Wait, are you telling me that Trump shouldn't be believed when he says the check is in the mail?

The Canadian government has summoned OpenAI management to Ottawa to talk about their failure to notify law enforcement about a potential threat last June. www.biv.com/news/openai-...

A cartoon by Paul Noth. See all the cartoons in this week’s issue: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Uh2urE

This guy gets it.

Happening Now: A snowball fight is taking place at Washington Square Park in New York City

"Do you think the US is a military threat to Canada?" NDP 🔴 A Threat: 68% ⚫️ Not A Threat: 31% Liberals 🔴 A Threat: 60% ⚫️ Not A Threat: 35% Conservatives 🔴 A Threat: 46% ⚫️ Not A Threat: 43% Read it for free here: canadianpolling.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Interesting. Iceland put their application for EU membership on hold a decade ago, but Trump has changed the equation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...

It doesn't matter if the online trolls posting Nazi memes are sincere or trolling for clicks and lulz: "As Kurt Vonnegut wrote in Mother Night, his 1961 novel about a man posing as a Nazi: “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”"

Louisiana dog loves the snow

It's still insane that both Trump and Orban are more or less openly supporting Russia's invasion of a European country.

Is it too much to ask sitting members of Congress today to be half as fearless and principled as Edward R. Murrow was in 1954 when he challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy? www.cnn.com/2019/07/15/m... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it does buy freedom. If the richest person on the planet (current Forbes estimate $845 billion) is “not often happy”, that’s absolutely his personal choice.

Even Democratic elected officials don't get this. When you rib your best friend, it’s understood as good natured harmless fun. When you mock someone after a year of constant very much not good natured attacks, it’s understandably interpreted as another deadly serious attack.

Post something from the 70s. Tehran university students in 1971.

How long will a westerner survive without modern technology? James Burke, from the brilliant 1978 BBC Series, Connections. youtu.be/WXZpjZidCNk?...

Businesses love to make long term investment and pricing decisions based on the constantly changing whims of a mentally unstable elderly man. Business is never boring when everything can change on a daily basis depending on one old man's mental state.

So for anyone else who misses Good Eats, Alton's been posting new food videos every Saturday morning for the past few months. This week's video is a twist on sloppy joes, with the burger mixture baked inside a bun. youtu.be/AuIrfFp5wpQ?...

So weird. When the leader of a country tells the entire world to go to hell, it turns out the rest of the world is less likely to want to visit. youtu.be/ppj1gdI7Sdw?...

Perhaps an interesting option for them to consider would be to make the southern US their primary residence.

he’s so close to getting it

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Good article, but: “It’s truly astounding that one man’s out-of-the-blue fixation ended up repelling a million visits to…Washington state this past year.” That one man is president, he’s constantly threatening Canada, and he’s empowered ICE/CBP to lock up as many people as possible on any pretext.

This sort of thing is why people are understandably not coming to the US. I would be really surprised if the expected international crowds arrive for the World Cup, at least at the US venues. Maybe some diehard fans will come. But the risk is just too great.

I just got back from Whistler and overheard *so many* conversations from people all over the world about not going to the US. A Dane said “I was planning to go to Vegas this year but then the Greenland thing happened.” One Aussie said to another “I don’t want to wind up in an ICE concentration camp”

Buy a salad, accidentally adopt a tiny frog. youtu.be/lcfBsnzTL8s?...

OMG. OpenAI banned a ChatGPT account last June for “furtherance of violent activities”, but chose to not bring it to the attention of the RCMP.

Coming soon

In 1967, Leonard Bernstein hosted a CBS documentary about new music as legitimate, worthwhile art. It included 15-year-old Janis Ian with a song that had been banned from radio stations because it was about an interracial relationship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inside_... youtu.be/300LiZtuDPw?...

It’s a tantrum. Trump is an almost 80 year old infant who completely loses his shit when anyone says no to him. The Supreme Court told him he couldn’t have his tariffs and he immediately threw a tantrum.

I’ll pay to see it demolished.

This is seriously fucked up taskandpurpose.com/news/army-wa...

There was always an assumption that he'd just reapply his tariffs under some other pretext, because of course he would.

Liberation day.

Dude. "Western civilization" was supposed to be a dog whistle for "white people." You're not supposed to blurt it out.

Keep in mind for the Canada angle: the most punishing tariffs on Canadian industries right now are on steel, aluminum, auto, lumber. Those were all imposed under a different authority (s.232) and aren't affected by this ruling.

I always appreciate very technical economic analysis like this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXlu...

Trump's annexation threats quickly motivated the creation of apps like this in Canada. After decades of increasing economic integration with the U.S. in which we rarely thought about where our groceries came from, we suddenly wanted to buy nothing made in the U.S. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

”Hey everybody, I saw ET in the White House basement. Now will you stop talking about Epstein?”

Fetterman is not well. Trump will say anything to get an Epstein-free news cycle, and Fetterman thinks Trump would have been capable of keeping his mouth shut since 2017 if there actually were any White House x files.

Supermodel.

"More than a year after U.S. President Donald Trump casually joked about absorbing Canada...." Stop saying he was joking. He was never joking. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

What the what? He just gave himself $10 billion from the U.S. treasury? "In a flurry of announcements at the end of ​a long, winding speech to representatives from 47 nations, Trump said the U.S. will make a contribution of $10 billion US to the Board of Peace." www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

We spent 80 years building global systems around an assumption of largely benign U.S. leadership. Derisking from the U.S. isn’t going to be fast or easy, but with the U.S. now choosing to be a predator nation, derisking is imperative.

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Why waste time trying to pass legislation when the emperor can just issue an imperial edict?