I just learned about it, but it’s called the “Newfoundland Curse” not the “Newfoundlander Curse” or the “Newfie Curse”.

It’s a curse of the land that some newfies get struck with, not a curse of the people that all are afflicted with.

A Newfie Curse would be “Lord tunderin’ Jesus, the arse is gone out of 'er!”

Will shit, this would be quite the way to find out I’m cursed. I get irregular heartbeats all the time and half my ancestry is Newfie going way back…

Hey it’s all good my dude. We all get what you’re saying and I think you both ultimately agree that things are shit. The rest is just semantics! <fist bump>

Does anyone know what the MAGA crowd thinks of this? Do they even know that this is what is happening with all the money doge is “saving”? I mean obviously it’s not just this, but in general all of these rich assholes just treating the government like their personal piggy bank?

Aww, I don’t feel special anymore.

Get Brianthompson’d, Reddit.

There’s more, but this is the full quote where he tries to equivocate the term first:
“The term Zionist increasingly being tossed around as a pejorative, in spite of the fact that it simply means believing in the right of Jewish people, like all people, to determine their own future, is not normal. No one in Canada should ever be afraid to call themselves a Zionist. I am a Zionist."

What a way to leave. I guess he’s trying to bookend his, “I am a feminist” speech.

They were not “making the mice transgender”.

From the Whitehouse’s 6 evil studies list:

Three of them were studying the long-term effects of gender-affirming hormone therapy on the growth of the skeleton, how it affects fertility, and if it changes your breast cancer risk. These are all things that people who are against transgender care use as reasons to stop transgender care. So they were potentially a way for the government to say “no” to this kind of hormone therapy and have some scientific backing for why. (Note: the results of these studies weren’t going the way anti-trans numpties would have liked. I’m sure that has nothing to do with it though.)

One is studying (as best I can determine) how GA therapy works, I guess because we don’t really fully understand it. This one used “transgenic” mice (scary!) to help isolate the processes. That means they were genetically modified.

There was a very scary one about how such hormone therapy affects the effectiveness of the HIV vaccine. (They made sure to list this one first with its homophobantitransantivax trifecta).

One study they claimed in their list was actually just a comparison of asthma between men and women (nothing about transgender, but it mentioned “gonadal hormones” which is like, so gross).
Edit to add: This one also accounts for over 1/3 of their claimed savings and is only tangentially related to transgender women because of the estrogen they take. It was mainly focused on laying a basis for future therapies for everyone with lung disease.

A bunch of the info came from here: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/white-house-scared-of-trans-mouse/

I also read through the abstracts from the studies listed and linked in the Whitehouse press release.

If it’s bought and paid for, how does it support Nazis?

How does trashing a working vehicle fight Nazis?

We can’t really afford to do that. I’m not actually convinced we should respond with tariffs because it will hurt us more. They certainly shouldn’t be our only or primary tactic. We will have the double whammy of less exports giving less money coming in and less jobs (because of US tariffs), and more expensive imports that we rely on but can’t afford (because of our tariffs). Trump is trying to wreck our economy and adding tariffs on US products won’t help us prevent that. Our tariffs are meant to be punitive, to get Trump to back down, and I’m not convinced they will succeed in that. He’s going to war to destroy Canada and he’s willing to sacrifice poor Americans to win that war. We can’t survive a tariff-to-tariff boxing match, just as much as we couldn’t possibly survive a toe-to-toe fight. We need to be creative and think guerilla (trade-) warfare.

We need to find specific ways to make it painful for rich Americans while not making it worse for the majority of Canadians. We need to move manufacturing back to Canada and we need to find new trade partners and repair old deals, and improve trade internally. Some of that will take time and it still won’t remove our need to import from the US, but it will give us a better long term outlook.

Better than sitting behind a keyboard literally doing nothing. I applaud them for taking action.

What happened to her left side?

The Kite Runner is a great book that describes this but in Afghanistan.