This was the best part after the apology that is.#PopeFrancus crowned with Indigenous headress, While crowd erupts with approval.
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— Jaro Giesbrecht ???????? (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 25, 2022

Giving the Pope a headdress is not being well received online, however – I am seeing some negative tweets on this tonight.

The pope got a warbonnet meanwhile many Indigenous people (myself included) are structurally denied access to our homelands, cultural patrimony, and ceremonies.

Hurts, man.

— Dr. Kali Simmons ???? (@SimmonsKali) July 25, 2022

The apology was generally welcomed, with some comment also that the Discovery doctrine has not yet been revoked.

“This apology, offered today by Pope Francis, will lend itself to the healing we all need so that we n find ways to confront the charge of genocide and the legacy of residential schools in nada.” – Chief Robert Joseph.

Click here to read: https://t.co/PC4tGAg1t1 pic.twitter.com/gqeDt0kbCu

— Reconciliation nada (@Rec_n) July 25, 2022

I’m troubled

Pope’s apology neither about Church nor Papacy over last centuries, only individual bad Christians who “cooperated with”assimilation moves “promoted by govts of the time”

By omitting #DoctrineOfDiscovery, he ducks complicity in instigating such schools@RussDiabo https://t.co/CuNyX5Ju0g

— Brian E Noble #ArticulateBeings (@ArticulateDinos) July 25, 2022

Put together a video of one of @Pontifex meeting the Chief’s of the Four Nations of Maskwacis & visiting former Ermineskin Indian Residential School site where children died & many who got out alive still rry the pain. I was only a few feet away. Was like a funeral procession. pic.twitter.com/2WjPH8uSVv

— Brandi Morin (@Songstress28) July 26, 2022

Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors felt a mix of emotions towards the Pope’s apology. @CreesonCTV reports. https://t.co/bP2P6PpBfJ pic.twitter.com/lzxWNLJlLW

— CTV News (@CTVNews) July 26, 2022

A useful reference:

Anticipating more residential school denialism last year, Daniel Heath Justice and I created a primer on how to identify and confront it. We hope this continues to be a helpful resource, this week and moving forward: https://t.co/jpfQCef4KI

— Sean rleton (@Seanrleton) July 22, 2022

On a side note, an update on the “boil water” advisories – the Trudeau government has made a huge difference.

I heard ‘boil water advisories’ mentioned on @CBCNews. While no-one should have to go w/o clean water in Cda, it’s important to note (IMHO) that nothing done before fed Libs formed govt Nov 2015, and so far: 82% lifted, plus 8% complete pending lifting, plus 7% under construction pic.twitter.com/stcrkndTSk

— Kathryn Mathias (@KathrynMathias1) July 25, 2022

3/
To be clear, it was briefly mentioned by various guests. I’m not criticizing CBC. The guests were making broad, sweeping statements about there being water issues, then changing the topic, so I thought details about what progess had been made would be helpful.

— Kathryn Mathias (@KathrynMathias1) July 26, 2022

Plus, many were added after the original list was created. The original list had 105 advisories; this government has lifted 135. More progress than I have seen in my lifetime. https://t.co/hLCVV625uc

— Adrian Wilson (@AdrianW123) July 26, 2022

CPC leadership mpaign:

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— Angus Reid (@AngusReid) July 25, 2022

This is the first “bad” poll for Poilievre. It shows Charest would win Atlantic nada, would be competitive in Quebec, would do better than Poilievre in Ontario… all at the expense of losing some Prairie and Alberta votes (which the CPC could afford). pic.twitter.com/zkCscjShPT

— Philippe J. Fournier (@338nada) July 25, 2022

Here’s Stephen Harper’s endorsement video for Poilievre https://t.co/fS4GeNctm4

— Harrison Lowman (@harrisonlowman) July 26, 2022

Jean Charest reacts to Stephen Harper’s endorsement of Pierre Poilievre. https://t.co/8wwUeECIfb

— Stephen Taylor (@stephen_taylor) July 26, 2022

There is bad blood between Harper and Charest, in part beuse when Charest was premier, he sold Harper on the so-lled “fisl imbalance” Quebec suffered. When Harper tried to buy peace and give Charest the money, Charest turned it into a tax cut. Harper was furious. https://t.co/8soQtlMWBa

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) July 26, 2022

Ukraine update:?

Apropos: “We n say that the Kherson region will definitely be liberated by September, and all the occupiers’ plans will fail,” according to Sergiy Khlan, an aide to the ????administrative head of the Kherson region. https://t.co/9QgsrYtusO

— Franz-Stefan Gady (@HoansSolo) July 25, 2022

Media: @MarkHertling @AC360: @ZelenskyyUa‘s 2nd front is likely to be “in #Kherson Oblast, the entire province, about the size of Maryland. It bumps up against #Crimea and also maintains the road network to the north, east, and west … putting Russia on the horns of a dilemma.” pic.twitter.com/QmpTKT5kVA

— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) July 26, 2022

Himars have ‘changed everything’: weapons destroy 50 Russian ammunition depots in one month – @RolandOliphant https://t.co/xrJPyhQZzI

— Nicola Smith (@niccijsmith) July 26, 2022

(HIMARS means High Mobility Artillery Rocket System)?

It’s only Monday. Fuck.

— Tim Fontaine (@anishinaboy) July 25, 2022

aliens probably fly past earth and lock their doors

— percules (@percpoop) July 23, 2022

The story is even better than the headline. https://t.co/UKLoPlp8a3

— Terry Glavin 格立文 (@TerryGlavin) July 25, 2022

How rtoon artists at Walt Disney created sound effects in 1941. pic.twitter.com/2y6oe0yo7H

— Figen (@TheFigen) July 24, 2022

‘Lifeguard’ drone saved a drowning 14-year-old on a beach in Spain by dropping a life vest https://t.co/NEwiblxkgE

— ABC progressive bcpoli, abpoli, cdnpoli, onpoli (@timethief) July 25, 2022

Having Rogers internet down all day meant spending the day talking with family. They seem like nice people. ??

— KNugent4118???????????? (@knugent4118) July 8, 2022

I n’t grasp the sle of how bad this is at Rogers. This is an unprecedented disaster. Been down now for over 12 hours and they still don’t know why.

And they have really smart engineers working there. I know, I’ve worked with them.

— telli 2.0 ?????? (@telli2Oh) July 8, 2022

You start a simple kitchen reno. And then next thing you know you’re jacking up the house and rebuilding the foundation from the footings up.

There is no “just put the wall back up and hide the mess we found”

— telli 2.0 ?????? (@telli2Oh) July 8, 2022

They appear to have turned their router off and back on again.

— David Cochrane (@DavidWCochrane) July 9, 2022

And that story about SCOTUS justice Brett Kavanaugh being chased out of Morton’s by protestors:

The Morton’s restaurant chain opened in 1978 and is therefore not “deeply rooted in the nation’s history and traditions.”

— Lawrence Glickman (@LarryGlickman) July 8, 2022

Yup, you have to articulate the right at the most specific level you n so that you n find that the right doesn’t exist. There is no fundamental “right to eat at Morton’s in DC on a Thursday night without leaving through the back due to protestors”

— Defend the Truth and Defeat the Lies (@fitzador) July 8, 2022

On the other hand, they could argue that the right of powerful white men to ruin other people’s lives and expect to not face even the mildest of consequences is very much “deeply rooted in the nation’s history in tradition”

— Jacob Harris (@harrisj) July 8, 2022

What did Brett Kavanaugh and his right wing Supreme Court pals think their lives would be like after they criminally assaulted 200,000,000 Amerin women? Did they think people would just smile at them in restaurants? Also goodbye Mortons for aggressively taking Kavanaugh’s side.

— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) July 8, 2022

It doesn’t matter if protesters interrupt his meal beuse Brett Kavanaugh believes dinner begins at reservation

— Frank Lesser (@sadmonsters) July 8, 2022

All six of the SCOTUS majority are too arrogant and stupid to understand that they will never eat an unspat-in restaurant meal for the rest of their lives.

— Randy uthen (@Joe_Bourgeois) July 8, 2022

I’m reading angry tweets that Lich is a martyr — but honestly, what did she think would happen after she breached her bail conditions? Her lawyers did her no favours.

I find it hilarious that Tamara Lich’s lawyers awarded her some bs “freedom award” that ended up using her to lose her freedoms. Good job JCCF! #cdnpoli #FreeDumbConvoy

— Rob Gill (@vote4robgill) July 8, 2022

We have now entered the glorious “Find Out” phase.

I bet she’s pissed her little attempted martyrdom didn’t get the goobers worked up enough to overthrow the Commie Nazi tyrant Trudeau. ??????https://t.co/irmv1TDheI

— Jay Gamble (@DrJayDrNo) July 8, 2022

And?Elon Musk wants to pull out of the Twitter deal.

Elon Musk has announced he is not going to buy Twitter as he needs more time to stay at home with his families.

— Gene Spafford (@TheRealSpaf) July 8, 2022

BREAKING: Elon Musk has terminated his deal to buy Twitter, which is shocking beuse I didn’t think he knew how to pull out of anything.

— Jo ?? (@JoJoFromJerz) July 8, 2022

And trying to distract attention from the Jan 6 hearings:

Now that gas prices are on the decline and our economy is adding jobs faster than ever, how long will it be until Fox News starts talking about Hunter Biden?

— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) July 8, 2022

NEWS: Trump’s White House Counsel Pat Cipollone is testifying today before the January 6th Committee.

FOX NEWS: WE FOUND ANOTHER HUNTER BIDEN LAPTOP FILLED WITH KILLARY’S EMAILS IN A MIGRANT RAVAN FROM BENGHAZI!!!

— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) July 8, 2022

Jared & Ivanka got $640 million as WH “advisors”.
Ivanka got 18 trademarks from China.
Jared got $2 billion from the Saudis.
Jared got $6.35 million in PPP loans meant for small businesses.
Ivanka, Jr & Eric stole charity funds.

But tell us more about Hunter Biden’s laptop. pic.twitter.com/Mlm3LQZ7a6

— LA Votes Blue in GA! ?? #DemVoice1?????? (@LALewman) July 8, 2022

As somebody who is slammed on this app every single day for criticizing Joe Biden, it puzzles me beyond belief why anybody on earth would give a fuck about Hunter Biden and his struggles with addiction.

Literally all these stories ever prove is that Biden loves his kids

— meron Kasky (@meron_kasky) July 8, 2022

The “Fuck Your Feelings” crowd would like you to respect their privacy in this time of mourning.

— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) July 8, 2022

And trying to distract attention from Biden’s success:

According to the chart, either it’s “not good enough”, or they’ll just pretend it never happened. pic.twitter.com/w7w1AdnuMQ

— Roy Delfino (@RoyDelfino) July 8, 2022

Purveyor of doom and gloom explains why there’s no point in paying attention to good economic news. Nice. https://t.co/TldxFUxrQP

— Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ?? (@froomkin) July 8, 2022

And?wishful-thinking “Covid is over, isn’t it?”

I anticipate rdiologists will be swamped in coming months/yrs with rdiac & vascular complitions of SARS-CoV-2.

I’m one of those rdiologists- but currently in hospital with complitions of SARS-CoV-2.

This is our state of affairs.@CDCgov @WHCOVIDResponse @AshishKJha46 https://t.co/LUWCdCRvVU

— Dr. Alice (@lirunnerdoc) July 7, 2022

They died. A million plus people died. https://t.co/pGzPrhpKSl

— Devon Ellington (@DevonEllington) July 5, 2022

And Poilievre, of course — we knew it wouldn’t take long for nadian pundits to decide that nadian voters really should give Poilievre a chance, but for crying out loud, his Convoy Walk was only a week ago!?

“Justin Trudeau is falling so far out of favour that the likes of a Poilievre could well be an alternative worth risking. Mr. Trudeau’s affected style increasingly grates. His wokeism is overbearing.” https://t.co/ZrWYZzdCkL pic.twitter.com/2In5SRPbsw

— Robert Fife (@RobertFife) July 8, 2022

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— James/Zyphex???? (@SpartanZyphex) July 8, 2022

So in conclusion:

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— Nancy French (@NancyAFrench) July 8, 2022

It’s unclear why Poilievre “felt that he needed to” meet with Topp, said Stephanie rvin, a former CSIS analyst who now teaches at rleton University.

“But it definitely was a choice with consequences,” she said — including, potentially, emboldening and legitimizing the more extreme views among the convoy’s supporters.?

…experts are starting to worry about the influence politicians could have in legitimizing extreme ideas.

?“They seem to be playing this culture war knowingly,” said Evan Balgord, executive director of the nadian Anti-Hate Network, in an interview with Global News.?

For Balgord, what Poilievre chose to do on June 30 “wasn’t a surprise.”?

“He was positioning himself to earn the support of the far-right in his leadership race.”?

But why this press release matters is that the Poilievre team just tipped their hands about a very important point – they n get blown off message incredibly easily.?

A TV interview with Evan Solomon got Poilievre to confirm he’d fire the Governor of the Bank Of nada, and now an article about Convoy ties to the far right has Poilievre invoking Trudeau’s Blackface (I’ll leave it to your imagination how those two things happened).?

It’s genuinely thin-skinned bullshit, but even more than it being thin-skinned, it’s just not a good trait in a politil leader to have the politil equivalent of Tourette’s Syndrome, to quote the post-Sorkin West Wing.?

Swinging at every pitch in politics is a disaster, beuse sometimes the right move is to avoid the trap, and this pattern of behaviour from Poilievre and his team is evidence that he doesn’t have that tool in his arsenal.?

He is as addicted to the news cycle and the Twitter likes and the Facebook views that he has to pump out this shit daily, but the problem is, sometimes you don’t have to make news. Sometimes, it’s better to sit one out, and just leave an unfriendly article alone.?

How many more people do you think saw the Global article at the core of this fight after his press release? Giving oxygen to this story is an insane idea if you’re Poilievre.

Trump said and did obviously awful and dangerous things—racist and cruel and achingly dumb and downright evil things. But on top of that, he is a uniquely tiresome individual, easily the sorest loser, the most prodigious liar, and the most interminable victim ever to occupy the White House. He is, quite possibly, the biggest crybaby ever to toddle across history’s stage, from his inaugural-crowd hemorrhage on day one right down to his bitter, ketchup-flinging end.?

Seriously, what public figure in the history of the world comes close?

My former New York Times colleague David Brooks wrote it best: “We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar.”?

Better objects of our scrutiny—and far more compelling to me—are the slavishly devoted Republins whom Trump drew to his side.?

It’s been said before, but n never be emphasized enough: Without the complicity of the Republin Party, Donald Trump would be just a glorified geriatric Fox-watching golfer.?

I’ve interviewed scores of these collaborators, trying to understand why they did what they did and how they could live with it.?

?… The courage and character of Ukraine stands in perverse contrast to Ameri’s cowering Republin Party, whose resistance might as well have been led by the Uvalde police.?

?It remains astonishing to me that, after everything we’ve been through with Trump and everything we’re still learning, he remains anything but radioactive in his party.?

Wow, that’s gonna leave a mark. I hope.

So arrogant he doesn’t even show up to debate other #CPC hopefuls, this after likely eliminating Patrick Brown. @PierrePoilievre so confident he’s got the #CPC Leadership, he is skipping the lgary leadership debate, will attend party with Brett Wilson.https://t.co/SbrOV0jZMc

— Jaro Giesbrecht ???????? (@JaroGiesbrecht) July 6, 2022

Patrick Brown is out of the running for the CPC leadership. The CPC wants PP. That’s fine. The Liberals and NDP want to run against PP too. https://t.co/44Pbl3isLp

— Unbranded (@Unbranded63) July 6, 2022

Scrimshaw writes:?

The Conservative party is learning the hard way what happens when you elect a populist who becomes unpopular.

In many respects, Boris Johnson was always a risk and an experiment. Right now, it’s looking like it was an experiment that failed https://t.co/nyTc6tVNrM

— Luke McGee (@lukemcgee) July 5, 2022

And what an act it was! Were we not entertained? https://t.co/Cr3RZhTjNp

— Chris Selley (@cselley) July 6, 2022

The United States has lost its mind.?

Aren’t Amerin journalists and talking heads sick to death of asking endless questions of how to stop gun terrorism in the US
The privately owned gun and mass shooting rnage pital of the world ,with more guns than people,
IT’S THE FUCKING GUNS
End of

— Tracey ???? ???? BIPOC?? ??????ally #CovidIsntOver (@mustangmadd) July 6, 2022

Republins any minute now: “It’s not about gun violence, it’s about parade safety.”

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 4, 2022

The only thing that n stop a bad guy with a gun is moving to nada.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) July 5, 2022

I wrote about fentanyl-touch panic among police officers, and a toxicologist who spilled a bunch of fentanyl on his hand. https://t.co/GqBudEnZRK

— Dan McQuade (@dhm) July 5, 2022

The problem with Ameri falling apart is they’re right next door.

— Dean from Winnipeg (@Dean_Winnipeg) July 5, 2022

This idea makes more sense every day! pic.twitter.com/7tmNTx3xaF

— Jay Scherberth (@jaysch) July 5, 2022

Finally, here’s some stupid shit from rich people:

What’s the point of being fabulously wealthy and famous and having millions of followers if people n still criticize you if you say stupid shit

— CyborgSlavesOfPopehat (@Popehat) July 6, 2022

Like this, Part One:

Literally the episode of South Park where rtman buys himself an amusement park and doesn’t let anybody in https://t.co/HBtxkM9clW

— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) July 4, 2022

And this, Part Two:

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— Jewels (@Jewels_ATX) July 6, 2022

Fuck Bette Midler.
Fuck Macy Gray.
Fuck Ricky Gervais.
Fuck JK Rowling.

Trans women are women.
Trans men are men.
Non-binary people exist.

Cis women aren’t being erased simply beuse transgender men and non-binary folks are being included in the demand for abortion rights.

— Sarah J. Star (@StarspeBBS) July 5, 2022

I never quite grasped that it’s the TERFs who hold a lot of the commanding heights of the media and entertainment world until Bette Midler and Pamela Paul weighed in. I guess I’d thought Rowling was mostly an outlier. I appreciate the edution in that regard.

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) July 5, 2022

And this is why transphobia matters:

I think that we’re entering a period when the most meaningful politil distinction will be fascist and anti-fascist. It’s really important to understand that transphobia is one of the most potent entry points to fascism today – and act accordingly.

— Julia rrie Wong (@juliarriew) July 3, 2022

“It hurts thinking about how I usually celebrate this day beuse freedom means something completely different to me this year,” the WNBA star wrote. https://t.co/0CLDspbWpP

— HuffPost Politics (@HuffPostPol) July 5, 2022