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Fled Toronto, roughing it Covid-free in Kawartha. Rescuing a really old frontier house single-handed.
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I cannot think of a way for the Left to more thoroughly owned than for Trump to continue to attack Leonard Leo and the Federalist Society. Please do not continue. We would be so owned.

This wanker never worked a day in his life.

Fire: near Flin-Flon, north of Winnipeg. Worst ever. Photo courtesy Manitoba government.

I thought the emergency alert system was an unwarranted invasion of my private telephone and knew it was only a matter of time before it was abused. Today, a kid with a knife in a suburb an hour away by car made my phone and radio scream at me in the woods. What's next? Public service announcements?

Homicide rates: NY 4.5, FL 7.2 Life expectancy: NY 79, FL 76.1 Uninsured rate: NY 4.8, FL 10.7

Anyone else notice that the chair on which Charles sat while reading the SFTT bore, in gilt, the initials of his mother?

💥SCOOP: Orbán’s government is spooked by the EU possibly suspending Hungary’s voting rights (Article 7). A source confirms Orbán's “blocking coalition” isn’t solid at all. This is why, in desperation, Orbán endorsed Romania’s George Simion. 🔗More on @vsquare.bsky.social: vsquare.org/presidential...

This supports my theory that those in favour of Art 7 think they have the votes, or they wouldn't be moving on it - first rule of politics is learn how to count, etc.

“The new #variant, increasing globally, had by mid-May reached nearly 11% of sequenced samples reported. The #WHO has designated it a “variant under monitoring” and considers the public health risk low at the global level with current vaccines expected to remain effective” apnews.com/article/covi...

Breaking News: An appeals court temporarily preserved many of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs, freezing a court order to halt the taxes.

Tacos for everyone!

The audacity of Karoline Leavitt's lying is breathtaking.

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I laid a bunch of 49-pound blocks in a hole today and then backfilled the trench by hand with sticky, heavy clay. I don't always use pharmaceuticals, but when I do, I'm grateful they exist there on my counter.

How do famous right-wing influencers actually poll with young men in 2025? Rogan: 27% favorable, 35% unfavorable, 45% don't know/never heard of Theo Von: 21% fav, 16% unfav, 55% dk Andrew Tate: 12% fav, 47% unfav, 36% dk Source: iop.harvard.edu/youth-poll/5...

Gov. Hochul:

U.S. S&P 500 STOCK FUTURES RISE 1.6%, NASDAQ FUTURES RISE 1.8%

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A MASSIVE ruling. Trump used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose every tariff you’ve read about on a whole country/group of countries: Canada, Mexico, China (og+retaliatory), Liberation Day, etc. The judge just struck them all down www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/fi...

Court strikes down trump reciprocal tariffs www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

May 28, 1972: White House "plumbers" first break in at the Democratic National Headquarters and install listening devices at Watergate Complex in Washington, D.C.

TACO! Trump Always Chickens Out

CBC is reporting that one of the fires in Manitoba started across the border in Saskatchewan in a landfill, and that government wanted to hit the fire early with water bombers but couldn't fly because of a civilian drone flying in the area.

Manitoba declares provincewide state of emergency over wildfires www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Opossums don't get enough love.

Narrator: they were not considering the offer