The Trump Family is going to pull the rug hard on bitcoin.

But why?! The USA is a paradise for women! Isn't that what Margaret Atwood taught us!?

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

• The Affordable Healthcare Act (ACA) allows States to expand Medicaid.

• Democratic States accepted the Medicaid expansion. More people got healthcare.

• Several Republicans States refused to expand Medicaid. As a direct consequence, rural hospitals shut down. Rural voters facing hospital shutdowns blamed Democrats

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-024-10000-8

The conclusion of this paper is simple. Americans shouldn't have democracy. It's a system too difficult, too complex for them. They need something like the Chinese CCP.

Fun fact: Canada's largest trading partner in the past was the UK. Let's replace America's current place with Mexico and Europe.

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/102734

Actors and filmmakers who have spoken out against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and in solidarity with Palestinians against oppression and occupation are being blacklisted by media giant Paramount since its takeover by Zionist billionaire David Ellison, according to reports in Israeli media.

The McCarthyite move signals what is likely to become a systematic campaign to suppress pro-Palestine voices in the industry under the guise of combating supposed ‘antisemitism’, which the Israel lobby assiduously — and antisemitically — conflates with opposition to Israel’s genocide, occupation and apartheid.

Of Paramount importance

The $7.7 billion merger with Ellison’s Skydance Media – he is the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, one of the biggest donors to Israeli occupation forces and pro-Israel causes – has also seen the appointment of “notorious racist” and “genocide denier” Bari Weiss, a vocal defender of Israel’s ‘war’ (that is, slaughter of Palestinians) in Gaza, as editor-in-chief of Paramount-owned CBS News.

Weiss, who has said she is “happy to be called a Zionist fanatic,” is known for her anti-diversity views. Add to this attacks on the campus anti-genocide protest movement.

“If I get killed by Israeli bombs or my family is harmed, I blame Bari Weiss and her likes” — Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer after Weiss claimed he had joked about dead Israeli babies; Alareer was murdered, along with family members, by Israeli forces in a targeted bombing during the genocide.

Weiss was called out this week by a Code Pink anti-genocide protester as she addressed a right-wing gathering:

https://www.thecanary.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/ikW_InIwtmMmrtMe1.mp4

Weiss’s far-right politics and lack of experience or qualification have been highlighted even by milquetoast UK ‘mainstream’ media. In a video take-down on his show last month, US-based UK commentator John Oliver said of Weiss that:

she’s never run a TV network, has no experience directing television coverage, and as one 60 Minutes producer pointed out, is not even a reporter. That is true. She didn’t come up through the news side of a newspaper, but through the opinion pages, which are a very different thing.

But she’s ‘fanatically’ pro-Israel and that’s apparently all that matters.

Paramount’s decision to blacklist actors who stand against mass murder and to side with genocide shouldn’t be taken lightly. It should be treated like any organisation that supports the genocide or blacklists people for doing the right thing.

If you have a Paramount subscription, cancel it — and if you see a film produced by it, stay away. Meet blacklist with boycott and give Paramount the Starbucks and McDonald’s treatment.

Featured image via the Canary

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TORONTO - Interac Corp. says it has launched a new offering that gives Canadians more ways to pay for online purchases including directly through their bank account.

The company says the Konek payment solution is gradually being rolled out with Staples.ca as its first client, while for customers, access is limited for now to those who bank at BMO, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank or TD Canada Trust.

The option allows shoppers to pay through their debit or credit cards, or directly from their chequing, savings or line of credit accounts.

Purchases through bank accounts or a line of credit are being done through Interac Direct, which it says is a new digital payments solution with lower merchant fees.

Interac says it created the option in collaboration with Canadian financial institutions to offer more choices in how people pay online, while also lowering cart abandonment.

Kris Zanuldin, head of Konek, says in a statement that it offers a secure, homegrown alternative to international e-commerce payment solutions.