My favourite origin myth for human over-civilization is we’re the science project of cats. They saw our ancestors tossing their own feces at each other, and thought, I wonder…

It’s the groove. And it’s in the heart.

TIL - Elon’s maternal grandpappy (born Yankee, raised Canuk, moved to South Africa for the apartheid in 1940) was a chiropractor. He and Palmer were good pals, and he graduated from Palmer’s school in Iowa in the 1920s. Went on to create and put himself in charge of a bunch of chiropractic regulatory bodies.

All the racist and nation-destabilizing shit he tried to accomplish through political appointment (of himself, ofc) failed. Last thing he published afaik was an anti-vax, anti-fluoride “it’s an international conspiracy of teh jews” diatribe.

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Spot on. Waiting for their favourite influencer, pastor, etc to tell them to believe something else.

In theatre it’s called “suspension of disbelief.” You know what’s happening on stage isn’t really happening, but you agree to just go with it and exist in the show’s reality for an hour or so. Not meant to be a permanent state of consciousness.

Damn. Found my new favourite folk song. ty

A dragon slayer and a rogue fair maiden meet in the halls of justice. The beginning of a merry band of adventurers!

80 years old! That homecoming party is going to be absolutely epic.
op, ty for the good news today.

Peltier, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians in North Dakota, was active in the American Indian Movement, which beginning in the 1960s fought for Native American treaty rights and tribal self-determination.

The group grabbed headlines in 1969 when activists occupied the former prison island of Alcatraz in the San Francisco Bay, and again in 1972, when they presented presidential candidates with a list of demands including the restoration of tribal land. After they were ignored, they seized the headquarters of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

From then on, the group was subject to FBI surveillance and harassment under a covert program that sought to disrupt activism and was exposed in 1975.

Peltier’s conviction stemmed from a confrontation that year on the Oglala Sioux Indian Reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, in which FBI agents Jack Coler and Ronald Williams were killed. According to the FBI, the agents were there to serve arrest warrants for robbery and assault with a dangerous weapon.

Prosecutors maintained at trial that Peltier shot both agents in the head at point-blank range. Peltier acknowledged being present and firing a gun at a distance, but he said he fired in self-defense. A woman who claimed to have seen Peltier shoot the agents later recanted her testimony, saying it had been coerced.

He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and given two consecutive life sentences.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/native-american-activist-leonard-peltier-leaves-prison-after-biden-commuted-his-life-sentence

Peel Region paramedics say they are on the scene. They say one passenger has been critically injured and seven others were also hurt. A superintendent with the Peel Region paramedic service says all of the other roughly 80 passengers and crew are accounted for and not believed to be injured at this time. - CBC

“The cult of empathy.” jfc…

Creating Caucasians/Aryans remains the stupidest science. Bunch of hateful twits obsessed with bullshit like where Noah’s Arc was and measuring their own heads. Filthy rotten fuckers, every one of them. Paved the way for shit like

A 2016 survey revealed that of 222 white American medical students and residents, nearly 60% thought Black people’s skin is thicker than white peoples, and 12% thought Black people’s nerve endings were less sensitive than those of white people.

jfc…

This “Democrats are the reason we have nazis now” thing is giving “Daddy drinks because you cry.” The apathy it generates only helps the worst side keep winning.

Because it’s nuts. People scolding the remaining leftists online and debating which sort of voting system they’d appreciate the democrats advocating for next time, meanwhile their Treasury Department now answers to completely unqualified culty broccoli-headed 20 year olds, there’s birth quotas for roads funding and nazis are snatching kids from classrooms, the Pres talking about putting immigrants in Guantanamo.

The only way Both Sides nonsense is productive is if the goal is to keep people arguing online. O shi

https://www.advocate.com/news/tech-bros-infiltrate-federal-government

Fantastic long read. ty.

But if you’re expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won’t get that here.

As in Bush v. Gore in 2000, and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old “vote suppression,” the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.

Trump to pause promised tariffs for 30 days after speaking with Trudeau

Collingwood whisky is lovely. Ungava gin is gorgeous. Highly recommend them both.

No matter how bad it gets, people still show up. Love that “Don’t bite the hands that feed you” sign.

If anyone’s interested, the Red Card resource mentioned in the news coverage “created by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and are available in 16 languages from Spanish to Haitian Creole to Tigrinya.” Anyone wanting to leave these lying around, you don’t need to order them. Just buy a few business card printer sheets and DIY. …

“It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.” - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, sometime yesterday

Primary source, regular updates as well: https://www.canada.ca/en/department-finance/news/2025/02/list-of-products-from-the-united-states-subject-to-25-per-cent-tariffs-effective-february-4-2025.html

Why wait?

Yesterday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spoke with the President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum.

Prime Minister Trudeau and President Sheinbaum discussed the deep people-to-people ties, the strong trade and investment relationship between Canada and Mexico, and the importance of preserving North American competitiveness and prosperity. They spoke about the imposition of U.S. tariffs on both countries, as well as their respective efforts to enhance border security and combat the production and distribution of illegal drugs. The leaders agreed to continue working together in areas of common interest and to enhance the strong bilateral relations between Canada and Mexico.

Prime Minister Trudeau and President Sheinbaum agreed to remain in close contact.

The Westons and Waltons of the world are cackling about this right now, guaranteed.

relevant 22 Minutes sketch

O weird… Across every platform, I kept reading this would never happen and was just a distraction from some other terrible thing - or if it did happen it’d be our fault for paying attention in the first place (and Daddy drinks because you cry) - and here we are again. Murka doing exactly what they threatened to do.

Looking forward to Trudeau’s response at 6. And the fuck Trudeau brigade can get bent.

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