A woman who was named after Mickey Mouse has urged parents to stop choosing ‘crazy’ monikers for their own children.
Mickie Austen Rollins – who was born Mickie Lettuce – shared her thoughts on unusual names after US influencer Trisha Paytas revealed her very divisive choice for her newborn son.
Paytas, 37, who is already mother to daughters Malibu Barbie and Elvis, decided to name her first son Aquaman – after the DC superhero.
The iron law of the internet is: no one fucks with 4Chan and comes out clean on the other end.
Women claim that they used the Tea app to stay safe, but that doesn't seem to be the case. pic.twitter.com/bar1J8otJ1
— Pirat_Nation (@Pirat_Nation) July 27, 2025
A slice of our impending societal collapse courtesy Zerohedge
Federal officials pushed to approve Islamic-compliant home loans despite repeated internal warnings that the proposal was unworkable, according to newly released Access To Information records.
Blacklock’s Reporter says emails reveal the Department of Finance wanted to move “extremely fast” on Sharia-compliant mortgages in the months leading up to the April 28 election, despite concerns from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) that the financial structure conflicted with tax laws, liability rules, and existing mortgage insurance policies.
The country is a NATO ally and G7 member. While the U.S.-U.K. relationship is often touted as Washington’s most “special,” the Canadian relationship is arguably the most critical to the future of the U.S. economy and soft power. The projection of U.S. hard power abroad depends in part on positive global public perception of Washington’s leadership. This stems from the United States being a beacon of freedom and arsenal of democracy in World War I, World War II, crises across the Taiwan Strait, the Korean war, and others. If after all of that, we now treat Canada with a lack of foresight for short-term trade interests, we lose at least some of our moral high ground, which negatively affects our soft power, and as well our long-term national interests.
ICE raid at major pot operation clouds picture for legal cannabis in California
Camarillo — Ever since federal immigration agents raided one of the largest licensed cannabis operators in the state this month, the phones of cannabis industry insiders have been blazing with messages of fear, sadness and confusion.
“It sent shock waves through the community,” said Hirsh Jain, the founder of Ananda Strategy, which advises cannabis businesses. “Everyone is on text threads.”
Glass House Brands, whose cannabis operations have helped make Santa Barbara and Ventura counties the new cannabis capitals of California, has long been among the most prominent companies in the state’s wild frontier of legal cannabis. Some call it the “Walmart of Weed” for its streamlined, low-cost production methods, its gargantuan market share and its phalanx of wealthy investors and powerful lobbyists.
Ottawa is quietly working on launching a new entity it hopes will be key to housing affordability
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has been quiet since the federal election about the housing crisis, the same issue that contributed to the Liberals’ fading popularity under their previous leader.
Behind the scenes, however, housing stakeholders are fielding a flurry of calls from government officials seeking their advice on the creation of Build Canada Homes, a new federal entity that Mr. Carney has said will get the government back in the business of homebuilding.
Migrants in London take a goose from a lake to eat
Remember when Democrats insisted this would never happen?? pic.twitter.com/3N7EvdzXYU
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 25, 2025
“In the first 24 hours after Trump’s re-election, we received 1,177 requests for assistance from the United States. Fifty-one percent of these requests were from trans people: 35% from trans women, 16% from trans men,” says Timothy Chan, spokesperson for Rainbow Railroad, an NGO with offices in Canada and the U.S. that helps LGBTQ+ people experiencing persecution and violence start a life in another country. Panicked by a government that threatens their civil rights, many LGBTQ+ Americans, especially trans people, are seeking to immigrate to Canada. Some are even requesting humanitarian asylum. Hannah Kreager, a 22-year-old American, is one of them.
Lucky Us.
H/T I forgot! Sorry!
Let these vocals wash over you and share the ways in which it inspires you. pic.twitter.com/2SHdwDS3fA
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 27, 2025
If humanity’s existence were threatened by plague, nuclear war or environmental catastrophe, people would surely demand action.
But what if the threat came from our own, passive acceptance of decline? This is not some theoretical curiosity: It is a reasonable extrapolation of globally declining fertility rates.
People aren’t demanding action. In fact, some think a smaller population is actually a good thing.
Dean Spears and Michael Geruso, economists at the University of Texas at Austin specializing in demographics, want to change that. Their book “After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People” is a deep dive into the facts and consequences of depopulation, and an impassioned argument against letting it happen.
They rest their argument not on the familiar need for workers to propel economic growth or shore up Social Security but on a more fundamental proposition: More people is a good thing in and of itself.
Back in late January, it was just another headline in the flurry of headlines that assailed the average American voter. While it was all very exciting to watch a president do what we, the people, had elected him to do, it felt like if you blinked you’d miss the signing of some monumental executive order.
Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book Speaking Truth to Canadians About Their Public Service, Savoie explains why that imbalance matters. Savoie is Canada Research Chair in Public Administration and Governance at Université de Moncton.
The civil service convinced themselves they were the ruling class.
GOMA, Congo (AP) — Islamic State-backed rebels attacked a Catholic church in eastern Congo on Sunday, killing at least 34 people, according to a local civil society leader.
Dieudonne Duranthabo, a civil society coordinator in Komanda, in the Ituri province, told The Associated Press that the attackers stormed the church in Komanda town at around 1 a.m. Several houses and shops were also burnt.
“The bodies of the victims are still at the scene of the tragedy, and volunteers are preparing how to bury them in a mass grave that we are preparing in a compound of the Catholic church,” Duranthabo said.
On April 27 last year, then prime minister Justin Trudeau posted a video on X boasting that, “We bet big on electric vehicles. Now that industry is betting on us.”
Fifteen months later, all bets are off.
A new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) this month found that California’s 2023 minimum wage hike cost the state thousands of jobs.
Researchers found that the state’s $20 minimum wage fast food hike has cost the fast-food sector 18,000 jobs since it went into effect in April 2024, representing a 3.2% decline in that sector compared to fast-food sectors in other parts of the country.
Robot win.
