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A new survey of 1,000 American adults found that the strongest supporters of transgender sports bans are not the people who admire women most: they are the people who hold the most hostile views about women. www.helenwebberley.com/news/transge...

They called the cops on this 3-year-old Black boy because he was kickin the white kids' ass on the soccer field.

What a relief www.ft.com/content/7585...

Anti-immigrant sentiment in Alberta has hit a majority, and that province is hardly an outlier. That's what happens when we fail to blame a lack of planning and instead blame people who are just trying to find a place to live securely. My latest ... noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-invent...

We must expect that Meta's interference is happening in other elections around the world *right now*. This isn't just a one-off. Meta has proved repeatedly they are committed to advancing far-right agendas worldwide, are serial liars, and are flagrantly indifferent to the dismantling of democracies.

Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Opulent October Tom Thomson 1915-16

Gary Tyler, a quilt artist who spent decades on death row for a crime he didn’t commit, now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

Kawhi Leonard Joanne Tod 2019

After over two years living in Montreal, I can safely say the family doctor situation is absolutely fucked. I FINALLY got a letter that I got one. But after weeks of trying, I haven't been able to contact them. Phone? Hangs up, no voicemail. Email? No reply. In person while 'open'? Door locked.

The other category of coverage is *extremely* implausible first-person accounts from estranged parents. According to this woman, her son cut her off after she was mildly rude to his fiance's family a single time. There's no way this is the entire story. www.goodhousekeeping.com/relationship...

Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

Every article has the same premise: Young people are characterizing their normal, happy childhoods as abusive and going "no contact" with their parents over minor disagreements. Every article also, late in the text, blithely acknowledges that this premise is false. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/14/h...

It’s not just France www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e...

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The tell is that there is panic about stock — the capital supposedly locked away — and no panic about flow — or how incomes aren’t even remotely keeping up with costs and can’t sustain all the political instability. www.npr.org/2026/05/28/n...

The third piece I’ve read in as many days “concerned” that Americans are ”sitting on capital” that needs to be “freed up”. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

“Patriarchy isn’t fascism’s symptom. It’s fascism’s engine. Eltahawy proves it from Cairo to Warsaw to Chicago to Kabul. ‘All tyrants go home.’ 4 words I haven’t stopped thinking about.” RABIH ALAMEDDINE, National Book Award-winning author of The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

Email did to white collar work what the washing machine did to housework: creating as many problems as it solved. See, as Ruth Schwartz Cowan shows in More Work for Mother, washing machines made washing clothes much easier, but in the process, it also shifted cultural norms...

Demands on public services have never been higher. Yet thousands of public sector workers are being laid off. Why is nobody talking about it? See my blog out today: bit.ly/4iltpTH

Serving the defendants today: University of Calgary Board of Governors, Calgary Police Service, including named officers, and City of Calgary. From May (statement of claim amended since then): drugdatadecoded.ca/for-immediat...

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Offering Emily Bickell n.d.

Netflix cleared $13.65 billion in net income this year. Up 33%. So naturally they’re celebrating by laying off 1,000 people. 6% of their workers that built those profits. All to save a little extra cash for shareholders. Apparently $13.65 billion isn’t enough for these ghouls.

Autistic FN man beat up by police

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

Autumn Baroque Isabel McLaughlin 1961

Corporate promises in Building Canada Strong Act could easily trigger investment arbitration headache for government By Stuart Trew and and Kyla Tienhaara @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

My god, we actually have a huge story here in Québec (and the larger Francophonie up to a point), with Haitian-Québécois writer Thélyson Orélien being extremely “randomly” accused of writing his amazing and important best-seller using AI, with this accusation coming from an anonymous X account...

The Caine Prize is an award for African writers, judged by other African writers. As a Ghanaian/Nigerian-American, I've followed the Caine Prize for years-- I read African literature. The Atlantic article uses AI to justify overriding the judgment of African people reading their own literature.

Giving echoes of the British media's pile-on of Jason Arday, African writers are noticing how the BBC (which didn't cover the original announcement of this year's award) is now covering the AI "scandal".

And now, Kundieza has put out a statement: x.com/S_S_Kundizez...

Instead of standing by Kundieza, the Caine Prize put on its *home page* that it would be investigating. All because of one article, written by a Canadian-American writer who used Pangram to scan Kundieza's work.

Simbarashe Kundizeza won the Caine Prize this year. The author of this Atlantic article wrote that it *seems* Kundieza used AI, based on one Pangram scan. There is no comment from Kundieza. Are AI-fueled accusations lowering the bar for journalistic ethics now? x.com/TheAtlantic/...

It is really chilling to see how quickly Black, Caribbean, and African writers and academics have become the global face of AI use and accusations of plagiarism. For such a serious charge, @vauhinivara.bsky.social's article rests on...a Pangram scan. www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/1...