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Brenda Cossman

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Law Professor at U Of T. Feminist, queer, progressive type. Known to rant and rave.

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"I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: 'See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs]," Trump said in a five-minute phone interview from Mar-a-Lago.

"I can go long and take over the whole thing, or end it in two or three days and tell the Iranians: 'See you again in a few years if you start rebuilding [your nuclear and missile programs]," Trump said in a five-minute phone interview from Mar-a-Lago.

“All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump said in a brief phone interview shortly after 4 a.m., when asked what he hopes his legacy will be as a result of the military action and a push for regime change in Iran.

“All I want is freedom for the people,” Trump said in a brief phone interview shortly after 4 a.m., when asked what he hopes his legacy will be as a result of the military action and a push for regime change in Iran.

On the left:

Trump tells Axios U.S. military action could end quickly and then resume if Iran starts rebuilding it nuclear and missile programs

On the right:

Trump tells Washington Post, U.S. military action is about freedom for the Iranian people/regime change

28.02.2026 20:22 👍 728 🔁 218 💬 53 📌 20

And all of Canada screamed Noooooo when we heard Cosby wasn’t playing #canada #hockey #gold

22.02.2026 13:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Full Bad Bunny speech

02.02.2026 02:25 👍 5430 🔁 1704 💬 68 📌 203

Billie Eilish wearing #iceout button.
‘No one is illegal on stolen land’
#grammy

02.02.2026 03:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Carole King wearing an #iceout button in stage at #grammy

02.02.2026 03:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

02.02.2026 02:22 👍 15883 🔁 2250 💬 241 📌 77

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

02.02.2026 02:18 👍 20919 🔁 3654 💬 154 📌 105

#grammies going full political
#ICEout #badbunny

02.02.2026 02:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Neil Young gifts Greenland free access to music catalogue | CBC News Neil Young announced Tuesday on his blog that he is providing free access to his entire music catalogue to residents of Denmark's semiautonomous territory, whose futures have lately become a point of ...

Big little gestures
#greenland #canada #neilyoung

28.01.2026 02:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Gun Activists Bridle at Suggestion That Pistol Justified Killing

NRA blames "radical progressive politicians" for shooting. Ya, it's never the guns. Nor the ICE murderers.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

25.01.2026 20:20 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

More fascism in real time …

24.01.2026 23:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

But facts no longer matter …
#fascism #executions

24.01.2026 23:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So I guess the second amendment doesnt apply to liberals.
We knew that free speech & freedom of assembly didn’t…

#fascism #ICE #murder

24.01.2026 23:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Where is the NRA?
#rhetoricalquestion #ice #murder

24.01.2026 22:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cold. Blooded. Murder .
#ICE #fascism

24.01.2026 22:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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19.01.2026 15:49 👍 20616 🔁 7793 💬 891 📌 497
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Dont f**k with Wine Moms.....

17.01.2026 15:28 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Live Updates: Trump Threatens Insurrection Act to Quash Minneapolis Protests

Insurrection Act?
Yep, also on my bingo card…
#trump #authoritarianism #bingocard

15.01.2026 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

‘When you think about it, we shouldn’t even have an election’

Yes, that is on my bingo card …

#trump #authoritarianism

15.01.2026 17:05 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

12.01.2026 01:45 👍 20282 🔁 4854 💬 209 📌 111
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‘I Don’t Think We Like Them’: Trump Says MAGA Has No Room for Antisemites

I dont think….
Not sure.
#trump #antisemitism

11.01.2026 23:07 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

So protests in Iran = good, but protest in US = bad.
Just trying to keep up.
#trump #iran #minnesota

11.01.2026 23:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

At least we know where he stands on the rule of law

03.01.2026 19:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pierre Polievre welcomes US illegal military action in Venezuela, which btw, is a flagrant violation of US constitutional & international law.
#polievre #venezuela #ruleoflaw

03.01.2026 19:23 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

America first? Peace through strength?
#hegseth goes full Orwellian
#venezuela

03.01.2026 17:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I guess those 128 homicides in DC don’t count…
#trump #Venezuela

03.01.2026 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We all need to up our bingo cards for 2026.
#2026 #trump

03.01.2026 16:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The President of the United States just called for my arrest and execution.

In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage:

20.11.2025 19:15 👍 21937 🔁 7747 💬 1010 📌 482
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Trump’s threats amount to calls for ‘execution of elected officials’, says Chuck Schumer – US politics live Democrat Senate minority leader says president’s remarks are ‘outright threat’ as other leading Democrats warn ‘political violence has no place in America’

Why is Trump's threat not the headline to the NYT?
#rhetoricalquestion #Trump

21.11.2025 14:24 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

No way those files are not being destroyed and redacted…

18.11.2025 23:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0