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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-...

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

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 220 comments

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%.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 25 days ago • 63 comments

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

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

submitted 36 days ago • 68 comments

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

submitted 39 days ago • 185 comments

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

submitted 43 days ago • 84 comments

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

submitted 44 days ago • 204 comments

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

submitted 46 days ago • 1678 comments

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

submitted 46 days ago • 184 comments

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...

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

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.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

another point for bullying works

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Bonkers chart from Canadian election polling.

submitted 53 days ago • 115 comments

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...

submitted 53 days ago • 89 comments

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-...

submitted 53 days ago • 126 comments

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

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 83 days ago • 72 comments

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

submitted 65 days ago • 15 comments