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America has The Onion, Canada has The Beaverton. This is a helpful travel piece: "Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that".

“Canadians are welcome in California. It’s perfectly safe to visit,” said Governor Gavin Newsom. “Just so long as you take a few basic travel precautions, like travelling on a valid passport, teleporting over the border, moving undetected in the shadows in the dead of night, getting the telephone number of an immigration attorney tattooed to your upper thigh, saying a heartfelt goodbye to your pets and the people who love you, and appointing someone to water your plants just in case you disappear into a labyrinthian nightmare of an extrajudicial immigration enforcement system that no longer answers to judge nor common mercy.”

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

#Beaverton #Canada #Satire

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that

OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations.

The Beaverton

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Legit_Spaghetti 2d ago

It's 1991, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2003, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

It's 2025, and a republican president is embroiling us in a bullshit war in the Middle East.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb ("Marxist-Islamist")2d ago

Oh boy…

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Steve Herman 2d ago

"I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security," says UN Secretary General António Guterres. "There is a growing risk that this conflict could rapidly get out of control – with catastrophic consequences for civilians, the region, and the world."

Rick Moen 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧4d ago

Meredith Whittaker 5d ago

'Meredith,' some guys ask, 'why won't you shove AI into Signal?'

Because we love privacy, and we love you, and this shit is predictable and unacceptable. Use Signal ❤️

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Completely and Totally Obliterated Hat 5d ago

Don’s right. Trumpism not just permits, but demands, overt hostility to a wide array of American values, institutions, culture, and people. Trumpism hates much more of America than it loves.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/post/3lrvy26kbyc2v

Rick Moen 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧4d ago

Lauren Weinstein 5d ago

RFK, Jr. may try ban measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, and flu shots now that his picks are on advisory committee

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/06/after-rfk-jr-overhauls-cdc-panel-measles-and-flu-vaccines-are-up-for-debate/

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ahimsa 5d ago

Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHDw

"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

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#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist

WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing

YouTube

Rick Moen 🇺🇸 🇳🇴 🇬🇧5d ago

Cory Doctorow 5d ago

ETA: GOOD NEWS!

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/114709820512537821

In reading an important discussion of the IP assignment in the new Mastodon.social ToS:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

I was GOBSMACKED to discover the new ToS has a "binding arbitration waiver," which takes away your right to sue, no matter how badly the service abuses you.

These are profoundly unethical, terrible clauses. They should never, ever appear in "adhesion contracts" (that is, contracts that you merely click through, rather than negotiating.)

New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content · Issue #35086 · mastodon/mastodon

Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...

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