J.P.
@jpturcotte.bsky.social
Healthcare worker // B.A. in International Studies // Film Studies dropout (Japanese animation history) // Also, international news and Canada-Québec politics. Je publie en français et en anglais, surtout sur Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@jpturcotte
Pinned
❗️🇪🇪Estonia plans to purchase 🇰🇷South Korean K239 Chunmoo MLRS
Reposted by J.P.
Réfection majeure à venir | Des idées de grandeur pour l’autoroute Métropolitaine
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g... #polmtl #polqc
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g... #polmtl #polqc
Réfection majeure à venir | Des idées de grandeur pour l’autoroute Métropolitaine
Une firme d’architectes propose de profiter de la réfection de l’autoroute Métropolitaine pour mener un ambitieux projet. Québec ayant renoncé à enterrer les voies rapides, le cabinet propose au contr...
www.lapresse.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Réfection majeure à venir | Des idées de grandeur pour l’autoroute Métropolitaine
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g... #polmtl #polqc
www.lapresse.ca/actualites/g... #polmtl #polqc
Reposted by J.P.
man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
Joyce Carol Oates owned Elon so hard he's spent the last day posting about movies he hasn't seen in 15 years
November 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online
Reposted by J.P.
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
NEW: British journalist Sami Hamdi is being released from US detention.
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
Trump administration agents detained him two weeks ago at the San Francisco airport — hours after he addressed an event, where he urged US leaders to take an “America First” approach rather than “Israel First.”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.
In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.
Reposted by J.P.
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
"Pluribus" captures the isolation of COVID-awareness in a COVID denialist world
For years I've described having Long COVID as living in a horror movie. Now that horror movie (well, prestige Apple TV show) is here.
www.thegauntlet.news
November 10, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
Reposted by J.P.
At Leaders We Deserve, we back fighters – not folders. We're primarying asleep at the wheel Democratic incumbents, flipping the House, and winning back state legislatures. Join us. secure.actblue.com/donate/comms...
Donate to support our movement
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:23 PM
At Leaders We Deserve, we back fighters – not folders. We're primarying asleep at the wheel Democratic incumbents, flipping the House, and winning back state legislatures. Join us. secure.actblue.com/donate/comms...
Reposted by J.P.
If only the US had Brazil's Supreme Court. If we did, like Bolsonaro, who also attempted a coup, Trump would be in prison.
Trump has granted pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts in attempting to overthrow American democracy.
Trump has granted pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts in attempting to overthrow American democracy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
If only the US had Brazil's Supreme Court. If we did, like Bolsonaro, who also attempted a coup, Trump would be in prison.
Trump has granted pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts in attempting to overthrow American democracy.
Trump has granted pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts in attempting to overthrow American democracy.
Reposted by J.P.
President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump's pardon attorney said late Sunday.
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
Trump pardons key allies who helped in effort to subvert 2020 election results
President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump's pardon attorney said late Sunday.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
President Donald Trump has pardoned Rudy Giuliani and scores of others accused of involvement in the effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election, Trump's pardon attorney said late Sunday.
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
Reposted by J.P.
SCOTUS does something right for once. I’ll take this good news today 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 #loveislove
November 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
SCOTUS does something right for once. I’ll take this good news today 🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈 #loveislove
Reposted by J.P.
Im also here to remind yall that JOHN FETTERMAN was hand selected by Bernie Sanders and won his primary over a Black millennial gay man who was already working in congress because leftists couldnt vote for a Black gay Millennial man born in 1990——
November 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Im also here to remind yall that JOHN FETTERMAN was hand selected by Bernie Sanders and won his primary over a Black millennial gay man who was already working in congress because leftists couldnt vote for a Black gay Millennial man born in 1990——
Reposted by J.P.
Le Canada perd son statut de pays ayant éliminé la rougeole : lp.ca/sFB5SG?shari...
Le Canada perd son statut de pays ayant éliminé la rougeole
L’Agence de la santé publique du Canada (ASPC) annonce que le pays a officiellement perdu son statut de pays ayant éliminé la rougeole, qu’il détenait depuis 1998.
lp.ca
November 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Le Canada perd son statut de pays ayant éliminé la rougeole : lp.ca/sFB5SG?shari...
Reposted by J.P.
France faces younger, less experienced and more unpredictable jihadist threat: nearly 70% of terrorism-related arrests now involve people under 21, and two-thirds of attackers since 2020 were previously unknown to authorities www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
France faces younger, less experienced and more unpredictable jihadist threat
Nearly 70% of terrorism-related arrests now involve people under 21, and two-thirds of attackers since 2020 were previously unknown to authorities. Since October 7, 2023, over half of all attacks or f...
www.lemonde.fr
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
France faces younger, less experienced and more unpredictable jihadist threat: nearly 70% of terrorism-related arrests now involve people under 21, and two-thirds of attackers since 2020 were previously unknown to authorities www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar...
Reposted by J.P.
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.
Reposted by J.P.
Time for a general strike. Time for a general work stoppage.
Let’s finish these motherfuckers off.
For Christmas, give your children and grandchildren, college scholarships, or trade school scholarships
For birthdays, give US saving bonds
Don’t buy anything unless it’s absolutely unnecessary
Let’s finish these motherfuckers off.
For Christmas, give your children and grandchildren, college scholarships, or trade school scholarships
For birthdays, give US saving bonds
Don’t buy anything unless it’s absolutely unnecessary
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Time for a general strike. Time for a general work stoppage.
Let’s finish these motherfuckers off.
For Christmas, give your children and grandchildren, college scholarships, or trade school scholarships
For birthdays, give US saving bonds
Don’t buy anything unless it’s absolutely unnecessary
Let’s finish these motherfuckers off.
For Christmas, give your children and grandchildren, college scholarships, or trade school scholarships
For birthdays, give US saving bonds
Don’t buy anything unless it’s absolutely unnecessary
Reposted by J.P.
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Reporter: What do you say to your colleagues who say this isn't a fight, this is a capitulation?
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
Shaheen: We have a guaranteed vote by a guaranteed date…
Reporter: There is no guarantee that this will become law.
Shaheen: There was never a guarantee that it would be become law.
Reposted by J.P.
NEVER FORGET: John Fetterman's reply to then President Joe Biden in 2021. The internet NEVER forgets & NEITHER DO WE!😡
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
NEVER FORGET: John Fetterman's reply to then President Joe Biden in 2021. The internet NEVER forgets & NEITHER DO WE!😡
Reposted by J.P.
This was pretty brutal
November 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This was pretty brutal
Reposted by J.P.
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
Reposted by J.P.
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
Reposted by J.P.
In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
November 9, 2025 at 5:22 AM
In Finland, charging fees for school tuition is illegal, which means rich kids have to mix with normal kids.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
That means rich families had to make sure the schools their children attended were good, which in turn prompted the wealthy to invest in public education.
Finland, take a bow.
Reposted by J.P.
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Thinking about the social stigma against eating fast food in a country where poor people are being starved by the govt, the cost of groceries and fresh vegetables are astronomical, and a cheeseburger at McDonald’s costs $3.50.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
“Clean” and “healthy” eating rhetoric is racist, ableist, and classist.
November 8, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Most people don’t know that with SNAP you are banned from buying “foods that are hot at the point of sale”. So even if you have SNAP (which people don’t now) you can’t get cooked food. Which means you need to also actually have the resources to PREPARE a “healthy” meal.
Reposted by J.P.
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
NEW: The Trump admin told states it must immediately "undo" the work to provide full food stamp benefits, or face penalties. The feds sent this in a late-night memo, only adding to the chaos and confusion around SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
Reposted by J.P.
NEW: It appears Senate Dems have enough votes for cloture with Jacky Rosen flipping to a yes vote. Rand Paul voted no. Kaine, Rosen, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassen, King, Durbin, Cortez-Masto are the dems yes votes.
November 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
NEW: It appears Senate Dems have enough votes for cloture with Jacky Rosen flipping to a yes vote. Rand Paul voted no. Kaine, Rosen, Fetterman, Shaheen, Hassen, King, Durbin, Cortez-Masto are the dems yes votes.
Reposted by J.P.
Not only that, but if German elites (esp von Papen and Hindenburg) hadn't caved, Hitler wouldn't have been chancellor. People think Hitler rode into office on some big democratic wave, when in fact he snuck in through the side door due to the incompetence of a few men.
I’ve been going through every NYT daily beginning in 1933 and it is remarkable how quickly Hitler consolidated power after becoming chancellor. It was sudden, and there was very little resistance.
November 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Not only that, but if German elites (esp von Papen and Hindenburg) hadn't caved, Hitler wouldn't have been chancellor. People think Hitler rode into office on some big democratic wave, when in fact he snuck in through the side door due to the incompetence of a few men.
Reposted by J.P.
this is not like the last cave, where most of the caucus was like “what did you want from us, get off our backs”
a lot more people are reading the room now and the smart political play for your average Dem is to hang the moderates out to dry for this
it really is a smaller surrender caucus now
a lot more people are reading the room now and the smart political play for your average Dem is to hang the moderates out to dry for this
it really is a smaller surrender caucus now
Van Hollen a No, and suggesting they might drag this out and make it painful
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
this is not like the last cave, where most of the caucus was like “what did you want from us, get off our backs”
a lot more people are reading the room now and the smart political play for your average Dem is to hang the moderates out to dry for this
it really is a smaller surrender caucus now
a lot more people are reading the room now and the smart political play for your average Dem is to hang the moderates out to dry for this
it really is a smaller surrender caucus now
Reposted by J.P.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.