What exactly are we doing here? There should not be an impact-benefit agreement associated with tying in off-grid communities. You want power? Here it comes. You don't want power? Keep the gennies and here's taxation power to finance the diesel yourself.

I think everyone who spent the last 10 years talking about the looming threat of ‘eco-fascism’ has some explaining to do

Tommy Franks orchestrated military fiascos in two wars and a more limited global CT campaign and got a speaking gig at the 2004 Republican National Convention.

The chief problem is and (probably will always be) that foreign policy is an inherently elite profession with a limited pool to choose from hence shielded from any real accountability

Look, what are Canadians supposed to do here? Trump signed the deal. He ripped it up. He's making insane demands about bridges, and planning to end the deal entirely. How is Canada supposed to negotiate with a country that can't keep it's word for more than a couple weeks?

These fucking ghouls out here layering hate onto tragedy for their own disgusting political purposes. The shooter's gender identity doesn't fucking matter. It only matters to sick fucks trying to exploit a mass tragedy to drive an agenda of hate that will kill more kids. Monsters, all of them.

What regulatory tweaks would you need to do to make it so that guys like this can’t just forever rake in billions of dollars by narrating power points about how they’re gonna invent the USS Enterprise?

This is quite literally a fundamentalist honor killing

The most disingenuous argument from sports balls fans to camouflage how truly demented headlines like "The Bad Bunny Half Time Sports Ball Show Marks The Watershed Moment For Our Nation's Politics Because Kid Rock Got Less Youtube Views On His Lipsyncing Stream" are to the rest of the world

The most discredited long-running joke of an anachronistic institution in our legal system has come roaring back as one of our most important safeguards simply because it involves regular citizens getting a chance to say "no, this is bullshit."

Is there a reason Moderna can’t ask someone else?

the deployment of mRNA vaccine technology was a monumental leap in medical advancement and the crowning achievement of Donald Trump's first presidency but now his administration is scuttling it because their political coalition exists in opposition to the concept of expertise

We talk about how a liberal billionaire should buy up lots of local newspapers but someone needs to set up the Foundation for Sensiable Forgien Policy and Not Murdering People.

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

Grifters are already declaring the shooter in British Columbia is trans with 0 evidence. These people genuinely don't value human life beyond if it will give them clicks

The avocado toast comes for Gen Z

Paying membership dues is a perfectly logical membership structure for any organization? Why are people being so weird about this?

"I want a story to be about something other than your feelings" "You idiot, you fucking moron, why are you in the Cult of Plot"

"please subscribe" left is honestly a great term because a lot of beefing does really boil down to content access and who is perceived to be entitled to it

the "please subscribe" left has decided that having sources that leak you information from inside the trump administration is impure now. they're so radical

Idk. I think US popular culture will still be dominant. I’m just not sure it matters. I’ve known a lot of Koreans and Chinese people in my life. Two things they pretty much all agree on: 1.) Japan is a shitstain on creation and the Americans were cowards for stopping at two nukes. 2.) Anime rules.

one of the most distinctive things about the second Trump administration is the active attempt to appear as evil as possible. this is his portrait from his first and his second administrations.

Libertarianism (yes, even ‘the good kind’) is a death cult that is directly responsible for the nightmare we’re living through today.

I recognize that Schumer is not the leader of the party in any sense, but what I think is far more damning is the fact that there are no indications whatsoever that the caucus is displeased with this leadership.

this was way more prevalent when i was still on tiktok but it feels like people are getting really weird about alcohol, coffee, anything that might make you happy--even in innocuous amounts! feels like we're re-engineering puritanism as a method of maintaining control (over ourselves, each other)

If your decriminalization program is not about treating addiction like an illness rather than a crime, it’s just leaving wildly antisocial behaviour completely unaddressed while doing absolutely nothing for addicts. This violates the social contract in some pretty basic and obvious ways.

I think the main lesson ICE has learned from Minneapolis is that they can just avoid the big cities and sweep people from the countryside with minimal attention or resistance

This is really bad.

they should invent a society that has object permanence

The caveat here is that when people stop drinking with their peers they usually just stop seeing their peers altogether.

This is the closest thing I've seen to real consequences for any American in the Epstein files

Remember when trump said he would destroy air travel in North America by decertifying every Canadian plane? And then we never heard anything about it? If his brain wasn't turned to mashed potato, it would be a 5-alarms fire. Now no one remembers about it and it wasn't even 2 weeks ago.

FYI Americans: if you had Canadian grandparents/parents: you may be Canadian

Big ag is one of the most brutal extractive industries on the planet but we did the whole “well ok they aren’t *right*, but the big corps they’re opposed to *are* bad, so what’s the harm…” with pharma and holistic shit and now there’s measles outbreaks in 2026.

calls to return to “traditional indigenous agriculture” are calls for billions to die, it literally did lead to famine in Sri Lanka when it was tried, I’m firm believer that we should be bigger assholes to people hawking woo shit.

Your average American - and that includes Trump - won't hear about it until the CBC runs footage of the Mounties arresting a dozen chuds and then our media will turn it into the second Iran Hostage Crisis.

Right? It’s going to absolutely shatter our relationship with the USA in a way that dwarfs even the last year, and it’s not even on their radar. A half dozen idiots apparently freelancing this in Washington is going to crash entire markets and industries.

it will also likely not be taken seriously by Democrats or even normie Republicans until it's too late

i think the biggest issue regarding the Alberta Crisis is that it's likely going to be the greatest threat to Canadian unity and sovereignty in the 21st century, and it's likely to have a lot of American influence, both hard and soft

This is my policy

That’s Brett Ratner there on the right.

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

we already had a system that worked it was "look through the little hole in the door"

Also and separately, it's damning that there's nobody on Canada's right who can credibly stand up and make a law & order/Canadian nationalism argument against Grok/X.

I used to do financial journalism in Vancouver, home of the penny mining stock scams. There would be days when ~40% of the stories were all shitcos changing their name to whatever metal was trending. One company went Gold to Silver to Cobalt to Rare Earths to Blockchain. Never dug a hole.