Today's news: One of those days

Yes, it was Mother's Day. And lots of political tweets that relate:

Are we still calling it Mother's Day or is it now just Domestic Infant Supplier Day?

— Keri Blakinger (@keribla) May 8, 2022

The slope, it is slippery. https://t.co/VLXjIVDtJN

— Helen Kennedy 🌻 (@HelenKennedy) May 8, 2022

I’m not sure I can ask actors or crew members to travel and work in a state where an ectopic pregnancy would sentence my employee to death.

— Bruce Miller (@BrooseMiller) May 6, 2022

I am SO GLAD Margaret Atwood is speaking out:

‘Enforced childbirth is slavery’: Margaret Atwood on the right to abortion https://t.co/qkHbOjqseB

— Margaret E. Atwood (@MargaretAtwood) May 7, 2022

I also looked for recent editorial cartoons about the re-criminalizing abortion in the US -- the ones I found weren't particularly funny, because its no laughing matter.  But here's a few that I liked: 

(Washington Post)

(collected by Political Change.org)

 In other news, Trudeau took an unannounced trip to Ukraine to re-open the Canadian embassy and to meet Patron!

Trudeau makes a surprise visit to Kyiv. All the people complaining Trudeau didn’t visit Ukraine can now switch to complaining that Trudeau wasted a bunch of money for visiting Ukraine.

— David Hicks (@ALL_CAPS) May 8, 2022

My PM, Justin Trudeau with the amazing Deputy PM, Chrystia Freeland, in Ukraine, raising the Canadian flag at the Canadian Embassy. I feel so proud to be 🇨🇦This trip was kept out of the press, for various security reasons and yet the Cons are upset he never told them. Seriously! pic.twitter.com/j9kf8Di8ia

— Sue Miller Love🇨🇦 (@suedoeskelowna) May 8, 2022

⚡️ Canada to provide Ukraine with $1.5 billion per year, anti-tank equipment.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said “Canada is second only to the United States in terms of aid,” having already sent half a billion dollars to Ukraine.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) May 8, 2022

OH MY GOD TRUDEAU MET PATRON 🐶😍 https://t.co/81dJoRHk76

— Stephanie Carvin (@StephanieCarvin) May 8, 2022

Trudeau, Joly, Freeland in Ukraine https://t.co/BLNOJHCEt7

— Robyn Urback (@RobynUrback) May 8, 2022

Freeland’s mother also helped draft Ukraine’s inaugural constitution. https://t.co/KfyF0posnu

— Dale Smith (@journo_dale) May 8, 2022

The following stuff is completely irrelevant to Canada or to any political event that I actually care about at all, but hey -- the Steve Schmidt twitter has been SMOKIN' and so have all the comments about the tweets -- its the kind of spat that only Twitter can make so very entertaining. 

It all started yesterday, I guess because Meghan McCain wrote a book (which, by the way, sold a miserable 250 copies in its first two weeks):

I want to make very clear I am not a Steve Schmidt fan but I do admire the purity of his hatred of Meghan McCain and the sheer chaos of this thread https://t.co/qS4uWR6SUq

— David Klion (@DavidKlion) May 8, 2022

Meghan McCain: “do you know who my dad is?”

Steve Schmidt: “do YOU know who your dad was?” *unfurls 886-page manifesto and clears throat*

— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) May 8, 2022

Steve Schmidt just posted a new thread where he shot Meghan McCain’s ashes into the sun 😆

— (((The Taiji Reporter)))🐬 (@TheTaijiNews) May 8, 2022

Hoping Steve Schmidt pivots his angry unfinished business tweet threads to increasingly random people like Greg Ginn or Mike Dunleavy Jr. or Balthazar Getty or my former English teacher Bruce Allen.

— Glengarry Rick Ross (@ThomasAwful) May 9, 2022

Yes, indeed:

https://t.co/SvdBad7YnK pic.twitter.com/3UbTOpYWuJ

— TG (@TG22110) May 8, 2022