Drop any preconceptions of dinosaurs, which are likely reptile-centric and warped by Spielberg; the real dinosaurs are outside your window. Yes, birds are dinosaurs. - www.birdlife.org/news/2021/12...

Is Trump’s Justice Department giving up on corruption? theweek.com/politics/jus... Is the DOJ, #Trump's financial HIT SQUAD?

Trump Wants to Open Up 45 Million Acres of Roadless Wilderness to Logging truthout.org/articles/tru... #UP Trump wants to destroy America: Will YOU let him?

The bonkers wellness myths that fueled Trump’s autism announcement www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Free Speech: Is It? Jimmy Kimmel became a target and a rallying point when he was suspended indefinitely by ABC which in turn is owned by Disney. “He is allowed to say it, we have Free Speech in America.” Is he? linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/f... #FreeSpeech #Hate #LinoMatteo #BE

War on the poor while creating more poor…

What does Trump designating #antifa a terror organization let him do? theweek.com/politics/tru... #UP

Trump Administration Threatens Housing for Millions in “War on the Poor” truthout.org/articles/tru... #UP

Business Analysis: 7 Critical Tips to Remember Number 64th in our series. Think: 1. Listening 2. Learning 3. Feedback: Be respectful. 4. Numbers: Assist 5. Business Objectives: WARM Goals 6. Teamwork 7. Stories linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/7... #BusinessEnglish #Montreal #LinoMatteo

Survey Finds Half of Teachers Expect to Buy Food for Students This School Year truthout.org/articles/sur... #UP

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I’m saving this because these words need to repeated daily. Free speech isn’t just for the trump regime. Free speech is for everyone.

Hate Speech or Free Speech? Lately, speech has been in the news. Some are allowed to spew opinions – even hateful ones; others are threatened for poking fun at those opinions linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/21/h... #SundayThought #FreeSpeech #BusinessEnglish #LinoMatteo #Speech

Jimmy Kimmel’s Suspension Is Shocking, But the Worst Could Be Yet to Come truthout.org/articles/jim... #UP

Tollins: Thoughts and Ponderings Tollins: Explosive Tales for Children– Warning: there are a fair number of explosions in this story. Ensure that your gunpowder is securely locked away. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/20/t... #BookReview #BE #Tollins

apnews.com/article/farm... Nelson and Neil Young highlight 40th Farm Aid concert

After last week's assassination of conservative activist #CharlieKirk in Utah. Only about half in the GOP see the nation on the right course, down from 70% in June. The shift is even more glaring among Republican women and the party’s under-45 crowd apnews.com/article/poll...

Democrats might be ready for a shutdown. What do they want? theweek.com/politics/dem... What do you say? 1. Deal or shutdown 2. No shutdown 3. Huh?

Sausage and Peppers Making sausage can be a process, fun, but a fair amount of work. Savouring it, well that can be easy, fun, and a time saver. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/s... #Food #FoodieFriday #Montreal #BusinessEnglish #LinoMatteo #Pasta #Sausage

GI Resisters Have Long Refused Illegal Orders — Now They Must Refuse Trump truthout.org/articles/gi-... #UP

Less Is More. The best bosses and the best analysts have things in common. For instance, they both know that people matter; they both know that simplification is good; and they both know how to subtract work to simplify things. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/l... #BE #LessIsMore

Wealth Tax: What Is Money? Minting money goes back a long time. For money to work well and be accepted it should have certain characteristics: 1. Uniform 2. Durable 3. Portable 4. Recognizable 5. Stable linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/18/w... #BE #UP #BE #WealthTax #MintTax #Seigniorage

Is Trump doing a good job with the economy?

‘This may be the last time I have a hearing with you because I don’t think you are long for this job.’ Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) to FBI Director Kash Patel during a hearing with the Senate Judiciary Committee

Are they? No, they have!!

Is hate speech still protected speech? theweek.com/politics/hat... “We will absolutely target you, go after you” for using hate speech. Lawyers who talk of “criminalizing free speech” are the products of “failed” law schools, said Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Conservatives Are Using Charlie Kirk’s Death to Enact Sweeping Speech Crackdown truthout.org/articles/con... It seems to me that #MAGA think that Hate Speech is fine, ANTI Hate Speech, however, is terrible and needs to be silenced. SIGH ~ @linosversion.bsky.social

Are America's media overlords bowing to the #TrumpRegime?

Books Are a Gateway Books can be gateways to understanding, catalysts towards acceptance, as well as guides for enlightenment. This is true for those seeking reconciliation and truth via restorative justice. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/17/b... #RestorativeJustice #Books #Communitas

A world map of childhood obesity More children today are obese than underweight. Which countries are worst affected? www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

As Prisons Deal With Heat Waves, Climate Crisis Makes Abolition Even More Urgent truthout.org/articles/as-... #UP

A.I., Is it? It is artificial but is it intelligent? AI, or Artificial Intelligence, seems to be a great tool. It can do many things. But is it really intelligent? linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/16/a... #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BusinessEnglish #Montreal #LinoMatteo #FinancialLiteracy

Welcome to the new era of Covid vaccine tourism www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

More and more economists are treating attention as a resource, just like land, labour and capital. But if attention is a resource, it is not one covered by property rights? www.economist.com/finance-and-... #FinancialLiteracy

Groypers: the alt-right group pulled into the foreground theweek.com/politics/gro... #UP

Bolsonaro’s Conviction for Coup Plot Is a Blow to the Global Far Right truthout.org/articles/bol... #UP

A Sovereign Alberta Is a Treaty Violation - macleans.ca/politics/a-s...

Rising Tenant-Led Movement Aims to Bring Down Corporate Landlords truthout.org/articles/ris... #UP

Hate Begets Hate! Matthew wrote "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword". Yet, we continue to draw swords, or guns, or words. And yes, words matter a lot! Hate is Louder; Love is Stronger! linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/h... #SundayThought #LinoMatteo #Love

Less Is More. The best bosses and the best analysts have things in common. For instance, they both know that people matter; they both know that simplification is good; and they both know how to subtract work to simplify things. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/15/l... #BE #LessIsMore

Hate Begets Hate! Matthew wrote "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword". Yet, we continue to draw swords, or guns, or words. And yes, words matter a lot! Hate is Louder; Love is Stronger! linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/h... #SundayThought #LinoMatteo #Love

Targeting Venezuela, Trump Escalates US Campaign of Aggression in Latin America truthout.org/articles/tar... The White House claims without evidence that the socialist statesman and U.S. critic is a drug cartel leader. #UP

An Inside Job: Thoughts The gang – the non-Israeli members at least – is all back in Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon novel. In fact, it is the 25th in the continuing saga of Allon and his family and friends. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/13/a... #BookReview #Vatican #Art #DaVinci

FDA Guidelines on COVID-19 Vaccines Are Throwing Those Most at Risk Into Despair truthout.org/articles/fda... #up

Simple Meals: Done Dirt Cheap! Are you a fan of pasta? You know that I am, right. How about broccoli? Are you a fan of broccoli? You might not know that I am, and it is in season and local. linomatteo.wordpress.com/2025/09/12/s... #FoodieFriday #Caponata #LinoMatteo #broccoli #Montreal

This Back-to-School Season, Teachers and Parents Are Fighting Back Against ICE truthout.org/articles/thi... #UP

Are there any facts to support the theory that #CharlieKirk was assassinated as part of the #EpsteinClientList coverup? 1. Yes - please elaborate 2. Maybe.... 3. No 4. What?

Calls for both calm and consequences follow Kirk killing theweek.com/politics/cha...