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Gay Irish-Canadian Buddhist journalist and former bookseller. Chaotic good. He/him.

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 2h
The Republican Party is rife with child molesters but the Daily Mail is trying to shame this Democrat for being kinky (and hot!) with consenting adults? GTFO
Daily Mail US • @Daily_MailUS tweets:

A Democrat running for Congress on Long Island is proudly embracing his kinky side after X-rated photos surfaced showing him caged and muzzled in a leather harness trib.al/OscoNtV

2:35 PM • 10/7/26 • 2.1M Views
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 4h
Here’s @birdrespecter.bsky.social with A+ advice on responding to liberal Boomers who lecture about civility 🎯
Happy National Hamburger Day @birdrespecter.bsky.social replies to a blocked post: 

I understand you are trying to be nice, but consider: the world you built has failed completely, please do not give advice to people

5:03 PM • Oct 7, 2026
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 15h
Democrats keep doing this and refuse to learn. Impossibly stupid? Or forever complicit?
A STORY IN THREE PARTS

1. Lindsey Graham's sister attacks Dem opponent, Annie Andrews, over trans issues

2. Democrat Annie Andrews panics, throws trans peopl under the bus

[screengrab of Annie Andrew’s with caption “NO MEN IN WOMEN'S SPORTS”

3. Conservatives respond with Annie's old pro-trans tweets and call her a fraud, while Annie's own supporters feel betrayed.

# OF REPUBLICANS ANNIE WON OVER: 0
# OF DEMOCRATS ANNIE LOST: ?
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/10/2026
Summer lightning in the city is alwa—WAIT, it’s October 😮
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 07/10/2026
Not keen on these early workdays but WOW, this sunrise today ☀️
The sky above my street — clouds of pink, purple, blue and orange
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/10/2026
I suppose this advertising is successful because I see it but it also makes me vow *never* to use this PC Health AI chatbot so no, Loblaws, you are demons 😡
Stenciled on the road at a street corner: 
“Do I really need 10,000 steps a day?
Ask PC Health”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 06/10/2026
It’s true! 🌲
Me, hugging a giant tree in the California Redwoods
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 05/10/2026
We had yet to check out The Well, Toronto’s attempt down at Front and Spadina at an outdoor mall like The Grove. Not enough stores still but a great food level and an Indigo Books with the cutest standee for HEARTSTOPPER I’ve ever seen 😍
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 05/10/2026
Everyone has an opinion about Richard E. Grant being gloriously Richard E. Grant on THE CELEBRITY TRAITORS 😃
Patrick Ness • @patricknessbooks.bsky.social:
Richard E Grant is going to be an absolute disaster.

K. @ksc10.bsky.social:
Oh Richard E Grant is going to be magnificent

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social:
Richard E Grant at the first breakfast #Celebrity Traitors:
let's keep drinking - the day is young

Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org:
I think I may be falling in love with Richard E
Grant.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026
Solid argument 🎯
Stephen Tramontana posts:

Dear billionaires, we're not
"confiscating" anything. 45 years ago, you made society a promise that if we reduced your tax bill, you would use some of that money to improve conditions for all Americans. Instead, you chose to do the opposite. That was the choice you made. So now we're demanding to go back to what worked before - taxing you at the proper rate.
You've had a great ride, but let's be clear - your greed is why we're here.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026
Every month, I choose a photo for my journal that sums up the mood of the previous four weeks and wow, does this shot of the drone monstrosity Loblaws unleashed over King St. during TIFF to promote their AI health-data-hoarding chatbot ever deliver 😡
Over a line of cars in traffic, blue and red drone lights spell out in the night sky “Do I really need 8 hours of sleep? Ask PC Health”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026
Some things really do work out for the best 😍
Paste magazine posts:

Macklemore's "Free Palestine" tour sells out immediately

The rapper's three-day tour includes stops in Dublin, Paris, and London, all scheduled for the last week of October.

By Tatiana Tenreyro | September 30, 2026NewsNation posts:

Ed Sheeran loses nearly half a million followers on Instagram

by Steph Whiteside - 7 days ago

Ed Sheeran has lost nearly half a million followers on social media after
controversy over his recent tour and his decision to drop opening act Macklemore over statements supporting Palestine.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 30/09/2026
Final shot of THE RAPTURE (1991)
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 30/09/2026
[alt-text added, also easy] 👍🏼
Three-panel cartoon by @pizzacakecomic@bsky.social:

A woman with long brown hair and glasses says, “Hey Matt!”

A man in a baseball cap says, “Hi Ellen! I actually go by Terry now.”

“Ok,” she happily says, “I will call you Terry from now on.”

Ellen angrily glares directly at us, the readers, and says, “SEE HOW GODDAMN EASY THAT WAS??”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 29/09/2026
If you’re still writing on Substack, you’re sharing a platform with this 👇🏼
Substack post excerpt by Michael Tracey, Feb 12:

Here's one thing nobody wants to admit: Jeffrey Epstein was highly intelligent, well-read, charismatic, skillful at various complicated endeavors - yes, including his money-management business - and a lot of smart people genuinely enjoyed his company.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 29/09/2026
A majority of Americans either voted for this enthusiastically or didn’t bother to stop it.
A crowd at a Trump rally In 2024 hold up placards reading “MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW!” and “MAKE AMERICA STRONG AGAIN!”Katie Rogers tweets:

“Would you like to request voluntary departure or should I issue a removal order?” the judge asked.

“I don’t know,” Angel, 13, replied before bursting into tears. He stared ahead stoically and continued to cry, eventually saying: “I have no one. I have nothing.”

Quoting a previous tweet from Priscilla Alvarez:

“NEW: In a Texas courtroom Monday, 25 migrant children lined the pews — a nine-year-old rested her head on the table, a six-year-old pretended to fly an airplane, and a three year-old played with the mic. Many in attendance didn’t have an attorney — and a 13-year-old was ordered removed. A look inside through sketches…”An elderly white woman with a big smile holds up a placard reading “MASS DEPORTATION NOW!”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 29/09/2026
Two shirtless guys sitting on a bed, being interviewed for amateur porn site SeanCody.com
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 29/09/2026
He’s always been beautiful but Josh Hartnett never really seemed happy as a twink. Now, middle age is *totally agreeing with him* and I loved hearing him plug the new Marlon James novel THE DISAPPEARERS on eTalk. “I’m reading it now!” laughed Anne Hathaway because she remains The Best 👑
Josh Hartnett and Anne Hathaway running and laughing in a scene from VERITY
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 28/09/2026
Learning today that war-torn Syria has better high-speed rail than Canada 💡😮
Wikipedia excerpt:

“Post-war

On August 6, 2025, the first test run of a train between Aleppo and Hama took place, marking the first such operation since the line was suspended in 2012 due to the Civil War. The trial journey was conducted by the Train Set Group, following extensive maintenance of both trains and tracks. 

The train reached speeds of up to 160 km/h and was equipped with air-conditioning and onboard services. [citation needed] Plans are underway to expand the network to other cities, including Homs and Damascus, and eventually connect to Turkey via Gaziantep [citation needed]
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 28/09/2026
Madonna wins Artist of the Year at the MTV Video Music Awards ⭐️
Dale Cooper in TWIN PEAKS asks, “What year is this?”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 25/09/2026
Jose Canseco ⭐️🔥 This is exactly how John Rocker should be spoken to 😃
Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco tweets:

38 years ago today I created the 40/40 club
I remember the day like it was yesterday

JohnRocker @itsJohnRocker responds:

That's the last time you did anything of any value

Jose Canseco @JoseCanseco replies:

Shut up you racist pig
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 25/09/2026
Thoughts and prayers to the HBO marketing team as the black mould in JK’s castle is filling her head 😬
J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling tweets:

I'm fairly certain both Nelson Mandela and Genghis Khan knew what a woman is.

13:21 • 24/09/2026
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 25/09/2026
News outlets in 2016 were tripping over each other to gush about the “dapper” Nazi Richard Spencer and his three-piece suits. Dismal to see how nothing has changed for these deeply unserious propagandists 😡
"I think if I started wearing suits to work, people would freak out.”

In an exclusive interview with The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, talked for the first time about his style evolution.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
Just learned that singer Orville Peck will be in the STREET FIGHTER movie as masked bodyguard Vega. Perfect casting 🩷
Orville Peck in a magenta gi with a white mask and metal Wolverine-like claws in a poster for STREET FIGHTER
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
🍂 HAPPY AUTUMN EVERYONE 🍂
Sigourney Weaver lying on a sofa with a pumpkin
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
There are bigger issues in the Toronto election but I can’t get over this font that Brad Bradbrad is using, like something from a sensitive 1970s family sitcom. I can’t even explain why I hate it so much 😂
Over a Toronto skyline, the white text “Brad Bradford for Mayor” in a gentle italicized 1970s style font with a green outline and shadow
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
The Nazis are starting to attack each other, as they inevitably do. It’s heartwarming, really 😃
Stephen Miller @StephenMil48 posts photo of John Thune on the phone:

“If the Republicans lose the midterms it'll be because John Thune didn't get the SAVE
America Act passed.
The loss rests soley on John Thune's shoulders.”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 23/09/2026
What was your first computer growing up? (oh my, this ad is awkward)
“With the Home Computer from Texas Instruments, you're not just playing, you're leaming,” reads the caption on an ad photo of Bill Cosby posing with the computer
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 22/09/2026
In a harrowing show this week on the power and cruelty of UnitedHealth Group, John Oliver does a truly merciless drive-by hit 😂
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 20/09/2026
Up the street from our rental building, Darcy and I spontaneously started ripping up all the three-foot-high weeds that our lazy homeowner neighbour let choke off the sidewalk to strollers and wheelchairs these past weeks. Never underestimate the healing power of contempt 😂
A huge batch of long weeds now in a big green apartment compost bin
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 20/09/2026
This really sums up why Canada is boycotting the US as best we can. Trump or no, at least half the public simply cannot be trusted 🫤
@kitkat111961 posts:

I have to VENT on This One ~
Yes I Voted for Donald Trump to be Our President, but I Didn't Vote for These HIGH PRICES in the GROCERY STORES
Nor The RIDICULOUS PRICES @ The GAS STATION, DIESEL FUEL Almost $7.00 per Gallon & UNLEADED $4.29 per Gallon & he's Saying that it's a SMALL PRICE TO PAY for the WAR IN IRAN
• Are YOU DELUSIONAL, HE Doesn't have to go to a GAS STATION, OR a GROCERY STORE!!!! Come On Trump Get It TOGETHER MAN

@abbmax2023 responds:

But you'll continue to vote republican

@kitkat111961 replies:

I Will
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 20/09/2026
How would you describe your social media reach?
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 18/09/2026
Up since 3am for work 😮 Darcy’s exhausted but couldn’t resist getting us to Pop Music’s MILEY album release party. The kids DO want to dance 😃💥
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 18/09/2026
This truly sums it up 😐
Cartoon of a cat and a banker pig

Cat: Can I buy a house?

Pig: I already bought all the houses

Well how much to buy one off you?

More than you could ever afford

Is the rent cheap at least?

No it's double the mortgage so I can buy more houses

We truly live in the best economic system possible

Pig to police officer dog: Yes officer, that's the one that was annoying me

@COOLTiMESOnLinE
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 17/09/2026
No Kit, I’ve been a lifelong fan of DOCTOR WHO but if Russell T. Davies started funding anti-trans court cases with the money I spent on it, I would drop it *like a fucking hot stone* 😡
Kit Harington says his lifelong love of Harry Potter was enough into bring him to HBO's new series despite the franchise's ongoing controversy over J.K. Rowling's anti-trans views. Nothing says "I can separate the art from the artist" quite like signing on to help keep the artist's franchise very much alive.

“I'VE BEEN A LIFELONG HARRY POTTER FAN, I WAS A FAN WHEN I WAS A KID, AND THEN I REDISCOVERED IT AS AN ADULT”

- KIT HARINGTON ON WHY HE JOINED THE HARRY POTTER FRANCHISE
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel is just great ⭐️
Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles posts:

News: "In her latest progressive move for a children's entertainer..”

Actually I'm an educator with two masters degrees, founder of a children's media company & advocate for all children, especially ones you think are too controversial to care about.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 17/09/2026
TV line of the week: REACHER’s Tamara Green says, “Ahh! I don’t need to see your ass!” SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, TAMARA 😃
Alan Ritchson and Sydelle Noel
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 17/09/2026
This final word is utterly savage yet not a word is untrue 🎯
@CraigMokhiber

What is the price of a man’s soul? Ed Sheeran, who has accumulated hundreds of millions of dollars, when pressed by a few racist billionaires, sold his for access to a few money-making venues. And just like that, his legacy is forever tarnished. He will always be remembered as the guy who, from a position of extraordinary comfort and privilege, chose complicity over courage in a time of genocide.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 16/09/2026
Classic 😃
Classic meme of a girlfriend (US flag) angry that her boyfriend (Canadian flag) is ignoring her in favour of another girl (EU flag)
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 16/09/2026
I do and I AM, thanks 😃
raymondreamer posts:

If you hate on ai, you better be pretty damn good at whatever you're doing
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 16/09/2026
Former opening acts Aaron Rowe and Lukas Graham also put out great statements and both have far FAR less money than Macklemore or, of course, Sheeran. Wonderful allies ⭐️⭐️
aaronrowe_

I have made the decision to withdraw as a support act for Ed Sheeran's The Loop' North American Tour.

I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this.

But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation.

I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children. I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal.

I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland.

FREE PALESTINE

~ AARON ROWElukasgraham

It's hard to watch families in other parts of the world burying the people they love.

We should be able to speak about war, about civilians being killed, about children who deserve to grow up. Wherever they live. Whatever flag flies over them.

I grew up in Christiania, a small community in Denmark where speaking your mind was part of everyday life. Having more money didn't make your opinion worth more than anyone else's.

Money doesn't give you the right to own the conversation. Nobody's bank balance should decide who gets to speak or which suffering we're allowed to acknowledge.

i love Ed, and I'm grateful for everything we've shared. That hasn't changed. But I can't put these words out into the world and carry on with this tour as things stand. We're withdrawing from the remaining dates.

I'm sorry we won't be there. This is a difficult decision, but it's one I need to stand by.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 16/09/2026
I have successfully resisted my once-beloved Pecan Oat Latte from Starbucks for a couple years but now they’re adding tiny pies and no, NO, you union-busting, worker-abusing bastards, you cannot break me with this 🥧
“Fall Sweet Treats” notification features the new Mini Pecan Pie
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 16/09/2026
Update: Sydney Sweeney’s fans are still creepy as all hell 😬
Newspaper column headline:

Don't knock Sweeney because her breasts pass the pencil test

~ CAMILLA TOMINEY
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 15/09/2026
The solidarity being expressed by these musicians is inspiring to see 🇩🇰🇵🇸
@lukasgraham posts on Instagram:

It's hard to watch families in other parts of the world burying the people they love. 

We should be able to speak about war, about civilians being killed, about children who deserve to grow up. Wherever they live. Whatever flag flies over them. 

I grew up in Christiania, a small community in Denmark where speaking your mind was part of everyday life. Having more money didn't make your opinion worth more than anyone else’s.

Money doesn't give you the right to own the conversation. Nobody's bank balance should decide who gets to speak or which suffering we're allowed to acknowledge. 

i love Ed, and i'm gratefui for everything we've shared. That hasn't changed. But I can't put these words out into the world and carry on with this tour as things stand. We’re withdrawing from the remaining dates. 

I'm sorry we won't be there. This is a difficult decision, but it's one I need to stand by.
[three watermelon emojis]
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 15/09/2026
Wheeling out Mitch McConnell for votes proves that FUTURAMA’s prediction of being ruled by unfrozen heads might not be so far off 😂
A worker in the “Hall of Presidents” feeds some “President Chow” to Grover Cleveland’s head, next to other jars containing Bill Clinton, William Taft, Jimmy Carter and others
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 13/09/2026
Until 11am today, IKEA is serving up a *one-dollar breakfast* for its 50th anniversary! This place is just a massive PR campaign for Sweden and it works 😃🇸🇪
A plate of bacon and eggs in the IKEA restaurant
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 12/09/2026
Great stuff from Michael Kosta and THE DAILY SHOW team ❤️
@thedailyshow posts on Instagram:

[photo of Michael Kosta with inset of NYC skyline and the twin light beams memorial]

The idea that 9/11 is about "Muslims versus America" isn't just wrong, it's accepting Osama Bin Laden's vision of the world.

[photo of Michael Kosta with inset of NYC mayor Zohar Mamdani, smiling]

And the fact that 25 years after 9/11, we have a New York-grown, Muslim mayor leading our remembrance, proves to the world that Al-Qaeda didn't win, New York won.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 11/09/2026
If you’ve never read Hunter S. Thompson’s response to 9/11, this last part of it has aged far FAR too well 😡
We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at
his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." 

Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their
parents enjoyed.

That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks. The time has come for loyal Americans to Sacrifice.... Sacrifice.... Sacrifice. That is the new buzz-
word in Washington. But what it means is not entirely clear. 

Winston Churchill said "The first casualty of War is always Truth." Churchill also said "In wartime, the Truth is so precious that it should
always be surrounded by a bodyguard of Lies." 

That wisdom will not be much comfort to babies born last week. The first news they get in this world will be News subjected to Military Censorship. That is a given in wartime, along with massive campaigns of deliberately-planted "Dis-information." That is routine behavior in Wartime -- for all countries and all combatants -- and it makes life difficult for people who value real news. Count on it. That is what Churchill meant when he talked about Truth being the first casualty of
War. 
...
So get ready for it, folks. Buckle up and watch your backs at all times.
That is why they call it "Terrorism."
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 11/09/2026
Well would you look at that 😮 “Restore Britain” isn’t just about hating brown people anymore 😐
[Photo of blonde woman in a pink T-shirt]

Exclusive: Restore's rising star quit after supporters branded her a 'mudblood' 

Women's safety spokesman abandoned party following abuse from members over her Irish roots
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 11/09/2026
The 1999 romantic comedy TRICK has aged very well, except for what is now one of the most bittersweet final shots 😬
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