On a Friday night in March 2019, Leon-Jamal Daniel Barrett concluded that humanity was corrupt and his only means to save it was by having “sexual congress” with a woman chosen by God.
Social media now main source of news in US, research suggests
Social media and video networks have become the main source of news in the US, overtaking traditional TV channels and news websites, research suggests.
More than half (54%) of people get news from networks like Facebook, X and YouTube – overtaking TV (50%) and news sites and apps (48%), according to the Reuters Institute.
“The rise of social media and personality-based news is not unique to the United States, but changes seem to be happening faster – and with more impact – than in other countries,” a report found.
Lucky Us: Interview With TDS Infected Prof Fearing Imminent, Absolutely, No Doubts About It, This Time Fer Sure US Fascism Who Fled to Canada
Why a professor of fascism left the US: ‘The lesson of 1933 is – you get out’
She finds the whole idea absurd. To Prof Marci Shore, the notion that the Guardian, or anyone else, should want to interview her about the future of the US is ridiculous. She’s an academic specialising in the history and culture of eastern Europe and describes herself as a “Slavicist”, yet here she is, suddenly besieged by international journalists keen to ask about the country in which she insists she has no expertise: her own. “It’s kind of baffling,” she says.
In fact, the explanation is simple enough. Last month, Shore, together with her husband and fellow scholar of European history, Timothy Snyder, and the academic Jason Stanley, made news around the world when they announced that they were moving from Yale University in the US to the University of Toronto in Canada. It was not the move itself so much as their motive that garnered attention. As the headline of a short video op-ed the trio made for the New York Times put it, “We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the US”.
As if U of T’s reputation hasn’t suffered enough being a prime training ground for latter day Storm Troopers.
Kash Patel Drops 2020 Election Interference Evidence Bombshell
FBI Director Kash Patel dropped a bombshell Monday evening, handing Congress an intelligence report that raises serious questions about China’s role in the 2020 election. According to the report, Chinese operatives mass-produced counterfeit U.S. driver’s licenses as part of a broader scheme to flood the system with fake mail-in ballots—benefiting… you guessed it… Joe Biden.
h/t XC
WARMINGTON: TPS chasing stolen Rolls-Royce and suspect jumping from Gardiner not movie
That was not a Gone in 60 Seconds movie being filmed in Toronto overnight.
But with a pursuit on the Don Valley Parkway and an alleged car robber jumping from the Gardiner Expressway to try to get away, it sure looked like it.
#BREAKING: Carjacking Suspect Injured After He Jumped 40 Feet To The Ground On TheGardiner Express. Toronto Police Located The Stolen Vehicle In Connection To The Armed Carjacking, Suspects Fled On Foot, Jumper Transported To Hospital. pic.twitter.com/LJJ0j0m4jM
— 401_da_sarpanch (@401_da_sarpanch) June 17, 2025
Also in TO: Rats are your neighbors.
Rats spotted at a restaurant in Toronto pic.twitter.com/qxx8bPFHci
— 6ixBuzzTV (@6ixbuzztv) June 11, 2025
Video captures moment fed-up driver runs over ‘No Kings’ protester in Los Angeles
Dramatic footage shows the chaotic moment a frustrated driver ran over the leg of a “No Kings” protester who was trying to block the vehicle’s path in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday.
Woman ran over by an individual driving a car during protests over the weekend in Los Angeles, California.
The woman was seen blocking the car when the driver had clearly had enough.
Police are investigating the incident. According to KTLA, the woman who was struck was… pic.twitter.com/wa1deT51SZ
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) June 16, 2025
Another incident
A driver gets surrounded in Riverside by a mob screaming “NO KINGS,” slamming on the car, blocking the road…
He floors it to protect his family — and now he’s the criminal?You trap someone in their car and act like animals, don’t cry when they treat it like a threat. pic.twitter.com/s2RWLwpQq7
— Clown World ™ (@ClownWorld_) June 15, 2025
After Decades of Atrophy, Canada Vows to Beef Up Its Military. Can It Deliver?
To help shift the country away from its dependence on the United States, Canada’s prime minister plans to spend billions to revitalize its military and meet a NATO spending goal.
At the end of World War II, Canada boasted one of the world’s largest navies, with 95,000 uniformed members and 434 ships.
The current Royal Canadian Navy is far less impressive — about 11,500 members and 40 vessels.
Only one of its four diesel submarines, which were bought secondhand from Britain in the 1990s, is operational. And Canada’s armed forces as a whole are about 16,000 people short of an approved head count of 101,500, including reserves.
Nope.
Young people are taking out loans to buy pizzas
The film of Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short is a magnificent piece of storytelling that made the 2008 financial crash comprehensible.
In the movie, a renegade hedge fund boss discovers that the financial system contains an unexploded bomb. Huge amounts of poorly secured credit are floating around that are far riskier than the holders realise, or want to admit.
It’s a collective hallucination of trust, and he bets that it must eventually collapse.
The stars are aligned: now Canada must deliver on its natural resources
For too long, Canada has been a modest contributor on the global economic stage. But modesty is no longer a virtue in a world demanding bold leadership. While on the campaign trail, Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to make Canada both the strongest economy in the G7 and an energy superpower. That ambitious goal is not only necessary, it is also within reach—if we are willing to unleash the full potential of Canada’s natural resources sector, including responsibly expanding our energy and critical minerals industries.
Not if Net-Zero Carney has his way.
‘Gents’ is an unacceptable term in modern workplace, judge says
A female employee who sued an insurance company for discrimination still lost her case — as her boss was guilty of incompetence rather than sexism
A judge has branded the word “gents” as “old-fashioned”, describing the term as unsuitable for the modern workplace.
Dawn Shotter said the shortening of “gentlemen” — often used to describe men’s lavatories — was inappropriate in a ruling involving a claim against one of the Britain’s biggest insurance companies.
A female employee at Royal & Sun Alliance sued for sex discrimination after she was included in group emails from her boss that was addressed to “gents”.
Trump, Carney Agree to Reach Deal Within 30 Days
BANFF, Alta.—Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump have committed to reaching a deal within 30 days, following a meeting on the first day of the G7 leaders’ summit in Kananaskis, Alta.
The new commitment came during discussions on a new economic and security relationship between both countries, along with talks on trade pressures and each side’s priorities, the Prime Minister’s Office said in a readout of the June 16 meeting.
Trump left rendering the G7 meaningless.
Paris Train Staff Fine Teen Pilgrim Singing Hymn—But Ignore Football Rioters
On returning from the pilgrimage to Chartres on Whit Monday last week, a young pilgrim was fined for ‘disturbing the peace’ because he was singing with his friends in the corridors of a Paris train station. A few days after the chaos caused by supporters of the Paris Saint-Germain football team, the sentence seems somewhat disproportionate. The reason is simple: when imposing fines, the transport authorities deliberately target passengers who are convenient for them—who are obviously not the real troublemakers.
European Union Leaders Say Canada Will Sign a Defence Procurement Pact This Month
European Union officials say Canada is likely to sign a defence procurement agreement with the continent when Prime Minister Mark Carney goes to Brussels later this month.
Carney is set to visit the administrative capital of the European Union on June 23 for the Canada-EU summit, where he will meet with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa.
At the G7 summit in Alberta on Sunday, both EU leaders said Canada’s involvement in Europe’s defence architecture is set to deepen.
I doubt Canada is able to contribute much if anything to the defense of Europe, even if we were so inclined which is very doubtful.
How many Muslims will rally to Finland’s defence? There is no Canada anymore.
Elizabeth May calls solar panels ‘Jesus work’
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May told the House of Commons that solar panels embody the teachings of Jesus Christ as she endorsed her parish church’s decision to bless newly installed renewable energy equipment.
In her first Member’s Statement to the 45th Parliament, May described attending a ceremony where her bishop blessed solar panels installed on St. Andrew Anglican Church in Sidney, BC, reports Blacklock’s Reporter.
The march of the useful idiots
In April 2017, thousands of wealthy Westerners headed to the Bahamas for Fyre, a luxury music festival. They expected villas and meals from celebrity chefs. What they got was soaked tents and cheese sandwiches. Watching the Netflix documentary, Fyre: The Greatest Party That Never Happened, it is difficult not to cringe as you see it slowly dawn on the privileged tourists that the whole thing is a con.
We saw a similar case of privileged Western delusion meeting reality in Egypt this weekend. Some 4,000 activists had descended on Cairo for the ‘Global March to Gaza’. They expected to take buses to Arish, a city in northern Sinai, before marching 30 miles to the Egyptian side of the Gaza border at Rafah. There they would break Israel’s blockade.
This is awful. Awful funny.
Stunning footage coming out of Egypt thanks to comrade Crispin Flintoff @CrispinShow.
Welsh nurse confronts and pleads with Egyptian security forces to let them pass.
Crispin thankfully safe after the attacks yesterday on the protestors.
Watch the show tomorrow at 10.30.… pic.twitter.com/AOSamjs4qh
— David Miller (@Tracking_Power) June 14, 2025