The way some people talk about Mark Carney reminds me of the Chuck Norris memes from 15 years ago and it's very weird.

Anyone who says "purity test" is a hard no for me right off the bat. It's always code for being an asshole to the vulnerable. Every time.

David Suzuki has never lead me astray, since I have been little.

If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%

Thinking that Canada can or will be a positive influence on any of these regimes is nonsense.

Sigh…the bottom line is we ended up with a conservative PM but without the culture wars bullshit of PP. Time for the NDP to rebuild.

wow ok the king's horses actually figured out how to put humpty dumpty together again an— oh come on, he's climbing right back up that wall. god damn it, what an asshole. you can tell the horses are furious with him

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Article in Psychology Today. Why Sensory Overload isn’t always about “Too Much” --- Sensory overload is often about uncertainty and how long the brain has to stay engaged—especially in autism and ADHD. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/givi...

Just waiting for the "pendulum to swing back" is not going to cut it for the rest of the world.

1. Family history 2. Metis politics 3. Socialism 4. Seed beads and neechi beadwork 5. Decolonization

"Drink whole milk, you'll come in 5th place" is an incredible ad campaign.

I hear Carney made a nice speech, The problem is words are cheap and his actions to date don't come close to matching them,

"Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them." -Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark

Now replace "middle powers" with "middle and lower classes" and replace "rules-based international order" with "neoliberal systems", then we might get somewhere.

Canadians should be asking questions about how deeply our military has been collaborating with American ops of questionable legality. ((From my first email on Jan. 12 to now I have requested answers or a statement from the DND - ‘we’re still working on this’ will probably go on my tombstone))

OSINT and military sources have raised troubling questions: Have CAF been involved in flying deportees to CECOT in El Salvador? What about providing intelligence or support for Op. Southern Spear?

there are afternoons when decades happen

You already know what time it is. *chuckles* let's go. Roll the edit! Happy Tuesday, cousins! Welcome to QuestionSky, where I build community, one question at a time!! morning question thread loading 🤭

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wait please tell me this interaction isn't what people have been criticizing John Ganz about

it's good, actually, to tell prominent gutter racists to eat shit

it is pretty obvious that what Hanania means by "grace" is "I receive no social opprobrium or consequences for being a head-measuring racist", and I don't really think that deal is favourable for those of us who are not head-measuring racists

Last time I checked the Patricias also regularly clobber the US army in war games.

In this analogy China has multiple bases in Hawaii and is in a defensive alliance with America but they need to take Hawaii because Brazil is looking at it funny.

i know it’s all unbelievably awful but i’m sorry: the nobel prize/greenland thing is incredibly funny

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

hi from Minneapolis. these folks are catastrophically overthinking it; the immediate need when agents hit a block is for people that speak *any* language to know it's not safe to go out. that need is far more pressing than whatever this infantilizing "actually it's racist to make noise" shit is.

you have to understand, when there are several dozen individual batteries of goons moving around the city whose entire operational capacity relies on catching people unaware, there is no time to activate a fucking phone tree on the block. you must take away their surprise with an absolute cacophony.

you know Silicon Valley has lost the juice because it hasn’t occurred to any of them that they could use robot dogs to re-create Terry Pratchett’s autonomous luggage that both carries your stuff and brutalizes your enemies

If Northwest Ontario, Manitoba, and Minnesota got together with the rezes in S/ND and Montana we could cause some real chaos. Jus sayin

fun fact: if a recipe tells you it will take 8 to 10 minutes to caramelize onions, they're a lying-ass bitch

For folks saying Carney has insisted that he won't pay, that's a) not being reported and b) missing the point. Carney is trying to frame the "board" as a platform for humanitarian action, but it's transparently not that at all.

Canada must not do this. It is a mockery of international political governance, legitimizing the idea that Trump can simply push aside other countries' sovereignty. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

if you want a different party you need different leadership, and you also need to take a deep breath and realize that current leadership is BROADLY popular with electeds in the party, and accept the implications of that fact.

Hot take: it’s time for a new national anthem.

A good time to remind everyone of the Minnesota First. One of the earliest state militias to volunteer to fight in the Civil War—three years after joining the Union! Provided one of the essential turning points at Gettysburg. Took the flag of the Virginia regiment they captured AND STILL HAVE IT.

Everyone should read this and think about what it means for all these colonial states. www.nybooks.com/articles/197...

Since Congress passed a law requiring Trump to release the Epstein Files, Trump has: - Tried to start a war with NATO over Greenland - Threatened to use the military to suppress free speech in Minnesota - Illegally withheld 99% of the files and heavily redacted the ones that were released

no character limit on truth social huh

From “they’re eating the pets” and Alligator Alcatraz, to “waste, fraud, and abuse” and DOGE dismantling USAID, to the invasion of Minnesota to halt allegedly massive fraud: Participatory propaganda, facilitated by online platforms, driving policy in a right wing populist administration.

Stewart has had some bad public health takes. In 2005, he interviewed Robert Kennedy Jr. and thanked him for raising awareness about vaccines and autism. Years ago, he endorsed the COVID lab leak theory. More recently, he joked about people still masking in public for their health.

NEW: This week, Daily Show host Jon Stewart introduced his audience to Jenin Younes, describing her as a courageous civil rights attorney who had been canceled by both the right and left and therefore “must be doing something right.” Really, she spent years undermining public health—and Democrats.

Dalek: EXTERMINATE Trump: ACQUIRE