The fate of the free world rests on someone who requires weekly MRI tests to monitor his advancing dementia. We can do better.

Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing "Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions." Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social

Manitoba signs on to Ontario memorandum aimed at boosting power transmission

In just a few short hours on Wednesday afternoon, what began as a small fire on the first floor of an apartment building swelled into a raging inferno that consumed seven high-rise towers on a Hong Kong public housing estate.

President Donald Trump said Friday he intends to grant a “full and complete pardon” to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, a move that would erase a major US drug-trafficking conviction for a onetime US ally who is currently serving a 45-year federal prison sentence.

Company owned by dentist whose practice boasts it treats ‘the Ford family’ got $2M government grant

Holy shit

Tracking Trump’s retribution targets reut.rs/4pCQCSc

In total, Moscow launched around 36 missiles and almost 600 drones at Ukraine on Friday night into Saturday, Zelensky said. Large parts of the capital, Kyiv, are without power. https://cnn.it/3XoYnPy

As Trump’s popularity continues to drop, the MAGA coalition shows signs of cracking, and Trump’s mental acuity slips, there is a frantic feel to the administration, as if Trump’s people are trying to grab all they can, while they can. A source has told The Telegraph

I’m still enjoying how MAGA Twitter will never live down that they’re all troll farms from Russia and Bangladesh. The whole MAGA ‘movement’ has been fake bullshit from top to bottom from the very beginning.

"While elite journos and businessmen kiss the ring of Trump, people in jammies and slippers confront ICE in the street. The courage of ordinary people has been stunning compared to the elite." On the pod @amandamarcotte.bsky.social is good on Trump's downward spiral: newrepublic.com/article/2035...

Fuck DOGE and fuck Elon Musk.

Earlier this year, the United States deported 252 Venezuelans to El Salvador and paid its government to imprison them. Now two human-rights organizations have found that ALL of those men were physically abused.

Man with screw loose puts hero under duress to surrender. Trump the Russian puppet

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Winnipeg police looking for witness who helped a robbery victim on Halloween

Pastors arrested and shot with chemical weapons by secret police every single week. Take a good, long look. Let it sink in. This is Trump’s America.

Jeffrey Epstein emailed Tom Barrack, an old friend of Donald Trump and the current U.S. ambassador to Turkey, asking him to “send photos of you and child — make me smile.” Newly released private emails show how closely tied Epstein was to Trump’s circle of advisers.

I thought Trump said he had cut all ties with Epstein years before this?

Since Donald Trump returned to office, Katherine J. Wu, Tom Bartlett, and Nicholas Florko have covered the rise of the MAHA movement and the changes to public-health and infectious-disease policy. They’re answering your questions on Reddit now! https://redd.it/1ovvyzs

NEWS: White House held Epstein crisis meetings in the building’s most secure facility — the Situation Room. Trump says there’s “nothing to hide.” But I’ll tell you from experience… the only reason you hold SitRoom meetings IS when there’s something to hide. defiance.substack.com/p/must-read-...

Whoaaaaaaaaa

Travel Manitoba reports record tourism spending in 2024

Hornless rhino roamed Canadian High Arctic 23 million years ago reut.rs/4hxokFX

Oh, Canada! Thou hast truly broken Trump’s brain. It’s glorious! 😂

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Rule of Law Alert: Trump’s authority for country-specific tariffs comes from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which doesn’t mention tariffs—but does require a national emergency. An ad showing that Reagan opposed tariffs surely is not a national emergency. (It may be a personal one)

Gustav Klimt - Beech Grove I 1902 (Galerie Neue Meister)

Trump is sending ARGENTINA $20B and increasing their beef imports while STARVING AMERICAN FAMIILIES. There's funding available to help keep food benefits, but Trump just doesn’t want to provide it. What'll it take for him to start leading the country he actually lives in?

On his first day in office, Trump pardoned hundreds of violent felons who attacked police officers and the US Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. More than 30 of them are already back in trouble with the law—including one arrested last weekend for making chilling death threats against Hakeem Jeffries.

England's resident doctors to strike for six days in November reut.rs/3Wk1Iiw

‘She’s been doing fantastic’: Lumi the six-month-old, injured lynx readies for new home

Authorities say Russia conducting increasingly bold campaign of espionage, sabotage and cyber-interference against UK.

Yes, what the fuck???

Hmmmmmm

Breathtaking incompetence www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

No Kings Day Saturday October 18th

“Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein…took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.”

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.

Well done!

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald. I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

This is the way.

The crash of 1929 remains the most significant—and largely misunderstood—financial disaster in modern history. And few people today “perceive the remarkable parallels between that era and today’s political and economic climate,” Andrew Ross Sorkin writes.

The idea that everyone has intrinsic rights to life and liberty was a radical break with millennia of human history. It’s the moral foundation of America, Elaine Pagels writes—and it’s worth preserving.