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Dogs are better than people.

[Bruce A. Heyman @BruceAHeyman]

To my fellow Americans: Please listen.

Despite the attacks, distractions, and false narratives, Canada 🇨🇦 remains one of America’s closest and most faithful friends.

Canadians have stood with us in our darkest hours—from helping Americans escape during the Iran hostage crisis, to responding to natural disasters, to opening their homes and airports to us after 9/11.

Canada is not only our neighbor. It is one of our most important trading partners, our ally, and our friend.

If Americans could choose any country in the world to share our longest border with, we would choose Canada every time.

That is the truth—and it is time we stood up for our friends.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Princeton taught Hegseth to talk slick, the bottle taught him belligerence, his ChristoFascist pastor gave him a bastardized religiosity. Fox News gave him a lack of consequence & humility. Iran will teach him he is incompetent. U.S.A. should teach him he is not above the law.

[Bruce Crossing @SenatorCrossing]

If you're wondering whether Marco Rubio will ever speak truth to power, remember - Trump gave him shoes way too big and he wore them anyway, rather than upset the orange man baby.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I've watched Pete Hegseth testify and anyone who does so with an open mind, will readily see that he is a toxic caricature. He has delusions that he is starring in a war movie.
He is arrogant and ignorant. His narrative never has any depth. He speaks as if what's good and what's right are not even complex subjects, or debates borne of perspective.
He loves American Exceptionalism but believes that it's only defined by musculature and pomposity. He couldn't care less for us being a shining example for others, or a force for a greater good. He couldn't care less for sharing strategy or being accountable.
He creates lasting disdain for America on a global level like few others ever have and make no mistake - this disdain will permeate for generations.
He doesn't present arguments. He doesn't share justifications. He doesn't care for transparency, and the only thing he cares less for than that, is humanity.
As a behaviorist, I can feel the things he's been accused of - like alcoholism and misogyny and reckless sharing of info - underlying his attitude and every utterance, and you can feel how unapologetic he is for any of it.
He is a brazen politician serving an audience of one.
He is a Made for TV concoction, and a vacuous mishmash of hormones and neurotransmitters.
That he's running the US Defense Dept. is incredibly disgraceful, dangerous and disturbing.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

This you?

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

It’s horrifying that while the GOP has control of all three branches, that 43% of people are looking around at the general clusterfuck state of the country and going:

“Yup I should vote for the GOP again… that’ll fix it”

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

https://t.co/BM4zyHBbbU

[Epstein File Search @epsteinsearchin]

An FBI file marked "DO NOT DISSEMINATE" says Epstein and Maxwell kept a black book of names.

NPR found the public Epstein archive is missing 50+ pages, including an internal "prominent names" slide deck.

The DOJ says nothing was withheld.

[DeFlock @therealDeFlock]

"a Flock vice president logged into the Dunwoody PD’s Flock system and looked at a camera in the children’s gymnastics room of a private community center here in Dunwoody.

He did not look at any other cameras in the entire 400-camera network that day."

https://t.co/CwhLqOMwvz

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Not only is the Trump administration issuing subpoenas to reporters for doing their jobs, now it's trying to get the phone records of their spouses and even one reporter's mother. @grynbaum https://t.co/tUyNfRjosR

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The worst of Trump’s election rigging is yet to come, and we need to prepare. Watch LP Senior Advisor Stuart Stevens on MSNOW:

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

5 days since we found Bear in an alley way.

I initially thought a broken spine. It’s something very very different.

He’s in the battle of his life today… (1/6) 🧵

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I think about this all the time. The weakest people need a strongman. But the strongmen are always weak and broken themselves. They break things because they are broken. They are cruel because they are weak. We are living through an age of weak and broken men.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Clearly not the answer they were looking for...

[Mr. Spock 🖖 (Commentary) @SpockResists]

This is who men are looking up to for masculinity.
In his booty tight, sexy ankle jeans and his “you go girl” pose. 💅

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Two more Americans have given their lives in the service of their country…The American people have a right to know why they died, and how many more of their sons and daughters President Trump is willing to risk in this war of choice.”

https://t.co/d8O7uLmbw4

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Abolish ICE.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump’s post-truth. He just needs people to believe the lie. After all, remember this statement from the aftermath of the 2020 election: ‘Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.’”

https://t.co/9k1u9dFnlK

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Souvenir of a republic in degeneracy and decline

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Climate change.

Canada’s boreal forest is far north.

Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.

Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.

This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.

Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.

Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.

The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.

Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.

Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.

Now we get them annually.

Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.

It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.

These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.

From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.

While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.