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Russian Humanoid Robot Falls on Its Face in Hyped Debut

The robot, known as AIDOL, staggered onstage during a technology showcase in Moscow. Organizers blamed the mishap on calibration and lighting issues. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/t...

The “Russia hoax” is now their template. Every past investigation becomes a “deep-state plot,” so no future one can be trusted. This is how authoritarian movements rewrite history to protect power instead of truth.

Harry Enten: "Voters blame Trump, not Biden for the state of the economy. The vast majority of Americans (75%) & even Republicans (57%!!!) say Trump's not doing enough to lower costs...

GOP in Congress should be scared as we just saw economy-first voters go big for Dems in VA & NJ Gov."

The fix is in.

Ghislaine Maxwell, transferred to a club med prison after Trump's lawyer met with her (and she likely spilled what she knows about Trump), is now being waited on "hand and foot" by guards and is getting her commutation application ready with help from the warden.

Jeffrey Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails to Ghislaine Maxwell and an author in Trump's orbit, newly released records show.
https://cnn.it/480M2WS

U.S. tourism faces $5.7B US loss as Canadians continue to stay home | CBC News Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price. A U.S. Travel Association report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spe...

Many Canadians continue to boycott travel to the United States, and the U.S. economy is paying the price.

New report forecasts a 3.2 per cent decline in international tourism spending in the country for 2025, a loss of $5.7 billion US compared to the previous year. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada’s New Submarines Will Be Lethal, Stealthy, and Very UnCanadian | The Walrus It’s the start of a military buildup that will reshape the country’s self-image

Canada’s New Submarines Will Be Lethal, Stealthy, and Very UnCanadian.
The new submarines are designed to launch long-range precision attacks against targets inland. An entirely new capability for Canada’s fleet, previously equipped only with torpedoes. #cdnpoli
thewalrus.ca/canadas-new-...

Opinion: The ostrich saga was for the birds Government’s decision to cull 300 birds in B.C. was for the public good

The ostrich saga was for the birds. The decision to cull the big birds exposed to avian influenza was a good one and the histrionics unhelpful, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com #H5N1

It begins. Clearly incriminating evidence against president of the United States.

Epstein to Maxwell, April 2, 2011:

"i want you to realize that that dog that hasn't barked is trump. [VICTIM] spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once been mentioned. police chief. etc."

A Dutch war cemetery added displays showing black US soldiers. Then they were quietly removed Relatives fear the move is part of ‘the same virus affecting the US’, as historians and politicians say it coincided with Trump’s DEI purge

Can you believe this? The American Battle Monuments Commission, a U.S. gov. agency, ordered the removal of displays honouring the Black soldiers who helped liberate the Netherlands. These men fought & died for freedom, & now their contributions are being erased. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence was misleading.

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media.

The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew about his crimes, newly released emails reveal – live updates In new batch of emails released by House Democrats, Jeffrey Epstein told Ghislaine Maxwell that Trump ‘spent hours’ at his house with one of his victims

Jeffrey Epstein alleged that Donald Trump knew about his crimes, newly released emails reveal – live updates
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump ‘knew about the girls’ The convicted sex offender’s correspondence was released along with other documents by House Oversight Dems.

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein, in newly released email, says Trump “knew about the girls.”

A headline reads: "Epstein Alleged in Emails That Trump Knew of His Conduct" over a photo of President Trump walking in the White House. Photo by Doug Mills/The New York Times

House Democrats on Wednesday released emails in which Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald Trump had “spent hours at my house” with one of the convicted sex offender’s victims, among other messages that suggested Epstein believed Trump knew more about his abuse than he has acknowledged. nyti.ms/441Dyxh

Immigrants with health conditions may be denied visas under new Trump administration guidance Foreigners seeking U.S. visas might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity, under a directive from the Trump administration.

"Foreigners seeking visas to live in the U.S. might be rejected if they have certain medical conditions, including diabetes or obesity" abcnews.go.com/Health/immig...

We like white bread as much as the next person. However, this is a whole lot of a particular type of white bread.

Since July, the aesthetic of the U.S. Department of Labor has undergone a significant transformation on X and Facebook. But this is how it's done ... Little by little.

In other words, if Trump does Orbán a favour like this, he might as well scrap the entire Russia sanctions regime. Because, let’s be honest, Hungary being Hungary, they’d drive a convoy of Mack trucks through that loophole every single day.

Trump grants Hungary one-year exemption from Russian energy sanctions, White House says | CNN President Donald Trump told Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the United States will not penalize Hungary for continuing to purchase Russian energy for one year, softening the impact of sanct...

Trump told Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán that the United States will not penalize Hungary for continuing to purchase Russian energy for one year, softening the impact of sanctions on Russia’s oil exports that threatened to wreak havoc on Hungary’s economy, a White House official told CNN.

#Cdnpoli #USpoli

#UnitedStates #America #Americans #USArmy

Because of Trump's government shutdown, while stationed in #Bavaria in #Germany, #US soldiers are forced to go hat in hand to the #Germans to secure food and basic hygiene items.

Kaitlan Collins: "We've seen some reaction coming in already tonight from former Trump campaign advisers, saying that they believe this is a candidate quality issue and that Republicans need to run better candidates who are more in line with the president in order to secure victories."

LOL, sure. 🤣

This is precisely what they once pilloried Biden for, yet now they’re quietly bowing. The truth is, tech fears Republicans more than Democrats. Tech’s learned the hard way: Republican resentment isn't rhetorical, it’s retaliatory. They, unlike Democrats, turn their grudges & grievances into policy.

YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran 'Fentanyl Capitalism': How Tech Venture Capital Is Eating the World | Catherine Bracy x Gil Duran

Venture capitalists want to eat the world.

The playbook: identify a target, flood it with capital, capture the system, cash out.

Today, their target is American democracy—and they're betting big on Trump.

My conversation with @catherinebracy.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw_W...

Judge Berates Justice Dept. in Its Prosecution of Comey The flashpoint was the Justice Department’s failure to turn over seized communications from a confidant of Mr. Comey’s, Daniel C. Richman, a law professor at Columbia University.

The federal judge in the Trump administration’s prosecution of James Comey, the former FBI director, on Wednesday blasted President Trump’s handpicked prosecutor, Lindsey Halligan, for taking an “indict first, investigate later” approach to the case.

Well, bless her heart. Ambition that detached from reality is almost inspiring.

“This first use of the Charter’s notwithstanding clause in an act of the Alberta legislature is a stain upon your record & undercuts the credibility of the many calls you have made for all levels of government to respect the rights of citizens.”

ATA to Smith today.

#abpoli

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

Getting new details on this now:

As the arrest unfolded, teachers pleaded with the agents telling them the teacher had a work permit. The agents went into multiple rooms looking for teachers while children were present. One teacher hid with a child in her care while the agents stormed the facility.

How to Endure Authoritarianism A visit to a poet’s home in Kraków recalls the lessons of Eastern Europe’s dissidents.

Eastern European dissidents became experts in authoritarian takeovers, and authoritarians, of all kinds. What lessons can Americans learn from them? https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/how-to-endure-authoritarianism

By the numbers...

This is how AUPE overwhelmingly voted in their strike vote today.

With over 70% turnout, 98% voted for a strike.

Of 11,031 votes, only 219 voted against a strike.

You might think the UCP would start to notice a pattern...

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli