It was time to build this weekend (with LEGO).   Thanks to Ambassador Harris for the gift. Solidarity with Denmark. 🇨🇦🇩🇰

This is Minneapolis: -drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents -go to brunch with your wife -get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt -get groceries as helicopters roar overhead -deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Bots gotta bot.

The reports of violence, arbitrary arrests, and intimidation tactics by the Iranian regime against its own people are profoundly concerning. Canada strongly condemns the killing of protesters, and urges Iran to allow for freedom of expression and peaceful assembly without fear of reprisal.

Two different "wine moms" I work with have dropped their emergency contact info to the company slack in the last couple days because, to quote one of them, "I'm going to the protest tonight and if i get shot, I want you to know why I missed work."

Credit to Canadian Political cartoonist DeAdder #ICEAgentsAreDomesticTerrorists

Take a second and think before posting the easy Eeyore reply. You might have something substantive to say instead. Or, even better, you can say nothing at all.

Finally, it's wrong AS A MATTER OF ETIQUETTE. Entering a total stranger's discussion and leading with your private anxiety is as off-putting in social media replies as it would be in real life. If you wouldn't interrupt a stranger at a party to announce that America is doomed, don't do it here.

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Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune:

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

The stakes have been raised. The Democrats have got to run on putting these people in prison. They have to. Jobs, food, all the rest, but shooting a mother in the head on a public street? None of this Garland stuff. "The full force of the government will be brought to bear" on this and similar.

I wish her well in this role. It shouldn’t be anyone’s ambition to be an MP for life.

just the dumbest fucking timeline

JFC

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

2013. There’s a Tweet for everything.

Nothing like playing to your base and thereby making your party unelectable in a general election. Poilievre has terrible instincts, lacks sound judgement, cannot read the room, and needs to lose the upcoming leadership review. If you’re attending the convention, understand the assignment!

Statement from she who should have been our President.

What the actual f? #NATO #Europe #Australia #Canada

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers. Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?

perfect new year’s movie 🥰

To my knowledge the Trump family has never supported the arts. Or any charitable endeavour.

I am begging you, folks. When someone posts something hopeful, restrain your desire to tell them why their hope is untenable, doomed to fail, or make some unreasonable political analogy out of it. LET US BREATHE AND DREAM.

“The pattern is one that involved modeling agencies around the world serving as fronts for human trafficking…This may very well be what Trump is trying desperately to keep quiet in the DOJ’s Epstein files.” tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...

very convenient that the rich ruling class techbros solution to income and wealth inequality will be solved by letting them accumulate even more wealth

It has been 395 days of continuous demonstrations in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi. Our citizens demand the resignation of Georgia's mostly illegitimate and pro-Russian government, the release of political prisoners, and the return to a pro-European course.

Welcome back to Canada, President Zelenskyy. Today in Halifax, we committed critical new support to help Ukraine end Russia’s war of aggression, and to recover and rebuild. When peace comes — and it will come — Canada will be there for the Ukrainian people. Slava Ukraini. 🇨🇦🇺🇦

⚡️Canada to provide $1.8 billion in economic aid to Ukraine. Canada will provide Ukraine with $2.5 billion Canadian dollars ($1.8 billion) in economic aid to Ukraine, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced on Dec. 27.

OTTAWA – Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she can no longer trust American health agencies as reliable partners.

Guess he couldn’t restrain himself. Trump couldn’t get through one sentence of a post to mark the birth of the Prince of Peace without calling the majority of Americans scum. What a sad little man. And how sad that so many Americans have sacrificed their morals and values to defend him. #RFA

Merry Christmas, Canada.

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ICYMI

American liquor exports collapsed 85% because of the Canadian boycott. File the Jim Beam white flag under FAFO! "In the winter of 25 they were hungry, just barely alive. By January Jim Beam had fell It's a time we’ll remember, oh so well The night we drove old MAGA down And the bells were ringing"

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

this is a good reminder of how things that are shitty but have been accepted as normal and inevitable can actually turn out to be abnormal and evitable with some science, time, education and political will

Interesting. Now, why would Russia start withdrawing from long-term commitments? It’s almost as though Russia can no longer afford to fund all these military and strategic initiatives. Because, if there was unlimited wealth, then these pacts would not be a problem. Slava Ukraine.

California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c... “.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...

I never want to hear another American make fun of North Korea ever again.

In case laws still matter…

We knew this shitshow was coming. But still…

I fear it has a happy ending

🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside. The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years. If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed. US Tourism is dead. #CanadaSky🇨🇦

Hey look everybody! More pretend valuations using laddering from compromised insiders making Musk's private company have insane and unfounded valuations.

On International Anti-Corruption Day, it’s worth remembering how Trump has turned the pardon power into a pay-to-play enterprise to reward wealthy donors and political allies while leaving victims in the dust 🧵