Donna Markland

@bcvet.bsky.social

Ex-pat veterinarian living in a beautiful place. Here to learn from the smart people and laugh with the sarcastic ones. You will mostly see sunrise and pet pictures from me.

BREAKING: Todd Blanche has released what he calls a rescission of the slush fund (left). The last lawsuit he mentions is mine (Gill v DOJ). This doesn't change the fact that the "settlement" setting up the fund is still in effect. On the right, Blanche is LEAVING IN PLACE Trump's tax immunity.

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The craziest thing about these two photos of Max Miller is they are just from the first minute of his 20 minute live today for his own personally conducted public soothing Therapy Session while he waited for the teleprompter to start working.

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Trump's ICE thugs are not detaining the worst of the worst, but those like Reverend Johnson. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫-𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 & personally gains when folks are 𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐨𝐝, water & medical attention because they eat into his profits, but caused Rev Johnson's stroke

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)

The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.

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globalnews.ca/news/1200082... “I grew up in Abbott & I still have a home there with farmed land where I can still see stars at night" Nelson wrote. “The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter).” #AI 🇺🇸 #Tech 🌍

Willie Nelson urges people to ‘fight against data centres invading our land’ - National | Globalnews.ca

'The last thing we need is a loud, water thieving, light polluting, data center anywhere near our town (or any others for that matter),' Willie Nelson wrote.

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Deafening noise. Extreme water use. Massive electricity consumption. And 70% of Americans don't want them built in their communities. It is time for a moratorium on AI data centers.

😡 BREAKING: New court filings reveal Republican Max Miller poured hot water on his wife, put a gun to her head, and broke his two year old daughter's collarbone. Why is Mike Johnson defending him?

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Meanwhile, in Canadian mainstream media.... I searched CTV News, CBC News, Global News and the Globe and Mail for any coverage of Shopify in the last 24 hours. Nothing (except business reporting from the Globe, nothing on the CEO suggesting poor people should have less of a say in our democracy)

Search of CBC's website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of Global News' website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of CTV News' website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns zero resultsSearch of The Globe and Mail's website for mentions of Shopify in the last 24 hours returns only business coverage, nothing about their CEO suggesting the poor should have less of a say in our democracy than the rich
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says “good system.” In response to the following proposal: 

“Interesting... what about weighted voting proportional to the level of income tax you pay? (no income tax paid - O vote, $1-100k - 1 vote, $100-200k 2 votes and so on... cap it at 5 votes for $500k+. For those that constantly complain about the wealthy not paying tax/fair share they'd have nothing to worry about right? Why not reward representation of taxation and build a democracy around those that foot the bill?”

Ray-Ban was stupid to put their brand at risk with this partnership. I'll never look at Ray-Ban the same way again and I've been wearing their sunglasses for 25+ years. Next pair won't be from them.

Reporter: Isn’t there concern that this slippery slope to socialism inevitably ends up as full-blown communism? AOC: They want to call everything they don’t like communist because if people actually wake up to the fact that their elected officials are screwing them over when they get here

🚨Americans Abroad! The current Budget Reconciliation includes $10 billion to advance provisions of Trump’s SAVE America Act, which would make it significantly harder for millions of eligible U.S. citizens, including nearly all citizens living abroad, to vote. @demsabroad.bsky.social

Stop Budget Reconciliation 3.0

Republicans are at it again - this time trying to fund the SAVE Act and Trump's war with Iran by attaching them to budget reconciliation. They're demanding 95 billion additional funding with no offset...

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I’m sure Elon Musk will do his AI Odyssey movie, and you can be driven to the premiere on the self driving car he never built, through the cross country tunnel he never built, getting updates from the robot he never built, while checking out the mars base he never built.