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Newfoundlander in Ontario | Chocolate addict | Pittsburgh Penguins fan 🏒🐧 | Might be a bit snarky | Blocker of trolls, Maple MAGA, MAGA, GoFundMe & idiots | Won't follow back & will block if you have nothing posted/have no bio | Views are my own
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"From Vancouver Island to the Alberta highlands... something to sing about this land of ours." Also a land to stand up for and defend. Not today fascist. Not ever. #elbowsup

Love that Canadian elections are run by nonpartisan, independent Election Canada - they try to get as many to vote as possible. Your ID can be anything from a drivers license to a letter from your shelter or soup kitchen. #Vote #CanadaStrong www.elections.ca/content2.asp...

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:

SCOOP: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants, sources tell WIRED. They're knitting together data from the DHS, SSA, and the IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope. read @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social:

This.

TOMORROW- Make your voices heard at Indivisible's event, “NO KINGS! 50 State Nationwide Protest (250th Anniversary of the American Revolution)” - sign up NOW! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

NBC News confirms: Gary Shapley, acting commissioner of the IRS, is being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent approached Trump to say that Shapley was appointed without his knowledge and at Elon Musk’s direction. @msnbc.com

If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.

The labor movement stands in solidarity with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and SMART Union for due process and the rule of law. Write your member of Congress and demand they bring our union brother home NOW!

Guy who doesn’t want journalists asking questions conveniently doesn’t have to answer questions.

Poilievre kept repeating talking points, saying “vote for change”. HE’S BEEN IN PARLIAMENT FOR 20 YEARS! He was part of the Harper gov’t in power for a decade with the worst economic record, worst jobs growth since WWII. The highest trade deficits in Canadian history! That’s not change! #Debate2025

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

"working poor" we seem to have normalized the term and the condition. It shouldn't be a thing. #Oxymoron #cdnpoli Canada needs a Guaranteed Basic Income. People have been struggling for far too long.

ICYMI -

Andrew Coyne said this fiasco ends any suggestion that The Rebel and other far-right outlets are journalists. He called them thugs and bully boys who stake out an extreme far-right position and then accuse any legitimate journalist who challenges them of bias. All that is true.

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

Thank you to everyone watching this shitshow & giving real-time updates to those of us who didn’t have the stomach for poilievre tonight.

There’s more cases in Ontario.

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Not sure what's going on here CBC just reported Ezra Levant and another journalist got into a shouting match backstage at the leaders debate and now Levant is claiming the Debates Commission is shutting down the entire post-debate media scrum altogether www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

How is it possible U.S. citizens are being held as illegal aliens in America even after they produce their birth certificate? This is intolerable. www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...

Because if anything is waste, fraud or abuse, it’s frickin food safety inspections. /s

Fucksakes

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

After 21 years at my dream job, I’m very sad to announce my early retirement from the National Institutes of Health. My life’s work has been to scientifically study how our food environment affects what we eat, and how what we eat affects our physiology.

I’ll never understand it.

Trump has already said this is what he plans to do.

A Statement of the American Meteorological Society (@ametsoc.org) in Partnership with the National Weather Association (@nwas.org) nwas.org/stand-up-for...

Everyone in Ontario knew the Therme/Ontario Place deal was shady from the start. Like not literally shady - they tore out all the trees. And gave away $1.5 billion of our dollars in corporate welfare. The people of Ontario lost a park visited by 2M people/yr based on a big lie from Therme.

This is from J. Harvie Wilkinson III, a Reagan appointee:

I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

When was the last time a party leader, running for prime minister, refused to allow reporters to travel with the campaign, or submit to in-depth interviews on policy?

Surprise surprise. Giving free rein to for-profit developers doesn't help the housing crisis. You lose irreplaceable green infrastructure in favour of developer-enriching sprawl. No surprise in a place where the government at every level is corrupted by developers. thelogic.co/news/the-big...