Alec Dawson

26 years after they stole Florida right before our eyes, and after a decade of clear efforts (some obs successful) to steal elections), normies are still imagining that this is could be a free and fair election. Kids, we are a banana republic and they are ten steps ahead of us.

this is way too on point.

Snake River Canyon

Yes, Botstein had unilateral authority to determine outcomes in Title IX cases for years, and was widely rumored to routinely intervene on behalf of perpetrators. pod.link/1696774612/e...

victims of abuse often experience loud and indignant denials of that abuse as nothing less than a continuation or re-enactment of the abuse. It can be devastating. If you have never been in that position, maybe think twice before you say anything. That does not mean silence, it means care.

Understood, but this is also in some sense about public spaces vs private spaces. Most US universities are not within cities in quite this way, and are governed by rules about protest that we ought to interrogate.

I know politicians lie, but in other eras the lies often were more subtle. They wanted to win over their interlocutors. The way you know this is fascism is that their lies are so vast, they are so disinterested in persuasion. They demand nothing short of submission to the lie.

There is a news story in Canada about someone suing people who shared rape accusations to "clear his name." Regular people struggle to understand the extent psychopaths will go to punish their accusers. Their rage indicates injury, sure, yeah, just not the kind of injury others experience.

yup

classic NYT they omit the most heinous things he said in the headline for fear of offending....who? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/u...

Hey everyone, jack smith, American hero, is a graduate of SUNY oneonta.

The NYT once again reminds us that it is written for people who went to SLACs and Ivies by people who went to SLACs or Ivies. They don't even think of the NPCs who, say, teach hundreds of students each semester in State Schools. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

this has a real "dodgers gotta win tonight..." vibe

Fuck every single one of them. We will never forget how you betrayed the most vulnerable among us. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/u...

your daily reminder that fascists do not need a political majority to seize and hold power. About 30% can do it, as long as those who might otherwise stop them fail in the face of compliant police, courts, and the military (where fascist tendencies are already overrepresented).

pablo torre feeling pretty smug right about now

Honestly, the New York Times has completely lost the plot. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/s...

or he is going joker mode

A large majority of Americans would be fine with the war on Iran if we were “winning.” Therein lies the rot.

In opposing reconstruction southern elites convinced poor whites that race mattered much more than class. Right now a plutocratic elite is ginning up the rage of alienated young white men by convincing them that their real enemies are women, people of color, etc. They want them to enact violence.

We need to talk about inequality in all forms. The attack on woke is a lot of things but it is also about silencing those who would challenge the glaring inequality of our moment.

It is not actually SFU students. Total scam, not like a real marching band or yeah, whatever. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Stephen Colbert has a few thoughts on billionaires . . . (Video - 2:41)

Watching leading Democrats go to war against anything to the left of them is a daily reminder that we are not going to solve any of this. Our choice is between bloodthirsty fascists with no intention of giving up power, and dem elites who will defend their expense accounts to the death.

100%

The erasure of poor and working people from city centers so that gentrified 15 minute cities might emerge - good for developers, good for tourism, good for the wealthy - was not an accident. It was a conscious policy choice.

This is an immensely important observation. A huge proportion working and middle class people are trapped in communities where they must rely on private cars for their daily needs. The 15 minute city feels, to them, like a zone of exclusion.

In classic BC fashion, it has three lanes.

In today's unsurprising news, a party built on pathological dishonesty insists that Blanche was too forthright to be AG, until he got the memo and lied his ass off www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08...

this is exactly where we are.

Dude, it is an "Ocean view". He's going to need to use his escalade to actually get to the beach, and then there is the parking. And don't get me started about how hard it is to park near Hawaiian beaches. But wait, what was I saying? Oh yeah, his shit is on the poor side of town, leave him alone.

Did that NYT quiz about how well Americans know Canada. Fuck me I only got 10 out of 15.

the thing about the world cup is that it gives you brief opportunities to harass and attack your European friends. Sometimes you get to go all the way, but it is important to seize the opportunity where it arises, because there is always a chance that some asshole named Harry Kane is gonna score.

Of course, GP has long been a lying grifter. Her first major foray into this was selling stems to unsuspecting college kids. Look it up.

The nuance being that this has never happened. Riley Gaines finished in fifth place, and has leveraged that into a million dollar career on the grift. Those who choose to imbibe this shit are making a choice.

Fuckery with the Supreme Court has been the Republican Agenda since Bork. Nominees systematically lying in confirmation hearings, a seat stolen under a false pretense and then another taken in the immediate aftermath of a lost election. R's made the court illegitimate, it is as simple as that.

the simple fact that it was 5-4 is enough to remind us that we are hanging by a thread, and there are millions who have already been tossed overboard.

Have any of the people who loudly claim this ever been to a public hospital in most of these places? I loathe the US system, but frenz, rich Mexicans and expat Americans all go to private clinics. Same in much of the world. True universal healthcare is mostly the preserve of rich countries.

this is correct except that the political crisis started back in 2000 when Bush stole the election and the "heads in the sand vs we should fight" dynamic has been the major split inside the Dem party since then

So, I don't suppose those boosters who talked in the NYT about how this will solve the housing crisis are going to report on the fact that a three bedroom apartment here will go for over 9 grand Canadian. Affordable for whom? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I have long firmly believed that Canada is the Belgium of North America. And not just in these trifling sporting ways.

When the Athletic turns Martin Niemöller's poem into a joke about a badly behaved golfer they really reveal how different the world is when you are sequestered in the clubhouse, drinking gin with your rich buddies. Not a care the world, bowling averages are up, mini golf scores way down.

Hey Athletic, New York Times, maybe read the room? Invoking a poem about the Holocaust for a golf story about a badly behave rich, white dude aint just not funny, it suggests you are living on a different planet than the rest of us. www.nytimes.com/athletic/737...

So does that mean they win the Stanley Cup? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

Does anyone recall when he was credibly accused of rape?

on fire. www.publicbooks.org/the-uncomfor...

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maybe he should smile more.

Reason one million for why we should stop listening to economists, and maybe the NYT. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...