lartigue@bsky.social 🇨🇦
@lartigue.bsky.social
Proud Canadian ❤️🔥 horrified by the authoritarian practices and cruelty next door 😡 pro-Ukraine 🇺🇦 and pro-peace ☮️ Oxford comma fan 📖 art enthusiast 🖼️ and hockey mom 🥅 and 🐈 slave… yah, that sums it up. 🇨🇦🪵🏕️⛳️🥌⛸️🐱🥶🥶🥶
"Reminder, the only time Trump played a golf tournament where he couldn't cheat, the American Century celebrity tournament in 2006, he shot 52 over par in 3 rounds and finished in 62nd place out of 80 celebrities," a golfer noted.
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
Rugged individualism is a terrible way to live, a truly terrible direction for government policies, and it's one of the reasons I left the US.
Trump has drastically weakened and debased the United States. To get through this we will have to listen to our friends. (Lesson 16 of "On Tyranny"). www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’
Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?
nytimes.com
Folks, not gonna lie. THIS is what keeps me up at night. If you do NOTHING else... #GOTV!!!!!! www.usnews.com/news/nationa...
“According to the finance ministry’s calculations, the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro/km. On the other hand, every km travelled by bike yields societal gains of 60 euro cents thanks to the health benefits of cycling, transport efficiency gains, & lower infrastructure spending.”
Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities
Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.
theprogressplaybook.com
A U.S. government map of Africa — likely made with AI tools — mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation abroad this week.
US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a State Department presentation at a global conference taking place in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attendees who took screen...
reuters.com
Oh this is heartbreaking. Anything to do with TBIs always gets me, given my own history, but ufff this is a bad one. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking (Gift Article)
Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.
nytimes.com
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · 6d agosuch an incredibly told story from @davephilipps.bsky.social. his main subject is a teen, whose coast guard vet killed himself after years of trauma in the service. hoping to find more about her father lived (and died) she did her own research for a class project. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
"Israel, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, the US and more are merging into a mega-war run by robots. They used to call these World Wars. They used to call people on the phone. The most common call I get today is from someone named 'Scam Likely.'" sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand
Quicksand
Gen X was right after all.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
Info here. Weird how no one has reported on this. (Story of my life!) cal-access.sos.ca.gov/Lobbying/Fir...
cal-access.sos.ca.gov
🚨 NEW: A $121,617 home renovation invoice used by Ken Paxton’s defense during his impeachment trial was dated September 1, 2020. But the file’s metadata shows it was actually created a month later, on a VERY significant date. We obtained the invoice. Here’s what we found:
New Photos Show Ken Paxton's Team Presented an Invoice for His Home Renovation with Fabricated Dates
Photos of an invoice submitted as evidence during Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's 2023 impeachment trial show that his defense team presented a document
meidasnews.com
@annabower.bsky.social didn't describe what boots or shoes or ties anyone is wearing but this is nevertheless one of her superb accounts from a court hearing.
Anna Bower@annabower.bsky.social · last wk.Earlier this month, a New York Times journalist was watching “The Sheep Detectives” when FBI agents showed up at his door with a subpoena. Last week, a judge had some questions. It didn’t go well for the Justice Department. My dispatch from the NYT hearing: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
The death of Daniel Siad, long-time modeling “scout” for Jeffrey Epstein, Jean-Luc Brunel, & Gérald Marie is beyond suspicious. Innocence En Danger’s Homayra Sellier joins to discuss why the new complaints against Gérald Marie are so important to get to Ghislaine Maxwell. youtu.be/EYTx6qy7RCY?...
Trump SCRAMBLES as France’s EPSTEIN Investigation CLOSES IN on Ghislaine MAXWELL!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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“The FDA walked back its announcement that Taylor Farms iceberg lettuce was infected with the parasite just days after executives from the produce company met with President Donald Trump at the White House …”
Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 2w ago“CDC reports 11,500 suspected cases of cyclosporiasis in 41 states while RFK Jr. says outbreak is ‘under control.’” "The CDC also noted that state data may include probable and confirmed cases, resulting in higher case counts than what CDC reports.” people.com/cyclosporias...
I worry that they are moving so fast—and that the media has been so bizarrely silent—that the “new global order” (Pax Silica) will be in place (& impossible to unwind) before the public knows anything about it. Thread. #PaxSilica 1/
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · 4w ago😳 Jacob Helberg—who left his position as an advisor at *Palantir* to join the Trump State Dept—spearheads the international “Pax Silica” initiative. In May, he discussed it w/ Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: “Jacob Helberg on Pax Silica & the New Global Order in the AI Age” 1/
📌11 days ago, Trump said this: "I don't want anything to do with Spain." Today this slobbering loser was booed by 80,000 people as he harrumphed his way onto the field and handed their World Cup-winning team this trophy. Eat it, moron.
The World Cup ends Sunday, but the increased surveillance won't, write Ranking Digital Rights’ Tayrine dos Santos Dias and Leandro Ucciferri. Their investigation maps the companies behind the data harvesting, predictive policing, and aerial surveillance across 16 host cities.
The Silent World Cup Winners are the Companies Normalizing Surveillance
Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) released an investigation into the companies supporting surveillance and policing in the 16 host cities of the 2026 World Cup.
techpolicy.press
Jonathan Swan says that when President Trump returned to office, he pressured the intelligence community to produce some kind of evidence proving that the 2020 election was stolen, and that Trump’s Thursday night address was the best they could do.
Good article that identifies Joe Gebbia and the National Design Studio as the spirtual heirs of DOGE but also fail to mention that Gebbia posts white nationalist messaging daily. Is that no longer notable? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
DOGE was supposed to be dead. Its remnants are everywhere.
The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.
washingtonpost.com
The right-wing in the United States can’t take the risk that you might PROPERLY blame the deliberate failure to act on #ClimateChange for the record-setting #wildfires we’re going to see EVERY year from now on. And they don’t want you knowing how many wildfires happen in the United States itself.
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