James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@social.cleverlibre.org

#Ontario voices 🥴​

"In Ontario, 18% of the electorate
managed to elect a
merchant-fascist, dictatorial,
#Conservative majority government.

Doug Ford has defined his merchant-fascist govt
as a govt for the ‘real people’.
Who are the ‘real people’?
The ‘real people’ are merchants
and who think like merchants.

Everything is for sale.
Everything is privatized.
No non-profits.
No charities.
No kindness.
Everything is cash and carry."

- @sregoczei
#dofo #onpoli #TransactionalGovt

#gunviolence #gunreform

Julian Sanchez wrote about this way way back in 2009, another excellent piece here sparked by the Tea Party craziness. Now we see what the Tea Party has become.

Unf., MAGA is indeed "willing to go the Pol Pot route."

https://web.archive.org/web/20120127092012/http://trueslant.com/juliansanchez/2009/12/16/the-politics-of-ressentiment/

Twitter Blue’s new 10,000 character limit turns tweets into essays - Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge

Twitter Blue... - https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/14/23683082/twitter-blue-10000-character-limit-bold-italic-features-substack-newsletter

If NPR can leave twitter, we all can leave twitter. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/4/12/2163509/-And-So-It-Begins-NPR-announces-they-re-leaving-Twitter-Time-to-move-to-Mastodon-or-Spoutible

Cynical answer 1) Ford wants his developer buddies to get even richer
2) They want the problem to go away so that they don' thave to think about it.

Hence, the lack of coherent thought about it.

"Do the Tories even know what they want out of housing policy?"
https://www.tvo.org/article/do-the-tories-even-know-what-they-want-out-of-housing-policy

I see a trip to Office Depot in my future. 😮🤓

New Catalysis Breakthrough Could Unlock Massive Energy Savings
In a significant breakthrough for the field of computational chemistry, chemical engineers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have created a model that elucidates how catalytic reactions work at the atomic level. This newfound understanding could enable engineers and chemists to design improved catalysts and optimize industrial procedures, possibly resulting in enormous energy savings.
https://scitechdaily.com/new-catalysis-breakthrough-could-unlock-massive-energy-savings/ #catalyst #ComputationalChemistry

"Toronto's waterfront is NOT FOR SALE.
As Mayor, I will stop the province’s plan for a private spa by withholding the 16 acres of City-owned property at Ontario Place that is needed by the Ford government to proceed with its plans for the site." -Josh Matlow -Toronto mayoral candidate

#DOFO #OntarioPlace #Toronto #ThermeSpa #Topoli #VoteTO

If Tennessee is the new template for accountability and ethics then those in Congress and the Senate who were part of Trump’s J6 coup should also be expelled.

#TenneseeThree

Basically, Doug Ford is building a five-storey underground parking garage and a giant concrete battleship on the #Toronto waterfront.

"This is what the Therme Spa ads don’t want you to see; their #fortress on the lake, blocking views of the #OntarioPlace Cinesphere and Pods, the clearcutting of Michael Hough’s landscape architecture along with 850 trees." @onplace4all

#topoli #onpoli #DOFO #Cruiseship #Casino #Waterfront

Jesus gave up his weekend for your sins.

TRANS JESUS TRANS JESUS well now this is interesting ....