Canadian Curmudgeon

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Unrepentant woke democratic 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.rawamerica.com/p/republican-drafts-bill-to-deport
Republican Drafts Bill to Deport Leftists
The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…
Republican Drafts Bill to Deport Leftists

The bill writes Joseph McCarthy's wildest fantasies into federal immigration law and dares the courts to do something about it…

Raw America

Robin Hood is almost universally viewed as a hero while running an autonomous collective that violently takes money from the wealthy to distribute it to the poor.

Has the left considered hiring his publicist

Andrew Coyne: “But Mr. Trump didn’t just happen to America. He was elected, twice – the second time after attempting a coup. That alone should tell us that something fundamental has changed in American society, that it is so broken that one half of it could knowingly put a degenerate lunatic in the White House just to spite the other half.” https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-trump-may-be-temporary-the-damage-he-is-doing-isnt/
Trump may be temporary. The damage he is doing isn’t

We don’t need to close off our trade and relationship with the U.S., but we do need to open up to the rest of the world

The Globe and Mail

Trump and disappearing women.

There's been some attention to this awful White House photo congratulating the Georgia Women's Tennis team but centering men, with the women barely visible in the back.

Minimizing women is core Trump/MAGA. On Tues, Trump referred to US military deaths from his Iran War "We lost 13 men." Three of them were women.

"Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/24/officials-hugely-underestimated-impact-of-ai-datacentres-on-uk-carbon-emissions

"According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) – about as much as generated by 2.7 million people – over the next 10 years."

#AI #Technology #LLM #computers #GlobalWarming #environment #UK #ClimateChange #climate

Officials hugely underestimated impact of AI datacentres on UK carbon emissions

Revised figures increase fears about energy-intensive datacentres worsening climate emergency

The Guardian
Prediction.
A decade from now, low-Earth orbit will be inaccessible after Starlink (now bankrupt) precipitates a massive #Kessler catastrophe. Years/generations will pass before new launches to #space are possible.
No #Moon missions; no #Mars missions.
#Musk's name is cursed (even more...).
NEWS: Bette Midler just released a new music video for her remake of "All You Fascists Bound to Lose"—featuring Barbara Hershey, other celebrities, and crowds from the No Kings protests in a joyful, powerful show of resistance.

You have to see this.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fake-math-drug-price-reductions-1c89714a4b60ead1485d1de31b27da92
President Donald Trump, who helped push the term “ fake news ” into the mainstream, now seems to have a new favorite subject: fake math.
Trump defends drug price claims by citing 'two ways of calculating'

President Donald Trump, known for popularizing the term "fake news," seems to have shifted focus to a healthy dose of fake math in defending impossibly large cuts to prescription drug prices. During a Thursday event with drugmaker Regeneron, Trump argued that prescription drug prices were cut by well over 100%. This is mathematically impossible without prices dropping to zero and then manufacturers presumably paying customers to use their products. Trump acknowledged boasting about reductions of “500%, 600%” but called it a "different kind of calculation." His health chief, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also tried to justify the incorrect calculations, but no valid math supports Trump’s claims.

AP News
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCIhLldtwaQ
MAGA Repugnicans float idea of Ghislaine Maxwell pardon. The party that protects pedophiles...
BOMBSHELL news on Ghislaine Maxwell PARDON

YouTube
https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/trump-replaces-navy-secretary-with
Trump replaces Navy Secretary with man who claimed witches took over a California city. Hung Cao’s history of ridiculous claims highlights the administration’s obsession with loyalty over competence.
Trump replaces Navy Secretary with man who claimed witches took over a California city

Hung Cao’s history of ridiculous claims highlights the administration’s obsession with loyalty over competence

Friendly Atheist