Yes. Yes it is. @fancypants_s https://t.co/CftWorAqYn
— Auntie Polly (@auntie_polly) October 6, 2025
NHS doctor who made throat slit gestures to Jews escapes suspension
A junior doctor who made a “slit your throat” gesture to Jewish protesters escaped suspension after a tribunal found that she had a “right to freedom of expression”.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who is training to be a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon, has been allowed to continue working for the NHS after a panel of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service said that its duty to protect members of the public “must be balanced with the doctor’s right to freedom of expression” under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
WTF?
Seattle police Officer Nana Appiah-Agyekum
– In his 7 years on the force, he's had 10 collisions
– Most recently, he ran a stop sign and hit a cyclist
– He was retrained in 2022 and again in 2024 after 2 more collisions
– Out of 8 preventable crashes, this was the first to be… pic.twitter.com/tHtqCgee1B— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) October 4, 2025
Abacus Data Poll: Liberals and Conservatives Locked in Tight Race as Cost of Living Concerns Surge
Between September 26 and October 1, 2025, Abacus Data surveyed 1,504 Canadian adults on the state of federal politics. With Parliament back in session and economic anxieties simmering, this snapshot reveals a political landscape that is fiercely competitive and one where both major parties are digging in for a battle over economic credibility and leadership trust.
At the topline, little has shifted, but beneath the surface, rising pressure on affordability, mixed views of the Carney government, and some regional softness for both parties are shaping a dynamic fall political environment.
Europe is facing its ‘Pearl Harbor moment’
Vladimir Putin’s hybrid war is pushing Europe towards a deadly new “Pearl Harbour moment”, a former Lithuanian foreign minister has warned.
Gabrielius Landsbergis, who stepped down as the Baltic country’s most senior diplomat in November, said Nato was “doing nothing” in the face of brinkmanship by Russia, allowing Putin to drag the West closer to all-out conflict.
His warning follows a series of Russian provocations, including MiG-31 fighter jets breaching Estonian airspace and a drone barrage over Poland. As fighting continues in Ukraine, swarms of drones have caused mayhem at airports and spied on infrastructure as part of the Kremlin’s “shadow war”.
Pushed by Trump, Canada enters a new era of economic nationalism
As trade negotiations with the United States sputtered over the summer, Prime Minister Mark Carney started talking about a new, domestically oriented solution for Canada’s tariff-battered industries.
“We have the potential to become our own best customer for steel, but we will lose that ability if we don’t manage the profound transformation now under way in the industry,” Mr. Carney said from the floor of a metal fabrication plant in Hamilton in mid-July as he unveiled a bundle of measures to keep out foreign steel and boost domestic demand for Canadian mills.
A few weeks later, he announced a support package for the lumber industry. And in early September, he outlined the pillars of Ottawa’s new “comprehensive industrial strategy.”
Anti-hate group blames Blacklock’s for scrutiny of federal funding
The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is pointing the finger at Blacklock’s Reporter after Conservative MPs questioned nearly $1 million in federal funding for the group’s operations.
Evan Balgord, executive director of the federally subsidized network, said in a Montréal podcast Friday that he admired Blacklock’s as a journalist until it began reporting on his activities.
(Incognito)
Another Archbishop of Woke
Prior to Friday, the Church of England was without a leader for nearly a year. In the not-so-distant past, this would have been as unimaginable as the UK being without a prime minister. And yet, in a sign of the church’s growing moral and cultural irrelevance, the long absence of an Archbishop of Canterbury elicited little public commentary or concern.
WARMINGTON: ‘Resistance’ tag on City Hall more than art; was a protest
If you didn’t know any better, you might think Toronto City Hall was tagged Saturday night with a mocking message saying its working language is “foreign,” while using words in English like “resistance” and “revolution.”
Nuit Blanche — is this statement about resistance right on the facing of City Hall art or graffiti? Is it freedom of speech for hate speech? pic.twitter.com/s0byYAaiPx
— Joe Warmington (@joe_warmington) October 5, 2025
Chicago a war zone over ICE raids, and Illinois’s governor doesn’t think there’s a problem
Chicago is awash in insurrection. ICE agents carrying out their duties are now surrounded by violent, Mexican-flag wielding protestors hurling rocks and bottles. They’ve been boxed in by cars, and chased by doxxers, one of whom was shot in a melee yesterday and may have actually been involved in the car attack. A few days earlier, one was knocked down and dragged by a car driven by a violent illegal running from the long arm of the law.
Chicago: Woman records herself running red lights to escape an ICE vehicle after obstructing their operations and brags about it on the internet.
This is a federal crime.
They need to be charged by the DOJ or this is only going to get worse. pic.twitter.com/MYm8shlWoL
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) October 5, 2025
PURE EVIL: Mexican American in Chicago says that he is patiently waiting for one of the ICE agents to be killed.
Make him famous and let’s see if his boss likes his take. pic.twitter.com/emGkLDEU3m
— I Meme Therefore I Am (@ImMeme0) October 5, 2025
Net Zero Crumbling Slowly at First, Then Suddenly
A decade ago, the leaders of the three main parties, David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband signed their pledge that effectively took climate and energy policy out of the democratic process.
Does God exist? Modern science shows he must, bestseller argues
Science and religion have never been easy bedfellows. As Thomas Jefferson put it in 1820, priests “dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight”. Five centuries of scientific breakthroughs — from Galileo to Darwin to Crick and Watson — have eroded our belief in the divine.
But now, according to a new book, a “great reversal” is under way. Science, its authors argue over 580 pages, has come full circle and “forcefully put the question of the existence of a creator God back on the table”.
h/t kiki9
Interview with Noa Tishby: Two years after October 7, Israel has lost the PR war
Noa Tishby, one of Israel’s best-known advocates, is waging a narrative battle that she says is aimed as much at defending Western values as the Jewish state.
With an Instagram following of nearly a million and an X following of almost a quarter million, she has fought misinformation in real time since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, against the TikTok bots, campus protests, and celebrities tilting the court of public opinion against Israel and the West.
Statue of ‘Fascist‘ Pope John Paul II Defaced by Pro-Palestine Protesters
Members of a pro-Palestine protest in Rome reportedly defaced a statue honouring the late Pope John Paul II with graffiti that described him as a “fascist”.
The statue of Pope John Paul II in the Piazza Cinquecento outside of Rome’s Termini railway station was spray-painted with the communist hammer and sickle symbol and the words “fascist shit”. Meanwhile, a keffiyeh headdress was wrapped around the statue’s neck.
A statue of Pope John Paul II in Rome defaced by left-wing protesters during a pro-Palestine march: a "fascist piece of shit" tag with a communist symbol discovered. pic.twitter.com/ptSs7X3BDS
— Israel News Pulse (@israelnewspulse) October 5, 2025