Rolf Bertsch

If you aren’t following @GaryChambersJr you should be this man never backs down from speaking truth to power. Watch as he calls out Republicans to their faces for trying to strip Calvin Duncan of his duly elected seat in Orleans Parish. This is the way Democrats, bravo Gary‼️

The Alberta court hearing today (April 20), will almost certainly go against the Alberta Prosperity Project and their push for a separation referendum. Under Alberta’s clear election laws, any group that spends more than $1,000 on ads, billboards, or events must register as a third-party advertiser, show where the money came from, and follow the rules. Court papers prove the group is officially registered as a society, ran social-media ads and a highway billboard that reached thousands of drivers every day, and held town-hall meetings—yet they literally refused two orders to hand over their financial records. lol. The election commissioner’s lawyer told the judge that following the law is not optional, and the evidence shows the group simply broke the rules. Canadian courts have always upheld these fair-play laws to protect democracy. Forcing the group to register and stop advertising until they do will 'turtle slow' their petition and remind everyone that Alberta’s future must be decided inside a united Canada, not through secret spending or shortcuts. This decision strengthens Confederation because it shows our laws work for all provinces and keep the country together. #FreeAlberta #cdnpoli

The US has a leader who is a p3dophile, a compulsive liar, and a felon, who is trying to destroy his country and the world. Canada has a leader who is respected worldwide and cares about his country and its people, and has been named one of Time's most influential people. Congrats PM Mark Carney! You deserve it 🇨🇦❤️

This video was deleted from facebook by Mark. You know what to do ‼️

Can someone teach Premier Smith how medicine works: 1 - a patient has symptoms. They feel something. Let's say there's a headache. 2 - a clinical history is taken. A story. 3 - a physical exam is done. Maybe that headache is shingles. 👇👇👇 4 - a differential diagnosis is generated. A list of ideas what could be the problem. 5 - treatment, testing or both are considered. Let's do a swab of that rash just above your hairline and treat with valacyclovir. 6 - a test or treatment is done and the situation is reassessed. Ah, I see the rash has crusted over now and the shingles swab is positive. You don't need an MRI. 7- at any point, a specialist opinion may be needed. The shingles has progressed close to your eye now, let's get ophthalmology to look at you. The way medicine doesn't work is I have a headache and I book myself in for a private MRI which is normal because an MRI doesn't diagnose shingles, migraine headaches, temporal arteritis or acute angle closure glaucoma. It's insane to think there is no one likely advising the Alberta government on how actual medicine is performed in 2026 - or for that matter in 2016, 2006, 1996 or 1986. The thing that should never happen is symptom leading to go get myself tested jumping the queue just because you have more money and jumping ahead of someone maybe with a new brain cancer on CT that really needs that MRI more than you for your shingles. None of what Alberta is doing is for patient good. It's for something else. But not for patients. cbc.ca/news/canada/ed…

In the Netherlands, healthcare is run nationally — the 12 provinces have almost no say over policy, funding, or delivery. Canada should move in that direction. We could save billions in bureaucratic (leucocratic?) spending by cutting out the duplicative provincial health authorities, endless layers of administration, and overlapping bureaucracies. One national framework. Less red tape. More care for patients. Don't you think it's time? #SavePublicHealthcare from the Conservatives!

This is why Lutnick and Trump are threatening to tear up the USMCA. I will stand with Prime Minister Carney through thick and thin. We can no longer trust the United States and for that reason they no longer deserve 70 cents of every $1 we spend on defence. 💪🇨🇦

🚨HOLY COW: Jon Ossoff just HUMILIATED JD Vance: “I don't know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. NO ONE SHOWED UP. The stadium was empty.” AND THEN OSSOFF WENT NUCLEAR: “But JD came to UGA to attack the Pope, two days after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless President depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice. While he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes. While he plunders our health care to cut taxes for the rich. Meanwhile rent, power, groceries, and health care have hit all-time highs this year. Ground beef's up 20% since Trump took office. Coffee, 40%. Health premiums: through the roof. And remember: while you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions of dollars. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it."

Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it. RT

The media moved on like nothing happened. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Keep sharing this so it doesn’t get buried.

Just read it. Spot On - An Aussie reply to Trump’s rant about ‘NATO not being there for us’: “Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. "NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.”

This video was deleted yesterday from facebook. Be a real shame if everyone reposted this.

@RpsAgainstTrump The faith is strong with this one!

“As of today, I no longer consider myself a Catholic” Fox News’ Sean Hannity makes it pretty clear: Trump comes before everything, even over his religion. It’s a cult.

@noah_mwamfupe Yes

Be completely honest! Do you like Pope Leo? Yes. No.

BREAKING: NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte flew to Washington to discuss Ukraine’s $60 billion defense requirement for 2026. He spent over two hours being dressed down about Iran. When he emerged, he told CNN the meeting was “very frank” and acknowledged that “some allies failed the test.” Trump posted in all caps that NATO was not there when the US needed them and would not be there again. Here is the part of this story that should stop everyone cold. Russia is earning an extra $150 million per day in oil revenue because of the Iran war. The Guardian reported $8 billion in additional fossil fuel revenue in just the first two weeks of the conflict, $900 million above normal. Carnegie Endowment estimates the windfall at tens of billions per annum if the disruption persists. The Swedish armed forces commander said publicly that Moscow is “pouring” that revenue directly into its war effort in Ukraine. Russian state television propagandist Vladimir Solovyov told audiences on March 2: “For our budget, the attack on Iran is a big plus.” And on April 7, Russia vetoed the UN Security Council resolution that would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz. The resolution was sponsored by Bahrain alongside Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. It had already been diluted three times, stripped of all offensive authorization, reduced to purely defensive coordination, narrowed to the strait alone. Eleven countries voted yes. Russia and China voted no. Pakistan and Colombia abstained. Russia’s ambassador said the resolution presented Iranian actions as the sole source of tension while ignoring US and Israeli strikes. China’s ambassador said it failed to capture root causes. They killed the only multilateral mechanism that could have reopened the strait without a bilateral US-Iran deal, ensuring the disruption continues, ensuring the windfall continues, ensuring the war funding continues. So the structural loop is this. Trump started the Iran war. Hormuz closed. Oil prices surged. Russia began earning an extra $150 million every day. Russia pours that money into its Ukraine campaign. NATO needs $60 billion to counter Russia in Ukraine. Trump demands NATO simultaneously support the Iran effort AND fund Ukraine. But the Iran war is financing Russia’s Ukraine campaign at a rate that dwarfs NATO’s incremental spending. And Russia just vetoed the resolution that could have ended its own windfall, because keeping Hormuz closed is worth more to Moscow than any amount of diplomatic credibility at the Security Council. Iran also exempted Russia from the Hormuz blockade. On March 26, Foreign Minister Araghchi announced that ships from five nations, including Russia and China, would be allowed to transit freely. Russia’s tankers move. NATO’s do not. Russia sells oil at tightened discounts. NATO buys oil at war premiums. Russia funds its army with the proceeds of a war that NATO is being punished for not joining. Rutte knows all of this. Which is why his post-meeting statement included a line most outlets buried: NATO’s security and Ukraine’s are “interlinked.” That word, interlinked, is doing the heaviest lifting in transatlantic diplomacy right now. It is Rutte’s way of telling Washington that the alliance cannot be tested on Iran and Ukraine simultaneously when the Iran war is funding the adversary that the Ukraine commitment exists to contain. The alliance is not failing because of freeloaders. The alliance is trapped inside a feedback loop where the war meant to demonstrate American resolve is generating the revenue that funds the threat the alliance was built to deter. And the country profiting most from that loop just vetoed the only vote that could have broken it. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

🚨 The Pentagon summoned the Pope’s ambassador to a closed-door meeting and threatened him. Named official. On record. Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby called Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon and delivered this message: “The United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.” Then a U.S. official invoked the Avignon Papacy — the 14th century moment when the French monarchy used military force to physically remove the Pope from Rome and bend the Church to its will. The Vatican understood the reference immediately. The Pope’s planned visit to America for the 250th anniversary celebration was cancelled. And then something remarkable happened. The Pope didn’t retreat. He pressed harder. He called the war unjust. He called Trump’s threats unacceptable. He told Americans to call Congress.

"In your life, have you seen anything like that?!?!" Maybe the greatest shot in Masters history.

Our friends in Canada absolutely nailed this Karoline Leavitt impersonation you have to see this 😂🔥👇

I was told that because I’m Canadian, I should mind my business about American politics. I responded back: when your president threatened Canada’s sovereignty, it became my business. What do you think? Do Canadians have the right to speak about American politics? 🇨🇦