James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

“Now, most journalists worth their salt do not let politicians become their assignment editors…”

Markusoff nails it with this piece.

Assessing Danielle Smith's latest reasons for pausing Alberta wind and solar, to the letter | CBC Calgary

#ableg #abpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/danielle-smith-wind-solar-power-freeze-letters-analysis-1.6936415

A really cool and good thing to remember is that if someone does bad things because their boss told them to, they’re still responsible for the bad things they do.

In a gosh-darn coincidence, that "authentic" folk song from a guy in a forest with high-end AV equipment is wholly aligned with the policy preferences of right-wing billionaires, arguing for no societal changes except cutting taxes and eliminating food assistance for the poor.🤔

I see the City of Ottawa #ottcity is flogging private insurance for the water and sewer lines between the city lot line and the actual house (about $12 monthly) again. Haven't had a problem so far for about 40 years so NO.

You misspelled "fraud."

Last night I shared two posts. The first was positive (Fred Rogers) & the second was abysmal (normalized gun violence).

On #Twitter, I suspect the latter would have garnered far more attention bc a race for publicly visible RTs, likes & follows favors promoting shock & outrage.

But here on #Mastodon, Mister Rogers wisdom was shared more widely.

This isn’t a scientific analysis but a mere observation reinforcing that social media will be what we make it. And I like this neighborhood.

omg... there are babies onhere that have never seen AIRPLANE!

how can their mammas raise them so wrong

Does your computer have a CD/DVD drive in it currently?

Please BOOST for maximum exposure to the #Fediverse

#Poll #Polls #POTD #Computer #Laptop #CD #DVD #Drive #Tech #AllThingsTech

“The Ford government requesting an ethics investigation into their own political staff is like someone accused of robbing a bank demanding the police focus on their get-away driver. This is a strategic play in response to their Greenbelt corruption scandal. Don’t fall for it.”

Credit: @joshmatlow
#Greenbelt #Corruption #OnPoli #DougFordIsCorrupt

Fellow Saultite, Shannon Proudfoot nails it. Poilievre’s core fault is that he’s a faker, and not a particularly talented one.

BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN BOTHERING ME, HERE IS PRRR, LOOKING A LITTLE LIKE A WEASEL:

Steal a loaf of bread and you go to jail.

Steal an entire province and run for re-election.

All about scale. You have to think really big to get away with it and be protected by the system.

I reallyyy thought that we moved past the "Republicans and Dems are both the same" discourse after these past 7 years. Like, yes, the Democratic Party is still very shitty (although less so in many ways than they were a decade ago but that's a low bar) but like, we have Republicans sending lawyers to right wing indoctrination classes and forcing children to be taught that slavery was a good thing.

#canada
Break Up Postmedia, or Else!

If you picked up a National Post today – a physical newspaper, not the website – do you know where you’d find the first news article about the #Ontario Auditor General’s report into Doug Ford’s #Greenbelt land swaps that are due to make his developer friends $8 Billion in profit?

👉​ Page 5 of the front section.

#DougFord #CanadianMedia #conservatives #onpoli #cdnpoli #topoli #Poilievre

https://scrimshawunscripted.substack.com/p/break-up-postmedia-or-else?utm_source=substack&publication_id=241047&post_id=135913936&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true

#Conservative staff members "regularly" delete emails to avoid accountability.
They even used their personal emails to do government business with lobbyists.
That's dodgy.

#corrupt #DougFord #onpoli #ontario #bill23 #AuditorGeneralReport

I’m in favor of televising Donald Trump’s trial, because we are literally, ALL OF US, the victims of the crimes Trump committed. Show the whole goddamned thing.