A poignant recap of Mark Carney's legacy after 1 year in power. Great read for Canadians and Americans, alike. open.substack.com/pub/american...

Music to my ears :)

I love how Timothy Snyder is precise and explicit in his statements. It is always very authentic and so rare these days.

1/2. Notice that after losing the war Trump threatens his allies rather than Russia — even though Russia quite literally helped Iran defeat the US and he knows it.

Indeed

New Substack post is up! bit.ly/3NAO61k This one covers my new paper on measuring "Corporate BS Receptivity" (CBSR), including what BS actually is, how it spreads in the workplace, and what we can do about it. 🐂 💩

Everything he says & does reveals him for what he is…inhuman. No one does a better job of revealing who & what he is better than he does for all the world to see. A Narcissistic Psychopath with an unquenchable thirst for adoration, worship, undying fealty & a red carpet roller for his master Vlad!

When you hear “Trump” there is always Russia. It is a theatre of absurd: he keeps doing everything he can to benefit Russia, but no-one can find Russian interference 🤷‍♀️.

And “Who bears responsibility?”

The best summary of the events i have seen so far www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

😶😶😶 “In pursuit of subjective morality or public displays of virtue,” he added, “we risk abandoning the very individuals we pledged to serve.” “Subjective morality”… What is wrong with those people? How did they get this chemical imbalance in their brains? www.wired.com/story/public...

" Ukrainians found it hard to imagine that their neighbours could turn on them so aggressively, Popova said. "And that's another parallel." www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

“one feels ridiculous, coming from a society that is busily, proudly endeavoring to destroy itself, spending time in a society that is working under the toughest of circumstances to preserve itself.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

this 👇!

If you are appalled at the tactics of ICE and CBP, you should be! They in fact are *NOT* trained for the work they're doing in America's interior right now—and they're scared of interacting with US citizens. That's a recipe for the exact disaster we see: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-101-ho...

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

It is truly scary

“…Dorothy was there. She saw that the same normalizing tactics that she had witnessed in Germany in 1934 had come to America.”

Ukrainians are now worried that if Trump will learn he wasn't nominated this year for Taras Shevchenko Literary award, they are screwed

You're willing to drag the world into deadly turmoil when your only reason for being in power it to avoid jail.

to me this looks kind of obvious

This 👇 is SO accurate!

US now not only smells like Russia, it talks exactly like Russia, only in English ( for now :))

I just can't ..... 😆😆😆😆 As someone in the original post noted it is kind of a problem "when someone in a crowd yells “pedophile protector” and you instantly think “hey that’s ME, I better respond!”

As of today the full scale invasion (3 day special military operation) officially lasts longer than the entire eastern front of ww2

Reminder: tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...

Here's the whole text from Popper's The Open Society and It's Enemies (it's in the notes, always read the notes):

In 2026, we can’t take the easy path by giving in to despair. We have to keep doing something to be ready for the moment the right combination of events align and we can see a better future.

I think i have found my Christmas playlist

Canadian treachery 🇨🇦😊

I am trying to find the link to the original (untranslated) version ...

From the @wsj.com chief foreign correspondent

Remember, remember, The Fifth of December And never surrender your nukes!

Topper for the “peace” prize

People who do staff like this ( or participate in it) have some kind of brain damage. I have no other explanation for this ⬇️

For a guy who wasn’t supposed to be a good politician, he’s turning out to be pretty good at it — better, even, than the one he replaced”

Russian Unreality and American Weakness open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

I do not think we fully realize how the adoption of AI by corporations harms the majority to deliver the unfair benefits to a minority boondoggle.substack.com/p/opaque-alg...

"Crikey, they started without us this time!"

🤷‍♀️

Subjects under the influence of power, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury—becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and, crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people’s point of view

Donald Trump explains air quality meteorology to the U.N. General Assembly. Some say it's the greatest explanation the world has ever seen.

This is disgusting. One is stripped of the royal title because of the things he did with Epstein, but other is being greeted as a dear friend and paraded in the royal carriage.

😂

Of course. He has to be debriefed by his handler.

It was such a humiliation for US

Quick lesson on Canada youtu.be/9BptD9K1Bu4?...

Plus “Trump has already done massive damage to Ukraine and provided great aid to Russia”