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Longtime journalist, news junkie and student of the human condition. Views are my own, retweets not necessarily endorsements.

Joined June 2012
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The 48-year-old woman who has been charged with assault after allegedly joining two 12-year-olds in beating up a man that was supervising Air Cadets selling poppies has not been named by the Hamilton Police. The police are under no obligation to hide the identity of the 48-year-old woman. She has been arrested and charged with assault. This is a disgusting story with multiple eye witnesses. Why is the Hamilton Police protecting this woman’s identity?
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Raskin: We now have the first-person accounts of five different women saying that they were sexually assaulted by Trump. And then we have another six women, for a total of 11, who link him to the whole network of sex trafficking of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
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As a former Marine and police officer, I’ve seen people freeze or fall apart under pressure. I listened to 20-year-old Nathalia Gadelha on Learjet N722BD as it dove at over 20,000 feet per minute in an overspeed. She never stopped transmitting clear, critical information even though she had to know she was going to die. That young co-pilot stayed on the radio to the end. Most people twice her age wouldn’t have.
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Bananas.
St-Pierre Plamondon argues his meeting with Carney should be in Quebec City because the law says so montrealgazette.com/news/pro…
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I don't think Prime Minister Carney should make any deals with the United States at least until the new House and Senate is sworn in to provide proper oversight. The American executive branch is run by hard core criminals and gangsters. Nothing they do or say is reliable. Making deals with these people entangles Canada in webs of deceit. We should work with Congress and state governments.
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BREAKING: E Jean Carroll publicly humiliates Donald Trump by revealing that his disgusting body odour and bizarre behaviour "mesmerised" the jury during the trial that resulted in her $83 million defamation win. These details are hilarious as they are gross... “I don’t understand how people can be afraid of a fat, elderly man who wears apricot makeup, his hair done up like Tippi Hedren in The Birds, and sits in a courtroom and moans and groans and complains and snorts,” Caroll told The Daily Beast podcast. “They were mesmerised. You have never seen anything like it,” she said of the jury. “He never sat still, and he talked the entire time within earshot of the jury. He belittled Alina Habba, his own attorney. He would spit as he was talking. He didn’t smell so good.” She recounted how her attorney Roberta "Robbie" Kaplan really got under Trump's skin... "He stood up with steam coming off his back and hot air blowing out his ears because Robbie Kaplan was giving the final argument, and she was asking the jury how much it would take to make him stop," said Carroll. “She drove him so crazy, he stood up in the courtroom and left,” she explained. "When a man is innocent, he doesn’t storm out of a courtroom; he stays and fights. He turned tail and stormed out of the courtroom. He lost right at that second. He couldn’t have looked more guilty." Caroll credibly accused Trump of raping her and he was ultimately found civilly liable for sexually assaulting her. She was awarded $5 million but then Trump continued defaming her in public and denying her story, eventually resulting in her massive $83.3 million victory. “When the jury heard the evidence, it wasn’t very hard,” Kaplan told the Daily Beast. “The clerk opens it up, reads it, frowns, shakes his head, folds it back up, and then hands it to Judge Kaplan,” said Caroll. “And Judge Kaplan opens it up, and his eyebrows rise up towards his hairline, and he frowns, and he says, ‘Madame forewoman, what does the M stand for?’” The forewoman explained that "m" stood for "million. “That was a moment,” said Carroll. “I left my body. As I say, I felt like Peter Pan who flies around the ceilings. And quite frankly, I’ve never come down from that. That win was so enormous and so powerful, not for me, not for Robbie, but for everybody in the country who had sort of lost hope that he could ever be beaten.” “We’re still feeling the good victory of that. It’s happened. And we’ve proved—Robbie proved, and I proved—that Trump can be beaten,” Carroll continued. “He can be beaten.” E. Jean Caroll is right. Trump shouldn't be feared. He can be defeated. All it takes is the courage to fight back. Please like and share!
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A crowd shouts "SHAME ON YOU!" at Kansas Republican Roger Marshall as he tries to defend getting 81 women arrested and suing 700 of his patients over medical debt
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#Vote2026 please analyze thoughtfully. if possible even filter out glossy tv ads slanted left and right. Vote responsibly on behalf of your town, city, state and nation for the future of your loved ones and our society. But please Vote. Thanks All
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Nine people are dead after a horrific plane crash, and somehow the internet has turned it into a debate about female pilots, DEI, and conspiracy theories about Mar-a-Lago. As a pilot, let me explain what we actually know, what we don't, and why the internet needs to stop pretending to be aviation experts.
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Trump: "25 trillion worth of—worth of wealth worth—You could call worth wealth." This is the guy running the country. And Republicans are allowing it.
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🚨 Trump spent all day promising no escalation with Iran. Then five explosions hit Qeshm Island, Qatari mediators left Tehran within hours, and U.S. officials admitted they've been quietly striking Iran for weeks. meidasplus.com/p/breaking-tr…
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After ten years of pretending Dear Leader is normal, *now* the New York Times is admitting that he's bugfuck nuts. Too little, too late, Gray Lady. Where were you when you could have mattered? Thank you for your attention to today's post, in which I bring the receipts. Link is here: bit.ly/4jNFbaG
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Listen to what Senator Chris Murphy had to say... shortly before suffering a stroke. Wishing the Senator a speedy recovery
Trump is reportedly planning to restart war with Iran after the election. Some of us have been briefed on the war plan. And while I cannot disclose any details, I can say this: the plan is insane. It will not achieve objectives and will set off a new cycle of escalation.
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I don't know about you, but these endless streams of incoherent rambling of mindless self-adoration stopped surprising me a long time ago. What genuinely amazes me though is that there are still people who actually show up, sit there, and listen to this deranged nonsense for hours.
Trump: I could have won the Vietnam War in a week. They kept bombing forests for years instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City.
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Ho Chi Minh City was called Saigon during the Vietnam War and was the capital of US-allied South Vietnam; North Vietnam's capital was Hanoi. britannica.com/place/Ho-Chi-M… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_S… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Mi…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene on President Trump's closing pitch: "Standing in front of the Reflecting pool that most Americans — I would say 99.999% of Americans — don't ever think about on a daily basis was absolutely the wrong message to send to Americans, asking them to go vote for Republicans tomorrow."
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Remember when Doug Ford blamed students buying expensive watches and cologne for his OSAP cuts? Turns out the red flags were at private career colleges, under his own watch. Students did nothing wrong, and they're stuck with the debt. It's time to fire Minister Nolan Quinn.
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SHE WAS A 12 YEAR OLD GIRL YOU FUCKING DERANGED ASSHOLE 🤬😠
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TORONTO — At two career colleges now under the Ontario government’s microscope, more than half of the thousands of student financial aid applications last year came from a single IP address, officials allege in documents filed in court.
Another bombshell on the billion dollar OSAP scandal. Over 8,300 OSAP applications came from just THREE IP addresses. The Ford government was warned as early as 2023 and received over 220 tips, complaints and referrals since January 2024. They had the warnings. They refused to act until Oct 2026. Now students are paying the price. We need a full forensic audit. cp24.com/politics/queens-par… #onpoli
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Thank you sir. The disgusting racist attacks on Abdul have made international news.
Dr. El-Sayed is a fighter for our American Constitution, he’s a fighter for our American Democracy, and he’s a fighter against the corrupt, lawless, and anti-American leadership currently in the White House. That’s why I’m in his corner 100%. Bruce Springsteen
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Donald Trump likes to talk but today it's time for him to listen. Make sure he hears you, America.
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