Joan McKenzie 🍁

In authoritarian crackdowns, it’s important to randomly ensnare some people whom one would think would be safe, so that everyone is at least a little bit afraid that something could happen to them. The regime scales up its power of intimidation over a much larger group than those directly affected.

I actually really believe this. Better this way. So much better.

2. Emotionally Limited Parents Misread Neurodivergence as Defiance Neurocomplex traits often get pathologized in emotionally rigid households. Curiosity becomes backtalk. Sensory sensitivity is framed as overreacting. Executive dysfunction gets labeled as laziness. These misinterpretations aren't just invalidating— they're identity-shaping. Over time, kids absorb the belief that being different equals being difficult.

This is also about school.

Kids are asleep. Watching Apollo 13. And thinking about my country. Things seem dire. But that's when we truly find out what we're made of. Choosing to believe, at least for tonight, that we have what it takes to make it home.

Looks like a Bitcoin ad. Oh ...

Remember that time Herschel Walker flashed his plastic cereal box police badge and said he was a real cop? That was some sad, but funny, shit.

Anyway, Dean Cain is an ICE Agent.

"We have seen more aid arrive, particularly in terms of aid drops. What difference has that made?"

James Elder from UNICEF: "Next to none.. these are distractions.. these are designed to reduce pressure from the international community"

At this point... as the world burns, as temperatures rise, as the climate descends into chaos, I don't know how to understand the doubling down on fossil fuels as anything other than at best looting what's left, but that's too generous; it's simply a death cult's enthusiastic embrace of extinction.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson Huge Economic Problems Coming for Republicans and the U.S. | Explainer

Huge Economic Problems Coming for Republicans and the U.S.
Prices up
Employment down

youtu.be/OHZ0hiZUydA?...

He has literally nothing else to offer.

Screenshot of a Facebook post: "Keeping people out of the woods means that if/when a forest fire breaks out, the hundreds of VOLUNTEERS who will be called upon to fight it can focus their efforts on stopping the fire and protecting structures instead of having to risk their lives in order to rescue people who may be trapped by the fire."

👏👏👏 for this volunteer firefighter speaking up on FB.

He reminds us that firefighting in most of NS is done by people who do this essential work for their communities for free. ♥️

Their perspective counts for more than anything the faux constitutional lawyers have to say.

The new party leader will let her go ASAP. This is face saving.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

Best tennis I've seen in a while!

Poilievre promises to scrap single-use plastics ban and bring back the plastic straw | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to scrap the federal government’s ban on single use plastics and bring back plastic straws and disposable grocery bags.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic.... Sounds just like the Canuck cowboy who lost his seat.

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

Opinion | Donald Trump and John Roberts Have a Lot in Common

Gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/o...

British Columbia is making a bourbon-style whiskey now too, so now there is truly no reason to be buying the Kentucky swill.

If you wouldn't write a personal cheque to ICE to help fund their kidnapping spree or concentration camps, then don't buy any U.S. products. It's that simple.

The Kentucky whiskey and bourbon industry is on life support due to reciprocal tariffs and general boycott of American goods in places like Canada.

Eight months of that asshole’s stupidity and arrogance was all it took to destroy an entire industry.

Deportation fallout: This farmer lost half his workforce. Now he’s losing his crop too | CNN Ian Chandler’s Oregon cherries are dying on the branch — not because of bad weather, disease or blight, but because there is no one to pick them, a fact he links to the ongoing immigration crackdown.

Is anyone surprised?
The fact is Canadians aren't going to buy your product anyway.
We will buy produce from countries under the rule of law.
#boycott

www.cnn.com/2025/08/06/u...

What, Exactly, Is the ‘Russia Hoax’? To start with, it’s not a hoax.

The main thing you need to know about the "Russia hoax"? It's not a hoax
from @dgraham.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The raw milk people are hilarious. All you have to do is meet one (1) cow and smell the situation in which they are producing that rawness and you will pasteurize everything you own for a week

And THIS is what PM Carney is forced to 'negotiate' with, as if nothing wrong with the man. And then the PM has to report it back to the country, as any serious statesman would - like it's an actual convo with a sane man.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Really quite sick, and well worth the full read.

My gawd. Was that only a year ago? How fortunes have changed. 😏

Canada’s the only country having over 60% with a tertiary education.

This isn’t a numbers competition: it explains Canada’s values, “Education can promote gender equality, reduce child marriage, promote peace”

Education promotes decency.

#CanadaNice

worldpopulationreview.com/country-rank...

Opinion | The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away

The America We Knew Is Rapidly Slipping Away www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/o...

A sobering read for this morning.

This about covers it.

‘the GardaWorld deal raises concerns about Canadian companies’ involvement in potential human rights abuses…need for legislation requiring Canadian companies – and their subsidiaries – to “respect human rights throughout their operations around the world, & face consequences if they fail to do so.”