Laura Cooper
@lauraonthelake.bsky.social
Retired: Environment, Politics
& loving life!
& loving life!
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People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
December 10, 2025 at 6:57 PM
People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!
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The whole point of crypto is illicit financing. Money laundering, ransomware, sanctions-evasion, dark web drug and human trafficking, etc.
December 9, 2025 at 3:44 AM
The whole point of crypto is illicit financing. Money laundering, ransomware, sanctions-evasion, dark web drug and human trafficking, etc.
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The @grievousangels104.bsky.social Xmas show at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto is this Sunday afternoon.
Some tickets are still available. Click here:
www.horseshoetavern.com/event/the-gr...
Some tickets are still available. Click here:
www.horseshoetavern.com/event/the-gr...
December 9, 2025 at 12:29 AM
The @grievousangels104.bsky.social Xmas show at the legendary Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto is this Sunday afternoon.
Some tickets are still available. Click here:
www.horseshoetavern.com/event/the-gr...
Some tickets are still available. Click here:
www.horseshoetavern.com/event/the-gr...
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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The pedestrian bridge that connected Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay is open again. Gives an interesting view to the Ontario Line construction project.
December 3, 2025 at 11:28 PM
The pedestrian bridge that connected Eaton Centre to Hudson’s Bay is open again. Gives an interesting view to the Ontario Line construction project.
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Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Data centres are energy hungry but what if we could use their waste heat to heat our homes?
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
That's exactly what happens in places like Finland: Cities are tapping the vast amounts of waste heat generated by data centres, and feeding it into district-heating networks.
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In my last story on staff at the Times, my colleagues and I analyzed over a decade of federal science funding and interviewed many federal employees to identify all of the science that went unfunded this year. Here's a paywall-free link:
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine (Gift Article)
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In my last story on staff at the Times, my colleagues and I analyzed over a decade of federal science funding and interviewed many federal employees to identify all of the science that went unfunded this year. Here's a paywall-free link:
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Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
August 6, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Someone tell Webster I want to propose a new word
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
errogance (n) : the state of being very confident and very wrong
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I attended the parliamentary press gallery event and met former Conservative PM Joe Clark, former Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault and MP Bruce Fanjoy who defeated Pierre Poilievre.
In these dark times, we need to work together across party lines to build a better Canada.
In these dark times, we need to work together across party lines to build a better Canada.
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I attended the parliamentary press gallery event and met former Conservative PM Joe Clark, former Environment Minister Stephen Guilbeault and MP Bruce Fanjoy who defeated Pierre Poilievre.
In these dark times, we need to work together across party lines to build a better Canada.
In these dark times, we need to work together across party lines to build a better Canada.
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
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Last week at Queen's Park: Ford government attacks education, renters and communities. All while hosting a $1,500 per plate fundraiser for the Premier's birthday.
open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
Ford government attacks education, renters and communities.
All while hosting a $1,500 per plate fundraiser for the Premier's birthday
open.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Last week at Queen's Park: Ford government attacks education, renters and communities. All while hosting a $1,500 per plate fundraiser for the Premier's birthday.
open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
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The Premier’s job is NOT to trample on Alberta’s constitutionally protected human rights. Now, she makes herself the first Premier in our history to use the notwithstanding clause, not once, but FOUR TIMES in three weeks!
Whose freedoms will be stripped away next? #bill9 #abpoli #ableg
Whose freedoms will be stripped away next? #bill9 #abpoli #ableg
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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They stole nine of my books. Nine! But why not Doppelganger? Not good enough for these mass doppelganger machines?
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 19, 2025 at 3:24 AM
They stole nine of my books. Nine! But why not Doppelganger? Not good enough for these mass doppelganger machines?
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NEW: The lame duck conservative majority on the DougCo School Board plans to use its last meeting Tuesday to pass a 10-year extension for all charter schools without a review of their performance and finances. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
November 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
NEW: The lame duck conservative majority on the DougCo School Board plans to use its last meeting Tuesday to pass a 10-year extension for all charter schools without a review of their performance and finances. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
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As someone who grew up in the area, it is very upsetting that the province is considering selling off portions of Wasaga beach provincial park. In addition to being a nature area accessible from Toronto it also has a big role in wildlife preservation (esp. the piping plovers).
I wrote about this too. Why isn’t Ontario hitting the barricades in rage? We’ve so little lake access. Entirely privatized shorelines. You could give the province away to oligarchs & people would be meh. Thx to Fatima for calling this early on.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
November 10, 2025 at 11:31 PM
As someone who grew up in the area, it is very upsetting that the province is considering selling off portions of Wasaga beach provincial park. In addition to being a nature area accessible from Toronto it also has a big role in wildlife preservation (esp. the piping plovers).
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this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
Please take a minute to scroll through this—and share it.
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
It's the story of our time.
The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic American—And Why Europe Is Next.
www.authoritarian-stack.info
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
November 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
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Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
November 8, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.
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Only 11 falsehoods?? That's it? A measly 11 lies, not even a dozen??
My goodness, Donald Trump really *is* losing it
My goodness, Donald Trump really *is* losing it
October 28, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Only 11 falsehoods?? That's it? A measly 11 lies, not even a dozen??
My goodness, Donald Trump really *is* losing it
My goodness, Donald Trump really *is* losing it
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my god, this reporter just talks so casually about "remigration" it literally has Nazi origins--there is no justification for framing it as casually as she does.
Canada is sleepwalking into a dangerous place and its terrifying to see the complacency in the country.
Canada is sleepwalking into a dangerous place and its terrifying to see the complacency in the country.
October 24, 2025 at 1:44 AM
my god, this reporter just talks so casually about "remigration" it literally has Nazi origins--there is no justification for framing it as casually as she does.
Canada is sleepwalking into a dangerous place and its terrifying to see the complacency in the country.
Canada is sleepwalking into a dangerous place and its terrifying to see the complacency in the country.
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@cbcradiocanada.bsky.social and Canadian medias are completely ignorant about the growing threat of fascism and far-right extremism. It’s not a difference of culture or opinions. It’s a group of people that want to destroy democracy and take away our rights
People are NOT well informed by 🇨🇦 medias
People are NOT well informed by 🇨🇦 medias
The Conservatives have launched their Charlie Kirk imitation tour.
In a fluff piece, CBC casually mentions that it it supported by youth from a group demanding the forcible deportation of millions from Canada.
CBC presents it as "counter culture."
No.
That's hate.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
In a fluff piece, CBC casually mentions that it it supported by youth from a group demanding the forcible deportation of millions from Canada.
CBC presents it as "counter culture."
No.
That's hate.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Inside one Conservative MP’s ‘Restore the North’ tour, a Canadian take on Charlie Kirk’s movement | CBC News
By asking how to 'restore the North,' Conservative MP Jamil Jivani hopes to expand Charlie Kirk's U.S. campus tour movement — and ignite a national conversation here in Canada.
www.cbc.ca
October 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
@cbcradiocanada.bsky.social and Canadian medias are completely ignorant about the growing threat of fascism and far-right extremism. It’s not a difference of culture or opinions. It’s a group of people that want to destroy democracy and take away our rights
People are NOT well informed by 🇨🇦 medias
People are NOT well informed by 🇨🇦 medias
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Have you ever wondered why Trump & MAGA always lie so wildly about numbers without a care in the world? Watch Angela Lansbury explain the reason in this brilliant scene from The Manchurian Candidate. This was the basis for McCarthyism in a nutshell:
July 9, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Have you ever wondered why Trump & MAGA always lie so wildly about numbers without a care in the world? Watch Angela Lansbury explain the reason in this brilliant scene from The Manchurian Candidate. This was the basis for McCarthyism in a nutshell: