Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of the loss of the Great Lakes freighter, the Edmund Fitzgerald and all its 29 souls, The ship that followed it across Lake Superior, the Arthur M Anderson, was still sailing last year, seen here in Buffalo last November. She spent 2025 in layup.

1.6 billion years old water found at the bottom of the Kidde Creek mine in Timmins Ontario by Canadian geologist Barbara Sherwood Lollar. “He said, ‘Our mass spectrometer is broken. This can’t be right.’ ” lol It takes an hour to get to the bottom of the mine, 2,377 m. macleans.ca/society/this...

26 new investments that will unlock $6.4 billion of critical minerals projects. Not bad for 6 months work. Here is the Federal news release on the 26 investments. 2/2 www.canada.ca/en/natural-r...

Those economic and trade missions are already starting to pay off. Vianode, a Norwegian company, is investing $2 billion in a synthetic graphite plant in Ontario. This is just the beginning. It will start with 300 jobs with plans to expand to 1,000. This is part of 1/2 www.mining.com/vianode-to-b...

TW: SA, 🍇 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

FACTS about SNAP: -35% to white people (largest share) -90% to people born in 🇺🇸 -86% to households with kids -70% work full time but aren’t paid a living wage (aka corporate welfare)

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office 2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor 3) Donors make huge profit 4) Repeat We must get big money out of politics. It is the root of our dysfunction.

Dale Spender's study in 1980 found when women made up about 17% of a room, men assessed the gender balance as equal. And when women spoke 30% of the time, men assessed that women dominated the conversation I think about this in relation to so much these days

Reminder:

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Mark Carney discusses the free trade "crisis" in North America and how Canada's economy is reorienting toward ASEAN

#Quiche for #breakfast this morning🥚🥧🫑🧅🧀

@racebannon.bsky.social I couldn’t resist!

Thousands of marches. Millions of patriots.

Take a cue from the boomers: Fix the housing crisis with smaller starter homes

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Read this and then I think you’ll agree that the monstrous Ghislaine Maxwell should not have one day of peace the rest of her wretched life www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

rbreich The wealth of the richest 1% in America just hit a record $52 trillion. These are the people getting huge tax cuts -- paid for by cuts to health care for millions of people. Every lie Trump and Republicans tell about the shutdown is meant to distract you from this. Know the truth.

Our girl Ruby Duby Doo after she woke up from a nap. Such a sweet pup 23 hours of the day. The other 1 hour she is a demon dog😜 #Beagle #DogsOfBluesky #LoveHer

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, the pollen season is now a month longer than it was in 1970. 🤧

CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE. FCC LAW says that a company cannot own more that 39 percent of a television network. THE TEGNA/NEXTSTAR merger will give NEXSTAR 80% of the households in the USA. THIS IS MONOPOLY and it's ILLEGAL. www.thewrap.com/nexstar-tegn...

Good options: *BBC News / BBC World Service *Deutsche Welle (DW News) *France 24 *Al Jazeera *The Associated Press (although U.S.-based...it operates globally and is widely regarded as a fact/reporting wire service more than opinion.) *Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty *CBC News (Canada)

Caught these photos’s of a hummingbird moth in my petunias.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Our problem isn't a lack of resources. Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.

Welch: As someone who lives in a red state, let me just tell you what MAGA supermajorities get you. We're 50th in education. The worst in the whole country for women to live. We're poorer, worst health care. And if you look at the bottom ten states, they are all MAGA supermajorities.

A view from the outside. Definitely worth a listen.

Walz: "It boggles my damn mind that in the midst of a military takeover of our cities, the flaunting of the rule of law, that the press finds the need to talk about, 'Oh, there's a division in the Dem Party.' There's a division in my damn house & we're still married and things are good. That's life"

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

I do have a pro tip for anyone with small kids who still wants your kids to talk to you when they're older. Choose your battles. Not everything is a Teaching Moment. Be chill and don't freak out when they tell you things. Let them figure out answers themselves when possible. More 👇

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I miss the way your laugh would ripple through the air, shaking loose the dust in my heart. It didn’t matter if you were laughing with me or laughing at me; either way, it meant you were here. #vss365 #poetry #laugh

So awesome😀

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#Beagle adventures! This is Ruby, she loves a little taste.

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So sick of Ford selling off Ontario to his development pals. Can't help but wonder how much he personally will gain from this....

#ElbowsUpCanada 🇨🇦 Well done, Sir Rod Stewart! #DemsUnited 🔊🔊🔊

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Three miners trapped underground in B.C. are behind 30 metres of debris: company (Dease Lake)

Small elevators, an unsung hero of affordable, accessible city living. #apartments

Molly and Ruby, buddies, don’t these two girls look happy go lucky🐾❤️ #DogsOfBluesky #Dogs #Hounds #Rescue #Beagle #LivingYourBestLife

Heartwarming moment baby turtle is rescued from a ghost net….. Thank you for rescuing the little beautiful creature…. 🐢 🥹🥰