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[Hazel Appleyard @HazelAppleyard]

Live reaction to Keir Starmer resigning 😆👏🏻

[Love Music @khnh80044]

When an 8-year-old girl and her nurse mom came across a motorcycle accident, her mom immediately stopped to help the injured riders.
A year later, the girl started a lemonade stand; this is the motorcyclists' way of saying thank you…❤️🥹

[Andy Lee @RealAndyLeeShow]

So glad that summer has finally arrived in Calgary!

[xjet @xjet]

Apparently, this 73 year old with Parkinson's poses an unacceptable risk to the health and safety of staff and elected members of the South Waikato District Council so must be trespassed! All I did was stand in the corner with a camera, recording a public meeting.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only by protesting REPEATEDLY and LOUDLY will there be any change!!

[Ontario Proud @ontarioisproud]

What in the world????

[J Stewart @triffic_stuff_]

🚨 JEREMY CLARKSON RIPS INTO KEIR STARMER AND “TRULY USELESS” LABOUR OVER FARMING CRISIS! 😡

Rural Britain Turns Its Back On Labour As Young Farmers Flock To Reform 😳

Jeremy Clarkson has unleashed a fierce attack on Keir Starmer and his government. The Clarkson’s Farm star declared, “I don’t think there’s a farmer alive who’s Labour anymore!” He slammed Starmer directly, saying “Starmer is damaging farming” and branded the whole government “truly useless”.

Clarkson revealed that his farmhand Kaleb told him all his young friends are now backing Reform UK.

This comes after Starmer’s inheritance tax raids and anti-farming policies left rural communities feeling completely betrayed. Farmers will not forgive Labour for this.

The countryside is shifting fast, and it looks like Reform is winning over the next generation. A major rural collapse for Labour now looks unstoppable.

[Melissa 🇨🇦 @MelissaLMRogers]

ANOTHER ARSON at a church in Canada 🇨🇦 37 yr old charged and of course held for BAIL after SEVERAL fires set at Church of Our Lady in Guelph Ontario

Churches across Canada and other places are intentionally being destroyed

An attack on Christianity ✝️

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

Canada is not a democracy. It's not even a free nation anymore.

How could it be when Parliament is sidelined for eight months, allowing the executive branch to reign unchecked?

Or when foreign interference is ignored and elections are gamed?

Or when courts rule that the government broke the law and nothing changes?

Or when the state controls your speech, your property, your energy, your news, your guns, your healthcare—and offers you assisted suicide when the wait times get too long?

Canada has become something else: a managed oligarchy with democratic trappings, where the individual exists to serve the state.

Look how far Canada has fallen. Because this could be America's future overnight.

[Off The Perch @Bronson006]

'Otherworldly' light seen in the sky on Friday https://t.co/n8dDNQolVl

[DEVO @DEVO]

Spuds - Who's ready to Devolve with us for weekend two of Coachella? Tune in to our Coachella set at 6:45pm PT – live only on YouTube!

[Culture F1 @culturef1_]

Bonjour everyone ☀️
#f1 #formula1

On this day, the 1979 US Grand Prix of Long Beach 🇺🇸

[Off The Perch @Bronson006]

@SamanthaTaghoy These idiots needed to be committed somewhere.....

[Wendy Oldershaw @WendtheWalker]

Quite frankly I think this lady deserves a blooming medal for all the rubbish she’s had to put up with by the looney left!

[Scalextric @Scalextric]

Another brilliant take on Suzuka, recreated in Scalextric form by SpeedLPW 👏

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

May 16, 1963. Gordon Cooper was orbiting Earth alone inside a capsule barely big enough to turn around in, moving at 17,500 miles per hour.
He had been up there for over a day.
Then the warnings started.
First a faulty sensor screaming that the ship was falling — it wasn't. He switched it off. Then something far worse: a short circuit knocked out the entire automated guidance system. The one that kept the capsule steady. The one that was supposed to bring him home.
Without it, reentry was nearly impossible.
Too shallow an angle and the capsule would bounce off the atmosphere back into space. Too steep and it would incinerate. The margin for error was razor thin — and every computer that was supposed to hit that margin was dead.
Down on the ground, NASA engineers watched the telemetry in silence. They could see everything going wrong. They could fix nothing.
Cooper didn't panic.
He uncapped a grease pencil and drew lines directly on the inside of his window to track the horizon. He looked up at the stars he had spent months memorizing and used their positions to orient the ship by eye. Then he set his wristwatch.
Because when you have no computers left, you become the computer.
At exactly the right moment — calculated in his head, confirmed by the stars outside — he fired the retrorockets. The capsule shook. The sky turned to fire. For several minutes, no one on Earth could reach him as plasma swallowed the ship whole.
Then the parachutes opened.
Faith 7 hit the water just four miles from the recovery ship — the single most accurate splashdown in the entire Mercury program.
The man with a wristwatch and a few pencil marks on a window had outperformed every automated system NASA had.
We talk a lot about technology saving us. And it often does.
But Cooper's story is a quiet reminder that behind every machine, there still has to be a human being who can look out the window, think clearly under pressure, and decide what to do next.
The final backup was never the software.
It was him.

[Dan McTeague @GasPriceWizard]

Friends -proud to announce I have assumed my new role as President for Canadians for Affordable Energy (CAE). Look to many blogs| Energy Affordability is Under Attack: Canadians for Affordable Energy Intends to Fight Back - Canadians for Affordable Energy https://t.co/Ws15RgaV7s

[CCMBC 2021 @2021Ccmbc]

🔊 China’s track record speaks volumes: Nortel gutted, Huawei banned, Hikvision cameras yanked over spying fears.

Yet PM Carney just opened the door to 49,000 Chinese EVs at slashed 6.1% tariffs.

Cheap rides today.🚘
Embedded risks tomorrow.
When will we stop trading sovereignty for short-term savings?

#CanadaFirst #ChineseEVs #NationalSecurity #cdnpoli @CanAffordableE @GasPriceWizard @WorkingCdns

[Off The Perch @Bronson006]

@sidTHEparrot Good boy Sid.. .