Steve Burgess
@steveburgess53.bsky.social
Vancouver author of Reservations: The Pleasures & Perils of Travel. Don't tell Poilievre I'm here.
Dr. Steve asks: What's the proper etiquette for calling someone a snake? Asking for a Conservative friend. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Please Advise! Are Poilievre’s Conservatives in Full Bully Mode? | The Tyee
Party enforcers called a defecting MP a lying snake. But nicely, they say.
thetyee.ca
November 11, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Dr. Steve asks: What's the proper etiquette for calling someone a snake? Asking for a Conservative friend. via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
Just confirms that Premier Danielle Smith's record has been spotty.
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
The Americas Are No Longer Officially Measles-Free
Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission
www.scientificamerican.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Just confirms that Premier Danielle Smith's record has been spotty.
The long national nightmare is over? Did I miss a medical bulletin?
Mike Johnson Applauds Eight Senators Who Broke Ranks With Democrats to End ‘Long National Nightmare’ Mediaite
www.mediaite.com
Mike Johnson Applauds Eight Senators Who Broke Ranks With Democrats to End ‘Long National Nightmare’
twp.ai
November 11, 2025 at 1:30 AM
The long national nightmare is over? Did I miss a medical bulletin?
Inflation is kayfabe!
TRUMP: The economy is as strong as it's ever been
INGRAHAM: Then why are people saying they're anxious about the economy?
TRUMP: I don't know they are saying that. The polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we've ever had
INGRAHAM: Then why are people saying they're anxious about the economy?
TRUMP: I don't know they are saying that. The polls are fake. We have the greatest economy we've ever had
November 11, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Inflation is kayfabe!
This is like the French Revolution, except it's the King storming the Bastille.
BREAKING
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
President Trump has granted a pardon to a slew of Trump world figures, including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is like the French Revolution, except it's the King storming the Bastille.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
Clearly, righteous anger is powerful medicine.
Sanders: Let’s be clear… If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are going to see at least a doubling in their premiums… if resolution is passed tonight, we are on a path way to throw 15 million Americans off of medicaid and the affordable care act, 15 million.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Clearly, righteous anger is powerful medicine.
And thus did Fox accidentally portray reality.
November 10, 2025 at 12:16 AM
And thus did Fox accidentally portray reality.
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NFL crowd boos Trump after he appeared on the giant stadium screen
November 9, 2025 at 11:47 PM
NFL crowd boos Trump after he appeared on the giant stadium screen
We're a few weeks away from sports betting ads aimed directly at players. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
MLB pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz charged with taking bribes to rig pitches for bettors
Duo had been on non-disciplinary paid leave while MLB investigated unusually high in-game betting activity when they pitched
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We're a few weeks away from sports betting ads aimed directly at players. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Mamdani will implement Sha Na Na Law. Be At the Hop or suffer the consequences.
Mamdani is going to implement Sriracha law. Everyone will have to slather hot sauce on their scrambled eggs
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Mamdani will implement Sha Na Na Law. Be At the Hop or suffer the consequences.
I think if you get a penalty with 8 seconds left, they should make you sit in the box for the full two minutes anyway. Otherwise you'll never learn. #Canucks
November 9, 2025 at 5:46 AM
I think if you get a penalty with 8 seconds left, they should make you sit in the box for the full two minutes anyway. Otherwise you'll never learn. #Canucks
Give Bannon credit--at least he didn't say "I'm too pretty for prison."
November 9, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Give Bannon credit--at least he didn't say "I'm too pretty for prison."
#Riders lost that game at least three times. But they got four chances. Amazing. #CFLWestFinal
November 9, 2025 at 2:50 AM
#Riders lost that game at least three times. But they got four chances. Amazing. #CFLWestFinal
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
And to think it happened in Whitestown. www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/u...
House cleaner shot to death on front porch after going to wrong house in Indianapolis suburb | CNN
Authorities are considering whether to charge an Indiana homeowner who they say shot and killed a woman working as a house cleaner after she mistakenly went to the wrong address.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
And to think it happened in Whitestown. www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/u...
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Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
November 7, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?
Nobel Prize winner and prize asshole. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Nobel Prize winner and prize asshole. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...
Looking forward to CSI: Daycare, coming soon to CBS.
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Looking forward to CSI: Daycare, coming soon to CBS.
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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
That's Napoleon in the orange van.
November 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
That's Napoleon in the orange van.