Getting on for 3,000 dead so far this summer due to extreme heat in the UK - and the season is only half over This is a figure that is going to climb year-on-year as the heat builds and the government refuses to take any serious mitigation measures www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

He never deleted it.

“Life always offers you a second chance. It is called tomorrow.” —Dylan Thomas Kaoru Yamada

Super interesting read. I think this will be Graham's legacy, the man who abandoned all his deeply held beliefs on democracy, rule of law, and American values in order to stay close to power.

Republicans don’t give a damn about the national debt. Even in times when they say the economy is percolating, they pile on deficit spending to help their favorite donors get even richer. Republicans pretend to worry about the budget as an excuse for screwing over the poor.

When someone tells you it has always been this bad, the correct response is to point out that the Voting Rights Act passed with 98 votes in the Senate in 2006 and its main sponsor was a Republican who worked with the ACLU to build a comprehensive record in defense of its most “controversial” parts

This "tweet" from a year ago has been deleted by its author. I'm posting here now on BlueSky as a reminder and as a public service, for anyone, should they ever need it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Trump is incapable of understanding this.

Robert's Right ✅️.......

We‘re one executive order away from a chocolate fountain.

de Adder tells the truth. @deadder.bsky.social

Really, how is the Trump regime different than the mafia? (New York accent): "Nice bridge you built there... it would be a shame if no one ever got to use it."

Musk is a parasite, not a builder.

Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter was a huge boon for right-wing political parties. It might also be their biggest liability right now -- one that encourages in-fighting, ideological extremism, and other politically toxic behaviours. #cdnopoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/10/o...

California might not, but I’d bet heavily that a majority of winery owners voted for Trump. We don’t need your wine, Senator.

Jean Chrétien on the death of Eddie Goldenberg

This is who Trump's immigration crackdown is actually targeting. Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. No criminal record. A work permit application in progress. 35 years of building homes and raising a family. Shot and killed by ICE in his van. Remember his name.

‘New terrifying levels’: 10 people fatally shot by immigration officials in Trump’s second term #TheGuardian

I’ll keep sharing this as much as it takes! :) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Sounds like nothing but a cash grab. Doug Ford should ban traffic enforcement too. #Onpoli

DARK, CRUEL, NARCISSISTIC: “Trump denied disaster aid to 4 Democratic-led states (NJ/NY/MA/RI) in a move raising new Q’s if he’s injecting political motivations into decisions (spoiler: he is!)… 2 days earlier he approved aid for 6 Republican-led states.” www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

The Republican Party is going to get worse before it gets even worse

First moments after today's russian attack on Kharkiv that killed 2 and injured over 40 people. This is terrorism, with dozens of civilian victims every day. Russia must be stopped!

Trump: "We had 11 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan"

@acoyne.bsky.social on the recent pipeline announcements: "So the good news – we’re building pipelines now – is also the bad news. The No More Pipelines Act was one thing, but the Any And All Pipelines (No Matter How Uneconomic) Act is not necessarily an improvement."

I don't know if all of this is true, but I blame McConnell more than anyone else for Trump's second term.

Learn it. Live it.

This headline that the resignation "triggers" a byelection intrigued me. TIL that in the UK, a by-election is expected to happen fairly quickly through parliamentary convention. It's different in Canada, where the PM can take up to six months before calling a byelection.

I wrote a draft document for the Justin Trudeau PMO that became the basis for reform to the Senate appointments process, the most significant reform to Parliament in Canada's history. And it (largely) worked. The Senate became less partisan and more useful, without becoming obstructionist. 1/n

Donald Trump is once again openly bragging about his own corruption.

With Trump now calling everyone who doesn't support him "a communist", everything should listen to this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9Q...

No surprise here. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Also, "one nation under God" was coined in the post-WWII era and only added to the pledge in 1954. It's younger than Donald Trump. Somebody wrote a book about this.

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This residential building is just like mine. It could be mine. Just not this time. Russia is a terrorist state.

Russia killed 11 people and wounded 46 in Kyiv in its overnight attack on 6 July, city authorities reported. Missiles and drones hit homes in four districts, Podilskyi worst of all. Three children are among the 27 hospitalized. 📷 PPO Radar, Ukrinform

Yet another example... I am okay with the murder of all your political opponents and your war with the explicit goal of a genocide of an entire people group, but I draw the f'n line at HAVING TO WAIT IN LINE TO GET GAS!!!

“.. It’s time to celebrate everything we stand for: WINNING!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. “Join my very special Trump community. GET YOUR #$TRUMP NOW!” “.. But that turned out to be bad advice.” @ericlipton.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/u...

Everything you need to know about the American owned media in Canada. The senior editor of the National Post whining that we aren't American.

On this note, here's a relevant/substantive thread (by @emmettmacfarlane.com) about vax mandates and the Justin Trudeau Liberal government.

As I predicted. bsky.app/profile/atru...

How Trumpism is like Stalinism. A thread. 🧵🧵🧵 Many people make valid comparisons of Trumpism to Nazism. But I think MAGA authoritarianism bears more similarities to Joseph Stalin's Soviet Union – ruthless, paranoid, dishonest and determined to climb into every aspect of the lives of his people.

My latest: Mark Carney knows the biggest impediment to a new west coast pipeline is basic economics, and he's not going to let his government or country take the inevitable blame. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/03/o...

Just utter insanity...

Yes, folks. The United States is awesome because you can eat fast food in your car while talking on the phone. In no other country in the world can you do this! Seriously, what a weird thing to seize on.

It‘s just insane to me that a sitting president has made MORE THAN A BILLION DOLLARS peddling fucking fairy dust with no intrinsic value beyond his stature and power AS president, and it’s not treated as the biggest corruption scandal in American history.