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@eephusasher and @urban_asher combined into one great taste. Hiding here as the world crumbles around us.

Credit where it’s due: this FOX graphics package for the NLCS is great. Bright, huge font sizes, doesn’t try to pack in too much info. Helps you focus on the game. Rare these days in sports broadcasts.

You know, the problem with politically weaponizing the DOJ is that it both allows the GOP to go on the offensive with the power of the state like this AND weaponization serves to cast doubt on the motivations of the department in a way that protects the GOP from coming, legitimate investigations

Meg Kinnard@megkinnardap.bsky.social · 15h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.

If I were premier of Ontario as violent crime was at its lowest for 50 years, I would claim credit for this huge success, yet Premier Fraud is absolutely silent about this…why? Because if people were aware, they might oppose the relentless rise in cop budgets and victimisation of the vulnerable?

"The study argues that decades of breeding and farming to increase yield have reduced many nutrients in crops." Capitalism's idea of efficiency is only tied to profits. There was never any consideration given to if the increased yields still delivered adequate nutrition.

Vegetables are half as nutritious than 60 years ago. Experts now know why

Fewer than a third of wheat varieties used in bread released since the 1960s meet the recommended zinc target, due to poor soil quality

independent.co.uk

When the dog fountain unveiled years ago, the usual suspects whined that it was declasse and cheesy, but it's now a beloved piece of city architecture. People pose with it, bring their dogs to visit it (the dogs all love it of course, it's a fountain) and just generally have a lovely time around it.

The dog fountain (a large circular fountain where all of the spouts are dog sculptures spitting at the fountain) on King Street in Toronto

It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.

3 out of 10 Canada Pension Plan board members also serve on boards of oil and gas companies, which Chief Public Affairs Officer Michel Leduc says is “not a conflict of interest.” Last year it made at least $6 billion in new fossil fuel investments and dropped its net zero target.

Advocates call for climate action and Indigenous rights at CPPIB meeting

Advocates confronted Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) executives at a meeting in Ottawa yesterday, urging them to strengthen their approach to the climate crisis and Indigenous rights.

nationalobserver.com

Talked to a low-info voter today. Thinks Chow has ruined the city, doesn’t want her kid walking past drug users, etc. This is what conservatives do. Starve civic society of resources, then vanish into the woodwork and re-emerge to blame those left in charge for not fixing the chaos they created.