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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 51m

I think it's time to just acknowledge that America is a carceral, authoritarian oligarchic police state that briefly flirted with a very limited form of democracy.

Alt: childish gambino, this is america

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

I regret haven't been since all the Covid stuff, and tbh, I am leery of it. (I still mask on planes, but struggle with the notion of being masked for days on the train).

What is your sense of it from a covid perspective?

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

I am dismayed to see he hasn't kept up with shitposting here. Eve6 is usually funny as hell.

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

augh, my spine

I need that, for things.

an elderly woman stands in front of a white board with the words " there aren 't so many of them "

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1h

The Empire Builder!

We've done the North Dakota to Wisconsin loop about 7 times, & it's so much better than flying. Leg room, better food, no one is patting your crotch down or charging you premium for one suitcase.

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Nancy Ann ❌👑 👍🏻🐸 @nancyannn.bsky.social · 2h

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

Alt: an elderly woman stands in front of a white board with the words " there aren 't so many of them "

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

the shareholders?

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

I went on a tear this year through a bunch of Phillip K Dick's stories and fully felt this disconnect - but the stories still worked.

and this show called The Magicians from about 10 years ago, which makes jokes about Foo Fighters, & has a character describe Kanye being "misunderstood"

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand

On March 2, 2023, Aiden Sagala did what many people do after a long, hot day at work. He cracked open a cold one. Little did he know, that swig of beer would kill him. Aiden didn’t realize that the ca...

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

Endless problems with them, I had zero issues with Blue Cross, I liked the web portal too.

And getting through the phone tree to talk to a human is obnoxious.

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

Slop for clowns

a cartoon character from futurama sits in front of a hulu sign

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 3h

Elbows Up is out! I wrote a chapter on Canada's long-suffering relationship with the US, the work of many years, and how we're feeling about it. (Bad).

I also write about my late father, an American who was stolen from his mother as a child and taken across the border to Canada.

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 2h

Canada Life is terrible.

I've dealt with Sun Life, Blue Cross and others, and none of them come close to the level of shittiness as Canada Life.

Took 6 months of fighting just to get kids braces paid for.

My dentist hates them so much.

They auto-reject almost every claim.

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 18h

Me, when someone has the baseball game on:

Alt: Naptime

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 21h

Trump is a bonehead.

New Zealand oceans warming 34% faster than global average, putting homes and industry at risk, report finds

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving, hope you have some good eats for the best holiday of the year.

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Ethan Plaut @ethanplaut.bsky.social · 1d

“New Zealand is bearing the brunt of these warming seas because of its position…Meanwhile, the Subtropical Front — the boundary between cold subantarctic water and warmer subtropical water…has moved 120km west…the first time a shift in large-scale ocean circulation around NZ had been observed”🧪

NZ$180bn worth of housing and $26bn of infrastructure at risk of flooding and storm damage, new government report finds

www.theguardian.com

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

The prairies don't elect Liberals and so the Liberals don't feel much pressure when China kicks the shit out of western producers.

When the Cons are in power, they take western seats for granted.

Western MPs tend to be fairly shitty, do-nothing goobers, like Warren Steinley. That guy is a bum.

Chinese EV tariffs created '2-front trade war' hurting Prairie canola, pork producers: Kinew | CBC News

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada's 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

www.cbc.ca

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News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Let's be honest.

That man has absolutely shit his pants at work.

News and Coffee @newsandcoffee.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, she fuckin sucks and we knew she sucked before her confirmation.

A corrupt, bribable grifter.