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Great Spirit bless 🙏

🌅🌺🌸🌼MORNIN' ALL! 🌺🌸🌼🌅

My personal prayer for the day is:

May you all be happy, safe, free, blessed, and guided by the Great Spirit.

As I was massaging some bruises with a special ointment for bruises, I also noticed just how much I got tanned through the summer, just being out in my Green Space for a couple of hours a day, in fair weather. I'm not a duck.

• Legend of The Burgundy Injun:

Anyway, I could see the difference from where my skin wasn't exposed to the sun. Some years back, when I lived on the res for a while, I got nicknamed "The Burgundy Injun" because of my dark, reddish-brown tan. Wow! That was a long time ago, but I learned a lot from that experience and made many new friends who will always be in my heart and mind. I don't forget stuff like that, like the family I never had, so I borrowed someone else's family.

THE BURGUNDY INJUN RIDES AGAIN! 😡🪶🐎😂

So which skunk's 🦨💩🙃𓉴🧑‍💼🏦 member of parliament's, or congressmen's, and senators' necks do we wish to wrap our hands around today 🫱😝🫲?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

REALITY CHECK

Time to shake the moths out of your head ཐི༏ཋྀ😵‍💫ཐི༏ཋྀ

I see a lot of this INSANITY in the BREAKING NEWS of the day. PICK ONE YOU WISH YOU COULD WRAP YOUR HANDS AROUND ITS NECK,

WHICH 🦨 SKUNK DO I START WITH?

Breaking News: The Tree House News will now be called THE DAILY INSANITY"

Seriously, do you call what's happening in politics sane?

‘F**k you..hurry up and die’: Swing-seat Democratic House candidate’s deleted tweets show far-left record

BREAKING! While Trump is busy kissing Putin's 🫦 (‿ˠ‿) butt in an effort to gain his favor 🫂👑

Russia secretly assists Iran with supersonic cruise missiles

Two Days Ago:

Trump plows ahead with his ‘triumphal arch’ without key approvals

Official White House website launches arcade games where users arrest undocumented immigrants and build a border wall

The Supreme Court is about to act on another election-related case

Trump’s latest Kennedy Center tantrum is his pettiest yet

Trump turns to a dual economic and military approach in latest attempt to squeeze Iran

Epstein files

A contact book made public during the Epstein Files Phase 1 release in 2025, with the majority of its content redacted.

That means blanked out! Or inked out! Unreadable, a useless waste of blanked-out paper. Good for starting the fire in the woodstove 🪵🔥📓 and that's where I think the Epstein Files are... in the incinerator🔥

The article is part of a series about Jeffrey Epstein's Personal Connections

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And now for our dear little war-mongering cockroach ⚔️🪳▄︻ 💥• in Israel desperately sucking 🥵👅 up to the Orange Faced Clown 🎃🤡Trumpo, the Typo's tiny trouser trout 👖🐟

HONESTLY! Does it sound like there is any sense of order or sanity to all of this 💩? If there are any sane people left, they don't have much of a backbone. I guess the last generation was nothing more than a bunch of cowardly worms 🪱 crawling away in fear to hide in their holes 🕳️ in the dirt 🌱

The Dunce Cadets 🙃𓉴 and Trumpo The Typo - 🟠💩🧒 📱❌ - already have you, The People, by the ⚾️⚾️

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

The US economy added 162,000 jobs in August, more than double expectations

he US labor market in August roused from its early summer slumber by adding 162,000 jobs, more than double what economists had expected, while the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed Friday.

August’s job gains – which are the strongest since March – mark a sharp rebound from July’s tally, which was revised up to a 21,000-job gain from a 23,000-job loss. June was also revised upwards, adding 31,000 positions. That’s up from the original estimate of 20,0000.

The number of jobs added in August was more than double economists’ expectations. They had forecast a net gain of 65,000 jobs last month and that the unemployment rate would tick up to 4.2%. ...

• Which industries added jobs:
• ‘Whiplash’ that puts all eyes on CPI:

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Updated Sep 4, 2026, 10:45 AM ET - a min ago

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Trump envoys Witkoff and Kushner plan to visit Moscow and Kyiv, in their first trip to Ukraine

US President Donald Trump’s special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are planning to visit Moscow and Kyiv in the coming days to press for a diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, a US official told CNN Friday.

The visit to the Ukrainian capital would mark the envoys’ first trip to the country that has been at war for years and under a steady barrage of Russian attacks in recent weeks.

They have visited Moscow in the past. Citing unnamed sources, Russia’s state-run news agency TASS reported on Friday that the visits would happen on September 5 and 6.

There had been indications that a visit would happen soon. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said...

Related Article

Children go underground as Ukraine starts new school year under constant Russian fire

First-graders have their first day of the new academic year inside a school shelter during a Russian drone strike, amid Russia's attack on Kyiv.

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PUBLISHED Sep 4, 2026, 9:46 AM ET - 1 hr 15 min ago

- CNN -

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Missouri Supreme Court blocks GOP-drawn map in boost for Democrats

The ruling Wednesday was not about the legality of the new lines, but whether voters should have a chance to decide if they take effect

VIDEO | INcluded:

The Missouri Supreme Court has stopped a new congressional map from being used in this fall’s midterms that could have flipped a Democratic-held seat in the Kansas City area to Republicans.

Republicans’ hopes of keeping control of the U.S. House were bolstered last year by GOP lawmakers in the midwestern state targeting the safe blue seat of prominent Black Rep. Emanuel Cleaver. The focus was part of a push in several Republican states to shift Democratic-held seats and make them more winnable for the GOP. Republicans are at risk of losing a narrow House majority in the upcoming midterms, now just two months away, which could fundamentally shift the balance of power for the final two years of Donald Trump’s presidency...

• More articles: Booker pours six figures into defending Black representation:

More legal action could follow. Missouri’s Republican attorney general quickly signaled that her office would take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court

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Sept. 3, 2026, 7:39 PM EDT

- MS NOW -

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Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August, surprising economists

Polling had expected gains. Unemployment rate unchanged

Canada lost 42,000 jobs in August, Statistics Canada said Friday, contrary to some economists' expectations, while the unemployment rate was unchanged at 6.4 per cent. Statistics Canada said the number of public sector workers fell by 20,000, declining for a third consecutive month. Jobs were little-changed in the private sector.

The manufacturing industry was a bright spot in August, adding 22,000 jobs, while categories including public administration, natural resources and utilities all booked declines.

Manufacturing was the only sector to record a statistically significant increase in employment during August," CIBC chief economist Andrew Grantham wrote in a research note on Friday...

Chart: | Monthly change in jobs in Canada

Chart: | Unemployment rate in Canada

"The share of Canadian exports bound for the U.S. is gradually trending lower, averaging 76 per cent in 2024, and 72 per cent in 2025, and coming in at 66 per cent in July 2026," Scotiabank economist Mitch Villeneuve wrote in a research note published on Thursday.

"This been driven by faster growth in exports to non-U.S. markets — especially Europe."

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Posted: Sep 04, 2026 8:46 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

- CBC -

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Now that is a good start for an illustration of SANITY NEWS 📰 for a change🪙⛀⛁ ⛁⛀

So now let us examine this mess 🫟 we're in. From an Iranian point of view, VIDEO BELOW

Six Months Into the Iran War | What Went Wrong for Trump? | Vantage on Firstpost | 4K

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUHk5rAolTs

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Good morning to everyone, and I pray that you are safe, happy, and blessed on this Thursday, August 3 of 2026. At least the nasty clouds are gone, and the sun is out. I was out sitting in my Green Space with my coffee as the sun was rising this morning.

What a beautiful morning 🌄, putting aside my sore back 𖠣⚡ and trying to nurse some bruises out of my leg🦵 . I honestly don't know where they all come from. I look down at my legs and arms at the end of the day, and there they are, just from doing ordinary housework, and they look like they've been PECKED ON ME BY A FLOCK OF MAD WOODPECKERS!🪵🦅🦅🦅🦅 They should go for the head 😵‍💫. That's where the wood is 🪵😁 . Oh me! Oh my ! ♪♫♭｡♪˚♬ WASN'T THAT A PARTY? In my mind 🧠 , you can still party your arse off in imagination all you want. Maybe even a little wiggle here and a little wiggle there with the hips, Heck! I can still spin dance. The little pleasures of aging 🤶 , eh?

Ever hear of the spirit wanting to, but the body not? Well, that's the way it gets to be; the body wears out way faster than the mind does. The mind is like a computer: it saves information in its memory banks, data center, and the cloud, located within the grey matter of our human cranium, which we call consciousness. How deep and how far or how many layers there are to consciousness is not yet known to science

I borrowed the statement below from Roger Penrose, a physicist and quantum-consciousness researcher.

Penrose, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on black holes, developed the controversial Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) theory with anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff. It proposes that consciousness involves quantum processes associated with microscopic structures called microtubules inside neurons, rather than being explained entirely by ordinary neural computation.

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Question: quantum consciousness

🔹AI Overview

Quantum consciousness proposes that quantum-mechanical phenomena like superposition and entanglement inside the brain explain subjective experience better than classical neuroscience.

Key Concepts and Theories

• Orch-OR (Orchestrated Objective Reduction): Developed by physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, this theory suggests consciousness arises from quantum computations inside cellular structures called microtubules.
• The Warmth Problem: Mainstream neuroscientists argue the brain is too warm, wet, and noisy to sustain fragile quantum states, causing rapid decoherence.
• Emerging Support: Recent biological studies have identified quantum coherence in systems like photosynthesis and tubulin proteins at physiological temperatures, though mainstream consensus still views the hypothesis as speculative.

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Even if there are multiple universes, and if each one is programmed to exist only for a given amount of time, and given that time is infinite, then those multiple universes will each have their own phase in the quantum-unified infinite Potentilities of being! WOW! Talk about a RABBIT HOLE 🐰🕳️ !

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🍁PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME TO READ THIS. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS, AS IT INVOLVES YOUR HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE.

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Question: Is Ford still pursuing two-tiered healthcare?

🔹AI Overview

Yes, the Ontario government under Doug Ford continues to shift more surgeries and diagnostic services to private, for-profit clinics.

*Current Actions*

• Private Clinic Expansion: The province keeps adding private facilities to perform publicly funded procedures like hip, knee, and cataract surgeries.
• Legislation: This expansion relies on Bill 60, known as the Your Health Act, which the government passed in 2023 to let private clinics handle more routine operations.
• Ongoing Funding: The government continues to allocate funding to these private centers to help reduce public surgical wait times.

The Government Stance

• OHIP Coverage: Doug Ford and his health ministers state that Ontario does not have a two-tier system.
• No Out-of-Pocket Costs: The government insists that patients pay with their OHIP cards and do not use personal credit cards for insured medical procedures

Criticisms and Concerns

• Two-Tier Accusations: Groups like the Ontario Health Coalition argue that relying on private clinics creates a * two-tier system.
• Private-Pay Risks: Critics state that some private facilities market extra services or faster, uninsured options to people who can pay.
• Public Strain: Opponents and healthcare unions argue that funneling tax dollars into for-profit companies drains staff and money from the public hospital system.

PEOPLE ASK?

Question: Does Canada have a two-tiered health care system?

🔹AI Overview

Canada's healthcare system is officially a public, single-payer model for essential care, but it includes private elements for non-core services and faces new pressures toward a two-tier structure.

The Public Base

• Medicare: The Commonwealth Fund profile explains that Canada funds essential hospital and doctor services through public taxes.
• No Extra Billing: The federal Canada Health Act requires provinces to provide medically necessary care without user fees.
• Equal Access: Every citizen gets coverage on uniform terms, regardless of wealth

*Recent Changes and Debate*

• Dual Practice: Alberta introduced laws allowing doctors to work in both the public system and private-pay clinics.
• The Fast Lane Debate: Critics argue that paid private options let wealthy patients jump queues, harming public wait times.
• National Rules: The Canadian Medical Association points out that most other provinces strictly restrict doctors from billing both public and private systems at the same time.

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

**Inflation is a drug and Washington is high on it**

High prices have turned Americans against the economy, and they’re starting to unleash real consequences for Washington and the financial markets.

Historic inflation led voters to oust Democrats from the White House in the 2024 election. Persistent high prices and a return of inflation have given President Donald Trump low approval ratings, and it’s threatening to turn Congress Democratic in November’s midterm elections.

So you’d think America’s politicians would do everything in their power to get prices under control. Yet they keep doing the exact opposite. The one thing that seems to unite the left and the right nowadays is populist economics...

• The policy consequences:
• The willingness to act:
• Where we’re headed:

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PUBLISHED Sep 3, 2026, 6:00 AM ET - 4 hr ago

- CNN -

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Trump’s latest Kennedy Center tantrum is his pettiest yet

The removal of the statue titled “Blue” from the center’s grounds is relatively small potatoes — but Trump’s ongoing determination to be the final say in culture is disturbing.

VIDEO | Included:

n an ideal world, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts would be making headlines for the dramas on its stages, not the drama surrounding its existence as the Kennedy Center. Since President Donald Trump’s hostile takeover last year, the storied institution has become a staging ground for his delusions of cultural relevance. Wednesday’s removal of a massive metal artwork called “Blue” is the latest in a string of unnecessary transformations that have made respect for the arts secondary to the president’s whims.

The New York Times noted that the installation “was targeted for elimination after President Trump’s takeover of the center,” but it’s unclear precisely what prompted its removal. It might have been doomed by its placement on the Reach, the 2019 outdoor expansion of the Kennedy Center that Trump reportedly dislikes...

_Justice Department lawyers even claimed in a legal filing last month that Trump can demolish the Kennedy Center, like he demolished the East Wing of the White House, if he doesn’t get his way._ ...

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Sept. 3, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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CANADIAN NEWS:

Toronto fire crews responded to more than 1,000 calls after destructive storm, mayor says

Torrential downpours, high winds and hail battered Greater Toronto Area on Wednesday evening

VIDEO | INcluded:

The Latest

• The Greater Toronto Area is cleaning up a day after a heavy thunderstorm damaged buildings, closed roads and knocked out power.<-

• Toronto Fire Services responded to "just shy of" 1,500 calls in a 24-hour period, the second-highest volume in the department's history, fire Chief Jim Jessop said.<-

• Toronto Hydro says about 6,000 customers remain without power in the city, down from a peak of 65,000. run by the province's <-

• Crown-owned power supplier, Hydro One, shows more than 40,000 customers outside Toronto without power.

• Several major roads remain closed, including the Gardiner Expressway and Bayview Avenue. The Don Valley Parkway has reopened.

• In Vaughan, Ont., Huntington Road is closed indefinitely because of a large sinkhole.

Yesterday was Toronto's wettest Sept. 2 ever

Updated September 3, 2026 - 3 minutes ago

- CBC -

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Severe thunderstorm damages buildings, closes roads in Toronto area | Hanomansing Tonight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57RkuYkAeBs

 

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Great Spirit bless

Well, here we are, Wednesday, September 2, 2026, coming at ya, whether you're ready or not. I prefer being ready. I AM A SURVIVALIST! 🏕️ I do pray you all have a pleasant, uneventful, safe, and blessed day🙏🏝️🍹⛱️🌞 🌊

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

21 Century - CREEPOLOGY!

There is so much poison spreading out from south of our border to other countries all around the world. It would seem all are infected by the same virus 🐛 If the virus is inhaled, it will incubate into a worm 🪱that slowly eats all of the cerebral cortex in the grey matter of your brain. Then it will go after what's left of any senses or feelings you have as they evolve into flesh-eating matter 👺 that turns everything on the surface of the Earth it eats into orange🟠gooey blobs .🫟 .. etc.*_

So now we have a world full of 🟠 orange gooey blobs.🫟 Instead of the diarrhea 💩 like we have today. Thieves and Pirates like Doug Ford and Danielle Smith with her provincial separatism and two-tiered health care insurance scheme.

Yeah, only the rich can get serious medical care, and the rest of us can go to the drugstore and buy Band-Aids 🩹 or wait maybe months to see a medical nurse in a parking lot First Aid Trailer 🚑 if you're lucky. Or steal the bandages! and get arrested by a regular cop and get stuffed into a regular jail.

In the US, you're probably better off in a regular jail for petty theft than in one of those Trumpo The Typo's POW camps. OH! They can get the operations in the US, alright, if they are ready to sell the farm, the car, the tractor, Betty Lou, their favorite cow, the dog, the cat, your oldest child, so saith Kink Orange F-face of Lower Sloboviamerica. DO YOU WANT THE SAME 💩 MEDICINE IN CANADA?

I DECREE! The US, from here on in, will be known as:

LOWER SLOBOVIAMERICA

✨🟰 💥🧱✸˚•*=--. . ᝰ American flag hitting wall.

Decreed by The Fairy Lady @ Lake Ontario.

*TRUMPO THE TYPO, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN CHANGE THE NAME ON A MAP, I CAN ALSO INVENT A NEW ONE. SO THERE YOU GO, "NYAH! Nose Picker!" 👃☝️-- 👅

Maybe even Google Maps may like my new name for America.

BREAKING, just now fresh off the press!

Ottawa set to extend the pause on federal fuel excise tax: source

VIDEO | Included:

Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce Wednesday that the current pause on the federal excise tax on gasoline and diesel will be extended until at least next year, a senior government source told Global News. The federal excise tax on gasoline was 10 cents a litre and the tax on diesel was four cents a litre but those taxes were suspended in April. The suspension was to have ended on Sept. 8.

"Now, with fuel prices pushing higher because of renewed hostilities in the Iran war, the government will extend that suspension...

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Posted September 2, 2026 9:20 am - 1 min read

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Well, at least that is a good start, but I believe that if the prices get so high that the wheels of industry will begin to shut down, NOT BECAUSE OF LACK OF FUEL, but for oil companies refusing to lower the prices for the working class of Canadians to afford to get to their jobs and keep the wheels of industry moving. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? To all leaders of the provinces of CANADA: DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? How long do you think you can survive without the working class? Wait until next spring, there will be a good example of what happens in a country without empathy.

Lower prices for the citizens of OUR COUNTRY 🍁 Charge the same SET price internationally for exports to our allied countries. That is what all other countries are seeking, SOME SANITY IN THE SYSTEM, HARD TO DO IF THEY KEEP CHEATING AND MOVING THE GOAL POST! YOU CAN'T DEAL WITH A DEN OF THIEVES AND PIRATES 🧌🥷▄︻ 💥•⚔️🏴‍☠️

Just what would it take to change the prices of fuel, and whose neck do we wrap our hands around 🫶😵

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Question: Why not lower fuel prices for the working class of Canada?

🔹AI Overview

The federal government has limited direct control over retail fuel prices and faces policy debates over whether broad tax cuts effectively help low-income earners.

Current Actions and Limits

• Temporary Tax Pause: The federal government suspended the federal fuel excise tax (saving 10 cents per liter on gasoline and 4 cents on diesel) from April 20, 2026, through September 7, 2026.

• Jurisdiction: Under the Canadian Constitution, direct regulation of retail fuel prices belongs to provincial and territorial governments, not Ottawa. Most provinces let market forces set prices rather than capping them.

Why Broad Fuel Cuts Are Debated

• Distribution of Benefits: Economists note that broad fuel tax cuts often give more overall savings to wealthier drivers who travel longer distances or own larger vehicles, rather than lower-income workers who might use public transit.

Global Market Pressures:

• Public Debate: Opinions on platforms like Reddit r/CanadaPolitics are mixed; some argue tax relief is essential for rural and working-class commuters facing high living costs, while critics favor targeted income supports over broad fuel subsidies.

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Question: Would Canada allow the lights to go out in industry because its citizens can't afford the fuel?

🔹AI Overview

Canada does not plan to let industrial operations shut down due to fuel affordability, as the country is a major global energy producer with a largely stable power grid.

• Energy Supply: Canada produces large amounts of oil, natural gas, and clean electricity.

• The existing electricity grid: is mostly reliable and clean.

• Domestic production: helps protect the country from absolute physical shortages seen in some other nations.

Affordability and Cost Pressures

Global market shifts raise prices for gasoline, diesel, and home heating fuels. Higher fuel costs create financial strain for households and add surcharges to transport and manufacturing. These rising costs cause an economic affordability crisis rather than a physical collapse of industrial power

Future Grid Challenges

• Experts warn that growing demand and flat investment could create electricity constraints in the future.

• Government and industry groups are working to expand clean electricity infrastructure to keep power affordable and available.

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Hegseth’s culture war fixation disrupting Army progress, sources say

In the aftermath of the resignation of Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, multiple sources told CNN they believe Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is damaging the Army’s efforts to adapt to the modern battlefield as he focuses on culture wars and prioritizing his own image of the “American warfighter,” and pushes out leaders who don’t align with his vision.

In submitting his resignation, a source familiar said Driscoll brought up “concerns with the administration surrounding Army transformation and readiness and Hegseth’s blocking those efforts specifically by firing the generals who were responsible.”

Driscoll announced Tuesday evening that Wednesday would be his “last full day in the role.” Multiple sources agreed with the concerns Driscoll raised: ...

• Focus on ‘restoring the warrior ethos’:
• Driscoll and Hegseth hadn’t spoken ‘for some time’:

A Pentagon official previously told CNN that Hegseth “has this deep-seeded distrust of the Army,” and was suspicious of Driscoll “from the very beginning.

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Updated Sep 2, 2026, 7:52 AM ET - 4 hr ago

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The biggest problem with the GOP’s Supreme Court seat amendment

There’s no way to call for amending the Constitution to lock in nine justices without admitting that Congress can now make the court whatever size it wants.

VIDEO | Included:

The House is in session this week before darting off again on another recess. The week’s marquee vote was a short-term resolution to avert a government shutdown ahead of the midterm elections. But alongside that bill on Tuesday’s schedule was a rarity: a proposed amendment to the Constitution up for a vote in the full House.

The proposed amendment is simple: ‘The Supreme Court of the United States shall be composed of nine justices consisting of one chief justice and eight associate justices.’’ The GOP leadership is likely putting this proposed amendment forward to demonize Democrats as being in favor of “court packing.” Whether the bill’s sponsors realize it or not, though, its very existence concedes something vital: ...

• Its very existence concedes something vital: The choice of how many seats are on the Supreme Court is entirely up to Congress.:
• The momentum among Democrats for expanding the Supreme Court has only grown since the issue first resurged in 2021.:

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Sept. 2, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

- MS NOW -

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'No plans' to send troops to midterm polling sites, top general says

WASHINGTON — Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Dan Caine says there are no plans to send troops to polling places in the November midterm election, nor has he received such an order, in response to concerns from Democrats that President Donald Trump could use the military to interfere in the election...

• More: Whistleblower warns Trump mail ballot plan could be 'catastrophic':
• More: Trump overstates election weaknesses in primetime speech: .5 takeaway:

Updated Sept. 1, 2026, 1:18 p.m. ET

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Iran retaliates after latest U.S. strikes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jTYRYOx8do

 

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Great Spirit bless 🙏

Hi friends 👋💁‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙅‍♂️🙆‍♂️🙋‍♀️🚶‍♀️🚶🚶‍♂️👫👬 I can only pray 🙏 that today will be a good day ☀️ for both my friends and followers, here online and in person out there. Be happy 😊 be safe, and be blessed 👼

I am doing terribly today with the typing stuff, like a five-year-old on a typewriter. One error after another. The laptop screen is bouncing all over the place, like an old toad 🐸, which doesn't help either. That breaks up my concentration, and then my mind goes blank. I took five outside in my Green Space to chill out. At least it's a splendid, sunny, warm first of September day today.

Dear Prime Minister Ford,

YOU'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK FOR ONCE, PLEASE DON'T MESS IT UP

Well now, we are learning more about our fine premier Doug Ford 🐷🔱 maybe, and I do pray that maybe he's having a change of mind, or should I say he's growing some ethics. And ethics aren't some exotic spice you use on your barbecued steak. Although if you had ethics, it's quite possible it would improve the reaction of your taste buds for the sake 🥩😉

TODAY'S DISCUSSION:

REVIEW: A total ban on all American contractors,

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Question: August 31, 2026 Doug Ford cuts out all American contractors in Ontario

🔹AI Overview

Ontario Premier Doug Ford has not instituted a total ban on all American contractors, but his government has restricted U.S.-based companies from bidding on new provincial public-sector procurement contracts.

On August 31, 2026, Premier Ford issued a strict warning to architects and engineers, demanding they stop specifying American building materials for public infrastructure projects, heavily weaponizing Ontario's "Buy Ontario" laws amid an escalating Canada–U.S. trade war.

Ontario Construction News

• Key Facts of the Procurement Rules:

• Targeted Restriction: The rules specifically target access to new provincial public-sector contracts. It is not a blanket ban on existing operations.

• Exemptions Apply: The province's procurement restriction policy does not apply to U.S. companies that employ more than 250 Canadian workers or those already authorized to do business with Ontario.

• Retaliatory Action: This enforcement is part of Ontario's retaliation against the U.S. administration's 50% tariffs on Canadian goods.

• Other Retaliations: As part of the economic friction, Ontario canceled its $100-million Starlink contract with SpaceX and threatened to restrict electricity exports south

• Impact on Infrastructure Projects:

According to updates from Ontario Construction News, the provincial government is aggressively reviewing supply chains. Designers who mandate imported products when domestic equivalents exist are being flagged. The province expects its $30 billion annual procurement budget and $200 billion infrastructure plan to prioritize Canadian suppliers.

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More To Come:

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Question: Doug Ford threatens to cut off power to the US August 31, 2026

🔹AI Overview

Ontario Premier Doug Ford threatened to cut off electricity and critical mineral exports to the United States in late August 2026 amid an escalating trade dispute over new American tariffs.

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• What Happened:

• The Threat: Ford warned that Ontario would place a 25% surcharge on electricity exports to the U.S. and completely shut off power if President Donald Trump continued to escalate trade measures.

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• The Reason: The warning followed the U.S. implementation of 50% tariffs on roughly $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, including autos and steel.

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• The Target: Ontario shares transmission lines with states like Michigan and supplies power to parts of the U.S. Northeast, making energy a key point of economic leverage - CNN -

Current Status

• Unified Approach: Ford later noted that he cannot act completely on his own and called for a coordinated "Team Canada" approach with other energy-exporting provinces.

• Cooling Rhetoric: After initial harsh comments during press conferences, Ford appeared on several U.S. television networks to tone down the public feud, as detailed by The Associated Press.

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Now that is all I have for you on Mr. Ford today at the moment.

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BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*t show,” according to a new whistleblower report released Tuesday by a Democratic senator.

The unnamed whistleblower is alleging that some of the procedures USPS is planning – under mandates put forward by President Donald Trump – have been hidden from the public. Those procedures will make an already complicated and risky plan even more vulnerable to potential mass disenfranchisement, the whistleblower says.

The new report – which was assembled by the whistleblowers’ lawyers and released by Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal – comes as multiple courts are considering the legality of the proposal, which would require that states submit to USPS lists of their mail-in voters. The agency will not deliver ballots to states if there are any discrepancies between the voter information in the USPS system and what’s captured by the agency's scanners on the ballot envelopes...

• Haphazard development and testing process:
• Verification procedures with no room for error:

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2026, 6:01 AM ET - 4 hr ago

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Bond selloff deepens and stocks drop as oil prices stoke inflation fears

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• Japan's 10-year bond yield hits 3% for first time since 1996

• tocks drop, with US futures down 0.6%, as borrowing costs rise

• Shein slides on lacklustre debut in Hong Kong

TOKYO/LONDON, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Global bond yields hit major new highs ​on Tuesday as renewed fighting in the Middle East lifted oil prices and traders braced for interest rate hikes, putting pressure ‌on stock markets around the world.

Japan's 10-year benchmark yield hit 3% for the first time since 1996, pushing up government borrowing costs, as investors also fretted about ever higher public debt.

Make sense of global markets with the Trading Day newsletter. Sign up here. Britain's 10-year yield hit its highest since 2008 above 5.25%, while the equivalent German yield rose to a 15-year high at 3.36%...

STOCKS WILT AS BORROWING COSTS RISE

Money markets were also fully pricing in a further rate hike from the ECB this month.

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August 31, 20269:46 PM EDT - Updated 2 hours ago

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Lost island in northern B.C. lake located, says B.C. Hydro

Newly formed island found along shore of Williston Reservoir after drifting for 30 kilometres

A newly formed island in B.C.'s largest lake has been located.

B.C. Hydro said Monday that the forested land mass, bigger than a Canadian football field, landed ashore after drifting some 30 kilometres northwest of its last known location in the middle of Williston Reservoir.

The island's curious appearance, and seemingly sudden disappearance in the massive man-made lake in northern B.C., has captured international attention and intrigue since boaters first made the discovery in August...

An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — on B.C.'s largest reservoir

WATCH | A floating island in northern B.C.'s Williston Reservoir:

LISTEN | An island mysteriously appeared — then disappeared — in northern B.C.:

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Posted: Sep 01, 2026 7:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

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As Hegseth’s Pentagon purge intensifies, will anyone save the U.S. Army?

It is far past time for President Trump to recognize the lasting harm that Pete Hegseth is inflicting on the Department of Defense,” one senator said.

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About a week ago, The New York Times reported that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s personnel moves have been so dramatic that he has left the U.S. Army “essentially rudderless” during an ongoing war in the Middle East. This week, conditions went from bad to worse. MS NOW reported:

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll has submitted his resignation amid tension with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the ongoing U.S. war with Iran, two sources familiar with the matter told MS NOW on Monday. […]

The news comes as the U.S. war with Iran, which military leaders have reportedly cautioned is unsustainable, reaches its sixth month.

And that’s just the Army — the purge list related to the other service branches is significantly longer — and it doesn’t include other officers whose promotions have been needlessly blocked by the hapless Pentagon chief.

• Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submits resignation amid tension with Hegseth:

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Sept. 1, 2026, 8:57 AM EDT

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Retired general reacts to Army secy. Driscoll resigning

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