Rob
@robtmackinnon.bsky.social
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand
Toronto
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Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war?
The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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lmao, everyone hates the strategy cheese
Republicans turn on Trump’s defense policy chief
Administration allies say they are fed up with the Defense Department’s third-most senior leader and his foreign policy surprises.
www.politico.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
lmao, everyone hates the strategy cheese
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Still so funny to me that ol' Benny here can sit around calling everything an "op" when he was (at least according to him) an unwitting target of a successful multi-million dollar Russian influence operation.
It's like calling everything a pyramid scheme before reading an ad for Amway.
It's like calling everything a pyramid scheme before reading an ad for Amway.
Benny Johnson implies that Virginia Giuffre did not commit suicide, and that Democrats were involved in her death in order to frame Donald Trump...
November 14, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Still so funny to me that ol' Benny here can sit around calling everything an "op" when he was (at least according to him) an unwitting target of a successful multi-million dollar Russian influence operation.
It's like calling everything a pyramid scheme before reading an ad for Amway.
It's like calling everything a pyramid scheme before reading an ad for Amway.
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how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
November 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
how could you ask America's finest minds to break off contact with a genius like this simply for abusing children?
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boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
In Canada, Wu helps chop down Boston's Christmas tree
Mayor Michelle Wu spent three days in Nova Scotia, saying she wanted to affirm Boston's relationship with Canada amid antagonism from the Trump administration.
www.boston.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
boston sent vital assistance following the 1917 halifax harbor explosion (so awful it killed 1700 people), and as thanks, nova scotia has sent us a christmas tree every year. it’s a nice little tradition. this is the first time the boston mayor visited to retrieve it in person
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Last night was the worst bombing I have experienced in Kyiv since the war began. 7 hours of non stop aerial attacks across the city.
November 14, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Last night was the worst bombing I have experienced in Kyiv since the war began. 7 hours of non stop aerial attacks across the city.
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Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
November 14, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Worth 1,000 words. This picture is so revealing about so much about this “administration.”
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
Step back five feet from the dram of any photo about any Trump action or policy, and you’ll see the boom arms, the rigging, the floodlights…
The West has already shown it is wholly unprepared for drone warfare while sleeping on Ukraine
🔴 Russia unleashed a massive overnight attack on Ukraine with waves of drones and missiles, hitting Kyiv.
Preliminary reports say residential areas and energy infrastructure were struck.
Preliminary reports say residential areas and energy infrastructure were struck.
November 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The West has already shown it is wholly unprepared for drone warfare while sleeping on Ukraine
Vaccine hesitancy: at just over 2000 nonmedical vaccine exemptions for kids in Texas schools in 2003. Last year there were more than 118,000
Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM
Vaccine hesitancy: at just over 2000 nonmedical vaccine exemptions for kids in Texas schools in 2003. Last year there were more than 118,000
Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
|Gift Link| www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
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A dark, horrific night for Kyiv. I can hardly remember russia ever bombing this many apartment buildings in a single terrorist attack here.
November 14, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A dark, horrific night for Kyiv. I can hardly remember russia ever bombing this many apartment buildings in a single terrorist attack here.
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Never has an outlet so collectively smoked a cigarette after publishing a story
Michael Wolff tried to buy New York Mag — with money from Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein.
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So Wolff didn't just have a reporter-source relationship with Epstein. Nor was Wolff his informal PR adviser. They saw each other as potential business partners.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about
The writer who features prominently in newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails has achieved extraordinary access but faced questions about his journalistic ethics
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Never has an outlet so collectively smoked a cigarette after publishing a story
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📃🗣"The current contact line should be the starting point for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow," — a joint statement by the G7 and the EU
At a meeting in Canada, partners emphasized that international borders cannot be changed by force, but a ceasefire is necessary to stabilize the situation.
At a meeting in Canada, partners emphasized that international borders cannot be changed by force, but a ceasefire is necessary to stabilize the situation.
November 13, 2025 at 10:33 AM
📃🗣"The current contact line should be the starting point for negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow," — a joint statement by the G7 and the EU
At a meeting in Canada, partners emphasized that international borders cannot be changed by force, but a ceasefire is necessary to stabilize the situation.
At a meeting in Canada, partners emphasized that international borders cannot be changed by force, but a ceasefire is necessary to stabilize the situation.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
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i mean.....
www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/p...
www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/p...
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
i mean.....
www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/p...
www.cnbc.com/2017/07/19/p...
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Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
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If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.
November 12, 2025 at 9:49 PM
If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
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My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
November 12, 2025 at 9:54 PM
My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!)
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.
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Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in Gaza since ceasefire
Entire neighbourhoods controlled by Israel have been levelled in less than a month, the images show.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Israel has destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in areas of Gaza that have remained under its control since the ceasefire with Hamas started on 10 October, satellite images reviewed by BBC Verify show.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
With Michael Wolff prominently in the news again, tapping the notice below
November 12, 2025 at 3:31 PM
With Michael Wolff prominently in the news again, tapping the notice below
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High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
High end wealth inequality allows for shit like this
The Kananaskis/Niagara-on-the-Lake crossover
We are stronger, together. That’s a wrap on day one of the #G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The Kananaskis/Niagara-on-the-Lake crossover
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It's so over for Tesla in China.
The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.
💀☠️
The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.
💀☠️
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 AM
It's so over for Tesla in China.
The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.
💀☠️
The Xiaomi YU7, a Model Y rival, not only outsold Tesla's Model Y in October, but it outsold Tesla's *total* October sales of 26,006 vehicles by 29%.
💀☠️