Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦
@joel.klebanoff.com
Worrier & retired person (in that order). Boomer, grumpy old man (since forever). Travel. | Be nice. Especially to me. | repost≠endorse | Be all you can be. Wake me when you’re done. | Toronto 🇨🇦
Travel journal: https://journeys.klebanoff.com
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Joel Klebanoff 🇨🇦
@joel.klebanoff.com
· Nov 11
How does one get added to a starter pack of introverted, insecure neurotics?
Nah, never mind. I'm not worthy of being added to a starter pack. And I'm worried that people might start interacting with me if I do get added to one.
Nah, never mind. I'm not worthy of being added to a starter pack. And I'm worried that people might start interacting with me if I do get added to one.
Dear Americans, if you are asking yourself, “Are we the baddies now?” The answer is, yes. Yes, you are. You have Trump and his sycophants to thank for that.
Just in last 48 hours:
-President pardons Honduran prez serving 45 years for conspiring to smuggle cocaine to US
-BUT ALSO on verge of war w/VZ based on unsupported claims its govt. is smuggling cocaine to US
-DefSec openly committing war crimes
-Trump envoy selling out Ukraine for deals with Russia
-President pardons Honduran prez serving 45 years for conspiring to smuggle cocaine to US
-BUT ALSO on verge of war w/VZ based on unsupported claims its govt. is smuggling cocaine to US
-DefSec openly committing war crimes
-Trump envoy selling out Ukraine for deals with Russia
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Dear Americans, if you are asking yourself, “Are we the baddies now?” The answer is, yes. Yes, you are. You have Trump and his sycophants to thank for that.
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You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
I follower a few defense experts.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
Seeing them all straight-up declare this a war crime without any him-and-hawing is uhm
Disconcerting.
Pete Hegseth must resign, as does Stephen Miller. Donald Trump should be subpoenaed before Congress to answer for HIS policy.
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.
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In a Black Friday news dump, Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case.
Donald Trump is OK with major drug trafficking by fascists. This is necessary background to his contention he is killing Venezuelans because they are “drug traffickers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Donald Trump is OK with major drug trafficking by fascists. This is necessary background to his contention he is killing Venezuelans because they are “drug traffickers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Trump Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:15 AM
In a Black Friday news dump, Announces Pardon for Honduran Ex-President Convicted in Drug Case.
Donald Trump is OK with major drug trafficking by fascists. This is necessary background to his contention he is killing Venezuelans because they are “drug traffickers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
Donald Trump is OK with major drug trafficking by fascists. This is necessary background to his contention he is killing Venezuelans because they are “drug traffickers.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...
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Trump’s latest truth social message is more evidence that he has become more unstable than ever before
November 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Trump’s latest truth social message is more evidence that he has become more unstable than ever before
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I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
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America, It's Not You, It's...
November 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
America, It's Not You, It's...
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Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income reut.rs/4p65j0l
Trump says he may cut income tax 'completely' because of tariff income
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday his administration may slash income tax completely over the next couple of years because of government revenue generated from tariffs.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Estimated FY2026 tariff revenue: $207 billion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
Estimated FY2026 individual income tax revenue: $2.6 trillion.
I have some Americans following me so I should point out that The Beaverton is to Canada roughly as The Onion is to the US.
Good job, Time.
P.S.: I checked the Time story via Apple News (apple.news/AHGlrzZKbRjC...) because I had trouble believing it, Time really did put that in its story.
Good job, Time.
P.S.: I checked the Time story via Apple News (apple.news/AHGlrzZKbRjC...) because I had trouble believing it, Time really did put that in its story.
November 28, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I have some Americans following me so I should point out that The Beaverton is to Canada roughly as The Onion is to the US.
Good job, Time.
P.S.: I checked the Time story via Apple News (apple.news/AHGlrzZKbRjC...) because I had trouble believing it, Time really did put that in its story.
Good job, Time.
P.S.: I checked the Time story via Apple News (apple.news/AHGlrzZKbRjC...) because I had trouble believing it, Time really did put that in its story.
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Biden filth?
Trump’s next target for destruction is the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. I can only imagine what sort of white trash gold coated monstrosity Trump will replace the Reflecting Pool with. #ProudBlue
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Biden filth?
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Did I mention he’s president of the frigging United States?
Oh so very presidential, amirite?
Oh so very presidential, amirite?
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States. Did I mention he’s president of the frigging United States?
Oh so very presidential, amirite?
Oh so very presidential, amirite?
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The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
CIA statement about the Afghan man identified as the gunman who shot two National Guardsmen in Washington
November 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Trump administration has reacted to a small scale lone wolf attack by in DC announcing a sweeping collective punishment, using the organs of government to heap blame on partisan rivals, and potentially dissuading anyone from collaborating with US forces abroad for a generation.
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I grew up on all those US TV shows featuring holier-than-thou young lawyers crowing about the sacrosanct nature of the US Constitution.
It's clear that the Constitution is meaningless to enough people to allow this jackass to ignore it as he wishes.
The document has lost its hallowed veneer.
It's clear that the Constitution is meaningless to enough people to allow this jackass to ignore it as he wishes.
The document has lost its hallowed veneer.
November 27, 2025 at 2:56 PM
I grew up on all those US TV shows featuring holier-than-thou young lawyers crowing about the sacrosanct nature of the US Constitution.
It's clear that the Constitution is meaningless to enough people to allow this jackass to ignore it as he wishes.
The document has lost its hallowed veneer.
It's clear that the Constitution is meaningless to enough people to allow this jackass to ignore it as he wishes.
The document has lost its hallowed veneer.
Happy American🇺🇸 Thanksgiving to anyone reading this in the country generally to the south of the true north, strong and free🇨🇦. Be Thankful that it’s now less than one year until you get the opportunity to elect Democrat majorities in Congress that can, at least to some extent, rein in Donald Trump.
November 27, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Happy American🇺🇸 Thanksgiving to anyone reading this in the country generally to the south of the true north, strong and free🇨🇦. Be Thankful that it’s now less than one year until you get the opportunity to elect Democrat majorities in Congress that can, at least to some extent, rein in Donald Trump.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
Canada made weird tv shows because it was all being done with government funded art grant money so they fell in this wacky middle ground between “shoestring budget” and “no expectation to generate shareholder value” which is really the best way to make art
November 27, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Dan Levy openly says that Schitt's Creek would not have survived anywhere except the CBC because it was weird and took a season or so to find its feet... Just for reference if you wanna know the ROI on this approach to supporting creative things.
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
November 26, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star
With this post, my Japan trip is done. Sigh. I spent the morning today in Tokyo’s Ginza district. A description of that and summaries of my time in Tokyo and on the whole trip appear here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/goin...
Going. Ginza. Gone. – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
I spent my last night of this trip in the Ginza district of Tokyo. My flight isn’t scheduled to leave until early evening. My hotel gave me a free ...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
With this post, my Japan trip is done. Sigh. I spent the morning today in Tokyo’s Ginza district. A description of that and summaries of my time in Tokyo and on the whole trip appear here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/goin...
I’m back in Tokyo to catch my flight back home tomorrow evening. I spent the afternoon exploring a bit of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, where I saw an icon of the film industry, or at least the head of the icon. Read about it here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/shin...
Shinjuku Golden Gai and More – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
My time in Japan is winding down, but this afternoon I visited Shinjuku Golden Gai and a couple of other sights in the Shinjuku ward of Tokyo.
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November 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
I’m back in Tokyo to catch my flight back home tomorrow evening. I spent the afternoon exploring a bit of Tokyo’s Shinjuku ward, where I saw an icon of the film industry, or at least the head of the icon. Read about it here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/shin...
This afternoon, I looked down on Nagoya from atop Higashiyama SkyTower and visited the lovely Noritake Garden and some of its buildings. This being my last afternoon in Nagoya, this entry also includes a summary of my time here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/nori...
Higashiyama SkyTower, Noritake Garden – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
... I then ended the afternoon by visiting the splendid Noritake Gardens, which isn't much more than a 15-minute walk from my hotel.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
This afternoon, I looked down on Nagoya from atop Higashiyama SkyTower and visited the lovely Noritake Garden and some of its buildings. This being my last afternoon in Nagoya, this entry also includes a summary of my time here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/nori...
This morning in Nagoya, Japan, I visited the Higashiyama Botanical Gardens. The gardens were wonderful, but I had a bit of a dreadful experience making my way to them. I explain that here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/higa...
Higashiyama Botanical Gardens – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
The full title of this attraction is “Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens,” but I stripped it down to just “Higashiyama Botanical Gardens” for the title of
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November 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
This morning in Nagoya, Japan, I visited the Higashiyama Botanical Gardens. The gardens were wonderful, but I had a bit of a dreadful experience making my way to them. I explain that here: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/higa...
This afternoon in Nagoya, Japan, I observed from an observation lounge, visited a museum, a shrine, and a garden. And now it’s really late. So, please enjoy this post. Or not. Whatever. I’m going to sleep. journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/shir...
Shirotori Garden and Sights Before That – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
...Nagoya Port Building Observation Lounge and the Nagoya Maritime Museum. Then it was Atsuta Shrine. And I finished at Shirotori Garden.
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November 22, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This afternoon in Nagoya, Japan, I observed from an observation lounge, visited a museum, a shrine, and a garden. And now it’s really late. So, please enjoy this post. Or not. Whatever. I’m going to sleep. journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/shir...
I’ve moved on from Hiroshima and I’m now in Nagoya, Japan. This afternoon, I visited Nagoya Castle and a park. Here’s the post: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/new-...
New (for me) Nagoya – Joel's Journeys & Jaunts
I moved on from Hiroshima this morning. I’m now in Nagoya, Japan. This is the last city of this trip before I head back to Tokyo to catch my flight to Toronto
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November 21, 2025 at 1:35 PM
I’ve moved on from Hiroshima and I’m now in Nagoya, Japan. This afternoon, I visited Nagoya Castle and a park. Here’s the post: journeys.klebanoff.com/2025/11/new-...