There appears to be a major loophole on the path to be elected 🇨🇦 Prime Minister.
If a candidate runs in a federal election without holding top-level security clearance, that clearance will be awarded automatically - with no vetting- should they win the PM seat.
Until now, no politician running for PM has considered doing so without holding a top-secret security clearance. Likely never crossed their mind..
Except Conservative leader, Pierre #Poilievre.
FWIW: Medicare is currently treating trans care as medically necessary. I had to get letters from therapists, but that's the WPATH standard of care. Took ~3 months from initial discussion to completion of my surgery.
Of course that could change at any moment. Especially if the 🍊💩 wins on Tuesday.
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Skyscraper Under Construction, 270 Park Ave, NYC, 2021.
All the pixels, each wearing a little hard hat, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/51…
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mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/113… GottaLaff@mastodon.social - Via Adam Ginsburg:
Our voter assistance hotline has been ringing off the hook with #Florida's Puerto Rican voters making plans to vote. 👀👀
Calls spiked 325% in just two days.
And that's (833) 868-3352, available in English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole
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November 1, 2024 -- Trump's comments to right-wing media figure Tucker Carlson last night ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
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If Democrats lose three House seats Nov. 5, their supermajority in the House will be kaput. In the Senate, Democrats need to flip just one seat to secure a supermajority.
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the painted windshields on the vehicles are a surprising counter surveillance tactic. It makes them harder to spot from aircraft.
It looks like the vehicles are small and highly mobile, meaning its likely western counter artillery systems will have a difficult time intercepting the launchers at all.
10/10 excellent warfare tactics.
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It's still amazing how this trailer from 14 years ago (!!) still looks better then most game trailers nowadays.. 
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(aside from Blizzard being an ass company nowdays)
Agreed!
Isn’t this the trailer that came with the release and box of the game? That released in 2004. That’s at least 20 years. 😀
Our top story this week: The Republican Party still sees the region as part of the party’s future and is continuing its outreach there. In response, #Democrats, along the same lines as Vice President Kamala Harris, are now appealing to the moderate and undecided. texasobserver.org/rio-grande-v…
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in reply to GG • • •How could non-conservatives possibly press his cult into demanding he go through security clearance vetting?
The only way he's going to do it is if his base demands it.