Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

Trump lässt morden, zerschlägt den Rechtsstaat, droht Nachbarn mit Einmarsch und verwandelt die USA in eine Autokratie. Und wir schenken ihm dieses Jahr die Teilnahme an einer mehrwöchigen Dauerwerbesendung namens Fußball-WM? Diskutiert das eigentlich jemand oder fahren wir da einfach hin?

If the will of one man is all it takes to invalidate the U.S. constitution in one year, there can be no trust placed in the U.S. for generations after that man is gone.

From the summary federal execution of another human being in the street to the Mad King's tariff threats, Mark Carney should be addressing Canadians directly this weekend.

i do not know how this goes on for three more years

Trump knows Carney spanked him at Davos and is now having a predictable petty despotic meltdown. But what he will never understand is that in doing so he is proving the points Carney made in his landmark speech.

Going to need a Trump free day very soon. Speaking for a country and maybe a rest of the world. Just to work on some self-care project. We have our own issues. Christ. Tiresome.

Bild: Multiple german politicians are now pressuring Germany to bring back more than $100 billion in gold from the U.S. because trust in Washington is falling.

CBC put together a collection of contrasting clips from Carney's and Trump's speeches at the World Economic Forum.

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Pay attention 🇨🇦 media.defense.gov/2026/Jan/23/...

This is the kind of night we hunker down and stay off the roads. People in Minneapolis are in the streets defending democracy and defying fascists. They are heroes. On the coldest night of the year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mwc...

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they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Huge respect and admiration for the people in Minneapolis for going out in the deep freeze to show their solidarity and resistance

Elbows up Belgium!

The fascists then - the fascists in America today - targeting children. How can any cop, lawyer, judge, public official go along with the sadism being inflicted on innocent people?

WHO removing Us Flag

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Now is the time to fight for our values.

This is the administration’s Plan B: Can’t make Canada the 51st state, so stoke secession. 🤡

Burns: On 9/11, when I was U.S. Ambassador to NATO, the very first country that came to our defense was Canada. Canadian forces then fought with us in Afghanistan. Lesson for Americans: Treasure our allies. Respect them. They’re on our side.

If U.S. pressure over Greenland escalates, Europe is already discussing a potential boycott of the 2026 World Cup. As Politico notes, the tournament is a major soft-power asset for Trump — and a European pullout would be a serious political and reputational blow.

“Danish citizens are organising a huge boycott that includes cancelling planned holidays in the US, cancelling subscriptions to on-demand services based in the US & more generally, recommending the use of EU services instead of those provided by American platforms.” So, same as Canadians.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, in Davos: “If great powers abandon even the pretense of rules and values for the unhindered pursuit of their power and interests, the gains from transactionalism will become harder to replicate.”

Oh damn… it sounded so good and totally legit too

Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".

Prime Minister Carney meets Bonhomme Carnaval. (credit: Gray_Mackenzie on X)

Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK illustrator and printmaker #WomensArt

Prime Minister Mark Carney will address Canadians at 1 p.m. tomorrow from Quebec City "on the choices on which Canada was built and the shared values that make us Canada strong."

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol Cmdr. Greg Bovino is seen deploying a gas canister at Mueller Park in south Minneapolis this afternoon. Video by Ben Luhmann.

I'd just add I don't think the crisis is at all over, because Trump never sticks to agreements just because they're conventionally considered binding. The crisis will only be over when his regime is dislodged from Washington, if then.

TACO Wednesday

I know this is very selfish of me and all, but I think that I should be able to have thoughts and feelings on the prospect of being invaded without checking on the feelings of the people whose country might invade mine first.

This man is talking about stealing a country at gunpoint from nations the US is allied with. Of course Europeans hate us. You would feel the same way if you were in their place. American voters put this man in power, he didn’t seize it this time.

I love my profession deeply, but some of them are not covering themselves in glory these days. If a mob boss draws a sharp blade languidly across your palm and says it would be a real shame for you to lose your pinky, your headline isn't "Godfather rules out hacking off finger to settle debt."

There’s a saying in Russian referring to one’s laziness - “won’t move until the grilled chicken bites him in the behind. EU, wake up. Realize that you hold USD practically in your hands.

The president of the United States is so brain-dead that he doesn't remember which country he's threatening to destroy the world's greatest military alliance over.

Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group: “First Davos i’ve ever heard us CEOs worried about the possibility of Europeans boycotting American goods.” Pressure works.

This is the week the democracies stopped putting up with it (their people were already there) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

SWEDEN PENSION PROVIDER ALECTA HAS DIVESTED MOST OF ITS US TREASURIES (~$8B) –BUSINESS DAILY DI

Americans have no idea how angry Canadians are. We’ve pretty much been incandescent for an entire year. Our military leaders are talking openly about using Taliban-style tactics against invading Americans. Two of the guys in my middle-age dads D&D group want to sign up. This is getting serious.

That threat does not go away after 47, America. It is real.

Vom Umgang des kanadischen PM Mark Carney mit Trump könnte Kanzler Merz viel lernen. Nach einer ebenso höflichen wie eiskalten Abfuhr („Canada is not for sale.“) schwafelt T. nur noch selten von Kanada als 51. US-Bundesstaat. Jetzt klare Ansage zu Grönland.

Today Mark Carney told the world, with great clarity and eloquence, what most Canadians have known to be true for a long time. Not because Canadians are smarter, but because we unvoluntarily experienced "the world as it is" and not "as we wish it to be" first. An unwanted advantage

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

Given Canada's relationship with Cuba and how much Canadians love their country, we have to offer help.

Writing is thinking Outsourcing the entire task of writing to LLMs will deprive us of the essential creative task of interpreting our findings and generating a deeper theoretical understanding of the world.

Danish MEP Anders Vistisen to Donald Trump :”Let me put this in words you might understand: Mr. President, fuck off.”

My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...