MargyT

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

Book Final cover This is my own page for my book, Why Q Needs U, published in the UK in October 2025 and lauded by The Economist as one of their books of the year! It’s my debut book, and hopefull…

This book is fascinating: "Why Q Needs U," by @dannybate.bsky.social. One (of millions) of fun facts: the symbol that evolved into modern Q originally depicted a monkey, with two stacked circles and a tail. Q's tail is actually a tail. dannybate.com/book/

Had the immense privilege of watching Yo-Yo Ma perform with the Minnesota Orchestra tonight. His performance was amazing, but before his encore, he thanked us for taking care of each other and having hope and building community, and that was truly beautiful.

002: Pete Hegseth, Doug Wilson, and the God of War Listen to Reign of Error with Sarah Posner on RedCircle

Hegseth's pastor told a prayer meeting held in the Pentagon auditorium that God is sovereign over everything, "including tomahawk and Minuteman missiles, including strategy meetings and war room debriefings. Jesus has the final say over all of it.”

redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

Mi'kmaw groups oppose cuts to programs Hundreds of people from the Mi'kmaw community and their supporters gathered at Province House on Tuesday, calling on the Houston government to reverse cuts impacting Indigenous programs. The CBC's Giu...

Mi'kmaw groups oppose cuts to programs #Halifax #NovaScotia #HoustonFail

Hundreds of people from the Mi'kmaw community and their supporters gathered at Province House on Tuesday, calling on the Houston government to reverse cuts impacting Indigenous programs.

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

Trump: “We are going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain.”

NO KINGS NYC mass march · No Kings ### The Hands Off NYC coalition and partners say NO KINGS IN NYC! **Note: final march route and timing are in development. Sign up here to receive important updates and information! **We have the p...

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It's just so 1968 again I am laughing and crying at the same time. I didn't make it to Chicago, but I won't miss the next one. I feel very lucky to be alive to fight this fight again.

Suckitude. That is too polite for this city-supposed transport. Then comes the sardine-effect when people board.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

This story is astonishing. They detained a grandma for 6 weeks with zero due process for the crime of being on holiday. Don’t go to the US as a tourist right now www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

(Also a side interest of mine is about how online respositories like Academia, ResearchGate, Scribd, etc. are treated as publishers by pseudoarch folks, who use these sites to legitimize their claims by saying that their paper has been "published." Word choice is a rhetorical strategy!)
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Statement by Prime Minister Carney and Minister Anand on the situation in the Middle East Canada’s position remains clear: the Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world’s worst human rights records, and must ...

Canada would have been better off saying nothing. You can detest the regime in Iran without supporting chaos. www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

A broad, curving, undulating staircase made of light stone seems to flow downhill amidst a background of darker stone. A sinewy metal railing bisects it.

Need a timeline cleanse? Me too.

So, here’s this week’s staircase: The Canadian Museum of History, Gatineau, Québec, by Douglas Cardinal, 1986-89. #StaircaseSaturday
#SaturdayStairs

Every day I feel sorry for myself that USA is no longer a place worth visiting. I miss it. I and many others wonder if common sense and decency will return there. It is a challenge. Simple as that.

The link will take you to a .pdf file that contains 13 pages of ‘Grant Reductions - Details by Department
Fiscal Year: 2026-27’ included in the #NovaScotia current budget.

This is absolutely devastating!
#nspoli

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

The idea's out there today that the job of an op-ed page is to publish pieces making the case for (as well as against) every topic or proposal that's in the news, "even if the policy is bad." This may seem reasonable and it's a thing I struggled with when I was an op-ed editor, so I have thoughts. +

Nova Scotia's latest budget fails those most in need, critics say A public policy leader says the government's Defending Nova Scotia, Planning for the Long Term budget isn't working for the people who need it the most.

“I truly do not know what this budget is defending Nova Scotia against...” said @csaulnier.bsky.social, director at @ccpanovascotia.bsky.social. ...it is short-sighted, with a view to do the same thing that hasn’t helped most people...for the last 40 years.” www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

Margaret Sibella Brown stands beside a small wooden table, arranging flowers in a ceramic jug. She wears a long dark dress with fitted sleeves and a wide, ruffled white collar. Her hair is pinned up, and she looks down toward the bouquet of daisies and leaves in the jug. An open book rests on the table beside the vase. The photograph is sepia-toned with a plain backdrop.

Nova Scotia's Margaret Sibella Brown was fascinated with moss and liverworts.
As an amateur bryologist, she published several papers and oversaw efforts to collect sphagnum moss for use as surgical dressing during the First World War.
This is her story.

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More thoughts: https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-mounting-costs

Lloyd Axworthy: Canada once rejected America’s aggressive, unlawful foreign policy. Today Mark Carney embraced it By endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy, and after Washington itself shredded the previous agreement, we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject, writes Lloyd Axwort...

"In 2003, Canada refused to join the... invasion of Iraq because there was no Security Council resolution, & the case for war rested on preventing a hypothetical... threat...by endorsing preventive strikes on Iran during ongoing diplomacy...we are embracing the very doctrine we used to reject."

I think some fair context for this is Lloyd Axworthy is one of the most influential politicians Canada has produced on the international stage in the last 40 years or so, even if he's not a household name.

The Woman Thing, Part 2 Generation of Vipers

From Margaret Atwood:

The Woman Thing, Part 2
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

Putinism Haș Come To America The early years of Putin are the most relevant history now

From Dan Gardner:

Putinism Haș Come To America
open.substack.com/pub/dgardner...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.

Fuck Trump. Fuck the puppeteers behind him. Fuck the GOP, especially congressional Republicans and quisling Democrats, who enabled him. Fuck the people who voted for this, and fuck the media for never reporting on him realistically.

Fuck them all, for they have truly fucked us and the world.

Former President Joe Biden: "Did you see Trump give the State of the Union...? Is he still talking? It's unbelievable, the guy talks almost two hours but never mentions the anniversary of Putin invading Ukraine. Never once."

this isn't a distraction from epstein class pedophilia it's an expression of the epstein class worldview