In all seriousness, what was the point of Article 25 if it wasn't to protect against Presidents who think they're King of the Jews and want to buy Greenland? What other sign do you need?
AI is about to kill the undergraduate essay, and the chasm between the humanities and technology means that we're totally unprepared for the moment. Wrote about it for
@TheAtlantic
:
Just a quick question for Canadians on my list, how long have you had to wait to vote in an election? I have never missed voting, and the longest I ever waited was fifteen minutes. Has anyone here ever had to endure these massive American wait times?
Yesterday
@SunwingVacay
flew an empty plane down to Tobago and took us all home. They even gave, for free, empty seats to stranded Canadians needing to get home. Crisis reveals companies as much as people I guess. I won't forget it when the good times come back.
One of the rules of politics in my lifetime: Never, ever believe a Conservative who says they're going to be fiscally responsible. They never ever are.
The former chair of the
@YorkUniversity
sociology department is one of hate criminals charged with targeting Jewish businesses. Left-wing academia in Canada has well and truly lost its way.
A friend of mine who works with vulnerable communities in Toronto just got her Covid shot, which means she received the vaccine before the Prime Minister did. This, to me, is what it means to live in a civil society.
The PM’s marine protection announcement makes up an area larger than Nfld and Labrador. It means the Trudeau govt exceeds its goal to protect 10% of marine and coastal areas by nearly 4 per cent. PM: “this is what real change looks like”.
#cdnpoli
Everyone on the left in Canada recognizes that Trudeau is leading the most successful progressive government in the world, right? And that when his government goes it won't be replaced by highly ethical idealists but by the Canadian Conservatives, right?
Try explaining to any American political commentator that the biggest scandal in Canadian politics over the past year boils down to a one time payment of 1500 bucks to the Prime Minister's mom.
Breaking: We Charity just posted documents for Parl Committee. Included: “Between February 2012 and March 2020, Sophie Trudeau attended a total of 8 WE Day events.
She received a one-time speaking fee of $1,500.00 in 2012. The total amount of expenses... 1/2
Been pondering this quote lately: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
@davidfrum
@TheAtlantic
Absolutely not a correction. The line in the article up now, reads "An independent assessment by two dozen Canadian academics found that Trudeau has kept 92 percent of his campaign promises, fully or partially, the most by any Canadian government in 35 years." You're lying.
I'm not sure Americans fully understand how much damage has been done to their international reputation and national interest today. What is the point, anymore, of being on America's side?
On the Convoy, for
@TheAtlantic
: "When you live next to a junkie, you can expect something flaming to land in your backyard eventually. America is a political-anger junkie; the trucker convoy is something flaming that has landed in our backyard."
My kind of petty: Democrat running for House seat in Arizona gets six of his Republican opponent's SIBLINGS to be in an advertisement against their brother
@cowboypraxis
@KateAurthur
Maybe five years ago a junior editor took me aside and told me to start putting in exclamation points when I was writing to people under 30. And now I do. I was grateful for the advice.
Honestly, guys, when a marriage gets like this you sit the kids down and tell them it's over, and you figure out how to separate with as little pain and suffering as possible.
Margaret Atwood's name in small white type on the midriff of Kim Kardashian West is actually a pretty good articulation of what the 2010s were all about.
Who were the 2010s? This week's issue features conversations with six people who helped shape the decade, including our cover star Kim Kardashian West.
@JonathanHeaf
@piersmorgan
They are very much not to be taken lightly. Men are about seventy years behind women in thinking about gender. They're dying because of it.
@andrewmarzoni
@bananapeele
On the other hand, the magazine he started writing for had a sixfold increase in readership, largely because of him. His editor had to buy him a boat to get him started.
One of the most exciting projects I’ve ever worked on. Andrew and I have cowritten a political thriller about the potential collapse of American democracy. It will be the most informed political thriller ever imho.
Excited to share that
@StephenMarche
and I have collaborated on a novel “The Last Election” about an election in the not-so-distant future that changes everything. It’s a thriller and comes out September 12th! To pre-order use 30% disc. code LASTELECTION
November 11 is different in the US than everywhere else. In the US, it's about the greatness of soldiers and their sacrifice. Everywhere else, it is about the immensity of suffering and the insistence that war never happen again. Historical memory matters.
You have probably heard dozens of variations on the "litter boxes are in schools" lie.
You might have heard it from Joe Rogan, talking to Tulsi Gabbard, from his "friend's wife who works at a school."
Or maybe Lauren Boebert. Or maybe Marjorie Taylor Greene. It's everywhere.
Ari Fleischer on Fox: "Frankly, at a time where we're debating confederate statues, I don't know what the difference is between the confederacy and CHOP, other than slavery."
I think we should start calling essays "tries." It's closer to the original meaning. It would recapture how they're supposed to be written and how they're supposed to be received. Did you read that great try the other day? Best American Tries. The New York Times trying page.
While researching this piece on the possibility of civil war in the United States, I asked many experts on domestic terrorism whether there was a left-wing equivalent to the anti-government patriot movement, even a small one. Short answer: There isn't.
Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in.
@annehelen
This is a tremendous idea but I'd like to suggest a slight refinement: What do you think of putting NBA and WNBA in the same arena? Double the spectators. Double the games.
@chrislhayes
This is true and would make a great play: In Denver Max, The Unabomber, Ramzi Youseff and Timothy McVeigh were in the same wing and had their one hour daily break together. They watched the Turner Classics channel and apparently spent their daily hour talking about old movies.
In no dystopian fiction that I've read has there been anything so on the nose as a President teargassing a crowd to pose with a Bible in front of a church.
Seeing Jon Hamm trending reminds me, I watched Confess, Fletch this weekend and it occurred to me the perfect return to TV role for him is Jim Rockford.
Had a fascinating chat with
@AndrewYang
about ChatGPT. He has the most realistic, best take about the political consequences of this technology that I've heard.
What impact will ChatGPT have on colleges, the workforce and democracy? Now on writer for the Atlantic and author of “The Next Civil War: Dispatches from America’s Future”
@StephenMarche
joins to talk where AI is taking us - whether we like it or not.
@peterbakernyt
@kbennhold
I remember interviewing Richard Spencer once, and his most chilling insight into his own success was that "the myth of the Second World War is dying."