Voici mon analyse de la guerre culturelle à Québec axé sur les autos, Vicky Lépine et ce desolant salut nazi.

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The Dems need the support of the left so that if they lose they can blame them for not voting hard enough. But they can’t fully chase them away because then they would definitely lose every time

"I want a death that the world will hear, an impact that will remain through time, and a timeless image that cannot be buried by time or place.”

Killed just before her wedding with 10 members of her family, including her pregnant sister. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

There’s a certain type of person—think WSJ Editorial Board, think Nate Silver, think “reasonable” centrists—who sees the growing authoritarianism of the right but convinces themselves the best path is to accommodate it. 🧵

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us

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When Musk denies that he did a big ol Nazi salute during the inauguration, remember this, from Jean-Paul Sartre, 1944.

even the MAGA types are like "ok, he did a little sieg heil — but remember, it'll be the media's fault for noticing."

The real long-and-short is that Thiel is very taken by a few faux-philosophers who believe that representative democracy is an inherently corrosive concept which restraints real technological growth and ought to be replaced by a quasi-monarchy why treats "Founders" (tech bros) as kings.

Having a spine is part of the job, here in the speech industry. Newspaper editors have said no to govt pressure for ages. Watch The Post or read a book if you want to know how that’s done. 3/

Rufo invents a problem. It goes viral for and against. There are opeds. Reported features. And at the end whether or not policy changes, a thing that wasn’t controversial becomes controversial. Division is the goal. Destabilizing anything helpful to marginalized people is the goal.

Longish answer - Users blocking content for themselves is a useful tool for some kinds of problems (e.g. you don't want to see nude pictures) but doesn't do much at all for others (e.g. you don't want other people to see nude picture of you). 🧵 1/6

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In 2025, will Canada’s media start properly reporting on what the party leader polling at over 40% is actually saying instead of simply reassuring Canadians he’s not Donald Trump?

They love hounding Justin Trudeau, but the extremist waiting to replace him is getting off easy.

we should be concerned about the impacts of social media on kids and teens, but i don’t think we’re worried nearly enough about what it’s doing to middle aged people and seniors