Ben_Zut

Resist. #GoodTrouble

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

On Wednesday afternoon, Premier Danielle Smith stood at a press conference and was asked about the Assembly of Treaty Chiefs — Treaty 6, 7, and 8, unanimous, united — calling for an RCMP and Auditor General investigation into her and the UCP for potential treason under Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Canada. Her answer: the chiefs need to “check themselves.” That this kind of language is “disgraceful” and has “no place in a democracy.”

Okay, Premier. Let’s talk about disgraceful…

Read/share what I have to say here: https://t.co/joiIge2ToY

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Eureka!! Hope you all are enjoying the World Cup

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

The end of Hockey Night in Canada is more than just the end of a television show.
Hockey Night in Canada was something uniquely Canadian.
Now it is gone.
A piece of our cultural tapestry now in the dustbin of history.

[Univrsle @univrsle]

One of the most hateful and exploitative tactics the CPC use......is when they want to raise funds & data scrape based on a group's fear about a bill (fear they ONLY have because the CPC completely lied about it)

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

There’s a three-year-old boy I can’t stop thinking about.

His name is Preston Fox. I met him in Neskantaga, where his grandfather hands out bottled water flown in from Thunder Bay twice a week — because the tap water there has been unsafe to drink for 31 years. Preston has bleeding sores on his skin from showering in it. He’s already walked the family graveyard more times than any child should.

This week Ottawa tabled a new Clean Water Act for First Nations. There’s real money in it. There’s also weaker language on rights, weaker protections for the rivers that feed these communities, and chiefs who found out about the changes days before it landed on the House floor.

Meanwhile, a pipeline gets billions without a second thought. Roads to mining country get fast-tracked. Water for kids like Preston takes 31 years and two governments.

I wrote about Preston, about Grassy Narrows, about Fort Chipewyan — about what this country chooses to move fast for, and what it doesn’t.
Please read it. Please share it.

Hiy hiy. 🪶

https://t.co/zrhJZJNIZ9

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

@Dred_Tory 🫩🤯🤯

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

@Dred_Tory @mpalota54 I was rather underwhelmed by Carney’s statement.

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

@Dred_Tory @mpalota54 💥

[Dr. Émile P. Torres (they/them) @xriskology]

Wow, this is such a good article:

https://t.co/SdZzmsH2qG

[Brandi Morin @Songstress28]

WOW. Big news.

The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs just dropped a bomb on Danielle Smith.

Treaty 6, 7 & 8. United. Unanimously calling for an RCMP and Auditor General investigation into whether the Premier and her UCP government committed TREASON under Section 46 of the Criminal Code of Canada.

The Chiefs met on Treaty 7 territory in Calgary on June 16 and voted as one — pushing a separation referendum that puts Canada’s sovereignty at risk, trampling the Treaty relationship, ignoring privacy violations affecting millions, and opening the door to foreign interference. That’s the case they’re laying out.

And they’re going back to the source. When Treaty was signed, the Northwest Mounted Police — now the RCMP — made a promise: protect First Nations, protect these Territories. The Crown guaranteed peace and goodwill in exchange for sharing this land.

The Chiefs are saying: eff around and find out.

#TreatyRights #Treaty6 #Treaty7 #Treaty8 #AlbertaSeparation

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

Woot woot!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

CBS has been forced to pay a fine after Stephen Colbert played an unlicensed Peanuts song on air during his last episode.

The owner of the rights to Peanuts has donated the fee to José Andrés' charity, World Central Kitchen.

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

@sahilkapur @LindseyGrahamSC idiot

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Massie is not holding back!

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

"When we start to realize that there is a will ( in the USA) to destabilize the economy of Canada, everything makes sense." E.Nicolas, Le Devoir.
#cdnoli #polqc #onpoli

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[Ben_Zut @ZutBen]

@Martina Cross

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Carney on Canada-Ireland-European integration: Combined, the population is more than twice that of the US. We have a larger cultural export industry and a more diverse one, a similarly sized GDP. Together we are one of the largest economic, cultural, technological, financial blocs in the world.

[LovelyRobyn @JonesJones48712]

@AdamKinzinger @NotHoodlum

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨🇨🇦 BREAKING: World Cup protestors cover FIFA logo in Toronto with a powerful message

Repost if you think israel should be kicked out.

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

"You might have thought the world’s richest man had enough on his plate teeing up history’s biggest IPO. Yet Musk has been devoting many of his waking hours to stoking racial hatred in Britain on this site." My Swamp Notes with @robertshrimsley
https://t.co/KXJvHjuDFK