Today’s tonic: “Former Harper adviser denounces @PierrePoilievre drug policy unveiled in video” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-former-harper-adviser-denounces-poilievre-drug-policy-unveiled-in/ #cdnpoli
Tonight’s tonic: @TinaKotek becomes the 2nd ever out lesbian elected as a U.S. governor. The 1st @Maura_Healey was declared the winner in Massachusetts on Tuesday night. Both strong awesome women.…
On this day of remembrance, I do feel it’s important to reflect not only on the battles of the past, but also the battles of the present. The world faces…
Today’s tonic: Democrats do historically well for an incumbent party in US midterms as Trumpian liars/election deniers lose in most parts of the country. The majority of Americans are not…
Tonight’s tonic: “Truss has discredited high-octane, free-market economics – perhaps for ever” https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/oct/20/liz-truss-resignation-brexit-brexitism #LiztrussResign #LizTrussresigned #politics
Today’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s uninformed views, particularly on Ukraine, expose other concerns” https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/2022/10/18/danielle-smiths-uninformed-views-particularly-on-ukraine-expose-other-concerns.html #misinformation #UkraineWar #cdnpoli #abpoli
Today’s tonic: “Danielle Smith’s populist playbook: make the dominant feel marginalized” https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/opinion-danielle-smith-populism-playbook-1.6617059 #extremism #rightwing #populism #cdnpoli
Today’s tonic: “Here’s why @PierrePoilievre’s attack on the Bank of Canada is absolute nonsense” https://thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/10/08/heres-why-poilievres-attack-on-bank-of-canada-is-rubbish.html… #PierrePoilievre #cdnpolitics
Today’s tonic on the eve of #Brazil elections: “Brazil, it is time to wake up from your Bolsonaro nightmare” https://aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/10/1/brazil-it-is-time-to-wake-up-from-bolsonaros-nightmare… and Today’s reality check: “Brazil may have its own January…
Today’s tonic: “Cuba overwhelmingly approves same-sex marriage in referendum” #Equality #Cuba #LGBT
Today’s tonic from writer John Ivison: “@PierrePoilievre should know better than to tear down Canadian institutions…The new authoritarians are not to be found in Ottawa or Washington, but they are…
I posted these two on my Twitter late this week: Today’s tonic: “In His Desk!” Hahaha! Thank you, Lawrence O’Donnell, for what you do: “Donald Trump Got Caught With Classified…
Today’s tonic: “MSNBC’s totally awesome Lawrence O’Donnell explains that scared Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is now lying about calling for “riots in the streets” if his criminal boss gets indicted”…
Today’s tonic, hold the gin: “More than 6 drinks a week leads to increasingly high health risks…especially for women” #alcohol has been classified as a Group 1 carcinogen for decades,…
Today’s tonic: “The nasty verbal assault on Chrystia Freeland tells us a lot about rage in Canadian politics” by @maxfawcett https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/08/28/opinion/verbal-assault-chrystia-freeland-canadas-rage-dangerous via @NatObserver #Extremism breeds #Violence against #women in #PoliticsToday…
Tonight’s tonic: “Full Kinzinger: McConnell ‘Probably’ Won’t Be Able To ‘Save The Senate'” #uspoli #Midterms2022 @AdamKinzinger https://youtu.be/LDHQqlKdT3A via @YouTube
Today’s tonic: “Tim Ryan To JD Vance: ‘Screw You, We’re Not Giving Up On The Industrial Midwest’ https://youtu.be/YEkssDtMhp4 via @YouTube Moderate Democrat @TimRyan is giving the Republican a big fight…
Today’s tonic: “Charlie Crist Speaks After Winning Florida Democratic Primary For Governor” to take on Republican fascist Ron DeSantis in this November’s midterm elections https://youtu.be/Z12qCYpTr2g via @YouTube #uspoli #FloridaPrimary #DeSantisDestroysFlorida…
Police call for Bolsonaro to be charged for spreading Covid misinformation. Brazil’s federal police ask supreme court to charge president over bogus claims in October 2021 social media broadcast. #Brazil…
Today’s tonic #1: “Where would @PierrePoilievre take the Conservatives? Not to the far right, but the far out” #cdnpoli #extremism Today’s tonic #2: “Instead of escalating tensions in Toronto’s High…
