there are *so* many people who cower before trump's threats, and jerome fucking powell is out here on youtube going, "all of this is corrupt horseshit, they're doing it because i won't bail them out, they're all liars"

In the 1930s, German and Italian scientists of principle fled to the US and became the backbone of our scientific and technical advantage, creating massive US wealth. Those who benefited most from their work are now… fleeing to chase lower tax rates. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/t...

😳 Brave man; a man with integrity. Another sign things are not right in the USA (yes, I know, it’s an understatement). Things are spiraling into Fascism (yes, that « F-word » that so many are hesitant to say) at light speed… #USPol

we should be no kinder in our assessment of Schumer and Jeffries abject uselessness in this moment than history has been in its judgment of Neville Chamberlain (a figure so reviled that maga hasn’t even bothered trying to launder his rep and valorize his accommodation of nazism)

"A guidebook on observer protocol includes advice for participants to say why they are watching, avoid any physical contact, record events with photos and videos, and ask questions to ICE and witnesses about what is happening..." www.wsj.com/us-news/insi...

Someone sent me this video of Trump’s goons in action today in the Twin Cities. The audio is disturbing.

“CBS News. The place to see BS news.” — Nikki Glaser in her opening monologue at the Golden Globes airing on CBS.

First day of broadcasting class kinda stuff.

“More transparent than Cronkite,” he told us just a couple of days ago

Four people were killed on the weekend after the helicopter they were in hit a slackline strong half a mile between two summits. This is something that I've been concerned about in the Lower Mainland for quite some time. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

@maddow.bsky.social 's A-block was typically brilliant. Her conclusion: trump's Venezuela flex just bringing military to heel, in prelude to exercising more power over.....everyone, home and abroad. If no one stops him (as it appears no one in Congress is wiling) he keeps steamrolling.

Here's another view of December's record low Arctic sea-ice volume. "Paleo Arctic sea-ice extent records, reconstructed from proxies like sediment cores, reveal that the dramatic decline in recent decades is unprecedented over at least the last 1,500 years"

As expected, the first CBS News(max) night with Tony Dokoupil under Bari Weiss was a debacle

We still live in the stupidest possible timeline. And it's getting ever more stupid.

The most shameful day in American history open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

So Surrey Police think they should just get realtime access to traffic enforcement cameras with no oversight about what surveillance they’re doing. Basically trying to circumvent surveillance warrant requirements. No thanks. globalnews.ca/video/116006...

Cowardice and complicity. The U.S. attack on Venezuela was a flagrant, over-the-top violation of international law. Canada should be echoing Mexico's principled stand against war. Instead, we get Elbows Down bootlicking. Pathetic.

We are in big trouble. "It accelerates the slide from a mostly rules-based world to one of competing spheres of influence, to be determined by armed might and the readiness to use it."

Petro-colonialism.

Trump makes it clear this is about oil. (After the oil companies helped buy him the election)

Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."

NEW: The ABC majority just voted to decimate the strong social housing requirements on developments in the Downtown Eastside / Oppenheimer District. ABC ignored the feedback of 100s of residents & advocates who spoke over several days warning of displacement and land speculation. #vanpoli

A brief mention of an abusive relationship between a Vancouver police officer and a teen he met at school in a recent watchdog report shows a need for more transparency around the identities of officers who commit misconduct, says a civil liberties advocate. @kehyslop.bsky.social reports. #vanpoli

So, last night the ruling ABC Vancouver party and mayor cut short a crucial public hearing by 4 hours so they could attend the Christmas party of the real estate developers' assn (UDI). There was a motion to keep the hearing going, but they voted it down. #vanpoli. #vanre

This case needs a coroner’s inquest. And it needs as much attention as Myles Gray. #vanpoli #policing

JUST IN: The Report calling for cancellation of the advisory committees has been withdrawn!! People Power works. Thanks to everyone who raised their voices in opposition. #vanpoli

Ken Sim was there in person to witness this. That's right. The Mayor who just forced through an austerity budget couldn't resist a junket to D.C. to be part of today's Spectacle. Oct. 17, 2026, ABC Eviction Day, can't come soon enough! www.votecope.ca/donate #vanpoli

Ken Sim and ABC are shutting down the volunteer-led advisory committees that advocate for residents for the rest of Ken Sim's term vancouver.ca/your-governm... contact council here and make ur opinion heard #yvr #vanpoli

NEW: Sign up now to speak in favour of FREE buses in Vancouver. Motion #7 from @seanorr.bsky.social on Dec 10th Council agenda calls of pilot program on priority routes. Read more: council.vancouver.ca/20251210/doc... Speak to Council: vancouver.ca/your-governm... #vanpoli #Vancouver

NEW: Firing workers 3 weeks before Christmas! This is who Ken Sim and ABC are. We'll keep fighting against these cuts to jobs and public services. Next year we're going to beat these bullies and make Vancouver a Solidarity City. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar... @seanorr.bsky.social #vanpoli

and there goes another one. @cat-abreu.bsky.social also resigning from the Net-zero advisory body, explicitly citing last week's AB-Canada MOU www.linkedin.com/posts/cather...

It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.

Justice Kagan is correct. Texans deserve better.

Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

NEW: City Council to consider cutting key committees (e.g. Arts and Culture, Renters, Older Persons and Elders) to silence citizens. If City Hall doesn't work for citizens, then who does it work for? (hint: Ken's rich donors!) council.vancouver.ca/20251209/doc...

I think about how close British Columbia came to giving this awful “leader” of this awful right-wing extremist party control over the Province, just before we were faced with the crises that Trump, MAGA and the GOP have created. Too close, would’ve been really bad, and all in the name of “change.”

"Donald Trump Jr-backed start-up scores $600mn US federal government deal" Alex Rogers, Joe Miller for @financialtimes.com

Good. I wish more reporters interrupt politicians who refused to answer ?s & try & throw out red herrings, canned irrelevant talking points or whataboutisms So many access reporters just shamelessly enable pols to abuse their audience & themselves vs demand they answer the question #vanpoli

So Maple MAGA thinks that HandyDART should be contracted out to a foreign corporation. But they don't know what a HandyDART vehicle vehicle looks like. Competence on par with the original MAGA. #bcpoli #vanpoli #elbowsup

In December 2015, before the first primary vote had been cast, candidate Donald Trump sat down for a friendly 30 minute interview with Alex Jones. It apparently cost him almost no votes. We’ve been here a long time. youtu.be/upo2zsqpEM4?...

Hegseth announced his new rules restricting reporters’ access to the Pentagon two weeks after the double strike.

Unsurprisingly, even Liberal insiders are saying Carney’s inner circle lacks women’s voices. Who else but a group of rich white men would abandon support for childcare, universal pharmacare, sexual and reproductive care and a feminist foreign policy? www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

One of the reasons servicemembers, from admirals and generals to the greenest private, should know “don’t follow illegal orders” is that this administration is a goulash of dishonorable character flaws like cowardice and dishonesty. There is no bus under which these pissants will not throw you.

Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug

Sooooooo this is another interesting wrinkle that I don't think any other media org has pulled on yet TEA can be and often is delegated, but it also can be kept at a very high level...and if pete did indeed keep it with him without being delegated at least for the first strike, hoo boy