On this day in 1982, Roxy Music released Avalon, one of the greatest albums of all time, and here are 5 mind-blowing facts about the record: https://zurl.co/oDdRr

Trump hates #TACO 🌮. Now we know to push it even harder. Do your stuff, social media

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z6rujpf4u56jfie7aqic2nfg/post/3lqanjls2mk2o

“Stop being mean to us. No, the tariffs aren’t going anywhere but you should definitely go back to doing business with us. Stop bringing up annexation - old news. Oh he said it again? Just ignore him it’s fine we cool bro.” https://flipboard.com/@cbcnews/top-stories-01r3k2ttz/-/a-oEob4iL0Rf6RG6rQum8vAg%3Aa%3A107108217-%2F0

Don't visit the #USA unless it is absolutely unavoidable. They will throw you in jail and you won't know why.

"An #Australian woman has recounted her horror story of #imprisonment and #deportation by US border control after attempting to visit her #American husband in #Hawaii."

#ThisIsAmerica
#uscustoms

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/us-news/2025/05/28/australian-woman-hawaii-deportation

Subaru Canada to source more vehicles from Japan, not U.S.
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/subaru-canada-u-s-imports-japan-tariffs-america

🇨🇦 Trump's Golden Dome Dream Crashes and Burns
"Defence minister tells arms makers to prepare for accelerated federal spending
David McGuinty says government to launch 'immediate and decisive action to rebuild Canada's defence capacity'
The speech comes against the backdrop of U.S. President Donald Trump's talk of annexing Canada and one day after the government's throne speech, which promised the county would sign on to a $1.25-trillion European Union defence-industrial initiative — known as ReArm Europe."

#Canpoli #Cdnpoli #Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mcguinty-defence-spending-contractors-speech-1.7545797

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Terrible news from Switzerland, but good for the BBC on explicitly calling out the direct role of #climatechange in this disaster.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnv1evn2p2vo

@dyckron This was an idiotic pipe dream when Reagan proposed it back in the 1980s, and it's even more idiotic now. #USpol #cdnpoli

Billions for fairy tales, no problem, resurrecting the public homebuilder, that's *insanity*

Defence minister says cost of Trump's proposed missile defence project still unknown
https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/defence-minister-mcguinty-says-government-will-move-fast-to-build-up-military/

Records reveal extent of early arsenic pollution from Giant, Con
https://cabinradio.ca/239637/news/yellowknife/records-reveal-extent-of-early-arsenic-pollution-from-giant-con/

RSS never tracked you.
Email never throttled you.
Blogs never begged for dopamine.
The old web wasn’t perfect.
But it was yours.

Adam Serwer at The Atlantic writes -

"The warlords who sacked Rome did not intend to doom Western Europe to centuries of ignorance. It was not a foreseeable consequence of their actions. The same cannot be said of the sweeping attack on human knowledge and progress that the Trump administration is now undertaking—a deliberate destruction of education, science, and history, conducted with a fanaticism that recalls the Dark Ages that followed Rome’s fall."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/trump-defund-schools-research-republicans/682742/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8DWsF0Ye4dzmUZWM5fDSO2g
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“If I supply you with a tool to remove DRM (like some versions of Calibre), then I commit a felony and Amazon can have me sent to prison for five years for giving you a tool to move my book from the Kindle app to a rival app like Kobo. ... [E]ven though copyright law says you can format shift your books, music, videos, games, [etc.], DMCA 1201 (a ‘paracopyright law’) makes this an imprisonable felony if you have to break DRM first.” – @pluralistic

https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-remove-drm-from-your-digital-books-but-its-probably-illegal

Conservatives sure do love using signal to avoid scrutiny 😑📱
https://thebreaker.news/news/howard-hires-lawyer/

#vanpoli

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-says-conservatives-will-fight-for-change-in-new-session-of-parliament-1.7543304 Dear @cbcnews, please make an effort to provide accurate info. Your headline is 100% incorrect. “Conservative leader addresses caucus the day before Parliament is set to open without him. “ I believe #PeePee has not only lost his seat but also his leadership role. Why he is still at Stornoway, feeding off the public teat? And why are you not reporting on that instead of furthering #PP’s delusions and acting as though he were indeed still Opposition Leader?

Credit ratings in Canada are basically unregulated but extremely influential. Equifax’s rule that will reset you score to 0 if you have no debt for two years penalizes people for being responsible.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/gopublic/equifax-credit-score-vanished-1.7542059

#Canada #Debt #CreditRating

The #DougFord administration: Refuses to spend what they budgeted for healthcare.

Also the Doug Ford administration:
Spends $40,000,000 of #Ontario taxpayer funds to run self aggrandizing ads ahead of a snap election.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ad-campaign-foi-1.7541383

#ONPoli #Ontario

Dear journalists:

The word "detained" is blatantly inadequate when someone has been imprisoned for a month by Trump's goons.

(Note: Mississippi Today does great work in general.)

https://mississippitoday.org/2025/05/20/ice-detained-danish-mississippi/

@jace Natural selection. Maybe when the idiots are dead, we can repopulate Alberta with non-morons. #abpoli #cdnpoli