Andrew Varsanyi

I believe you meant to write "negligent homicide" or "malicious indifference"

This is shocking and disturbing, especially considering how careful Google has been to protect its users these last... oh wait...

I am embarrassed by how much time I have been spending over the last few days watching and reading about the Toronto Maple Leafs being crappy. I know it's wrong, but the pain of Leafs fans feeds my soul. #nhl

We seem to have collectively decided, gradually and mostly out of apathy, that presidents can launch flagrantly unconstitutional wars of choice without congressional approval and there just won’t be any consequences. Would be nice if this is where we start reversing the trend.

I don’t know what to do now… I love “The Pitt”, but if Bruni likes it it must mean that there’s something awful about it I didn’t notice until now… something phoney and pretentious

This is one of my favorites. People who have made trillions by eliminating the human touch from everyday life, often with horrible consequences and public degradation, are now worried that AI is coming for them.

Budgets are only broken because we stopped.

This. An active Congress mobilizing support with popular actions can break this SCOTUS’s plans. Democrats focusing on popular, broadly acceptable, policies and simple communication is the key here. Question is whether Dems can get focused and do that.

It’s gonna be The Thing and then They Live

After some fun conversations last night, I am reminded of how much I love (and miss) watching the films of John Carpenter. Starting with Escape from NY, now trying to decide what’s next… #movies #film

U.S. Imports Grew in 2025, as Trump’s Tariffs Reshuffled Global Trade

Unsurprisingly (for many), Trump's tariffs have not lead to an improvement in many of the metrics by which the Administration judges them.

U.S. Imports Grew in 2025, as Trump’s Tariffs Reshuffled Global Trade www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Just learned that it is apparently considered normal in academia to just ghost a candidate you didn't select after an on-campus interview. Absolutely floored. All the time that I worked in the supposedly blood-sucking corporate world, even the worst companies don't do that to their job candidates.

Also Harry Enten is just the worst

Jordan Love is just not quite the guy we need him to be. I want him to be, but he’s not. #packers #nfl

Fareed Zakaria Thinks Steve Bannon Got One Thing Right Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 11/21/2025 · 1h 8m

I like Ezra Klein. I don’t like Fareed Zakaria. This is why the center-left is useless in the United States. It’s somehow culture, media, class but not really economics. FZ thinks tax rates are a problem but materialist politics aren’t useful. These guys are why we’re fucked. Incoherent blather.

Ottawa intervenes in Air Canada-union dispute, seeks to impose binding arbitration | CBC News Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said she has invoked Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to allow binding arbitration between the airline and its union and has ordered operations to resume — although it's...

Absolute joke.

Unions in Canada need to wake up. Fight back!

Rights aren’t rights if they can be abrogated whenever something is “critical.”

The airline knew they could do this. That’s why there wasn’t a deal.

#solidarity #cdnpoli #aircanada

Crazy that the Canadian government isn’t smart enough to realize that they’re being played. Air Canada knows you’ll force the Union back, that’s why they weren’t really even negotiating. Corps in Canada play by a different set of rules than labour. #cdnpoli #solidarity

From a Semafor article about the New York Times's decision to print an article—multiple articles, actually—on Zohran Mamdani's college application. "The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting," one senior reporter told Semafor.

Legitimate reporting and illegitimate reporting both engender conversation and debate.

But while legitimate reporting inspires conversation about a story's substance, illegitimate reporting inspires questions like "Why did the newspaper print this garbage?"

$2B funding rounds and $100M signing bonuses to individuals. Sure. There's no bubble here. Everything makes sense.

Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance trade discussions with the United States | CBC News The federal government announced late Sunday evening it is rescinding the digital services tax, days after U.S. President Donald Trump demanded it gone and cut off Canada-U.S. trade negotiations.

There is an alternate universe somewhere where #Canada refused and worked with the #EU to create a new, more open, copyright and tax system that would help us get out of the neoliberal hellscape that American IP policy and Canadian regulatory capture have led us into
@pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

#Dems should abstain or absent in #Senate vote. Let the Republicans have this bill. No more Dems rescuing GOP from their own stupidity. Let the electorate feel how horrible this shit is.

This is actually true. It’s just that what we have now is not capitalism, it’s captured rentier monopolies.

The way people are losing their fucking minds over a proposal for a publicly owned grocery store should give you some insight into how a proposal for public libraries would be greeted today if they didn't already exist.

Bar chart titled “The Supreme Court vs. The Lower Courts: Rulings on the Trump Administration” showing three horizontal bar charts for May 1-June 23, 2025. Federal District Courts: large red bar (82 cases, 94.3% against) with tiny green bar (5 cases, 5.7% for). Circuit Courts of Appeal: medium red bar (15 cases, 68.2% against) with smaller green bar (7 cases, 31.8% for). Supreme Court: tiny red bar (1 case, 6.3% against) with large green bar (15 cases, 93.7% for). Shows dramatic reversal from lower courts ruling against Trump administration to Supreme Court ruling for it.

Since May:

Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time.

Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time.

A judiciary at war with itself.

He's probably off to negotiate the second half of the Israel-Iran ceasefire. #qualified!

Do we really think that wealthy Canadians are gonna be the ones who are asked to pay for this? Or will it be a combination of borrowing and austerity?

This is a test: Is Carney just Tim Geithner 2.0?
I hope he does raise taxes on Canada's monopoly corps and the wealthy. I somehow doubt it, though

This is it. It's pseudo-elite Clinton/Blair/Triangulation all over again.

We need to stop using the term neoliberalism (even though it's accurate), though. It's more reverse-Robin Hood bullshit.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

Of just about all the people, @davidfrum.bsky.social needs to not be saying anything right now. #axisofsilly Your bud GWB strengthened Iran through his idiotic wars of choice #Iran