John Burman

Longtime journalist, news junkie and student of the human condition. Views are my own, retweets not necessarily endorsements.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Maybe you shouldn't have cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr as HHS Secretary

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

Sir John A. Macdonald served as Prime Minister of Canada from 1867 to 1873 and 1878 to his death in 1891.
Only William Lyon Mackenzie King served longer as Prime Minister.
A Father of Confederation, his impact on Canada was immense.
This is his condensed story.

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[Peter Ratcliffe, forever Canadian 🇨🇦 @PeterHRatcliffe]

Vance’s Canadian understudy Pierre Poilievre is working on becoming one.

[David Eby @Dave_Eby]

Another MLA elected under the BC Conservative banner has been arrested and charged with a violent crime.

This isn’t normal.

Kerry Lynne-Findlay should stop hiding in Alberta and immediately call on her friend Jordan Kealy to resign.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

HODGES: For Russia, it's absolutely humiliating, for their military and government, that Ukrainian drones flying almost uninterrupted through Russian airspace to hit targets deep inside Russia.

The ones that hit St. Petersburg traveled about 5 hours through Russian airspace. How embarrassing that Russians couldn't identify it, track it, or knock it down somewhere along the way.

I think Russians will continue doing the only thing they can do, which is to hit civilian targets. They're not gaining anything on the ground. The great Black Sea Fleet is no longer a factor, and they can't seem to stop Ukrainian attacks of different types.

The one thing that Ukrainians have not been able to completely stop, for now, is Russian missile attacks against Ukrainian civilian targets.

And what utter nonsense when Kremlin talks about how they have to retaliate somehow, or that somehow Ukraine is the aggressor.

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

LIE. I was there. They were walking through the building, destroying property, spreading feces on the walls, stealing things, rioting and threatening to kill the Vice President. But other than that . . .

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

New in PN: Trump's cognitive impairment endangers us all

"No one in the administration has offered a remotely plausible explanation for Trump’s various physical ailments, and any questions about his clear cognitive challenges — the reading flubs, obvious confusion, strange slurring, forgetting what he was talking about, flitting from one subject to another for seemingly no reason — are met by the White House with disdain, denial, mockery, and lies." https://t.co/COXsN10Bsk

[J.D.M. Stewart @jdmstewart1]

I always showed this cartoon to my students when teaching Canadian history at BSS. 82nd anniversary of D-day today.

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On D-Day, 14,000 Canadians landed at Juno Beach, supported by the Royal Canadian Navy and the RCAF. The day saw 1,074 Canadian casualties, including 359 killed. It was a watershed moment in human history.
Here are some of the Canadian stories from that day.

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[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

It would be so unprofessional of everyone to start replying to Trumps and White House’s tweets with this picture. So don’t

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty — the people whose ancestors that was the first thing they saw coming to this country, but the government moved too fast — nothing can be done?” the judge asked.

“I think that’s right, yes,” Roth responded.

[Vicki Campbell🇨🇦 @merry123459]

True. They get to leave with the shirts on their backs and their prize possessions. Thats it. You don’t get to take land or oil that doesn’t rightfully belong to you. Danielle Smith has zero authority over Indigenous land and rights. That’s the part she forgot to tell you about.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

This is an image from @I_W_M of British Commandos on a landing craft approaching Sword Beach on D-Day, 6th June 1944. 82 years ago today.
War is a horrific thing; these men left their loved ones to enter its hellish cauldron. Some never returned. We remember their immense bravery and sacrifices to defeat fascism so that they should never be necessary again.

[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

[Ab Gamble 🇨🇦, grateful Canadian.. @AbGamble1]

Probably a few more doors to go.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Last night, the House chose to stand with Ukraine, and I was proud to cast my vote.

We passed military and reconstruction aid for Ukraine, plus hard new sanctions on Russia.

We did it over the objections of Mike Johnson and Republican leadership, who spent over a year trying to keep this bill from ever hitting the floor.

Eighteen Republicans crossed the aisle and did the right thing.

Why does this matter?

Because when a giant authoritarian state invades a smaller democracy, there is no gray area. There is no “both sides.”

Vladimir Putin is a thug. He started an unprovoked war. He flattened cities. He stole children from their families. Helping Ukraine isn’t charity. It’s the test of whether we still mean a single word we say about freedom.

I heard every excuse. The war’s winding down, they said, so let’s wait and see. Nonsense. You don’t strengthen a democracy by going wobbly the second things get hard. You don’t stop the next invasion by telling the world American resolve comes with an expiration date. Putin is watching. So is every dictator who dreams of taking what isn’t his by force.

This bill still has to clear the Senate and survive a presidential signature. The odds are long. But the House did its job. And we said it plainly: no country gets swallowed whole just because a tyrant wants it.

I’ll keep fighting to see this through. Ukraine’s fight is our fight, and we do not abandon our friends.
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[Gil McGowan @gilmcgowan]

39 percent of Albertans say they would leave the province if it became an independent country. Another 19 percent say they would think seriously about it. The recklessness of our Premier for facilitating this referendum is truly breathtaking. #FightBackNow https://t.co/wkXPbLnlDN

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

This is a real photo of Donald Trump being helped off the stage today after his event in Wisconsin. This man is not healthy. 25th Amendment NOW

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why does he keep waking up?

Go to the light old man. Go to the light.