James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

@Remittancegirl
The media discovered, not long after news broadcasts suddenly began to need to make a profit, coincidentally, that a generally frightened populace will tend to believe anyone who sounds authoritative; especially if they're on tv.

So now that MSM has shown us all they would rather show dissatisfaction in fascists losing than in democratic solidarity, allow that to inform your media digestion.

If you didn’t know the Beaverton is satire, you’d be “yeah, that sounds right.” #cdnpoli https://www.thebeaverton.com/2024/07/liberal-party-watches-in-horror-as-french-centrists-fail-to-turn-fear-of-right-wing-maniacs-into-unending-political-power-for-themselves/

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‘Weird interaction with a student. They keep coming up with weird “facts” (“Greek is a combination of four other languages”) that left me baffled. I said let’s look this stuff up together, and they said OK, I open a search bar, and they opened … Ch*tGPT. And I was like “this is not a search bar” and they were like “yes it is, you can search for anything in here”.
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Each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine.’
- https://mastodon.social/@Miniver/112742679202304903

George Takei:

If you think a nightmarish, unconstitutional round up of innocent people, merely suspected of being enemies of the state, can’t happen in the U.S., then you’re forgetting that it already has.

I was among them, along with my entire family and community.

I would rather eat . . .

From what I've read, every single one of Trump's rally speeches features at least five minutes of incomprehensible word salad, but the MSM doesn't cover that.

Bastards.

Well, many things to be unhappy about with that exit poll, but never mind that, let's focus on the big picture: the Tories are getting absolutely creamed.

That's definitely something to celebrate.

#ToryDeathParty

So this is how it is now, I guess. 😡

#USpol #trump #immunity #president #scotus #IllegitimateSCOTUS #constitution bramhall

#IAmDB

Remember when Evan Dyer, CBC journalist, called out Postmedia?

SUN: "Former Indian diplomat Deepak Vohra cites "credible rumours" that sniffer dogs found cocaine on PMJT's plane."

DYER: "I was on that plane; present at both aborted & final departures. No 🇮🇳 agent or sniffer dog ever set foot on board. Postmedia did not send a reporter on this trip & relied on non-credible rumours.
This is a low for 🇨🇦 journalism. It’s embarrassing that it was published."

#IDU #India #poilievre #cdnpoli

A story about one of my colleagues: "Erica picked up a rock by chance 10 years ago. It might hold the oldest form of complex life on Earth"

https://news.unsw.edu.au/en/erica-picked-up-a-rock-10-years-ago-it-might-hold-the-oldest-form-of-complex-life-on-earth

#earthscience #Geology #geologyrocks #unsw #science #academia #fossils

Man, being old is weird. I'm old enough to remember when "anyone can be President" was a statement of hope and aspirations rather than the opening line of a horror novel.

The Onion is really nailing it these days

https://www.theonion.com/clarence-thomas-torn-over-case-where-both-sides-offer-c-1851566812