Connor

JORDON MCDONALD DELIVERS

AROUND THE HORN

THEY’RE ROARING IN HERE FOR HIM

That makes it 5-4 McDonald leading McEwen heading to the 8th end. My goodness. What a shot.

Huh. I wonder which Canadian billionaire it will turn out to be.

If they win, Democrats will have to use their newfound authority to rethink, even dismantle, agencies like U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection. They may need to walk back the Bush-era decision to consolidate those agencies and others under a single department, given the wild abuses perpetrated under this administration and its predecessors. It will need to give serious thought to major political and social reform, including D.C. statehood, a federal ban on partisan gerrymandering, a new voting rights act and federal protections for reproductive rights and bodily autonomy, including the rights of gender and sexual minorities. Democrats will also need to embrace the legislature’s constitutional authority to structure the executive branch and the judiciary, up to and including Supreme Court reform. If they win next year, Democrats will need to treat the next Congress not as a return to the status quo ante but as the beginning of a new era in which the principal task is to roll back the president’s effort to create and consolidate a personalist dictatorship. They’ll need to fortify the American political system against future attempts to play dictator and lay out a project of genuine democratic renewal. None of this is possible without a willingness to use power rather than just hold it. What we’ve seen this week is that there are still too many Democrats whose instinct is to retreat to normalcy rather than face the conflict at hand.

Jamelle was cooking.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...

The nuclear codes were 1234.
The Louvre security password was Louvre.
Elite sex-conspirators list their names and crimes in emails and birthday cards to one another.

At least Dan Brown had the church disguise its dark secrets by jumbling the letters up and doing mirror writing and lemon juice.

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...

Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About

Happy Halloween

Jesus Christ if you don’t want to live next to people who speak a different language why on earth is it incumbent on those people and not you to go somewhere else

The whole Third Term Project isn’t actually about Trump. The people behind it know he will likely be dead or enfeebled by 2029. It is about them, the vastly unpopular group around Trump, wanting to grift us forever without elections.

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 104, health ministry says, after Hamas accused of killing soldier US President Trump says "nothing" will jeopardise the two-week-old ceasefire despite the flare-up of violence.

Hamas kills an Israeli soldier, Israel kills over 100 Palestinians in Gaza (which surely includes some civilians).

Again I must ask, how much combat and killing constitutes a “strained” or “tested” ceasefire, as opposed to simply not a ceasefire? What is the threshold?

Besides his own in-laws, this is one of the most un-American and un-patriotic things I’ve ever heard.

As if Americans speak to their neighbors.

Three letters: PNG

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

My expectation is Israel will push the boundaries on the ceasefire to see how many Palestinians they can kill in any given day without US censure, knowing that every death will push Hamas to strike back which Trump and Netanyahu would see as the official breach and thus commit to total annihilation.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

Picture of the destruction in Gaza with thousands of desperate people in the foreground Headline: Five Palestinians Killed by Israeli forces in Gaza despite ceasefire

My expectations were low but Jesus Christ...

CBC headline reads: All living Israeli hostages freed, nearly 2,000 Palestinian prisoners released Trump in Egypt for world leaders' meeting following an address to Israel's parliament

All of the Israelis held by Hamas are called “hostages,” including the IDF soliders.

All the Palestinians released, though, are “prisoners,” including the many victims of Israel’s widespread arbitrary detention - meaning they are legally innocent, detained without charge or conviction.

Disgusting.

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Absolutely brutal.

NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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FIVE MINUTES LATER

Israel highlighting how many 100s of aid trucks they will now allow into Gaza is a tacit admission that they were using aid as a weapon of war, by the way. seems weird not to talk about this

I do. How can I send it to you?

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Studying the language and literature that has helped to define our nation at home and around the world for centuries is a "rip-off" apparently

Althia Raj: Mark Carney, Donald Trump put on a show of affection in Oval Office trade talks, but no real progress announced The Liberals won the last election on one premise — Canada strong, a country less dependent on the United States, in terms of its security and its economy. But early signs from Tuesday’s White House v...

“Dominic LeBlanc seemed to suggest Tuesday … that Ottawa is prepared to trade away tariff relief for “a partnership in terms of energy” with the United States.”
Call it what it is: Deeper integration. Closer ties. Less independence. With an unreliable partner that no longer respects the rule of law.

Hopefully the whole Bari Weiss thing and Ezra Klein thing starts waking people up to the fact that corporate media is mostly populated with mediocre people who have made millions and gained unbelievable influence because they threaten nothing and tell wealthy people exactly what they want to hear.

we lost a queen 👑

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

And Kissinger…

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."