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alt cross country checkup topic: How will you personally fight the efforts of the USA to annex our country?

Canadians never bend in the face of tyranny. This is our story as a nation, and I am so proud to be part of that story today. Across Canada and the United States the resistance will come from ordinary people. Keep kicking at the darkness until it bleeds daylight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=es5q...

Global crisis style note: What Trump is doing to Ukraine is not 'blackmail', which would be demand for payment under threat of exposure of compromising information*. This is demand for payment under threat of violence/refusal to protect from violence. The word is 'extortion'.

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

Media who normalized infectious disease and normalized genocide are now normalizing tyranny and annexation. Shocking.

Canada has been named among the top 5 countries with the most freedom. The United States ranked 59th.

How evil do you have to be to hate a nation that builds Spyro monuments during a war

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This does seem to be his strength...uniting people against him.

BREAKING NEWS - key Liberal committee has voted to disqualify Ruby Dhalla from the liberal leadership race. The latest on Power & Politics at 5

JFC this is real.

I’m a Scottish independent DIY musician on tour in Canada. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇨🇦 Can you help me get the word out about my shows? I’m trying my hardest sell as many of them out as possible. It’s hard right now. If you like Scottish folk music, or know friends who might like my music. Please SHARE!

Surprising to see. Good on them!

It's not that the Trumpists are firing valuable scientists, it's that they are, quite literally, destroying scientific data that's taken years to collect. They are explicitly deleting information to make it as hard as possible for anyone to ever try to recover from this purge.

Way to go Team Canada!!!!!

German ambassador discusses strengthening trade and tells Canadians 'Europe has your back' 🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺 #canada #germany #eu #cdnpoli #canadastrong #fucktrump #tariffs

Look for the helpers. Time for me to start focusing who I follow so it's easier to see the people who are actively working on problems.

From the official White House account. But please go on debating how it can’t be that bad and you definitely keep doing nothing and expecting it to improve.

How long until they realize they fired the people they shouldn't have? Oh, right, I'm sure this is a fully informed decision like the others.

www.thewhig.com/opinion/amer...

I wondered what insanity I missed today, and despite everything, I'm not sure I could've guessed this. Although...my reaction seems to be becoming more common: W.T.F.

They are not "auditing" anything. Audits are rigorous and systematic, with decisions based on evidence not ideology or a whim.

Good on Zelenskyy for not signing/agreeing.

America is living their hell. Canada has time to do the right thing!! Non voters determine the winner of elections!! Please show up and vote for Ontario and Canada!!

Do your magic Canada 🇨🇦 #boycottAirbnb

If you are neutral in the face of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. Not choosing a side is indeed choosing a side. Ultimately you may be choosing to lose your choice. Stand up for what you believe in! Stand up for what is right!

NEW: The Washington Post has pulled out of an agreement to run an ad in its newspaper criticising Elon Musk. This is despite signing an agreement to publish it. Democracy dies in darkness. Here is the ad. Let’s share it far and wide! Screw the Post.

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

The ad the Washington Post refused to run. You know what to do.

Let me ask again: where are presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton. Where are the Fortune 500 CEOs? The university presidents. Is all this “leadership” stuff they tout just words? I don’t want to think so but the question must be asked.

Don't do this. It's worse than no alt text. Alt text doesn't have to be perfect, but just make an honest effort and we'll all be good.

Great quotes here from a Canadian official — viewing the provincial premiers as rubes who went to DC, learned it’s not actually that easy dealing with Trump, paid $85,000 for a meeting with senior-mid-level staff, got publicly ridiculed after by that Trump staff ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/214...

The outside of the US Department of Justice vs. the inside of the White House.