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Ted St. Godard

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Openly grey. Dog-loving, music-loving, book-loving, scuba-diving, Palliative Care doctoring kinda guy, now retired. Will spend the rest of my life learning guitar. Wannabe Musician. 🍁ABC Medicine. Is. Political πŸ“ΈπŸ€ΏπŸŽΈπŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ

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Seven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness Trump has killed Iran's supreme leader and is demanding 'unconditional surrender.' But history tells us that US-led regime change efforts abroad almost never bring positive results.

β€œSeven US Regime Change Wars, Ranked by Disastrousness”

07.03.2026 18:32 β€” πŸ‘ 542    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 7

Agree. But asking a lot to have consistent response to non-sequiturs and inconsistent (at best) action/words from the US. It’s a bit like those who criticize evidence-based medicine for β€œchanging its mind.” Dynamic evolving circumstances need fluid responses.

07.03.2026 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAnd said, β€˜sir…’l

06.03.2026 19:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine wanting to be on the same side as this tiny-minded foaming psychopath

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I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

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Can you say β€œvolatile?”

04.03.2026 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Everything is fine

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Meiselas: Trump is a parody in the most extreme sense of the boogeymen MAGA created to go after Dems. He’s quite literally all of it. He covers up the pedo ring. He starts wars everywhere. He uses government to tread on people.

He's the most extreme example of what they claimed they wanted to stop.

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- Pete Hegseth

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Love the education quote. Bang on.

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Yeesh, don’t forget the other part of the alliance: Trudeau

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All hail Trump

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Retirement

27.02.2026 22:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAntifa” is a sentiment and an organizing principle. There is no membership. He’d have better luck trying to find people who joined Paw Patrol.

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Just wait until he learns who the Allies were fighting against in World War II.

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How did you pronounce gif?

26.02.2026 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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"Less lying ... but still a lot of lying."

The Conservative gold standard.

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Opinion | I fact-checked Trump's speeches for years. Here's what to expect from his State of the Union address. Glenn Kessler on what he learned about debunking this president from his years running The Washington Post Fact Checker.

If you have time to read only one news article about tonight's state of the union before the speech, I think this piece by Glenn Kessler should be it:

www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

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After reducing doctors' pay in Alberta, resulting in several hundred doctors leaving Alberta to practise elsewhere, Danielle Smith is now bragging that she is *increasing* doctors' pay in order to increase the number of doctors practising in AB. Sheer incompetence. #abpoli #ableg

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Congrats

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Dr. Joss Reimer says misinformation a key target as she becomes Canada's top doctor OTTAWA β€” Tackling health misinformation and rebuilding public trust are top priorities for Canada's incoming chief public health officer Dr. Joss Reimer.

β€œTackling health misinformation + rebuilding public trust are top priorities for Canada's incoming chief public health officer Dr. Joss Reimer.”

Stopping infectious diseases requires an assault on antivaxxer misinformation. Hope Dr. Reimer will do that.
#CPHO

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/cp-news...

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Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals OTTAWA - Following three recent floor crossings to the Liberals, the Conservative Party has lost a fourth MP after Alberta MP Pierre Poilievre announced that he would be crossing the floor to join Mar...

Brilliant!!!
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www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/pier...

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For the evening crowd.

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Authoritarians, strongmen and dictators: who is on Trump’s Board of Peace? Representatives of repressive regimes from around the world are flying to Washington for the inaugural meeting of the body

What a surprise. Not. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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