Canadian Curmudgeon

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Unrepentant woke socialist, semi-retired writer & editor, ukulele player, aficionado of ERB, Godzilla, tequila, Chaucer, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Stoics, Homer, scifi, trilobites, Horace, & Wodehouse. Pro-science, pro-vaccine, anti-crypto, avid reader, skeptic, bread baker & pasta maker, anti-creationist. Tax the rich! Tax the churches! #NeverVoteConservative
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vhMW1uGDPU
Our Cells Have Been Hiding New Organelles and Scientists Just Found Them
Our Cells Have Been Hiding New Organelles and Scientists Just Found Them

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"The goals of the Trump insurgency is not just to alter and co-opt the national dialogue but to dismantle the framework of government and the Constitution itself. They openly advocate the destruction of America's diversity, multiculturalism, and equality."

— Malcolm Nance, They Want to Kill Americans

State Dept. Threatens Intervention in Brazil as Bolsonaro Put on House Arrest

The Trump administration has already sanctioned the judge presiding over Bolsonaro’s alleged coup attempt trial.

Truthout
https://www.uniladtech.com/news/white-house-demands-nasa-destroy-vital-satellite-760300-20250805 At some point in time, surely in the not too distant future Americans are going to come to their senses….
The White House demands NASA destroy vital satellite as experts warn 'this is illegal'

NASA's observatories provide detailed measurements of carbon dioxide across regions, revealing how human activities affect greenhouse gas emissions.

uniladtech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X_HLVmWoo4
Jesse talks about Donald Trump's free-wheeling, lie-fueled interview on CNBC, during which he spoke about the trade deal framework with the European Union. He said, “There are no details. The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want with it.”
WAIT, WHAT?!? Donald Trump MAKES INSANE CLAIM: Says the EU Gave Him $600 BILLION to Invest!!!

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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-jobs-report-july-recession
The looming Trumpcession: Orange man bad (for the economy).
The July jobs numbers, released last Friday, could not have been much bleaker.

Trump’s response was as unhinged and authoritarian as you’d expect. In an unprecedented move, he abruptly fired Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and as an excuse lied that the jobs numbers were “phony.”

The looming Trumpcession

Orange man bad (for the economy).

Public Notice

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/congress-stock-trading-ban-honest-act-trump
A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet.
You can have their brokerage accounts when you pry them from their cold dead hands.

When he signed the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act in 2012, Barack Obama insisted that “the powerful shouldn’t get to create one set of rules for themselves and another set of rules for everybody else.”

A stock trading ban for Congress is a no-brainer. And yet.

You can have their brokerage accounts when you pry them from their cold dead hands.

Public Notice
https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/texas-dems-give-america-a-blueprint
Texas Dems Give America a Blueprint to Save Democracy
The Democratic Party needs to stop trying to save itself and start trying to save democracy itself—TX Dems show the way
Texas Dems Give America a Blueprint to Save Democracy

The Democratic Party needs to stop trying to save itself and start trying to save democracy itself—TX Dems show the way

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-4-2025
Dictator Donald J. Trump’s firing of the commissioner of labor statistics on Friday for announcing that job growth has slowed dramatically has drawn a level of attention to Trump’s assault on democracy that other firings have not. Famously, authoritarian governments make up statistics to claim their policies are working well, even when they quite obviously are not.
August 4, 2025

President Donald J.

Letters from an American
https://www.technologynetworks.com/diagnostics/news/living-to-100-with-fewer-illnesses-and-better-health-403102
Living to 100 With Fewer Illnesses and Better Health
Reaching the age of 100 does not necessarily mean a life fraught with illness. (But just try to reach 70 without something going wrong, breaking, or falling off...)
Living to 100 With Fewer Illnesses and Better Health

A new study from Karolinska Institutet shows that centenarians not only live longer, they also stay healthier than other older people, with fewer diseases that develop more slowly.

Diagnostics from Technology Networks