I’m offering three examples of widely followed stories where I believe we faltered. Our coverage is out there in the public domain. Anyone can read or listen for themselves and make their own judgment. But to truly understand how independent journalism suffered at NPR, you need to step inside the organization.
O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas
After two years of reporting on the collapse in San Francisco’s commercial real estate market, it looks like the contagion might finally have spread to the residential market, too.
According to a report in today’s Daily Mail, “nearly one in five homes sold in San Francisco have sold at a loss in recent months.”
He Was Turning His Life Around
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
Confessions of a Freight Broker
Podcast: If you want to find out about the ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ shenanigans that go in the offices of those who help move our economy around, Cameron is your guy.
The Children Are Our Future
And that’s why I’m in the market for pipe culvert.
Transgender Is A Stalking Horse For The Normalization Of Pedophilia
Transgender ‘MAP’ Activist Connected to Pro-Pedophile Group Influencing Academic Research
A trans-identified male who identifies as a “minor-attracted person” and has been running a “MAP” merchandise shop online is also working with a prominent pro-pedophilia group that has consulted academics. Katie Cruz, a pseudonym used by a man who calls himself Cali Miller, has been “working behind the scenes” with activist group B4U-ACT, which campaigns to have pedophilia recognized as a sexual orientation, and which has contributed to academic research at some of North America’s top universities.
The term ‘MAP’ is an acronym which stands for ‘Minor-Attracted Person,’ and is used in online pro-pedophile communities as a way to reduce stigma against individuals who seek to sexually abuse children. It was coined by the co-founder of B4U-ACT, convicted child rapist Michael Melsheimer. Melsheimer explicitly stated that the purpose of the organization was to normalize pedophilia where the National Association of Man-Boy Love (NAMBLA) had failed to do so.
On Patreon, Cruz has stated that his “age of attraction” is between 9 and 13 years old. He also claims to identify as having a “trans age” of between “13 and 17ish.”
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
Two confidential CSIS witnesses have testified that CSIS director David Vigneault took the rare step of changing a sensitive intelligence report on MP Han Dong for the second time in 2023, following a meeting between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Vigneault regarding media leaks about CSIS investigations into suspected Chinese interference in Dong’s 2019 nomination in Toronto.
Following a day of bombshell testimony regarding this and other meetings between Trudeau and Vigneault, Tuesday evening Commissioner Marie-Josée Hogue ruled that Vigneault will be recalled Friday for re-examination on his private discussions with the Prime Minister and Trudeau’s top aides.
Follow Sam Cooper on X for today’s developments: Min Gould was briefed 7 times on PRC election interference, and yet she is apparently disputing the briefs related to China especially, and doesn’t agree PRC election interference occurred.
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Ms.Jackson-Lee is a graduate of Yale University.
Pollspotting!
Have at ‘er: SaskPower Future Supply Plan
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
When journalists tell you they hate you, it’s ok to hate them right back.
Things You’ll Never See On The CBC
Is it true that @OmarYKhan, a @CBCNews employee earning $216,000 per year deleted this post claiming how @JustinTrudeau’s $10 daycare saved him over $10,000 last year?
That seems kind of scuzzy.
Happy March Holiday Season
Never fight for a country that hates you.
I have trouble not seeing this tweet as a deliberate Fuck You to normal people.
I’m sure that’s NOT what it is. I’m sure it was designed by multiple highly paid civil servants. And yet it’s indistinguishable from a gratuitous insult, piss-take or indeed satire.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
“This lead singer… he’s making a headband cool, with a blazer. Can you dig that?” .
Our Chinese-Installed Government In Ottawa
A mind-blowing read at Sam Cooper’s The Bureau: How I accessed Top Secret intelligence on PRC election interference in Canada
This foggy September morning I was going to see with my own eyes whether disturbing information I was hearing about Chinese efforts to influence Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fix Canada’s recent federal elections could be substantiated by government documentation.
Confidential Source 3, a senior Canadian intelligence officer with broad access to high-level information from CSIS and the Privy Council Office arrived on their cycle and pulled a clear plastic bag from a waste pouch.
Inside I could see a wad of documents and BIC mini-lighter.
Confidential Source 3 explained they could face serious legal consequences for showing classified records to me.
“Special Rapporteur” David Johnston receives mention at the end. Read it all.
Y2Kyoto: “This is the hypocrisy that exists in the world”
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Here’s the story of Johnny Cash’s iconic cover of “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Surprisingly, they found that in human-modified habitats, animal activity actually increased with human activity, by around 25 percent.
Y2Kyoto: The “Younger Cry-Ass Boundary”
After 15 years of deliberation, a team of scientists made the case that humankind has so fundamentally altered the natural world that a new phase of Earth’s existence—a new epoch—has already begun.
Soaring greenhouse gases, the spread of microplastics, decimation of other species, and fallout from nuclear tests—all were submitted as evidence that the world entered the Anthropocene, or era of humans, in the mid-20th century.
But the proposal was rejected in a contentious vote that has been upheld by the International Union of Geological Sciences, the field’s governing body said in a statement published on its website on Thursday.
The decision “to reject the proposal for an Anthropocene Epoch as a formal unit of the Geologic Time Scale is approved”, it said.
The only thing funnier than losing the vote is the notion that it could be determined by vote.
“you didn’t pay attention to what’s happening to men. “
Matt Gurney: What I got wrong about Poilievre
As a aside, I must ask Gurney if he has a driver’s license. You’d be shocked at how many journalists don’t.