Ain’t we havin’ some fun now? So Garland threw down the gauntlet to Trump – put up or shut up. He told Trump he was applying to the court to release the search warrant and evidence list from Monday’s raid, and dared Trump to oppose it – which I
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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: Taking the Fifth
Tuesday the Mar-A-Lago raid story was all the news. Today Trump refused to answer questions about his businesses, property evaluations and loans 400 times, taking the Fifth for every one of the questions. Thanks, Donnie, for killing the Mar-A-Lago raid story in just one day! After spending days with Trump
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Less than meets the eye?
I think Trump Mar-A-Lago “raid” was either: -a major national security scandal about a trove of top-secret documents that Trump was trying to sell to Putin or the Saudis; OR -a Got Junk? cleanup of old presidential souvenirs that the Trumps had been too lazy to box up themselves and
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Girl!
Wouldn’t you just love to be a fly on Hillary Clinton’s wall tonight? pic.twitter.com/Vcq1VffIGn — mamabear (@lmoon79) August 9, 2022 Dark Brandon works pretty fast, doesn’t he? trump couldn't lock up hillary in 4 years, brandon raided his home in 2. pic.twitter.com/kbEA4ll3fR — hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 8, 2022 Karma just
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Cheering
Big Democratic win today in the US Senate. This “Dark Brandon” meme seems to have legs: Thanks, @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/2PxrbDOtJB — Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) August 8, 2022 #DarkBrandonRises pic.twitter.com/skjETVXU5Y — Molly Cochran ☮️🇺🇦🌻 (@MollyC82) August 8, 2022 pic.twitter.com/v1dOoaxKPb — ShV77💙 (@Sharon9177) August 8, 2022 I love DARK BRANDON!! pic.twitter.com/2PX6b4kopa — Kathy
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Weekend funnies
Starting with some good cartoons: The GOP’s miscalculation: Handmaids vote. #MobilizeForMidterms pic.twitter.com/xeatccejZJ — Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@NickKnudsenUS) August 6, 2022 We thought everybody had already been divided into voters and vessels. The voters got to pass restrictions, and the vessels got to sit there and smile! It’s an easy
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Fighting the good fight
This is true for us lefty Canadians too: In fact, I’m so crazy I wrote an article about it!https://t.co/DQtpnHeMeq — Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) August 5, 2022 Being timid, defensive, and afraid is a losing strategy according to Anat Shenkar-Osario, president of ASO Communications, who runs weekly focus groups where she
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Cue the Rocky Music!
Not to jinx things, but I think maybe Biden is winning! …are finding a way to make it work. They have done it alone with the American Rescue Plan. They have done it all but alone or alone on key judgeships and senior level appointments. They have had a
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Here’s another fine mess
I seldom pay much attention to the latest right-wing anti-Liberal hate-fest — from SNC Lavelin to WE, they started out with the Trudeau government looking awful while the national media huffed and puffed to try to blow Trudeau’s house down, and in the end, Meh! This time the story is
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Incredible or incredibly stupid!
Incredible! Tonight has shown, beyond any shadow of doubt, that universal access to safe and affordable abortion care is incredibly popular. When Kansas votes 2:1 to support abortion care, I think the conversation on “public debate” is pretty much over. — Charlotte Clymer 🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) August 3, 2022 Republican men
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: A problem with definitions
Some chatter these days about how conservatives and progressives aren’t talking to each other very much anymore. Another day of nightmare oppression in communist Canada 🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/msNUsft7Se — Dr. Ian Garner (@irgarner) July 17, 2022 We don’t agree on some basic definitions anymore, do we. One striking thing about GOPers
Continue readingCathie from Canada: A random collection of oddities
For Saturday night, here’s a collection of odd tweets and commentary from the last week or so: I think one thing they didn’t count on was that even Newsmax couldn’t resist a Jon Stewart hit. — Schooley (@Rschooley) July 30, 2022 Which group was ACTUALLY disrespecting our vets? pic.twitter.com/gOpv07jN7D —
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: From All Over
Reconciliation visit: The final stop for Pope Francis in Canada was a visit to Iqaluit. The Globe and Mail reports: On Friday, [Pope Francis] met with several school survivors In Iqaluit before an outdoor performance that included traditional throat singing and drum dancing. His speech before hundreds began with another apology
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "Rescind the Doctrine"
The Pope’s reconciliation events were in Quebec today – above is a photo of a delegation from the Innu community of Mashteuiatsh, where the last Quebec residential school closed in 1991. The group of a dozen people walked 275 km to reach the Quebec City reconciliation events, and included members
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: "A whisper in our minds"
In the end, the Pope’s apology is important, though it will not ease the pain. Pope Francis was able to give the long-awaited apology, speaking in his language, but most of us do not have that ability any more. Our language is a whisper in our minds, familiar but at
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Updates
Papal reconciliation visit: An apology from Pope Francis. This was the best part after the apology that is.#PopeFrancus crowned with Indigenous headress, While crowd erupts with approval.👏👏👏 #PapalVisit2022 pic.twitter.com/14cYlrTWfo — Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 25, 2022 Giving the Pope a headdress is not being well received online, however –
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Pope Francis arrives in Canada
#PopeFrancis arrived in Edmonton on Sunday to an honour drum song ahead of what he describes as a “penitential” trip aimed at advancing reconciliation with Indigenous people over the lasting harm suffered in residential schools.#PapalVisit2022 pic.twitter.com/YWRJ7YUPX8 — Jaro Giesbrecht 🇨🇦🇸🇰 (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 24, 2022 The Pope has arrived in Edmonton,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Music and poetry and funny stuff
But first: what a race! 🔥🔥🔥 Gold for 🇨🇦 in the 4×100 at the Worlds!! Big tip of the cap to our dudes @KingsleySC and @De6rasse big backstretch from Jerome Blake, shoutout Brendon Rodney!! 🇨🇦🔥🇨🇦 pic.twitter.com/1Gf88AmRMn — Tim Micallef (@tim_micallef) July 24, 2022 Now, some great dances: Fred Astaire said
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: Ukraine update
Lots of news from Ukraine lately: First, a new deal was announced today to move Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea: New: A deal allowing the export of Ukrainian grain through the Black Sea has been signed in Istanbul, the UN SecGen says. The agreement will include three Ukrainian ports,
Continue readingCathie from Canada: Today’s News: The elephant in the room
Tonight’s Jan 6 Committee hearing made lots of news tonight. But as Brian Stelter reported in his Reliable Sources newsletter tonight, perhaps the most important comment came from Michigan Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger’s closing remarks at the Jan 6 Committee hearing: The forces Donald Trump ignited that day have not
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