could've used ivermectin"

‘Anthropic described the project as “our effort to disruptively scan all the world’s books” in an internal memo, which noted “we do not want it to be known that we are pursuing this project”.’

Eli Valley@elivalley.bsky.social · last wk.

Dystopia www.news.com.au/technology/o...

Well, you know, Canada, Royal Family and all. This is a dumb angle.

Radio Canada International@rci.bsky.social · last wk.

Canadian taxpayers spent more to protect Prince Harry over five years during his visits to Canada than any other internationally protected person over the same period, CBC News has learned. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/...

John Ronson, the Louie Gohmert of 2026.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Ron Johnson claims the the "injection injured" are committing mass suicide

Americans, what you are seeing here is MAGAs conducting a communist Cultural Revolution session in which Red Guards publicly torment and hound (sometimes kill) a perceived "intellectual" for "crimes" against the nation. These sessions became so vile that even Mao thought they had gone too far.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rep. Ogles: "Look, I don't want to play down the effects of the virus, but at the end of the day it had a roughly 1 percent mortality rate. We coulda gotten through this."

Oh is this the language we are using now? Sweet, I have so many ideas for 2027.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Moreno to Fauci: "Who the fuck did you think you were?"

Keeping cool in public spaces … misting garden in Yorkville neighbourhood (Toronto).

Among the bizarre details in this @oliverdarcy.bsky.social update on “60 Minutes”: The Bari Weiss-led network is holding screen tests featuring mock Ghislaine Maxwell interviews. www.status.news/p/60-minutes...

The Race to Rebuild ‘60 Minutes’

With the fall season fast approaching, Nick Bilton and Bari Weiss are racing to rebuild the newsmagazine, holding screen tests featuring mock Ghislaine Maxwell interviews and hunting for new senior le...

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Men or women telling women they should be happy about being insulted about looking like a man should keep their own counsel right now.

When Trump started in on Kaitlin Collins at the Correspondence Dinner and attacking fake news, every journalist in that room should have stood up and walked out

No one stood up for Kaitlin Collins. Smdh. Pathetic lot of reporters.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

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I love this. American writers do the hard hard hard sell on their own books with infinite ease. Mr. Wigglesworth is positively writhing at even having to suggest his book might be worth reading, much less purchasing. The contrast is stellar. I am afraid I must buy his lovely book. No, I insist.

Robin Wigglesworth@robinwigglesworth.ft.com · last wk.

Warning: may contain shameful bragging. open.substack.com/pub/btfd/p/a...

Zuckerberg is always watching. He's filming you, photographing you, tracking you. Watch out for men wearing these glasses. www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Spoof Epstein ads go up around London in protest against Meta AI glasses

The activist group Everyone Hates Elon targets smart glasses in a guerrilla campaign over privacy risks and non-consensual recording

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What a powerful way to illustrate shifting baseline syndrome. And how sad it sounds... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Listen to Britain’s dawn chorus of 1976: the dramatic loss of birdsong in 50 years

Guardian recreates audio landscape of past filled by loud morning symphony before 73m wild birds were lost

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Bro has twitter but not google?

Really cool that the FT is re-running commenorative articles from the archives from this time 50 years ago on its front page

whatever magic Trump once had as a public speaker to non-cult audiences is long gone

I can't approve of journalism schools right now, especially ones that exist to attract new Canadians - immigrants and the children of immigrants - who naively think journalism would be a good career choice. Taking tuition money from these young people is a kind of child abuse.

Dave Infante@dinfontay.com · 2w ago

my journalism career lives in a VAN down by the RIVER

i always say yes to students/young journalists interested in discussing the work. i have another of these calls in a few weeks. i've never encouraged people to get into this line of work without carefully presenting the myriad downsides. lately, it's getting harder to encourage them at all.

Philip Eil@phileil.bsky.social · 2w ago

Chatted with a young journalist who was seeking career advice yesterday. I started with the good vs. bad news. -IMO, there's nothing more fun, exciting, meaningful, and rewarding to do with your career. -The industry is absolute trash and it's very hard to, economically, plan a life around it.

For God’s sake, be economical with your lamps and candles! not a gallon you burn, but at least one drop of man’s blood was spilled for it.

TMZ reporting Mitch McConnell has converted to Islam ❤️

His parents gave him a name starting with two As, thinking it would give him a edge in American life. But all I could think of was Mr. Garvey doing attendance. "A-A-ron? You here, A-A-ron?"

Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Is it possible that the Trump Department of Education created a national civics contest, then rigged the judging in the final when it looked like a Sikh kid who's the son of immigrants might win? They'd never do that, this administration has too much integrity. www.notus.org/national/ame...

Trump offers sales pitch for his war: "Afghanistan War: 20 years, 2,000 DEAD. Iraq War: 9 years, 4,600 DEAD. Vietnam War: 19 years and 5 months, 58,220 DEAD. Korean War: 3 years and 1 month, 36,574 DEAD. Venezuela War: 1 day, 0 DEAD. Iran Military Conflict: 4 months, 18 DEAD."