James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

"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" 🤔

#ontario #onpoli #cdnpoli

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.

Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.

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.

#nasa #esa #space #mastodon #fediverse

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.

#SeanNeededAJob #gravytrain #onpoli #DougFord

Have you tried eating nachos about it?

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.

891,488 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and worship Trump as God-King.

Naheend Nenshi quotes:

"Are the actions of the Alberta UCP malice or just plain incompetence?"

"The Alberta UCP is like a dog chasing a car that suddenly caught it - they have no idea what to do next."

I’m glad Kristi Noem is getting hate for killing a dog, as she should be, and I want to make sure folks know she’s terrible for lots of other reasons too

-Cutting lunch programs for low income kids
-Making SD hostile to trans people
-Banning abortion
-Racism

And much more. She’s vile.

I am glad two years after the leader of the opposition brought doughnuts 🍩 to guys wwaving nazis flags the Canadian media is finally “concerned” about his dalliances with far-right extremists 👍🏻 #cdnpoli #Canada

Do you believe US President Joe Biden is cognitively fit to govern for another four years?

I'm not saying we shouldn't worry about how China might be using TikTok to steal our data and manipulate us...

But why aren't we at least as worried about the U.S. billionaires who own the other apps stealing our data and trying to manipulate us?

American neo-Nazis are stupider than you can even imagine.