Charles Mire 🇨🇦
@charlesmire.bsky.social
Outdoors enthusiast, scientist, math nut, beer & wine nerd, 3D printing expert, recovering entrepreneur
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Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case.
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December 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Since 9/11, the FBI has spent a ton of resources effectively entrapping angry poor people into pretending they were engaging in a terrorist plot and then "stopping" the plot that never had any chance of being carried out. This is almost certainly another such case.
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Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:
December 15, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:
I'd love to hear from actual building engineers if the issues raised in the article are true or not. Skyscrapers have multi-levels of below ground parking lots that are much larger than single home footprints, & nobody has raised any of these concerns.
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
Toronto city staff want to put new limits on 'iceberg homes'
Since spring 2024, Toronto has received 12 proposals for the homes, which have larger, sometimes multi-storey basements.
www.thestar.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I'd love to hear from actual building engineers if the issues raised in the article are true or not. Skyscrapers have multi-levels of below ground parking lots that are much larger than single home footprints, & nobody has raised any of these concerns.
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
Bring on the consequences for ICE! I hope more people file lawsuits.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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US green card holder sues ICE over claims of ‘violent assault’
Hilda Ramirez Sanan and her two US citizen children were ‘illegally and forcefully detained’, the lawsuit alleges
www.theguardian.com
December 15, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Bring on the consequences for ICE! I hope more people file lawsuits.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
December 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement.
#NoWords 🤮
#NoWords 🤮
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Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
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December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.
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One lesson Democrats should take away from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is that they should be as unapologetic about policies that help people as Republicans are about those that harm people (e.g ICE, no gun control, cutting healthcare subsidies, government layoffs, research funding cuts, etc).
December 14, 2025 at 6:41 PM
One lesson Democrats should take away from Zohran Mamdani’s campaign is that they should be as unapologetic about policies that help people as Republicans are about those that harm people (e.g ICE, no gun control, cutting healthcare subsidies, government layoffs, research funding cuts, etc).
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Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries say budget proposal to end shipping program would be 'catastrophic | CBC News
Libraries across Canada say a proposed change in the federal budget bill would end their ability to ship books at
reduced rates, threatening interlibrary loan programs and possibly forcing the closure...
www.cbc.ca
December 15, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
Ugh. Why do companies insist on shoving this kind of crap at consumers?
I will never connect any tv I own to wifi because of this. I always use an intermediary device between my tv and the internet.
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I will never connect any tv I own to wifi because of this. I always use an intermediary device between my tv and the internet.
www.tomshardware.com/service-prov...
LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen
Users report Copilot appearing after a recent software update, with no option to uninstall.
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December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Ugh. Why do companies insist on shoving this kind of crap at consumers?
I will never connect any tv I own to wifi because of this. I always use an intermediary device between my tv and the internet.
www.tomshardware.com/service-prov...
I will never connect any tv I own to wifi because of this. I always use an intermediary device between my tv and the internet.
www.tomshardware.com/service-prov...
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Just an unrelenting piece of shit.
December 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Just an unrelenting piece of shit.
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Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
December 15, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.
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The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
December 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The Donbas isn’t Putin’s end game.
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
If he gets it, he will demand more.
We know this from history and we should learn from history.
Extract of my doorstep ahead of today’s Foreign Affairs Council ↓
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Fox News: Has Russia made any concessions?
Ukrainian Amb to the US, Olga Stefanishyna: No. Talks mention freezing front lines, but Russia keeps attacking civilians.
Odesa, has no water or electricity for five days. There’s no peace here. That’s a war.
Ukrainian Amb to the US, Olga Stefanishyna: No. Talks mention freezing front lines, but Russia keeps attacking civilians.
Odesa, has no water or electricity for five days. There’s no peace here. That’s a war.
December 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Fox News: Has Russia made any concessions?
Ukrainian Amb to the US, Olga Stefanishyna: No. Talks mention freezing front lines, but Russia keeps attacking civilians.
Odesa, has no water or electricity for five days. There’s no peace here. That’s a war.
Ukrainian Amb to the US, Olga Stefanishyna: No. Talks mention freezing front lines, but Russia keeps attacking civilians.
Odesa, has no water or electricity for five days. There’s no peace here. That’s a war.
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Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
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Mystery solved? Baffling huge nebula near Andromeda Galaxy is actually in our neighborhood
Weird arcing cloud of oxygen is most likely part of the Milky Way, not our giant neighbor
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Mystery solved! Probably! A weird oxygen gas cloud discovered in 2023 that's near the Andromeda Galaxy in the sky is actually a nebula inside our own Milky Way. This is super cool stuff.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/mystery-so...
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
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December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
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As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
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How Rob Reiner became anti-Prop. 8 kingpin
Rob Reiner reflects on the critical role he played in getting California's gay marriage ban overturned.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Miller and allies literally saying the same things that were said about his family when they came to the United States
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Miller and allies literally saying the same things that were said about his family when they came to the United States
Those with excessive wealth will pursue ownership of original, high value works of art and completely miss the irony of evangelizing AI slop.
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
December 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Those with excessive wealth will pursue ownership of original, high value works of art and completely miss the irony of evangelizing AI slop.
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For the late/west coast crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column on why Carney bending the knee to Smith not only won't mollify separatists in the province, but it merely accelerates her plans to start a separatist crisis #cdnpoli
Danielle Smith playing Carney for a mug will only accelerate her separatist crisis - Loonie Politics
It's an extremely dangerous game, and Carney has blithely walked into the trap Danielle Smith set for him.
looniepolitics.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 AM
For the late/west coast crowd, my weekend Loonie Politics column on why Carney bending the knee to Smith not only won't mollify separatists in the province, but it merely accelerates her plans to start a separatist crisis #cdnpoli
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wow this is almost, like, a platform someone could successfully run on
"For the first time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71 percent believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate."
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:23 AM
wow this is almost, like, a platform someone could successfully run on