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@RodDMartin @GovRonDeSantis @Sec_Noem @ByronDonalds Keep him there. He’s a convicted felon. I guess if they were going to keep, they’d have to build a golf course.

@GovRonDeSantis @Sec_Noem @ByronDonalds 3/ Trump: “This is what you need: bodyguards and cops in the form of alligators.” DeSantis: “You drive them 2,000 feet to the runway — and they’re gone.” This is mass deportation infrastructure: fast, cheap, secure, and built to scale.

🚨 TRUMP UNVEILS “ALLIGATOR ALCATRAZ” 🚨 In just 8 days, President Trump built a 5,000-bed migrant detention center deep in the Florida Everglades. Surrounded by gators, pythons, and barbed wire — escape is not an option. A thread 🧵 on the coolest prison ever built: 👇

@Buffone_Pino @OCDSB Congratulations Lynn.

👏🏻It was a pleasure and a privilege to honour Chair Lynn Scott @OCDSB’s Board Mtg last night… in recognition of her thirty years of public service as a school board trustee! Thx, Lynn, for your amazing advocacy and steadfast support of public education in Ottawa-Carleton!👏🏻

@PeterEmon1 Congratulations Peter.

A special day and Council has my deepest gratitude for allowing me to work with them for our community.

@KeithRSheppard @SabrinaMaddeaux Congratulations

We went back to the spot where we had our first date, and I asked her if she wanted to be my forever date! I could never have imagined being this lucky. I can’t wait to marry you, my love! As someone who always has too much to say and has never been at a loss for words, this was the exact moment both of those things happened at once.

@shane_gilreath @elonmusk Someone should ban Elon from X.

@elonmusk Elon doesn't understand the intricacies of free speech & the global interest & needs of stopping misinformation and hate speech. Misinformation & hatred is the thing that comes out of Trump's mouth so we are all looking forward to Kamala's victory in November #HarrisWalz2024

Kamala wants to destroy your right to free speech under The Constitution

@DougFiebig Looking good Doug. Retirement obviously agrees with you.

For the first time in 50+ years I don’t have a “First Day of School” this week, but that didn’t stop me from getting my “First Day 2024” picture taken 📸. Wishing my former RCDSB and provincial colleagues a great 2024-2025 school year 😎

@DougFiebig Congratulations Doug. Well deserved.

Honoured to be one of over 50 retirees recognized this evening at the Renfrew County District School Boards annual retirement celebration.

@RpsAgainstTrump Don’t hold back. What you do really think of him?

Nate White, a British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read: “Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?” A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: • Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are. • You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

@WendyAHewitt The first few weddings that I photographed were black and white.

Something about black and white photos.....Less distraction, more attraction #photooftheday

@ReallyAmerican1 Why doesn’t he just sell a few boxes of classified documents?

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump's lies and ego have FINALLY caught up with him, and he seems to have SCREWED his own attempt to get a stay on posting a $464 million bond. Besieged with rumors of him being broke, Donald Trump finally blurted in ALL CAPS on Truth Social that he has "ALMOST FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS IN CASH, A SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF WHICH I INTENDED TO USE IN MY CAMPAIGN FOR PRESIDENT." The only problem: His lawyers told the judge the exact opposite. And they can't BOTH be lying. NY AG Letitia James is currently poised to start seizing Trump's properties in order to satisfy the $464 million dollar civil fraud judgment against him, which his attorneys said would cause him "irreparable harm." Trump also made another tactical error, attacking Judge Engoron in the same post, calling him "THE OFTEN OVERTURNED POLITICAL HACK JUDGE ON THE RIGGED AND CORRUPT A.G. CASE." One legal analyst, Norm Eisen, summed up Trump's miscalculation perfectly on X, stating "This is so dumb — now he can’t claim hardship to get a stay," he wrote. "AG Tish James can help herself, including to this supposed money!"

@DougFiebig Happy retirement Doug. Enjoy.

OFFICIALLY RETIRED 🏝️

@RenfrewCounty @PeterEmon1 @donohueranch @MayorJennMurphy Congratulations Peter. The county is in good hands again.

At the Inaugural Session of County Council on Dec 12, Renfrew Reeve @PeterEmon1 was acclaimed and sworn-in as Renfrew County Warden for the sixth time. He was nominated for the position by Councillor @donohueranch and Councillor @MayorJennMurphy seconded the nomination.

@WendyAHewitt It’s important to stay connected. We accomplished a lot in the short time that we worked together serving our students and communities. I often look at the photos of the time that we visited Shaw Woods with Fred Blackstein.

In the busyness of life, sometimes we just need to take time to visit with friends! I had a wonderful visit today with a former colleague at RCDSB @dave_shieldsd I couldn't keep up with him, he served for more than 25 years!

@RCDSB Congratulations Doug. Enjoy the next phase of your life.

@DougFiebig You remind me of me. I retired from AECL and a few years later, I had so many part time jobs that I had no life left. I have now learned to say NO and I’m fully retired at last.

I’m happy to share that I’m starting a new half-time, remote position as a Security Analyst with ECNO!

@Buffone_Pino @OCDSB Now there’s a scary looking guy.

🎃The force is strong @OCDSB! Happy Halloween to all students, staff and school communities taking part today!🎃

@DougFiebig Happy well deserved retirement Doug. It was a pleasure working with you. Now you can focus on playing ball.

After 33+ years and 4 roles with the Renfrew County District School Board (RCDSB), this morning I officially submitted my Notice of Retirement. A huge thanks to the many incredible colleagues and team members that I’ve had the honour of working with over the last 3+ decades ❤️

@Matthewtravis08 @ReallyAmerican1 @mmpadellan 😂😂

So, to recap: Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans want to shut down the government AND impeach a highly popular President (with NO evidence) who has created millions of jobs, empowered Medicare to lower the price of prescription drugs, and brought back manufacturing to America. Meanwhile, the GOP has not introduced one stitch of legislation to improve the lives of any Americans, but they’d love to cut your Social Security to give the rich more tax cuts. Tell us you want to hand the Democratic party the House in 2024 without telling us. Who would YOU blame for this chaos?