The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.

Trump is working hard to set/reinforce a frame that connects immigration, financial fraud, & election fraud. He and the right wing propaganda machine will keep producing “evidence” to fit this frame, then use it to justify attempts to suppress voters, kick voters off rolls, and delegitimize results.

There is a time and place for French Canadian pea soup. But Swedish pea soup is the bästa. (Handful of cloves - not garlic - and dried ginger ftw. And mustard. Nommers.)

This.

Was using many of these words decades before Moira existed. But Catherine, as always, said them better.

Amber Bracken is one of Canada’s greatest photojournalists, and for the RCMP to mistake observers for participants, arrest her and prevent her from doing her vital work is a deeply dangerous precedent. This case is important for all of us.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.

She looks so tremendously happy here. www.cbc.ca/comedy/the-t...

After all the slander directed at Palestinian doctors…

There is indeed a gender gap in AI use. The problem is not that women aren’t using AI enough The problem is men tend gravitate towards the overconfident voice, and overestimate their ability to identify slop www.gov.uk/government/p...

And this Canada.🇨🇦 This. Pick up your ☎️ 📱 📧

This.

We also need a national task force on untangling Canada's food system from the US food system.

“We are not prepared for the unimaginable horrors that could result from the advent of the Torment Nexus,” says CEO of Torment Nexus Creation Corp.

This is your must-read 🧵 of the day, folks. Fantastic synthesis from @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social of where we are on Trump’s foreign policy & the past/current/future of state of world order.

“Despite its name, however, the Board of Peace is not intended to resolve conflict. Rather, it is a form of authoritarian conflict management, subduing war through repressive means”

Welp.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

It's hard to explain what it is like to be a displaced persons camp, surrounded by a group of women whose husbands and children have been murdered days earlier. But this article is my best attempt.

This thread, Canadians 🇨🇦 — wherever you find yourself. 👇

Agreed. But I'm also going to remind people that this government took away the Canada Carbon Rebate that accompanied the consumer carbon tax) which refunded more $ to the great majority of lower-income households than they paid in. Still mad about that.

Winnipeg (AP) - Mass anti-regime protests broke out near the capital of the United States' restive province of Minnesota today after the president's elite Republican Guards murdered a civilian.* *If we covered ourselves the way we cover other countries.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

"Good tsar, bad boyars" is a longstanding trope in authoritarian regimes. See also "if the Führer knew..."

1,173 people were shot dead by "law enforcement" in the USA last year. In the UK, it was 2. The US population is 6x that of the UK, so go ahead and multiply the second figure by 6. Then explain to me why this massively disproportionate rate of killing is so.

"You are allowed to say, at any point, I can’t support this. Even if you did. Even if you were unsure. You can say 'this has gone too far.' And while the best time to say that was earlier, the second best time is now." - Adam Eli

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will skip the signing of US President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” in Davos after Switzerland confirmed it would enforce the ICC arrest warrant over war crimes in Gaza.

This.

Imagine you're a scientist trying to publish a new study, and being told you can't, unless you do background checks on co-authors who aren't U.S. citizens and send their names to national security staff. Also, studies about climate change or DEI written w/foreign scientists = rejected. ⬇️

Have to ask: has this Brit never been to Scotland? As a “Diplomatic editor.” One look at the quality of the snow, shape of the ice and we know it is mild, there. -9C? Patio weather. No jacket. Shorts. But if it manages to scare the orange menace.

If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%

You know what we need? Follow up. I'll be impressed when there is actually, real follow up. Not elbows half way, not repealing of policy to placate, real actual follow up.

"In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour, or to combine to create a third path with impact," says PM Mark Carney in a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. #cdnpoli

Good. This is exactly what Canada should be doing. Will it anger Trump? Yes. If Canada wants to remain a sovereign country, we MUST visibly support NATO. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Even if Trump doesn’t invade Greenland (or Canada) he’s doing Putin an enormous favour. Can Europe/Canada keep sending military equipment to Ukraine when their own territory is facing the threat of invasion?

E-Fucking-gad

Fuck AI overviews. It’s thievery from journalists pure and simple

This isn't a lazy driveby of my D.C. colleagues. We all do the calculus of "what is the best approach I can take to get the most useful and substantive answer to my question, so I can file my story/get my clips/etc." But if the state's position is hostility, fine. Force them to be hostile.

Nobel Please Prize

Statement on this from Canada’s defence minister’s spokesperson Maya Ouferhat: “As of this moment, the Canadian Armed Forces are not initiating any new operations in Greenland.”

nice 😎 “Music and audio that is generated wholly or in substantial part by AI is not permitted on Bandcamp. Any use of AI tools to impersonate other artists or styles is strictly prohibited in accordance with our existing policies prohibiting impersonation and intellectual property infringement.”

Remember the books? Well, don’t fuck these bozos. Nor anyone on Twitter. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The paperback of my 'Plato: a civic life' will be published on March 1st. I'll be doing some more talks and podcasts in support, and will add details to this thread as they're confirmed. More info and a pre-order link here: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/plato

Aaargh

This.

This.

shot, chaser

This US analysis on Canada is doing the rounds today, and I'll simply say that everything is a racist conspiracy when you're stupid defenseanalyses.org/work/our-can...