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This story is so good. The Fords, both Rob and Doug, built their whole political brand on tabloidy bullshit calling out people on city council for expensing office supplies and my man quite literally used public funds to buy himself a $30 million private jet.

“Somebody shorted the oil markets today by hundreds of millions of dollars exactly 20 minutes before Trump made his announcement that everything was going to be great. And if you see that once, it could be a coincidence. But that’s happened at least three times, if not more, since the war began. That’s a pattern.” “And what that suggests is that there’s rampant corruption and insider self-dealing going on with the president’s up and down predictions of what’s going to happen tomorrow in the negotiations and in the markets. And I’m sure that that’s being investigated. We can’t prove it, but it seems like the corruption that we’re seeing in our government, maybe not the President, but people who are in the know and the markets, is having a priority over the actual negotiations to end the war. And that’s a crazy thing that our system has never seen before.”

Mamdani: What song is that? Children: “Soda Pop.” Obama: I just want you to know that it’s great that you just made the mayor feel a little old. Mamdani: Very old. Obama: Fantastic.

Polymarket is evil for all the obvious reasons but it is also a right wing machine for lying

Stop promising us a good time!

CBS initially rejected one of my Iraq expense reports because I didn't use the company's preferred rental car agency in Kirkuk -- during a war. We rented a 1972 Toyota pickup truck from a translator. The receipt was handwritten in Arabic. Apparently, we were supposed to use Hertz.

This is why Zohran Mamdani's politics is hated by the establishment of both parties : All of his policies are actually popular with the broader electorate.

Canada should do this

Hundreds of AI-generated, Trump propaganda accounts are popping up on TikTok — which is owned by a Trump billionaire. Up to 64% of users on X are bots — which is owned by a Trump billionaire. Independent 3rd party fact-checking ended on Meta — which is owned by a Trump billionaire. The manipulation of truth is the point. nytimes.com/2026/04/17/bus…

Great spending time with New York City’s Cutest. And thanks to @NYCMayor for giving me an excuse to break out my best “Wheels on the Bus”

I thought this was a joke so I googled it - Metrolinx has over 118 VP’s that are public facing, and apparently there is no consolidated list in one place. I remember when Metrolinx had three VP’s, just over a decade ago. Metrolinx is failing on every measure: projects that take decades to complete, over budget by billions, shoddy construction when they are complete, confusion over priorities, cancelled contracts with reputable international partners. This is an organization drowning in bureaucracy, while our region sits in gridlock. I urge the Board to act, and to act quickly.

1) I much prefer it when politicians are this open about their ideological positions, even (especially?) when they're this bad; 2) Totally unclear how you reconcile the idea of market competition with a system of predatory individualized pricing.

MAGA has a Europe problem. Not the real Europe. The one they invented. The one with sharia courts and no-go zones and zero tech companies and miserable citizens begging for permission to cross the street. That Europe doesn't exist. Here's what does: open.substack.com/pub/gandalv/p/…

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

@waynecheung29 Actually enforcing the King St transit priority would be nice

The TTC wants to make its streetcars faster and more reliable. Here’s how it plans to do it TL;DR Replace outdated streetcar track switches which limit speed to 25 km/h through intersections. The TTC said it has already seen success with transit signal priority measures — quicker green lights for streetcars and priority over left-turning cars at intersections — speeding up streetcars by as much as 10 to 30 seconds at each intersection on some routes Removing stops to help speed up streetcars. Ten ways to increase the speed of streetcars fast-track.to thestar.com/news/gta/the-t…

The FIFA Fan Fest was announced as a “free and inclusive” event. Toronto residents are already paying $178 million to host the World Cup, getting tickets to the actual games are far too expensive for most people, and there are few real legacy projects our city will benefit from. I strongly disagree with charging the general public fees to access one of the few destinations during Toronto’s games that was promised to them.

Are there boil water advisories coming to Ontario? The Conservative government in the 90s privatized water treatment which led to the deaths of 7 people and illness of 2,300 people in Walkerton, Ontario. In response, Ontario set up 19 local independent committees with the authority to protect drinking water sources. In October, Ford reduced the authority of these committees with Bill 56. Now he is leaving their future in question as he merges the Conservation Authorities they operate under. #ONpoli

Members on the Democratic side of the aisle are walking up to Rep. Pressley and giving her hugs and congratulating her. Pressley successfully filed a discharge petition for a bill to grant protections for Haitian migrants. The bill just passed 10 republicans joined all Dems in voting for it.