Journalist. Rebel. First Mayor of Toronto. Member of the Legislative Assembly.

Toronto
Joined May 2022
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I don’t dispute that living in a city with a homelessness crisis is unpleasant, but the only solution to that is giving people places to live. All other "solutions" are just about trying to reduce the visibility of the problem by shoving them into the carceral system.
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I don't want to “download the app” to pay for parking. I don't want to “create an account” to see a menu. I don't want to “provide feedback” on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash
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one of the stranger parts of being an adult is realising how many people have never questioned a single belief they inherited, not even out of curiosity.
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Yeah, why couldn't the left have treated their government being party to genocide with the same sociopathic detachment that liberals have treated Palestine with for decades? Those absolute monsters.
Likewise. But what broke me above all was watching the left completely and utterly lose their minds over Palestine. The left became completely self destructive in a way I’d never seen before. And I want absolutely no part in that.
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This is how I describe the Clergy Reserve system to the kids these days. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clergy…
The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt... which was the style at the time! #TheSimpsons
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"Zero illnesses", huh? theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Elon musk bought twitter a month before the Dems had very good midterms and 4 months before social media became completely consumed by a train derailment in Ohio that caused zero injuries or illnesses
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Melllvar, you can't let a TV show be your whole life. You can do anything you want. Look at Walter Koenig. After Star Trek, he became an actor. Not just an actor but a well-rounded person with my own friends and credit cards and keys. #Futurama
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Disturbing how centrists mentally slip from "let's tactically avoid criticizing Democrats since Republicans are worse" to "Democrats never do anything wrong since Republicans are worse." VBNMW isn't just a tactic, it's a whole weird epistemology
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BREAKING: CHOW BIG WINNER
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When the left says "liberals aren't equipped to oppose fascists", this is what we're talking about.
Because uniparty states are bad? I want a strong, sane, normal Republican Party who doesn’t have insane views
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Guys... this is the Southern Strategy GOP you're talking about here. You know, they of Newt Gingrich, Fox News and the Brooks Brothers Riot? People this naive have no business opining on politics.
Replying to @jonkentcomrade
Because a strong Republican party wouldn't do desperate things like try to overturn elections. Remember this two party system is designed so that some level of bi-partisanship is generally needed for most change.
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Leftists dream of a more effective Democratic party. Democrats dream of a more effective Republican party.
Hillary Clinton: “The Republican Party is no longer a political party, it is a cult devoted to Trump and Trump’s power. The Republican Party needs a total transformation. If we’re gonna have a healthy government that actually gets things done and delivers for people, the Republican Party has to purge itself of everybody that lost both their conscience and their backbone over the last ten years and that’s most of them”
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No, actually, I don't, and you don't either. Centrists have this nasty habit of imagining their political opponents being as petty and vindictive as they are, to the point of creating false memories based on negative polarization and maybe one or two half-remembered tweets.
Replying to @trouble_man90
Don’t forget them trying to do the same in 2020 also. Remember the gnashing of teeth and rending of hair when Biden won?
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an edmonton institution lost to private equity 💔 we will miss you bioware
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I’m sorry but the idea that some fake polls bouncing around social media somehow magically accomplished what tens of millions of dollars in ad buys could not is some of the most hilarious cope I’ve ever seen.
Wedgewood polling caused Democrats to end up with the least electable of the three candidates running in the primary in Michigan, and it has cost our party tens of millions of dollars to try to protect what should be a safe blue seat. We need to know who was behind this poll, who was getting paid, and what the mission was overall.
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"The number of problem gamblers in Ontario has spiked and gambling-related suicides have tripled since the expansion of private online casino games and sports betting in 2022, CBC News has learned. Nearly 130,000 Ontarians now show signs of gambling problems, compared with roughly 43,000 in 2018, a tripling of the number of people who meet the criteria of gambling too frequently, losing money and struggling with addiction."
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I like how Bradford's messaging is all the usual red meat rightwing stuff but he's doing it all in this fussy little new-restauraunt brand design
When you have no plan and no vision, you run on fear.
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Can we just agree that you all have an overinflated sense of your own capacity to influence elections and need to do something else with your life?
There's a whole push by the people who do nothing but ratfvck and attack Democrats (WELL in to the general election) to be like 'wow don't talk about any of this fraud or you want Republicans to win.' I don't know what the appropriate term would be to describe this. Gaslighting, I guess. Just ignore them. It's comically bad faith and no one should take them seriously.
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