Comrade Baloo

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

The media at least tried to manufacture consent back in 03. This is just pigs rolling in slop

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Tom Wilson was pretty great most of the tourney and deserved to be there. Guys like Marchand and Bennett on the other hand….

This game being decided by 3-on-3 is a god damned travesty

you can really see the family resemblance

All I’m saying is, some of you have been a little hasty in writing phrenology off as a science.

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met

it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past.

It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

dont forget the democratic establishment refused to endorse this man because they found this kind of language going too far

they have always been spineless, gutless, complicit losers. always. but now the heat of the moment is making that fact even more plainly viewed for everyone to see

Experts who have followed authoritarian regimes abroad can tell you a lot about day-after reprisals to mass movements, which look a hell of a lot like today's killing

US court allows ICE to arrest and pepper-spray peaceful protestors in Minnesota

Appeals Court Stays Restrictions on Federal Tactics in Minnesota The Eighth Circuit granted the Trump administration’s request to block, at least for now, a lower court’s injunction limiting how federal agents interact with protesters in the state.

One court decision, two different headlines.

Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

we're getting all the downsides of cyberpunk (social alienation, ruthless hyper capitalism, digital mass surveillance state) but none of the promised upsides (cheap street food, cool jackets, super drugs that make you really fast and strong before they kill you)

Bluesky 2023: you're watching sportsball during a time of worldwide democratic decline? interesting.

Bluesky 2026: GO BILLS KEEP POUNDING BEAR DOWN FUCK THE PACKERS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS SPORTS ABOLISH ICE

Centrists love to quote the bit in 1984 that says,“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

For some reason, they think it only applies to the GOP.

So much of American history is just impulsive and extremely stupid elites, who don't believe in consequences because they have never personally experienced them, doing highly consequential stuff because they're bored or believe it might make them richer. I guess a lot of our culture, too.

This is an act of self-harm to Canada. Especially coming at a time when the United States is destroying its own statistical capacity and reliable data has never been more needed.

It's another signal that this Liberal government sees no value in the work of government. Utter, utter foolishness.

Today happens to be the anniversary of Caesar leading his men across a small stream into Italy, triggering an upheaval we still talk about two millennia later.

There are so many acts of bravery by every day people while elected Dems cower behind focus group tested talking points.

Tapping the sign, yet again

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

I have been thinking that the major divide in Canadian politics now is really wrestling with Trump’s US or wholly embracing it, and now Pierre Poilievre and Melissa Lantsman are praising Trump’s illegal attack on Venezuela while Danielle Smith pushes separation. It’s a really dangerous time.

Absolutely fucking useless

Every morning I wake up and thank the Good Lord that this numptie doesn't represent my nation on the world stage.