Robert Working

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

Toronto has a George St, a Clinton St and a Parlaiment St, but no Funkadelic St. This is especially egregious as @george_clinton and band/s spent a tonne of time in Toronto as they developed their sound. Mayor @JohnTory, please fix this.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@BurlHorniachek Hot take: this isn't a bad thing. Devotion levels are rarely consistent within individuals through life, and 'high rigour' often comes with low humility. Obviously, the old mainline model doesn't work, but 'zealots-only' isn't the solution.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@TheAtlantic @reihan @Jesse_Leg @reihan 's organization pushed hard the 'black people are eating your cats' bullshit last fall. He's the last one to be arguing for civic norms.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Dear mainstream media,

Just because YOU’RE used to Trump’s batshit insanity, it doesn’t mean you can’t still COVER his batshit insanity.

Thank you.
- Sane America

[Evan Osnos @eosnos]

Around D.C., the new going rate is well-known: $5 million for a one-on-one dinner with Trump, but execs have “no clue where the money is eventually going,” one said. Another told me it’s “outer-borough Mafia sh*t.” My new piece is out: @NewYorker https://t.co/TLRRhcMo38

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

A Pivot Point for the American People https://t.co/eXYuzqsv08

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@RogerSeverino_ This type of bullshit greenlights everything future Dem administrations do to Liberty U and friends. The shoe will eventually be on the other foot. Do you not think of this?

[Asterisk @asteriskmgzn]

A special series of five forecasts on the Trump Administration's cuts to some of USAID's most effective programs

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

This may be @jengerson’s best, and most consequential, column ever.

Read it. Read every word. Twice.

I did.
https://t.co/XU84UshwJm

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Trump can still be made Pope, if only Mike Pence has the courage.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@Heminator "The church's drift away from orthodoxy", for Mark Hemingway, means not completely aligned with Mark Hemingway's politics-first American Protestantism. I think the Catholic Church will be ok.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@johnandrewwords @LambsReign This kind of self-reckoning is important. What interests me is less the particulars of the radical ideology/community/theology, but rather what's common among those things, and common among those drawn to (and leave) these things.

[Eamon Javers @EamonJavers]

Important story from the NYT this morning: The President running a crypto operation with largely anonymous offshore investors at a time when he regulates the industry is a huge red flag that you can’t imagine being tolerated by Washington or the public in any other era.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@lymanstoneky There could be a leader who gets the Cons over 50%, like Mulrooney did in 1984 (though that was pre-Bloc). You just need to keep the far-right crowd happy without losing the normie centrists. Not easy.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@Heminator The gov't of Alberta's idea to pull the province out of the Canadian Pension Plan and into its own has the support of less than a third of Albertans. Leaving the country polls around 5%. Texas will leave the USA before Alberta leaves Canada.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@JeanPFournier Polls had the popular vote pretty much correct. The distribution, however, seems to be more favourable to the Cons than anticipated.

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@RoyceKoop Even if he loses his own seat?

[Robert Working @WorkingRob]

@StephenPunwasi My understanding that the Pheonix blame is (and should be) pretty evenly distributed between Harper and Trudeau.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A recent book on Hitler’s rise to power examines how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone whom the conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent following. https://t.co/87mHYpVL3Z

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in.

The attempts were "near real-time", and made and using one of the newly created DOGE accounts with the correct username and password.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

I think it’s absurd at this point to pretend that lawlessness and brutality is incidental to the policy of this administration — it is the policy of this administration