A Canadian city council is considering renaming a street named after President Donald Trump – and among the contenders for a replacement are "Obama Avenue" and "Taco Avenue." https://t.co/SAQBHm4oCg
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable 5,000-year-old artificial island, known as a crannog, submerged in Loch Bhorgastail on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. The site significantly predates Stonehenge and challenges long-held assumptions about the origins of these structures.
While most Scottish crannogs were previously thought to date to the Iron Age, this Neolithic example began as a large circular timber platform, roughly 23 meters (75 feet) wide. Over centuries, successive generations expanded it by layering brushwood, timber, and stone, creating a communal structure passed down through time. A submerged stone causeway once linked the island to the shore.
Hundreds of Neolithic pottery fragments, many retaining traces of ancient food residues, were recovered around the site. This suggests the crannog served as a gathering place for feasting and possibly communal rituals or ceremonies during the Neolithic period.
The discovery was achieved through innovative shallow-water archaeology techniques, including diver-operated stereo cameras and aerial drones that produced detailed 3D models merging underwater and terrestrial data. This approach is now enabling researchers to investigate other previously overlooked sites in Scotland’s lochs.
[Blankshein, S., Garrow, D., & Sturt, F. (2026). Revealing the Neolithic origins of a crannog: High-resolution 3D recording at Loch Bhorgastail, Isle of Lewis. Advances in Archaeological Practice. University of Southampton]
A small Canadian town has officially granted trees the status of living beings with legal rights.
Terrasse-Vaudreuil, located roughly 40 miles (64 km) west of Montreal, unanimously passed a resolution on June 9 declaring that trees possess “the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration.” The town is among the first in Canada to endorse the Universal Declaration of the Rights of the Tree.
Mayor Michel Bourdeau credited the initiative in part to filmmaker André Desrocher, whose work helped shift local perspectives on trees from mere scenery to vital living entities. “A tree is like a human being,” Bourdeau told CBC. “It breathes, it lives, it takes in water. It protects us from all sorts of things.”
Facing repeated flooding in recent years, the municipality views trees as critical infrastructure. They cool urban areas, sequester carbon, purify air, support biodiversity, mitigate heat islands, and assist with stormwater management.
The resolution calls for a review of local bylaws to strengthen tree protection and ensure proper replacement when removals occur.
This step reflects the expanding global “rights of nature” movement, which seeks legal personhood for ecosystems, much like corporations already enjoy. A notable precedent in Quebec is the 2021 granting of legal personhood to the Magpie River by a regional government and the Innu Council of Ekuanitshit.
Advocates believe such recognition could reshape development decisions, enhance climate resilience, and transform urban planning. In Terrasse-Vaudreuil, the message is clear: trees are not simply property, they are living systems essential to human communities.
Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.
“It’s bigger than Watergate.”
“It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.”
“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”
“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”
“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”
“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”
“And some of them took that deal.”
“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”
“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”
“The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?”
@RepThomasMassie@MassieforKY@Local12
NEW: High school student who was called "hot" by a school board member shreds the school board for failing to protect her.
"You're all cowards," she said.
High schooler Hannah Campbell ripped the Washington County, Tennessee, board after board member Keith Ervin told her, "God, you’re hot, you know that?" last month.
Despite the incident, Ervin was not fired. He claimed that he called her "hot" because she was asking "smart questions."
"You know, I’m old school. I’m an old farm boy. And I didn’t mean nothing by anything. I just was proud of her," he previously said.
Mississauga, Ontario:
Sikh man armed with a hunting crossbow walks in Khalsa Day parade.
They keep testing us to see what they can get away with. This behaviour stops when we say enough is enough and start arresting and deporting them.
Is this Canada's own Learing Center?
Bluebird Child Care Centres: Edmonton.
Their About page literally says "Early LEARING and Care."
TWICE.
Also on the page: "famalies," "prorgamed," "deveelopment," "fmailies," "benifit."
Gallery? Two stock photos.
No facility.
No staff.
No children.
Business listing?
Photos from "Bluebird Care" a UK ELDERLY home care company.
Not a daycare.
Not Canadian.
Not them.
I called.
4 times.
Nobody picked up.
Sound familiar?
Cause I think I’m getting suspicious.