C Sweig

Lifelong learner; and student of the global village. Where education flourishes lives will change. #WearAMask

[C Sweig @CSweig]

@rickygervais I’m late to the party, watching Humanity on a rainy Sunday in Canada. Thanks for the laughs & perspective!

[Graham Churchill @GraChurch]

Billy Bishop airport exists next to one of the biggest bird migration paths in the world. The Toronto Waterfront—in particular Tommy Thompson Park and the Toronto Islands—are home to some 330 different species, including large birds like Canada geese, swans, cormorants, herons and ducks.

What happens when a Canada goose meets a jet engine?

What will happen if Doug Ford gets his way and puts jets on Toronto Island?

[tru'dat @trudat2020]

People think we exaggerated about #DougFord.
Ontario Science Centre. Ontario Place.
Royal Ontario Museum(ROM), Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), McMichael. Wasaga Beach. Conservation areas. Greenbelt. Toronto Islands. Northern protected lands. Billy Bishop.
#Ontario.
Wake the F*ck Up

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

To understand the scale of today’s Russian crime against humanity’s historical heritage: it is the equivalent of bombing St. Peter’s Basilica in a war of conquest against Italy, or Notre-Dame de Paris against France, Westminster Abbey against Britain, or Aachen Cathedral.

[tru'dat @trudat2020]

#DougFordIsCorrupt tried to hide it behind tall fences but #FIFA aerial shots reveal extent of destruction of #OntarioPlace.
No wonder he won't release cellphone records.
Now we're on hook for $200M in tax $ to pay for a garage.
#FordFailedOntario& what he couldn't fail,he sold.

[#PositiveForLabour @nowayjomo]

@afneil Makes a big difference to some lives

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

For the record, Premier Ford promised 30,000 new LTC beds and 28,000 upgraded beds by 2028. 6,700 have been built and 4,297 upgraded. That's a 47,000 bed deficit with 2028 coming up.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The world just paid $2 trillion for a rocket company that lost $4.9 billion last year. And the rockets are not why it lost the money. They are the only part making any.

SpaceX went public Friday, the largest IPO in history. Up 19%, a $2 trillion valuation, Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Then you open the filing.

Three businesses sit inside it. Starlink, the satellites, brought in $11.4 billion, 61% of all revenue, and $4.4 billion in profit. It is the only piece that earns a dollar. The rockets that land themselves run a small loss reinvesting in Starship. And the AI arm, Grok plus the app once called Twitter, folded in this February, lost $6.4 billion in a single year on $12.7 billion of spending.

Read that again. The satellites pay for everything. The AI loses more than the satellites make. And the AI is the part the market fell in love with.

It gets bolder. The prospectus claims a total market of $28.5 trillion, the largest any company has ever put in a filing. Larger than the GDP of the United States. That is the number underwriting a $2 trillion price tag built on a division bleeding $6 billion a year.

Now the structure. About 4% of the company trades. That sliver sets the price for all of it. Musk is locked up for 366 days and holds roughly 80% of the votes. The public bought a company they cannot steer, priced on the one segment losing the most.

This is the whole year in one ticker. The profit is satellites. The story is AI. The market bought the story.

The rockets were never the risk. The risk is a $2 trillion price resting on the one bet that has yet to make a cent.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Menstruation ad in South African newspaper The Star

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught.

A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses.

1. I have the right to do it.
2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump.
3. People don’t care.

That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now.

Please stand up and prove him wrong.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

They cancelled the watch party and screwed over all of the bars and businesses in the area just so he could get booed fall asleep in a luxury box.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

All watch parties have been cancelled around Madison Square Garden a slap in the face to Knicks fans who’ve waited 26 years for this. And all because a man whose name appears in the Epstein files 1 million times wants to go to the Knicks game. #crueltyisthepoint

[Corey Hogan 🇨🇦 @coreyhoganyyc]

The Calgary Chamber - and the entire business community - is raising the alarm about continuing the conversation on separation. Separatist-driven uncertainty leads to "job losses, declining productivity and reductions in regional economic growth."

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YES! The European Union strikes a CRUSHING blow against Jared Kushner's corrupt resort development by warning Albania that it could endanger their efforts to join the EU.

This scandal just shot through the stratosphere...

“Albania should refrain from actions that could undermine the fulfillment of the closing benchmarks and [we] expect the Albanian authorities to act without delay,” stated a spokesperson for the European Commission.

Kushner's multi-billion dollar project has caused nationwide protests in Albania, with massive crowds taking to the streets to demand that their government block the development. As it turns out, the President's crooked son-in-law is reviled all around the world.

The plutocratic project — which includes a $1.4 billion development on an island and a $4.7 billion deal for a stretch of protected coastline — threatens crucial wildlife habitat for flamingos, turtles, and other animals. The protests have been affectionately nicknamed the "Flamingo Revolution." Because of the risk to wildlife, the EU is warning Albania that they may be in violation of the Union's environmental rules if they allow the project to proceed.

“In the EU accession process, as part of the closing benchmarks for negotiating Chapter 27 on environment and climate change, Albania is expected to align fully with EU legislation in this area, including the Birds and the Habitats Directives,” said the EU spokesperson. They called on Albania to rescind its changes to the Law on Protected Areas and "terminate" a law regarding strategic investments.

Most exciting of all, the spokesperson informed POLITICO that Albania's Minister of Environment Sofjan Jaupaj has informed the European Commission that the construction project has been suspended. A full environmental impact assessment will now be conducted.

“We have already expressed our concerns to the minister of the environment about the potential shortcomings of this project,” the spokesperson added.

The wisest path forward here for Albania is self-evident. Kushner's development is deeply unpopular, designed to create another twisted playground for global oligarchs, sex predators, and war criminals. It does nothing for the Albanian people. And on the other hand, admission to the EU will create a brighter economic future for everyone in the country.

If they must choose between the two, Albania has no choice but to reject Kushner.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with the Albanian people!

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Trump lässt 900 Tiefseesensoren aus dem Atlantik und Pazifik herausziehen – ein 370-Millionen-Dollar-Netzwerk das seit 2016 läuft.
Es sollte 30 Jahre laufen. Es wird nach 10 Jahren gestoppt. Was diese Sensoren messen: Meerestemperaturen. Strömungen. Salzgehalt. CO₂-Aufnahme. El-Niño-Früherkennung. AMOC – den Atlantischen Umwälzstrom der Europas Wetter reguliert. Ozeanograph Ed Dever: „Es ist ein lähmender Informationsverlust."

Project 2025 hatte das Netzwerk explizit als Quelle von „Klimaalarmismus" bezeichnet und seine Abschaltung gefordert.
Der Kongress hatte die Finanzierung zweimal gerettet.
Die NSF zog es trotzdem durch. Die Folgen werden Jahrzehnte dauern. Daten die wir nie mehr bekommen werden. 1/2
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[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, the Russians again struck the special territory around the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. A “shahed” hit one of the buildings of the Centralized Spent Fuel Storage Facility. An extremely critical infrastructure facility – and an extremely vile Russian strike. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, the Ministry of Energy, and all our services are already working to ensure that each of our partners knows what has happened.

Russia deliberately struck this particular nuclear infrastructure facility. As of now, there are no readings exceeding normal background radiation levels. But there is certainly an increase in Russia’s brazenness, which long ago went off the charts. Ukrainian first responders extinguished the fire at this facility after the strike. And real new steps by the world are needed so that the Russians feel that this terrorist war of theirs is a blow to Russia itself.

Last night, there were also Russian strikes on other civilian facilities in 13 of our regions. In total, over the course of this past week, Russia launched 88 missiles, more than 3,250 attack drones, and around 1,800 guided aerial bombs against Ukraine. Pressure on Russia must be increased. Thank you to everyone who’s helping!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: "THE PRESIDENT IS ACTUALLY SUNDOWNING!" Star progressive commentator Kyle Kulinski delivers a knockout punch over "absolute madman" Trump's obvious cognitive decline.

Every single word of this is spot on...

"Here you have a top psychiatrist saying the only reason you would get three or four of these tests is because there's obviously a decline and you're tracking how f*cking fast the decline is happening. What the f*ck? Oh my god. I'm sorry, bro," said Kulinski, whose Youtube channel "Secular Talk" has 2.26 million subscribers and counting.

He was referring to the fact that Trump is constantly bragging about acing an incredibly simple cognitive test. It's a nonstandard thing for a perfectly healthy person to do and Trump keeps going back to take it again and again for some unexplained reason. The only rational explanation is that his doctors are worried that his mind is deteriorating. And judging by his increasingly incoherent, confused public remarks, they're right to worry.

"Our news environment and our information environment is so thoroughly f*cking broken that like this is I mean, I just I feel like this is not gonna go anywhere," he continued. "Nobody's gonna talk about this. Nobody's gonna do anything."

"It's just like the President is actually sundowning right in front of our eyes and like people are just sitting there watching it happen!" Kulinski said. "By the way, as I've told you a thousand times, there's gonna be the exposés that are gonna come out, the tell-alls that are gonna hit the shelves. After the Trump era is over, after Trump is dead and gone, after all the f*cking little disgusting sycophants around him are trying to save any relevance they have, the speed with which they will tell you everything they know is gonna be astonishing."

"And you're gonna hear that everybody knew that he had dementia, that he was sundowning, that he was dealing with Alzheimer's, that he had congestive heart failure, that he's dealing with strokes, that he's got all these physical and mental health issues, that he's not of sound mind and as he's not of sound mind, he's ordering f*cking airstrikes on schools and hospitals and bridges and steel plants, that as he's not of sound mind, he's ordering the opening of ICE concentration camps where we send immigrants to get tortured and raped," Kulinski said, really hitting his stride.

"Like this is what's gonna happen..." he continued. "We're gonna learn one day that like we literally let an absolute madman run roughshod over our Constitution and our country with no consequences whatsoever and we all just sat there cucked by him, right? We all just sat there and said, well, it is what it is. What can I do to stop it? It is gonna be a nightmare when we learn the depths of the depravity and how much he's able to get away with."

Mark his words well. When Trump is finally gone and his stench has been fumigated from the White House, everyone who enabled him will pretend that they were against him all along. His closest allies will rush to sell books detailing the most deranged and dangerous things thatthey saw behind closed doors.

When that happens, we can't allow them to mount their rehabilitation campaigns. Every politician and media figure who helped this President despoil, destroy, and loot our country must be ostracized from polite society for the remainder of their miserable, self-serving lives.

Please ❤️ and share if you won't forgive MAGA enablers!