Canadians and British: proud members of Antifa since 1939!
Born in Chicago, raised in Toronto, 40-year resident of Ottawa. I voted for Harris in '24, Biden in '20, HRC in '16 and Libs in '15, ‘19, ‘21 and ‘25. I mute idiots/trolls.
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Canadians and British: proud members of Antifa since 1939!
… with the Taliban? Next thing you know, he’ll be inviting them to Camp David. 🙄
“The US president suggested he was negotiating with the Taliban for American forces to once again occupy the [Bagram] base, formerly the largest US military site in the country” You don’t know whether to laugh or cry at his imbecilic statements. Negotiating … www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
“This was not illegal, (nothing was illegal since there were no longer laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it would be punished by death.” - George Orwell, 1984
If the fascists thought people were making inappropriate comments about a certain person’s death, just wait until the Orange Cheeto sheds his mortal coil.
Narrator: “Brendan again confused the ‘public interest’ with the ‘President’s interest’. The two are not the same, as he was soon to learn, to his dismay.”
Possibly the goofiest two people on the planet right now.
MSNBC asking if the firing of Kimmel is a “turning point”. This marks the 483rd “turning point” during Trump Reich v2.0.
Slowing economy + rising inflation = stagflation. A term not heard much since the ‘70s. But, then again, Trump has a certain nostalgia for the’70s.
Ooh! This stings! Because it’s undoubtedly true.
Retail coffee prices in the United States in August jumped nearly 21% compared to the same month last year … On a monthly basis, coffee prices rose 4%, the most in 14 years.” Coulda been worse. Coulda been the price of eggs. 😲 www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/f...
My faith in the British is confirmed. bsky.app/profile/trum...
Kimmel didn’t say anything inappropriate or controversial. bsky.app/profile/jame...
New ads promoting tourism in Canada: “We have a functioning Supreme Court”. travel.destinationcanada.com/en-gb
“And, to be honest, I never really ‘got’ Kimmel,” Justice Barrett wrote in her concurring opinion.
“I voted for the deportation of drug dealers and criminals, not for the cancellation of Jimmy Kimmel” they all sobbed into their ‘Trump in 2028’ t-shirts.
It wasn’t immediately clear what mechanism Trump would use to make the designation, and Antifa lacks centralized structure or defined leadership, making it unclear who or what precisely would be targeted.” Banning a non-existent organization is peak Trump. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...
“‘We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,’ [Kimmel] said.” #Truth www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/article...
The British will subtly mock Trump, but so subtly that he’ll think they’re praising him.
“Our behaviours are shaped by rewards and punishments, he said. Without the punishment of regular speeding enforcement, coupled with the reward of getting to our destination marginally faster, we become incentivized to speed — and over time, that becomes the new normal.” Yuo.
“It’s become normal and even expected to drive 10 kilometres over the speed limit in Toronto, Joordens added. Part of that is due to insufficient enforcement.” I’d say 90% of other is due to insufficient enforcement. The other 10% is due to stupidity. www.thestar.com/news/gta/why...
I found it bizarre the the Utah County prosecutor would stress that he wants to ensure the accused gets a fair trial, then lay out all the evidence against him in such excruciating detail.🙄
For a guy who was the Dean of a law school (which may, or may not, ever have existed), Mikey is remarkably ignorant of the law, the Constitution and wrongful dismissal law.
The Trump administration is being run by Stephen Miller. bsky.app/profile/jame...
“according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller.” Seems likely. www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
On Threads: I was suddenly unable to open external links in Threads; e.g. NY Times. Always redirected to Instagram. Finally figured out I had to be *logged into Instagram* to open external links. Complained to Connor. Was suspended. Coincidence, or not?🧐 m.economictimes.com/tech/technol...
Meanwhile, in Crazy Town, we have … Conrad Black. 🙄
True. Trump is making every previously maligned president look good.
Thanks, but I think I’ll give up on Threads. Threads didn’t even bother to identify how I may have violated the Community Standards. We are all, to varying extents, “content creators” (a term I dislike). If Threads can be so cavalier in removing their content creators, so be it. Bluesky is my home!
Listening to the Utah County prosecutor stating that he wants to ensure Robinson gets a fair trial, then lays out in excruciating detail all the evidence against him is kind of bizarre.
Just been listening to the Ohio County prosecutor and he’s been emphasizing that Robinson had started to “move left” and his relationship with his roommate, who he says is transitioning from male to female. Lots of bias already being demonstrated by the prosecutor.
The Utah County prosecutor is going all in on the “leftist” and trans angle.🙄
Really heated exchange between Sen. Blumenthal and Kash Patel during Patel’s appearance before Congress. Sen. Blumenthal accused Patel of lying about not firing FBI personnel for political reasons.
“I was talking to a big railroad guy, he goes to all the cities, and he said Chicago was the worst. ‘Sir,’ he said, ‘you have to do something about Chicago. Chicago is the worst.’” Trump on @msnbc.com. Again, possibly not exact, but nearly verbatim. At least the “big railroad guy” wasn’t crying. 🙄
“I was talking to a big railroad guy, he was in my office, he started out in railroad, he was in a caboose, yeah, he started out in a caboose.” Trump, just now, on @msnbc.com. (Perhaps not an exact quote, but pretty close. Including the part about the caboose.)
Yes, he really *is* that stupid. 🙄
The media has become stenographers. Or “speech to text apps” for the younger generation who may not know what a “stenographer” is. No analysis, just verbatim repetition,
The people of Britain know the assignment from previous visits and no doubt will give Trump the welcome he deserves.
And who pushed Modi into the loving arms of Xi and Putin? Trump. www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019...
I urge everyone who also has a Threads account to test the boundaries of Meta’s tolerance for free speech. But here are the rules: only say things that are demonstrably true, and see if you get suspended. For example: - Trump is an idiot. - Vance is a lickspittle. - Hegseth is a drunk
The censorship by the @washingtonpost.com is a sign of the slide into totalitarianism, aided and abetted by Oligarchs such as Jeff Bezos.
I had a Threads account. I probably called Trump an “idiot” one too many times and was suspended. Twitter used to highlight the offending tweet and let you retract it. Not so on Threads. No explanation given, no second chance. One can appeal the suspension, but you have to wonder: why bother?🤔
“US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that a framework agreement has been reached, and Trump will meet with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Friday to finalize the deal.” Well, thank GOD! There’s no peace in Gaza or Ukraine, but at least the TikTok peace agreement is nigh! www.cnn.com/2025/09/15/t...
This is truer than we think.
Good ol’ Robyn Urback with her masterful bad take on just about everything. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Ironic. Listening to MSNBC and all the commentators are saying that political polarization and hateful rhetoric leads to violence, and it needs to stop. Then Elon Musk feels the need to weigh in. www.mediaite.com/media/elon-m...
They’re just trying to be Canadian. Secretly, down deep, they want to be one of us.🧐
It’s bizarre when Rand Paul is the only voice of reason in the Republican party. Our world is turning upside down faster than we can adapt. 🧐
I tried to submit an appeal via Instagram, but decided not to when it asked for a selfie and a video. I decided that Meta was being too invasive and will not attempt to resurrect my account. But thanks for the offer of help. 👍
Listening to Deadline Whitehouse. Journalist describing how Epstein called her every day about a Vanity Fair article she was writing and how he threatened her premature babies. She had to put extra security on at the hospital NICU out of fear for her twin babies. Sick man, Epstein.
I was suspended from Threads without explanation. Appealing the suspension is ridiculously intrusive. So stay away from Threads. It’s Big Meta Brother. bsky.app/profile/jame...
It’s hard to believe someone forged Trump’s letter, forged his signature, convinced Maxwell that it was from Trump, and Maxwell believed it was a legitimate letter from Trump and had it bound into the birthday book. The letter is *in a bound book*. It’s not a piece of paper floating about.
“Neither North or Hall responded to requests for comment. Perhaps they’re on a honeymoon. We hear Nicaragua is very romantic.” Wow, that’s pretty inappropriate, @washingtonpost.com. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
So someone had the foresight to counterfeit a letter from Trump, counterfeit a signature, send it to Ghislaine Maxwell in 2003, and Maxwell had it bound in a book, all if this to embarrass Trump 22 years later? Ohh-kaay. 🙄.
Translation: They arrest people based on the colour of their skin and the language they speak.
Ooh! On Threads I would have gotten a notice that calling Doug Ford an “idiot” was verboten. But Doug Ford *is* an idiot. I’m just stating the obvious.
Doug Ford is an idiot. Speed cameras are the only means of trying to make Ontarians respect speed limits, other than put a policeman/woman on every street corner.
“Our technology”. Terrific.
Suspended from Threads. Meta wants a selfie and video to verify my identity. Goodbye, Threads. That’s completely unacceptable. I am not going to provide Meta with a video of my face that can be used for unfathomable AI purposes.
Letter from Sen. Wyden to Scott Bessent requesting information from Treasury on Epstein’s financial transactions. Names are given.
Left: Ceci n’est pas une pipe (This is not a pipe). Right: This is not a birthday card (Ceci n’est pas une carte d’anniversaire). The Treachery of Images, featuring those two renowned surrealists, René Magritte and Donald Trump. Coming to a museum near you.
This appeared in Bluesky when I opened it, and I thought “Yeah! Brilliant observation!” Then I realized I had done a search on my own posts.😬
Well, fuck those people in Arkansas who voted for Trump.
Called all pharmacies in my area to find Covid-19 booster shots in August. None of the pharmacies had vaccines. I find this completely outrageous, as it has been reported numerous times that Covid-19 is *not* a “seasonal” virus.
@picardonhealth.bsky.social Went to Ontario vaccination portal in May to schedule Covid-19 booster. Greeted with “New times coming soon!” Returned to site in June. “New times coming soon!” Returned on July 4th. “Vaccination season ended June 30!” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
In other news, Doug “Doofus” Ford celebrated the first day of school by pouring shooters into the open mouths of high school students. “This is what we done on first day of high school when I was a wee lad in Etobicoke,” the Roly-poly Premier was quoted as saying.
Maria has never heard of batteries. 🙄
“The pro-Trump rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, in an attempt to stop the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election now want compensation for what they believe were unfair prosecutions.” Outrageous. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“It is true that drivers can avoid such tickets by sticking to the posted speed limits, but it is also true that drivers are hardly ever expected to strictly observe those limits.” Ooh, poor entitled, coddled, spoiled Scott Stinson! 🙄 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
He’s right. 👍
“The group Queers for Palestine — Ottawa (Q4P) halted the parade ‘with the permission’ of the grand marshal, the organization said … just as the parade was stopped.” Well, that was certainly unnecessary. Q4P could have made their point in some other manner. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
This book was popular in 1981 amongst the Reaganauts, supply-side economics adherents and trickle-down proponents. I began reading it in about September 1981 and thought it was unadulterated bullshit. I think I was correct.
TBH, I really wonder why U bother even being on BlueSky anymore. Threads gets more engagement.
Don’t worry, PM Carney will stick handle Canada out of this mess. We’re not even 10 minutes into the first period, and there’s still lots of hockey to be played.🤔
@joycewhitevance.bsky.social @msnbc.com The NY Supreme Court's Appellate Division determined the $355M fine in Trump’s financial fraud case was “excessive”. Media reports have not explained if there will be no financial penalty, or if the penalty will be reduced. I would like to see this discussed.
GDP of the EU is $19.99T in 2025, compared to $29.18T for U.S., and $2.098T for Russia. The EU doesn’t need the U.S. to squash Russia like a cockroach.
“I can understand the rats and mice, and maybe even the rabbits, but … the poor little beagles!” Yes, Doofus Ford said that about use of animals in medical research, vowing to “hunt down” researchers still usimg dogs in medical research.
Feels like a good time to re-read this. (1967 Penguin paperback.)
“It was a bright cold Monday in January and the clocks were striking thirteen in Trump City, District of Trump. Winston Smith was certain this had been a holiday in the Before Times. He searched Truth Social. Was it Martin Luther Day? King Day? He strained his memory, but nothing came to mind.”
“In the late July message in Nous sommes des citoyens du Griffintown … Poilievre said she was in search of a ‘short-term, furnished rental with a gym and swimming pool.” She lives in a government mansion, and she needs a fucking “pied-à-terre” in Montreal?🤔 nationalpost.com/news/canada/...
This is laughable. He won in a riding that the previous candidate won with 82.4% of the vote. A fence post wearing a cowboy hat would have won in this riding.
State ownership of the means of production sounds like Marxism to me. Unfortunately, in the case of the Trump administration, it’s Groucho who they’re taking notes from, not Karl. 🤔
I just realized today that I have not heard the little shit weasel’s voice on CBC Radio One news for months. Until today. You know who I am referring to. Because he won his desperate bid to retain a seat in the HoC
Do you have access to the EPSTEIN Files? Want to be inducted into the Whistleblower's Hall of Fame, be glorified in history as the Savior of Democracy & have an annual holiday named in your honor? All of this can be yours if you simply: #LeakTheEPSTEIN-Files!* *victim's names redacted, of course
How long will it be before Pierre Poilievre says he’s proud to be serving the people of his new riding, Battlecrow-Riverfoot? 🤔 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
On @MSNBC.com they’re discussing mail-in voting, not the Epstein Files. Trump’s distraction is working.
“CUPE … said that after nine hours of talks with the assistance of the chief mediator appointed by the federal government” This is for all the whiners who opposed mediation. Mediation works. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
For a split second I had hope. 🧐
I postulate that the decline of society began when newspaper boxes began to disappear from street corners.
I have grave doubts about any “security guarantee” Putin agrees to. He will simply attack Ukraine again, if the war is ended, and dare Europe and the U.S. to stop him.
“Voters in the federal Alberta riding of Battle River-Crowfoot can now head to the polls to decide on Monday whether Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre returns to the House of Commons” Are we hoping that Poilievre is sutably humiliated? Yes, we are. globalnews.ca/news/1133900...
“‘Our members are refusing to give in and go back to work,’ said CUPE national president Mark Hancock. ‘The law is wrong, the government is wrong, the company is wrong’” Have AC flight attendants voted to defy the law, or is this Hancock’s decision? www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
The ON portal continued to say “new times coming soon” in May - June. Checked back on July 4 and the portal notice was the vaccination “season” ended June 30.
Interestingly, the vaccination season “ended” June 30, for a virus that is not seasonal. Ontario portal continues to say “new times coming soon”. I called every pharmacy in my area and none had vaccines. (I was fooled by the ON portal site in May, June and July, when trying to book a vaccination.)
Tacos. Not just for Tuesdays. (Home-made tortillas too.)
Same advice, dildos and blow-up sex dolls without brains. bsky.app/profile/jame...
This is fucking stupid. Throw his fat white hairy ass in jail. I support unions, the right to strike, collective bargaining, but not idiocy such as this. www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...
(If you’re one of those dildos or blow-up sex dolls; i.e. brainless people who want to reply “But muh right ta strike!”, don’t bother. You will prove your idiocy and lack of knowledge in your replies. Just go forth and multiply in the privacy of your bathroom.)
I fear AC flight attendants are getting bad advice from CUPE leaders, who just want to use the flight attendants as pawns in their disagreement with the Feds over the use of Section 107. Public will see flight attendants, not AC management, as the villains. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/...
