I think Trump Mar-A-Lago “raid” was either: -a major national security scandal about a trove of top-secret documents that Trump was trying to sell to Putin or the Saudis; OR -a Got Junk? cleanup of old presidential souvenirs that the Tr…
Wouldn’t you just love to be a fly on Hillary Clinton’s wall tonight?
— mamabear (@lmoon79) August 9, 2022
Dark Brandon works pretty fast, doesn’t he?
trump couldn’t lock up hillary in 4 years, brandon raided his home in 2. pic.twitter.com/kbEA4ll3fR
— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 8, 2022
Karma just grabbed Trump by the p*ssy.
— Mayo 🌻 (@MayoIsSpicyy) August 8, 2022
An FBI raid on a former president sets a dangerous precedent by implying the rule of law applies equally to everyone.
— Seva (@SevaUT) August 9, 2022
FBI: Raids Trump’s for-profit house.
World: Wow, I wonder which of Trump’s crimes this is about.
— Hunter (@HunterDK) August 8, 2022
Ok this is funny as hell🤣#VoteDemocratStraightDownTheBallot https://t.co/Q6hVmoeBWk
— Cat Joe💙 🌊 (@Mr_gsPenguin) August 9, 2022
Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi walked MSNBC viewers through what the Miami Field Office had to do to execute today’s search warrant on Mar-a-Lago… .…the New York Times and CNN have sources confirming that the raid focused on the National Archives documents. Figiluzzi also confirmed it with as much certainty as he could….“I have a medium to high degree of certainty that this at least is focused in part on national archives case…The time to negotiate and turn everything over is long gone, and now we’ve reached the point where agents are convincing a judge that they have evidence of a crime.”
It’s really hard not to just enjoy the hubris of Mr. “Lock Her Up” being raided by the FBI, but let’s actually just focus on what it all means that Donald Trump has had Mar-A-Lago raided today.The specific search seems to be about some Presidential records and classified documents that Trump took to Mar-A-Lago, but it’s also fair to say that we don’t know what those records supposedly show, and therefore whether or not this is connected to one or both of the Grand Juries investigating the attempt to overturn the 2020 election with fake electors and January 6th, respectively. That said, on some level, the details don’t matter for the politics of all of this, and that’s where the GOP are in deep, deep trouble.…[the GOP] are not going to make strategically optimal decisions to appeal to the centre ground, because their heads are so far up their own asses that they think loyalty to Trump matters more than electability.… the GOP are shooting themselves in the feet and letting Democrats reframe this election away from Biden and to a choice between them and a cast of fucking crazy people.Democrats can now tie together the defence of criminality here with the incredibly restrictive abortion policies of state GOPs and create a coherent narrative about their sensible, pragmatic approach to helping everyday Americans and the GOP’s weird obsession with criminalizing women and defending Trump. If that’s not a winning message, I don’t know what is.
Fox News seems to be going full “Defund The Police” tonight.
— Alex Usher (@AlexUsherHESA) August 9, 2022
Given that Fox “News” seems to have been extremely well-prepared with guests (Dan Bongino, Bannon) and reaction language parroting trump’s statements (“third-world”), it seems pretty clear that trump tipped off RW media hours before he basically broke the news himself.
— Paul Loop, Boosted … Twice (@ploop52) August 9, 2022
Oh, look… everything wrong with the media in one tweet/like. pic.twitter.com/kYqxcMjDjw
— Daily Trix (@DailyTrix) August 9, 2022
My guess is this wouldn’t haven’t happened, given that he’s a former president, and how divided the country is, if they weren’t basically sure that they were going to seek indictment, and this is just the last stages before that.
— Mike Brock (@brockm) August 9, 2022
In other words, shit is going to get real. And I’m kind of afraid, personally, given what a powder keg this country is.
— Mike Brock (@brockm) August 9, 2022
What I’m hearing from several sources close to Trump: he’s digesting the news, keeping close eye on coverage. Some allies are urging him to speed up his decision on 2024 in the wake of this, that no one in GOP will challenge him now… others are telling him to stay cool, wait.
— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 9, 2022
Well as long as Republicans are taking things calmly and responsibly pic.twitter.com/oio1oGYwGl
— DarkTimesHat (@Popehat) August 9, 2022
Anytime a powerful person comes under investigation you get to read the Wall Street journal’s op-Ed page become the ACLU
— Gilgamesh962648485837262627283 (@champagne_burps) August 9, 2022
It all went downhill after Melanie learned she was going to be buried on the edge of a golf course in New Jersey. Coincidence? 😂
— Janice Braden (@JL_Braden) August 9, 2022
A day when “approvingly cited the Nazis as a role model for his military leaders” is a distant second-worst news story for a former president.
— Tim Carvell (@timcarvell) August 9, 2022
And here’s what I’m also wondering about tonight:
As a former president, does Trump still get National Security briefings? https://t.co/CEWsyJnjer
— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) August 9, 2022
Man, August has been a newsy month. Lucky it’s almost over.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 8, 2022
Compare Trump’s meltdown with Biden’s compassion:
I’m a Kentuckian born and raised. It is absolutely mind boggling to me that Joe Biden has been to visit families of eastern Kentucky who’ve been absolutely devastated by floods — and Mitch McConnell and Rand Paul haven’t. https://t.co/djXn1iw0sF
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) August 8, 2022
Moving on, here’s a list that Saskatchewan needs to keep track of:
Scandals for the @SaskParty – let’s keep a list. I want to see how far this goes. 1. Lying about not knowing about abuse at Christian schools they fund.
— Citizens for a Safer Saskatchewan (@Sasksafer) August 6, 2022
On a lighter note, this New York Times column is making science remarkable:
Still chuckling about the “when an eel climbs a ramp to eat squid from a clamp” headline. Tell us, @NYTScience, what’s your process? My compliments to the headline chefs https://t.co/b9L9O7G8Jf
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) August 8, 2022
Big Democratic win today in the US Senate. This “Dark Brandon” meme seems to have legs:
Thanks, @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/2PxrbDOtJB
— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) August 8, 2022
#DarkBrandonRises pic.twitter.com/skjETVXU5Y
— Molly Cochran ☮️🇺🇦🌻 (@MollyC82) August 8, 2022
— ShV77💙 (@Sharon9177) August 8, 2022
I love DARK BRANDON!! pic.twitter.com/2PX6b4kopa
— Kathy McCarty (@KMTBERRY) August 8, 2022
Rob Reiner knew:
Said it before. I’ll say it again. Joe Biden has accomplished more in his first two years than any President in the last 60. We all need to shout this from the rooftops!
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) August 3, 2022
Not one Republican in the Senate voted for the most consequential bill to address Climate Change and the lowering of Prescription Drug prices in US history. We have President Biden, Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi and the Democrats to thank. Never forget that.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) August 7, 2022
Somewhere, Harry Reid is looking down and nodding “Well played, grasshopper. Well played!”
Give props to @SenSchumer He kept at it even after BBB collapsed. He kept his negotiations w Joe Manchin completely secret until the CHIP bill passed, brilliantly outmaneuvering McConnell. He threaded the needle on climate to get Manchin, on taxes to get Sinema. Well done, Chuck!
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) August 7, 2022
Credit to them all. https://t.co/yxOQ4suzUu
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 8, 2022
I dumped all over Schumer three months ago. I would like some A1 sauce with my crow https://t.co/iXGYJBOkJ6
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 7, 2022
Let’s not get carried away here https://t.co/GQCzLqqxGJ
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 8, 2022
If voters this November cast their ballots exclusively for the candidates and party that are most likely to help improve their lives there will not be a single Republican elected to the House or Senate.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 8, 2022
what a difference a real POTUS makes. and a party that’s not a cult. kudos to Biden and Dems. https://t.co/OSsStwvf0H
— Raffi Cavoukian (@Raffi_RC) August 8, 2022
Moving on, here are tweets that lay down some truth!
It took a few years but the Reform Party is finally destroying the Conservative Party.
— Ron☘ (@kellr2010) August 7, 2022
Anger had replaced ideology for so many conservative writers. And anger not at injustice but at change.
— Reverend Michael Coren (@michaelcoren) August 6, 2022
Sorry but if we let people choose their own gender then what’s next? Something else that’s none of my business and won’t harm me in the slightest? I mean where does it end?
— Martha Kelly (@MarthaKelly3) July 30, 2022
There is no both sides in Ukraine. Russia is wrong. Ukraine is right. End of story
— Paul Massaro (@apmassaro3) August 4, 2022
The thing about Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan is that eight Republican congressmen spent the Fourth of July in Moscow one day after it was confirmed they meddled in our election.
— Ethan Persists (@EthanResists) August 6, 2022
Now this one — wow, what a thread!
this to be the headline? Might it be that they are trying to run out the clock because there are elections in the CPC & UCP, and what they REALLY don’t want is a country focused on the vast amount of material we should be discussing that reveals what it/2
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
like victims of the Holocaust. They’ve believed conspiracies, claimed a global pandemic isn’t real, wouldn’t get vaccinated but would take veterinary medicine for horses. They’ve screamed about our PM, driven around with the worst stickers & decals on their/4
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
ever done anything other than scream about supposed rights and freedoms and conduct themselves in a way that made sure others did get sick? And that’s patriotism and love of country? They hooked up together as white supremacists, Yellow Vesters, conspiracy /6
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
elections. Do Conservatives want us focused on this, rehashing and having serious discourse about this? No! So knowing the centre-left and left will happily distract ourselves responding to their ridiculous chatter about our PM on vacation, they keep /8
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
fatigue in Canada. I don’t know who they asked & how they asked it, to land on this theory, but it’s nuts. The fatigue in Canada is with Conservatives. This isn’t just a Canadian phenomenon, it’s a global phenomenon. People are sick to death of the /10
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
We are sick of the Trumps, MAGA, Ultra MAGA, Bannon, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Pierre Poilievre, Maxime Bernier, Ezra Lavant, Rebel News, Stephen Harper, Andrew Sheer, Kenney, UPC, CPC, Rex Murphy, Tamara Lich,Pat King, Danielle Smith, Le Pen in France, Orbán/12
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
we’ve been trying to peacefully live alongside, then, man, you do not understand what’s going on in Canada,& elsewhere, because I can assure you, we’re exhausted from it & we are so, so sick of it. And to think that in Canada, we’d be tired of the one guy /14
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
of, that Pierre Poilievre looks attractive to us? Hahahaha!! Do you not see how funny this is? It’s bizarre. So have your games where you plant seeds & then pretend you’re just reporting on how every day Canadians think. Bull shit. Bull shit. Bull shit./16
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
on making sure you never get elected. I’m not distracted; neither are the ppl I know. You aren’t worthy of governing if you use lies & conspiracies to manipulate, if you harbour white supremacist ideology,& if you want to dismantle 🇨🇦 to build a kingdom./fin
— Heidi Scott 🌻 (@scottheidi576) August 7, 2022
On the lighter side, what a sweet story:
All the feels. 💕 Bravo, @theweeknd! 🙌🏼 pic.twitter.com/UDrOvYFNZR
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) August 8, 2022
The stories in this thread are hysterical:
When an article says “some scientists think” then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn’t given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.
— John Kennedy (@micefearboggis) August 3, 2022
It includes stories like these:
I used to work in a pool bar. I once had to call ab ambulance for someone who got cueball stuck in his mouth for a bet. When paramedics arrived they asked what happened and his friend demonstrated and got one stuck in his mouth
— Peaked Interest (@Peaked1nterest) July 21, 2022
When we first got a shredder at work, my department overlooked it. We watched the finance manager walk purposefully down from upstairs, insert some papers, then turn to us with an expression of dawning horror to ask, ‘Isn’t this the fax machine?’
— urbanmammal 🕊 (@theurbanmammal) July 21, 2022
This is cute, isn’t it:
I don’t normally do political tweets but in these times of hate and divisiveness, I think this is a message we can all get behind.
📸: Jenny Sowry pic.twitter.com/U3tUWal1Nf
— Paul Bastard Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) August 7, 2022
Finally, here’s another great one:
Happy 72nd birthday to David Wottle and his hat. 1972. 800m. Gold. Hero.
— Honest☘️Larry (@HonestLarry1) August 7, 2022
Starting with some good cartoons: The GOP’s miscalculation:Handmaids vote. #MobilizeForMidterms pic.twitter.com/xeatccejZJ— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) August 6, 2022 We thought everybody had already been divided into voters and vessel…
This is true for us lefty Canadians too: In fact, I’m so crazy I wrote an article about it!https://t.co/DQtpnHeMeq— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 5, 2022 Being timid, defensive, and afraid is a losing strategy according to Anat Shenkar-Osario, pre…
…are finding a way to make it work. They have done it alone with the American Rescue Plan. They have done it all but alone or alone on key judgeships and senior level appointments. They have had a handful of Republicans join on the infrastructure bill.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 5, 2022
Credit to @SenSchumer and @SpeakerPelosi for their leadership. Credit to @Sen_JoeManchin and @SenatorSinema despite all the problems they have caused in the past for coming through when the country needed it. And above all, credit to @POTUS.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 5, 2022
Restoring leadership abroad w/a remarkable global set of initiatives that have truly reset US foreign policy for a new era. It’s not hyperbole. It wasn’t flashy. It was certainly unlikely. But day-in and day-out the president and his team have focused on one thing: governing.
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 5, 2022
It’s old school. Sometimes it’s ugly. Certainly, we all have areas where we wish more was getting done. But what they’re doing is a lot. It will make a big difference in millions, even billions, of lives around he planet. And we should be happy about that. Who’d a thunk it?
— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) August 5, 2022
Republicans thought they won something big when SCOTUS dismantled abortion rights in June.
Screw politics. Screw poll numbers. Joe Biden has a record of accomplishments in the first two years of his Presidency that has gone unmatched for almost 60 years.
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) July 29, 2022
Biden inherited a torn nation. It’s fabric is ripped along Red & Blue fault lines. He is the only Democrat who could have won in 2020. He continues to give his all to the country he loves. President Biden is a good man doing his best for an often ungrateful nation.#FreshResists pic.twitter.com/l9DyYwEMra
— Southern Sister Resister – Wordsmith #IAmTheStorm (@ResisterSis20) August 4, 2022
I love this “Dark Brandon” reference:
Dark Brandon is settling his debts.
— AmiableQuinn (@AmiableQuinn) August 2, 2022
And here’s an unexpected twist:
“In our nation’s 246 year history there has never been an individual who is a greater threat to our Republic than Donald Trump.” Dick Cheney pic.twitter.com/erBPBNy8ah
— Liz Cheney (@Liz_Cheney) August 4, 2022
Watching people find ways to agree with Dick Cheney has been my favorite part of Twitter for the last day or so
— Matt Gurney (@mattgurney) August 5, 2022
Turning to Canadian politics, just this tonight:
The major divide in politics today isn’t between left and right. It’s between people who believe politicians exist to validate their feelings about the world, and those who believe politicians are there to at least try to run the friggin country responsibly. #cdnpoli
— Jeff Rybak🍁 (@JeffRybak) July 31, 2022
— Hans Collin (@HansCollin2) August 4, 2022
I seldom pay much attention to the latest right-wing anti-Liberal hate-fest — from SNC Lavelin to WE, they started out with the Trudeau government looking awful while the national media huffed and puffed to try to blow Trudeau’s house down, and in the end, Meh!
On Wednesday, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly was asked if her office was aware of the intelligence that Ukrainian staff for foreign embassies were allegedly on Russia’s list of targeted individuals — and deliberately withheld the information from the local staff at the mission.“Never did I or the department have any information targeting locally engaged Canadian staff. We never got that information, nor me or my team or the department,” Joly told reporters at a joint news conference with her visiting German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, after the two met to discuss the energy and food security crises as well as trade.“I know we have a specific duty of care. I know this is in conversations within the department whether that duty of care applies to locally engaged staff. I would say that morally we have an obligation toward locally engaged staff.”…Joly said she had spoken “directly” with the locally engaged staff about their safety and security during her visits in Ukraine in January before the war and followed up with the department and Canadian ambassador in Kyiv, Larisa Galadza, on this issue, throughout, including on Feb. 24, when the war was declared.“Ukraine is a war-torn country, we wanted to make sure that they had options. They were offered options to come to Canada. Some of them have decided to come. Some of them have decided to stay,” said Joly, who praised the contributions of the local Ukrainian staff members.“They were also given full payment and compensation and benefits, although for some time the diplomats were outside of the country.”
In other news, the CPC had another leadership debate tonight.
Reminds me of… pic.twitter.com/f8yg3oLUBH
— Stephen Lautens (@stephenlautens) August 4, 2022
Scrimshaw has been on fire lately when it comes to the leadership contest – which he says is no contest at all:
… for my selfish self-interest, I want people to be pretending this is a close race, because then it makes me look more prescient when Poilievre wins easily. This race has been called in the pages of this site perfectly from the day the campaign started, with Poilievre a clear and obvious winner, with Charest and Brown jokes, and with Lewis a theoretical danger but probably not one, because Poilievre was always going to eat her lunch…
Every time someone tells to subscribe to the @NationalPost I ask, Have you read it lately? Why don’t you ask me to subscribe to Pierre Poilievre’s digital media scripts about wood or woodpeckers of whatever he thinks Canada’s bird brains want to hear? https://t.co/MhbZnjgK3H
— Charles Adler (@charlesadler) August 3, 2022
Our P.M gets a haircut. Conservatives & their media go berserk.
The P.M takes his family on vacation the conservatives & their media go berserk.
The Liberals rack up a 5.3 billion surplus nothing.
Pierre Poilievre is afraid to debate Charest, Nothing. Welcome to Trumpland— Clay Thompson (@harryt59_harry) August 3, 2022
Incredible! Tonight has shown, beyond any shadow of doubt, that universal access to safe and affordable abortion care is incredibly popular. When Kansas votes 2:1 to support abortion care, I think the conversation on “public debate” is pretty much over…
Some chatter these days about how conservatives and progressives aren’t talking to each other very much anymore. Another day of nightmare oppression in communist Canada 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/msNUsft7Se— Dr. Ian Garner (@irgarner) July 17, 2022 We don’t a…
For Saturday night, here’s a collection of odd tweets and commentary from the last week or so: I think one thing they didn’t count on was that even Newsmax couldn’t resist a Jon Stewart hit.— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2022 Which group was ACTUAL…
Reconciliation visit: The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports: On Friday, [Pope Francis] met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before an outdoor performance that included tradit…
The Pope’s reconciliation events were in Quebec today – above is a photo of a delegation from the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, where the last Quebec residential school closed in 1991. The group of a dozen people walked 275 km to reach the Quebec Cit…
In the end, the Pope’s apology is important, though it will not ease the pain. Pope Francis was able to give the long-awaited apology, speaking in his language, but most of us do not have that ability any more. Our language is a whisper in our minds, …
Papal reconciliation visit:
This was the best part after the apology that is.#PopeFrancus crowned with Indigenous headress, While crowd erupts with approval.
👏👏👏 #PapalVisit2022 pic.twitter.com/14cYlrTWfo— Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 25, 2022
Giving the Pope a headdress is not being well received online, however – I am seeing some negative tweets on this tonight.
The pope got a warbonnet meanwhile many Indigenous people (myself included) are structurally denied access to our homelands, cultural patrimony, and ceremonies.
Hurts, man.
— Dr. Kali Simmons 🦬👖 (@SimmonsKali) July 25, 2022
The apology was generally welcomed, with some comment also that the Discovery doctrine has not yet been revoked.
“This apology, offered today by Pope Francis, will lend itself to the healing we all need so that we can find ways to confront the charge of genocide and the legacy of residential schools in Canada.” – Chief Robert Joseph.
Click here to read: https://t.co/PC4tGAg1t1 pic.twitter.com/gqeDt0kbCu
— Reconciliation Canada (@Rec_Can) July 25, 2022
I’m troubled
Pope’s apology neither about Church nor Papacy over last centuries, only individual bad Christians who “cooperated with”assimilation moves “promoted by govts of the time”
By omitting #DoctrineOfDiscovery, he ducks complicity in instigating such schools@RussDiabo https://t.co/CuNyX5Ju0g
— Brian E Noble #ArticulateBeings (@ArticulateDinos) July 25, 2022
Put together a video of one of @Pontifex meeting the Chief’s of the Four Nations of Maskwacis & visiting former Ermineskin Indian Residential School site where children died & many who got out alive still carry the pain. I was only a few feet away. Was like a funeral procession. pic.twitter.com/2WjPH8uSVv
— Brandi Morin (@Songstress28) July 26, 2022
Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors felt a mix of emotions towards the Pope’s apology. @CreesonCTV reports. https://t.co/bP2P6PpBfJ pic.twitter.com/lzxWNLJlLW
— CTV News (@CTVNews) July 26, 2022
A useful reference:
Anticipating more residential school denialism last year, Daniel Heath Justice and I created a primer on how to identify and confront it. We hope this continues to be a helpful resource, this week and moving forward: https://t.co/jpfQCef4KI
— Sean Carleton (@SeanCarleton) July 22, 2022
On a side note, an update on the “boil water” advisories – the Trudeau government has made a huge difference.
I heard ‘boil water advisories’ mentioned on @CBCNews. While no-one should have to go w/o clean water in Cda, it’s important to note (IMHO) that nothing done before fed Libs formed govt Nov 2015, and so far: 82% lifted, plus 8% complete pending lifting, plus 7% under construction pic.twitter.com/stcrkndTSk
— Kathryn Mathias (@KathrynMathias1) July 25, 2022
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To be clear, it was briefly mentioned by various guests. I’m not criticizing CBC. The guests were making broad, sweeping statements about there being water issues, then changing the topic, so I thought details about what progess had been made would be helpful.— Kathryn Mathias (@KathrynMathias1) July 26, 2022
Plus, many were added after the original list was created. The original list had 105 advisories; this government has lifted 135. More progress than I have seen in my lifetime. https://t.co/hLCVV625uc
— Adrian Wilson (@AdrianW123) July 26, 2022
CPC leadership campaign:
— Angus Reid (@AngusReid) July 25, 2022
This is the first “bad” poll for Poilievre. It shows Charest would win Atlantic Canada, would be competitive in Quebec, would do better than Poilievre in Ontario… all at the expense of losing some Prairie and Alberta votes (which the CPC could afford). pic.twitter.com/zkCscjShPT
— Philippe J. Fournier (@338Canada) July 25, 2022
Here’s Stephen Harper’s endorsement video for Poilievre https://t.co/fS4GeNctm4
— Harrison Lowman (@harrisonlowman) July 26, 2022
Jean Charest reacts to Stephen Harper’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre. https://t.co/8wwUeECIfb
— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) July 26, 2022
There is bad blood between Harper and Charest, in part because when Charest was premier, he sold Harper on the so-called “fiscal imbalance” Quebec suffered. When Harper tried to buy peace and give Charest the money, Charest turned it into a tax cut. Harper was furious. https://t.co/8soQtlMWBa
— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) July 26, 2022
Apropos: “We can say that the Kherson region will definitely be liberated by September, and all the occupiers’ plans will fail,” according to Sergiy Khlan, an aide to the 🇺🇦administrative head of the Kherson region. https://t.co/9QgsrYtusO
— Franz-Stefan Gady (@HoansSolo) July 25, 2022
Media: @MarkHertling @AC360: @ZelenskyyUa‘s 2nd front is likely to be “in #Kherson Oblast, the entire province, about the size of Maryland. It bumps up against #Crimea and also maintains the road network to the north, east, and west … putting Russia on the horns of a dilemma.” pic.twitter.com/QmpTKT5kVA
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) July 26, 2022
Himars have ‘changed everything’: weapons destroy 50 Russian ammunition depots in one month – @RolandOliphant https://t.co/xrJPyhQZzI
— Nicola Smith (@niccijsmith) July 26, 2022
(HIMARS means High Mobility Artillery Rocket System)
Even though Russia spent much of last week floating claims that they were going to take more and more and more of Ukraine, the truth seems to be that Putin’s offensive in the Donbas has stalled out short of objectives.While there continues to be fierce exchanges at many points along the front line, and Russia continues to launch attacks toward positions like Bakhmut and Bohorodychne, there are no confirmed reports of a significant gain by Russian forces in over two weeks.In that same period, a number of villages either returned to Ukraine or been thrown into dispute as Ukraine has refused to give Russian forces a chance to catch their breath.At this point, the Ukrainian ministry of defense estimates the Russians have suffered 39,000 killed in action over the course of the invasion. U.S. intelligence estimates that 85% of the Russian military is already actively engaged in Ukraine.When Russia discovered it could not quickly take all of Ukraine, it withdrew and refocused on capturing a much smaller area. Months later, it hasn’t managed to accomplish even that.
And on the lighter side:
Real Men Love Cats—and they work hard at feeding hungry people for @WCKitchen. My good pal @natemook with Noosha the cat in Donetsk, Ukraine. Stay safe, buddy, we all love you. pic.twitter.com/HV0Ryamehd
— Lorenzo The Cat (@LorenzoTheCat) July 23, 2022
It’s only Monday. Fuck.
— Tim Fontaine (@anishinaboy) July 25, 2022
aliens probably fly past earth and lock their doors
— percules (@percpoop) July 23, 2022
The story is even better than the headline. https://t.co/UKLoPlp8a3
— Terry Glavin 格立文 (@TerryGlavin) July 25, 2022
How cartoon artists at Walt Disney created sound effects in 1941. pic.twitter.com/2y6oe0yo7H
— Figen (@TheFigen) July 24, 2022
‘Lifeguard’ drone saved a drowning 14-year-old on a beach in Spain by dropping a life vest https://t.co/NEwiblxkgE
— ABC progressive bcpoli, abpoli, cdnpoli, onpoli (@timethief) July 25, 2022
#PopeFrancis arrived in Edmonton on Sunday to an honour drum song ahead of what he describes as a “penitential” trip aimed at advancing reconciliation with Indigenous people over the lasting harm suffered in residential schools.#PapalVisit2022 pic.twi…
But first: what a race! 🔥🔥🔥 Gold for 🇨🇦 in the 4×100 at the Worlds!!Big tip of the cap to our dudes @KingsleySC and @De6rasse big backstretch from Jerome Blake, shoutout Brendon Rodney!! 🇨🇦🔥🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/1Gf88AmRMn— Tim Micallef (@tim_micallef) Ju…
Lots of news from Ukraine lately: First, a new deal was announced today to move Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea:New: A deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea has been signed in Istanbul, the UN SecGen says. The ag…
Tonight’s Jan 6 Committee hearing made lots of news tonight. But as Brian Stelter reported in his Reliable Sources newsletter tonight, perhaps the most important comment came from Michigan Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s closing remarks at the Jan 6 C…
I had never seen this before, its absolutely hilarious. Here’s another great Twitter story:Frank Slade was helping his Aunt Ethel run her gas station in Goldsboro, North Carolina, when there was a knock on the door. Two men told him he had a…
Today’s news: In the past few days our entire MSM has been preoccupied with:1. The Prime Minister’s hair (not a typo)2. A nonsense “Canada is communist” statement made by an American far right radio provocateur3. A fully manufactured notion that there’…
Uvalde Massacre update: The Uvalde preliminary report is out and it is damning. pic.twitter.com/1pIjB5hVwX— mrs.LHS 🇺🇦🍀🌻☮️ (@ABPC84) July 18, 2022 We’ve gutted education financing to fund police departments just so nearly 400 Uvalde cops in ful…
Hey, Gangnam Style was 10 years old as of Friday! And Psy is still going stong – he has now released 9 albums and is on tour again this summer.Eine kleine Banjo musik A little summer banjo. Here’s a little ditty written by Alison Brown …
The Tale of the Ten-year Old has now become a shameful part of American history for Republicans and for American media. Every conservative thought experiment about the pregnant 10 year old rape victim is more disturbing than the one before it. M…
The shot: From six years ago The chaser: From Friday Obviously the news agenda for at LEAST the next 72 hours is CANCELLED while we decide what we think about Justin Trudeau’s new Caesar haircut. pic.twitter.com/WXf1J6ICXs— Mike Gibbs🏳️🌈🇺🇦 …
The US story of the day is the news that the Trump’s White House Secret Service deleted its text messages from Jan 5 and 6 2021. Accidentally! Yeah, sure… I would like to see some indication that the Secret Service & FBI are actually o…
As of April 1st 2022, the Canadian border will no longer require a pre-arrival negative COVID-19 test from fully vaccinated travellers entering or returning to the country. Previously, a rapid antigen test or a PCR test indicating a person does not have COVID was required by border authorities. This rule change should encourage Canadians to […]
After being closed for nearly 19 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on November 8th 2021 the United States land border officially opened to all fully vaccinated Canadians. US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has announced they will be staffing their border at pre-pandemic levels, but warns that wait times may be longer than in […]
On August 9th 2021, Canada opened its border to all fully vaccinated Americans allowing tourists from the United States to visit the country once again. The US border remains closed to Canadians, however, and American authorities recently extended the border closure until September 21st citing COVID-19 transmission rates south of the border as well as […]
Most Canadians are now fully vaccinated against COVID-19. Consequently, Canadians are starting to think about international travel again, and are beginning to research possible vacation destinations. This leads to the question, which countries can a fully vaccinated Canadian visit? As of July 2021, Canadian citizens who have received two doses of the Pfizer, Moderna, or […]