On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

1. Meet some more people who believe that, in religion, there must always be compulsion.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/why-you-should-be-worried-about-a-new-trump-appointed-commission-you-probably-haven-t-heard-of-opinion/ar-AA1IfTTD

2. A science fair about things that won't be learned.

https://www.goodgoodgood.co/articles/science-fair-congress-canceled-grant-funding

3. Not only are we dealing with wildfires up here at home at the insistence of the fossil fuel industry, certain members of the US Congress are bashing us while Trump's making annexationist noises...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-wildfire-smoke-ruining-americans-summer-1.7580738

4. Coal Taurozzi, the last of the Parliament Hill Cats, is no more. :-(

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/last-parliament-hill-cat-dies-1.7580650

5. Our chartered banks can be mean at times. One of the latest cases in point:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rbc-bank-investigator-scam-1.7577770

He said today that the tariffs would start on the 1st of February.

The day after the foreign election interference report is released by the federal government here in Canada, right?

Dammit.

Does my preferred political party have to keep shooting themselves in the foot and expecting that foot to not go to pieces?

From CBC News:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kia-canada-car-sales-1.7063216

Considering that we need to pick up the pace of EV adoption across multiple countries, who else is doing this, and in how many countries?

According to reports I've seen on TrekBBS, major spoilers got into those three venues for the last two PIC episodes, set to "air" on this upcoming Thursday and the next. How far they've spread from those venues is as yet unclear.

Pretty sure that I don't want to see more than the CBS/Paramount+/CTV SciFi Channel machine has already shared until that morning.

I am both unsurprised and frightened that this idea might actually be governing the thinking of people in high places right now.

https://www.croakey.org/rethinking-covid-hegemony/

Please note that this essay does contain constructive ideas on how to respond to this danger.

Source: https://twitter.com/ccleighton/status/1621504471762173952

Said Author maintains a Fediverse presence here: https://mastodon.social/@ccleighton@med-mastodon.com

Danielle Smith and the self-described United Conservative Party are going to war against the Canadian constitution here. Whether they believe that of what they're doing or not.

I am minded of Timothy Snyder's 17th piece of advice from On Tyranny...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-premier-danielle-smith-sovereignty-act-1.6668175

Talking over other people during conversations.

I've been trying to stop doing that for some time now. It's bothering me more and more when I find myself backsliding.

This I believe: Doug Ford's crew are actively working to make people die and become disabled. Hence this:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-ltc-masks-1.6622221

What the actual HELL!!!

I suspect that such is indeed going on.

https://twitter.com/HeatherMoAndCo/status/1575508432089751552