Remember that while Smith tries to deflect blame for the scathing Jasper wildfire report, a 24 year old wildland firefighter died while she tried to meddle with the response.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/morgan-kitchen-funeral-calgary-firefighter-jasper-1.7297672
I wish I could write as well as Ronni Salt …
This article is worth your time to read.
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/none-of-this-passes-the-pub-test/
I'm gonna sign up.
No grown-ass irredeemable lifelong fascist racist misogynist groper imbecile criminal grifter pedo's going to tell me what I can or can't watch.
And, yeah, both PBS and NPR give back far more than they get.
Getting older does not cause conservatism. That is a myth promoted by conservatives.
[H/T to @mattalhonte for the referenced article: "Seniors Are More #Conservative Because the #Poor Don’t Survive to Become #Seniors, By Ed Kilgore"]
A new study suggests that one reason seniors are more conservative politically than younger cohorts of Americans is that poorer people don’t live as long and suffer from health conditions that inhibit voting and other forms of political activity.
There’s a little family of wrens in the garden so I took my camera out, hoping to get a pic. They’d busied off by the time I got back. But then I heard a low hum…
A hummingbird hawk moth feeding on the soapwort flowers. So fast that even the stills from 4K video are blurred.
I’ve been on calls in 2025 where the idea of physically driving some very old and very important servers down the highway is a potential option.
They normalized the activity.
Dulled the senses to it.
Made it ordinary.
Only later—over baseless denials that have continued to the present day—was the crime recognized for what it was.
Chad - x 
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