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Experiencing emotional whiplash going from reading the news on here to looking at pictures of the TWO baby sea otters currently in the care of the Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue right now

Emma K, aged 6, makes a solid point

When I wrote my article about the super selective campaign against Josh Shapiro over Israel, I focused on Mark Kelly's Israel positions because he was co-leading prediction markets at the time, and didn't discuss Walz's much. There's plenty. x.com/yair_rosenberg…

If we don’t agree on these rules right now, it’s going to be a very long eight years: Let’s do an S after the apostrophe after Harris, and an S after the apostrophe after Walz. “Harris’s pick vindicates Walz’s message.” I will not be taking further questions at this time.

There are two crowds using Jews as political footballs here: the far-left that singled out Shapiro (despite Israel policies largely aligned with Walz & others) AND the swarm of right-wingers now claiming Harris/Dems are antisemitic. Neither is credible.

Pretty sure I heard the bang (bangs, actually--I think there were two, then a really big one). I certainly heard, and continue to hear, a ton of sirens, from more than 20 blocks away. A helicopter now, too.

Looks like power's out, too.

This bit of text has long been central to my own activism as a wholly not-religious Jew. It is a wise tenet: The challenges we face are massive; we cannot begin to think we alone will solve them; even still, we must do what we can toward progress.

When I hear lots of sirens on a dry summer day, I look to the forest to the west. That was my first look the evening of this fire, when the sirens didn't stop and I heard the bangs in my living room. A bullet dodged, for sure. But hey, let's keep bowing to oil & gas.

Huge. This functionally guarantees that the (formerly fringe, still full of some "yikes" ideas) BC Conservatives will at least be the official opposition, and with BC United backing could hypothetically make a run at the NDP.

The BC Conservatives are holding a press conference at 2:40pm “to deliver a major statement related to the upcoming general election campaign.” John Rustad is included on the press release, Kevin Falcon is not. #bcpoli

Holy crap

Been wondering for a long time if I should change my bio to "no biological children" 🙄🙄🙄

Major traffic calming on 16th Ave & Wallace St. #Vancouver, by Lord Byng Secondary. A student was severely injured at this intersection last winter. Cars can no longer cross 16th at Wallace; it's entirely blocked off. Crosswalk is painted and signed. Excellent improvement.

The prospect of a future premier of BC translating this nonsense into policy is truly chilling. I don't care how compelling it is to finally have a viable BC Conservative Party – this isn't conservatism; it's willful disregard of basic science, and it'll do great harm.

Rest in Peace Lord Vader

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great analysis from Dahlia Lithwick "Kamala Harris abortion answer: The best moment of the Trump debate" slate.com/news-and-polit…