Mark Dowling

and this is what a functioning state does. you try to do a coup or you try to steal an election and there are fucking consequences. you don't get to retire to your ranch and paint or go on to run again.

Not asking for screenshots but I hope there is weeping and gnashing of teeth from Toronto’s worst people over on Xitter and Zuckbook #ByeByeBradford

Someone should ask him who invented the numerals he uses to count tapeworms in his sewage milk.

Brad Bradford strikes out. Well done, Toronto.

This is why it was a good line, because yes there are Americans who think of The Cheesecake Factory as a special occasion restaurant but Trump is not one of them. So thank you very much Donald for taking the bait.

Far too much of this going on in the neighbourhood chats at election time

What’s wrong with DHH is that he’s a racist but tech bros also HATE the way GDPR sets even the tiniest limits on how much data they can scrape And my dude, look up French power stations

A newly filed court document reveals extensive communications between Kennedy Center management and President Trump’s advisers, including presidential aide Natalie Harp, around pivotal court rulings and board votes over the institution’s future.

Over 2,000 alumni from Vivek’s all-boys catholic high school in Cincinnati have signed and circulated a petition demanding that he pull the ad and issue a public apology for “ignoring the moral responsibilities” of his Jesuit education. I think he’s pretty cooked.

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Walter Koenig, Jewish American actor famous for his role as Pavel Chekov in Star Trek, and as Alfred Bester in Babylon 5, passed away on October 25th 2026, at the age of 90. May his memory be a blessing. #WalterKoenig #Chekov #StarTrek #Babylon5 #Bester

I would *LOVE* to not need to have strong opinions about a dozen US Senators or be able to name more SCOTUS justices than I can SCC ones. But the head of the US executive branch currently has very strong opinions about the continuing existence of my country, so

So close! You are in France 💕

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

What I picture when people ask Bluesky to increase its character count

when people say the two parties are the same, one thing they aren’t just different but extremely meaningfully different on is Dems rank and file and the elite level very quickly shouted down or ignored the BlueAnon weirdos saying 2024 was stolen; the Republicans and Trump just put theirs in power

I imagine the BC NDP might tell themselves they were very likely to lose whenever the election came and the polls six weeks ago were as good as they were ever going to be for them. But when you're in government you can do stuff. And the BC NDP just lost two years when they could have done stuff.

The scandal of Musk getting the documentary about him removed from cinemas could be called Elongate except at 4 hours it was already elongated

interestingly this interest in black voters doesn’t extend to the republican effort to deprive them of federal representation, nor do they seem interested in asking whether republican candidates are burdened by the fact that trump talks like a klansman

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

The whole world no longer smells like cigarettes.

How far back do we have to go to find a U.S. president as *openly* racist as this?

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Crime is down. Toronto is objectively a safe place. Why does Bradford want us scared? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

I see the Shopify guy has ginned up some homo-hate on the other site w his post about a a Toronto safe streets ad that used w two ostensibly gay dads walking their child. What a fucking hateful destructive menace. Just enjoy your money asshole.

“Toxic Empathy” author Allie Beth Stuckey is now asking for folks to understand that ICE has separated a good man from his family over a paperwork issue.

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

striking how WaPo can write a headline with such moral clarity when they want

False claims on French protests

Just as a private equity firm buys out a corporation and strips it for parts, a consultant class is raiding the Democratic Party and getting “generationally wealthy” along the way New from me and @adambonica.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/2163...

Editorial: Toronto is falling apart, so let me finish it off - by Brad Bradford

Very normal democracy thing

My mother and sister both have careers I would describe as requiring professional-grade empathy. I consider them both experts at it. Many times, I’ve seen them educate people on the importance of respecting the bodily autonomy of children, most often via the advice: do not force them to hug.

literally this comic except he apparently lives in Czechia instead of Nebraska

people are acting like this is about AI bots hacking into people's bank accounts but it's actually about people who have given their AI agents access to their computer on purpose

Something to keep in mind when we read “x amount of Ontario/Toronto/x doesn’t approve of bike lanes”. When bad faith leadership gins up a culture war issue that has nothing to do w most people & barely affects others.

Slamming into reverse so fast you can hear the gears crunch

Turning Point UK was supposed to be a youth movement All it's ever done is appeal to middle aged thugs

Sounds unrepentant and still describes FTX as "a run on the bank". Perhaps he shouldn't be given article space till he'll admit or learn why an exchange shouldn't suffer a run.

1. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES 2. Someone check on Ivanka. I mean REALLY check on her 3. RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

“one of the videos was initially posted by far right news site Europa.com and it had four million views. Polymarket, a major crypto-betting platform which is not currently regulated to operate in Ireland, also posted about it on Tuesday.”