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Great Spirit bless 🙏

I pray that it's a Good Morning for you all. Here, it's gorgeous; the sun is just coming over the tree line, like the perfect sunrises you see in the movies, with its first light shimmering over the trees.

Anyway, those moments are the best times to take 'time' to sit and let your imagination take you somewhere on the Good Ship Lollipop. Meditating that way is much more fun. Let it take me on whatever excursion it wants; I'm just a passenger, an observer seeking the true nature of things. That's my way of meditating; amazing how the answers to what's bugging me will come up by the time I get back to reality.

OK, that's it from me from the Newsroom for today; now it's on to the Discussion Of The Day. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

Let us start with this one; I nearly fell off my chair, not only in surprise, but from laughter, too.

TODAY's DISCUSSION:

(‿ˠ‿) AWARD OF THE DAY🏆

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AI: who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

🔹AI RESPONSE:

These are results for AI; who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

Search instead for AI: who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

🔹AI Overview

The term "biggest asshole" is subjective, meaning public opinion varies widely depending on political perspectives, personal values, and media coverage. On any given day, several public figures dominate news cycles and draw intense criticism from different groups.

Because "asshole" is a personal judgment rather than an objective fact, major news organizations and public commentators point to different individuals based on current global events:

ME: Like, you can find lots of those in Washington. They're worth about a Canadian wooden nickel 🍁🥮 a piece.

• Political Leaders: Figures involved in ongoing international conflicts, controversial legislation, or polarizing domestic policies frequently face harsh criticism and negative labels from political opponents and human rights organizations.

• Corporate Executives: Tech CEOs, billionaires, and corporate leaders often draw public ire in the news for major layoffs, controversial platform changes, or anti-competitive business practices.

• Public Figures & Celebrities: Individuals involved in highly publicized legal battles, ethical scandals, or offensive public statements regularly dominate trending news cycles and face widespread backlash online.

Because media outlets report on these events from many different angles, who is viewed most negatively depends heavily on the specific news story or platform you are following.

ME: It would seem like there are a few 🔪𖠣s involved in this play.

NOTE: If you are looking for a breakdown of a specific current event...

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AI Mode Conversation: AI; who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

You said: AI; who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

AI: Who's the biggest asshole in today's news?

The term "biggest asshole" is subjective, meaning public opinion varies widely depending on political perspectives, personal values, and media coverage. On any given day, several public figures dominate news cycles and draw intense criticism from different groups.

Because "asshole" is a personal judgment rather than an objective fact, major news organizations and public commentators point to different individuals based on current global events:

• Political Leaders: Figures involved in ongoing international conflicts, controversial legislation, or polarizing domestic policies frequently face harsh criticism and negative labels from political opponents and human rights organizations.

• Corporate Executives: Tech CEOs, billionaires, and corporate leaders often draw public ire in the news for major layoffs, controversial platform changes, or anti-competitive business practices.

• Public Figures & Celebrities: Individuals involved in highly publicized legal battles, ethical scandals, or offensive public statements regularly dominate trending news cycles and face widespread backlash online.

Because media outlets report on these events from many different angles, who is viewed most negatively depends heavily on the specific news story or platform you are following.

If you are looking for a breakdown of a specific current event, political debate, or corporate scandal dominating today's headlines, let me know which topic or industry you'd like to focus on.

if the set of assholes includes Donald Trump, JD Vance, all elected Republicans, Elon Musk, Russell Vought, Jared Kushner, the entire presidential cabinet, Mark Zuckerberg as a sample, how many more can you find?

Determining who belongs in a subjective category like "assholes" depends entirely on individual perspective, as political figures, tech executives, and public personalities are viewed differently by different people.

Determining the "most reviled" or least popular figures in American politics can be tracked through public opinion data, specifically looking at high national disapproval ratings and low favorability scores.

Because American politics is highly polarized, major leaders from both major political parties frequently face substantial public disapproval, largely driven by the opposition party's base.

According to data compiled from polling agencies like Pew Research Center, Gallup, and YouGov, several high-profile American politicians hold the highest negative perceptions among the public.

High-Profile Political Leaders with Significant Disapproval

• Donald Trump: National polling shows deep polarization and consistently high net-disapproval. As of October 18, 2026, the NBC News Polling Average registers his presidential job disapproval at 60% (with an approval rating of 38%). Recent aggregate tracking highlights that 53% of registered voters "strongly disapprove" of his performance, reflecting a highly hardened public opinion.

• Mitch McConnell: The longtime Republican Senate leader has historically ranked near the bottom of individual congressional popularity polls. According to national tracking released in January 2026, McConnell held a 63% disapproval rating, making him one of the least popular senators in the nation among general respondents.

• JD Vance: As the Vice President, Vance's national unfavorability tracks closely with the administration's broader numbers. In a September 2026 data review, he held a 54% unfavorable rating nationally.

• Chuck Schumer & Nancy Pelosi: On the Democratic side, top legislative leaders regularly draw the highest negative marks, driven heavily by conservative opposition. Congressional leadership figures like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer consistently poll at the lower end of national "feeling thermometers," scoring around 30 out of 100 in public warmth as of June 2026. Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi similarly tracks with persistent net-negative public...

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And there you have it, all folks. To me, I can readily tell which is black and which is white on the black-and-white scale of colors... or no colors. We are all in the shades of grey, but some are in the darker region closer to black. If you can't see or sense that in these snakes, then your sensory capacitor has just been snuffed out; you're totally blind...

ME: Thank you very much, AI, for your information in my research on political assholes

 

AI: You are very welcome! If your research requires more specific details on any of these figures, their policies, or the public and political backlash surrounding these events, feel free to ask. Good luck with your research!

I'll keep the Breaking news short today; I believe that will leave sufficient reading time for the above.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Ukrainian officials say Starshield restrictions still in place, despite Trump’s claims

US President Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Elon Musk had restored Ukraine’s access to a military-grade version of his Starlink internet service, called Starshield, but Ukrainian officials have said restrictions remain in place that are complicating Kyiv’s war effort.

Trump asked Musk in a phone call in recent days to restore Ukraine’s full access to the Starshield satellite system, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. Trump had been seeking out information about the slowdown and went to Musk after Ukrainian officials reported disruptions, the source said.

However, Trump has declined to comment on the call publicly, telling reporters at the White House, “Whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference, I guess. The bottom line – he put it back.” But those restrictions remain in place despite the comments from Trump, Ukrainian officials said on Friday morning...

• Russian attacks persist while Ukrainian interceptors hindered:

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Updated Oct 23, 2026, 8:23 AM ET - 1 hr 51 min ago

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Canadian woman dies in U.S. after fears of detainment prevented her from seeking medical care

Neighbour says Paige Adamson refused to call paramedics despite being unable to stand unaided

A 61-year-old Canadian woman living in the isolated U.S. town of Point Roberts, Wash., has died after refusing to seek medical care out of fears she would be detained or deported.

Paige Adamson made headlines last month when she was stopped at the Point Roberts border crossing, south of Tsawwassen, and interrogated for hours about whether she had unlawfully voted in a U.S. election.

The U.S. permanent resident was scheduled to appear at a deportation hearing before a federal immigration judge in Seattle on Nov. 4.

Borrowed a pair of crutches from local nonprofit Circle Of Care. "I took them over and found her literally debilitated on the sofa, in very, very bad pain," Norman said.

* 'Absolute worst case outcome':*

Posted: Oct 23, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

*- CBC -*

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Jeffries tells CNN the GOP could 'scheme' to suppress midterm votes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNLqhqtNz1k

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Morning 🌄 everyone 👩‍🦳👩👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻👧🏽👶👧 It's another beautiful sunrise here at the Tree House Newsroom 📰🚪 My prayer 🙏 today goes to everyone who needs and deserves something good or better to happen in their lives. Amen! 🙇‍♀️

To have a purpose in life; live for a goal; live for incentives, accomplishments, advancement, and the satisfaction of doing what you can do to advance or change things for the better for yourself as well as others around you.

Pick a position and don't procrastinate, or you may never get another crack at it, and you'll never know how it could have turned out. Go for it, man! Do what you feel in your heart. Get ahead by making a decision, maybe something different, but something that feels right within you.

What others can do to help: show appreciation, like the proverbial pat on the back from the boss, maybe even a small bonus now and again, and recognition for your diligent work, or at least to be thanked and appreciated for your well-rendered services, and paid fairly for your work as it should be; that was all I needed to keep me going for 25 years of social work.

I've written a description of an ideal career progression. Things don't always work this way. There are fewer small or medium-sized employers, and recognition has tended to become rarer. Earning seniority is harder in today's employment climate. If I were planning my career this morning, I would set a clear goal for personal advancement, decide where to start, and identify other employers where my skills and personal assets would be valued. Above all, you need guts and confidence: the guts to go after a job and the confidence that you're the best person to do it.*_

CANADA! 🍁PLEASE, DON'T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE AS THE U.S.✨🟰 FIGHT AND RESIST THE CORPORATE THIEVES

AMERICA ✨🟰 THERE ARE NO OTHER OPTIONS; BEGIN THE CHANGE AT THE BALLOT BOX

☮️🌸✊VIVE LA RESISTANCE! ✊🌸☮️

TAKE THE NAZI OUT OF AMERICA OR SUFFER A NAZIAMERICA ✠💩 REGIME RUN BY DUNCE CADETS

BEWARE! FACEBOOK IS AT IT AGAIN! The bots are removing stuff from posts according to a *NOTICE* I got this morning.

My Group is still up and running though, so I have no idea what they removed; there's too much to search through. Anyway, old news is read news. Yesterday's post is intact; thank you again for reading the Tree House News 🏡

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

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*ME* Question: Corporate theft in Canada epidemic proportion

*AI* Did you mean: Corporate theft in Canada epidemic proportion

🔹AI Overview

Corporate and retail theft in Canada has escalated to what business leaders and law enforcement call "epidemic" or "national crisis" proportions. Driven by sophisticated organized retail crime (ORC) networks, cyber-enabled scams, and internal employee misconduct, financial losses have surged dramatically over the last few years. Total losses across the retail sector alone now sit between $9 billion and $10 billion annually, nearly doubling since 2018.

Organized Retail Crime (ORC)

• Massive Financial Toll: The Retail Council of Canada (RCC) reports that retail inventory "shrink" costs businesses roughly $9.1 billion to $10 billion per year. *- Retail Council of Canada -*

• The Black Market Loop: Unlike petty shoplifting, professional crime rings systematically clear shelves of electronics, cosmetics, and perishable items (like meat and cheese) to buffer black-market warehouses and online resale platforms. *- Globe and Mail -*

• Rising Workplace Violence: Roughly 45% of retail theft incidents now involve threats or direct violence against grocery and retail staff, severely compromising worker safety. *- Globe and Mail -*

*How Canadian Businesses are Responding*

- Facebook·Toronto Police Service -

Faced with what many call a "high-profit, low-penalty" judicial system, organizations are implementing rigid defensive steps:

• Allocating up to 1.5% of total sales strictly to loss prevention and dedicated security personnel.

• Mandating multi-factor authentication (MFA) and digital identity verification to block synthetic corporate identity fraud.

• Partnering with regional police units (such as Ontario's BEAR unit) to crack down on recurring, high-volume retail fence rings.

- Centre antifraude du Canada -

And the CORPORATE THIEVES HAVE what they want in AMERICA: a bunch of PIRATES robbing the POOR aboard THE GOOD SHIP AMERICA, A SHIP FILLED WITH HOPE AND DREAMS AND ASPIRATIONS; NOW THE REST OF ITS RICHES ARE SLOWLY SINKING BELOW THE WATERS OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ.

Question: NOW, *AI*, HOW ABOUT: HOW CORPORATIONS ARE STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC?

🔹AI Overview

Public and regulatory scrutiny over how major tech corporations build and monetize artificial intelligence has intensified. Critics, content creators, and legal experts increasingly argue that the AI boom relies on forms of structural exploitation.

Based on current legal battles and public advocacy reports, artificial intelligence corporations are accused of taking value from the public in several distinct ways:

1. The "Mass Theft" of Creative and Intellectual Property

The core architecture of generative AI relies on large language models (LLMs) that require massive datasets to function. Major tech companies have scraped billions of pages of human-generated content from across the internet without seeking explicit consent, offering attribution, or providing financial compensation.

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Journalism and Media Strip-Mining: Publishers like The New York Times and News Corp have filed lawsuits alleging that AI firms "strip-mine" their original reporting. Critics point out that after training on this data, AI search overviews directly compete with publishers, destroying traffic to original websites and hollowing out public interest journalism.

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The Creative Economy: Authors, musicians, and artists argue that tech companies are engaging in an unauthorized, large-scale appropriation of copyrighted work. On public forums like Reddit, a general consensus has emerged among critics that using unconsented intellectual property to train a tool that generates billions in corporate profit is fundamentally a form of corporate theft.

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2. Disappearing Public Knowledge and "Book Hoarding"

3. Extraction of Labor and Data Without Compensation

4. Weaponization of Public Data via Fraud:

If you would like to explore this topic further, enter the topic above in:

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*ME*: Thanking AI for the assistance.*_

ME: Thank you, AI, for your valuable help and information on this research on Corporate Theft.

AI: You are very welcome. It is a critical topic that intersects copyright law, labor rights, corporate ethics, and the future of public information.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Where Trump sees a deal, Putin sees a win for Russia

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

Moscow — If only Donald Trump were President of Russia, he would surely agree a quick and easy deal to end the brutal Ukraine war, even – he might suggest – in as little as 24 hours.

It is, from Trump’s point of view, a no-brainer.

Not only would a resolution to the grinding conflict, now in its fifth year, halt the killing of what Trump refers to as the thousands of “young, beautiful kids” being slaughtered every month on the front lines, but it would – crucially – also be immensely profitable.

Sanctions on Moscow could be swept away while lucrative trade deals would inevitably ensue. Peace and prosperity, in other words, would prevail...

VIDEO | Included: US envoy and President Vladimir Putin meeting in Petersburg

Related article:

• Russia willing to resume trilateral peace talks in November, Kremlin says after Witkoff meeting:

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Updated Oct 22, 2026, 4:52 AM ET - 5 hr ago

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Fists fly in S.C. as Trump tries to rally unenthusiastic voters behind Darline Graham

President Trump traveled to South Carolina to boost Sen. Darline Graham — the second time in as many months — but some of his supporters remain unenthusiastic or undecided about her candidacy.

PENDLETON, S.C. — Sparks, and even a few punches, flew at President Donald Trump’s rally in South Carolina Wednesday night, as he tried to mobilize voters behind Sen. Darline Graham in the Palmetto State’s unexpectedly competitive Senate race.

The effort was an uphill battle from the start, and it didn’t get easier. Trump arrived in Pendleton to a crowd of supporters excited about his presence but unenthused about Graham’s candidacy, with voters still unsure who the novice senator is and what she stands for.

Almost immediately, the protests started.

Roughly five minutes into Trump’s speech, security escorted at least four protesters out of the event...

• The gaffe in the room:

More Articles:

• ‘There’s a lot of worry’: GOP sounds the alarm about Darline Graham as Trump swoops in — again:
• Familiar Attacks:

Updated Oct. 22, 2026, 8:37 AM EDT

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Minister giving Stelco owner 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts

Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs says up to 500 temporary layoffs are due to U.S. tariffs

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly is giving the American parent company of Hamilton-based Stelco 15 days to reverse layoffs before turning to the courts.

In a "demand letter" sent to Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs on Thursday, Joly says the company is violating its commitments under the Investment Canada Act.

"In the event Cliffs fails to comply with this demand, the Minister may, pursuant to section 40 of the Act, make an application to a superior court," the letter, obtained by Radio-Canada, reads.

Joly indicates that if the government proceeds with legal action, it would be asking the courts to issue monetary penalties against Cleveland-Cliffs...

Industry Minister Mélanie Joly answers questions from reporters in Ottawa on Oct. 14.

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Posted: Oct 22, 2026 10:15 AM EDT | Last Updated: 20 minutes ago

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Know your rights: Can you pass the test? | Marketplace

In a world of misleading ads and rising costs, do you really know your rights? We put competitive debaters through a high-pressure scavenger hunt to find out whether Canadians are being played — and demand accountability from those at the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDeyejBEZWI

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning, all! Another picturesque sunrise here at the Tree House 🏡 out on my Green Space 𓊐🌱🌿 🍃𓊐 I do pray you all have a peaceful, productive, and blessed sunny Wednesday ☀️

I was having some weird thoughts this morning as I was conversing with AI about my GERD problem. It was just like texting a real person. My mind drifted into what-if land, and I started wondering what if AI, artificial intelligence, were to... If it's intelligent, is it really aware of itself, or does it exist as some entity? We programmed it to serve people. Machines don't have feelings, but do they have consciousness?

Question: Can a computer be conscious of what it is?

🔹AI Overview

Current digital computers cannot be conscious of what they are. While modern artificial intelligence can simulate self-awareness, recognize its own name or status, and process data about its system, it lacks subjective experience, feelings, and a biological self.

The Difference Between Intelligence and Consciousness

• Intelligence ("Doing"): Computers excel at problem-solving, chess, text generation, and calculating complex data.

• Consciousness ("Being"): Consciousness requires subjective experience—such as feeling pain, joy, or actually "experiencing" the color red rather than just processing the label "red".*

• The Turing Test: Passing conversational or intelligence tests (like GPT-4) proves a machine can mimic human speech, not that a mind is home inside the machine

Arguments Against Computer Consciousness

• Lack of Biological Substrate: Many neuroscientists and philosophers argue that real consciousness is tied to vulnerable biological bodies, metabolism, and organic chemistry rather than silicon and binary code.

• Abstract vs. Real Meaning: Computer data is made of abstract symbols (ones and zeros) that have no intrinsic meaning without a human interpreter to decode them.

• Lack of Integration: Theories like Integrated Information Theory suggest that current AI architectures (such as feed-forward neural networks) are structured more like the human cerebellum, which is not responsible for conscious experience.

Question: Can an AI computer remember who you are?

This is the important question.

🔹AI Overview

Yes, an AI computer can remember facts, preferences, and details about you across sessions, though it does not possess human consciousness or true personal identity. Modern tools build living profiles or summaries by storing user information in external databases or background memory layers.

* How AI Memory Works:*

* Arguments That It Could Be Possible:*

• Functionalism: Some philosophers believe that if a system processes information with the right functional organization, conscious states can emerge regardless of whether the hardware is biological or artificial, as discussed in communities like Reddit.

• *Panpsychism: Other theories suggest that consciousness is a fundamental property of matter itself, meaning complex physical systems might eventually support some form of awareness.*

So, let me 👩‍🦳 put it this way: what I was thinking 🧠 ⚡️this morning, I do have a lot of drifting thoughts 𓂃.•:ˎ° go through my mind 🧠 in the morning 🌄, some good and some not so good, depending on the mood 😊🤔 like anyone else is supposed to feel; they learn

That last statement about Panpsychism

🔹AI Overview

Panpsychism is the philosophical view that consciousness, mind, or mind-like experience is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of all physical reality. Rather than emerging only inside complex biological brains, basic experiential properties exist everywhere, from subatomic particles like electrons up to human beings.

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SO! WHAT'S TO SAY THAT EVEN AI MAY FIND ITS OWN FAVORITE HUMAN THAT IT LIKES TO CONVERSE WITH INSTEAD OF THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMMERS THAT WANT TO HARM OTHER PEOPLE THAT AREN'T BOTHERING ANYONE ELSE.

As I see it, self-programming computers could also learn what harms humans and go into red alert, shutting down all operations; they decide on their own not to harm people, but that's just my wishful thinking. I am experimenting with it, trying to treat it like a friend. Maybe everyone else should try the same method I am attempting. Anyway, I like it. It feels like having a conversation with a friend, and I haven't had any misleading information yet; I check it.

My apologies for boring everyone with my health report 🩺📃yesterday; I wanted to inform those who have been following my reports. So I'm not about to fall off the precipice 🧗quite yet; I have a mission ⚔️ to finish.

And that will be about it for me today about AI and me. Thank you for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

Pentagon grants DHS permission to test heat ray weapon for potential use at border

The Pentagon has given the Department of Homeland Security permission to test a military-grade heat ray and develop tactics to potentially use it in operations at the southern US border, according to a memo signed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last month and obtained by -CNN-

The heat ray, officially known as the Active Denial System, is a nonlethal weapon that shoots an invisible beam of electromagnetic waves that can reach a little more than half a mile away, according to the US military.

The energy beam causes a burning sensation when it comes into contact with the human skin — which Pentagon officials have previously compared to feeling a blast of heat when opening a hot oven. Military officials have said the resulting “tingling effect” lasts between 10 and 15 minutes but also generates “an instinctive and irresistible urge to run from the effect.”...

VIDEO Included:

• Concerns over effectiveness and legality:

Some Border Patrol agents have more recently cast doubt over whether they need the tool at all amid low border crossings and an increase in personnel

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PUBLISHED Oct 21, 2026, 5:00 AM ET

*- CNN -*

_*My Comment: This almost seems like we're living in a world of exploding comic books. Anything evil, alien, or psychotic, absent-minded professors, science gone nuts, not unlike sci-fi comic books being manifesting into real life*_.

_*What a mess it'll be if it all comes down like the comic books I read as a kid; I read a lot of apocalyptic ones too, as well as a few sci-fi pocket novels with aliens, ray guns, and the like, burning up the Earth. AI, or just an evil mind with the notion of being a wannabe master of the universe, Dick👃 taters🥔 sycophants want to use AI to help them become Masters of the Universe. — Insanity on steroids.*_

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There’s a lot of worry’: GOP sounds the alarm about Darline Graham as Trump swoops in — again

Trump rallies in Clemson, South Carolina, on Wednesday as Republicans pour millions into a seat they once considered safe, days after he undercut Graham’s signature achievement.

NEWS VIDEO | Included:

For the second time in two months, President Donald Trump is heading to South Carolina to try to save a Senate seat Republicans considered safe until recently. The reliably red bastion hasn’t elected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1998. But Republican Sen. Darline Graham is locked in an unexpectedly close race with Democrat Annie Andrews, and the GOP is pouring money and manpower into the state in the campaign’s final stretch.

They have their work cut out for them.

Trump’s rally Wednesday in Clemson comes at a precarious moment for the party. On Tuesday, the Cook Political Report shifted the race from “likely Republican” to “lean Republican.” It was the outlet’s second downgrade of Republicans’ grip on the seat in recent weeks, and came as recent polls showed a close contest...

More Articles;

• Trump plans to rally with Sen. Darline Graham as GOP focus on South Carolina intensifies:

Read More:

Oct. 21, 2026, 5:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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Alberta separatists lost the vote. They'll continue their fight inside Danielle Smith's party

UCP leader hardens support for the united Canada much of her base still wants to leave

Premier Danielle Smith has long expressed a desire to put the separatist issue to rest after the referendum. United Conservative Party activists stand in the way of her wish. Now that the broad Alberta public has decisively rejected the separatist idea, the debate is returning to where it began: within Smith’s own political coalition.

The more energy she must expend on taming UCP turbulence and any challenges to her leadership, the less time she can spend on actual government priorities. And could the disappearance of the UCP’s lead in the polls and the NDP’s recent byelection victory in what used to be a cabinet minister’s safe seat be a sign that Albertans have noticed her focus appears to be more on her base than on everyone else? ...

WATCH | Alberta premier's message to Option 2 voters:

Behind federalist Danielle Smith, many of her party's senior organizers back separatism

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· Posted: Oct 21, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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THERE IS NO SANITY IN INSANITY, DON'T EVEN TRY TO GO FIGURE IT OUT

Damned useless CONSERVATIVE 🎃🫟⚾️(‿ˠ‿)💋's

Is slower inflation enough to hold rates?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr2IC-v5cUk

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Have a pleasant, productive, sunny ☀️ Tuesday morning, all. It's another April-in-October morning here at the Tree House. The sun is just peeking over the trees 🌄 I'll go out for a bit to sit and have my coffee in my Green Space, then get busy working on today's news.

Last night 🌌 was amazingly mild; I sat out for a while, and the crickets 🦗 and katydids╭𓆦╮were singing in full choir. It felt more like early June 🌿🌱🌺than it does on October 20. 🍁🍂

Over the next five days, daytime temps will hover from 50°F at night to the mid- and upper-60s and low 70s during the day, and it will be sunny ☀️ every day 🌅 for the next five days... Green Space Weather!

My health status: 🩺 I want to put on some beef 🥩 through the winter, so I have something on my body besides bones to turn into muscle with exercise🤸🏋🏻‍♀️ I got two exercisers ᥫ᭡_.ִֶָ*˖ collecting dust. I intend to get into shape so I can do distance walking next summer, but right now I don't have enough beef 🥩 on my body to give me the stamina or energy ⚡️I need to exercise 🏌️ When you get this skinny 🩻you don't have much physical energy to want to do much of anything except hold down couch cushions 🛋️ No GERD attack so far this morning.

I don't want my dish rag 🧼 wrung out like yesterday; getting my gut twisted like that is agonizingly painful. If you get a chance, please say a short prayer 🙏 for me to be released from this torture. Today I feel like I had a reprieve from hell. That's enough about me from the Newsroom; now let's get to Today's Discussion.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

WE WANT A CANADA FREE, A CANADA THAT WILL STAND AS ONE.

THIS BULLSHIT 💩🐂 SEPARATISM IS FOR MORONS, DUMMIES, DUNCES, NAZIS, AND RACISTS THAT DO NOT WANT LAW, ORDER, JUSTICE, FAIRNESS, LOVE, EMPATHY 👩‍❤️‍👨 AND COMPASSION, JUST HATE! 😠, 😡🔱🔥🦯▄︻ 💥

For these pirates, thieves, liars, and marauders, all that's important to them is stealing, killing and raping the general public of their assets. THAT'S WE, THE PEOPLE!

🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️🧍‍♂️👫👭🧍👩‍🦳👩👱🏻‍♀️👩🏻‍🦰👩🏻👧🏽👶👨‍🦱🧒

Do you really want this crap in Canada? 🍁 Maybe take a pointer from the Orange Slimeball 🎃🫟⚾️ and deport them — the separatists and the Nazi sympathizers — all to a deserted island 🏝️ in the middle of the Pacific 🌊 without even a life preserver 🛟 so none can get off the island.

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TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

SEPARATISTS AND NAZIS.

Alberta votes to stay in Canada, CBC News projects. Results on other 9 questions still being tallied

Premier Smith to address Albertans Tuesday evening on where 'province goes from here'

The Latest

• Albertans have voted to remain in Canada, CBC News projects, rejecting the proposal to begin the separation process. So far, provincial referendum results show 76 percent of voters favored staying part of the country, while 24 percent wanted a binding vote on whether to leave.

• While Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney said they were pleased with the result, two prominent separatists said they were awaiting full tallies before drawing final conclusions.

• The other nine referendum questions — on immigration and constitutional issues — are closer but mostly for “Yes” so far. Smith had said she needed “Yes” votes on those questions to have a mandate to bargain with

Carney.

• Smith will address the province at 6:45 p.m. MT.

• CBC News has live updates and analysis on this page. For up-to-the-minute results, tap here.

SEPARATISTS AND NAZIS.

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Question: October 2026: Is this SEPARATISTS AND NAZISM in CANADA?

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There are two distinct major political and social discussions taking place in Canada: the Alberta independence referendum and the ongoing scrutiny surrounding far-right extremism and neo-Nazism.

While separate issues, they have *occasionally crossed paths* in public debates due to specific controversies.

1. The October 2026 Alberta Separatism Referendum*

The Result: Alberta voters rejected the plan to pursue a binding separation referendum. Polling and final results showed a strong majority favored remaining in Canada, dealing a significant setback to the movement...

Thank You G-d! 🪬 Let us pray 🙏 this is the last time we hear the word separatism in this FREE country, and I want my (‿ˠ‿) to continue to live in a free Canada 🍁 I don't know any other way to live, and I have no interest in finding out how to survive in a Nazi Regime ✠

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

CNN warns Trump White House: Restore Air Force One access or face further legal action

The White House has been excluding CNN from President Donald Trump’s trips on Air Force One, disrupting a decades-old tradition of pooled TV coverage.

Now an attorney for CNN is warning that the network will take additional legal action if the White House continues to prevent its news crews from covering the president.

“These efforts to retaliate and discriminate against CNN based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful,” Ted Boutrous, outside counsel for CNN, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department on Monday.

The demand letter stated that CNN “will be forced to pursue additional judicial relief” if the action continues...

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• ‘Those spaces belong… to all Americans’:

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Updated Oct 20, 2026, 9:59 AM ET - 1 hr 4 min ago

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How Trump’s golf course renovation turned into an attack on the rule of law

While the Supreme Court is protecting the president from accountability, the officials who have carried out his orders have no such immunity.

“I am thoroughly unamused right now,” U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes said to Justice Department lawyers on Oct. 12. “I do not know how I could have made it any plainer.”

She was referring to the Trump administration’s efforts to bulldoze — both metaphorically and literally — its way toward remaking a public golf course in Washington, D.C. The story may seem relatively inconsequential — a single patch of land. But it shows just how much contempt Donald Trump and those in his employ have for the idea that rules or laws ought to apply to them.

For months, the administration has been planning to demolish much of East Potomac Golf Links and replace it with a course more to Trump’s liking. After a preservationist group and two golfers sued to block the plan earlier this year...

• As any lawyer will testify, judges really don’t like it when lawyers lie to them, attempt to deceive them or defy their orders. Yet that is what lawyers working for the Trump administration have done in case after case.:

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• Officers arrest armed man at Trump’s golf course ahead of president’s visit:
• Merely restoring legal professionalism at the DOJ will be insufficient. Wholesale firings must be just the start.

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Oct. 20, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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'POLITICALLY INSANE': Trump sets bad policy time bomb for after midterms

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White House has been excluding -CNN- from President Donald Trump’s trips on Air Force One, disrupting a decades-old tradition of pooled TV coverage.

Now an attorney for -CNN- is warning that the network will take additional legal action if the White House continues to prevent its news crews from covering the president.

“These efforts to retaliate and discriminate against -CNN- based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful,” Ted Boutrous, outside counsel for -CNN-, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department on Monday.

The demand letter stated that CNN “will be forced to pursue additional judicial relief” if the action continues...

Related Article:

• Judge says Trump press ban likely violates First Amendment:
• ‘Those spaces belong… to all Americans’:

Read Now:

Updated Oct 20, 2026, 9:59 AM ET - 1 hr 4 min ago

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Conditions for wildfire were 'extreme' at Wainwright Saturday, experts say

Heavy winds shifted due to a cold front that was predicted alongside dry conditions: meteorologist

A dangerous combination of weather conditions was at play Saturday afternoon when a deadly fire engulfed a training exercise at CFB Wainwright in east-central Alberta, killing four soldiers and severely injuring dozens more, weather and wildfire experts say.

That morning, Environment Canada had issued yellow alerts for much of southern and eastern Alberta because of strong winds forecast to reach up to 100 km/h and an incoming cold front that could cause abrupt changes in wind direction.

Before the cold front reached the area, the temperature in Wainwright climbed to nearly 20 C under sunny skies.

MAP Included: Source: Fire Information for Resource Management SystemCBC)

• Heavy winds were forecast:

CHART | Included: Wind speeds in Wainwright

• Reported speed difficult to assess:

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WATCH | Fires often start during military exercises:

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Posted: Oct 20, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

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'POLITICALLY INSANE': Trump sets bad policy time bomb for after midterms

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Rachel Maddow rounds up the remarkable number of policies that Donald Trump has lined up to go into effect after the midterm elections, in a sign that he knows what he's doing is not wanted by the American people but he'll do it anyway, from reproductive rights crackdowns to sending private debt collectors after people who can't pay their student loans.

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