Where is Lester B. Pearson when we need him?

The only members of the royal family who are anointed are the king and, if there is one, the queen. I wouldn’t even call that “appointed by God” but even if you want to think of it that way, there is nothing divine about the rest of them,

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

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Chanting USA! to root for a team with 12 Canadian players to only 6 Americans, and a Canadian coach…

Bolts fans chanting USA! USA! when they have 12 Canadian players on their team and a Canadian coach, and only 6 Americans 🙄 #canadiens

Forward Guidance with Prime Minister Mark Carney YouTube video by Mark Carney

A "Forward Guidance" video message from our Prime Minister, Mark Carney.
"The US has changed and we must respond." #CanadaStrong
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1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation.

This lofty language has two key caveats: (1) they feel an obligation solely in terms of "defense," not more broadly, such as common welfare, public health, or even democracy; (2) they admit a "debt" yet offer no repayment, instead demanding the exact opposite, that the country pay them even more.
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It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing. Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating.

We are in Montreal, and I would like to register a complaint.

When I met my husband, he was a widow with three children. Not a family either, I guess.

I learned yesterday that Cenk is Hasan Piker’s uncle.

I just learned that he isn’t Jewish, not at all (though his ancestors on his father’s side were).

True but there are still people in these replies saying, oh Hegseth is too stupid to know what he’s saying here, so it is worth underlining it.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

And frankly, they get the theology of war around the Crusades wrong too. Crusade-era popes sounded nothing like Trump or Hegseth, with their slavering to murder and destroy.

I thought they bought all that lobster and steak.

They’re not very resilient, are they.

Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive decline Drugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review. The analysis of clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia found that the effects of anti-amyloid drugs on cognition and dementia severity over 18 months were “trivial”, with improvements in functional ability “small at best”. Continue reading...

Effect of ‘gamechanger’ Alzheimer’s drugs ‘trivial’, review concludes

They were personal friends.

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

I’ve wondered that myself. It seems too stupid to be possible but…

Can confirm

That all said, when he said that Fetterman should resign and Fetterman replied “the guy with the Nazi tattoo said that?” you don’t need to know anymore what his political enemies will maneuver around. He is a liability from top to bottom, soup to nuts.

If only the only problem with Platner was his Nazi tattoo. If only. That would be nice.

Yeah, I was going by the screenshot which both quoted and paraphrased Omar, perhaps in order to create the impression of Omar’s words that I had.

Not spewing just disagreeing here about Omar’s use of the word embrace here. What would It mean to “embrace” MTG? And surely us embracing her would make her *less* able to peel other MAGA from Trump.

There’s an American Catholic audience for Vance’s attack on the pope, and it’s not a small one. And Vance doesn’t care about the other Catholics.

The men who do this stuff do it over and over and over again.

one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law