The problem is that the child porn website is owned by the richest man in the world, who no one wants to pick a fight with, and even less so now that he's aligned with the president of the U.S., himself a maniacal sex criminal. Nothing gets fixed without breaking the political power of big money

Joint statement of European and international central banks in solidarity with Jerome Powell. “The independence of central banks is in the interest of the people we serve.”

12 months after the 2024 election: National Science Foundation lost 29% of its staff. NOAA lost 20%. NASA lost 6%. Source: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

If you wanted to illustrate how elections have consequences, you could start here.

just a reminder that we aren’t even seeing the worst of what is happening in Minneapolis from someone detailed at the Whipple Federal Building yesterday

"They tried to make me feel powerless, and I left feeling powerful. They tried to make me feel hopeless, and I left feeling hopeful. I don't think that this can last." -- one of the observers detained by ICE

wild wolves in the Veluwe (central Netherlands) a few days ago Lovely stuff

Rep. Randy Fine on his bill to make Greenland the 51st state: "We need to make sure we assert our dominance over the Western Hemisphere ... the last thing we need is Greenland to become another Venezuela where we have huge problems we have to deal with in the future."

Zelenskyy: “What is happening in Iran now – large-scale protests, effectively an uprising – is a clear sign that things won’t get easier for Russia. 1/3

Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016

This is probably the greatest threat to Canada. That we concede so much to the US to avoid further threats, that we’re effectively a vassal state www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump is increasingly irrational and Greenland proves it. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/blackclo...

IR Realists saying farewell to the Rational Actor Assumption

HEY @mark-carney.bsky.social DO THIS.

Archaeologists: D.C. Capitol May Have Once Been Used For Legislating https://theonion.com/archaeologists-d-c-capitol-may-have-once-been-used-for-legislating/

there is no coming back from this without prosecutions up and down the entire chain of command

I mean, for the Fed Chairman to make a formal statement/accusation like this isn't just shocking, it's a real crisis in government.

@emmettmacfarlane.com brings the heat. Yes, it is way past time for the Government of Canada to get off of twitter and move to ban it in Canada. If we are serious about fighting child pornography, this has to happen.

“Donald Trump is a man who represents all the things we teach our children not to be. He’s a liar. He’s a thief. He’s a molester. He has no remorse, no shame, no empathy. He has no loyalty to the law, to the Constitution. This man is the lowest character of all.”

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Attempting to criminalize the actions of an independent public servant, Fed Chair Jay Powell, for the sin of acting independently is an outrage. It's bad economics, bad politics, bad for the rule of law, bad for the public sector, bad for American credibility and bad for Americans.

I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?

Pam Bondi is going to announce tomorrow that Jerome Powell tried to ram Donald Trump with his car

Let us all stand with Chairman Powell.

This is a very kind wish. But I'd also like to ask you to follow other Canadian senators who are already here, and who haven't been as lucky as I have in connecting with an audience. I convinced a fair few Senate friends to give this platform a try, but many didn't feel it worked for them. #cdnpoli

this is unsustainably bananas and not impeaching and convicting these crooks grows ever more irresponsible and unpatriotic by the hour

The Carney government’s refusal to take the smallest steps against Musk’s CSAM microblogging site reflects the toxic mix of Carney’s strategy of not upsetting the US lest they punish us at the negotiating table, and his FOMO-driven AI policy. We’re starting to see the fatal flaws in both strategies.

The funniest part of the “we need Greenland to defend the Arctic from Russia” argument is that the U.S. already has a far more practical and effective way to limit Russia’s threat, and it is actively choosing not to use it.

I know it's hard to shock these days but Elon Musk going full Rhodesia defender and calling for the ethnic cleansing of the US should still shock you. These are neo nazi views that were only previously shared on explicitly neo nazi sites.

European countries are facing a serious “are you sovereign or not?” moment. Yes, it’s unfair. Yes, there are risks in standing up for yourselves. But there are awfully big risks in ongoing appeasement too, telling yourselves this US government doesn’t really mean the threats and can be persuaded.

“The murdering will continue until you stop calling us murderers.”

In my world, there's a certain reluctance to being merely, or in a knee-jerk way, a resist lib. That's understandable, even commendable. On the other hand, let's be clear: It's a hell of lot better, morally and intellectually and politically, to be a resist lib than a Vichy conservative.

Republicans failure to hold Trump to account makes them no different than the Chinese Communist party,Putin’s United Russia Party, Mussolini’s fascists & Hitler’s Nazis. The party comes first. Not the people, not the nation, not democracy, not anything. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/edwineis...

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

The past couple days have made it clear that arresting and prosecuting Johnathan Ross isn’t just the right thing to do, it is necessary to prevent future violence by ICE who have interpreted the situation as “we can do that to whoever we want”

I spoke today with my Danish and Greenlandic counterparts, Lars Løkke Rasmussen and Vivian Motzfeldt, to reiterate Canada’s steadfast support for the Kingdom of Denmark and Greenland’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Wellington Street, Ottawa. The lights stay up through Winterlude in February. #winter #nature #trees #snow #city #lights #travel #holidays #architecture #photography

Since Trump claims he wants to seize Greenland because it's a US national security issue, what would stop him from outright claiming sovereignty over Canada's Arctic - a battle that has been brewing for decades? #cdnpoli

If you want to mess with Canada, know that we’re united. #ForeverCanadian

Having some thoughts about the nature of my fears as a Canadian that I want to try to express in deep solidarity with everyone in Minnesota and elsewhere fighting our common enemy. This thread will not be in the "Canadian asshole" genre. (The opposite, I hope). Still, mute if you want.

You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.

The Moscow empire will never observe a ceasefire. It will never negotiate peace. It will never belong to the family of nations. The only way this war will end is when the Moscow empire suffers a humiliating defeat, is broken up, and the captive peoples of Europe are liberated.

MUST READ ARTICLE! ”The too-cute-by-half game she’s been playing with the separatists who dominate her United Conservative Party has now gotten deadly serious — and threatens the future of both her province and country.” #ForeverCanadian #ableg #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/o...

There is no negotiating with a mob boss -> Trump Eyes Greenland, and Europe Figures Its Best Bet Is a Negotiation www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/w...

The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred. It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become

Good thing my UCP Finance Minister banked on low oil prices when we created the budget so this wouldn't impact Albertans. Oh wait. We didn't do that. Nor did we diversify the economy to handle drops in prices either. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli #UCPCorruption #aboil #ableg

So I'm not gonna defend Canadians being assholes (I'd rather set my hair on fire) but I'd gently point out that for a year our news cycle has been dominated with info that a neighbouring country with a massive military and *ten times* our population is serious, on some level, about taking us over.