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Recently retired software developer, happily married and with 2 Newfie dogs, struggling beginning pianist, wishing I lived in Canada.
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Like & Share if you stand with Ukraine. 🇺🇦

Elon Musk fired Twitter employees and Twitter crashed. Elon Musk fired FAA employees and planes crashed. Not a quick learner.

Well said.

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

He’s right again.

Yes! #mayorpete

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

Here's a list of DOGE staff, assembled and annotated by my colleagues at BI. Whatever you do, please don't share it. www.businessinsider.com/doge-staff-l...

Trump’s 51st-State Plan Would Be a Literal Death Sentence for Canadians Canadians have a universal healthcare system and significantly longer life expectancy than Americans.

Elon Musk — an unchecked, unelected oligarch — is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life — and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.

The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. It's the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.

Happy 60th Flag Day 🇨🇦🇨🇦 The true North, Strong and FREE A sovereign nation, we stand on guard for thee Always 🇨🇦 Always proud🇨🇦 Always friends to the world 🇨🇦 Never to be taken for granted just because we are polite.

Yaaaaaaaas

Email sent to all CFPB staff this morning: "Please do not perform any work tasks."

🚨FYSA: The CFPB is being shut down—a direct hit to Veterans and Military families. It protected those who've served from predatory lenders and shady fees, returning billions to those wronged. Now, that’s over. Republicans say they support the Troops—it'd be nice if they showed it.

As someone who’s worked on these kinds of cases, I can tell you that you don’t conclusively establish fraud in a couple of days just by storming the Bastile. What they’re probably finding is programs they don’t like—the ones that help real people and make our lives better.

Super Bowl USAID Save Foreign Aid

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

‘Americans Can and Will Die from This’: USAID Worker Details Dangers, Chaos The sudden scapegoating of the once-bipartisan agency has left front-line workers in foreign countries stunned and abandoned, without even a contact in Washington.

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

How pathetic that it has come to this!

Elon Musk was doing great things. He almost single-handedly created the EV industry to fight climate change. He gave the internet to rural areas with StarLink. He restored America's ability to launch spacecraft. Then he decided instead to tear down our government, and with it our nation.

If Elon Musk can afford to pay people to look at your taxes, he can afford to start paying his own.

Instead of cutting costs for working families, Donald Trump is slashing the federal investments that fund their lifesaving care, fuel their local economy, and lower their health care costs. It’s cruel, short-sighted, and will cost jobs and devastate millions of families.

Spreading chaos and confusion will not lower costs for Americans or deliver much-needed solutions that working families need. We need action, not corruption.

Call to action: US national protest on Monday February 17 at your State Capitol or White House. Spread far and wide. End Impunity End Oligarchy End Autogenocide #3E #USprotests #eyesontheoval

Hank Green talking about how Trump's unconstitutional acts are, again, the mark of a President lacking the character and the political strength to actually govern within the bounds of the law. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eI14...

Hours after Russell Vought took over as acting head of the CFPB, its website is down. This is awful — and likely will be challenged — but they’re also unleashing Elizabeth Warren at a whole new level now.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

Could I live up to five more years if I cross the Canada-US border? Can anyone introduce me to an immigration lawyer?

Arrest him

The new cover of TIME.

The U.S. has committed war crimes in its history, but they’ve never been part of stated peacetime policy—until this week.

Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties - KFF Health News kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

At least Musk still lets Trump sign stuff so he thinks he’s still in charge.

ALERT TO FEDERAL WORKERS: The Thursday “deadline” set by Musk isn’t a thing. Congress hasn’t appropriated the funds to pay you what he promised should you resign by today — nor has Congress authorized anyone to threaten you with losing anything for staying on. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Trump and Musk’s hostile takeover is closing health centers, cutting care and raising prices — looting the Treasury to fund a massive tax cut. There are real people behind the numbers — including Trump voters!Uplift their stories and stop the power grab!