Computer Scientist, Middle eastern immigrant who’s centrist & anti-woke! For sanity, affordability & localism in CoV, against greenwashing costing middle class!
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2008: “he promised to end homelessness by 2015” in Vancouver …
2026: Carney put him in charge of “ending homelessness in 10 years” in Canada 🤔
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🇫🇷The last public guillotine execution was less than 100 years ago and watching it play out is absolutely wild.
France didn't stop dropping the blade in front of live crowds until 1939.
A reproduction from the 1960s shows what that final brutal spectacle looked like right before they shut it down for good.
Writer: Bri
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This woman begins her anecdote by recounting the time she was "assaulted live on Channel 4, on the Big Breakfast Bed" -- WTF?
This allegedly occurred in 1996... on live TV? "She said she was lying on the bed in a full-length evening dress with Harris sitting very close to her"
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-Phase out of nuclear power
-Ban flights between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m
-Lowering retirement age to 60
-Withdraw from NATO
If Melenchon wins France is seriously becoming a third world country
🇫🇷 FLASH - LFI a dévoilé le programme de Jean-Luc Mélenchon pour la présidentielle de 2027. Parmi les propositions :
- Autoriser jusqu’à 3 jours d’arrêt maladie autodéclaré, sans consulter de médecin.
- Accorder 7 jours de congé après le décès d’un ami.
- Porter le SMIC à 1.700€ net par mois, soit une hausse de 220€.
- Ramener l’âge de départ à la retraite de 64 à 60 ans, avec une retraite à taux plein après 40 années de cotisation.
- Réduire progressivement la durée du travail à 32 heures par semaine.
- Instaurer un service écologique obligatoire de 9 mois pour les moins de 25 ans, rémunéré au SMIC.
- Faire rembourser les soins à 100% par la Sécurité sociale.
- Prendre en charge les séances de psychothérapie des moins de 26 ans.
- Fixer un plafond de 12 millions d’euros pour les héritages.
- Augmenter les APL de 10% pour aider à payer les loyers.
- Bloquer les prix de certains produits essentiels afin de limiter les hausses excessives.
- Revaloriser les salaires des fonctionnaires.
- Garantir un revenu minimum aux jeunes grâce à une allocation.
- Proposer aux étudiants des repas à 1€.
- Limiter à 1 pour 20 l’écart entre les rémunérations au sein d’une même entreprise.
- Soumettre les aides publiques aux entreprises à des engagements sociaux et écologiques.
- Rétablir l’ISF afin d’accroître l’imposition des grandes fortunes.
- Mettre en place la taxe Zucman pour taxer davantage les milliardaires.
- Répartir l’impôt sur le revenu en 14 tranches pour augmenter la contribution des plus riches.
- Engager une sortie progressive du nucléaire.
- Atteindre une production d’électricité issue à 100% des énergies renouvelables d’ici 2060.
- Interdire les vols entre 23h et 6h.
- Suspendre les zones à faibles émissions (ZFE), qui restreignent la circulation des véhicules les plus polluants dans certaines villes.
- Passer de la Ve à la VIe République en donnant davantage de pouvoir aux citoyens.
- Supprimer le 49.3, qui permet au gouvernement de faire adopter un texte sans vote.
- Intensifier la lutte contre les discriminations, notamment au sein de la police.
- Reconnaître comme crime d’État le massacre des Algériens du 17 octobre 1961.
- Renégocier les traités européens et refuser l’application de certaines règles européennes jugées incompatibles avec le programme.
- Quitter progressivement le commandement militaire intégré de l’OTAN.
- Soutenir la création d’un État palestinien aux côtés d’Israël.
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Leaks like this are supposed to be red meat for the base, but I can promise all the Trump admin people reading. Nobody cares. Everyone is sick of the theatrics and fake bullshit, and those who push BREAKING EXCLUSIVE bullshit. Sick of it all. Everyone sees through it.
Trump screamed at Susie Wiles and banished her from the Oval Office. As the door slammed, he was still yelling: The 72 hours that destroyed the president's beloved chief of staff... and her Camp David plot to deceive him trib.al/kEWXkNE
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Russell Brand would have an excellent chance of overturning his conviction on appeal. There is plenty of reasonable doubt and even an untrained eye can see that his conviction is unsafe. #RussellBrandtrial
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SpaceX and Tesla have prospered in Texas, because we were not constantly operating under an oppressive and extractive state government.
And I need to be close to the factories, so that I can walk the floor in person. That’s why the first major SpaceX factory was in LA and first major Tesla factory was in SF Bay Area.
As California became increasingly difficult, due to extreme taxes and overregulation, we moved our major domestic expansions and HQ to Texas.
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Rupert Murdoch turns on Elon. Do you understand?
Musk-run companies like SpaceX and Tesla have flourished in Texas thanks to white-glove treatment from elected officials. But that is about to change, Texas Democrats say. on.wsj.com/48FLwxY
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🇵🇱 Poland's president has a 17-point lead over its prime minister in public trust.
A political poll shows 53% of Poles trust President Karol Nawrocki, compared with just 36% for Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
And it gets worse for Tusk. More than half of those surveyed, 51%, say they don't trust him, compared with 34% for Nawrocki.
But the two are also locked in a fight over Poland's top court, where a judge suspended two senior officials and police were brought in to secure the area outside.
Despite Nawrocki's lead in trust, Poles aren't exactly taking his side in that fight.
A separate poll found that 39% think neither side is right, while 29% back Nawrocki and 27% back Tusk's government.
So Nawrocki has a clear lead in public trust, but that hasn't translated into a clear win in the fight over the court.
Source: bne IntelliNews / Writer: Daniyal
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If the media won’t hold the Liberals to account for breaking Canada’s immigration system, I will.
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One of Ocasio-Cortez's constituents loses her mind over climate change during AOC's townhall, claims we only have a few months left: "We got to start eating babies! We don't have enough time! ... We have to get rid of the babies! ... We need to eat the babies!"
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video is from a 2019 AOC town hall and depicts a satirical stunt by LaRouche PAC, not a genuine current constituent.
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To be fair, throttling up immigration to wildly destabilizing and unsustainable levels in order to satisfy corporate interests is very much part of the Canadian story. That's basically how we settled the prairies.
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These are the most important words a White House Chief of Staff have ever spoken…
Listen. You know I am right.
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Greg Abbott got 4.65 million votes in 2018 and won. He got 4.4 million in 2022 and won. He got 4.5 million in 2026 and lost by nearly 10 points. Republicans didn't suddenly stop showing up. Democrats turned out in massive numbers. These numbers are fascinating.
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.@MarkJCarney will admit:
- 380,000 new residents per year
- 370,000 temporary residents per year; plus
- 200,000 temporary residents to be granted permanent status (once)
Meanwhile 6 million Canadians don't have a family doctor.
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Wow. “In 2026, EVERY SINGLE STATEWIDE CANDIDATE obtained more raw votes than Kamala Harris.”
I ran the numbers.
With the exception of Ken Paxton*, Texas Republican midterm statewide candidates slightly outperformed historical expectations.
Democrats UNPRECEDENTEDLY outperformed them.
Prior to 2026, it was rare for a statewide race candidate to outperform the presidential candidate of two years prior.
In 2026, EVERY SINGLE STATEWIDE CANDIDATE obtained more raw votes than Kamala Harris.
This has never happened before.
Methods.
I asked: What average % of the presidential vote does each Texas statewide race candidate get in the midterms, for each party?
Then I compared what each candidate was expected to get, based on historical trends since 1992**, to what they actually got in 2026.
The present figure is after adjusting for which party had a president in office; midterm turnout is on average higher for parties who lost the presidency.
The unadjusted version is in the next, threaded post, for completeness.
* Paxton would have lost even if he had performed at slightly above historical expectation, as other Republican candidates had, as you can see in the right-hand figure.
** Texas and national politics worked very differently before the 1990s, with many conservatives voting Republican for president and Democrat for state office. They are not comparable.
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Matt Walsh on Canada: "The government is out of money. They're badly in debt and their currency is worthless." (The Matt Walsh Show)
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Here's another clip from Mike Le Couteur's tense interview with Michelle Rempel Garner from last night.
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Spoiler alert: he was acquitted of this one
Can’t imagine there might’ve been any political motive for why this particular allegation emerged 27 years after the fact -- right?
