living his best life

This is a stupid lie, and given his politics with regard to Israel and Palestine and the genocide in Gaza, there's also something really gross in Summers referring to bombing cities in this offhanded way

Very thoughtful review from Media Action Plan of Canada's back-down on the Digital Services Tax. Includes background on how Canada went ahead with the DST because the US was blocking multilateral efforts to establish a global system for taxing digital giants: mediapolicy.ca/2025/06/30/car…

really amazing to receive an email from an "HR professional" that complains about the city being too woke and focused on immigration. go to their LinkedIn page and they work for the university and have accolades about workplace respect and DEI

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June 24 was New York's hottest day in 13 years. People had to vote in sweltering public schools w no AC. Zohran Mamdani campaigned on green upgrades for schools schools, and fast, free buses. Zohran won a climate election.

We cannot go back to the era of exclusion as city policy. “Council needs to be focused on how we build more homes in the places that people want to live in, not reducing the amount of homes that we can build in the places that people want to live.” #yegcc ctvnews.ca/edmonton/artic…

McMansion owners for responsible infill. No eight unit rowhouses that don't fit into the neighbourhood. #yeg #yegcc

I didn't even know Bob Dylan had changed his name

Infant Annihilator Change Name to Avoid Association with Israel thehardtimes.net/music/infant-a…

I have a new piece in Dissent, with some preliminary thoughts on what delivering on Zohran's agenda will look like in practice. dissentmagazine.org/online_article…

“We’re now in a fascinating, and probably unprecedented, situation where the world’s two greatest superpowers - China and the U.S. - are actively building two entirely different visions of what the world's energy future should look like.” arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/is-americas-…

The city is coming after law-abiding citizens, according to people who think speeding laws don't count. sfchronicle.com/sf/article/san…

Of the 7-8plexes in the RS zone, - 55% are within 1km of a LRT stop. - 73% are within 1.5km of a LRT stop. - 91% are within 2km of a LRT stop. A blanket reduction in the 8 unit cap would undermine the billion-dollar investments made in mass transit. #yeg #yegcc

Mark Carney: get ready for the deepest cuts to our public service and government in modern history (32.5% over three years) Liberal supporters: Genius chess move against Trump, sir x.com/globepolitics/…

so cool