Monday, 12 October 2026

TREE HOUSE NEWS 🏡

NEWS AGGREGATOR & COMMENTS

Great Spirit bless 🙏

GOOD MORNING, 🌅 CANADA! 🍁 And ELBOWS UP 💪 to those in the Western Hemisphere who work at killing our nation.

My prayers 🙇‍♀️🙏 are with you all —all the peeps in the world 🌐 eh! 👶👧🧒👦👩👨‍🦰👩‍🦳🧑‍🦳👳‍♀️🧔🧕👷‍♂️💂‍♀️👩‍🌾👨‍⚕️👨‍🔧👩‍🔬👨‍🚀🫅👸POP ˗ˏˋ ✸ ˎˊ˗∘○˚.•o * GOES THE WORLD! 🌍

😉 May you all be guided to make the right choices, stay safe, and be blessed. 🙇‍♀️ Amen!

So, which weasel 🦡 are we after this morning, or shall it be one of Trumpo The Typo's 🤡⌨ or👑💩 sacrificial lambs 🐑🐑🐑🐑?

TODAY'S DISCUSSION

Hi Google AI, who is the noisiest Trump weasel today, making the most noise?

🔹AI Overview

Donald Trump himself continues to dominate the headlines and generate the most volume. Trump is presently generating significant noise with a series of highly controversial, high-profile statements and policy actions ahead of the 2026 midterm elections:

The Russia-Ukraine "Ceasefire" Claim:
The Russian Diesel Deal & Attacks on Zelenskyy:
Media Crackdowns:

If you are referring to Trump's loudest outside surrogates or media defenders,

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Question AI: If Nazism was not part of Project 2025? Then why did it change course to this Nazism? If this is NOT NAZISM, it's a carbon copy of WW2

🔹AI Overview

Project 2025 is a conservative policy initiative designed by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, rather than a Nazi or neo-Nazi organization. While critics strongly argue that its proposals point toward authoritarianism, historians and political scientists generally distinguish its framework from World War II-era Nazism, citing fundamentally different core ideologies.

Why Critics Make the Comparison

Project 2025 to fascist regimes or historical authoritarianism point to several specific, controversial proposals

Centralization of Power:
Nationalist and Social Policies:

Key Differences from WWII Nazism

Political scientists and historians emphasize that while Project 2025 proposes radical changes to American governance, it lacks the defining characteristics of National Socialism (Nazism):

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MY ARTHRITIC 🌩️🦶 UP YOUR (‿ˠ‿) TOO, BUDDY!

I've been around for a few years, and I remember the early post-WWII days, the stories. You don't say anything specifically about ICE Agents. I call them the DUNCE CADETS, ▄︻ 💥• people in the torso, legs, arms; and in their cars, it doesn't matter, or beating them up, then throwing them in concentration camps to die from some viral 🫟infection or many other medical 🩺 reasons, like neglect; some even starve.

1945 CONCENTRATION CAMPS? 🏚️In 2026 𖡿 ? And the Gestapo patrolling the streets, Dunce Cadets 🙃𓉴 who will

▄︻ 💥• anything that moves. And the rule of law is in the hands of one unstable man 🟠🤡 If anyone thinks this is not NAZISM, I would suggest that ya better consult a shrink, because they're even loonier than our Canadian dollar coin🪙 and not worth a Canadian wooden nickel 🥮 Already, most social programs no longer exist

Like the Nazis of the past, I wouldn't put it past them that they would even pull the gold teeth out of your mouth and cut your hair to stuff mattresses if you were defeated. There was no mercy or empathy or justice in that kind of regime. I SO THANK 🙏 G-D 🪬 THAT I'M IN 🍁

That's enough for me on this topic. Thank you very much for visiting and reading the Tree House News 🏡

BREAKING NEWS RECAP:

‘Trump is dragging the party down’: GOP scrambles to stop steep midterm losses

The Republican Party’s midterm campaign has turned into a triage operation just three weeks out from November, as officials race to avert losses in a string of once-safe seats that they increasingly fear could cost them total control of Congress.

The worsening landscape has alarmed GOP operatives across several battleground states, forcing the party to pour resources into traditionally red districts and states at the expense of their once-expansive ambitions in Democratic areas.

And after months of pressing President Donald Trump to ramp up his travel on behalf of key candidates, some Republicans now worry he’s grown so unpopular that his presence on the campaign trail may in some cases be doing more harm than good. One House Republican running for re-election said of the president’s numbers: “Trump is dragging the party down.”...

Streaming Now:

‘You don’t work, you don’t eat’: How voters feel about today’s high prices:

President isn’t currently expected to travel to Maine

Still, there’s little expectation that any GOP candidate can fully escape the gravitational pull that Trump has exerted on the political landscape since returning to the White House.

PUBLISHED Oct 12, 2026, 5:00 AM ET - 6 hr ago

- CNN -

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Don’t let Trump spark panic about election monitors

However much the president might like to swarm polling places with federal officers, he simply doesn’t have anywhere close to enough at his disposal.

In July 2026, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice reportedly dispatched six federal prosecutors to oversee Arizona’s primary elections, according to Democracy Docket, which cited records it had reviewed. The prosecutors were reportedly sent to the state’s two most populous counties, Maricopa (home to Phoenix) and Pima (home to Tucson). This comes as the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division said it will dispatch 1,000 monitors to the polls for the midterm elections, and as FBI Director Kash Patel continues to equivocate about whether FBI agents will be sent to the polls (even though federal law explicitly bans armed officers from polling sites).

These threats raised serious concerns about the openness and fairness of the upcoming midterms. And we should definitely not downplay the ongoing assaults on voting rights that the Trump administration certainly didn’t start but has definitely amplified in unprecedented ways...

Because we rely on cities, counties and states for most law enforcement activities, the federal government simply does not have as many police and prosecutors as it would need to threaten elections on a real scale.

Trump lacks the manpower to deploy agents at any sort of real scale, and those he can deploy will likely face overt hostility from dedicated poll workers and monitors.

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Oct. 12, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT

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Zelenskyy says Russia violating Trump's 'energy ceasefire' as attacks on Ukraine continue

Zelenskyy says 'ceasefire' can help end war 'if Americans truly step in now'

Russia has violated an energy ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, ‌Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday, urging Washington to step in to ensure that Moscow abided by the terms of the putative agreement.

"There were Russian violations of the energy ceasefire announced ⁠by President ⁠Trump," Zelenskyy told a security conference in Warsaw via video link.

"We are waiting for the details ⁠of the conditions between the Americans and Russians, and we are ‌waiting to see one specific step the Americans are ready to take," added Zelenskyy, who said he had learned about the ⁠ceasefire deal from the media.

WATCH | Trump announces Russian diesel deal:

Kremlin says contacts ongoing:
EU foreign policy chief skeptical:

WATCH | Carney speaks to Ukraine's president on Sunday:

Russian attack kills 3:

WATCH | Ex-U.S. ambassador weighs in on 'energy ceasefire':

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Posted: Oct 12, 2026 5:48 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour ago

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How good is this year's flu shot? Here's what to know about flu season

It may seem like everyone is getting sick right now, but does an early flu season mean a rougher one?

Walking down the street this week, it may seem like everyone is sneezing and hacking up a lung. But as health officials announce the start of an earlier than usual flu season, how worried should Canadians be? And as we head into Thanksgiving weekend, should we be scrambling to update flu and COVID-19 shots?

Some experts say that while this year's flu season may have arrived on our doorstep sooner than usual, it's not necessarily a cause for alarm — but other experts are stressing the importance of prevention in heavy-hit regions such as Toronto and Calgary, where one of this season's two influenza deaths so far has occurred, according to authorities.

The strain making up roughly 98 per cent of cases in Canada so far tends to be a milder one, according to Brian Ward, professor emeritus at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal...

"So far at least, this looks like an H1N1 dominated year, and the years where H1N1 dominates, you can have very large outbreaks, but the number or the proportion of people … who get very sick, is relatively small compared to years that are dominated by H3N2,