Monday, August 28, 2023

News roundup, 28 Aug 2023

- Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to reach hurricane force by the time it hits Florida.

- The MAGA crowd is not ashamed of their hero becoming the first former president to have his mug shot taken. Quite the contrary.

- The expansion of Greater London's ultra-low emission zone to include the more suburban boroughs has unleashed populist fury among the suburbanites.

- In the EU, the firewalls between the moderate right and the far right are weakening. This is ungood.

- More travel chaos, this time in the UK as the result of a failure in the ATC network. It's having a spillover effect in Ireland as well.

- Here's an optimistic take on the implications of Prigozhin's death for the war in Ukraine.

- MPI workers are now officially on strike. Hopefully this one will be settled more quickly than the MLCC strike.

- The Manitoba NDP is vowing to reopen the emergency rooms that the Tories closed. Hopefully this can be accomplished.

- Rich people get pissed on the rare occasions when the legal system holds them to the same standards as poor people.

- The  fascist pigs family values people are organizing to take over school boards in Alberta. Supposedly for the protection of the children, although what these people studiously ignore is that when children actually do get groomed or abused, it's often their own people who are doing it.

- The accused in the stabbing attack at the University of Waterloo has had his charges upgraded to attempted murder.

- When you get busted for stealing a package of chips, and the news story explaining who you are does so by referring to a TV show that hasn't been running for over a decade, that might be a sign that your star has faded.

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