Oh, look what I saw on the beach!

“For the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 contest, nearly 9,000 entries were submitted to organizers by member photographers from 15 countries. See a collection of some of this year’s winning and honored photographs” via @TheAtlPhoto: www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

STUBB: Most credible security guarantee Ukraine has right now is 800,000-strong armed force and capacity to conduct modern warfare unlike any other NATO member state. Tide has actually turned. We Europeans have to understand we need Ukraine more than Ukraine needs us. They know how to do this thing

Norway sold 12 petrol cars in February 2026. Out of 7,272 new passenger car registrations, 98% were fully electric. Just 67 diesel & 12 petrol cars were registered. Hybrids? Only 66 in total mostly plug ins. More in my new Substack newsletter coming out every 7 days. Sign up here: t.co/In5lBaF2ox

China is dominating solar, batteries, and EVs because they made a national commitment, while we keep stalling. Every day we delay on clean energy is a day we fall further behind. This is an economic and national security fight we can't lose.

“Everybody needs to turn down the rhetoric.” -supporters of a guy who threatened to destroy an entire civilization of 90 million people

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National Science Foundation. The letters read, “On behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I’m writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately.”

Premier Wab Kinew is on the file. No American liquor in Manitoba until Trump drops the tariffs and releases the Epstein files.

The big divide in Britain today is between working people and the privately educated, rich, greedy, tax-dodging, selfish, grifting gobshites who try to manipulate working people by pretending to give a shit about them.

Polish PM Donald Tusk on the meeting of EU Heads of State or Government: “You could feel a huge relief among leaders because, for the first time in years, there were no Russians in the room, if you know what I'm talking about.” #Orban

Local man says successor may be too focused on smoking the hookah with crypto bros and calling crossing guards communists.

If understand the logic of this administration as demonstrated in the Strait of Hormuz recently, that "enforcement action" would consist of a blockade preventing the transport of US liquor products into Canada.

“Are you concerned about insider trading on these prediction markets re: the war?” TRUMP: “The world is a casino. It is what it is.” 🤷🏼 And there you have it, folks!

Reporter: Is the war really about Iran’s nuclear program? CHINA: "No it's all about oil" Reporter: Why So? CHINA : "A warmongering Israel has nuclear weapons, but Iran — the oldest civilization — can’t have them. That’s America’s biggest double standard."🔥 #cdnpoli

We could just ... not let them do this.

NEW: What considerations did Ontario's top civil servant make over return to the office? It's unclear. Critics say redactions to what we got via FOI pour cold water on the government's argument excluding cabinet from disclosure won't stifle transparency. globalnews.ca/news/1181230...

LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours

We need to support people and groups fighting Doug Ford's corrupt policies Coalition launches constitutional challenge to Ontario’s undemocratic “lawless zones” law ecojustice.ca/news/coaliti...

It's Earth Day.

"Those limitations raise questions about how the private jet would have helped the premier travel around northern Ontario — one of his justifications for needing the jet — and how the plane would have fulfilled other government uses Ford described at Queen's Park on Tuesday." 🙄

Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.

"This is an important thing to think about."

Local man confuses air ambulances for the people with private air limo for VIP cottager.

It's important to amplify this weasel move by Doug Ford. He wants to be able to do more corrupt moves beyond buying a private jet and not allow the public to know. globalnews.ca/news/1180919...

For the record, for anyone who’s forgotten, it’s sheer madness for a president to contradict himself nearly every day. It’s profoundly wrong that we can’t trust the veracity of a single thing that he says.

👍 just like the orange "victim" south of us.

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CBC website right now.

Heaven forbid that the Premier had to travel on the northern highways. Oh wait... he doesn't go there anyways.

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

my conspiracy theory is wall street is doing everything it can to keep everything from collapsing until dems take the house and senate so they can blame the implosion on them

At some point the endless string of corrupt behaviour has got to catch up to Doug Ford. How will this play with all the rubes who see him as 'one of them'?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Is making public transport free “effective?” “…the relatively small difference between Victoria and NSW suggests price is not the main constraint on mode shift. Access, travel time, service reliability and the ability to make specific trips appear to matter more.” Via @theconversation.com

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater. This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning. Never doubt your power to change the system.

Solar panels in the rain? No problem.

“When it comes to corporate bailouts, luxury spas, or speeding up alcohol privatization, there’s billions in public dollars to subsidize private interests. But when it comes to our public colleges, something we universally benefit from, Ford always comes up dry." -- JP Hornick

I will always find it confusing that some people think a person riding a $2000 bike to commute is a privileged elitist but the guy in the $80k truck that costs $150 to fill is the working class average joe.

🇭🇺 Péter Magyar after his meeting with Hungary's President: He should be voluntarily leaving his office. If he does not leave voluntarily, we will use the mandate given to us by the voters. Through constitutional amendments and legal changes, we will remove him and all the other Orban puppets.

A Belgian actor has exposed Europe's hypocrisy He said: "You are thinking of expelling the Iranian ambassador from the country, but during the genocide that has been ongoing for two years, none of you has demanded the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador. This is shameful."

I’m sure we can add to this list….

1/5. I want to try to amplify this point — Vance does not believe that morality is an autonomous sphere of life at all; only fools think that, in his world.

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

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Péter Magyar on Polish politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Marcin Romanowski, facing misuse of public funds & abuse of power charges, who Orbán granted asylum to: "They shouldn't buy any furniture in Hungary because they are not staying long. Hungary will not be an asylum for international criminals."

On a more serious note, this does show the necessity of a big-tent single-issue pro-democracy coalition. Autocrats lose when anti-authoritarianism is the opposition-uniting priority, and win when they can play divide and conquer on lesser issues.

If it wasn't already clear, you can definitively mark today, the morning after Donald Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ, that congressional Republicans fully revealed themselves to not actually care at all about Christian values. It was always primarily a grift.