Good morning and welcome to today’s episode of “Jesus Christ, Are There People Who Are Really That Stupid?” https://gizmodo.com/raw-milk-sales-up-bird-flu-h5n1-tiktok-usda-cdc-fda-1851476916
"You don't come to Ontario, no matter what culture you are, and stir things up." -#DougFord
"A reminder that the 'Freedom Convoy' folks illegally occupied downtown #Ottawa for 3 whole weeks terrorizing residents, impeding traffic, causing businesses to close while politicians & police stood by."
The premier had no comment & went snowmobiling at his cottage when "that culture" was "stirring things up" 🤔
Sooo… complete training they were going to do anyway, not charged with negligence causing death. Yeah, that’ll fix things. 😒 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/401-crash-police-training-1.7199317
Donald Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad second term
Millions of us are justifiably focused on seeing that Donald Trump is held to account for what he’s allegedly done in the past.
Scheming to flip the legitimate 2020 election result and resisting the peaceful transfer of power, a first for U.S. presidents.
Making off with top-secret documents and conspiring to hide them from the feds.
Falsifying business records to keep hush money paid to a porn star a secret from voters in 2016.
We mustn’t lose sight, however, of what Trump will do, if
— despite all that baggage
— he defeats Joe Biden to become president again.
His fever dreams are no secret.
He’s told us,
and his henchmen have, too,
in interviews
and in exhaustive, scary detail
in their so-called Project 2025 blueprint for a second Trump term.
https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-05-05/donald-trump-time-magazine-second-term-project-2025
Bloody Elon Musk is destroying the night sky. This is a single one minute exposure of Comet Pons Brooks tonight. #muskisscum #notostarlink #starlinksucks #savethenight #astronomy #NewZealand
#FollowTheMoney 🧵 30/n
Wow. As Bregman says: Stunning graph: the plummeting tax rates of the richest Americans. For the first time in history, billionaires have a lower effective tax rate than working-class Americans.
Look at 1980 - I do continue to think that *everything* could have been different if Carter hadn’t lost to Reagan.
These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4 followers
There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.
Pardon?
Premier Doug Ford has just announced that his Ontario conservative government will open a "regional office" in #Ottawa.
It will be staffed by Sean Webster, the defeated Ontario PC Party candidate who lost last summer's Kanata-Carleton by-election to Liberal candidate Karen McCrimmon.
👉 Sean Webster, is a former Shoppers Drug Mart executive.
Thousands of climate scientists over more than 30 years provide definitive evidence of climate change.
Danielle Smith: “Meh.”
One anonymous letter that no one has actually seen makes vague allegations about ethics in Edmonton.
Danielle Smith: “OMFG WE HAVE TO INVESTIGATE THIS!!!”
https://globalnews.ca/news/10439503/alberta-premier-says-anonymous-letter-forwarded-to-edmonton-ethics-commissioner/
College professor, part time nerd and sci-fi enthusiast. Not actually a duck, but what’s Humphrey Bogart got that I ain’t got?