Julie Penner

An eyeroll for the ages: Watch Hillary’s expression as her stunned lawyers call out Boebert, saying basically, “Pizzagate? You shitting us?!”

Hillary Clinton has more than her share of flaws, but when it comes to "showing congressional Republicans the proper level of contempt" she is flawless.

What we should have said in the first place. That first press release from the PM was a complete comms failure. #cdnpoli

Though I did have an unpleasant experience at Pearson where a security screener insisted that I put my violin through *outside* of its case.

I waited for his manager to clarify that no, it wasn’t necessary.

Unbelievable. Thank goodness Lufthansa is changing their rules.

I’ve only been forced to check my violin once, thankfully.

Globe editorial: Alberta’s oil inheritance is being pilfered (by Albertans) The province continues to spend its resources revenue, rather than saving that wealth for future generations

You can have 1 marshmallow now or 2 if you wait. Norway chose to wait & now sits on a ~$3 trillion sovereign wealth fund, a half $million for every Norwegian. Short-sighted Alberta ALWAYS wolfs down the marshmallow. They pissed away their future. No sympathy.
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The NYT style guide

Once again, we did not invent concepts like international law and rules of engagement because we’re woke pansy wimps

We developed them because we learned the very worst way, that even the strongest are less safe without them

Reading Michael Barclay's fantastic history of Canadian music from 2000-2005 (Hearts on Fire).

One thing that really jumps out is how often musicians of the era credited their success to cheap rent. Small grants and a few bucks from shows go a long way when you're paying three hundred a month!

something v encouraging to see lately is how clear eyed people have become about assigning fault to institutions rather than individuals. BAFTA/BBC tried to throw that poor man under the bus by seating him where they did and airing what they did but no one’s buying it

If you spend time in the bad place, you’re hearing this claim a lot:

Alberta sends $23B more to Ottawa than it gets back. If we separated, we’d erase the $9B deficit and have a $14B surplus.

It sounds simple. It’s wrong. Here's why. 🧵

Every rule on a film set exists for a reason.

I went down an internet rabbit hole and read about Max Landis’ father John, and the deaths on his film set of Twilight Zone: The Movie. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twiligh...

Headlines moved on quickly from the schoolgirls in Minab. We don’t know their names; no media profiles about their lives and aspirations. No smiling photos attached to quotes from mourning families.

How unfair that some dead are memorialised while others are relegated to ‘estimated casualties.’

Impulse and Consequence Many years ago when I was Interim Leader of the Liberal Party I had discussions a couple of weeks apart with Prime Minister Netanyahu and President Peres of Israel.

Mature commentary by Bob Rae on today's events in Iran. I would have preferred this tone from the Prime Minister.

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I have no idea what their excuse is.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Additionally, I want to speak directly to Iranian New Yorkers: you are part of the fabric of this city — you are our neighbors, small business owners, students, artists, workers, and community leaders. You will be safe here.

Today’s military strikes on Iran — carried out by the United States and Israel — mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression. Bombing cities. Killing civilians. Opening a new theater of war.

The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.

Hmmmmmm.

The part about Mamdani’s team creating mock headlines so Trump could see how it would be received = brilliant.

NDP MP Jenny Kwan Urges Govt Help for Palestinians with Relatives in Canada At a news conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Jenny Kwan, the NDP critic for immigration and citizenship, calls on the federal government to reform its Special Immigration Measures program to ass...

At today’s press conference on Parliament Hill, I urged fed govt to urgently reform & accelerate the Special Immigration Measures program to help Palestinians reunite w/family in Canada.
Joined by affected families—enough is enough. Loved ones are still in danger. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Look, I loathe Trump, but people need to stop treating professional athletes as avatars for their own values. For good or for bad, NHL players live in a different world. To be disappointed by them is to have the wrong relationship with them in the first place.

One or two American players who play in the U.S. have managed to squeak out what seem to be genuine apologies to the U.S. women's team for laughing along at Trump's joke about the women's team.

There is a way to handle this, but it requires introspection, humility and not being pure actual MAGA.

I lost my apartment twice in Toronto.

The first time, it was due to “my relative is moving in”, which turned out to be false (I got money out of the situation).

The second time, it was thanks to a sale. We had to move five days before I gave birth. Not fun.

Kansas informs trans residents their driver’s licenses become invalid on Thursday Some transgender Kansans said they had received the letters from the Department of Revenue. Others hadn’t by Wednesday evening.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

In case my point wasn’t clear: if my very simple route now takes longer, I can’t imagine what’s happened for people who take multiple buses home, and further.