Oh, that relationship was killed quite some time ago and isn't coming back. Friends betrayed do not just forgive and forget. apnews.com/article/cana...

A trade war between Canada and the US further ruptures a once-close and durable alliance

Canada and the United States have long had one of the world's closest and most durable alliances. But that alliance is being severely tested now by one of the deepest crises in decades.

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North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump

As US citizen, I find this heartbreaking. As one who has studied rhetoric and watched leaders in difficult circumstances, I have only admiration for what M Carney is saying—and doing—here. "We cannot accept what they've offered, and we will not give what they've asked." www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

PM Carney Speaks to Media After Suspension of Canada-U.S. Trade Talks

Prime Minister Mark Carney holds a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa after Canada and the United States failed to reach a trade agreement before a late Friday deadline and Canada said it wa...

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Around me in Central Ohio, we've been told that large corporate data centers are built on "low quality" land but around here, that "low quality" land is habitat for my beloved Grasshopper Sparrows, a species that has already declined 90%+ in the state making some stickers about that

we are getting a real time demonstration of why smart countries do not allow 15 year olds angry that girls don't talk to them to dictate economic policy

World’s Biggest Stagflation Truther@corncobanalysis.bsky.social · 15h ago

This is an insane demand, no Canadian PM could say yes to it

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Know Your Rights University (KYR-U) is an animated series that teaches kids lessons about civics, constitutional rights, and free expression! KYR-U makes learning fun, and comes at a time when being a...

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I’m pissed. I turn 66 this month, and I don’t want to watch my country fold because a failed real-estate and reality-TV personality told a bunch of lies—and convinced a third of the country to follow him.

I have never understood and never will understand why interrupting someone while I'm reading to chat (not say something important or informative, just chat) isn't considered rude, but telling the interrupter "I'm reading and don't want to talk right now" is.

Every subsequent U.S. president who tries to do a modicum of good via foreign policy or trade is going to be sitting across from someone thinking yeah sure, okay, but what about the next guy. Absent political reforms, tribunals and truth and reconciliation, that credibility is gone forever.

“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.

‘Stars And Stripes’ Editor Says He’s Worried About Military Censorship After Fires Him For ‘Insubordination’

“Stars And Stripes” played a major role in breaking stories about living conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln earlier this summer.

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This is outrageous. A free press cannot function under constant threats and retaliation from the government. Reporters must be free to hold those in power accountable — without fear of retribution. The assault on the free press must end!

I’m just hoping he’ll break the iron grip the Republicans have on Indiana’s government.

Nancy@plaintanjane.bsky.social · 18h ago

Read the piece below about @beaubayh.bsky.social, a young Democrat running to be Indiana‘s next Secretary of State

The best thing I have learned from cooking is the French term MISE EN PLACE. Literally means to have everything in place before you start cooking. I have applied that to my life in general and it’s been greatly helpful to me. Let’s get started on the beef fried rice.

substack.com/@chrismurphy... EXACTLY COMMUNICATE how they are going to make Americans lives better.ECONOMY,ECONOMY,ECONOMY!!!!!!!

Democrats Must Propose Solutions as Big as the Problems Americans are Facing

It’s past time we rewrite the rules of our economy.

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"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician." Dorothy Parker August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967 American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

Be a Laurie. I think Laurie is probably sleeping pretty dang well at night

JJ in DC@jjindc.bsky.social · 4d ago

“I know this is going to sound extremely radical, or crazy,” she recounted telling the woman, “but ICE is there at the gate, and they're looking for you."

The Bears announced they’ve donated $200,000 to support communities impacted by severe storms and flooding across Chicago’s south suburbs and Northwest Indiana.

Correct. The White House was deliberately designed to NOT be a palace. Early Americans defined their country AGAINST European monarchies.

Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · 2d ago

The vandalism and desecration of the White House isn't just vanity and it's not trivial. It's caesarism, as in literally what Julius Caesar did to the symbolic architecture of civic republicanism. Our national iconography matters and allowing the disfiguring of it to persist is a substantive harm.

Stay vigilant! "According to a detailed report by The New York Times, a dangerous wave of unreliable data, fake surveys, and volatile prediction markets is warping campaign narratives, misleading donors, and distorting news coverage like never before." www.alternet.org/polling-trick/

A new polling 'trap' is being used to fool millions of Americans

The democratic process is facing a silent crisis as political polling transforms from a tool used to measure public opinion into a weapon used to manipulate it.

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He can’t understand what’s being asked. He simply reverts to violence as a response.

"Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for all." Sounds good to me, @abdulelsayed.bsky.social. Let's ALL get out there on November 3rd & beat the machine!!! Go to: iwillvote.com ☑️ or vote.org 🗳️

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 5d ago

Beat the machine. NEW AD.

A rooftop wind turbine that could change the way we think about home energy Imagine generating electricity from the wind without needing a massive tower, a huge plot of land, or a traditional wind farm. The technology shown here is designed to bring small-scale wind generation directly onto rooftops

Footballers are in the news paper again for sexual abuse. aAnd all the headlines say football has a misogyny problem. Yes it does, very much, but can I ask is there any institution filled predominantly with men with access to money and some power that doesn't have a misogyny problem?

No new data centers until we have federal guardrails.

I think this is pretty spot on

Julia Barton@bartona104.bsky.social · yesterday

Hate to break it to all the bots, but there is no longer such a thing as "mainstream media" in the US. There are some good journalists and editors approaching total burnout, a large ring of freelancers trying to hang on, and a larger group who are either unemployed or now in other professions.

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: We require vaccines. FLORIDA: On what grounds? CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: On the grounds that the bishops fucking say so and you ain’t a bishop.

James Grimmelmann@jtlg.bsky.social · 2d ago

Your typcal demand letter is agressively dismissive, but I'd describe this one more as "serenely implacable." It's a fascinating rhetorical study. flaccb.org/documents/20... (Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops, to Florida AG Uthmeyer, re: Catholic-school vaccination requirements.)

Their theological commitments are solid, for sure, but also if you want to know why quakers might stand with the queers and the trannies and the outsiders, you could do worse than remember that the British crown refused to recognize Quaker marriages for many decades.

Marcus 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧@marcusjdl.bsky.social · 2d ago

The Quakers have always been real. They protested against slavery in 1688.

School meals should be free for everybody. Charging children to eat somewhere they are legally required to be for the entire day is crazy.

Maybe I'm in the minority here but if people who support AI are being shamed into silence then it's working. The shame is working as intended. The left's biggest problem is that it's afraid to hurt the feelings of folks who need to have their feelings hurt. Let them experience introspection for once