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Image one Musk photo with article entitled ""Top MAGA Influencers Unmasked as Foreign Actors", Image 2 purports to be Twitter X account for Alberta Prosperity Project with account based out of Thailand h/t TheGentYYC on Mastodon

This X account of the Alberta separatist 'Alberta Prosperity Project' appears to be based in Thailand.
Wouldn't that be foreign interference?
h/t TheGentYYC on Mastodon

Except, of course, it’s *not* all he can say.

Cassidy could concede publicly that confirming Kennedy was a tragic mistake. He could call for RFK Jr's resignation. He could schedule hearings, haul the secretary to Capitol Hill, and demand the CDC’s public resources reflect the scientific cannon.

Top MAGA Influencers Accidentally Unmasked as Foreign Actors A new feature on Elon Musk’s X has given deeper insight into the online “America First” movement.

It’s hilarious and revelatory that a bunch of giant MAGA/America First X accounts are actually based in Eastern Europe and Nigeria.

Elon Musk donated $277 million to Trump so he could steal the federal government’s data, dismantle the nation’s infrastructure, and stop foreign aid from going to nonwhite people. It’s a quid pro quo breathtaking in scope, corruption, and damage, & completely unprecedented in American history.

This. The journalists who spend every day soaking themselves on Twitter are marinating in the muck.

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

Back in school, I wrote an essay about how two-tier healthcare would improve access for everyone.

It makes intuitive sense: create a second line and the original one gets shorter, right?

A better look at the evidence and arguments like Picard's changed my mind. 🧵

The trouble with the UCP's dual practice model?

Think about a double double.

If the line at Tim’s is long because there’s only one person pouring coffee, opening an “express lane” for people who tip $20 doesn’t speed things up. It means those with more money get the coffee while others wait.

Google adsense rewarded a lot of 'Wellness' and anti-vax influencers for their lies.

Internet scams are going to get worse and honestly it’s just a sad situation.

If you have billions of ppl in developing countries who don’t have opportunities to make a decent living but do have access to the internet, some are going to use that to degrade themselves + others, to all our detriment

"Don't mock people's names. It's crass and... hold on... you're fucking kidding me, right?"

I think I can say on behalf of all Canadians to Thom Tillis and the other GOP pols making demands on Canada for past underspending to fuck all the way off.

If the bill is $300b, let's make a Canadian soldier killed in an American war, say, $2b per. The burden-sharing looks different: pay us MFer 1/

One could also come up with the monetary value of the damage tariffs have done, the costs to Canada of the US bombing Canada (yes, I learned yesterday at the Diefenbunker), and so on.
How about we charge rent for our warning stations in the North?
Again, fuck all the way off, Thom. 2/3

watching the real-time brain rot of people like nate silver bears this out

Covid and flu vaccines on board. I had the flu 3 years ago and hope to never repeat the experience.

These Ontario surgeons are so fed up with OHIP’s billing system that they’ve opened up a private practice Hamilton surgeons who reconstruct breasts after mastectomies have fought for years over a billing code for their technique. They still get rejections.

It’s warning that doctors are forced to wait months for delayed payments and that dealing with rejected or unresolved claims has become so burdensome it’s taking time away from patients.

www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

whomst could possibly have

"Outhouse tapped to pull Conservative campaign out of the shitter."

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Opinion: Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially, but it makes no sense in the Canadian context

Allowing doctors to practise in both public and private systems solves what exactly? What Alberta is proposing may sound good superficially, but makes no sense in the Canadian context, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight Reaching agreement in divisive political landscape shows ‘climate cooperation is alive and kicking’, says UN climate chief The world is not winning the fight against the climate crisis but it is still in that fight, the UN climate chief has said in Belém, Brazil, after a bitterly contested Cop30 reached a deal. Countries at Cop30 failed to bring the curtain down on the fossil fuel age amid opposition from some countries led by Saudi Arabia, and they underdelivered on a flagship hope – at a conference held in the Amazon – to chart an end to deforestation. Continue reading...

UN warns world losing climate battle but fragile Cop30 deal keeps up the fight

It's weird to me that we all accept the idea that the news media has an obligation to be fair and balanced and honest and rigorous and stuff, but we don't expect the same standard from politicians, major corporations, podcasters, YouTubers, TikTok creators etc.

Why should the be grateful for a "plan" that makes it clear Putin really does have pics of trump blowing "bubba". Taco Tits is such a moron, what is left of his dementia addled brain should just give up already.

Weekend Update #160: The US Becomes A Mouthpiece To Pass On Putin's Demands Vance To The Fore; The 28 Points—Is It More Interesting Who Backed Them?

Phillips O'Brien: Weekend Update #160: The US Becomes A Mouthpiece To Pass On Putin's Demands open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

The Gazan doctors still languishing in Israeli prisons While some were released in the ceasefire, Israel still holds 80 Palestinian medical workers without charge. Their families are demanding their freedom.

www.972mag.com/gazan-doctor...

Trump blasts Ukraine for ‘zero gratitude’ as Germany says deal to end war unlikely to be reached by Thursday deadline – live Chancellor Friedrich Merz says ‘we are still a long way from that’ as Trump blasts Ukrainian leadership on social media

The real "plan" was to give Trump a pretext for ending all US support to Ukraine: www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's not a Peace Plan, it's a Surrender Plan.

It's designed to have Ukraine reject it,
so Putin & his servant can blame Zelensky,
& Putin can continue his evil bloody invasion
bc Putin believes Ukraine belongs to Russia.

That's the only plan.

Congressional Republicans Begin to Look Beyond Trump

we need a GOP version of “dems in disarray.” republicans in rancor? gop in jeopardy? nefarious nazis in need? anyway here’s a gift link.

that was faster than I would have expected, but still so destructive while it ran

Is anyone still saying we need this in Canada?

The life and limbo of a UK asylum seeker: one man’s harrowing 17-year wait for leave to remain Ussu fled imprisonment and torture, only to find himself treated like a liar and outcast in the UK. Here’s how he survived homelessness and horrific injury in almost two decades without a decision

Imagine if this man’s refugee claim were accepted quickly, and he and his family settled and contributed as productive citizens to British life

Instead we put him through 17 years of hell for no point other than cruelty www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...