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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 10h

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 10h

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Vancouver Park Board's apology over Harry Potter event catches J.K. Rowling's attention | CBC News

Vancouver’s park board is apologizing for its decision to host the Harry Potter Forbidden Forest Experience in November, after hearing concerns from members of the 2SLGBTQ+ community that the event wa...

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

That was an area where McCain, speaking from unique experience, was unambiguous: waterboarding is torture. The U.S. is in desperate need of this sort of moral clarity.

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John Mccain: Waterboarding is torture! Mccain educates Fox News on torture.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

And at 5am EDT, Trump declares war on Norway.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Democracy dies in sycophancy.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Gimme the Nobel, or else.

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Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

Also when Trump first started with his annexation nonsense, she never missed an opportunity to make clear that she was MAGA-friendly, including flying down to Florida for a MAGA event. Her calling Eby "un-Canadian" is preposterous gaslighting.

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Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro Discuss Canada Electing ‘Solid Allies’ to Trump at Florida Event

On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said 'I come in peace'.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

And Supreme Court of Canada judges are required by law to retire at age 75.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 1d

“You can’t fight the entire world” seems a bit lacking in self-awareness coming from the guy who launched a trade war against the entire world.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

The Australian government paid Deloitte $440,000 Australian dollars for a report that was littered with AI-generated hallucinations.

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Deloitte to partially refund Australia for report with apparent AI-generated errors

Deloitte Australia will partially refund the Australian government for a report filled with apparent AI-generated errors

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

He’s right. Antifa reached the height of its power more than 80 years ago, launching a military assault on continental Europe.

Antifa launching an unprovoked attack on continental Europe.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

The key takeaway, of course, is that Trump wants to establish his unquestioned right to arbitrary extralegal killing.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 2d

I confess to being confused by the recent “Churchill was evil” revisionism.

“You cannot admire Churchill and rehabilitate Hitler. The two stand on opposite sides of the story. That is why, for the revisionist right, tearing down Churchill is a necessary precondition for lifting up Hitler.”

Institute for Humane Studies @theihs.org · 2d

A free society depends on honest memory. We can face Churchill’s flaws without giving up his fight against tyranny.

Read the latest from Michael Tolhurst, managing director of academic relations at IHS, in @liberalcurrents.com. ⬇️

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A Popular Front of Memory

As the right begins to revise their view of Hitler, we must revive the example Churchill set in that era.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 3d

We have a similar issue In Canada. No matter how good our gun laws are, we have a next door neighbour awash in guns.

“In 2024, 88 per cent of the 717 crime guns seized by the Toronto Police Service were traced to the United States.“

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As Trump complains about Canada, data shows most crime guns seized in GTA come from U.S. | CBC News

While U.S. President Donald Trump claims Canada hasn't done enough to stop the flow of illegal migrants and fentanyl south, data from GTA police forces shows American guns are being used as tools of c...

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 3d

There have been recent sketchy claims about finding the plane that he might have seen on fox News.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 4d

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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 4d

Such casual misogyny. The whole party lives in 1958. I’d bet that AOC reads more legislation more carefully than most representative, including Johnson.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 4d

Our population density affects everything, mostly negatively. Canada Post is a glaring example. It’s extremely expensive to have to deliver mail to everywhere a few people live. Similar inefficiencies of scale affect telecommunication services (phone & internet) and airlines.

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 4d

I know the world's on fire, but you can’t think about that every minute. Check out this YouTube channel. Macy tries out random jobs and documents what they involve, including the finances for some businesses. In this one she spends a day at United's flight attendant school.

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Do I have what it takes to do a flight attendant's REAL job?

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 5d

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

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Adam Rose @adamrose.bsky.social · 7d

How bad are tariffs going?

I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business.

UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me.

That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

Screenshot of message from UPS:

Hi Adam,
All import fees must be paid prior to delivery.
Save time - prepay online for your FREIGHTCOM shipment. If import fees are not paid before delivery, an additional surcharge will be applied.
Total Amount Due
119.20 USD
Additional charges may have been applied based on recent tariff policy changes.
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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 7d

Trump's grandpa made his money running a brothel, does that count?

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 7d

That whole thing about the American colonists going to war with the British Empire because they didn’t like kings? Apparently a president can just declare himself an absolute monarch and everyone will just go along with it.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 7d

Oh he can just unilaterally pass unconstitutional laws now huh ok

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Jim Douglas 🇨🇦 @jimsdouglas.bsky.social · 7d

This photo source says Germany 2007.

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Clowning and Resistance

We are the Clowns of the Rebellion! The commentators, the rebels, the soothsayers. A new resistance movement; the Rebel Clowns are a performance group that I set up in the Extinction Rebellion...

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