Putin is escalating
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Putin is escalating
One of my favourite actors! He will be greatly missed.
The highlight of my #BostonLaborDayParade was chatting with a curious 8-year-old. “We are celebrating people who work together! And Democratic Socialists like that because we don’t think we should build big piles of gold like a dragon when we can all eat like hobbits instead.” Happy Labor Day!
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Which means “carte blanche” everyone! Have at’er.
Just visited the ruins of the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island. I was looking for a sign announcing that RFK Jr. will begin renovations soon because, you know: Make Smallpox Great Again.
SciTech Daily: 'Covid Could Be Quietly Aging Your Arteries by Five Years' 'A major international study found that even mild Covid infections can stiffen blood vessels as if they had aged five extra years, raising long-term risks of heart attacks and strokes' scitechdaily.com/covid-could-...
Nine former directors of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention joined forces to warn Health Secty Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “endangering every American’s health." RFK Jr MUST be charged with manslaughter. Dem State AGs must charge him for killing Americans.
Our TV president is avoiding the TV. Suspicious AF
Putin spoke at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit. He blamed the West for the "Ukrainian crisis" and said that "the root causes of the crisis" must be removed in order for peace to come. Looks like Putin has made his choice: he's going to continue the war.
Thanks for the tip. I just followed Atchoum!
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
You guys see where this is going? Right?
@meidascanada.ca
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
The National Guardners
Not their jurisdiction
This is nothing else but a hybrid war that Russia wages against Europe Let's name things as they really are:Russia has made an assassination attempt of the President of the European Commission Russia has been jamming GPS-signals over many Eastern Europe countries that are in its immediate vicinity
Has slipped.
If you enjoy… Weekends Safe working conditions Retirement benefits Paid vacations Breaks at work Sick leave Paid holidays … then you’re part of the labor movement. Happy Labor Day.
I think even they would avoid the Trump carcass.
Trump deployed National Guard troops on multiple 29-day orders—specifically choosing durations under 30 days to avoid paying full Basic Allowance for Housing Type 1 (BAH‑1)." www.rawstory.com/trump-infuri...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein A trove of leaked emails have shone further light on Palantir founder Peter Thiel's connections to Jeffrey Epstein www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
There are people who would vote for a rock if it were painted blue. We need only look at the people of Battle River-Crowfoot, who should have known that Pierre was never in his Ottawa riding, who should have known he spent 2x as much as Trudeau and Singh, and who had another viable candidate option
How’s the Trump presidency working out for you?
Despicable
This vile administration tried to deport children, in the middle of the night, to Guatemala. CHILDREN!
California stepping up.
Best of luck to you. (And I’m not bro g sarcastic)
Those arrests sound disproportionately expensive.
No can do. My boycott is all things American. Besides, Canadian rye is better.
I do the same. Right now the only grapes (one of my favourite fruits) in the stores are from the U.S. I will not buy them.
Jill Stein and Cornel West both disgust me — such goddamn, self-serving hypocrites.
Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
“He has built a kingdom on lies and illusion, masking the nefarious underworld in which he swims freely by courting an image that corporate media was only to happy to help propagate.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...
🚨Children🚨Killed by🚨ICE Say their names. Their lives mattered and their deaths were govt. sanctioned murders. 1/2
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Locking down your phone, being mindful of what you're wearing, and coming up with plans to communicate with others are all key steps to take before attending a protest. ssd.eff.org/module/atte...
The new Pulte-Trump crackdown on mortgage occupancy fraud is nothing if not selective.
www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u... This isn't going away like the Epstein files.
Fairly certain that salaries are sunk costs - you are paying those salaries regardless. Might as well enjoy the mischief - it’s not costing you more.
Such a depressing and disturbing read. I mean, they're not wrong about the emptiness of techno-consumerism but then they embrace literal patriachy and make jokes about throwing Marxists out of helicopters.
We know why, don't we? The press doesn't care bc it was never about Biden's age. That was just an excuse to hammer him & help Trump. Now that Trump's dying right in front of us? No questions. Keep your mouth shut. Republicans are not held to a lower standard. They're held to no standard at all.
Hear, hear!
Andrea C. Love, PhD - #cdnpoli mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before.
This is the most compelling case I’ve seen yet that America is no longer a democracy but an authoritarian state. Not a *soon-to-be* authoritarian state—a *current* one.
What a ridiculous person.
Peter Jukes “This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions”. www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
REP. @brotherjones.bsky.social: “People want to give thoughts and prayers after a shooting, but it’s a form of theological malpractice when you pray for something you have the power to change.”
Why don’t you send everyone proof of life first? (Either way, Chicago doesn’t want you here)
Sounds like several lawsuits waiting to happen
No matter what @MarshaBlackburn keeps saying, it’s not criminals they’re targeting. www.cnn.com/2025/08/30/u...
#martiallaw #DC #fascism #NationalGuard
The CDC is gutting a program that monitors foodborne illnesses. The program will now only track infections caused by two pathogens, rather than eight. Hello? How does this “Make America Healthy Again”?
While Ford is an absolute turd who should not have been elected never mind re-elected (record low turnout outs), don’t go painting us with the same brush as SK and AB.
I think it’s an embarrassment to Albertans.
Thank you!
The “and well” is highly debatable.
I’ve never seen a more “tax the rich” sign in my life.
Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities
"Israel is engaging in the deadliest and most deliberate effort to kill and silence journalists that the Committee to Protect Journalists has ever documented." cpj.org/full-coverag...
Not getting this. Can someone explain it to me?
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen: Putin is a predator. Putin's proxies have been targeting our societies for years with hybrid attacks, with cyber attacks. The weaponizing of migrants is another example.
Congratulations!🥳
Couldn’t agree with you more.
Happy Labor Day President Biden!!! Miss you and love you!!! 🥰
In a national poll, 9 out of 10 American flags prefer Governor Gavin Christopher Newsom.
I won’t buy American products until they undo Project 2025.
Thoughts and prayers
This reminds of when my brother @ I were at Grandma’s & she made “spaghetti” for dinner. She opened a can of Chef Bogarde” & served it. We could eat it as we were used to Mum’s from scratch spaghetti. Next night G’ma made Mac n’ cheese from scratch. We were used to KD and wouldn’t eat it!
The number of people needed to produce a barrel of oil has been declining since 2012 -- and no, it isn't Ottawa's fault (it's happening in Texas too). If we want to create jobs in the future, they have to be jobs *of* the future. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...
"January 6 survivor and former MPD Officer Michael Fanone launches a campaign demanding that federal officers remove their masks, advocating for transparency." Check out our new D.C. campaign demanding federal agents take off their mask! @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social www.wusa9.com/article/news...
The Ford government is touting nearly $1B for new schools opening this fall, but the repair backlog for existing ones has swelled to $16B. “This isn’t record spending, it’s record neglect." #cdnpoli
Or Autocrayon
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Autopen extravaganza
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Excellent question.
Darn! Just replied that and tyem saw your post. You beat me to it.
The Four Seasons Landscaping parking lot wasn’t available! 😉
So pathetic. And, yes, where is that security clearance, Pierre?
The irony is that most countries would give Kilmar Abrego Garcia asylum from persecution *in* the United States. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
“We don’t need Trump’s troops on our streets. What we need is investment in our neighborhoods, food on our tables, health care for our families and safety, rooted in justice and opportunity, in our communities.” ___ Rep. Delia Ramirez Op-Ed, Chicago
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Children have to deal with mass shootings in schools while certain adults can't even handle a logo change.