#Riders lost that game at least three times. But they got four chances. Amazing. #CFLWestFinal

— Steve Burgess (@steveburgess53.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 8:50 PM

I thought this was pretty good too:

Here’s a good analysis of the game:

Joel Gasson / 3 Down Nation

The good, the bad, and the dumb of the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 24-21 West Final win over B.C.
Just when it looked like the Saskatchewan Roughriders were poised to lose yet another division final and remain one of the CFL’s most cursed teams, they found a way to pull Saturday’s game out of the fire and earn a berth in the 112th Grey Cup in Winnipeg.

Down four points with just over a minute to play, Trevor Harris led his team on what felt like an improbable 76-yard drive that ended with a touchdown pass to Tommy Nield, a name that will now live in Riders infamy forever.
…The best part of this matchup for the Riders was their mental toughness. It wasn’t their night in just about any aspect of the game but they battled to the end and found a way….

And the Riders had the luck they needed, too

It was three times at least.

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— JM =^) (@jm539581.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM

Moving on, here’s the funny ha-ha and funny odd stuff I found recently:

Now, I know the New York Times is having the usual opinion page problems – trying to pander to the MAGA right while not losing all their normal readers – but really, folks, this weekend they hit a new low. For crying out loud, guys, who thought a column title like Did Women Ruin The Workplace? (gift link) was a clever idea?

And they kept changing the headline again and again:

Next up, here’s  several “staring into the abyss” clips, that I thought were funny:

Speaking of sports, here’s a good one:

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Crossing our fingers that Poilievre is leaving too

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Americans were excited about the Democrat wave in elections this week, plus the new mayor of New York:

I’ve been calling it the Blue Sharknado.

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— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) November 6, 2025 at 11:45 AM

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Can anyone believe this guy now?

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

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— Micah (@rincewind.run) November 5, 2025 at 7:16 PM

No one could accuse Donald of being woke.

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 4:18 PM

The final word on the Lincoln Bathroom:

When they said “government transparency” I somehow wasn’t expecting it to mean a presidential toilet next to a large uncovered window

— Maclunkey (@RadetzkyMarch) October 31, 2025

Isn’t this great news!

The Right Honorable Justin Trudeau was awarded the 2025 Global Leadership Award in Chicago, 🇺🇸

Ex Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman presented the award

It’s a shame I had to learn about this from an algorithm instead of @cbc.ca or @cpac.ca

Congratulations Justin!

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— ButtigiegDem 🇨🇦 📎 (@buttigiegdem.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM

Canada maples

🍁 Maples of Canada 🇨🇦

Canada is home to a variety of stunning maple trees, each with its own unique leaf shape and charm!

My favorite?

🌿 Red Maple (Acer rubrum) – Vibrant and iconic, it often turns fiery red in autumn 🍁🍂❤️

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— Emma Miller 😁 (@emmadmiller.bsky.social) November 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM

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are you sure this is a scam?

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bricklaying expert

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Trump Watch

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One day Trump will be slumped over in his chair dead for like half an hour before anyone knows he’s not just asleep.

— Cosmically Funny (@cosmicallyf.bsky.social) November 9, 2025 at 1:17 AM

Animal Crackers
I think all the videos I found this week are real, but I guess you can’t tell sometimes:

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Wonder why this scene looks so familiar…
#WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

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— Cristian Vlad (@cristianvlad.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Imagine a world without dogs… I wouldn’t want it.

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— Polar Nerd (@polarnerd.bsky.social) November 1, 2025 at 8:33 AM

Some dogs from the Medici Palace museum, because dogs.

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— Rick Riordan (@rickriordan.bsky.social) October 30, 2025 at 2:01 AM

The realization….👇😆 #Dogs #BlueSkyDogs #DogsOfBlueSky #DogLovers

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— Cat And Dog Tips (@catanddogtips.bsky.social) October 31, 2025 at 1:41 PM

So now Poilievre has jumped on the anti-DEI bandwagon – he is promoting a petition and he thinks he can make headway with Canadians by demonizing DEI.
The other word for objections to diversity, equity, and inclusion is “racism”[image or embed]— Em…

Oh, wasn’t it just fine!
After that devastating 18-inning loss on Monday, the Jays came out swinging:

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The commentators …

I found these great drawings by Alex Colville here, on a website called Courage Remembered which is very much worth exploring.And here is Leonard Cohen reading In Flanders Fields:
I remember reading something once about how you only really di…

I was going to save the Portland frog until my Saturday night post, but there’s just too much of it, and its just too funny.
It started with just a guy in Portland wearing an inflatable frog suit, and it has spread across the United States, wherever Am…

Have you been watching Poilievre and his caucus loyalists as they huff and puff and fling insults far and wide? I thought this was the gang who were trying to convince Canadians to give them the keys to the Prime Minister office someday soon. …

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One thing that I notice about Halloween now is that so many adults seem way too involved. Other than helping our kids carve their pumpkins, I always felt the whole day should really belong to the kids only.When I grew up in the 50s, I don’t reca…

Today I saw several stories about people – mostly politicians – shooting themselves in the foot by doing something stupid and then wondering why they were limping. Enjoy!

Poilievre
He is incapable of self-reflection. He prides himself on being the …

Love those Jays!
So now the boys have to win on Sunday AND on Monday. Canada is cheering for them!

At The Globe and Mail, Cathal Kelly writes about the Seattle fans booing Springer when he was hit by a pitch in that awful Game 5 blowout:
….If t…

Henry V – to the troops:
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more
……………..show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;
For there is none of you so mean and base,
That ha…

What a game! Not a blowout at all, the Mariners just couldn’t get another run in the last two innings.
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Canada is sunk in gloom tonight – it was so close, and everyone wanted it so much. But the Blue Jays proved themselves to be Canada’s team and we will never forget it. Thanks, boys.In Saskatchewan we call ourselves “N…

I was thinking the other day about the difference between Trump’s second term now and his first in 2015, the difference between Poilievre’s conservative leadership now and Harper’s in 2012, the difference between Carney’s leadership now and Trudeau’s i…

Tuesday is Budget Day
…and Canada can expect a shitshow — screeds about imaginary taxes, tales of woe, gasps of horror, hand-wringing, pearl-clutching…
The Conservatives’ budgetary demands include fiction.
There are no “hidden taxes” on food. Th…

On Wednesday night, Carney spoke to the country about what the upcoming Liberal budget will highlight. His speech didn’t have a lengthy list of specifics but it set out a framework for Canada’s future – that its not going to be easy, but we should…

I was searching around for some worthwhile comments on the Canadian budget to share tonight, and mostly I found shallow “takes” about d’Entremont crossing the floor and about how dull the budget was. What, from Carney they expected bread and circuses?&…

When I scanned the news today, there seemed to be a common theme – that ambitious leaders don’t necessarily understand the difficulties of actually putting their ideas into effect.

Reagan v Trump
And late Thursday night, this happened – because Trump absolutely refuses to see what his tariffs will do to the American economy:

UPDATE: Trump is freaking out about the (very effective) anti-tariffs ad Canada 🇨🇦 is running in 🇺🇸 (during baseball playoffs), saying trade negotiations are now “terminated” — so here it is again 👇🏽

Reagan’s audio is, of course, VERY REAL. He is lying: www.youtube.com/shorts/Mj6N-…

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) October 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump’s calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) October 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Doug Ford on 10/14/25: Let’s take Ronald Reagan’s words and let’s blast it to the American people. And our first launch is going to be on every major network…we’re going to launch a $75 million ad, and we’re going to repeat that message to every Republican district right across the entire country.

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) October 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM

The Reagan people are trying to help Trump but they can’t change what Reagan said

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— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) October 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM

And finally: Go Jays!

@minibubbly.bsky.social @maej43.bsky.social @ruthmkb.bsky.social @anniegirl.bsky.social @luciecatnip.bsky.social @cathiecanada.bsky.social Welp, at least they’re getting along. Better than with Mango Mussolini.🙄

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— GhostWarrior ⚔️🏳️‍🌈 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@ghostwarrior.bsky.social) October 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM

The Jays have the chance to do the funniest thing Canada has done since 1814

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— Kelsey Atherton (@atherton.bsky.social) October 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM

I loved this artwork from Dean Blundell. 

The d’Entremont Crossing A Crisis For Conservatives
On Poilievre’s Crumbling Leadership

…The Conservative Party is prepared to follow Pierre Poilievre to the edge of the earth, even if it means falling off. d’Entremont isn’t. And you have to wonder if he’s really the only one scared.
…at the end of the day, this is about Poilievre. He has benefitted for so long from the fact that there isn’t a viable alternative in the Conservative Party that we’ve conflated him being good at this with being better than the (political) corpse of Jean Charest. That’s not the same thing, and it’s starting to become apparent because the Liberals have gotten their heads out of their asses.

For all the (I think legitimate) concerns with the Carney operation’s rocky start, the budget was an unqualified success from a comms perspective – repackaging old Trudeau commitments with new money to give progressives big dollar figures they can be happy about on infrastructure and housing, a big business-friendly suite of policies on investment that should bring shitloads of European manufacturing here, and a deficit and job cut numbers under the rumoured highs. Oh, and they gave Don Davies and Vancouver Liberals a local win with the Filipino community centre, which is deserved in a vacuum but especially so given April’s tragedy. Putting that in the budget, as opposed to being a press release stemming from some line item in the budget in 4 months, is the kind of astute work I’ve been begging for.

Poilievre’s Conservatives, on the other hand, sound like nothing has happened ….acting like this is Just Another Liberal Budget and not a crisis caused by Trump is laughably out of touch with both reality and how voters perceive reality. In that context, is it shocking that Conservative MPs would similarly be disillusioned?

… Poilievre is a candidate of a past era. He was the right man for the Biden-Trudeau years, because he was made to ride discontent and disillusionment from an electorate that had tuned out the incumbents. But he’s not a candidate that can win when the electorate is paying attention to both sides.

Poilievre’s problem isn’t that the voters are ill-informed or not paying attention, it’s that they are informed. The country doesn’t blame Carney because plainly it’s not his fault, and they get that. Being mad about it isn’t going to change it, but Poilievre refuses to do anything about his problem because that would require the CPC to affirmatively decide what would actually solve problems, beyond promising pipelines everywhere that might spur growth in 5 or 7 years.

It’s not surprising that Conservatives are starting to wonder about Poilievre. He’s standing on the edge of the earth. Chris d’Entremont decided he didn’t want to follow him off of it. The survival of Poilievre’s leadership requires nobody else to notice that’s where Poilievre is taking them.

Several seat Liberals didn’t get was due to vote split. In case of MP d’Entremont, he won by a couple hundred in the riding, where NDP had about 1500 votes. Even Greens had more votes than difference. The riding is not MAGA conservative. There are many such seats.

— Mary 🇨🇦 (@marythemuser.bsky.social) November 5, 2025 at 7:02 PM

This Raj piece is well observed!
Althia Raj / Toronto Star

Mark Carney’s budget isn’t built to win an election — and that reveals a lot about Carney himself
….Budget 2025 reveals a lot about Carney himself.

He is unafraid of changing his mind and breaking promises, even if he made those pledges mere months ago (see the Liberals’ election platform.)

He’s a technocrat, leading as if he has a majority government, rather than as a prime minister whose government risks facing the electorate without some opposition support.

He wants to govern unencumbered by partisan considerations and the demands of retail politics.

The 2025 budget isn’t the kind of document designed to win an election.

You don’t head into a campaign where your opposition has branded you an elite by campaigning on possibly privatizing Canadian airports, or scrapping the luxury tax on rich people’s jets and yachts.

You don’t head into an election without “costly political gimmicks,” as former finance minister Chrystia Freeland described popular vote-driving measures — tax breaks and direct cheques — that cost the treasury but offer no growth. (Here, Ontario Premier Doug Ford has refined the art, while Harper’s GST cuts and boutique tax credit led the way.)

It’s not that Carney is afraid of spending — he’s spending a lot, more than $140 billion over five years. But he isn’t spending it by making concessions to voters, or to opposition parties.

There are no new measures in this budget to ease immediate affordability challenges, no new tax cuts (though Canadians received one this summer) nor further drugs covered under the federal government’s pharma care plan. Some bank fees may come down, and Carney’s efforts to increase competition may lower cellphone bills, but those impacts, like many of the budget’s “investments,” won’t be felt for a while.

Carney’s focus is instead on fixing Canada’s problem, its anemic economic growth, its productivity gap, by leveraging public money to help create opportunities in key sectors — infrastructure, housing, critical minerals, AI, defence, international trade — spurring more private-sector investment, creating jobs, making Canadians wealthier.

It’s the kind of budget that makes policy nerds happy — and hopeful that the government can execute on its plans.

It is a budget with a vision — though its plans aren’t fully fleshed out…

Listen, it is the sound of poiLIEvre NOT TALKING

Merci M. D’Entremont
🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐🤐

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Blue Jays dedicate 11-4 blowout to Donald Trump 🇨🇦— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) October 24, 2025 at 9:29 PM

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About the gameI am bummed tonight. I tell myself that we can’t win ’em all. But I wanted to!
If you need a summary of the Saturday game, click here
It started with this great intro shot:
This drone shot flying into the Rogers Centre to start Gam…

The press probably should have made a bigger deal of the president promising to take the U.S. economy back to the 1800s.

— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM

Short answer? Malfeasance!

“Harvard economist Jason Furman recently said that AI investments accounted for nearly 92% of U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025. Basically, the entire American economy put its eggs in one algorithmic basket.”

— Waylon Jennings-Yutani (@ontopic.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 7:02 PM

For one thing, the AI investments that everyone is excited about seem to be too circular – memories of ponzi schemes that pretend new money is profit when it actually is not:

if not Ponzi, why Ponzi-shaped?

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— Soraya Nadia McDonald (@sorayanadiamcdonald.com) November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM

For another thing, AI is turning out to be incredibly costly.
I am reading that one of the key elements of AI is “Inference” – the stage where AI models become useful tools, and start using real-world applications like recognition of images, processing of language and detecting issues. For example, a self-driving car would use “inference” to recognize a stop sign on a new road.
But developing AI inference apparently is much more expensive than had been anticipated – like billions more:

Based on my analysis, OpenAI burned $19 billion of their $28.6 billion in cash from 2023 through 1H2025, meaning there’s at least $4.1 billion in cash unaccounted for, as my analysis includes *ALL* reported costs that OpenAI has incurred. Where is the money?
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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM

My theory is that OpenAI’s inference costs are much higher than expected. Every new GPU is marketed for inference, Stargate Abilene is full of inference-focused Blackwell GPUs, and OpenAI’s latest releases have all been very, very inference intensive.
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There is also this problem, I believe:

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Now the AI companies are starting to try to get Trump to approve government backstopping their investments. I guess “socialism” is only bad when its giving poor people food and healthcare, but its great when its keeping millionaires from losing their shirts:

the collapse is coming. the infinite tech money loop might be ending soon

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— onion person (@junlper.beer) November 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM

This is why OpenAI is asking the trump admin to federally guarantee all their investment promises

— Fro the Texas Comrade (@frobeus.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM

It won’t be just Nvidia. It will be them and OpenAI and Alphabet and Microsoft and Meta and Oracle and AMD and Amazon all asking for tax dollars to keep their stocks at current levels

— Fro the Texas Comrade (@frobeus.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM

Legendary graft

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— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:35 AM

Sam Altman saw Trump give taxpayer $$$ to Intel and Nvidia, and realized he can get a turn at the teat too

— T. Greg Doucette (@gregdoucette.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 7:38 AM

What the hell is this statement from NVIDIA? What am I meant to do with this info?

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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM

Honestly if this is coordinated with OpenAI it is the most goofy, awkward one I’ve ever seen. I’ll believe it is if we get an op-ed. Honestly this feels like NVIDIA desperately trying to seize a moment and not realizing everybody’s reaction to this is revulsion
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— Ed Zitron (@edzitron.com) November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM

The guy who got famous betting against the housing market in 2007 just before that bubble burst – played by Christian Bale jn “The Big Short” – just wagered $1 billion on the collapse of the AI boom.

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— Helen Kennedy (@helenkennedy.bsky.social) November 4, 2025 at 3:35 PM

Paul Krugman said in mid-October that the US economy was in trouble, though at least there hadn’t yet been mass layoffs:

…There are some objective, measurable reasons to say that the US economy, which appears OK by the most commonly used measures, is definitely not OK once you look under the hood. One essential aspect of this weirdness is the economy is strongly bifurcated: AI is booming, but the rest of the economy isn’t. Another aspect is that in many ways the economy feels “frozen”: while there have been no mass layoffs so far, people who have lost their jobs or are just entering the work force are finding it very hard to get new jobs. Third, while the economy is growing thanks to AI spending, it’s a K-shaped expansion: People who were already affluent are becoming more so, but the less well-off are under severe pressure. For example, there are clear signs that middle-to-low income consumers are struggling: car loan and credit card delinquencies are rising, and grocers report that shoppers are buying cheaper varieties of food. At the same time, the affluent are spending freely: the top 10% of the income distribution now accounts for nearly half of all consumer spending.

What’s going on? I would argue that Trump’s wildly erratic policies are creating huge uncertainty which is deterring many companies – essentially those that are not in the AI sector or a sector catering to the affluent – from making investments. And those forgone investments include hiring new workers. The result is that much of the economy is frozen — companies aren’t hiring or investing. This freeze, in turn, explains both worker anxiety and rising inequality. Without the AI boom/bubble spending, we might very well have fallen into a recession, as some economists like Mark Zandi have claimed. And despite the AI boom, times for many workers are tough…

Well, its November now, and thar she blows!

Recent Layoffs:
48,000 at UPS
30,000 at Amazon
24,000 at Intel
16,000 at Nestle
11,000 at Accenture
11,000 at Ford
9,000 at Norvo Nordisk
7,000 at Microsoft
5,600 at PwC
4,000 at Salesforce
2,000 at Paramount
1,800 at Target
1,444 at Applied Materials
1,000 at Kroger
600 at Meta

That’s negative

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TODAY’s job losses match the job losses that happened as a result of the massive global economic crash in 2008.

That’s how terrible Trump/GOP economic policies are today. A massive, self-imposed wound.

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— AnneC (@annecw.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 5:45 AM

Per independent experts, layoffs last month were over 153K — the worst October in 22 years.

Over 1 million workers have been laid off this year, partially because of AI and chaotic mismanagement of the economy.

Welcome to Trump’s “New Golden Age.”

— Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) November 6, 2025 at 4:01 PM

The big difference between Trump’s first term and second is that he didn’t burn down a strong economy with tariffs last time around. It’s a lot easier for voters to overlook his bigoted nonsense and authoritarian bluster when they feel good about material conditions.

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) November 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM

So which is worse – that Trump lies all the time, or that he actually believes his own lies?

This is pretty much his plan for everything, not just the economy.

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— Khashoggi’s Ghost (@urocklive1.bsky.social) November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM

And on a side note, there is a “lighter side” to AI too:

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I’m seeing some good cartoons and posts about Trump’s awful East Wing destruction:

Here is what the White House east wing used to look like:
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