Teresa Marrello

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[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

A 24-year-old Polish tennis player arrived in Paris last week ranked 114th in the world, with no sponsors, no guaranteed income, and no certainty she could even pay for her hotel room.

She had to win three qualifying matches just to enter the French Open main draw. Prize money is only paid at the end of the tournament, so a Polish sports drink brand quietly stepped in and covered her hotel bill.

Her name is Maja Chwalinska. And today, she plays in the French Open final.

Before this tournament, she had won exactly one Grand Slam main draw match in her entire career. She had battled depression so severe that in 2021 she couldn't get out of bed. She underwent knee surgery in 2022. She spent years grinding through small tournaments across Europe just to stay afloat.

Then she arrived in Paris, won three qualifiers, and kept winning. Zheng Qinwen. Elise Mertens. Maria Sakkari. Diana Shnaider. Nine straight matches. One set dropped.

She is now the first qualifier in French Open history to reach the final. The last time a qualifier reached a Grand Slam final, it was Emma Raducanu at the 2021 US Open. Raducanu won.

By simply making the final, Chwalinska has earned more prize money than her entire career combined. The runner-up cheque alone is $1.6 million. If she wins today, she takes home $3.25 million.
One week ago she couldn't pay for her hotel room.

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

82 years ago today. Canada lands on Juno Beach. #DDay 🇨🇦

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

Entering month 6 of the Mamdani mayorship of NYC and Robberies are down 11%, Retail theft is down 19%, and Murder is down an astounding 21%.

And he did so without "Adding 5000 new cops" to the streets. Instead, he's invested in public safety with free childcare, accessible infrastructure, and better funded schools and libraries. He's proven once again that if we want safer communities, we must invest in People—not Punishments.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Canada bans Texas cattle over flesh-eating screwworm outbreak in US https://t.co/DXbVegyAoV

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Let's get one thing straight:

The only Premier of Ontario who faced very serious and significant security threats is Kathleen Wynne.

Nobody comes close to the security issues she faced, in part because of the bigotry and hate whipped up by the Toronto Sun and Doug Ford.

Doug Ford is not a Prime Minister. Prime Ministers are constant assassination targets who make decisions every day about where to allocate sensitive personnel into war zones and the like.

Doug Ford doesn't need his own air force one except for his own ego and inflated sense of importance.

There is no justification whatsoever for Doug Ford billing the taxpayer for private flights.

He should personally pay every dime back.
#onpoli

[Martha Hradowy @marthahradowy]

School cafeterias were never supposed to be profit centres. They were supposed to feed students. Ontario, we have a real problem. #onpoli #osstf

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Question for the 6% of Albertans who want us to become a US resource colony: why not just go there and make a refugee claim?

You’ll be hosted in a lovely ICE detention facility while the Trump Administration determines whether you really are being oppressed in Canada by the “globalist deep state,” or whatever.

[Tina Yazdani @TinaYazdani]

Premier Doug Ford says other North American leaders “think it’s a joke” that Ontario doesn’t have a dedicated government jet.

He made the comment Thursday while defending his use of chartered flights from Toronto to Ottawa, arguing that flying commercially can consume an entire workday.

“We’ve got to stop treating Ontario like a banana republic, because that’s what it’s being treated like,” he said. Full story icymi: https://t.co/AJI2vzyr0H

[604 Now | Vancouver @604Now]

Starting June 12, Canada's CRTC bans telecom companies from charging activation, switching, or cancellation fees for cellphone and most internet plans. Canadians can now switch to better deals or cancel without paying $30–$80, unless they have a subsidized device on contract.

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

While we get threatened with hosepipe bans whenever there’s a week of sunshine, it is estimated that Al data centres will consume water equal to the needs of 1.3 billion people by 2030.

[Vanessa Simone 🇨🇦 @Vanessa_Sarges]

So @TorontoPolice lied and said the cyclist fell and the cop accidentally fell on top of him.
Then footage leaked that showed the cop tackling the #cyclist and causing him serious injury.
#Police are the #1 threat to our communities and their #corruption ends ups touching us all.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

David Cochrane: You don't create 88k jobs if you're in a recession. So what does this do to the whole argument?

Peter Armstrong: It probably won't put it to bed, though it probably should.

[CP24 @CP24]

#BREAKING: Canada restricts U.S. livestock imports from areas affected by screwworm https://t.co/Bpp8nK7ZM7

[Idiotocracy @theidiotocracy]

Doug Ford talks about building Ontario.

Classrooms are infrastructure too.

You can repave a road next year. You can’t give a child back the education they lost.

A province that underinvests in schools is borrowing from its future.

#OnPoli #OntEd #Ontario

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Trump doesn’t want a trade deal with Canada. He wants a transaction.

Give us your critical minerals. Open your dairy market. Gut supply management. Then maybe we’ll talk.

Trump already called CUSMA “transitional” and suggested it may have served its purpose.  That’s not a negotiating partner, it’s someone who wants to tear up the contract and write a new one where he picks the terms.

Canada actually passed legislation in June 2025 blocking the government from increasing dairy quotas or reducing tariffs on dairy, poultry and eggs in future negotiations.  Good. Because the moment supply management goes, Canadian farmers are gone. Flooded out by U.S. industrial dairy that operates on a completely different economic model.

And the minerals angle? Trump sees Canada’s resources as a solution to U.S. dependence on China. His goal is to ensure Canada’s resources benefit the U.S., not China.  Not Canada. The U.S.

So here’s the trap Carney is walking into: agree to minerals concessions and you’ve handed Trump a win while Canadian sovereignty over its own resources slowly erodes. Refuse, and tariffs stay, and the Canadian economy keeps bleeding.

There is no good faith on the other side of this table. There never was.
A fair deal requires a partner who wants one.

[Umpire Auditor @UmpireAuditor]

Umpire Carlos Torres was the day's lowest rated umpire and missed 20 calls in the Braves Blue Jays game.

9 of those calls occurred in the 8th or 9th inning.

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Have you noticed how many stores are quietly refusing physical cash right now? They call it a ‘digital transition.’

It’s not.

The moment paper money is completely erased, the Predatory Class can turn off your ability to buy food with a single keystroke.

[KMB @scarletkate]

Contrast Ontario teachers' salary raises between 2012 and 2026 and those of MPPs and the Premier.
MPP Base Salary: Rose from $116,550 in 2012 to $163,959 by 2026, representing a 40.7% increase. Premier's Salary: Rose from $209,272 in 2012 to $293,978 by 2026, representing a 40.3% increase.