#uglydogs If you are near Quebec or Maine, a kennel in Quebec has to downsize and has a number of dogs available for adoption! My own very good boy came from here, so perhaps I am biased, but I have met some of them and they are all such friendly dogs. www.facebook.com/share/1Jw7ac...

We're aligning our fuel efficiency standards with the Europeans, which could open a bunch of doors around additional supply options/models. And we're bringing back the rebates. Perfection, as ever, is the enemy of good.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."

for context here, you also have to remember that Canadian-Chinese relations *cratered* in the last few years as a result of Beijing's hostage diplomacy. That the Canadians now have more trust in China than the United States is quite an achievement by Trump.

It's worth remembering that Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou based on American demands, held her on US requirements, and released her once the US cut a deal favourable to the US. US treated us like a vassal throughout, and what exactly did we get? Trade deals torn up, tariffs, 51st state.

Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?

Hi Friends and #uglydogs family- I’m so sorry to push this again, because I know times are tough for all, but there were complications with Moneypenny’s surgery and we could really use funds to pay for continued treatment. Bella also has surgery scheduled for 11/18. gofund.me/0af266757

fwiw it's not hard to craft a line that nods to kitchen table issues but still captures some urgency. "you put this asshole in office to make your life easier but all he's done is cut taxes for his rich buddies, kidnapped your neighbors and sent the military to tell you to shut up when you complain"

Today’s protest of families of hostages and supporters, called as an emergency after the govt. calls for Gaza occupation. x.com/ntarnopolsky...

Yid'n who love Israel: Speaking out about Gaza will not make you suddenly stop loving Israel. Yid'n who don't love Israel: Naming that Israelis are also worthy of safety and care will not make you suddenly stop caring about Palestine. I can't believe we're still having this talk.

Qatar's gift to Donald Trump of a luxury jet for his post-presidential use will cost taxpayers almost $1 billion in carefully concealed Pentagon funds. That's money straight from your taxes to Trump's personal benefit. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/u...

Standing Together will be attending tomorrow's peace protest in Tel Aviv Jaffa (impressive because they just organized a big protest a couple of days ago, usually there isn't enough strength to have multiple ones one after another) x.com/omdimbeyacha...

Protesters in Tel Aviv took to the streets carrying flour bags and pictures of malnourished children from Gaza, calling for the end of the war on Gaza and the hunger. #protest #TelAviv #Gaza #hunger #IsraelGazawar #Israel

Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya is being starved, tortured, and denied medical care in an underground Israeli prison cell. (1/4)

Chanting “Both in Gaza/Rafah and Sderot/Krayot girls/boys want to live”

It's also a reminder of what the Times can get its powerful hackles up about—a woman using home email at work, a thirty-year old footnote, an 81-year-old man being 81. But not a vividly antisemitic wannabe dictator building a system of concentration camps.

With context, NYT intimidating a Black journalist into retraction/self-muting for fact-checking inaccuracies and pointing out the sketchy morality of a source may not actually BE calling him a slur with know-your-place aggression, but it sure FEELS like they accomplished that in effect.

One of the most harmful legacies of mainline Christian theology amongst progressives is the tendency of Christians to denounce other Christians with different beliefs as “not real Christians”. The result - in addition to stifling dissent - is that Christians who accept this framing (1/2)

One final thing: the only reason I got the emails is because CBC as a public broadcaster is open to a level of scrutiny other media aren't. That's a good thing, and managers making tone deaf decisions =/= a reason to defund or abolish the corp. But we have to hold them to a very high standard.

🔎 The President continues to viciously attack both Jewish and Muslim elected leaders and candidates in an attempt to spread hate and increase polarization

Something concrete people can do to help Arab-Bedouin communities in Israel, who disproportionately lack access to bomb shelters.

🚨Israel is perilously lowering the bar for what's considered "illegitimate" dissent. Hadash MK Ayman Odeh might be expelled for saying he was “happy for the release of the hostages & prisoners... Now we must free both peoples from the yoke of occupation”. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

This ad isn’t really an exaggeration, unfortunately.

We send our deepest condolences and unwavering solidarity to every Israeli, Palestinian, and Iranian family mourning their loved ones today. Too many innocent people’s lives have been stolen already, and we cannot let it go on. (4/4)

We know that it doesn’t have to be this way, and that all of us in the Middle East deserve to live with true safety. We know that a path of diplomacy and political solutions is the only thing that can ensure we can live with real safety and dignity. (3/4)

I wrote about the recent spate of anti-Zionist violence against American Jews and how such assaults just make Zionism's argument for it. "The unwitting agents of Zionism throughout history have been those unwilling to tolerate Jews in their own countries." Gift link to the full piece:

Cannot be emphasised enough how untrue this is. 90% of prosecutions under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act never even prove bribery took place.

If you go back and read the newspaper and other reports from the time, it was like a modern miracle. Kids literally in a coma waking up after getting insulin. The accounts are incredibly moving.

Being a Jew in the age of Trump means being caught between people who think attacking people at Jewish museums is acceptable resistance praxis and people who think “fighting antisemitism” means tearing down every liberal value that made this country comparatively good for Jews in the first place.

As Trump celebrates all things Saudi, someone not to forget about. She is held at an unknown prison with no contact with outside world for social media posts about her right to dress as she pleases. www.bbc.com/news/world-m...

TALK POLITICS... IT'S THE POLITE THING TO DO

Politicizing the judiciary in this way is one of the reasons the US is the way it is right now. Not something that we should follow in Canada.

Colossal Bioscience did not revive dire wolves, despite a sensationalist Time Magazine cover story. Making genetically modified animals that are cosplaying as extinct species is not de-extinction.

It's not just the biggest peacetime tax increase in US history. It's also the most regressive tax increase in US history.

This is a March 2020 moment and the virus is named Donald Trump

The stories of the women she was imprisoned with are also deserving of attention. One woman had overstayed her visa by 3 days, got a new visa to finish her masters degree, and was detained on reentry. That’s nuts.

I'm this close to muting the words "Gripen" and "F-35." No, there's no universe in which Gripen even comes close to the F-35 it's a reheated fourth gen aircraft. Every fourth gen operator is trying to buy next gen aircraft.

You can think Khalil is an asshole who praised 10/7 and led a campus protest endemically festering with antisemitism and still understand that even assholes have rights under the law, including not to be deported without process.

People who download tiktok or rednote are making a choice. People who handed their data over to ATNT, OPM, Anthem, etc, did not make a choice and that data is more sensitive than cat videos. Those thefts are used as pretense for banning tiktok. They don't care about the real problem one bit.

“To Donald Trump, from one old guy to another: Give your head a shake!” Former Canadian PM Jean Chrétien celebrates his 91st birthday with a cri du coeur in defence of Canada’s independence from the US: “I am ready at the ramparts.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

American exceptionalism is one hell of a weird drug that imo you don’t understand until you live outside of the USA for a period of time no matter how liberal you think you are. Imagine thinking that other countries have to articulate a reason for not wanting to be conquered by you?!

In 2020, Radio-Canada produced a comedy series called La Maison-Bleue. It's an alt history where Quebec voted in favor of independence in 1995, but is starting to regret its decision. So the President of Quebec decides to trade the United States its north in exchange for part of Florida.

At great personal risk, Jimmy Carter helped Canada manage one of the world’s first nuclear accidents at Chalk River in 1952. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How can Canada reach the 2% of GDP defence spending target quickly? @justinmassie.bsky.social and I offer a few ideas in the @theglobeandmail.com www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

This is nuts.

This is wild. You can find tons of articles from when Banting and Best first started treating patients where the reaction is basically that it’s a miracle - parents that did not expect their children to see adulthood suddenly having hope. The stories of individual patients are incredibly moving.

So many people sharing stories about denials from their health insurance company this week. Here’s ours. www.huffpost.com/entry/brain-... #healthcare #healthinsuranace #cigna #UHC #CEO #POTS #hEDS #CCI #BCBS #Chronicillness

Important reporting on one of the key defence and security fora

The first woman to command Canada's military called out a U.S. senator on Saturday for questioning the role of women in combat www.cbc.ca/news/politic...