scriber09.bsky.social 🇨🇦

Opinionated introvert, 🏳️‍🌈ally, decidedly atheist. Life is about learning. Views are my own, and RTs aren't necessarily views. She/her.

[scriber09.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @scriber09]

There is no sound better than that of a snoring dog.

[🇨🇦Wayne🇨🇦 @Reil76]

Pierre Poilievre’s whole brand is “Canada is broken” and “stop the spending.”

Meanwhile his shadow cabinet sits at 73 members, more than half his own caucus holding a title. Worth noting, each one comes with staff, office budgets, and resources funded by taxpayers, the same machinery he says is too bloated under the Liberals.

If excess government is the problem, maybe start with your own 73 person org chart before lecturing Ottawa about waste.

[ABC News @ABC]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has rejected President Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. by executive order, reaffirming more than a century of legal precedent and national tradition that babies born on American soil are automatically American citizens.
https://t.co/hZX3ZV294P

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

Millions have just stepped into the red bar.
Within weeks they’ll be in the yellow.
Finally.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The war in Lebanon has reached a point where it can no longer be described as anything other than genocide.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

USAID was not a perfect program and reform of international development is a legitimate policy discussion. That is a separate question from whether abruptly withdrawing medication and food a child depends on to survive causes that child's death.

Dobson-Hughes's answer is the correct one: if a child needs a specific medication or specific food to stay alive and you remove it without any way for them to obtain it elsewhere, you caused their death. That is not a complicated moral or epidemiological argument. It is the definition of proximate cause.

The documented figure: over 500,000 children are estimated to have already died due to USAID cuts. Hundreds of thousands more lost parents. USAID saved an estimated 92 million lives over two decades including 30.4 million children under five. The positive trend in child mortality - halved since 1990, the first improvement in the numbers in thirty years - reversed in 2025. Around 200,000 more children are believed to have died in 2025 than in 2024. Every one of them had a name. Every one of them had someone who loved them.

[The Hoarse Whisperer @TheRealHoarse]

Wanted to get the vibe of going to Trump’s state fair but didn’t want to drive all the way to DC, so I just went and stood in an empty field.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

No, Donald, this was not a case "against the United States of America and all it stands for." It was a case against you. And a jury of your peers found you liable for rape and defamation. You lost. Again.

[New Scientist @newscientist]

The loss of Antarctica’s doomsday glacier would transform our planet. Now scientists are revealing the secrets of this remotest of places, and asking the question: is its demise inevitable? https://t.co/eZAqMXHEBZ

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Another UK heatwave could be on the way https://t.co/bbjpftaiO4

[scriber09.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @scriber09]

@svdate He’s such a pathetic, empty, raging shell.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

THERE WILL BE NO PRICE GAUGING!!

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Shoddy displays and tiny crowds. But lots of Trump worship. Sad. My report from Trump’s Great American State Fair down on the National Mall.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Paraguay stunned four-time world champions Germany 4-3 on penalties to advance to the World Cup round of 16 in one of the biggest upsets in the competition's history, after the teams were tied 1-1 over 120 minutes https://t.co/8EaMGFX8ig

[Brad604 @Brad604]

On this day 5 years ago. I will never forget the EC Weather App at 440pm on June 29th, 2021.

For 84 years, the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada had been 45°C (113°F). On June 27th, 2021 Lytton surpassed that number. A true shock to what we were seeing in the June 2021 Heat Dome. It was a record that had stood for 84 years going back to 1937. Two days later by the end of the day on June 29th, 2021, that previous 84 year old record was now sitting in 16th place...

@ThierryGooseBC kept an incredible list of stats on this extreme anomaly.

Lytton topped out at 49.6°C (121°F) on this day. The hottest temperature ever recorded this far north in the Northern Hemisphere, and hotter than any temperature ever recorded before in all of Europe and South America.

An unfathomable weather event. That truly shocked the world at just how extreme this was.

In BC/WA/OR/ID/AB combined over 1,000 people died. In BC alone over 650,000 farm animals died. In the Salish Sea alone you were counting the loss of intertidal species by the hundreds of millions. The stats still seem unbelievable seeing and talking about them 5 years later.

Comparing this to right now in 2026. Our daytime high temperature today was colder than our morning low temperatures during the June 2021 Heat Dome...
#bcstorm #shareyourweather

@KMacTWN @MurphTWN @50ShadesofVan @miawgordon @BadWeatherKyle @MatthewCappucci @weathernetwork @SeattleWXGuy @RandySmall

[ABC News @ABC]

A hotel with more than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the United States collapsed during the deadly earthquakes in Venezuela last week, families of several of those impacted told ABC News.

Read more: https://t.co/wR50y2ALc9

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

They are panicking.

And they should be.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

I’ve fought Putin for 17 years – he’d rather watch Russia burn than admit he can’t win this war
https://t.co/mjxJoD9XhR

[Audric Moses 🇨🇦 @audricmoses]

WOW, absolute 🔥 from @canmnt's coach, US citizen Jesse Marsch.

Americans who think like this: we still love you guys ♥️!

#uspoli

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kamlager-Dove on Rubio Iran Briefing: I have to say, the highlight—or lowlight—for me was when Secretary Rubio was asked about the difference between this MOU and the JCPOA. And Marco Rubio essentially said the JCPOA, Obama’s nuclear deal, was a real agreement with criteria, benchmarks, and thresholds.

And this MOU is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking. So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, what are these people doing with our money and our national security?

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Last year in @nytopinion, @NickKristof recounted some of the human stories behind these shocking numbers. https://t.co/78ooCTsMUn