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A tragic morning in Gaza after nine Palestinians were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes overnight, marking the latest breach of the ceasefire agreement.

The Jeffrey Epstein cover-up is an affront to US democracy | Rebecca Solnit Democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights matter. Rapists count on this being untrue – and Trump is proving them right

The new batch of Epstein files make me retch. They reveal the rot of abuse & corruption at the highest levels of government, finance & tech.
As Rebecca Solnit observes, it feels like: “rapists all the way down, and enablers all the way up.”
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Discord's Age Verification Has A Weird Link To Palantir's Peter Thiel The third party company Discord could use for their ID collection is mired in surveillance concerns and links to Epstein via one of its investors

Discord distances itself from age verification firm after ties to Palantir's Peter Thiel surface https://kotaku.com/discord-palantir-peter-thiel-persona-age-verification-2000668951

Team Canada was clearly cheating at curling

His finger is still on the stone well after it crosses the line. Sweden was right

Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]

In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent "grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]

In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27] The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in 2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

Could we talk about Prescott Bush, father and grandfather of presidents Bush?

For whom the best defense against him being part of the thwarted fascist coup of the United States in 1933 was that he was too tight with the actual Nazis to take part in a plot with Nazi-Light here in the US?

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it's even funnier bc the Canadian 100% did the thing the Swede was accusing him of bsky.app/profile/suss...

CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!

(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)

Canada must support Cuba "You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

Mark Carney said that Canada is "considering" sending aid to Cuba.

Before COVID, one million Canadians visited Cuba every year. Their convertavle peso is pegged to the Canadian Dollar. I argue that we need to send fuel and supplies ASAP, regardless of Trump.

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Sask. Polytech reverses relocation plan that would've forced students to change cities | CBC News Students in the Electronic Systems Engineering Technology (ESET) program at Saskatchewan Polytechnic will now be able to complete their studies in Saskatoon after the school reversed an earlier plan t...

Sask. Polytech reverses relocation plan that would've forced students to change cities
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my mom (a cancer patient) has been waiting at the moose jaw hospital with my sister for 8 hours to see a doctor. people are leaving without getting any care. no rooms available, the hallways are full and paramedics are trying to help hospital staff.

#sask #skpoli #healthcare

Manitoba saw spike in measles cases, exposure at Jets game last week | CBC News Manitoba saw 44 confirmed cases of measles during the first week of February, as well as an exposure at the Feb. 4 Winnipeg Jets game, the province's latest measles reports say.

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“The second day they gave them tacos.”

Candace Owens says the TP USA/Kid Rock halftime show (that drew far fewer eyeballs than Bad Bunny) was pre-taped with an audience paid to cheer — and, incredibly, they fed them… tacos.

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

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No field of study has had more predictive power for our current moment, and this of course is why they want to shutter it

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

‘You’re making this up,’ Miller tells Tory MP over media producers' group comments In his opening remarks at the Prime Time conference in Ottawa in late January, Reynolds Mastin, the president and CEO of the Canadian Media Producers Association — which represents independent TV and ...

Lethbridge MP accused of spreading false narrative about journalists www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/12/n... #cdnpoli #yql

In “Incoherent” Ruling, U.K. Court Says Trans Women Can Use Women’s Restrooms Except at Work “This is a worker’s rights crisis for the trans community,” a spokesperson for the Trans Solidarity Alliance said.

From the U.K. comes a particularly warped ruling...

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Stand Up against Street Harassment FREE! Bystander intervention webinar March 6 from noon - 1pm EST

Rates of harassment are up, hate crimes are up, general incivility seems to be the norm these days. There's a general sense that "Things suck but we're powerless to do anything about it."

Not true, babes! Let me teach you community care!

Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

We had the head of the Regina Homebuilders Assn on our show & I asked him what they were doing to educate their members about the advantages of not always building shit-ugly buildings. He got really evasive with his answer. It was pretty disappointing. #yqrcc

ICE “left” Chicago in November, but they’ve disappeared three people from my community in two days this week.

Don’t believe the hype about them, leaving Minnesota, either.

Corb Lund’s Drive to Block Coal Mines Gets the Green Light | The Tyee Elections Alberta approves a citizen initiative petition drive.

Country music artist Corb Lund is preparing to launch a provincewide signature campaign aimed at halting new coal mining along Alberta’s eastern #RockyMountain slopes. Somia Lohia reports. #abpoli

Stephen Harper speaking at Shurat HaDin's 2019 Law and War conference in Jerusalem

And to answer your next question, yes this organization that is trying to jail Canadian journalists is friends with Stephen Harper

Every right-wing accusation is a confession: "Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."

Incredible news. The gender critical crowd has been trying to capture EU institutions and so far they've failed. The EU may yet be a safe haven for trans people.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave!  - Alberta Politics A recent Angus Reid Institute poll that suggests three quarters of the significant majority of Albertans who want no part of Alberta separation would leave the province if Alberta separated from Canad...

Should I stay or should I go? ♪♫ Now Alberta separatists are upset that us woke folk might want to leave! albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/shou...