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us administration official #1: “how are we gonna justify the collective punishment of 10 million people?” us administration official #2: “i have the perfect idea”

US Constitution Art 1 Sec 8: Congress shall… have Power to keep quiet about War Operations Powers Act (1973): The president may initiate military operations when he feels like it, and if he does not receive Congressional authorization after 60 days is obligated to change the name of the operation

I remember when development economists were making the plainly obvious point that contraception and female education lowered the birth rate, and this was widely regarded to be good, because women would have more children they wanted and fewer they didn't want. The 90s, man.

THE ENEMY ARRIVES BY YACHT, NOT BY SMALL BOAT.

You know you've gone too far when the US calls you out for over-reach.Bill C-22 needs to die. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Sure but, wolves are the real problem. If they just kill a few more wolf packs, the cariboo will recover. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Ireland and Spain - the two best countries in Europe tonight, regardless of the result of trashy #Eurovisión2026 No to Israel's genocide of Palestine. Boycott Eurovision ⛔

To be clear: the 400,000-plus people who signed the Forever Canada petition don't want a referendum. They wanted to prevent one. So no, Premier Smith, you don't get to add their names to those of the separatists. If anything, they more than cancel them out. #abpoli

As Carney guts environmental policy, imposes a sloppy surveillance state open to massive hacking, and sells off our infrastructure Liberal trolls are still all "whatabout Poillievre?"

Protect your privacy! Send your MP a letter. "Bill C-22 is a privacy disaster. We just learned that Signal, the world's most secure messaging app, will pull out of Canada entirely if they're forced into this so-called "lawful access" regime without major changes."

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

Whether or not there is ever a private proponent blind enough to fund a pipeline in a global market moving away from fossil fuels, the real story here is that Carney putting carbon pricing into a coma for 15 years is murderous to the planet either way.

“Nearly 50,000 Lake Tahoe residents are being told to find a new power provider because the grid is being re-routed to A.I. data centers.”

“Okay, now show me the volume. And then show me that what you’re going to do is this volume at surface to make it into a sales project. And then, show me some notional economics you’ve run on this to demonstrate that this can actually make money.”

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/routine-vaccines-may-cut-dementia-risk-experts-have-startling-hypothesis-on-how/ @arstechnica.com ↷ canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁

No, no, no, no! We can't engineer our way out of this. Stop burning fossil fuels.

Statement from the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) Regarding the Targeting of MAC Convention Speakers by the CBSA www.macnet.ca/2026/officia...

He's just laughing at you, now.

15-05-1935 USA: Folk singer, labor organiser and IWW member Utah Phillips is born.

Media going all-out to stop the Left. My favourite part - on images of a hook-nosed Polanski: "‘All four are antisemitic. Which is precisely why removing Green Party extremist candidates is necessary.’" medialens.substack.com/p/starmagedd...

Rodney's tribute to Leonard Cohen, from his sort of new album "Then Again" out on June 26th. youtu.be/fYr-fRDAA6E

As you consider the US$730M hasbara fund and witness what is happening in the UK and the US can you really be surprised at their activities in Canada?

“A fossil-fuel facility running until 2075 is not ‘temporary’ or ‘transitional’— it is a multi-generational commitment that extends 25 years past Nova Scotia’s legislated net-zero deadline.” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...

Deputy Mayor Patty Cuttell's right. Why should developers get a discount on fees for advertising their properties? The iniative was to make hoarding less of an eyesore, so hire artists! www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/c...

Apart from anything else, this is just really stupid. If you want a broad demonstration of support for the UK Jewish community, don't make it the "we love Reform and hate the Greens" demo, or a lot of people will stay away. Board of Deputies. Bravely shattering stereotypes of Jews being smart.

I bet that US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16 year-old son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, were happy to be executed by a POTUS with so much "class" rather than by some boor with no fashion sense.

“If [Sandhu] didn’t say anything about it, that’s a problem. If he did say something about it and nothing was done, that’s another concern,” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/i...

The article closes with the key larger point (courtesy of yours truly):

Big step in the fascist playbook. Pick a despicable group that people won't want to support, get everyone used to revocation, expand, expand, expand...

New in PN: The Confederacy rises again "But this is more than a tragedy for voting rights. It’s a kind of revival of the Confederacy, in a way that few liberals thought was possible. The Lost Cause doesn’t seem so lost anymore."

"No whey, a cottage cheese shortage? Demand surges amid protein craze" @cbcnews.ca headline Food fadists are onto cottage cheese now, causing shortages. Too easy, make your own... www.allrecipes.com/recipe/25465...

"Not one Jewish man of influence in Halifax – be he philanthropist, or university professor, or surgeon, or prominent lawyer, or rabbi, or journalist, or retired politician, or property developer, not one will say a word in public about the genocide in Gaza." judyhaiven.substack.com/p/prominent-...

"But a minute of internet sleuthing revealed everything in the article was false. The "breakthrough" it described never happened..." @joanbaxter.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/05/n...

Deer My Friends Yesturday I became a Doctur in Mishigan and even though its a honerary duhgree I think it shows Ontario childrens how you can get a duhgree without any OSAP if you just ahhply yourself and take an OPP jet to the states and get an impordent award like I did to be a doctur. Premair

Shame on all the no-class, no integrity major media outlets, especially the CBC, for failing to credit @readtheorchard for breaking this story.

@evansolomon.bsky.social “A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision.” – IBM Training Manual, 1979.

Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said the terrorists would be “disembarked on a Greek beach” later on Thursday. It is unclear if they will be tortured first, or given a deluxe package that includes rape. substack.com/app-link/pos...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell the CRA to take action: Stop allowing our tax dollars to fund schools supporting the Israeli military. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

what exactly is the challenge, he’s at 30% approval and 7 months away from being completely neutered, tell him to fuck off and reap good will

tl;dr: Norway had a bunch of oil money and put it in non-oil investments so it can be prosperous in a post-carbon world. Canada is going to put its oil money in… pipelines

Oh come on.

This!

Bullshitter of the week: Environment Minister Tim Halman Morning File by me

Just the dumbest people in the world

She has a name, it’s Connie Ballmer

We tried to warn you, Dave.