#TrumpVotedByMail

He purposely chose April Fool's Day to address the nation to provide plausible deniability for whatever nonsensical blather that comes out of his tiny lying mouth hole.

#EmbarrassmentInChief

Reminder: March 24 deadline to send comments to City The above drawing was posted on the Shape Your City page for the Heritage Harbour rezoning application by Havn Sauna, in a brazen attempt to make something ugly look pretty, to trick people into think...

Reminder: March 24 deadline to send comments to City. Protect Heritage Harbour Marina. (Don’t be fooled by the fake drawing)! Say NO to a Massive Barge Spa. Sign and share the petition. #vanpoli #vanparks @cityofvancouver.bsky.social @parkboard.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

Pentagon Should Focus on Defense Priorities, not Lavish Dinners, After Historic $93.4B “Use-It-or-Lose-It” September Defense officials typically enter the end of each fiscal year with at least one goal in mind: spend the rest of the military’s budget by any means necessary.

"The military also bought $6.9 million of lobster tail this September. Again, it was not an isolated incident; it’s been a theme of Hegseth’s spending so far."
openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagon-s...

Walz: "I will continue to press that we be part of the investigation, that we do the investigation, so that Minnesotans can trust what the outcome is ... very very difficult to Minnesotas to think in any way this is going to be fair when Kristi Noem was judge, jury, and executioner yesterday."

‘Slush fund’: Democrats push back against Trump’s plan to control Venezuelan oil sales The president said he’d create a pool of money from Venezuelan oil sales. Democrats said that can’t legally happen.

Legal: Congress has what’s known as “the power of the purse.”

Illegal: When Trump says, “I’ve decided to create my own purse.”
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Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’ Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center

Washington National Opera may move out of Kennedy Center due to Trump ‘takeover’

Ticket sales at about 40% unsold compared with before president made himself chair of US performing arts center

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Bankruptcies soar as companies grapple with inflation, tariffs Businesses in vulnerable sectors found themselves caught between rising tariffs and beleaguered consumers.

MAGA. Congratulations, dumbasses. Elect a president with numerous bankruptcies and well...this is what you get.

washingtonpost.com/business/2025/12/27/corporate-bankruptcies-economy/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

U.S. military members fear personal legal blowback tied to boat strikes Staff officers and at least one drone pilot have sought advice from outside groups over legal concerns about their own involvement — or potential involvement — in the strikes against suspected drug bo...

As there has been no legal declaration or war and the accusation of drug smuggling and intervention is not a military responsibility these deaths by the military fall under the category of possible murder. A planned murder is murder in the 1st degree.

Metro Vancouver mayors call for province to roll back housing legislation amid concerns about eroding autonomy A group of 16 municipal leaders have written a letter to Premier David Eby voicing concerns about what they feel is an erosion of autonomy.

"Metro Vancouver mayors call for province to roll back housing legislation amid concerns about eroding autonomy" as told by @AlecLazenby via @VancouverSun

#vanpoli #VanRE

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From my cold. Dead. Hands.

Floating spa planned for Kitsilano waterfront A floating spa could be coming to Kitsilano’s waterfront—and not everyone is happy about the idea.

Dec 5, 25 My interview @ctvvancouver.bsky.social “A floating spa could be coming to Kitsilano’s waterfront—and not everyone is happy about the idea.” @cityofvancouver.bsky.social @parkboard.bsky.social #vanpoli #protectourviews #protectourparks

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Sign the Petition Protect Heritage Harbour Marina. Say No to a Massive 150ft Barge Spa!

Protect Heritage Harbour Marina. Say No to a Massive 150ft Barge Spa! - Sign the Petition! #vanpoli #vanparks #protectourparks @parkboard.bsky.social @cityofvancouver.bsky.social www.change.org/ProtectHerit...

So many heartbreaks ... so many lives disrupted or destroyed.💔

Delicious

The elimination of USAID was an unforgivable moral atrocity that should haunt Trump, Elon Musk and Marco Rubio for the rest of their days and beyond

NoKings Vancouver, BC Oct 18, 2025 Vancouver stands in solidarity with the NoKings USA and the fight for democracy. #NoKings #NoKingsVancouver

NoKingsVancouver, BC Oct 18, 2025 #NoKings flickr.com/photos/10575...

"The strength of a people lies in its purity, not in its diversity."
—Tom Metzger, a white supremacist, neo-Nazi and Klansman

"Real strength comes from homogeneity, from people who share the same blood and values."
—William Pierce, neo-Nazi, author of the Turner Diaries

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Got a Minute or Two?: The Attack in Chicago The night-time raid on a Chicago apartment building and its residents is an ugly escalation by an immoral regime—and an attack on all decent people

"What kind of monsters grab children & take them outside without clothes? Who does that? What kind of govt permits its agents to abuse American citizens & non-citizens w/o the slightest concern for their rights, their well-being, indeed their basic humanity?"
www.americaamerica.news/p/got-a-minu...

Sen. Warren illustrates the way public figures should answer.

Dokoupil illustrates the way journalists should *not* handle both-sides-ing, "how will it play," reluctance to call out lies, etc.

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

Class action lawsuit challenges Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful “National Data Banks” - CREW | Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington The Trump-Vance administration’s creation of massive government databases consolidating legally protected personal information is unlawful.

NEW: We just filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration for its creation of massive secret databases of millions of Americans' personal information, violating the Privacy Act.

This illegal overreach is unacceptable.

Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated' The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

This was always the plan.

Project 2025 was Donald Trump's blueprint to seize unchecked power within the federal government and restrict Americans' freedoms. And he is implementing it right in front of our eyes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: The Democratic proposal is designed to prevent millions of Americans from losing their health insurance, losing Medicaid coverage, or paying higher healthcare premiums. Why are you against that?

MIKE JOHNSON: That's an absurd statement

STEPHANOPOULOS: It's a factual statement

The awesome video team at the New York Times helped me make this video about the shutdown and Obamacare premiums.

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'