Richard Cumyn 🇨🇦

COP30 publishes latest draft resolution, ‘fossil fuels’ removed - Sustainability Online The latest draft negotiating text published by the COP30 Presidency does not include the word 'fossil fuels', as it seeks to unite efforts in a 'global mutirão'.

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Not to include “fossil fuels” in a statement about mitigating climate change is like trying to fight a wildfire by throwing a white flag at it

The Mirror Cracks: Trump, Mamdani, and the Coming Narcissistic Meltdown of 2025 On November 4th, 2025, American voters issued a full-throated, bipartisan hell-no to Donald Trump’s chaotic, illegal and disgusting second term.

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I hope this assessment / prediction is wrong, but it scans and is hard to refute, given recent events

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC.

It didn't matter.

Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Yes, Virginia, voting does matter

it actually means you're an unfunny little worm of a man, hope this helps!

-A living wage
-Guaranteed healthcare
-The right to join a union
-The right to vote
-The right to choose when, how, and with whom you start a family
-The right for you and your family to live free from gun violence

These are the foundations of real freedom.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

Venezuelan politician Maria Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize | CBC News The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, it was announced Friday at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo.

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Maria Corina Machado, winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

History repeats.

“Psychophant” n. — an unquestioning follower of an indefensible leader or regime

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

Just gonna keep tapping the sign*

*𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦

“…conceived in jibberish and dedicated to the proposition that all presidents are not created equal”

I stand with PBS.

I stand with NPR.

I stand with Stephen Colbert.

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

I stand with the First Amendment.

PERIOD.*

*Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files

Disney+ cancelled and deleted.

Next time—if there is a next time—pick an actual human being, someone capable of compassion and rational thought, to lead you.

“They’re taking our jobs” was always a lie. Alabama proved it.

Alabama tried a “tough” immigration law, and it backfired hard. Immigrants fled, crops rotted, and farms collapsed. Americans tried to step in but couldn’t last a day.

They’re not taking your jobs; they’re doing the jobs you won’t do.

Envelope please. And the inaugural Pritzker Prize for most sublime smackdown of a cretinous politician goes to…

The overall takeaway from the Epstein survivors’ press conference is that they are united and are no longer going to allow rich and powerful men to victimize, silence and intimidate them.

Including the ones in Congress and the perp in the Oval Office.

Blue Jays trying to stay ahead of the Reds is like Butch & Sundance looking over their shoulder: “Who ARE those guys?”

Alberta ends 2024-25 fiscal year with $8.3 billion surplus thanks to oil, taxes The surplus represents a significant swing from both Budget 2024's slim surplus and Budget 2025's forecasted deficit of more than $5 billion

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Just saying

September in Alberta. Our province’s COVID infection rate is among the three highest in the country, and yet we have no idea if, when, or where we will be able to get our booster shots 😡

Somewhere in Iceland.

An Edmonton School Board approved short story by Margaret Atwood

Quebec plans to table bill banning prayer in public | CBC News The Quebec government intends to present a bill banning prayer in public. Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said Thursday that the “proliferation of street prayer is a serious and sensitive is...

Banning public prayer, and in this case the target is clearly Muslims' prayers, does not "strengthen secularism." It violates rights.

If anything, it weakens secularism because it wrongly suggests a free society cannot accommodate both believers and nonbelievers. Wrong on the morals and the merits.

The frustrating thing is that this is a majestic province filled with open minded, kind hearted people who are appalled by their provincial government. And who love being Canadian

'Vicious compliance': Alberta premier decries Edmonton Public Schools' banned book list | CBC News Alberta Premier Danielle Smith slammed the Edmonton Public School Board Friday morning for its banned book list, which features more than 200 titles.

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Own this, Premier. This is your mess. You and your reactionary populist base in Alberta set the tone for such book banning

(On a side note, why is Margaret Atwood still on X?)