Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦
@sschwinghamer.bsky.social
Inadequate cat servant. Husband. Dad. Historian of #CdnImm. Public & oral history. Museums. Bikes. PhD candidate (Hist) @ Carleton. Kjipuktuk / Hfx. (He/him)
ABC has picked it up now. "Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'"
Capital One says it closed hundreds of Trump's bank accounts in 2021 'for anti-money laundering reasons'
Capital One says it closed hundreds of accounts associated with President Trump and his businesses in 2021 "for anti-money laundering reasons," according to a filing.
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The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
#cat in basket update: the cat is NOT in the basket the cat is, however, arranged upon a kind of container, so there is an approximation of in-basket status
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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this bubble notification feature of Android needs to be excised immediately
I worry that most cynical among us, hopped up on 30 years of law and order rhetoric, will say "this is the system working: he didn't do anything wrong and now he's free." As if the terror and wide-scale publicity of an arrest and federal prosecution is not a horrible punishment in and of itself.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.
I just wrote my MLA to ask about filtering and dooring being included in the regulations supporting the Traffic Safety Act. #bikehfx
Safe Kjipuktuk@safehrm.bsky.social · 5d agoI think this would be included in the road user regulations accompanying the amended Traffic Safety Act. A draft of those has not been released yet. One for your MLA, not councillor
August 1st marks Emancipation Day, a day to learn about and reflect on the contributions of people of African descent to Nova Scotia’s development, while recognizing the continuing legacies of historical enslavement and anti-Black racism.
A Toronto man could become the 1st Canadian cured of HIV thanks to rare bone marrow treatment #Canada Experts say treatment only works in specific cases and more research is needed for a general cure www.cbc.ca/radio/toront...
A Toronto man could become the 1st Canadian cured of HIV thanks to rare bone marrow treatment | CBC News
A man known as the "Toronto patient" could become the first Canadian cured of HIV. Medical experts say it's a miraculous achievement even if only a small group of people are eligible for the treatment...
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Similarly, if a random citizen at your daughter's soccer game wanted to check the genitals of the kids playing, you would call the fucking cops, and rightly so. Stop debating these people and call them out for what they are -- creepy perverts, freaky busybodies and utter hypocrites.
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 5d agoWhat's the difference between a landlord who sneaks into your apartment to rifle through your underwear drawer and an AG who sues for your abortion records? The state health director keeping a spreadsheet of women’s periods isn’t any less creepy than the abusive ex who still tracks your location.
New reporting from @breachmedia.ca shows that Canadian universities operated a secret national effort to coordinate surveillance and policing of anti-genocide activism and encampments. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
Watching lithium-ion battery costs fall precipitously in recent years as wind and solar power costs fell below new-build fossil gas, Moe Kabbara said he grasped the “fundamental truth” that the world was in the midst of an industrial revolution.
'Techno-economics' will drive irreversible shift to clean energy, says think-tank boss
Transition Accelerator CEO Moe Kabbara, in a far-ranging interview with CNO, argues the climate crisis is a "profound system transformation problem” that will be solved not by the moral imperative of ...
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#AI wins again
PBS News@pbsnews.org · 6d agoThe State Department said it takes "full responsibility" for "hastily" altering and then presenting a map of Africa at a global AIDS conference that mislabeled every single country it highlighted. An analysis by Reuters found a watermark in the map image that suggests it was made with OpenAI.
*takes Oxford off the tourism stop list* www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Oxford town council votes to allow ATVs on all streets | CBC News
ATVs and similar vehicles will soon be allowed on all roads within the town of Oxford in northern Nova Scotia, a move that comes after it opened up select streets two years ago.
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“Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city,” [says Jean-Louis Missika, Paris’s deputy mayor for urbanisation]. “They are parked 95% of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70kg. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is.” www.ft.com/content/882e...
How Paris beat the car
Though chaotic, the city’s transition has become a global role model
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Just want to drop this bit of nativist paranoia about Italians here. Check out the labels.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7d agoIn recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
NEW: Following SCOTUS ruling on Trump admin moves to end immigration protections, harm and fear spreads. An appeals court on Wednesday allowed DHS's ending of TPS for Ethiopia to proceed. Immigrant communities affected, meanwhile, are facing impossible choices and a hateful DHS. Law Dork:
Following SCOTUS ruling on Trump admin moves to end immigration protections, harm and fear spreads
An appeals court on Wednesday allowed DHS's ending of TPS for Ethiopia to proceed. Immigrant communities affected, meanwhile, are facing impossible choices and a hateful DHS.
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Lessons from Hamilton, Ontario: Here’s how to stop an AI data centre proposed for your community Today's Morning File by me www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
Lessons from Hamilton, Ontario: Here's how to stop an AI data centre proposed for your community - Halifax Examiner
"City councils have more power than they think."
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You can reach Tim's guest services at 1-888-601-1616 Share your thoughts on enriching a bigot. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Critics slam Tim Hortons Harry Potter promotion as anti-2SLGBTQ+ | CBC News
Tim Hortons has announced a new Harry Potter promotion, but the reaction online has been anything but magical.
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More here: www.canada.ca/en/transport...
Passenger Rail Locomotive Assembly Returns to Canada Through a $1.95 Billion Government of Canada Investment
Rail helped build Canada, connecting people and communities across vast distances and helping unite the country. Today, a modern and resilient passenger rail network is essential to supporting economi...
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#BikeHfx, the Brunswick St bike lane is blocked along the Cogswell to Gottingen section with no warning and no mitigation. Very hard to manage if you’re northbound!
Republicans insist Mitch McConnell resting comfortably following routine taxidermy procedure
Republicans insist Mitch McConnell resting comfortably following routine taxidermy procedure
WASHINGTON D.C. - GOP lawmakers are chastizing their Democratic colleagues, as well as members of the media, for inquiring about the 6 week disappearance of Sen. Mitch McConnell, insisting the lawmake...
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Turning a big dial that says “PUNISH TORONTO” on it and looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right
Ontario rethinking support for high-speed rail after feds reject Billy Bishop expansion: source | CBC News
The federal government's rejection of a plan to allow commercial jets at Toronto's Billy Bishop Airport is threatening a wedge between the Ford government and Ottawa — and potentially strengthening op...
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*looks at the US* Great idea, equating money with political voice. Look where Citizens United has landed that poor former democracy. If you are a citizen, you have the right to vote and the responsibility to contribute back to the state according to your means. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News
The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...
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