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"Chris" "Caple" 🇨🇦🥌🦫🎸🎶
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Montrealistic guitaritarian & writery artperson. Toujours antifasciste. Be unrelentingly honest and kind and everything else takes care of itself. Freedom is in peril. We must defend it with all of our might.
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I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.”

It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”
America... boy, I dunno.
It's baffling to watch a very large percentage of the American population continue to abandon reason, logic, facts, science, objective reality, and basic human decency while embracing ever more aggressive and deranged forms of abject idiocy.

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Breaking News: Texas sued the makers of Tylenol, alleging the companies hid the drug’s links to autism following unproven claims by President Trump.
Texas Sues Tylenol Makers, Claiming They Hid Autism Risks
The lawsuit follows claims by President Trump that linked use by pregnant women of acetaminophen to autism, a connection that is unproven.
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A woman from the FDA’s Center for Devices & Radiological Health explains how her entire department was gutted

That means there’s no staff to alert you if your pacemaker is recalled

If an implantable device in your body is toxic or broken

This could have catastrophic health impacts & cost lives
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"Our estimates suggest that the biomass of the African elephant alone in 1850 was roughly equal to the current biomass of all wild terrestrial mammals combined" (some 6400 species)
In 1850 the weight of all the world's wild mammals equalled the weight of humans and our livestock

Today they are outweighed 1 to 20

Reconfiguring life on this planet to produce cheap meat and dairy

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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UK wind power benefits and costs 2010-2023 :

Lower energy bills through avoided gas: £14.2bn
Avoided infra & new gas generation: £133.3bn
Subsidies paid to wind power: - £43.2bn

Overall benefit to UK economy **£104bn**

Don't believe the wind power haters

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wind power has cut £104bn from UK energy costs since 2010, study finds
Reduction comes from energy generated from windfarms and lower cost of gas owing to lower demand
www.theguardian.com
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Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.
Please read our statement, share it with your networks, and support us if you can. www.python.org/sponsors/app... psfmember.org/civicrm/cont...
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Enten: "Canada is far more popular than Donald Trump is here in the United States. The net popularity of Canada is +49. Trump is -10. We're talking about Canada coming out nearly 60 points ahead on the net popularity ratings versus Donald Trump here in the US"
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“Tell your children who the cowards were.”
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“Who controls every branch of the federal government in 2025?” is the new “Who was actually President in 2020?”
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A core feature of our unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis is that the Speaker of the House is permitted to performatively lie in public with impunity from the podium every day & the assembled media in front of him offer approximately no pushback at all on the lies.
Mike Johnson: "Democrats are required to open the government. They keep saying, 'Republicans are in charge of government.' We aren't!"
Like how can you believe Donald Trump has the absolute God given right to destroy the White House if the whim strikes him and also be able to use a fork or a microwave or dress yourself, or remember your own name and home address?
Intellectually I grasp that Trump's ardent acolytes view him as God's chosen vessel, and treat Trump's will as indistinguishable from the will of God.

Emotionally I have a next to impossible time understanding how anyone's brain can be so utterly broken.

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Leavitt emphasized the president has unquestionable authority to alter the premises however he desires, repeatedly leaning on a legal precedent she failed to name. trib.al/a5edvxJ

Trump's team is flagrantly ignoring the fact that any significant project requires congressional approval.
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Trying to think if there’s anything this administration could do that publications like TFP wouldn’t treat this way.

Once you’re creating Overton space for extrajudicial executions, I’m not sure there’s much left.
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Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000. Gone, with the exception of international travelers bringing it back in and causing small outbreaks. But now it's roaring back — it's incredibly contagious — thanks to guess who. Guess who!

Yup. Anti-vaxxers.
More than 120 people have contracted measles in a community along the Arizona and Utah border, officials say. NBC News’ Erika Edwards details why the area is seeing a surge in cases — and how it’s spreading to touristy spots.
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We have reached the point where the *American Bar Association* cannot find attorneys willing to represent them in litigation against the Trump administration.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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The idea that whoever and whatever emerges victorious from an election is therefore good and legitimate betrays an incredibly empty understanding of what democracy is supposed to be, stripped of all substantive commitments that actually make it democratic.
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My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?
Bessent: "I've read that Ontario is spending up to $75 million on these advertisements and it's propaganda coming across our border to decry the tariffs. The premiere of Ontario seems to have come off the rails a little ... this is interference in US sovereign matters."
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Intolerable. Americans are being treated like citizens of a conquered territory
A friend of mine in Chicago just shared a video on IG of an ICE operation near her house. The operation happened just minutes before the neighborhood Halloween parade. ICE used tear gas and multiple parents had to wash their kids' (including toddlers) eyes out.
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There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.
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The "theory" is "I've got big guns and the Supreme Court said I'm immune from any criminal prosecution, and Congress lets me get away with everything, so I'm gonna murder brown people with big explosions and tell the public I'm saving them from drugs."

Saved you a click.
Yer media's owned by Trump-loving billionaires.

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If a democratic Speaker had refused to call the House into session for OVER A MONTH there would be wall to wall coverage on all networks.

What the fuck is wrong with our media
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I can’t believe there are not one but two articles, in major papers, with this dumb framing. It is not NIMBY to express dismay when a big part of the White House is suddenly rubbled
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They abolished the House of Representatives ... solely to prevent the release of information about the president's best friend, the pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring.
I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives
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That's the authoritarian dream
Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point