John-O ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

John-O ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

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Refugee from the male, pale and stale pity party. Loves dogs, country living and 60s Brit sports cars.

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Tom Mulcair: "I don't think that Danielle Smith should be allowed to pose herself as some sort of anti-separatist hero. She's the one who set this thing in motion, and I think that she should be answerable for it."

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Trump: "It's interesting -- China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such." (China has the largest wind power capacity in the world!)

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Obama: โ€œImagine if I had pulled Fox Newsโ€™ credentials from the White House press corps. Youโ€™re laughing, but this is whatโ€™s happening. Itโ€™s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.โ€ Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com

Had occasion to read the Declaration of Independence yesterday after reading a claim that it confirmed the US was a Christian nation. It doesn't, but I never realized the list of grievances against the Crown including allowing the practice of Catholicism in Quebec. Seems very un-Christian.

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OPINION: "Meeting & befriending people of different ethnicities, nationalities & faiths helped me dispel some of my preconceived notions that, in retrospect, were unfair," Schumann writes. "(They) shared their cultures with me & โ€ฆ gave me grace in moments when I didnโ€™t always understand their ways."

mississippifreepress.orgEditorโ€™s Note | Education Is Not Indoctrination. College Simply Challenges Small Worldviews.Features Editor Nate Schumann rebukes the claim that higher education โ€œbrainwashesโ€ students into becoming more liberal in their views.

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SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! ๐Ÿ™ (also: ๐Ÿคฃ)

LOL, Republican CNN panelist called Prime Minister Mark Carney, formerly of Goldman Sachs and later Brookfield Asset Management, a "socialist". It suggests the GOP wants MAGA to believe anything to the left of Milton Friedman is a Communist.

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The Pentagon has been quietly paying an X influencer as a federal employee since July โ€” and refuses to say what she does. This came out almost by accident, through the "Data Republican" leak story. It's a taxpayer-funded propaganda operation hiding in plain sight. Full breakdown:

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it is darkly funny that his son got married and he was like "ohhhhh uhhhh something popped up, you know, the war, I gotta do work on the war that night, unfortunately I just can't go" and then 2 weeks later, same war still going on, he's shutting down midtown Manhattan to watch the Knicks