James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

So what happens now? Guidance counselors start teaching classes on how to "trick" college admissions officers into thinking a child's essay about how race has affected them, wasn't actually about race at all? This is all so fucking bizarre.

Just a casual reminder that in 1869 it was decided to have 9 Supreme Court justices because there were 9 Circuit Courts.

Now there are 13 Circuit Courts. So what exactly are we waiting for?

I've seen more cool #photos on #Mastodon in about a month than I have on #Twitter since I've been there, despite hollowing fewer people. It seems to have a lot to do with the #boosting culture here on Mastodon. #photography

Open your window today and take no more than one big breath, close the window and then understand: if you vote "Conservative" this is the world you chose and you're choosing even worse for the little ones in your life. It's simply not refutable. It's on you. Nobody else. Own it.

#WBrettWilson #abpoli #ClimateChange #Wildfires #Alberta#cdnpoli

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2023/06/10/fires-intensify-in-canada-could-last-all-summer_6030816_114.html?fbclid=IwAR3Qw97JXkB_uuzDL3oc2ohI8RX3lov00CU6p8BFdlnUStwQkubObcE3mB8

Still seeing lots of election signs. Candidates have until tomorrow to remove them, then the fines start. (Call 311 to report.)

I think one think we might take from this election is that signs made no difference in the outcome, and were not any kind of indication of candidate strength. :gongemoji:

Time to end the practice of putting up election signs?

At least limit them to only 1 per residential address if you really want one. None on public streets or commercial addresses.

Chrislhayes did a long segment on how Bidenomics are roaring, but he doesn't seem to get credit for any of it. Now he should do a segment on how most local TV and radio news covers those same Bidenomics. Mystery solved.

Note: he's unlikely to do this.

Where did the crisis come from TorStar? From the shit mayor and from people like the candidate you backed.

Justice Samuel #Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court

In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the #SupremeCourt. Alito has never recused himself.- ProPublica #SCOTUS

https://apple.news/APqAN1qWFT_qpFizC95yFhQ

Torontonians, please go out and vote. Remember what happened on the provincial level when people stayed at home.

@gemelliz

Hey #Toronto, remember, Doug Ford's nightmare candidate is Olivia Chow.

Vote #OliviaChow, the smartest, best experienced, most competent leader for Toronto. The Mayor that Toronto needs right now.

(And you get to stick it to DoFo)

And vote dammit!

🧵 Toronto friends, time for some serious talk.

Monday, I want you to vote.

Toronto will select a new mayor Monday. Even though it usually has the lowest voter turnout, city government touches our lives much more than provincial or federal does - water, garbage, sidewalks, streets, TTC, fire fighting, EMS, daycares, schools - so you really should take the opportunity to have your say.

#Toronto #TOPoli #TorontoMayor #VoteTO

Prigozhin "shot down Putin’s central main pretexts for invading Ukraine, declaring that Russia faced no extraordinary security threat from Ukraine. He said that Russian military officials had deceived Putin into going to war.

The war, he claimed, was designed by Russian officials and oligarchs who had plundered two separatist regions of Donbas for years, but grew greedy and wanted to plunder all of Ukraine"
#GiftArticle #GiftLink
https://wapo.st/3JwSZ6l

#Russia #Prigozhin #Wagner
#War #Coup