How does Canada feel about Europe? A new survey reveals growing enthusiasm for EU membership, with most Canadians saying the idea deserves consideration.

Many of us already knew, but the Zelensky interview really exposed him as a fraud to the public

Artemis II seems like it's just straight-up happening in a parallel reality. The Apollo missions happened in the depths of the Vietnam War, but Nixon, for example, communicated with the astronauts. It almost seems like Trump has no idea either Artemis or the moon exists.

Trump and Hegseth learning in real time that sovereign countries are a lot harder to intimidate than battered wives and United States senators… Not the same thing.

Trump and Hegseth’s Cavalcade of Bullshit has been going on for a while. A few quotes: Trump: “This Easter has been the best, militarily.”

There were some real doozies at the news conference, but I think my favorite was Hegseth boasting that we completely control the skies over Iran as he discusses the fighters shot down

Can someone just stand up and ask him "Are you that fucking stupid?" NATO doesn't have the authority to "give" you Greenland! The majority of Americans do NOT want Greenland! Greenland has already told you NO! What part of NO do you not understand? FUCK!!!

France has sold off the last of its gold held in the US Federal Reserve and now holds all its gold in Paris. German groups are now pressuring the government to repatriate its own gold.

imagine if i happened to be a trillionaire and bought twitter and 80% of the stuff on the site was just about big pants. you couldn't escape it. just an endless deluge of big pants propaganda

Day 1503 of my 3 day war. After this amount of time Stalin had used all the US assistance he got to win his war & had visited the enemy's capital. Even with US assistance I am still stuck in a bunker with Medvedev and that bloody raccoon 🦝. I remain a master strategist.

‘It started with a tip-off’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram

Trump's "confidence in his own judgment — 'my gut,' as he likes to say — has built with time," as Trump's stomach has enlarged and his mind and body have decayed.

Patriots and THAAD’s used up, and this costly war is inevitably encroaching on Americas long term capabilities. Anyone dependent on American weapons and security guarantees needs to rethink their position quickly. Ukraine too will suffer if Washington fails to deliver under PURL.

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

I’m sorry, if you’re a journalist and you’re still going to the White House Correspondents Dinner this year, genuinely, from the bottom of my heart, fuck off.

Remember when Dan Quayle misspelled a word and it was the end of his political career?

The golden age of corporate profits (see also: corruption)

“Israel’s army has demanded evacuations in areas of southern Lebanon and Beirut, which are comparable in size to New York City.” [This refers to all five boroughs.] “The strikes carried out by [Israel and the US] in the war have stretched across a vast area of more than four million square miles.”

so, someone posting in Donny's name commands Iran to "open the fuckin’ Strait," and the press just stands around scratching their collective ass. I attempt to make sense out of this batshittery in today's extremely angry post. thank you for your attention to this matter. link is here: bit.ly/4m9khBU

He means it this time.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Happy War Crimes Day to all who celebrate.

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story: “The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

A longer version of this argument with more historical detail is on my substack under the title “The Next Coup Attempt.” (17/17) snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

"Two C-130 aircraft were destroyed to prevent capture during the mission." Let this sentence sink in. Internalise it. How do you lose two C-130s in an operation to save a pilot? Ask yourself this question. Ask it hard and loud. Incompetence. That is the answer.

Two weeks ago, the Hungarian opposition was bracing for a false flag operation, an "emergency" that would allow Viktor Orban to turn the tide or even cancel an election he is losing. Now it appears to have arrived

❗️The Defense Forces of Ukraine have regained control over 480 km² of territory on the Oleksandrivka direction since January, — Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Syrskyi.

Particularly alarming that this includes Lebanon & Gaza. I had just shared imagery from March 18 showing the demolition of villages along the southern border of Lebanon by the IDF and now not even that imagery is available: bsky.app/profile/godi... Mass demolitions haven't stopped in Gaza, either.

They lost me when they said Donald Trump is “working.” #WhereIsTrump

Last year Kanye West took out a Super Bowl ad to sell swastika t-shirts. This weekend he sold out two shows at SoFi Stadium. To all of those in attendance—what the fuck is wrong you. That’s a rhetorical question.

JD Vance is heading to Hungary to endorse Viktor Orban after Easter. Here is a description of the corrupt regime, and the post-reality campaign, that the US administration now supports: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I don’t think I’ve ever been so worried. 9/11 was viscerally terrifying; Iraq war; Brexit; Russian invasion of Ukraine and seizure of Crimea, withdrawal from Afghanistan, October 7; Gaza slaughter; Sudan; so many awful events; but nothing is proving as globally catastrophic as the election of Trump.

Also gone Syria. Ridicilous given Chinese commercial imagery is available for purchase.

"This war is already lost," says journalist Spencer Ackerman. "Iran has so thoroughly outfoxed the United States that you heard Trump say he is willing to walk away from a conflict he began without reopening the Strait of Hormuz."

Young Republicans across the country seem to have a racism and antisemitism problem. trib.al/gONaypJ

And this is only the stuff we know about.

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Tiger Woods flips his car, Jesse Watters flips his lid, Ted Nugent flips out, and Donny is a callous piece of shit. all this and more in "this week in stupid," my Saturday wrap-up of the dumbest fucking shit that happened. thank you for your attention, yadda yadda. link is here: bit.ly/4cpaWT8

This is very very big. Like a big deal and massive cuts. These can’t even be seen as budgetary since you don’t get much savings in the context of trillions budget. They want the US out of R&D out of science research.

“Just one interaction with a flattering chatbot was likely to ‘distort’ a human user’s ‘judgement’ and ‘erode prosocial motivations,’ an outcome that persisted regardless of a person’s demographics and previous grasp on the tech…”

‘The frontline is like Terminator’: fighting robots give Ukraine hope in war with Russia www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Putinisation of America. The Dear Leader is fed information that will please him by talentless minions promoted for their loyalty who fear the truth will see them purged.

Notes from the much larger and more significant war: in March Russia gained no net territory in Ukraine, and lost more soldiers than it was able to replace.

U.S. information and influence operations (propaganda) in the current USA-Iran war seem to be tragically weak. This is surprising. Preparation botched (none?), execution failed, or there may no longer be anyone competent left? Absolutely losing the information war. Shocking.

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

"A Pentagon spokesperson confirmed it is not hosting another, separate religious service for Catholic employees. “The Protestant service is the only service scheduled in the Pentagon chapel today,” they said in a statement."

The Treasury Department is working on a plan to gut its office that researches financial market risks. Because the office is funded by fees on the financial industry, this won't save taxpayers money. But it will make it harder to spot and prevent the next crisis. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Trump’s $1.5 trillion military budget will destroy what little is left of US science, environment, & health: Cuts: NIH -$5.8 billion NASA -$5.6 billion NSF -$4.8 billion EPA -$4.6 billion CDC -$2.9 billion NOAA -$1.6 billion It also includes $$ for 130,000 beds at ICE concentration camps.