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[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

Teach! Preach! https://t.co/MMS9K7ca2I

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

@steadystate2025 Terrifying

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Every time I post about Alberta separation someone shows up with “well what about Quebec?”

Quebec has been threatening to leave for 50 years. Two referendums. Billions spent on national unity. Constitutional chaos. The Clarity Act exists specifically because of them.

And they’re still here.

Canada bent over backwards accommodating Quebec’s grievances for decades and the country paid an enormous price for it politically, economically, and constitutionally.

You want Alberta to follow that playbook? Fine. Spend the next half century extracting concessions, holding the country hostage, watching investment hesitate, watching your own province divide along urban/rural lines, and still end up inside Confederation anyway because secession is legally and economically ruinous?

Quebec at least had a distinct language and culture as the foundation of its national project. Alberta’s case is what exactly? You pay taxes and don’t like the guy who won the election?

“But Quebec gets special treatment.” Yes. Because Quebec played hardball for generations and Canada panicked. If that’s your model, congrats, you’re admitting Alberta’s strategy is to hold a gun to its own head and hope Ottawa flinches.

Works great until it doesn’t.

Quebec actually had the cultural, linguistic, and demographic weight to make the threat credible, and even they couldn’t close the deal.

Alberta doesn’t have that. It has oil revenue, a grievance narrative, and a provincial government that’s running out of wedge issues.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Finnish scientists trucked in real forest dirt and grass and laid it over the gravel at four daycare yards. They let the kids dig around in it for a month. The blood tests came back with changes the researchers hadn’t expected to see so fast or so clear.

The study ran at ten daycares in two Finnish cities with 75 kids aged three to five. Four of the yards got the forest treatment: about a tennis court worth of soil and grass laid over the gravel, plus planters and peat blocks the kids could dig and climb on. Three others stuck with their normal gravel yards. The last three were daycares where the kids were already visiting real forests every day.

After one month, the variety of bacteria living on the kids’ skin shot up, and the kind that helps train the skin’s immune defenses jumped the most. Their gut bacteria started to look like the gut bacteria of the forest-visiting kids. Their blood showed more of the immune cells whose job is to keep the body from freaking out at harmless stuff like pollen and peanuts, and overall inflammation dropped. The kids on the plain gravel yards showed none of this.

Childhood asthma in the US doubled between 1980 and 1995. Food allergies in kids jumped 50 percent between 1997 and 2011, then jumped another 50 percent between 2007 and 2021. And peanut allergies in one-year-olds tripled between 2001 and 2017.

The Finnish researchers think one of the reasons is simple: kids today don’t get dirty enough. 37 percent of American preschoolers now spend an hour or less outside on a normal weekday. Their immune systems are getting trained in environments stripped of the bacteria humans have always lived around.

Aki Sinkkonen, who led the study, put it in plain words: “It would be best if children could play in puddles and everyone could dig organic soil.” The Finnish government is now helping pay for daycares across the country to make the same changes.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Make no mistake about Donald Trump’s intention to stay in power as long as his own health makes that possible. My guess is the only way Trump leaves DC is when he shuffles off this mortal coil, and in that case MAGA will still try to retain the power he wielded - by making him into some sort of deity who is guiding MAGA from beyond the grave.

If you can’t picture a teary-eyed Erika Kirk standing center stage in his gold trimmed ballroom speaking of how Trump spoke to her in prayer and endorsing some future ‘America First’ candidate, you may have a failure of imagination. It’s all a carnival show.

The White House ballroom he is building is not just a bunker designed to protect him through the throes of his next attempted coup d’etat, it is a bulwark against democracy itself. He will fill it with Christofascist felons speaking in tongues in honor of his movement and will allow organizations like TPUSA and CPAC to promote the ‘America First’ movement under the auspices of the White House grounds. DJT will be selling proximity, and the officialdom of the ‘America First’ movement.

Press access will be doled out based on varying degrees of complicity; tragically, the corporate media has mostly expressed their fealty and their desire to play ball to be in the room (pun intended).

Can you not picture Fox News broadcasting from the side of the stage at official, highly partisan, MAGA events and piping this sort of faux patriotic pablum into the homes of red state America? Trump knows his audience - and his upcoming UFC fight at the White House on the Fourth of July is but a harbinger of things to come. He understands that he has reduced much of our body politic to base level, reality show entertainment.

The Hatch Act is all but dead in this administration: they will do all they can to further their grift and hold on power. White House events have already turned into informercials - Trump is merely scaling up this operation with his gigantic ballroom.

The odious emperor is entering his bread and circuses era.”https://t.co/dcDESHUIWd

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

As a former lifeguard who honestly wasn't familiar enough, I share this... https://t.co/s9C2MEUyS4

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

Appalling

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

What kind of government brings back cyanide bombs onto public land after years of documented deaths and outrage?

The devices are called M-44s. They’re baited with scented lures designed to attract coyotes and other animals. But they don’t know the difference between wildlife, pets, or children.

One tug releases sodium cyanide into the victim’s face. Moisture turns it into deadly hydrogen cyanide gas. The result is often convulsions, paralysis, and a horrifying death.

These are the same devices that killed a 14-year-old Idaho boy’s dog in front of him in 2017 and sent him to the hospital.

The Biden administration banned them from Bureau of Land Management lands in 2023. But in 2026, Trump’s agencies quietly reversed course, reopening roughly 245 million acres of public land to their use. Then House Republicans pushed language to fully restore the program through the USDA.

Wildlife Services’ own records show thousands of animals killed with M-44s in a single year, including accidental deaths of protected species and non-target animals. Family dogs, wolves, grizzlies, even condors have been caught in these traps.

This isn’t conservation. It’s poison hidden across public lands for the benefit of livestock interests.

Americans should not have to worry about cyanide devices near hiking trails, campsites, or places where children and pets roam.

They brought them back quietly because they knew the public would be horrified.

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

It's not been hard to see it happening...

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

The terrifying part isn’t that elections could disappear. It’s that they could continue…
...while the system quietly becomes harder and harder to challenge.
That’s the scenario I break down in today’s article.
https://t.co/LIUmDCCI3Y

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

Clear!

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Let’s clear something up about MAID in Canada.

It does not apply to children. You must be 18 or older. Mature minors do not qualify. Full stop.

It does not apply to people simply because they are poor or struggling. To be eligible, you must have a serious and incurable illness, disease or disability, be in an advanced state of irreversible decline, and be experiencing intolerable suffering that cannot be relieved in any way you find acceptable. Financial hardship alone is not a criterion.

It is not a rubber stamp. Approval requires assessments by two independent practitioners who review your medical records and confirm you have seriously considered available treatment options. When death is not reasonably foreseeable, a minimum 90-day assessment period is required.

People whose only medical condition is a mental illness are not currently eligible either, that eligibility has been postponed to March 2027 while further safeguards are studied.

You can have moral or religious objections to assisted dying. That is a legitimate position held by a lot of Canadians. But spreading misinformation about what the law actually says is not an argument. It is just fearmongering. Know wtf you are talking about before you talk about it.

[TheSteadyState @steadystate2025]

Earlier this week he said “virtually treason.” Now he says “actually treason.” He is President, and has directed prosecutions. Not an opinion, a threat.

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

@KyraNGillis Happy beautiful Birthday, beautiful lady!

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

@MerrMulber47323 @Mr_Husky1 2014

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

For me is the best description of the Pimp I’ve ever read.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Sue Stadnisky @SueStad]

Incredibly disappointing, sadly not surprising

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @ChrisCoonsforDE: Is Trump eligible to run for a 3rd term under our Constitution?

Trump Judge nominee: Um... I would have to... to review the- the actual wording--

Coons: The language of the 22nd Amendment makes it clear that no, he is not eligible to run for a 3rd term. Anybody else brave enough to say that the Constitution of the United States prevents President Trump from seeking a 3rd term?

Trump Judge Nominees: …

Coons: Nobody? Alright.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

So this is Jamil Jivani’s second trip to Washington. It’s still unofficial and we’re just supposed to be okay with that?

Who does he think he is?

You don’t get to appoint yourself Canada’s backchannel diplomat, fly to Washington, and start meeting with people tied to Donald Trump and JD Vance like you’re representing the country.

You’re not.

That’s not your role, and it’s not what you were elected to do.

And again same question, still no answer:

Who is paying for these trips?

Because if taxpayers are footing the bill, that’s a problem.
If donors or lobbyists are, that’s an even bigger problem.

Either way, Canadians didn’t sign up for this.

We don’t want Trump politics. We don’t want JD Vance politics. And we don’t want politicians freelancing foreign policy like it’s some personal networking tour.

Temu Charlie. https://t.co/nEjooNBQrj

Stay in your lane.

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

Canada : you wonder why Trump is acting the way it does? Constantly making the decision that benefits Russia, even to the detriment of the USA and -always- to the detriment of its allies like Canada?
This Guardian exclusive explains it all :
"Vladimir Putin personally authorised a secret spy agency operation to support a “mentally unstable” Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election... according to what are assessed to be leaked Kremlin documents."
"There is also apparent confirmation that the Kremlin possesses kompromat, or potentially compromising material, on the future president, collected – the document says – from Trump’s earlier “non-official visits to Russian Federation territory”."
"There is a brief psychological assessment of Trump, who is described as an “impulsive, mentally unstable and unbalanced individual who suffers from an inferiority complex”."
TRUMP, TO THIS DAY, WHO SUES EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOTHER, HAS NEVER SUED THE GUARDIAN.
#Trump #Russia #cdnpoli #euronews

https://t.co/08iRPraJw9

[Jenni @hashjenni]

In case anyone isn’t aware, Trump is demanding Zambia to hand over its mineral rights by end of day tomorrow or the U.S. gov’t will cut off the country’s access to the AIDS medications that are literally keeping its citizens alive.

Just thought y’all should know.

[Leisha @LoneStarChica]

🚨 SAVE LUCY: A Soldier Saved Her in War. Now She Faces Death Over a MINOR Complaint at Home

Lucy is an 11-year-old dog who survived the Middle East and was brought home by U.S. Army veteran Brendan Jones after they bonded during deployment.

She has been with his family for 10 years and has never spent a day away from them… until now.

Lucy is currently sitting in the Shenandoah County Animal Shelter in Edinburg, Virginia, facing possible e*thanasia.

She is sitting there confused and alone after a lifetime with the family who loves her.

A year ago, Lucy had a single incident while recovering from surgery, medicated, and wearing a cone. A jogger’s arm reached inside the cone, and she reacted with one defensive nip, then immediately let go. Even that person did not want to press charges.

After that, the county labeled Lucy a dangerous dog.

On April 17th in Strasburg, Lucy slipped out of her collar for a few seconds on her own property and barked at someone walking by. She did not attack anyone and never left the yard.

That was enough for her to be taken.

Now she is sitting in a cage after a lifetime with her family.

Lucy is not dangerous. She is a senior dog who deserves to spend her final years with the family who loves her.

📞 PLEASE TAKE ACTION - COURT DATE IS MAY 8

Takes 10 seconds. Please call:

Shenandoah County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office

[phone]

Say: “Hi, I’m calling about the dangerous dog case involving Lucy, owned by U.S. Army veteran Brendan Jones in Shenandoah County.

I’m asking that Lucy be returned to her owner immediately.”

#SaveLucy #JusticeForLucy
@WHSVnews @wusa9 @fox5dc