Scott Piatkowski
@scottpiatkowski.bsky.social
WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026). Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
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I’m a School Trustee, and Doug Ford Wants to Eliminate My Job | The Walrus
What parents will lose: no one to answer their emails, fight for safe crosswalks, hold the system to account
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Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for agreeing to publish my thoughts on the proposed elimination of school trustees in Ontario.
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Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller with seats at the table at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Zelenskyy.
December 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Jared Kushner and Stephen Miller with seats at the table at Mar-a-Lago meeting with Zelenskyy.
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A.I.-generated artists topping iTunes and Billboard charts. Podcast hosts speaking fluently for hours in languages they do not know. Dead celebrities brought back to life and filling up social-media feeds. Here are a few examples of how A.I. intersected with pop culture in 2025.
8 Ways A.I. Affected Pop Culture in 2025
No longer something off in the distance, the new technology was all over our screens this past year.
nyti.ms
December 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
A.I.-generated artists topping iTunes and Billboard charts. Podcast hosts speaking fluently for hours in languages they do not know. Dead celebrities brought back to life and filling up social-media feeds. Here are a few examples of how A.I. intersected with pop culture in 2025.
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RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he's part of an administration embracing it.
Plastic is everywhere—including in us.
www.motherjones.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:01 PM
RFK Jr. promised to take on plastic. Now he’s part of an administration embracing it.
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A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:06 PM
A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.
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Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.
Ron Johnson: "Understand, Somalis have just been in this country a few years. They're amateurs when it comes to fleecing the federal government."
December 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Donald Trump has made several billion dollars this year.
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Every couple weeks Mike Johnson will warn Republicans that Democrats will impeach Trump if they take the House. My expectation: Jeffries won't want another go-nowhere impeachment, will want Raskin/Garcia to probe Trump admin with more results, but Al Green types will issue buzzy impeachment resos.
December 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Every couple weeks Mike Johnson will warn Republicans that Democrats will impeach Trump if they take the House. My expectation: Jeffries won't want another go-nowhere impeachment, will want Raskin/Garcia to probe Trump admin with more results, but Al Green types will issue buzzy impeachment resos.
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Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
74 suicide warnings and 243 mentions of hanging: What ChatGPT said to a suicidal teen
Analysis of high-schooler Adam Raine’s ChatGPT account by attorneys for his parents shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Adam Raine’s life hurtled toward tragedy soon after he began talking with ChatGPT about homework. Analysis of his ChatGPT account shows how the chatbot became a confidant as he planned to end his life.
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🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees
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December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
🎆Welcome to the Round of 16 of the 2025 Headline of the Year Contest!🎆
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
Voting will be open in 4 locations for each round for about a day.
16 headlines.
Only 1 winner.
A reminder of the nominees:
bsky.app/profile/paul...
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Round of 16, Match 1 of 8
a. Pretty Obvious
a. Pretty Obvious
December 27, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Round of 16, Match 1 of 8
a. Pretty Obvious
a. Pretty Obvious
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Oh look, Jonathan Turley mentioned me in one of his “angry old man on porch” pieces again. He just can’t help himself. He does it a few times a year, as I explain below. You’d think a preeminent legal scholar wouldn’t concern himself with a 36yo mom but NOPE
open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...
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December 28, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Oh look, Jonathan Turley mentioned me in one of his “angry old man on porch” pieces again. He just can’t help himself. He does it a few times a year, as I explain below. You’d think a preeminent legal scholar wouldn’t concern himself with a 36yo mom but NOPE
open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...
open.substack.com/pub/wicziped...
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Housing crisis deepens as support programs face cuts www.orilliamatters.com/letters-to-t... via @orilliamatters
LETTER: Housing crisis deepens as support programs face cuts
Pattern of neglect and harmful policy decisions by all levels of government toward very low income people in Ontario are disconcerting, says letter writer
www.orilliamatters.com
December 28, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Housing crisis deepens as support programs face cuts www.orilliamatters.com/letters-to-t... via @orilliamatters
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This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
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“The AI boom threatens life on earth by diverting energy and water resources from the humans and other life forms who need them (while contributing greatly to CO2 emissions when the planet simply cannot afford it).”
There. Fixed it for you🙄.
#ClimateActionNow
#Gaia
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There. Fixed it for you🙄.
#ClimateActionNow
#Gaia
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
December 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“The AI boom threatens life on earth by diverting energy and water resources from the humans and other life forms who need them (while contributing greatly to CO2 emissions when the planet simply cannot afford it).”
There. Fixed it for you🙄.
#ClimateActionNow
#Gaia
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
There. Fixed it for you🙄.
#ClimateActionNow
#Gaia
news.mit.edu/2025/explain...
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Best Twitter riposte of the day
December 27, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Best Twitter riposte of the day
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New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
December 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
New reporting says Don Jr. directly facilitated the pardon of a crypto whale who had promoted the Trump's family crypto. Jr. brought the pardon lawyer to the White House, and introduced him directly to his Dad. Pardon occurred right after. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/pardon-the...
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New at the Kennedy Center: declining to perform may now require a lawyer.
Trump’s Kennedy Center chief threatens jazz musician with $1M suit over canceled Christmas gig
Richard Grenell says they will seek damages for “this political stunt."
www.motherjones.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
New at the Kennedy Center: declining to perform may now require a lawyer.
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Everything changed with the 2010 election. In a historic realignment, the GOP won a majority of governorships and state legislative chambers
Republican-led states are now pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published Nov. 2023
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Republican-led states are now pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published Nov. 2023
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The Red State Brain Drain Isn’t Coming. It’s Happening Right Now.
As conservative states wage total culture war, college-educated workers—physicians, teachers, professors, and more—are packing their bags.
trib.al
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Everything changed with the 2010 election. In a historic realignment, the GOP won a majority of governorships and state legislative chambers
Republican-led states are now pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published Nov. 2023
trib.al/IqecITF
Republican-led states are now pushing out young professionals and casting college graduates as the enemy.
Published Nov. 2023
trib.al/IqecITF
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SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
Pedestrian fatalities reach 17-year-high. This trend could be why
Fifty-one pedestrians had been killed on the state’s roads this year as of Saturday – the most in any calendar year since 2008.
www.theage.com.au
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
SUVs and big Utes "are 44 per cent more likely to kill an adult pedestrian or cyclist in a crash compared with a sedan, and 82 per cent more likely to kill a child" www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
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From me and @aobrien.bsky.social: The inside story of how a GTA paralegal tried to game the court system with sham ticket appeals — and left drivers on the hook www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
The inside story of how a Toronto-area paralegal tried to game the court system with ‘sham’ ticket appeals — and left drivers on the hook
Adelin Mocanu’s exploitation of a traffic-ticket loophole has flooded the courts with bogus appeals, fuelled by a network of unlicensed operators charging drivers thousands.
www.thestar.com
December 27, 2025 at 9:23 PM
From me and @aobrien.bsky.social: The inside story of how a GTA paralegal tried to game the court system with sham ticket appeals — and left drivers on the hook www.thestar.com/news/gta/the...
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I've been asked by 3 media outlets in the last week to do interviews on the influenza season.
I still haven't seen our new CMOH, appointed Dec 18th, (or old one, for that matter. Or any public health official) in the media on this topic.
For the record, they are acutally paid, to do this.
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I still haven't seen our new CMOH, appointed Dec 18th, (or old one, for that matter. Or any public health official) in the media on this topic.
For the record, they are acutally paid, to do this.
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December 27, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I've been asked by 3 media outlets in the last week to do interviews on the influenza season.
I still haven't seen our new CMOH, appointed Dec 18th, (or old one, for that matter. Or any public health official) in the media on this topic.
For the record, they are acutally paid, to do this.
1/2
I still haven't seen our new CMOH, appointed Dec 18th, (or old one, for that matter. Or any public health official) in the media on this topic.
For the record, they are acutally paid, to do this.
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ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
December 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries.
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves.
"Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks.
"No, guess he should've complied," agent says.
Yakima, Washington
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So many excuses preemptively made for the driver. "she was distraught"; the vehicle turning radius is high; it's easy for drivers to speed there; it was dark and rainy (daytime).
What about the injured person crossing the road?
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...
What about the injured person crossing the road?
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...
Skateboarder was in crosswalk when he was hit by truck: eyewitness
The driver drove for another 20 feet before she slowed down enough for the young man to fall off the front of the Dodge Ram pickup, says a woman who saw the crash.
www.timescolonist.com
December 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
So many excuses preemptively made for the driver. "she was distraught"; the vehicle turning radius is high; it's easy for drivers to speed there; it was dark and rainy (daytime).
What about the injured person crossing the road?
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...
What about the injured person crossing the road?
www.timescolonist.com/local-news/s...
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the only thing republicans love more than destroying education is mass shootings, so the fact that they’re got an opportunity to combine their twin passions must be positively orgiastic
December 27, 2025 at 6:18 PM
the only thing republicans love more than destroying education is mass shootings, so the fact that they’re got an opportunity to combine their twin passions must be positively orgiastic
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🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...
Justice Department says filming immigration raids is 'domestic terrorism'
A leaked Justice Department memo directs federal prosecutors to press “domestic terrorism” charges against individuals who record immigration operations.
reason.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🧵 I've been trying to articulate this for some time. Definitions matter. Each small precedent leads to the next and snowballs. This started with naming cartels terrorist orgs. Then drug runners "terrorists." reason.com/2025/12/26/j...