Today's News: Just a few things to talk about

Well, things are looking up. 

The horrible cold I have been battling for 2 weeks seems to be gone at last. 

 And after this month's cold and snow, our spring is springing!

Spring has finally arrived in Saskatoon. pic.twitter.com/g6HsLoRLeS

— Leah Howie (@Leah_M_Howie) April 25, 2022

The pelicans are back!

The pelicans have landed #yxe !

The latest they’ve arrived back in Saskatoon in 24 years! https://t.co/pbkOZ8DbJQ

— Lisa Dutton (@LDuttonGlobal) April 21, 2022

This means nothing to anyone in Vancouver, but EVERYTHING to Saskatoon folk. Seriously... bets are placed on this date
Also.... pelicans..... in Saskatchewan! https://t.co/jBSCO196Og

— Lasia Kretzel (@rhymeswpretzel) April 21, 2022

#Pelicans back at weir in #Saskatoon ... pic.twitter.com/iHHV2WbCiv

— Phil Tank (@thinktankSK) April 22, 2020

American White Pelicans have returned to the river in downtown Saskatoon. #birbsofsaskatchetoon pic.twitter.com/zzWZSiBkNl

— Tim Brown (@timinsaskatoon) April 23, 2022

The Raptors are finally doing great and Canada is feeling it:

Raptors roll into Philly and dominate the Sixers to force Game 6 https://t.co/X7tjblawU2 #Raptors #TorontoRaptors #Raptorsvs76ers #TORvsPHI #WeTheNorth #ScottieBarnes #PascalSiakam #PreciousAchiuwa #Garytrentjr #OGAnunoby #NBA #Playoffs #Playoffs2022 #NBAPlayoffs2022 #playoffsNBA

— Hitech Guru (@HitechguruS) April 26, 2022

Our Raptors will try to become the first team in NBA history to climb out of a 0-3 deficit 😤 pic.twitter.com/JjdTUo3yE3

— Raptors Nation (@RaptorsNationCP) April 26, 2022

Yeah, just call it sour grapes or whatever, but I do agree with this:

We’re the better team. If not for the lucky Embiid game winner, we’d be up 3-2. Raptors just like to play at Hall of Fame difficulty. Spot em 3 games and then sweep.

— Bottie Scarnes - Trade FVV Agenda (@ThatChair1) April 26, 2022

The 76ers aren't taking it very well:

Embiid needs to learn not to say this type of shit in the media https://t.co/QZNRE0rJov

— Saeed (@yungsaeed_) April 26, 2022

In other news, today will go down in history as the day Twitter died:

Cartoon by @deAdder pic.twitter.com/d54wrBmKoP

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) April 25, 2022

For perspective, if you somehow made $200,000 every single DAY from Columbus' landing in 1492 until now, you still wouldn't have the $44 billion to buy Twitter. It's pretty gross.

— Jesse Case (@jessecase) April 26, 2022

I think we can say goodbye to Twitter as we have known it for the last 15 months, since they turfed Trump and gave the rest of us a social media platform that actually policed its users' speech. It was nice while it lasted.

😂🤣😂
This Tweet has TFG supporters' heads exploding. 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Check out the comments under the original Tweet.#leavingtwitter #twittersoldhttps://t.co/5gFVP1um90

— 👽 McSpocky™ 🗣🇺🇸🇺🇦🌊💉 #StandWithUkraine (@mcspocky) April 26, 2022

An interesting thread from David Rothkopf:

Combine this w/the Citizens United formula that money equals speech & so those w/the most money are entitled to the most speech, lack of campaign finance regulation & pols who depend on $ to hold power & you've got a country sinking ever deeper into the quicksand of corruption.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 25, 2022

To conclude, the right v. left politics of the media is just a distraction that draws attention away from the rich vs. poor and especially the super-rich vs. everyone else dynamic that really drives our politics.

— David Rothkopf (@djrothkopf) April 25, 2022

Maybe we'll all just have to switch to t-shirts:

Bubba's new shirt pic.twitter.com/9quBQEeVF0

— Bubba O'Riley 🇨🇦 🏴‍☠️ 🇨🇦 (@DrunkenCrunker) April 21, 2022

The Ukraine Russia War is at the two month mark. Here's a pretty good summary:

Status: Two months ago, Russia invaded Ukraine to take control of a sovereign country by force. Thousands - perhaps tens of thousands - have died & are still dying. Evidence of war crimes. More than 10 million internal & external refugees. Kremlin now dabbling in nuclear rhetoric

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) April 26, 2022

I am no military expert, but I suspect we have not seen major battles lately because both Ukraine and Russia are organizing themselves for May, once General Mud stands down.

“I think it’s accurate that the next several weeks will be very, very critical … for the outcome of this battle that’s shaping up,” Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley said Monday of the war in Ukraine.

Via @karendeyoung1 https://t.co/B8Ox5lBBEn

— Dan Lamothe (@DanLamothe) April 26, 2022

And I think Ukraine needs to require evacuation of some of its eastern villages - it is a diversion of Ukraine resources to be trying to protect civilians at the same time as people are needed to fight the war.

.@kileycnn, reporting on volunteers bringing food to frontline villages under fire: This is Soviet style of war, bombarding villages into oblivion to take over a landscape devoid of humans. Ukrainians are being wiped off the face of the earth here; why ppl use the term genocide. pic.twitter.com/UNdyEj1urA

— 🇺🇦Paula Chertok🗽🇺🇦 (@PaulaChertok) April 26, 2022