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🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

I'm guessing her book will be titled WE'RE ALL TRYING TO FIND THE GUY WHO DID THIS wapo.st/3Zg3HpV

Democrats will try anything other than running on policies that appeal to people.

A visit to the Elephant Graveyard of West Bloomfield, Michigan: unsold Cybertrucks piling up in the parking lot of a closed Bed, Bath, & Beyond about a mile south of the Tesla dealer. May 30, 2025. #Tesla #Michigan #cybertruck

A US deficit of $2.3 trillion is about 7.5% of expected US GDP in 2026. Canada is in the range of 2% defict/GDP. Their 10 year bond is about 4.5%; ours is about 3.5%.

never seen a more distilled vision of american soft power that tactical big mac command centers can be deployed anywhere in the world in under 24 hours

calgary.citynews.ca/2025/05/07/p...

#BREAKING 🚨 Peter Dutton has lost his seat of Dickson to Labor’s Ali France, 6 News projects

americans coping over the canadian comservative loss is sustaining me, i wanted this for us in 2024

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison

* CHINA, U.S. NOT HAVING ANY TALKS ON TARIFFS --CHINESE EMBASSY * U.S. SHOULD STOP CREATING CONFUSION -- CHINESE EMBASSY @reuters.com

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

Trump Announces Seal Team 6 Killed U.S. Protester In Daring Overnight Raid

Poilievre avoids the media but is happy to sit down with tin-foil-hat wearing critics of the World Economic Forum. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-pierre...

Here are Debt/GDP ratios for three scenarios: 1--PBO baseline. 2--LPC platform (costed by themselves) 3--CPC platform (costed by LPC) I'll happily update with CPC platform numbers if CPC releases them. But until then it doesn't seem fair that they escape scrutiny. So, I'll go with what I have.

another point for bullying works

First they came for the Communists, and they didn't poll well.

Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

Ahead of this evening's critical — and chaotic — Canadian election leaders' debate, the debate commission has given right-wing conspiracy news outlet Rebel News *five times* as many spots for its (fake) journalists as actual news outlets. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS TESLA DEATH CROSS www.businessinsider.com/death-cross-...

An organization representing 72,000 academic professionals at 125 Canadian universities and colleges advises its members to avoid non-essential travel to the United States. https://www.caut.ca/latest/2025/04/caut-advises-academics-against-non-essential-travel-us

The problem with that "First they came for" poem is it makes a lot of unlikely assumptions. For example it assumes they would ever come for me

Are you kidding me? Two Rasputins? In *this* economy?

Chilling developments all around in the US: www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...