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Public servant. Political junkie. Toy nerd. Even if others disagree, firmly believes we're all in this together. He, him, il. Glory to Ukraine. ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Joined February 2009
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A New York mom used her crafting skills to make an impressive Transformers-inspired Halloween costume for her son.
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If he keeps saying things like that, it will become impossible for Canadians to pay for their own drinks in any bar in the democratic world.
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This is private equity, this is what it does. Buy up businesses, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for short-term profit. The developers at BioWare know how to run the studio. They know how to make the games we all love. They should be given the first opportunity - and the federal support - to buy it and run it themselves. And if we want to avoid the Mass Effect effect in Canada, we should be keeping private equity out, not welcoming it in. pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/โ€ฆ
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Wow. Albanians just set fire to the Supreme Court after it allowed Jared Kushner to buy land in the country against the their will.
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From: Jeff Helfgott BREAKING๐Ÿšจ A Michigan nurse lost her job and now faces up to a year in federal prison because a patient with a bloodied face walked out of the hospital before ICE could take him. Chloe Freeman, a registered nurse at Trinity Health Ann Arbor Hospital, is charged with "instigating or assisting escape," which carries up to a year in prison. She has pleaded not guilty. She goes back to federal court in Detroit on October 20. On May 28, Border Patrol agents went after a Mexican man in Ann Arbor. The agents say he ran, tripped over a curb and hit his face on the pavement. He was bleeding from the head when they brought him to the hospital, where staff saw in his paperwork that he was in ICE custody. After his CT scan, the FBI says Freeman took out his IV and walked him to the ambulance bay. Security footage shows him going out the doors with his face bandaged and bloody. Nobody has found him since. When the hospital questioned her in June, Freeman said she disagreed with ICE "separating people from their families." She said that with injuries like his, he "could have died." She also said no agents were in the room during the scan, so she didn't believe he was in custody at that point. Even the prosecutors' own announcement says agents stayed with him only until he was moved to imaging. Trinity Health fired her. She has since moved away. Shahad Atiya, an immigration attorney and law professor, said she has never seen this charge used in immigration cases, as Ruta Ulcinaite first reported in WXYZ Detroit (ABC 7). She expects it to become "a new set of charges" aimed at anyone who helps immigrants. Prosecutors charged a misdemeanor, not a felony. That means no grand jury ever had to approve the case. Grand juries in Los Angeles and Chicago have refused to indict anti-ICE protesters on felony charges. A petition calling for the charge to be dropped warns it tells healthcare workers that "showing compassion for a patient could cost them their freedom and their career." Nurses and hospital workers are being asked to show up at the Detroit courthouse on October 20 in their scrubs and lab coats. If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
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"I will not go 10,000 miles to help murder and kill another poor people simply to continue the domination of white slave masters...The real enemies of my people are right here, not in Vietnam." - Muhammad Ali on refusing to join the US military.
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Mark Carney laughs when asked about Trump saying Canada will apologize
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A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding. Explosives were strapped to one prisonerโ€™s leg and detonated. Russians then practiced applying a tourniquet and bandaging the wound. Another prisoner was shot in an artery near the armpit, while another was used for knife training - Russians practiced stabbing a person in the heart. Another prisoner had his leg chopped off with an axe. According to the Russian mercenary, all of the prisoners died during these "training exercises." He was in Mali from September 2023 to April 2024. After returning to Russia, he signed a contract with the Russian defense ministry in 2025 and later joined the GRUโ€™s 14th separate special forces brigade. He was captured while fighting against Ukraine. ๐Ÿ“น: Dmytro Karpenko
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Bludgeon warm-up!
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France just wiped Google and Microsoft off 2.5 million government computers. Germany moved 30,000 PCs off Windows. Denmark binned Microsoft Office. All of it in the last 18 months. Here's exactly what they replaced it with, and how to do the same tonight:
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16 years ago Google pulled its search engine out of China because they wouldnโ€™t submit to an authoritarian government. Today, theyโ€™re renaming lakes to appease one.
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This is probably for the best, viewed in the larger context -- this wasn't the deal, but just a deal, the primer for further concessions to come. It's a mistake to call this a negotiation. It's basically just extortion: do what we say or we'll hurt you real bad. Canada has to show it is uncoercible, which means demonstrating a willingness to endure pain. Ottawa fires back after rejecting U.S. trade deal - The Globe and Mail theglobeandmail.com/politicsโ€ฆ
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Replying to @adamboultonTABB
249 articles written about Arday in under a month. Thatโ€™s not scrutiny, thatโ€™s a witch-hunt. Arday wasnโ€™t a minister or a billionaire with ties to a paedophile. He was a relatively unknown academic. But because he was black and taught at Cambridge, you just couldnโ€™t accept him.
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I wonder what it says that I resemble this remark.
Study shows that neurodivergent brains cannot filter ambient workplace chatter, forcing the prefrontal cortex to exhaustively process every single background noise.
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Study shows that neurodivergent brains cannot filter ambient workplace chatter, forcing the prefrontal cortex to exhaustively process every single background noise.
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"I'm not going to try to analyze Canadians anymore." Pete Hoekstra still canโ€™t grasp why Canadians are upset with the United States.
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"It solves nothing."
โ€œBeyond dystopian.โ€ Novelist Dave Eggers is sounding the alarm about AI, which he argues is harming childrenโ€™s education: โ€œYou have a ten-year-old who is unprecedented in the history of the world. There's never been anyone like that personโ€ฆ To think about that one-of-a-kind-in-the-history-of-humanity person shopping their vision out to a machine, how tragic that is. That's beyond dystopian. It cannot be allowed. Not even one ounce of AI can be allowed in the humanities and youth education.โ€
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peak currency design
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Something happened today that I can't talk about in detail, other than to say today I am a writer. And it means the world to me.
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On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germanyโ€™s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: โ€œMr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and youโ€™re still more sensitive. Thatโ€™s quite an achievement.โ€
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