EatYourOrach

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[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Slanted - Shad (English)

If he's new to anyone scrolling by, I've been listening to Shad for over a decade now and my favourite track of his is Fam Jam. Classic Canadiana.

[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago (4 children)

My conspiracy theory is Corey Comperatore was a blood sacrifice for Project 2025 ghouls. He was also proof that the gun was loaded with real bullets.

Leading up to the election, Christian fundie social media spaces were stuffed with bible verses (Leviticus and Revelations) and commentary about whether earblood was A Sign. So now they're shifting the narrative from Trump's being annointed by god to being the outright antichrist? Even when his supporters seem to be distancing themselves, you can see he's still the most important person in the world to them. It's so frigging weird.

[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Another nepobaby grifter Ford amplified by the press they're attacking. jfc how many of them are there?

This is why Anti-SLAPP laws are so important. Alberta doesn't have them, so Caylan's whole case gets heard in full before a judge can rule on its merit. Rotten business.

Just a reminder for anyone scrolling by, Caylan also wrote that she was “saddened by the demographic replacement of white peoples in their homelands [...] [I]t’s clear that it will not be a peaceful transition.” - press progress 2019

[–] EatYourOrach@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Just for context, the CTV story linked doesn't mention it, but before Trump's ragetweet, one of the Morouns met with Lutnick, Trump's secretary of commerce. For anyone who hasn't heard of them yet, the Moroun family across the water makes passive income in the billions off the Ambassador (troll) bridge. They even donated 1M to a Trump superPAC less than a month before Trump's tweet.

The timing of the donation and Trump's seeming change in position toward the new bridge is "somewhat of an unusual case" in the campaign finance world, according to Devin Judge-Lord, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.

"Usually everybody has strong incentives for these kinds of donations to not get attention," said Judge Lord, adding that a position change "would normally only be taken if they didn't believe they would generate a lot of news coverage." CBC, Feb '26

The Morouns spent something like 30M back in 2012 opposing the Gordie Howe - made a fake group called The People Should Decide that created a petition that called for a referendum to amend Michigan's constitution, just to preserve their monopoly. When that didn't work in their favour, the next year they started suing:

Ambassador Bridge owner Matty Moroun has named the U.S. departments of State, Transportation, Coast Guard and Homeland Security, as well as the Canadian government, in a lawsuit to stop a new Detroit River bridge.

In the 92-page lawsuit filed in federal court in February,  Moroun claims he has a “perpetual and exclusive franchise right” to operate the Windsor-Detroit crossing without competition from another bridge [...]

“I’m not surprised, they have an enormous sense of entitlement.” The bridge company’s claim to exclusive rights to bridge traffic at the Windsor-Detroit crossing is something “nobody takes seriously. They are lashing out in all directions and trying to stop progress,” [Canada’s Consul General Roy Norton] said, “This is what they do.” - Windsor Star, Apr 2013