@badlibrarian
BadLibrarian on 🐦. Retired Librarian and Civil Servant. YYJ. British & Canadian. Blocker of empty accounts. History/PoliSci/LIS -> uni instructor-> 🇨🇦 policy analyst/advisor -> academic librarian.Fox not hedgehog. Often unserious ⚽️🔴⚪️🚴🏻♂️🏏
2/ Lara Rzhondovskaya, the editor of Novoe Media who writes on Telegram as 'Dear Persimmon', has a plaintive series of complaints six months ahead of Russia's forthcoming presidential elections:
You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.
"Abolish ICE" was submitted 9,200 times for Chicago's snowplow naming contest, records show. blockclubchi.co/3ZAnDTZ
The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
It’s code for white supremacist bullshit.
Should be a 🎁 link:
www.nytimes.com/2018/10/17/u...
What he said: 💯 🎯
Obama: When I think back to a year ago, I remember talking to some people, who would say, this election doesn't matter all that much. That however the next president ended up being, it wasn't going to matter to them. If nothing else, the last nine months should have cured us of that idea.
I’m just going to say it…
It’s pretty damn validating to hear Barack Obama say the same things we’ve been shouting for months, and longer.
Prime Minister Carney meets with President Gabriel Boric of Chile on the margins of the APEC Summit.
Since Canada signed its free trade agreement with Chile, our bilateral merchandise trade has nearly quadrupled.
President Gabriel Boric and I are building on that success with a new strategic partnership that will leverage our strengths in critical minerals, clean energy, and defence.
“wife mad at you? DEI”
he’s still got it, folks
I’m not going to lie, there’s a tiny part of me that wants to see them pull this third term shit in a way that lets Trump run against Obama the way he always wanted to and get absolutely obliterated
So trumps probably never read the great Gatsby, but is it possible that no one at mar-a-lago has read the great Gatsby?
Holy shit. Friends, here is a panel on the question "why don't Americans trust the media?'
I scrolled ... scrolled ... increasingly amazed ... scrolled ...
Nope. No one so much as *mentions* the 6-decade, billionaire-funded campaign by the right to destroy trust in media! Not even in passing!
So...
UCP Minister Rajan Sawhney held an open house in Calgary.
It did not go well for her.
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli #YYC
"By Wednesday afternoon the filing had been removed from public court dockets and replaced by a new sentencing memo. All references to Jan. 6, Trump’s social media post, Valdivia or White had been removed."
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Essential research shows that particulate pollution—generated from motor fuels exhaust, tire wear, wildfires, factories, etc—is associated with dementia. More evidence that it is in the interest of public health to reduce pollution. (Gift link)
America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight.
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"One of the main political groups behind the withdrawal is Latvia First, whose leader Ainars Slesers has called on Latvians to choose between a "natural family" and a "gender ideology with multiple sexes""
www.bbc.com/news/article...
A toy maker takes his case against Trump's tariffs to the Supreme Court - www.reuters.com/world/us/toy...
They shoot horses, don't they?
I’ll say it again. Not only did they invent this theory. They CHOSE to deliver it to THIS guy, a dangerous raving selfish moron. They could have waited four years and given it all to President Vance or whatever. They chose to give it to Trump.
> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social
"In the Talmud, there’s about 5,000 recorded arguments, and only 50 of them get resolved. We can look at that and say, 'We have a 1 percent success rate.' Or we can look at it and say, 'No, we have a 99 percent success rate.'" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/u...
in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country
Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics
The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year
