Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦

Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦

@joel.klebanoff.com

Worrier & retired person (that order). Boomer, grumpy old man (since forever). Travel. | Be nice. Especially to me. | repost≠endorse | Be all you can be. Wake me when you’re done. | Toronto 🇨🇦 Long Live Canada | Vive le Canada.

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How does one get added to a starter pack of introverted, insecure neurotics? Nah, never mind. I'm not worthy of being added to a starter pack. And I'm worried that people might start interacting with me if I do get added to one.

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Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

Daniel Drezner@dandrezner.bsky.social

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

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#Canada

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

Canada's PM Carney: To the extent any progress has been made in US trade talks, it's because the US is coming closer to our position

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Hello, I would like my $4,000,000, preferably stuffed into a bag from a Cava restaurant.

Vince D. Monroy@vincedmonroy.bsky.social

Trump: “Anybody reporting Voter Fraud in the past Elections, or the upcoming 2026 Midterm Election, will be paid $1,000,000 upon the arrest and conviction of those that created the Fraud!”

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in the two hours after voting was extended in brazil, 35k more people cast ballots. makes no difference to lula’s margin of four million votes… story reflects more brazilians’ understandable lack of trust in their supreme court (61% distrust stf justices) than any claims of electoral manipulation

It's municipal election day in Ontario (🇨🇦). I just voted. Even if you're not thrilled with any of the candidates, not voting makes it more likely that the person you think is the worst choice will win. Vote. And happy Election Day!

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If the Canadian head of government publicly endorsed a Democrat candidate — any Democrat — Trump and the MAGA mob wouldn’t stop screaming about election interference and threatening Canada for months. But Trump endorsing Netanyahu? 🤷🏻‍♂️

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com

JUST IN: Trump reposts his endorsement of Bibi Netanyahu, urging Israelis to vote for Netanyahu so the war against Iran can continue. “We have to finish the job that we started!”

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Muslims didn’t storm the Capitol on January 6, try to steal an election, or overthrow our government. White Christian nationalists, racist militia groups, and rabid Trump supporters did. We need to stop pretending the biggest terrorist threat to this country is coming from somewhere else.

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Obama: "That well-known evil empire Canada. That historical adversary of ours. Canada! *laughs* It's your neighbor. It's a few minutes' drive over the bridge! These are the people who gave us Martin Short and maple syrup. They are the nicest people! And someone we've gotten them so mad."

I long for the United States to return to the days when it had vital, sane, serious, intelligent Presidents, even when I disagreed with some of them. It doesn't have that now.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

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🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Trump claimed that his uncle, John Trump, invented radar. Maybe he should inform Wikipedia.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

😬 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:

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Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

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PM Carney sharply criticized the decision to restrict Ukraine’s satellite access: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision or group of people took this decision against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of the citizens against naked aggression.”

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

Considering his history (especially the Epstein files), is anyone surprised that Trump would defend the abuser and vilify the victim?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "Ramaswamy put up a very powerful Ad about a mother saying that her daughter, Acton, is a liar, and much worse. The Press is trying to get him to 'take down the Ad.' Frankly, anybody whose mother spoke about daughter that way would normally lead to the daughter being precluded from serving"

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Republicans have long made a major issue that George Soros has been a donor to Democrats, spinning insane lies about him to make that a bad thing Elon Musk is a *much* bigger donor to Republicans and there's no need to invent lies about him. Just tell the truth about the evil shit he says and does

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

JD Vance's main line of attack on Dan Osborn is SOROS!

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Bill Clinton: “I’m tired of the way we treat our allies like dirt. And just last week, President Trump finally did what he threatened to do when he first ran, which is to abandon Ukraine and embrace Vladimir Putin all over again.” I hope the American people are also tired of it

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📌Trump’s latest capitulation to Russia should close the case on his treason. By lifting sanctions on the murderous Putin, disrupting crucial satellite systems used by Ukraine, and pushing for its surrender to Putin, Trump is no longer bothering to hide his contempt for us, and love of Mother Russia.

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Add this to the long list of Trump business failures and scams. But his endless grifts profiting off the presidency over the past decade has still increased his net worth exponentially, and he’s already made tons of cash off people who invested in this.

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Mitch McConnell is still too feeble to do things like drive a car, send an email, or feed himself. He must be eased back into daily life by serving as a United States senator.

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Man, if only if he had launched his political career in 2015 by calling Mexicans rapists and drug dealers we might have known in advance that Donald Trump was the most openly racist politician since the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, a terrorist group his father notoriously ran with

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump: "You go up to Minnesota -- number one place in the entire country for the sale of Mercedes-Benz. And Somalians are buying them. They come here with low IQs and no money and they get rich. Do we feel stupid? Our fraud division is getting them all."

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Trump: "The first one is they show you a lion, a bear, a snake, and a giraffe. And they say, 'Which one is the giraffe?' I got a perfect score."

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Also, please ignore the fact that I've spent the last five years telling you it's broken.

Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre: "Please get out and vote for Canada. This is the best country in the world. There are literally billions of people who would trade their country for ours if they had the chance."

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Reyes, before she wraps up golf course hearing, says her family has been texting her, "freaking out" over CNN report about death threats bc of this case. "A federal judge is getting death threats over a golf course. I really don’t think that’s what the founders envisioned."

Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social

At 10am Judge Ana Reyes will begin an evidentiary hearing in the golf course case at 10am. I'll try to live-blog from the US Courthouse media room for @lawfaremedia.org . This is a case to stop Trump from converting a historic public golf course, open to all, to a Trump style championship course.

Hassett, effectively: There are still some people who can afford nice things so everything is fine and the rest of you should just suck it up.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Hassett: "If economic polls were correct, then people wouldn't be taking trips to nice hotels, they wouldn't be flying, they wouldn't be buying cars, they wouldn't be doing all the things they do when they're feeling good about the economy... people are acting like we're in a boom. We are in a boom"

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The US military fired roughly 19 years’ worth of Patriot interceptor purchases in just seven months of Trump’s Iran War, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimates.

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Replying to @gottalaff.bsky.social

3/ This is what Trump is aiding and abetting:

UNITED24 Media@united24media.com

🚨 BREAKING: Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv late on October 18, hitting a medical center. Kyiv Mayor Klychko reported that the strikes landed in the Desnyanskyi and Dniprovskyi districts shortly after air raid sirens sounded.

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No country should trust the U.S. as an ally as long as treacherous, greedy authoritarians are in charge of the U.S. government. The U.S. should be treated as a pariah by all democratic nations.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Bessent repeatedly refuses to say that Ukraine is still a US ally: "President Trump has made clear that he wants to end this war, that it must stop ... I'm not the secretary of state. I'm not the president."

Tell me again about how other countries are meddling in U.S. elections.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Zuckerberg's own employees confirm that he directed an intentional effort to throw the Brazilian election in favor of Flávio Bolsonaro, apparently because he understood this is what Trump wanted. www.reuters.com/world/americ...