Shannon
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On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)
October 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
On Trump Deploying Troops to More Cities to Protect ICE from Antifa (Or Whatever)
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"These mediocre men could stomach seeing other white men accomplish what they could not. That somehow felt fair. But they could not bear seeing women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and some religious minorities not just be accepted in the ranks but excel while being held to the same high standards"
"That was the whole point of the event. It had nothing to do with improving our national security and military readiness. It was a role-play session for undeserving straight, white guys who could never hack it and resent those who could."
For the Smallest Men in the World
And a celebration of them.
charlotteclymer.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"These mediocre men could stomach seeing other white men accomplish what they could not. That somehow felt fair. But they could not bear seeing women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and some religious minorities not just be accepted in the ranks but excel while being held to the same high standards"
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ok late to this but it’s so messed up that men can be known, documented, public abusers and still get feted in this exact manner but famous women have to go into hibernation every 4-6 years otherwise one day everyone wakes up and is like you know what i can’t stand? this bitch’s face.
July 8, 2025 at 4:11 AM
ok late to this but it’s so messed up that men can be known, documented, public abusers and still get feted in this exact manner but famous women have to go into hibernation every 4-6 years otherwise one day everyone wakes up and is like you know what i can’t stand? this bitch’s face.
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Over the last free months Canada has upped its border security, agreed to participate in the Golden Dome, and spend 5% of GDP on defence and it basically all means nothing. No agreement will be stable or secure, even if we can eventually reach one. The new normal in Canada-US relations.
Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately
Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump said he's pulling back from the bilateral trade discussions because Canada plans to move ahead with its digital services tax.
www.cbc.ca
June 27, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Over the last free months Canada has upped its border security, agreed to participate in the Golden Dome, and spend 5% of GDP on defence and it basically all means nothing. No agreement will be stable or secure, even if we can eventually reach one. The new normal in Canada-US relations.
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ex-president sex pest endorses ex-governor sex pest in effort to fight current president sex pest
Former President Bill Clinton is endorsing former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, his former HUD secretary, as the Democratic establishment tries to attempt to ensure Zohran Mamdani does not win the Democratic primary for NYC mayor. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/n...
Bill Clinton Endorses Andrew Cuomo for New York City Mayor
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ex-president sex pest endorses ex-governor sex pest in effort to fight current president sex pest
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It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
Scientific insiders hold power for a reason. Cause they know shit. The idea that there is something wrong with our best and brightest holding power is how we get idiots who run our country into the ground. Absurd
Utterly psychotic. RFK's "unfounded beliefs and suspicions" are what separate him from legitimate critics of science and public health, he fucking lies all the time!
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
You can't say "he might have a point" about the parts you agree with and ignore everything else.
May 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?
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Anti-woke is the path to anti-elected, in Germany, Canada and now Australia.
Nothing douses voters’ performative beliefs like seeing them transformed into actual non-symbolic policies in real time to horrific effect in a country we all watch closely
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Nothing douses voters’ performative beliefs like seeing them transformed into actual non-symbolic policies in real time to horrific effect in a country we all watch closely
bsky.app/profile/6new...
#BREAKING 🚨 Peter Dutton has lost his seat of Dickson to Labor’s Ali France, 6 News projects
May 3, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Anti-woke is the path to anti-elected, in Germany, Canada and now Australia.
Nothing douses voters’ performative beliefs like seeing them transformed into actual non-symbolic policies in real time to horrific effect in a country we all watch closely
bsky.app/profile/6new...
Nothing douses voters’ performative beliefs like seeing them transformed into actual non-symbolic policies in real time to horrific effect in a country we all watch closely
bsky.app/profile/6new...
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The Conservative plan is out and, ooof, is this costing a disaster.
There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
April 22, 2025 at 2:41 PM
The Conservative plan is out and, ooof, is this costing a disaster.
There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
There's a whole bunch of phantom revenues booked here, and the GST housing pledge is costed at under $2B. Given their proposed eligibility criteria, it should be more in the 4-6B range.
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“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”
French debate live updates: Carney, Poilievre and other leaders spar in first forum, Trump mentioned less than expected
Follow the federal leaders’ debate with live video, reporting and analysis from the Star, including during post-debate scrums.
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April 17, 2025 at 1:02 AM
“Rebel is a conspiratorial partisan outlet that spreads misinformation and actively campaigns against candidates it doesn’t like. This isn’t journalism and it’s obscene that the Debate Commission let them on — and even more wild that it allowed so many of their faux-journalists to hijack…”
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“Um, maybe try sleeping on a bed of gold before you criticize others for doing it”
Gayle King Defends 11-Minute Space Flight After ‘Disrespectful’ Backlash:
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
"My question is, have y’all been to space? Go to space or go to Blue Origin and see what they do and then come back and say, ‘This is a terrible thing.'"
Gayle King Defends 'Expensive' 11-Minute Space Flight After 'Disrespectful' Backlash
Gayle King defends Blue Origin space flight after herself, Katy Perry, and the other participants received backlash for going to space for 11 minutes.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Um, maybe try sleeping on a bed of gold before you criticize others for doing it”
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Bukele: They say that we imprisoned thousands. I say we liberated millions [...] to liberate that many you have to imprison some.
Under Bukele, more than 2% of El Salvador's population is now incarcerated without due process, the highest proportional incarceration rate in the world.
Under Bukele, more than 2% of El Salvador's population is now incarcerated without due process, the highest proportional incarceration rate in the world.
April 14, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Bukele: They say that we imprisoned thousands. I say we liberated millions [...] to liberate that many you have to imprison some.
Under Bukele, more than 2% of El Salvador's population is now incarcerated without due process, the highest proportional incarceration rate in the world.
Under Bukele, more than 2% of El Salvador's population is now incarcerated without due process, the highest proportional incarceration rate in the world.
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This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.
Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.”
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April 14, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.
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The fact is Bissonnette and other 'multiple murderers' are deeply unlikely to ever see life out of prison. Poilievre is promising to use a nuclear option to overrule a Supreme Court decision not because of a real policy problem, but for crass symbolism.
Poilievre would use the notwithstanding clause to override some Canadians' Charter rights. www.ctvnews.ca/federal-elec...
Poilievre vows to use notwithstanding clause to overturn SCC ruling. Singh focused on election. Live updates here.
Speaking to CTV’s Your Morning, Jagmeet Singh maintained he is focused on campaigning when asked if he is the right person to lead the NDP if the party does not hold party status. Meanwhile, Pierre sa...
www.ctvnews.ca
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The fact is Bissonnette and other 'multiple murderers' are deeply unlikely to ever see life out of prison. Poilievre is promising to use a nuclear option to overrule a Supreme Court decision not because of a real policy problem, but for crass symbolism.
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theoretically what's to stop them from just doing this forever?
BREAKING: DOJ says it won't comply with Judge Xinis' order because the deadline she set is "impracticable."
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April 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
theoretically what's to stop them from just doing this forever?
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John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...
Send This John Oliver Segment to Anyone Still Confused About Trans Athletes
It's the most thoughtful, fact-based explanation you'll find about what's really happening in women's sports
www.readtpa.com
April 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
John Oliver's segment about trans athletes is a must watch for anyone who genuinely has "concerns" (and isn't just using that as cover for bigotry) www.readtpa.com/p/send-this-...
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“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
April 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
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Reminder that removing GST on a good that we both export and import, that is unreasonably tariffed in the United States is effectively getting a subsidy from ALL Canadian taxpayers for your personal car purchase.
Worse, it makes good on Trump's promise to "make other countries" pay.
#cdnpoli
Worse, it makes good on Trump's promise to "make other countries" pay.
#cdnpoli
April 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Reminder that removing GST on a good that we both export and import, that is unreasonably tariffed in the United States is effectively getting a subsidy from ALL Canadian taxpayers for your personal car purchase.
Worse, it makes good on Trump's promise to "make other countries" pay.
#cdnpoli
Worse, it makes good on Trump's promise to "make other countries" pay.
#cdnpoli
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Migrant Workers Alliance for Change just fired a shot across Poilievre's bow.
March 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Migrant Workers Alliance for Change just fired a shot across Poilievre's bow.
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a key insight revealed by the military strike group chat: entire trump cabinet is saying we shouldn’t be helping the europeans, and if we have to then they should be paying for it
not collective security, it’s purely transactional security
not collective security, it’s purely transactional security
What Trump team's war plans leak revealed | Ian Bremmer's Quick Take
YouTube video by GZERO Media
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March 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
a key insight revealed by the military strike group chat: entire trump cabinet is saying we shouldn’t be helping the europeans, and if we have to then they should be paying for it
not collective security, it’s purely transactional security
not collective security, it’s purely transactional security