@tofugolem Unintended consequences of creating alternate realities in peoples' heads is the plot of Christopher Nolan's Inception.

@molly0xfff fa

lols. Rebel News jumping on the blaming trans folk for Kirk murder bandwagon with some made-up group Ezra calls "trans-fa". #cdnpoli
h/t CanadianCynic on BSky .

Could Rebel not have found a smaller demographic to demonize than trans people?
According to StatsCan in 2021, only "one third of one percent of the Canadian population identify as transgender or non-binary".
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/220427/g-b001-eng.htm

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From
https://theonion.com/trump-spends-entire-u-k-trip-trying-to-figure-out-where-he-knows-prince-andrew-from/

I'm listening to Canadians continue to give unprecedented attention to an unelected public figure who got assassinated and who most Canadians had never heard of before last week.
And I realize why this is such a big deal.
It's that the rightwing very rarely ever has to face any public consequences for their actions.
That's what's different here - even if people, including MPs in our HoC who honoured him with a standing O yesterday - don't want to admit it.

@AlexanderVI It's just CBC's basic pablum of both-sidesing absolutely everything including disinformation ... for which there is no excuse 5 days after the rest of us learned of the shooter's rw orientation.

Matt Galloway on CBC uncritically repeating the Utah governor's speculative nonsense that Charlie Kirk's shooter was leftist with a trans partner ... #CBC
Thread on BSky with CBC quotes:
https://bsky.app/profile/drugdatadecoded.ca/post/3lyuryjghdk2p

@the5thColumnist TikTok video aspect ratio is 9:16 reflecting the formatting of the phones they are taken on.

Dani Smith has a ways to go to catch up with her hero Florida Governor Ron DeSantis here.
1600 books pulled from a single Florida school district last year and coincidentally many of the very same books as on Dani's list! - Handmaid's Tale, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, etc
#abpoli #cdnpoli #bookbanning

"One School District Just Pulled 1,600 Books From Its Shelves—Including the Dictionary"

Remember this as Carney preaches the necessity of austerity at the rest of us. #cdnpoli
“The government has legalized [tax haven] use.” What was once covert has become routine. Decades of policy choices have normalized profit-shifting, leaving corporations free to route income to low-tax jurisdictions and bring it back to Canada at a steep discount, and with no fear of being challenged by the CRA."

Canada’s hidden tax crisis is stripping $15 billion from the economy every year
https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-hidden-tax-crisis-is-stripping-15-billion-from-the-economy-every-year/