I prefer Prime Ministers that don't pose with people associated with US DOJ filings in the US on Russian election interference.

This thread will be dedicated to the victims of the Apalachee High School shooting. Mason Schermerhorn, 14 His sister had circulated photos of him on social media when family couldn’t contact him. Because he was autistic, they thought he might have wandered off. 💔

The new Kremlin talking points have been distributed.

It's almost two years since I pointed out the connection between Russia and Rebel News -- nice to see the rest of the world is finally catching up to Russia's relentless disinformation campaign via North American right-wing media outlets. You're welcome.

It's staggering how many people have been killed by COVID worldwide The central estimate of the true death toll of the continuing pandemic, using excess deaths (as calculated by The Economist), is 27.3 million It's hard to imagine how many that is. How a big a pile that is 🧵

The astonishing link between bats and the deaths of human babies trib.al/GgAIimw

NEW: This is one of the more stunning (and sobering) studies I've covered in a while: It found that a decline of bats in the U.S. had come at a deadly cost to human babies washingtonpost.com/climate-enviro…

Doug Ford closes Safe Injection Site to make way for new All-You-Can-Drink Booze Guzzler’s Emporium thebeaverton.com/2024/08/46717/

These are text messages, exactly as they were written and sent, between a mother and her two daughters during yesterday’s shooting at Apalachee High School. The family shared the texts with The Washington Post. Both daughters were unharmed and now safe.

I’m past point of understanding why coverage of most abnormal candidate in US history is so bent on normalization. But there’s no argument anymore. They’re doing it. Even tho I’m sure they recognize disaster will befall their country if he’s elected. The why utterly baffles me.

“You want to pick a fight, come after me....don’t come after the jobs." NDP leader Naheed Nenshi says the province's decision to pull funding from the Green Line LRT project will cost thousands of jobs and waste more than $1 billion already spent. calgary.citynews.ca/2024/09/05/nen…

FINALLY FINALLY FINALLY ... NPR identifies the two Trump camp staff who assaulted the employee at Arlington npr.org/2024/09/05/nx-…

Bongino to MAGA influencers:

Reupping this piece I wrote for NYT after the Michigan school shooting, where the parents were prosecuted, discussing when legal action against a shooter's parents is warranted nytimes.com/2022/02/08/opi…

NEW: The far-right media outlet linked in US federal indictment to a secret Russian influence campaign produced 50+ videos focused on Canada We reviewed the videos before they were taken down and found they were viewed half-a-million times pressprogress.ca/far-right-medi… #cdnpoli

Just stop for a second and think if it's appropriate for the Premier of Ontario to openly promote drinking alcohol. In Ontario, it leads to 6000 deaths/year, 22,000 hospital admissions and 194,000 ER visits/year. Doug Ford collingwoodtoday.ca/local-news/pre…

Men murdering and raping women is an epidemic. These past two weeks are a tragic reminder of what women face. Think of all of the cases that don’t make the news because the murders and rapes were so “ordinary.”1/2

This video is full of lies; Vance acts like the school shooter was a stranger - the “psycho barbarian” he refers to is a 14 year old student He says more security is the answer. There were armed SROs onsite He says stronger gun laws don’t work - but, SEE ALL OTHER PEER NATIONS

A new USDA report reveals that about 13.5 percent of US households struggled to access enough food in 2023. truthout.org/articles/advoc…

Quebec right-wing influencers key to Russian disinformation campaign, U.S. prosecutors allege theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…