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Zuck Turgidson
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Middle-aged crank
For the record, this Cross-Country Checkup dust-up is face-plantingly stupid. I am disappointed in *so many of you*.

I wish words like 'normalizing' and 'platforming' had never been invented. NOT looking to talk about it, obviously. This silly app coming back off my phone.
February 24, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Hey, when random guys with no badges and no authority try to grab a protester and drag her away, that's when you put down the phone, get out of your seat, and fucking help her.
During a GOP town hall at Coeur d'Alene High School, Teresa Borrenpohl called out, “Is this a lecture or a town hall?” Witnesses said three unidentified men, who were not wearing badges or ID, then physically removed from her seat by order of the Idaho county sheriff.
February 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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Wow
Shin Bet arrests two Israelis suspected of involvement in Tel Aviv suburbs bus bombs
***
www.haaretz.com
February 23, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Still think this website blows. Sorry, everyone.
February 22, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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February 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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"it is precisely the safety and rationality of modern society that has allowed anti-vaccination beliefs to flourish ... their good health guaranteed by the 'herd immunity' provided by the mass of sensible citizens who do get vaccinated"
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Conspiracists are about to get a dose of reality
Antivaxers, cranks and fantasists thrive in safe, stable societies but the days of consequence-free idiocy may be ending
www.thetimes.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Junius warns about forgetting the tragedy of a world before vaccines..

"history has a way of roaring back"
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Globe editorial: Success of vaccines lets people forget diseases still lurk
Many diseases can seem relegated to the history books, but history has a way of roaring back
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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I remember seeing a hot sauce called “Ass Reaper” with a grim reaper shaped bottle + the slogan “That’s your ass now!” My wife + I like to say this to each other often.
I’m Ron fricken Swanson pilled
February 17, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Using diplomatic currency to let a rapist and sex trafficker off the hook while you claim to be tough on crime. Using the pardon power to free the world’s largest fentanyl trafficker while you harass uninvolved countries over the drug. All because those guys flattered you

www.ft.com/content/3f95...
Trump administration pressures Romania to lift restrictions on Andrew Tate
Tristan and Andrew Tate have been charged with sexual misconduct, organised crime and money laundering
www.ft.com
February 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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New from me at TVO, asking 'what if there was a housing crisis and nobody in an election talked about it?' amp.tvo.org/article/analysis-will-someone-please-talk-about-housing
ANALYSIS: Will someone please talk about housing? | TVO Today
The race in Parry Sound-Muskoka is unusual for a few reasons. The biggest? They’re talking about the housing crisis  
amp.tvo.org
February 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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The Partition of India displaced 20 million people, killed almost 2 million & created a refugee crisis whose effects are still in play over 70 years later, if you actually think it's a model for anything but massive catastrophe, you should not only not be employed here you should be in a padded cell
I thought this had to be a joke. But no.

www.wsj.com/opinion/if-i...
February 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Just FYI that Flag Day is this Saturday February 15th and the Dollarama has its Canada Day merch in already. Don’t order from Amazon. Go to the dollar store! #CdnPoli
February 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Boosting one more time. Not tooting my own horn but it’s the only analysis I’ve seen that pushes past press releases on this investment and its implications for past, present and future

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-scho...
Did Ontario’s COVID-19 funds clean air in schools? | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s government touted its investments in indoor air quality in schools during the pandemic, but there’s little proof of how it will help with climate change impacts
thenarwhal.ca
February 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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to repeat myself, I cannot believe the number of people who lined up to sanewash Trump's assertions about Canada as if they bore any connection to reality
Trump: "The US will take over the Gaza Strip."
February 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm pulling up to the gym, Jenny
REVOLUTION BEGINS WITH CHANGES IN THE INDIVIDUAL
February 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Truly a golden age for news stories accompanied by pictures of shipping containers, harbours, and cranes.
February 4, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"Everything I say leaks," Zuckerberg says in leaked meeting audio. "It sucks"

www.404media.co/zuckerberg-s...
Zuckerberg Says 'Everything I Say Leaks' in Leaked Meeting Audio
"There are a bunch of things that I think are value-destroying for me to talk about, so I’m not going to talk about those."
www.404media.co
January 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🙍
Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."
January 28, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Joasis
Oasis
Noasis
Aoasis
Toasis
Hoasis
Aoasis
Noasis
Cream
L7
Alvvays
Salt 'n' Pepa
Hurray for the Riff Raff
January 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Boozedoggle. Incredible stuff.
Note that the math here is somewhat different from the figures that led the Liberals to pan this policy as a "billion-dollar boozedoggle" and it would be relatively straightforward to fix the "problem" such as it is. Still, a good report for the opposition.
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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If the downtown Brampton tunnel doesn't serve several tram branches it's a very dumb idea.

Can have trams in front of the Coliseum in Rome but not downtown Brampton because of its historic significance.
January 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I guess my question is what will Tarrio and Rhodes get up to? I have to imagine they feel like they've been given carte blanche.
January 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.
Trump says he's going to ask Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who he describes as "a fantastic guy," to invest $1 trillion in the US economy
January 23, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Meaningless but rather costly smears, Senator.
AP: Pete Hegseth, Trump's Pentagon nominee, tells senator he paid $50,000 to woman who accused him of 2017 sex assault.
January 23, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Gonna be a long four years or whatever
January 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM