Anne Beaudry

Proud Canadian, lover of all things Italian and mildly obsessed with US politics and vehemently opposed to being part of a 51st state.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

No US president has as much to support crime & corruption as Trump.
How can the GOP tolerate this?
The GOP has become the party of crime and corruption...

[Anne Beaudry @BeaudryAnne]

@Mikeggibbs If only!!!

[Seth @fiercepatricks]

Friendly reminder that Pride isn't about turning your straight kids into gay kids. It's about not turning gay kids into dead kids.

[Anne Beaudry @BeaudryAnne]

@DMetabolicEdge cheat

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Let's get one thing straight:

The only Premier of Ontario who faced very serious and significant security threats is Kathleen Wynne.

Nobody comes close to the security issues she faced, in part because of the bigotry and hate whipped up by the Toronto Sun and Doug Ford.

Doug Ford is not a Prime Minister. Prime Ministers are constant assassination targets who make decisions every day about where to allocate sensitive personnel into war zones and the like.

Doug Ford doesn't need his own air force one except for his own ego and inflated sense of importance.

There is no justification whatsoever for Doug Ford billing the taxpayer for private flights.

He should personally pay every dime back.
#onpoli

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“The danger doesn’t arrive when tanks appear in the streets. It arrives when leaders lose the ability to say no. It arrives when loyalty replaces judgment. It arrives when public officials preserve powers they would never tolerate in the hands of their opponents.”

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[Petrichor ❤🇨🇦❤ 💙💛 @Chasingharmony1]

Both our provincial and federal governments are misunderstanding how deeply passionate Torontonians (and many Ontarians) are about preserving the natural beauty of our waterfront cityscape.
And to do it for the benefit of an AMERICAN BANK? Outrageous.
Expect huge seat changes.

[Mary-Lou Schagena @radiogirl985]

💯 .@MikeSchreiner: "Hwy 413 has nothing to do with alleviating gridlock in the GTA. It is all about unleashing low-density sprawl to build homes that ordinary people can't afford on 1,000s of acres of farmland, wetlands, Greebelt, forests & nature."
#ONpoli @fordnation🚗🌳🧑‍🌾🦋🦊

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

#TOpoli

Brad Bradford on TV saying how “Mayor Chow” didn’t handle FIFA properly when it was his mentor John Tory who made the deal is just pathetic.

[J.M. Hamilton @jmhamiltonblog]

We should be honest about how the American owned O&G industry in Alberta:

Has gutted its workforce;
Co-opted the Alberta gov;
Brainwashed the Separatists w/ O&G talking points;
Underpaid taxes & royalties;
Realized profits in the US;
And left Alberta with hundreds of billions in liabilities, remediation, & known costs...

While running off renewable energy.

Let's discuss.

@OilGasCanada
@APIenergy

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

Israel is not our ally. They're a foreign government that has stolen our nuclear secrets, nuclear triggers and uranium. And they built weapons of mass destruction with them. They also stole our most sensitive intelligence through Jonathan Pollard.

They have robbed us of $320 billion. They made us waste $8 trillion fighting their wars in the Middle East.

The way they pulled off these heists is by legally bribing almost our entire Congress and being the top donor to presidents from both parties.

Their co-conspirators are the national media who cover up all these crimes and pretend that Israel is an innocent victim who desperately needs our help. When they are the exact opposite. They are an aggressive empire that takes our money and military and uses it to attack their neighbors and take their land.

We have to stop this inflitration of our country by a foreign nation that has taken control of the power structure in Washington. We are occupied.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Nick Bilton walked into the 60 Minutes newsroom four days after Bari Weiss fired the people who built the show. He tried to pretend he didn't know about the firings. Scott Pelley, in front of the remaining staff, would not let that stand.

"She loves 60 Minutes," Bilton said. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," Pelley said back. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."

One of Weiss's lieutenants kept interrupting to say Pelley was being rude. Pelley kept going.

JVL's framing is the right one. The corrupter depends on the existing institution being too polite to say the obvious thing out loud. Christopher Wray resigned quietly to "preserve the integrity of the FBI." John Kelly gave print interviews after he left. Thom Tillis, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell, Jim Mattis, Bill Barr - all of them saw it. All of them objected privately. None of them said it in the room where it was happening, to the person doing it, while the cameras were still running.

Pelley said it in the room. To the person's face. In front of witnesses. While he still worked there.

That is a different thing entirely. Not a memoir. Not an anonymous source in a tell-all. Not a carefully worded statement issued after the resignation letter was already filed. The true thing, said out loud, to the people who needed to hear it, at the moment it could still matter.

Authoritarianism counts on politesse. It counts on people deciding the fight isn't worth the awkwardness, the career risk, the label of being difficult. Scott Pelley decided it was worth it. The republic needs more of that calculation to come out the same way.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

These are all programs that Trump has cut funding for and I’m curious where all this money went! Why aren’t we asking questions. Why isn’t Congress asking questions! 🤬

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Absolutely obscene.

And there is no security justification for it whatsoever bc he travels with OPP VIP detail.

Every other premier in Canada flies commercial *when it's available* depending on their location.

The Premier of Ontario has the easiest and most convenient access to commercial travel of all the premiers, that's why this is so obscene.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I see your profile picture. That’s Johnny Cash. My hero too. Arrested seven times. Smuggled 668 amphetamines across the Mexican border in 1965. Took every drug there was and drank like I did. Cheated on his first wife. Slept with more woman than I ever did. Hit bottom in a cave in Tennessee in 1968 trying to crawl off and die. And then he got up. He got clean. He spent the rest of his life singing for prisoners and addicts and the people the country threw away because he knew he was one of them.

That was the whole point of the Man in Black. He wore it for the poor and the beaten down. He wore it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime. He wore it for the ones who never heard a word of Jesus. He wore it for the addicted and the dying. He wore it as a standing witness that no one is past saving.

You picked his picture. You did not pick his message. Try listening to the words.

[Laura Stone @l_stone]

NEW: From NDP Leader Avi Lewis about Billy Bishop airport:
“The choice facing the Prime Minister is clear. Premier Ford is in the middle of a land grab and the federal government has both the power and the responsibility to stop this irresponsible and anti-democratic move.”

[Captain Dick @CaptainDick12]

There is another extremely relevant angle to this. When Ford signed a $5.5B with a U.S bank for the islands, $9B to Hitachi U.S OntLine, Lecce's $21B Hitachi U.S reactors and $140M U.S Hospital facade all those deals removed those amounts from OUR GDP. Ford is working against us.

[My Info @cottageboy51]

Can someone please explain to me how a sitting premier can avoid a court order requesting his phone records?