On the "boots on the ground" question and Trump saying that it will mainly be about protecting oil operations. Given this framing, we should expect a massive payday for politically connected mercenary companies, who will use this to expand their private armies.

The invasion of Venezuela is bandit politics. It is also a direct attack on international law. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu are working to dismantle the international rules based order. Canada must get ready for what comes next. @meidascanada.ca @meidastouch.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYqU...

The aging pedophile who wants to be a king has kidnapped the leader of a sovereign nation without congressional approval. If the United States had an opposition party, they would treat this as an illegitimate act and start impeachment proceedings immediately.

In a nutshell.

Yesterday will live on as a day of infamy for the Conservative Party of Canada as its leader, petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre, cheered on 🇺🇸America’s recklessness lawlessness with Jason Kenney clapping along. Entirely unCanadian. 🙄

"Lawlessness is the norm" - CNN host about Venezuela, without a drop of irony or self-awareness.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. This is the military industrial complex on steroids.

What the United States did in Venezuela is prohibited under international law, which bars the use of force as an instrument of national policy.

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the corporate oligarchy and return power to the people.

Many don't realize that the most vulnerable or immune compromised depend on the rest getting vaccinated properly to keep diseases from spreading out of control. It's not just “my body, my choice” when it comes to saving lives.

i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo

Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “Big tech has made their choice.” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Here is another good idea, take all ICE employees that live in California.( they must ID their employer for state tax) and run a criminal background check, I’m sure there are a ton of outstanding warrants, judgements, child support cheats. Serve them, garnish them, arrest them. They are flush now

Today's billionaires own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the country. Here's how wealth inequality spiraled out of control — and what we can do to fix it. https://youtu.be/wOI8RuhW7q0?si=Fq4N9wTQhLHawXq7

From Meta to Google to xAI, a team of researchers are using open-source intelligence to map the growth of America’s AI datacenters. @evystadium.bsky.social breaks down how Epoch AI’s map works. Full story by @mjgault.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/researchers-...

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Republicans rushed tax cuts for the wealthy but delayed their cuts to Medicaid and food assistance. Why? So they don't kick in until after the midterms. Help spread the word.

If Elon Musk is trying to push these death traps into the streets of your city, stand up and stop him. #TeslaTakedown electrek.co/2025/12/15/t...

Hint, About Grok: Show it my 150 'burned alive in a Tesla' spreadsheet Then ask: 'Grok, read these 150 documented cases and then tell me how many people burned alive inside a Tesla' ;) (It won't. No matter how hard you try, Grok won't read it. It's programmed not to) bsky.app/profile/tona...

Thank you @zainvelji.bsky.social. We need to talk about this in Ontario too.

Canada's Healthcare "Crisis" paulstewartii.substack.com/p/canadas-he... @paulstewartii.bsky.social 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Looking back to @wwattribution.bsky.social studies in 2025 showed again, in stark terms, how unfairly the consequences of human-induced climate change are distributed. The world does not have to be like this, we have a lot of agency to make it better. www.worldweatherattribution.org/unequal-evid...

And it is of course fierce, trenchant, and to the point and everyone should read it.

Debating Away Our Humanity jessica.substack.com/p/cbs-news-f...

Or the difference between the Titanic 'sinking' and 'sunk' bsky.app/profile/jame...

Suggestion for 2026: Please consider joining me in subscribing to The Walrus magazine. It’s 🇨🇦Canadian and intelligent and ours. @thewalrus.ca

In the first episode of season two, Toronto Metropolitan University’s April Lindgren talks about her research on news deserts, and what danger they pose to the communities that have no access to credible reporting: https://www.youtube.com/@BigIfTrueTVO

I take a little time off and the leader of Canada’s official opposition goes on a livestream with a guy who begged me for feet pics This is why people think canada isn’t real!!!!!

Who agrees? ✋

AOC: "It's not just that Trump is corrupt. It's that everyone participating in this is corrupt — Elon is corrupt. Jeff Bezos is corrupt. Mark Zuckerberg is corrupt"

For @nationalobserver.com, I spoke with U of T’s Laura Tozer. Last year, she was adding climate policies to her lecture slides. This year, she’s deleting them, and asking Prime Minister Mark Carney to explain the rollbacks directly to her students.

Seems to me if voting didn’t matter the people who benefit most from the destruction of democracy wouldn’t be trying so hard to demolish democracy

futurism.com/advanced-tra... @realdanodowd.bsky.social

WATCH — @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Over 1200 survivors raped or abused, and you have rich and powerful men doing this - and this country did nothing.” (H/T @cwebbonline.com )

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

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Great read. Spread it far and wide. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇 Mitt Romney Is Right: Tax the Rich Before the Pitchforks Come Out open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Trump's halt on 5 in-progress wind farms capable of powering 2.7 million homes skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

"Imam Fouad’s death is not an isolated tragedy, it is the predictable outcome of a violent detention system that continues to cage people for profit and punishment."

Mr. @deadder.bsky.social in today’s @theglobeandmail.com

why conservatives are pouring millions intro trad-wife bullshit and birth control disinformation skywriter.blue/pages/did:pl...

Global Temperature in 2025, 2026, 2027 jimehansen.substack.com/p/global-tem...

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

‼️HISTORIC Insane Minimum Temperature of 28.5C at Chuuk HOTTEST DECEMBER NIGHT EVER RECORDED IN MICRONESIA HOTTEST NIGHT EVER RECORDED ANYWHERE IN NORTHERN HEMISPHERE this time of the year Record heat keeps sweeping all tropics

Big Oil is selling the promise of “low-carbon data centers” using carbon capture, reports @emdashsanders.bsky.social. But these plans could "easily transform into a sprawling build-out of high-polluting methane gas infrastructure" with lasting impacts to "the climate and communities nearby."

This is another ‘ozone layer’ moment. Now, we must urgently target methane www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Delays in gynecological surgeries putting women's health and lives at risk, doctors warn https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/gynecological-surgeries-delay-9.7019414 More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁