This week I had to call my local municipality because there was an issue with the snow clearing service. For years, when I have called, I have always been greeted by a team of friendly, female receptionists who were impressively good at knowing exactly which one of their 11,000 employees you should talk to. To my dismay, I found out these women have now been replaced by an AI robot voice. I truly do not get how anyone would think that would be a better solution. I felt completely alienated.

Trump's "the people ICE kills are just left wing terrorists", is Putin's "the Ukrainians we kill are just nazis". It is a complete disregard for truth, for logic, and for the laws of the land. And that is the point — to establish a parallel reality in which no truth, no logic, and no laws create any friction while the dictator’s tanks plow on down the road to unfreedom. With all my heart I hope the American people save their democracy in November. 2026 is the last chance.

Leave it to Fox News to find the most despicable angle: ICE may have killed a woman, but… she was a lesbian and divorced too!!! 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

In Denmark when old men become senile, we take away their car keys. In the US when old men become senile, they keep their keys to The Oval Office.

Make America Not kill unarmed mothers Again #ReneeGood

Kristi Noem says, ICE officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman driving away from him was, “following his training”. Excuse me, but what does that say about ICE officer training then?

If someone tells you they want to start a YouTube channel, tell them it took me 37 videos and three years of hard work before finally today, for the first time, I reached 250,000 views on my latest video. It is a wonderful job, but people need to know that the upfront investment can be enormous. We see youtubers with success and think that is what being on YouTube is. In reality, the people we see are only a handful of snow flakes on top of an enormous iceberg of people who never make it.

Denmark colonized Greenland and subjugated the native people in 1721. In our modern time most Danes feel this was wrong, and for decades there has been a strong political backing for initiatives helping the 57,000 Greenlanders, who receive $673 million per year from Denmark. Should the people of Greenland choose full independence, the Danish parliament would support their decision. What we will not support is Trump exploiting a proud native people whom we consider our friends. 🇬🇱♥️🇩🇰

In yet another effort to destroy The United States Congress, Trump has now decided that his pirated Venezuelan oil will be sold by him, de facto ending The House of Representatives’ control over US federal finances. The Nurnberg process was long, but the American Nurnberg process will be even longer, when the regime falls.

Important thread: It is not foreigners eating your cats and dogs. It is private equity companies buying up all the vet cliniques, raising prices and forcing families to put down their pets, because treatment would ruin their economy.

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Got an email from our local vet today announcing that she was retiring, and selling the practice to another independent veterinarian, having turned...