Plain Jane 100

Plain Jane 100

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Laurence Thompson
@thompsonlg.bsky.social

🇨🇦 trade is shifting: “exports to the US slumped in March but jumped to other countries….exports to the US tumbled 6.6% [month/month] while imports…dropped 2.9%….The drop in southbound trade was largely offset by a 24.8% jump in exports to other countries”.

theglobeandmail.comCanadian exports to U.S. slump, but surge to other countriesStatscan data for March, the first month of U.S. tariffs and Canadian countertariffs, show rewiring of trading relationships

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Brittlestar
@brittlestar.com

Poilievre losing his seat is almost Shakespearean: Pretender to the throne riles countrymen with anger, gets defeated by guy with Joy in his name. It’s basically Macbeth.

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Tara Moriarty
@moriartylab.bsky.social

Canadian COVID Forecast Apr 26-May 9, 2025 CANADA VERY HIGH (no change) About 1 in every 142 people infected Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~11X higher -Long COVID ~10X higher -Hospitalizations ~15X higher -Deaths ~14X higher

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Hank Green
@hankgreen.bsky.social

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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Toronto Star
@thestar.com

Donald Trump’s bullying threats may never stop. Canadians are right to stand up. Canada is more united than ever before. Booing the U.S anthem at hockey games. Buying Canadian as much as possible. Giving up vacations in the U.S. #Opinion

thestar.comGillian Steward: Donald Trump’s bullying threats may never stop. Canadians are right to stand upThe Oval Office scene of Trump and Vice-President JD Vance bullying President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine instructs Canada as to how low Trump will go.

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Angry
@angrystaffer.bsky.social

This was always the math - it didn’t need a CBO scoring for people to realize this, but hopefully now they’ll wake up. The GOP is going after Medicaid and Medicare to give their rich friends a tax cut. Full stop.

Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social

NEW: Republicans cannot meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office says The math is simple 👇 House Budget requires E&C to cut spending by $880 billion. CBO says E&C oversees $581 billion outside Medicare/Medicaid. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

nbcnews.comRepublicans cannot meet their own budget target without cutting Medicare or Medicaid, budget office saysThe House GOP has ordered the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicare and Medicaid funding, to cut $880 billion in a bill to advance Trump's agenda.

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Gerald Butts
@gmbutts.bsky.social

Putin is popping a special bottle of Champagne from a cellar in St Petersburg.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social

“I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States from being the primary guarantor of security in Europe.” US Secretary of Defence, February 12, 2025. Everything changed today.

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NBC News
@nbcnews.com

Elite American figure skaters were onboard the flight that suffered a midair collision with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and crashed into the Potomac River on Wednesday, the official American body for the sport says.

nbcnews.comAmerican Eagle flight was carrying figure skaters home from a training camp before crashRussian world pairs figure skating champions and married couple Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov were among the passengers, according to Russian state news agencies.

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