I want to thank everyone who posts gift articles of really important stories that all Americans should read but are behind paywalls so most can’t. There are some stories that are so important to the public interest that media companies should remove paywalls on some occasions.

Donald Trump's insults on the soldiers who served in Afghanistan sends a clear message to Canadians and Europe. On this episode of @meidascanada.ca we look at being a good ally with Greenland / Ukraine and what it means to have a dangerous neighbour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=82vZ...

I was one of those soldiers. I lost friends over there. If I knew 20 years later our ally would threaten our sovereignty and insult our sacrifices I never would’ve volunteered to be deployed there.

Read the hell out of this #Canada Olga this is all insanely important and the 2 that really jump out for me - allies are now graded and arms sales as part of that. If you’re not scoring highly enough on participating in uniquely US goals - your score is low.

Your Black History Moment Not in The Epstein Files.

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

Stephen Harper says the US is a "hostile" regime and Canada must urgently reduce its economic ties and hit back with counter tariffs. He says business leaders are fooling themselves if they think things will go back to normal. When I find myself in the same trench as Stephen Harper it's serious.

Yes they should.

This made me weepy

If you’re interested in the backstory of how Silicon Valley got so evil. Well, I invite you to my most-read piece from February.

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

We are once again calling on UCP MLAs to sign a straightforward pledge to denounce separatism. As of Friday morning, all 38 of Alberta’s New Democrat MLAs have signed this pledge, and not a single UCP or Independent MLA has, including Premier Smith. (1/5)

KINEW: "I'm all for protecting us from the threat of the Trump tariffs. But at the same time, I'm not going to put my hand in my pocket to check how much money I have before I say something about what happened to Mr. Pretti or Ms. Good."

This is straight out of the same playbook Imperial Japan used to justify invasion of China and Imperial Russia used to justify the invasion of Ukraine. Trump will be claiming Albertans are ‘persecuted’ and require U.S military protection next. Canada, take note - unity is strength.

Take his personal army away from him while you can, you stupid, stupid assholes. You’re like an armadillo playing dead in the middle of the road so the semi won’t hurt you

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

"Amazon is owned by Jeff Bezos, a billionaire backer of the president," writes Neil Young. “The president's international policies and his support of ICE, make it impossible for me to ignore his actions.” He also announced that anyone in Greenland can access his entire catalog for free at his site.

If Canadians, travelling domestically, want to use the "good" security line at the airport, they need a NEXUS card, even if they aren't going to the US. And they need the blessing of Donald Trump's Homeland Security apparatus to get one. I'm calling on Canada to end this absurdity. #Canada #NEXUS

Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift. It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.

This hit so fucking hard today.

The idea that America needs to occupy Greenland because we actually care enough about native people and want to build oncology centers is enough to make your head fully explode

Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government

I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength

Today I wrote about a good man summarily executed on the streets by Republican death squads, and how, given the inevitable alternatives, even tyrants should hope for a people's liberation from tyranny. www.the-reframe.com/the-shovel-n...

Prioritising balance over objectivity is the most cowardly exercise that a news outlet or journalist can engage in. 'The evidence shows X, but the regime says Y - so it's impossible to know the truth.' Lies should not be afforded the same respect and credibility as the evidence that exposes them.

#Canada please take note of this overt threat of military action against us if we do not obey

This is excellent from @jamellebouie.net and video team and you should watch it and send to everyone you know www.nytimes.com/video/opinio...

You know how sometimes you read something that’s awful but then something else happens and you lose track of the story? It happens to everyone. The right-wing machine relies on this tendency. It’s a stream of scandals that go nowhere and the audience is quickly ushered onto the next one.

I love how our Prime Minister is always sending a message. youtube.com/shorts/0JMue...

Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan after “doing nothing for the USA.” Fuck YOU Donald Trump! 🤬

Now is the time to fight for our values.

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call: - 453 Britons - 158 Canadians - 89 French - 59 Germans - 53 Italians - 44 Danes - 17 Spaniards “Stayed a little back, off the front lines “! No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

A heartfelt thanks to Donald Trump the dictator to the south, who flew to Davos to give definitive proof that everything Mark Carney said was true.

Carney was only the third person to get a standing ovation at Davos. The first was Mandela and the second Zelenskyy. To say we are proud Canadians is an understatment. 🇨🇦😊

(2/2) A year ago, that image would have set off a bunch of "is he serious?" posts and columns and that would have basically been the news cycle. Now the cycle has moved to the assumption that yes, he is, so the news is the guardrails going up as a result of that, rather than trying to decipher posts

Imagining Donald Trump starting a speech with the words "I'll start in French and then switch to English" makes me chuckle.

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

I am begging people to just imagine for a second talking as if the lives of the people in Greenland are an important part of what is happening in Greenland.

The Supreme Court of Canada 🇨🇦 has a vacancy, due to mandatory retirement. Please listen carefully to the brilliant Tod Maffin as he explains how our country makes legally competent, non-partisan, and balanced appointments to our Highest Court. #NotBetterJustDifferent #StayWoke

Dr. Susan Monarez: “I could have stayed silent, agreed to the demands, and no one would have known. What the public would have seen were scientists dismissed without cause and vaccine protections quietly eroded…I would have lost the one thing that cannot be replaced: My integrity.”

here’s a version where the POV is blacked out whenever the driver takes their eyes off the road

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#AI needs to be regulated. Too many people are susceptible to its unreality.

There’s a concentration camp outside Miami. Humans are kept in inhumane conditions, lacking proper food and hygiene. Their crime? Existing. What the fuck are we doing? This is why they sent waivers home to let us watch Schindler’s List in high school. Shut it down.

Canada is tired of having the tariffs raised on us for the Epsteinth time. 💀😂