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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

In Patches We Trust 🙏

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

WE DID IT!!!! 🎉

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was talking shit about Domi during the intermission. Someone was like, "watch him score the OT winner." Said I'd take back every bad thing I've ever said about him.

Enjoy your clean slate, Domi!

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I'm def writing the league a sternly worded letter!

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Prescription for the 3rd:

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I just said the same thing to my brother. It's insane! Right now our PP is looking as scary irl as it is on paper.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Holy shit this powerplay! What's happening???

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Yes!! Playoff Rielly is back BABY

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

You can see and interact with Pixelfed posts from Mastodon. You can see and interact with Mastodon posts with media from Pixelfed.

A reason why you may not be seeing posts or comments from Pixelfed.ca is that it's a young server. You only see posts/comments made after federation. Poor federation can also lead to missing comments -- especially from smaller, obscure servers -- in the conversation chain. That isn't unique to Pixelfed. I have the same problem on my Friendica server. It'll improve over time.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Game delivered! This is gonna be a fun series.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No playoff streaming on Gem again. That's some bullshit.

[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Fuck yeah. So stoked for this game! Toronto Maple Leafs

 

Elon Musk produced a unified symbol for class war, corruption and techno-fascism. His car is hell on wheels.

Anti-Tesla protesters keep directing eggs, dog poop, Molotov cocktails and invectives against “the Swastikar” and its maker Elon Musk.

Yes, some people have set Teslas ablaze. But the “Tesla Takedown” movement is proof the anger burns in more than the violent fringes. Urging folks to sell their Tesla cars and stock and join picket lines, organizers have named Saturday a “global day of action.”

The protests rail against Musk’s huge conflicts of interest in his appointed role as the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency. As well they should. The true goal of DOGE, a blitzkrieg effort to trim government ranks, is to bring on a Trump-led Second American Revolution. And that means less democracy and more oligarchs like Musk.

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But the implications extend far beyond Washington D.C. or even U.S. borders. Which is why people around the world have made a hairpin turn. The electric vehicle that once seemed to herald a green-tinged, better future has become a symbol of the forces ruining their lives.

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Hundreds of protests at Tesla showrooms are planned across the US and internationally on Saturday. Organizers have dubbed it Tesla Takedown’s Global Day of Action, the latest and largest in a series of demonstrations that began shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated. Organizers say the rallies will take place in front of more than 200 Tesla locations worldwide, including nearly 50 in California alone.

The protesters’ goal is to send a message to the Trump administration that they’re against what the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is doing with the US federal government – laying off thousands of workers, cutting department budgets, giving fascist salutes and getting rid of entire agencies.

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Tesla Takedown describes itself as a decentralized grassroots movement that will “protest Tesla for as long as Elon Musk continues to shred public services”. The group says on its organizing page that Musk is “destroying our democracy using the fortune he built at Tesla” and so, in turn, they are “taking action at Tesla”. Local organizers are planning their own demonstrations rather than coordinating with one national group.

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US stocks were sharply lower Friday as investors digested souring consumer sentiment and inflation data that showed an uptick in one of the Federal Reserve’s key gauges, underscoring the delicate state of the economy as businesses brace for President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The Dow tumbled 750 points, or 1.77%, on Friday. The broader S&P 500 fell 2.1% and the Nasdaq Composite slid 2.8%.

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Wall Street was also grappling with Trump’s announcement on Wednesday of 25% tariffs on all cars shipped into the US, set to go into effect April 3. Trump also announced tariffs on car parts like engines and transmissions, set to take effect “no later than May 3,” according to the proclamation he signed.

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A top Senate Republican on Thursday accused President Trump of illegally refusing to spend $2.9 billion approved by Congress, teaming with Democrats in an early salvo in the simmering struggle between Congress and the White House over which has the ultimate power over federal spending.

Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and the chairwoman of the Appropriations Committee, initiated a letter to the White House that was signed by Senator Patty Murray of Washington, the panel’s senior Democrat. The letter asserted that the administration had violated the six-month spending law approved by Congress earlier this month.

They pointed to a memo Mr. Trump had sent to Congress on Monday that declared that only a portion of the $12.4 billion designated as emergency funding in the legislation would actually be spent, “because I do not concur that the added spending is truly for emergency needs.”

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Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Joseph Woll is expected to start Thursday’s game against the San Jose Sharks.

Maple Leafs head coach Craig Berube is electing to use the same lines from Tuesday’s 7-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers. Bobby McMann, John Tavares and William Nylander have been on fire lately, and it seems likely that Berube will be using this combination in the playoffs, with the Matthew Knies-Auston Matthews-Mitch Marner line firmly entrenched. source

Projected Lineup:

Matthew Knies — Auston Matthews — Mitch Marner
Bobby McMann — John Tavares — William Nylander
Scott Laughton — Max Domi — Nicholas Robertson
Steven Lorentz — David Kampf — Calle Jarnkrok

Morgan Rielly — Brandon Carlo
Jake McCabe — Chris Tanev
Simon Benoit — Oliver Ekman-Larsson

Joseph Woll
Anthony Stolarz

Scratched: Pontus Holmberg, Philippe Myers

Injured: Jani Hakanpaa (lower body), Max Pacioretty (tightness)

 

A Yale professor who studies fascism is leaving the US to work at a Canadian university because of the current US political climate, which he worries is putting the US at risk of becoming a “fascist dictatorship”.

Jason Stanley, who wrote the 2018 book How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, has accepted a position at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

Stanley told the Daily Nous, a philosophy profession website, that he made the decision “to raise my kids in a country that is not tilting towards a fascist dictatorship”.

He said in an interview that Columbia University’s recent actions moved him to accept the offer. Last Friday, Columbia gave in to the Trump administration by agreeing to a series of demands in order to restore $400m in federal funding. These changes include crackdowns on protests, increased security power and “internal reviews” of some academic programs, like the Middle Eastern studies department.

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Prof. Jason Stanley made decision after policy changes at Columbia University

A Yale University professor is leaving the U.S. and taking a position at the University of Toronto (U of T) due to what he says is a "far-right regime" under President Donald Trump.

"The United States is in the process of an autocratic takeover and it's directed by a regime that I don't think will want to leave power," said Jason Stanley, a professor of philosophy.

"Its not just Donald Trump. It's the machine behind Donald Trump."

Stanley, whose books include How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them, said he was considering joining U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy for over a year. But he decided to move after Columbia University made sweeping changes to its policies last week under pressure from the U.S. government.

 

PM will speak around 2 p.m. ET after Trump says he'll go ahead with 25% tariffs

Liberal Leader Mark Carney has paused his campaign and is back in Ottawa on Thursday to deal with the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed auto tariffs, which would wallop the industry in Canada.

Speaking from the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump delivered a blow to the cross-border auto trade, vowing to bring in a new 25 per cent tariff on finished vehicles imported into the United States, starting next week.

Hundreds of thousands of Canadians jobs are connected to the auto sector — the largest manufacturing industry in Canada and second-largest source of exports to the U.S. after oil.

In a social media post Thursday, the president threatened to further punish Canada and the European Union with duties "far larger than currently planned" if they retaliate against his auto tariffs

 

Israel’s parliament has passed a law expanding elected officials’ power to appoint judges, in defiance of a years-long protest against Benjamin Netanyahu’s attempts to drive through judicial changes.

The approval of the bill, which opposition parties say will make judges subject to the will of politicians, comes as Netanyahu’s government is locked in a standoff with the supreme court over its attempts to dismiss the attorney general, Gali Baharav-Miara and Ronen Bar, the head of the internal security agency.

Opposition parties, which have filed a petition with the supreme court challenging the vote, said in a joint statement: “This government is undermining the foundations of democracy, and the entire opposition will stand as a strong barrier against it until every attempt to turn Israel into a dictatorship is stopped.”

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European leaders have affirmed their support for Ukraine at a Paris summit and agreed now was “not the time” to lift sanctions against Russia, but with splits remaining on Franco-British plans for a “reassurance force” to help guarantee an eventual ceasefire.

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Thursday the meeting of more than two dozen heads of state and government had agreed unanimously that sanctions on Moscow should not be eased until “peace has clearly been established” in Ukraine.

The third meeting of what France and the UK have called the “coalition of the willing” for Ukraine was called amid widespread concern that Donald Trump may be open to rolling back some sanctions in order to get Russia to agree to a partial ceasefire deal.

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U.S. president signed an executive order in the Oval Office on Wednesday

U.S. President Donald Trump is dealing another tariff blow to Canada, signing an executive order on Wednesday that will hit all non-U.S.-made autos with hefty import levies.

Trump said the United States will be applying a 25 per cent tariff on those imports, but it's not clear when they would apply.

The president said the auto tariffs will kick in on April 2 but suggested they could start at a base rate of 2.5 per cent.

"What we're going to be doing is a 25 per cent tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States. If they're made in the United States, there is absolutely no tariff. We'll start off with a 2.5 per cent base, which is what we were at, and we'll go to 25 per cent," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.

Autos are the second-largest Canadian export after oil — and by far the most lucrative manufactured product that Canada sells to the world, linked to hundreds of thousands of Canadian jobs.

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