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…
Today’s tonic: Andrew Coyne’s “Donald Trump’s rendezvous with reality may be fast approaching” #CDNPoli #uspolitics #TrumpCoupAttempt
Today’s tonic: In light of today’s FBI raid on Trump’s Florida home, I thought I’d share MSNBC’s Ari Melber must-see report from a few days ago, ‘How Jan. 6 Plan…
Today’s tonic: “Ontario has a doctor shortage. So why isn’t the Ford government licensing more internationally trained physicians living here?” https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/08/07/ontario-has-a-doctor-shortage-so-why-isnt-the-ford-government-licensing-more-internationally-trained-physicians-living-here.html #onpoli #cdnpoli #doctors #todaystonic #foreigntraineddoctors
Starting a daily post I’ll call, “Today’s tonic”: articles that bring reason, intelligence, & common sense to counter to nonsense, lies, & bigotries currently on the rise in our society.…
