Rob 🧐

Enjoy every sandwich - Warren Zevon.

[kos_data @kos_data]

🇺🇸🇧🇦 US journalist Ana Kasparian:

"You have the US team battling it out between these two smaller countries" (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

[Hon. Lisa MacCormack Raitt P.C. @lraitt]

not clever - not funny - not helpful. Very cringe.

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

The journalism rule I live by
For four decades, across thirteen books and articles for the NY Times, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, and other legacy outlets, I never got to publish anything of consequence alleging wrongdoing without two independent, credible sources. On the most sensitive material, a lawyer also cleared it before it ran.

That discipline is not an editor's whim. It is the only thing that separates journalism from advocacy.

Nicholas Kristof's May 11 Times column, alleging Israel used dogs and carrots to rape Palestinian prisoners, was published without that discipline. It leaned on anonymous and Hamas-affiliated sourcing. It ran in Opinion, not News. The reaction was immediate and severe: Israel's foreign ministry branded it a blood libel, Prime Minister Netanyahu threatened legal action, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations formally condemned it. At the time, the Times stood behind it and moved on.

Now, more than a year later, we finally have the internal answer everyone in the business has been waiting for. Executive editor Joe Kahn, in a podcast interview with Peter Kafka, said plainly of the column: "It wasn't edited by the newsroom." Pressed on whether the news division would have run it, Kahn first offered "we probably wouldn't have," then corrected himself to something firmer: "No, we wouldn't have done that exact piece."

Read that again. The most senior news editor at the New York Times is telling the public that his own newsroom's standards would have kept the piece off the page. That is an admission that the sourcing and verification process opinion editor Kathleen Kingsbury described in May — "a rigorous vetting process," fact-checked, reviewed by standards and legal, with "no errors" found — did not meet the bar the news side actually applies to comparable claims.

Two senior Times editors, a year apart, describing the same piece in irreconcilable terms. One says it was properly vetted. The other says his newsroom wouldn't have touched it. Both cannot be right, and nobody at the paper has explained the gap.

That is the real story here. Not the politics of Israel and Gaza, which will be argued forever. The story is a fundamental journalism failure — a serious accusation published without the sourcing threshold that any accusation of that gravity requires — and now, finally, confirmed from inside the building.

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Wonder why there's a separatist referendum in Alberta? See this @globeandmail cartoon.

Alberta oil and gas funds Canada. Without it the whole country would be broke.

If you care about Canadian unity you'll denounce this 💩 like I am right now. Enough of this elitist garbage.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

En USA, una periodista afirma que etados unidos fue la primer seleccion de la historia en jugar contra dos paises al mismo tiempo
(Habla de bosnia y herzegovina)

[Rob 🧐 @rooschinvan]

Out of all the Chinese makers, it was the easiest for Geely to be first out of the gate. Geely has owned Volvo since 2010, and Polestar which already has an established dealership network in Canada.
I can also understand why they wanted to first sell another established high end brand to Canada like Lotus just to test the waters.
Don't get me wrong -I'm against the selling of native Chinese makers' cars, and Canada's naivety in allowing for this. We've opened up a pandoras box, that will never be closed. However, at the same time it will be hard to stop the tide. Geely for example also has plants in the US, where they make Volvos and Polestars, along with owning a big chunk of Mercedes Benz (10% - which is growing), they will eventually own Mercedes lock stock and barrel.

[Isaac @isaacrrr7]

El famoso futbolista egipcio Mohamed Salah fue insultado y amenazado por miles de musulmanes en internet por aparecer con sus hijas de 6 y 11 años sin hiyab.

Lo mismo sucede cada vez que publica una foto con ellas. Esto es el islam.

[Francesco 🇮🇹 @SaP011]

An Italian girl politely asks an African immigrant to stop bothering the customers.

The response? Hands around her throat.

It’s only going to get worse until we start mass remigration.

[SandraCobena @SandraCobena_]

‼️🚨The Liberals keep talking about inflation rates. But when was the last time you paid for "inflation" at the grocery store?

You don't. You pay prices.

After years of Liberal inflationary policies, Canadians aren't feeling relief, they're still paying more every time they shop. Just because inflation has slowed doesn't mean grocery prices have gone back down. They haven't.

So here's my question:

Would you feel any better if, after seeing your grocery bill, the cashier told you, "Don't worry, Canada is within the Bank of Canada's target inflation rate"?

I don’t think so.

With our Conservative team, we will continue fighting for what matters most to Canadian families: affordability. That means lowering taxes on how food is grown, packaged and transported, increasing competition in grocery stores to discipline profits and removing unnecessary regulatory burdens on small and medium-sized food processors and grocery outlets.

#cdnpoli

[Rob 🧐 @rooschinvan]

@marissenmark Right Mark, we should install more tampon dispensers in men's washrooms at CAF facilities.

[Blacklock's Reporter @mindingottawa]

Appointment coincides with anniversary of July 2021 #ethics committee vote in which Libs quashed hearings into $75,000 payments to @tompitfield company @DataSciences thru 149 Lib MPs’ constituency budgets. Investigation “not becoming,” said now-Govt House Leader @stevenmackinnon

[Royce Koop 🇨🇦 @RoyceKoop]

Conservatives have a leader who is relentlessly focused on the issues that matter most to everyday Canadians: the affordability crisis, crime, and out-of-control taxes and spending.

That’s why over eight million Canadians voted for Pierre in the last election, and why he won 87.4% of Conservative members’ support at our recent convention.

Let’s stay focused on what really matters: Canadians

🇨🇦

#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics

[Rob 🧐 @rooschinvan]

Oh FFS - Poilievre hurts Kory Teneycke's feeling so Teneycke got all his Laurentian Elite friends to start gaslighting Poilievre's leadership.....again and again. You fall for it, Mo. Not because you're looking at this objectively - it's because Poilievre couldn't anything right in you opinion.
The unserious ones are the Liberals and their sycophants.
It doesn't matter who the Conservative leader is, they'll get the same treatment.
At the very least Poilievre should stay because (IMO) to give the Liberals and their Laurentian Elite lemmings like you a big FUCK YOU! Simply because the current government is/has been for the past decade a disaster.
With Carney now - speeches and MOUs mean shit - Poilievre knows this and calls Carney out on his BS.

[Vivid.🇮🇱 @VividProwess]

This photo of Messi and Bibi is making all the terrorists mad.

It would be a shame if it went viral.

[Rob 🧐 @rooschinvan]

@rupasubramanya You're starting to become unhinged.

[Rob 🧐 @rooschinvan]

@RobertFife Evidently, Mr. GQ (Kory Teneycke) is calling in all his markers working in Toronto media in the last few days.
He even got @brianlilley singing from the same songbook.
This is also a convenient distraction from the shenanigans Carney is pulling.

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

The funny thing is that Egypt was a real Cinderella story that performed admirably despite the odds.

Then, as soon as they lost, they reverted to factory settings.

Such pathetic losers.

[Kosher Chutzpah @KosherChutzpah]

Most people don't know that Kuwait expelled 300,000 Palestinians in 1991 after Arafat backed Saddam's invasion of their country.

No UN emergency sessions. No protests. No global outrage.

Just silence.

It was never about the Palestinians.
It was always about hating Jews.

[WASEEM - وسيم @mourinhomena]

سبب خروج مصر بكل بساطة رغم انها مقدمة كانت مستوى تاريخي امام الارجنتين هو المدرب حسام حسن ، الطبيعي عند اي مدرب ماعنده حتى ابسط مبادىء التدريب لما تصير عليك ريمونتادا من 2-0 ل 2-2 والمباراة باقي عليها 5 دقايق لتنتهي انك تحاول تهدي فريقك وتهدي اللعب وتوصل للاشواط الاضافية وبعدها لكل حادث حديث ، لكن يلي سواه حسام حسن على المستوى المعنوي جن وجنن كل اللاعبين معاه ودخلهم بمرحلة توتر مو طبيعية وعلى المستوى التكتيكي خلاهم يهاجمو بجنون بدون اي ادراك تكتيكي وكأنهم مهزومين 5-0 وطبعا اول ما انقطعت منهم الكرة مرتدة قاتلة وهدف!
ادار المباراة بشكل كارثي جدا وفقد اعصابه وخلى فريقه كله يفقد اعصابه.

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

I said this to @PierrePoilievre

I don’t understand how the floor crossings, and this recent senate announcement in any way reflect on his leadership.

Clearly, something is being offered to these individuals. We don’t know what, but I spoke to @billymorinECN and offers were being made.

Legacy media every day is trying to say that it’s Pierre’s leadership, and of course, that could be a factor for some, but that’s not even the reason some of these floor crossers have given and completely ignored the fact that the NDP had a floor crosser.

Two things can be true at once.
1.) I’m not a Conservative.

2.) I don’t trust that our government is doing things to create a flourishing democracy where things are being driven by the will of citizens

If you can’t see that our democracy is being manipulated and managed, rather than participated in by our elected officials then I think you’re missing the bigger picture.