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Father of four who cares very much about what we're leaving for our children. Political junkie. Swears a lot. Anti-fascist. Anti-authoritarian. Woke. Canadian. LGBTQ2S+ Ally. ADHD.
Please don't ask me for money. I have no extra to spare.
NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report.
Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.
I live in a rural town and, like, I don't know how to tell you this, but the girls play on the boys team and vice versa all the time because otherwise we don't have enough players for a game and it's literally always fine so stop being weirdos about kids sports and just let trans kids play.
🚨 BREAKING: Lula is projected to WIN reelection as president of Brazil, defeating Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro and an ally of Donald Trump.
The projection comes just ONE DAY after Reuters exposed a Trump administration effort to help return the Bolsonaro family to power.
Fascists lose in Brazil, Serbia, and Hungary.
Rising protests in Albania, France, and other European countries against billionaires and corruption.
Very encouraging...
Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. personally met with Vučić, while Jared Kushner pursued a major luxury real estate project with his government.
Now, after nearly two years of massive student-led protests against corruption and authoritarianism, Vučić's ruling party has been defeated at the ballot box.
A letter sent to Trump Chief of Staff Susie Wiles by several House members, incl. Ro Khanna, demanded “an immediate, govt-wide investigation into the decision to restrict SpaceX's Starshield satellite-based intelligence & military support services in Ukraine.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/how-long-c...
Breaking
Lula has re-taken the lead in the Brasil Presidential Election. Expecting this to be called very soon, with Lula winning.
🟥Lula 50.03% (left-wing) [incumbent]
🟦Bolsonaro 49.97% (right-wing)
48.4% reporting
First Orban, now Vučić. Both fundamentally undone by rank corruption of their regimes.
Which is so often the reality of the authoritarian right in power.
Really worth paying heed to in Western Europe right now
We had 48% voter turnout. 10% lower than last election. Lowest in the past 30 years. Looks like Cons got about the same number of votes as the previous election (900k), while the former NDP voters decided that doomscrolling on a rainy Saturday was more important.
This supercut from MeidasTouch is likely to make Trump VERY upset. The difference between Trump and Obama is on full display, and the contrast is absolutely devastating. Watch until the end…
I love this song.
In memory of my friend Steve, who taught me to love John Denver, and the claw hammer banjo, and who passed away tragically this year in a senseless car accident.
Not his fault.
I truly miss you. ❤️
youtu.be/sB6X0AbzZo8?...
U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.
In 1969 in London, Ontario, Gary Shaw opened The PoP Shoppe.
The company quickly found success and grew thanks to its famous mix-and-match system.
But by 1983 it was gone...only to return two decades later.
This is the story.
📸 The PoP Shoppe
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Netanyahu helped Kushner hide $1 billion in UAE funds at Israel's central bank, new book claims. This is from Israeli media www.ynetnews.com/article/b1av...
A California sheriff rebuked by the state's highest court over a sweeping election move now wants someone else to cover the fallout.
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/o...?
the reason you issue preemptive mass pardons is to reassure junior staff who are shitting themselves that they’re safe and they don’t have to flip on you.
going to be very important to push back on their validity, which is nil, preemptively also
😬 Trump sounds like hell during bizarre pre-rally gaggle 😬
Trump could barely speak, but what he said was nutso. He claimed his uncle invented radar, said he could "violate" Prizker and send troops into Chicago, and had a weirdly contradictory answer when asked who he golfed with today.
Supercut:
Good morning!
The village of Peacham, Vermont at moonrise with New Hampshire's White Mountains in the background. Photographed by Gal Steinberg Photography..
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it.
Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater.
I made an 8-bit game out of it—
📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money.
📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
2,671 PSAC members at Parks Canada received notice this week that their positions may be cut. These cuts put our environment, natural and cultural heritage, parks, and national historic sites at risk.
psacunion.ca/psac-raises-...
It's election day in BC. And it's stupid and awful and I get if you have the urge to not vote.
But you should still vote. At the very least because in BC, parties get funding based on their vote percentage.
If you truly hate all of the parties, write in whatever you want or spoil your ballot.
🔴 VOTER ALERT: Texans keep reporting touchscreens that flip a Democratic pick to Paxton, and officials keep saying it's user error.
Maybe so, but Paxton built a career screaming about election integrity, so let him demand the audit.
Voters, check that paper printout before you cast it.