Linda Brine

artist. idealist. jazzophile.

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

Ron Taverner did not qualify for OPP Commissioner until Doug Ford's government lowered the required rank by 2 levels, thereby matching Taverner's rank.

"Of the 27 applicants, only 4, that I am aware of, did not meet the original threshold requirements," - Brad Blair #ONpoli

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

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[Congresswoman Delia C. Ramirez @repdeliaramirez]

There is no ceasefire in Gaza. US-supplied bombs are still being used to murder Palestinians.

Congress must assert its authority and put an end to the genocide. We must pass my Block The Bombs Act, which would stop the use of MK-series bombs, and end our complicity in these horrors.

Not one more bomb, not one more dollar, not one more excuse.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Both these women knew young girls were being trafficked.

Both these women knew young girls were being raped and physically abused.

Both these women knew these young girls were being threatened…

Both these women knew some of these young girls went missing.

Both these women are pure evil.

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

Todd Blanche acts like we haven’t been reading 3M files with redacted names of men making comments about girls, young girls, “young naughty girls” that they “enjoyed” at Epstein events.

At this point, Todd Blanche needs to be prosecuted.

[Lawrence O'Donnell @Lawrence]

Everything Trump does—every shot fired at an unarmed mother, every starving baby denied USAID nutrition, every racist tweet about the Obamas—was aided and abetted by every Trump voter.

Trump never disguised himself.

Trump has never surprised us & he never will.

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

The world failed, this should never have been allowed‼️

Russia has been banned from the Olympics, the FIFA World Cup and Eurovision since 2022 for its invasion of Ukraine, yet Israel, once again, is granted full impunity.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS is trafficking twin FIVE-YEAR-OLDS and refusing to release them because they “lack property and assets.”

Twin five year olds have been detained at the Dilley detention center for EIGHT MONTHS.

An immigration judge denied them bond because of “a lack of property” and “a lack of assets.”

And no, this wasn’t based on their family.

This decision was made separately, for each child, as an individual.

So, the U.S. government is now arguing that FIVE YEAR OLDS are too poor to be free.

Which tends to be the case for most 5 year olds.

And, as a result, DHS is continuing to hold these children, after already imprisoning them for eight months, in a for-profit concentration camp.

That is child trafficking.

So now, because the government has decided that kindergartners must meet a wealth requirement to not be trafficked, a GoFundMe has been started so these FIVE YEAR OLDS can acquire “assets” and buy their freedom from U.S. custody.

And this is all by design…

The Trump administration dismantled long-standing child detention protections, including moving to override the Flores Settlement, which limited how long children could be held and required their release to family whenever possible.

Those safeguards were replaced with policies that allow children to be detained for months and denied bond, all to make CoreCivic more money.

This is what happens when human rights are replaced with profit margins.

(GoFundMe link is in the comments.)

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wow, this speech from Mayor of New York Zohran Mamdani 👏💯

"They command us not to believe what we see"

"They compel us as George Orwell wrote nearly 80 years ago, to reject the evidence of our eyes and our ears"

"And they would succeed, were it not for the many among us who read the scripture, but who live the scripture"

"Those who refuse to abandon the stranger"

"I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her moments later were: I'm not mad at you"

"I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. Here was a man who held the hand of the afraid and the afflicted in their final moments"

"Here was a man who dedicated his life to healing those who he never met"

"ICE shot him 10 times because he did something they could never fathom doing, he extended his arm towards a stranger"

"Not to push her down, but help her up"

"Let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion"

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Last year, I asked FBI Director Kash Patel if he had met with any of the women abused by Epstein and his friends. He refused to answer.

As we see more of the files, the DOJ is now saying it won’t prosecute anyone further. This is a disgusting cover-up from both the FBI & DOJ.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Why??

[Abier @abierkhatib]

The day they get the punishment they deserve is the day this earth starts to heal.

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because @RepThomasMassie & I forced the release of the Epstein files.

What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable?

We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

This is an extraordinary statement.
The biggest pedophile ring has just been exposed with 1,200 claimed victims.
The useless US DOJ supports the perpetrators, which include POTUS.
No investigation, no charges!
The US is truly lawless.

[Haters_gonna_hate @princess_kim_k]

We have 3 SUPREME COURT JUDGES ASSOCIATED WITH EPSTEIN.

Let that sink in

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This should be a bigger story.

A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules.

They didn’t follow the law, didn’t follow the science, and betrayed the public to serve Trump’s agenda.

Disgraceful. https://t.co/s3xD3rfeIX

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

40 minors gave sworn testimonies that they’d been rap*d & trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein.

Kash Patel Under Oath: “There’s no credible information that Jeffrey Epstein trafficked minors”

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨 BREAKING:

🇬🇧 British surgeon who returned from Gaza EXPOSES a shocking truth about israeli army:

He says: “Palestinian bodies of children returned with hearts, lungs, and livers removed”

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

As Trumper Ford lost 67,000 jobs in Ontario in January while on a 102 day all-inclusive taxpayer vacation, Trumper awarded a U.S. company $140M contract, in a heated trade war with the U.S., for a new hospital Sylvia Jones will be bankrupt and privatize.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Abolish ICE