Elon Musk revisiting an idea apparently floated privately in the past -- charging *everyone* to use Twitter. A lower tier than premium. "We’ve moving to a small monthly payment for use of the X system," he just told Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it's only way to stamp out bots.
Dear Aasshole: for the record, I’ve not met, flown with, visited, or had any contact whatsoever with Epstein, nor will you find my name on any “list” other than the clearly-phony nonsense that soft-brained wackos like yourself can’t seem to distinguish from reality. Your reckless…
TJ Oshie said of his dad, who is in the crowd, "He has Alzheimer's, and he forgets a lot of things, but you bet your ass he's going to remember this." And Oshie said sorry at the end of the interview for getting emotional. That was really beautiful.
LeBron played all 48 minutes in his 100th game of the season in his 15th year and went 34-15-9 without Kevin Love in Game 7, and is in his eighth straight finals. There has never been anything like him.
It is an absolute miracle of science that we got four vaccines within a year, with a fifth in trials. An incredible thing, staggering. I'd like us to appreciate that science, and to really, really listen to scientists on climate change next
Dwyane Wade with 30, Dirk Nowitzki with 30, Jamal Crawford with 50, Magic quit on the Lakers because he wanted to tweet more. This night deserves its own Hall of Fame exhibit
Someone said this, and it's been ringing in my ears: the Blackhawks buried this and covered it up for a decade for a video coach. Not for a star; for a video coach. This is one tip of one iceberg, and not just in sports.
Don't fire Shanahan, or Dubas, or Keefe. Don't trade Matthews, or Marner, or Nylander, or Rielly. This franchise has great process, and bad results, and there was no shame in losing this series to the champs. Run it back, and get it right.
Who among us hasn't made the mistake of elaborately constructing a social media campaign to hide the fact that we left the country during a pandemic to vacation on St. Barts where we then participated in a cabinet meeting in which the government locked down the province
The basic dynamic of Canadian politics right now is the Liberals celebrated a Nazi through incredible incompetence, seven months after some Conservatives celebrated a Nazi completely on purpose
Imagine something sadder than storming a mall, a food court, a Tim Horton’s in the name of freedom from one of the greatest, health-protecting achievements in history, only to eventually end up in the ICU, disbelieving that you’re sick with the disease you don’t believe in
And Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern asked for Ujiri to be charged with battery of a peace officer. The sheriff's office had the video, and asked that Ujiri be charged with a crime.
The amazing detail in here is that the cop who did this, and then lied about it repeatedly, saying he was attacked, "earned $224,000 a year, not including benefits, in 2018", and has been off on sick leave ever since
Chrissy Teigen shares so much of herself: of her relationship with her husband, of their beautiful kids, of their love and passion and humour and advocacy, of her self-doubt and worries and real self, and now, of something so hard it makes your stomach hurt. This is heartbreaking
So Pierre Poilievre, in a truly scummy moment, blamed a CTV report for his assessment of the Rainbow Bridge as a terrorist attack in the House of Commons yesterday. The first CTV report doesn't seem to have landed before Poilievre spoke, but the Fox News report had.
So Thursday Ontario announced kids would return to school but would basically not be recorded as outbreaks anymore, and three days later the cabinet is debating whether or not to close schools, the day before schools are scheduled to reopen. What a fun time to be a parent!
Holy shit, this story about how Boeing's stock-price obsessed CEO and manager class hollowed out the hard-won and rigorous expertise the company was known for. They just took it apart. Plane safety was something we could take for granted, for a long time.
To be very clear, this is a prominent Canadian influencer celebrating teachers - public schoolteachers! - getting assaulted and harassed. Again, this is very unhinged stuff from an increasingly unhinged movement.
Gunshots fired at the parade at the back south east corner of Nathan Phillips Square. One witness said four shots. Crowd ran. There is a victim down being given medical attention, surrounded by a crowd, and police are clearing people from the area. Speeches are still going on.
Credit to Serge Ibaka and Herbie Kuhn for telling the crowed not to cheer, as well as those in the crowd who did so. Cheers turned to respectful applause, and a brief KD chant.
On Rudy Gobert, the accidental idiot hero, and the days that stopped sports, may have saved lives, and forced reality about the coronavirus onto a continent where some leaders were completely failing at that task:
Trudeau announces Canada will cover 75% of wages for qualifying small and medium businesses to avoid layoffs, backdated to Mar 15. Details will matter, but that is a goddamn move.
Kawhi was the highest pick at 15. Kyle was 24th, and this is his third team. Pascal, 27. Ibaka, 24, and this is his third team. Gasol, Green and Powell were second-rounders. VanVleet wasn't drafted. The coach came via Britain and the G-League. Masai came from Africa. The Raptors.
Canadian symbols, our shared history (good & bad) and our institutions matter. Wiping them away and offering only an insipid view of Canadian identity will only deepen divisions and fuel indifference.
"He has had exactly the presidency that his public life would suggest—a brazen win, followed by an inevitable decline born of laziness and pure hubristic dipshittery, and finally a catastrophic and vehemently denied collapse." Exactly, by
@david_j_roth
.
In Calgary, the moment of silence for Ted Lindsay was utterly silent. In Vancouver it quickly became a shouting match between Leafs fans shouting Go Leafs Go and Canucks fans yelling at them to shut up, and it went from there. That was honestly disgraceful.
"We have put everything on the field now. Everything," says the Premier who failed to provide paid sick days, failed to address workplace transmission, but will close the playgrounds because he saw a lot of people at the park when he drove by.
In which
@CTVNews
points out that in his scummy rant towards a CP reporter, Pierre Poilievre just lied. No time zone garbage, no related CTV story BS. He lied. And so many people fell all over themselves to make up BS to cover for him.
Phenomenal that the NHL’s attempt to avoid distractions by banning Pride-themed gear has resulted in them being the bad guys as one of their most beloved players wears an Indigenous-themed mask in honour of his wife on Native American Heritage Night under threat of punishment
The Premier says more may be coming, and he saw full parking lots at Yorkdale, and he had hoped that wouldn't happen, even as the province left malls open. This is such utter, tragic incompetence.
I'm sorry this is happening. I'm sorry for all the families who will lose people, for all the vulnerable people who will get sick, for all the doctors will have to choose who to save, all the businesses firing people they hired two weeks ago, for everyone. I'm just really sorry.
What Peel’s Dr. Lawrence Loh did in closing schools took courage. So many people are trying to save us, but none of them are truly in charge. I hate to say it, but we should close schools. We should close everything.
Twitter being bought by a thin-skinned pro-Covid Bitcoin-pumping convoy-praising shitposting weirdo under federal investigation whose big moment on here was calling a Thai cave diver a pedo because he objected to the weirdo’s bullshit, well, it’s all is a little too on the nose
Interesting to see that in New Zealand, boosters are mandatory for people who work in health care, education, corrections, policing, and several other sectors.
I will never understand how smart people can't understand that vaccines were never getting to Canada before a third wave, and everybody with any expertise knew it, and that's why public health measures were needed to hold down cases until vaccines could be the endgame
I honestly hope the Conservatives react by taking climate change seriously, by moving away from anti-immigrant stuff and regional anger, and by getting the hell away from the Post-Millenial/True North/Rebel/Canada Proud crowd's way of thinking. Maybe unlikely, but I hope.
The lack of a mask mandate as children's hospitals beg us to mask is, above all, a societal failure: of trust, of information, of communication, of governance, of public health, and of our willingness to sacrifice. Covid wore us out, and we wore us out.
This went all the way into the tunnel, with Drake calling Perkins a "f------ p----" and calling for him to come out. "I'm here in real life," he said. He was mad.
If you truly support Donald Trump, it’s now very simple. You are a sort of monster. He has blood on his hands, and it could be the blood of people you love, and if you still support him you are lost as a human being.
There's an adult conversation to be had about our public broadcaster, but CBC is not the enemy of Canadians, and it's not state media. To say otherwise says more about you than it says about the CBC.
Doug Ford is concerned again, after modelling again showed his restrictions were insufficient, as they showed in November, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient, and as they showed in October, when people told him his restrictions were insufficient
The NHL has been saying that hockey is for everyone for so long, and thanks to Gary Bettman we now know that’s a lie. The NHL peeled off the Pride tape, and now we can see what was always underneath.
I almost can't believe how small-town this decision is. Bending over backwards to protect a handful of people who won't wear a Pride jersey, doing it *during Pride Month as anti-LGBTQ+ hostility surges*, and wiping out wearing all the other jerseys in warmups, all at once.
From NHL Board of Governors: teams will not wear specialty jerseys in warmups next season. Also: Cap, Ottawa, Arizona and other topics. With Commissioner Gary Bettman here —
It’s not so much about Aaron Rodgers as it is about Pat McAfee and ESPN. Because while Rodgers implying that Jimmy Kimmel is a pedophile was almost predictable, but it was the Bro culture nature of the show that prompted him to say it in the first place.
No new measures. Just putting the onus on Ontarians to stay home, without addressing those who are getting it at work because they can't afford to stay home, and asking for vaccines. Long-term care is on fire. Hospitals are panicked. And Doug Ford is doing nothing. Incredible
Poilievre was just asked if he regrets his support for the convoy based on Judge Rouleau's Emergency Act report: he called the question biased because it was a CBC reporter, and then called Trudeau an insulting and divisive Prime Minister, and then attacked the CBC again.
This attack of CBC journalists is unacceptable. It will likely create a chill in newsrooms across the country, no doubt what the Conservative leader wants. I worked at CBC early in my career and CBC president doesn't tell CBC journalists what to cover or how to cover it.
The best thing, the absolute best thing about Toronto is its diversity. The food, the different people, the mix that makes us a global city. And the people who bleat hatred and racism can eat it.
A rotting party that loves the idea of targeting transgendered kids, rejecting vaccines, and slamming equity-based hiring. Add their anti-evidence opioid policies and anti-CBC and media policies, and if and when they win the next election, Canada will be severely damaged.
Just now on ABC’s New Years Bash with
@RyanSeacrest
—
@GreenDay
sings “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda”, changing the lyrics of ‘American Idiot’.
#RockinEve
So the finance minister left Canada and may not have quarantined, the LTC minister ducked as an LTC went to hell, vaccinations and extra restrictions were paused over Christmas, the premier tweeted cheesecake, and the general overseeing vaccinations is musing about science. Great