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Considering the more-or-less global rise of the right across the West, nobody has screwed the pooch worse than Pierre Poilievre and the Canadian Conservatives. I mean, it's to the greater benefit of Canada and Canadians, but still, absolutely remarkable
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Federal Polling:
LPC: 40% (-4)
CPC: 35% (-6)
NDP: 11% (+5)
BQ: 8% (+2)
GPC: 3% (+2)
PPC: 1% (-)
Liaison / Jan 17, 2026 / n=948 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
(% Change w 2025 Federal Election)
Visit @338canada.bsky.social for polling details: www.338canada.com
Federal Polling:
LPC: 40% (-4)
CPC: 35% (-6)
NDP: 11% (+5)
BQ: 8% (+2)
GPC: 3% (+2)
PPC: 1% (-)
Liaison / Jan 17, 2026 / n=948 / MOE 3.1% / IVR
(% Change w 2025 Federal Election)
Visit @338canada.bsky.social for polling details: www.338canada.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
Considering the more-or-less global rise of the right across the West, nobody has screwed the pooch worse than Pierre Poilievre and the Canadian Conservatives. I mean, it's to the greater benefit of Canada and Canadians, but still, absolutely remarkable
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SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...
January 16, 2026 at 2:44 PM
SHELVED BY GENRE awakens far below the Misty Mountains, and with riddles and talking eagles and exploding pine cones, the hosts continue their discussion of THE HOBBIT! Also, we learn so much about what Tolkien thought of airplanes. rangedtouch.com/2026/01/16/t...
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Dear straights, happy to have you at pride but you need to walk faster
January 18, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Dear straights, happy to have you at pride but you need to walk faster
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jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency
NEW: JD Vance supported US strikes on Iran this week and reasoned that Trump had to enforce his own red line, per sources. It was a surprise role reversal for a politician who built his identity on opposing Middle East wars with a loose connection to core US interests
January 18, 2026 at 1:21 AM
jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency
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this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
January 16, 2026 at 9:38 PM
this is the sickest shit ive ever seen
Once again, there is zero point in making trade or political deals with the US when at any point they may be overturned on a whim
Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
January 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Once again, there is zero point in making trade or political deals with the US when at any point they may be overturned on a whim
My job this week has unfortunately been to be a professional pesterer of people with more systems access than I have
January 16, 2026 at 7:11 PM
My job this week has unfortunately been to be a professional pesterer of people with more systems access than I have
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Starfleet Academy seems... Pleasantly competent in its first two episodes?
January 16, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Starfleet Academy seems... Pleasantly competent in its first two episodes?
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
This is a decent address but Dems really need a better strategy than "wait out one to three years of terror until we hopefully have some power to hold people accountable" - this is all unsustainable
"Two to three thousand armed agents of the federal government have been deployed to Minnesota.
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Armed, masked, undertrained ICE agents are going door to door, ordering people to point out where their neighbors of color live."
Governor Walz Addresses Ongoing Federal Presence in Minnesota
YouTube video by Office of the Governor of Minnesota
youtu.be
January 15, 2026 at 5:04 AM
This is a decent address but Dems really need a better strategy than "wait out one to three years of terror until we hopefully have some power to hold people accountable" - this is all unsustainable
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
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Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"?
January 14, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Got meself a wee project which took up my whole evening, I think people call this kind of thing a "timeline cleanse"?
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Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
January 13, 2026 at 8:17 PM
Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds
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brother gregor's fish dumplings
January 9, 2026 at 6:53 PM
brother gregor's fish dumplings
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🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
(now brainstorming 'Come Out ICE and CBP' after my wife played Black & Tans driving into town)
January 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
Nice to see some common sense on this one
Governor Hochul will announce an extension of the Second Avenue Subway to 125th and Broadway in her State of the State address on Tuesday. buff.ly/2qxRQs6
Westward Ho! Hochul Proposes to Extend Second Ave. Subway Along 125th Street to Broadway - Streetsblog New York City
The next step for the Second Avenue Subway is west across 125th Street to Broadway, Gov. Hochul will announce Tuesday.
nyc.streetsblog.org
January 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Nice to see some common sense on this one
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I’m gonna be real I wanna see Eric Adams go to jail. I am a New Yorker and I have real hate in my heart and as much as I joke I’m sick of him getting away with massive corruption like he’s some evil meme leprechaun.
Apparently Eric Adams already rug-pulled his own memecoin www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurr...
January 13, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
Starting my first day back at work after vacation with over a hundred unread emails and a dental filling
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Starting my first day back at work after vacation with over a hundred unread emails and a dental filling
Not only is this a sign of a society with an appalling gambling problem it's just terrible tv
“probabilities on polymarket”
polymarket and online gamblification of every aspect of our lives is the worst new development of the world in 2025
polymarket and online gamblification of every aspect of our lives is the worst new development of the world in 2025
January 12, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Not only is this a sign of a society with an appalling gambling problem it's just terrible tv
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Took some (not entirely undeserved) shit yesterday because I used a Daily Mail piece to claim we’re at a historical inflection point.
But I wasn’t simply talking about Greenland. Everything is converging at once here. Add Minnesota and the Fed to the pile. I really do think we’re at the Rubicon.
But I wasn’t simply talking about Greenland. Everything is converging at once here. Add Minnesota and the Fed to the pile. I really do think we’re at the Rubicon.
I think we’re at the Rubicon.
Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.
Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 12, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Took some (not entirely undeserved) shit yesterday because I used a Daily Mail piece to claim we’re at a historical inflection point.
But I wasn’t simply talking about Greenland. Everything is converging at once here. Add Minnesota and the Fed to the pile. I really do think we’re at the Rubicon.
But I wasn’t simply talking about Greenland. Everything is converging at once here. Add Minnesota and the Fed to the pile. I really do think we’re at the Rubicon.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...