Jenn Hoegg

Seems like the emerging policy is: you people out there are responsible for setting up your own governments, but if the US doesn’t like who ends up in charge we’ll just assassinate or kidnap them and then the ball is back in your court.

it’s funny because ‘it’s illegal but given the circumstances we support it anyway’ is an intellectually defensible position, but you can’t make it if you’re also forced to pretend there’s such a thing as a ‘rules-based international order’

I would happily pay one more percentage point on the HST, for bridge tolls, and for parking to help fund grants, museums, bus passes for students, and more #taxmedaddy.

Fun fact: bridge toll removal and 1% HST reduction cost us appx $300 million.

All of the devastating cuts in the current budget?

$300 million.

Is your 1% HST cut worth the loss of tourism, arts & culture, educational quality and wildlife conservation in NS?

In the finale, does the cheese stand alone ?

Apollo with the dodgeball of prophecy

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

A children's hospital is renamed for Dolly Parton and hopes to transform pediatric care in Tennessee Dolly Parton’s name might inspire full-throated sing-a-longs to her working woman’s anthem “9 to 5,” or evoke memories of thrilling days spent at her Dollywood theme park.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’”

GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.

Gift link:

Normalizing assassinations of heads of state/government is not a particularly wise thing to do for the stronger hegemon facing asymmetric conflicts.

No world leader is safe and no country’s sovereignty is secure under the Trump doctrine of might makes right.

The United States has overwhelming force and will use it to get its way, no matter the repercussions or the laws that meant to restrain it. We’ve entered an incredibly dangerous reality.

Interesting. I thought it was maybe skewed by marriage certificates signed at White Point weddings

Is that by location of wedding or place of residence ?

They are lovely there !

Great opsec 🙄

Justin Ling: Trump and Netanyahu have made a dangerous gamble in Iran. Why is Carney cheering them on? We should cheer when the brutal Iranian regime falls, whenever that may come to pass. But we should condemn this chaotic, risky violence and all the death that comes with

Here's my first file on this stupid, bloody, pointless war.

Even if this immoral gamble rids Iran of its murderous theocracy, we should be condemning this insanely dangerous act. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Trump is 'managing' the operation from Mar-a-Lago. That's absolutely fucking insane.

Well, it was either world war three or letting black people have jobs, so I see why people just went with the world war

“.. A banner depicting U.S. President Donald Trump hangs outside the Department of Justice building in Washington, D.C., on the day the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran.”

@reuters.com

Israel strikes two schools in Iran, killing more than 50 people State media says Israeli attack on girls' school in the city of Minab in the south of the country kills dozens.

It sounds like the video circulating from the bombed school came from Iranian state TV, so I am taking it with a small grain of salt. But we know for a fact that Israel has committed many war crimes in Gaza against children. They are definitely capable of doing this.

Their willingness to do this suggests to me that they think the govt's evidence that they are, in fact, members of Tren de Aragua is weak.

As an aside, if there’s a bill you want to address the committee about you do not have to wait until it’s cleared second reading to contact leg counsel to get on the list. Once a bill is tabled, you can let them know you want in for when the time comes. #nspoli

The legislature’s committee on public bills will meet Monday to discuss the following pieces of legislation that have cleared second reading. This is the public’s chance to address MLAs on the committee. People can appear by contacting the office of legislative counsel. #nspoli

Look where so many people falling for the excuse that “it was only locker room talk” has gotten us.

An embroidery of a little girl in giant skirt with a peacock feather in her hair blowing a horn and it reads off to cause a kerfuffle

Happy International Analog Day!!!

Attend a community event or just celebrate on your own by making time to unplug from digital tech. Make something, go outside, play a game, read a book!

Here’s a list of public events:

www.badasscrossstitch.com/internationa...

I'm signing off for the night. This is clearly just the beginning.

Just a reminder, given how much shit comes out so quickly nowadays, that it's better to get the news slowly than to get it wrong.

This made me LOL

An Open Letter to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Hants East MLA John A. MacDonald - Halifax Examiner Your actions in the form of these budget cuts are mean and hateful and tell African Nova Scotians that we do not matter in the eyes of your government.

À scathing indictment of these budget cuts from a former colleague. An Open Letter to Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston and Hants East MLA John A. MacDonald www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/a...

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

There is a tone deafness to it. They run that risk by compressing all their legislation in two weeks a year.