Across western democracies, upheavals in the US are prompting a startling realignment of ideas and of parties (Except post-national Canada)
One of the fascinating aspects of the French Revolution, as one convulsion after another swept France in the 1790s, was that it transformed the politics of other countries too.
Like the US today, France was, until then, seen as both the most powerful of all nations and the great upholder of the established order. The dramatic overturning of that order created admirers and enemies all over Europe with a profound effect on politics for generations: in Britain it broke the Whig party, led to Edmund Burke’s defining of conservatism and spurred the industrial and military prowess with which an enormous empire would be governed. Its effect on ideas — such as the whole concept of left and right wings in politics — endures today.
.@POTUS: “Canada was meant to be the 51st state — because we subsidize Canada by $200 billion/year.” pic.twitter.com/uAnPSSXPXO
— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 19, 2025
h/t DS
The British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives does not have a rule requiring all of its nurses to support the idea that males can become females or anything in between. Nor is there any law or professional guideline that mandates nurses refrain from voicing their beliefs on gender 
Dylan Mulvaney, a flamboyant publicity hound who claims that he is a woman, has remained resolutely mum ever since he destroyed Bud Light, which was once the most popular beer brand in the country. After Mulvaney posted video of himself in April 2023 taking a bubble bath surrounded by cans of the brew with his cheesy mug front and center on each can, Bud Light sales went into a tailspin, and even now they have not fully recovered. Now Mulvaney is finally giving his take on the controversy, and — surprise, surprise — 
This time last year, a female pro-Palestine activist took a blade and a can of red spray paint to the 100-year-old painting of Lord Balfour in Trinity College, Cambridge. The perpetrator targeted the painting because Balfour was a signatory of the Balfour Declaration – the British Empire’s 1917 recognition of the aim to establish a 
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