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Trump tariffs and strict US border rules threaten flight of Canada’s ‘snowbirds’ Annual migration from frigid Canadian winter to Florida sunshine could become thinner as travellers look elsewhere

Ain't gonna happen. There is a great big world out there to explore and visit. #ElbowsUp www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

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Thank you so much👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."
~ Søren Kierkegaard

November Afternoon (1881)
🎨 Alfred Sisley

Reading Tolkien during the Insurrection I happened to be reading the final three chapters of The Lord of the Rings this week as supporters of an incompetent president attempted an insurrection in America. I am going through the book with…

With ICE and other extremist groups trying to claim #Tolkien, this old post still holds up:

“Tolkien does not simply give us hope for a better future or strength to endure hardship. Instead, the text [is] a call to action, a challenge...”

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Poster standing in front of building side mural of Kurt Vonnegut

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

YouTube video by Charlie Angus CANADA IS A CHOICE WE MAKE

The settling of North America has some very dark moments. But Canada chose to rise above the intolerance to build a country based on diversity, equity, inclusion, democracy.
Canada is a nation but it also a choice that we make.
And we will defend that choice.
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This is because Intuit, Inc. gave Donald Trump $1,000,000 for his "inauguration." Intuit owns Turbo Tax, which makes money off charging taxpayers to file their returns.

The corruption is rampant and in plain sight.

A visitor leaves a poppy on what appears to be a Canadian war memorial. Donate the the Poppy Fund: legion.ca/donations

I just made a small donation to the Royal Canadian Legion for Remembrance Day. It is a token of this American's high regard for the Canadian armed forces, who have stood on guard for liberty and been our stalwart allies. I hope we will soon repair the damage we've done. Lest We Forget 🇺🇸 🇨🇦

We’re brief in this world.

But in that briefness, we get the chance to impact someone…
for a moment, a day, maybe even a lifetime.

Most of us won’t be remembered by name.
But someone will remember how we made them feel.

So make it kindness.
Make it hope.
Leave people better than you found them 💙😊

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving party by locking doors, swallowing key OTTAWA – In an effort to prevent any more defections from caucus, party leader Pierre Poilievre has reportedly locked all Conservative MPs in an undisclosed room in Parliament Hill before swallowing the key.

Poilievre prevents more MPs from leaving party by locking doors, swallowing key

THINGS ARE PRETTY GOOD HERE 🇨🇦
PeaceLoveCanada.ca

Report: Bieber exercises $16M option to remain with Blue Jays Shane Bieber is running it back with the Toronto Blue Jays.The former Cy Young winner exercised his $16-million player option and will return to the American League champions in 2026, Jon Heyman of th...

oh LET'S FUCKIN' GO BOYS

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Americans ‘dumbfounded by cruelty’ of Trump officials slashing Snap benefits Those among the 42 million enrolled in the program worry that cutoff of the benefit will send their lives into a tailspin

It's been a heck of a year. '“How do I feel about it? I curse Donald Trump and his entire party of sycophants and lickspittles to the seven[th] circle of hell, now and for all time,” the 71-year-old said.'
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“You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#5amWritersClub #WritingCommunity
#WriterSky #AmWriting

Clement sliding into home like a little boy

Springer shrugging after another hit while injured

The Toronto #BlueJays gave us arguably the closest #WorldSeries in modern history, and the most fun and inspiring playoff run I can remember in any sport. I LOVE THAT TEAM, and 100% believe #TORONTO should have a HUGE CELEBRATION ANYWAY, to thank the team, fans, city and COUNTRY for a legendary run!

"Then I despair. . . . I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always."
Andre Malraux, born on this day in 1901

Every business should do this at their stores. #cdnpoli

Having slept on it, it’s really set in that the Blue Jays loss last night was one of the most gutting pro sports losses I can remember. Absolutely brutal. My heart goes out to 🇨🇦

And in that pause between pitch and contact - longer than logic, shorter than hope - we remembered why baseball existed long before we judged a sport's value by viral moments and betting apps. It is the romance of failure. The mortal beauty of trying and missing seven times out of 10 and still being considered great. It is the only sport where patience is a weapon, and panic the surest death. You cannot simply run out the clock in baseball; you must face it, pitch by terrifying pitch, until it finally releases you.

Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper

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Today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.

And here you are.

Let things you have no control over, happen.

I promise you’ll get through

A funny thing about how much people hate professional athletes and say that they’re overpaid:

They’re some of the only millionaires that work hard

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“OH NO! NO WAY! OH MY GOD! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!”

Davis Schneider’s dad posted a video of the leadoff home run from his point of view

This photo of rookie Yesavage casually walking off the mound as future Hall of Famer and helmet-less Ohtani is still in motion striking out is everything. #WantItAll

Rufus Wainwright anthem "that only us command"!!!

Subtle jab and I'm here for it!

Let's go @torontobluejays.bsky.social !!!!

#worldseries

Rufus Wainwright is singing the Canadian anthem at the World Series and he changed the words as a fuck you to the US - “that only we command”

Rufus Wainwright in a blue suit in the stadium singing “O Canada”

Rufus Wainwright singing the national anthem might be the best surprise of the World Series 🇨🇦⭐️❤️