The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

This is how you do it folks: gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

Stay tuned. Big news coming for creating an alternative anti-fascist, pro-resistance information network here in Canada with @meidastouch.bsky.social

Elon Musk's anti-woke MechaHitler proudly announces a new contract with the Department of Defense

“After years of political polarization, we’re suddenly (mostly) united…We’re demonstrating a David-versus-Goliath resilience that we didn’t realize we had…The message is clear: forget post-nationalism. It’s taken the risk of losing Canada to realize how much we appreciate it.” #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

scoop: Skydance's David Ellison has held early talks about acquiring The Free Press. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b... Bari Weiss et al could have a role in shaping the editorial voice of CBS News, if the deal comes to fruition.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

“After years of political polarization, we’re suddenly (mostly) united…We’re demonstrating a David-versus-Goliath resilience that we didn’t realize we had…The message is clear: forget post-nationalism. It’s taken the risk of losing Canada to realize how much we appreciate it.” #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

Canada is one of the EU’s closest partners – and a trusted friend. Today, I am proud to sign a new Security and Defence Partnership with Canada. At a time of rising tensions, it will deepen our defence ties and unlock new cooperation.

Grok’s going to get one of Musk’s updates again. Can’t wait to see what conspiracy theory it just repeats nonstop this time.

We've just updated the @wired.com guide to protecting your privacy while attending protests with the latest best practices. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @lhn.bsky.social report: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

I told you we’d be back

Seems extremely bad www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/r...

Fresh off a national election, Canadian political leaders face a long to-do list on tech policy and a brewing trade war with the US. Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke with three experts, Renee Black, Maroussia Lévesque, and Vass Bednar, on what’s ahead for the country.

Pentagon officials have called on SpaceX rivals to speed up development of alternative rockets and spacecraft. A NASA official said the feud between Trump and Musk was initially “entertaining. Until Musk called for decommissioning Dragon. Then it turned really terrifying.” (WaPo)

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

"We are taking away Elon's friends," a senior Trump administration official bluntly tells Rolling Stone. "If he wants them back, he will need to kiss Donald Trump's ass harder than he's ever kissed anybody's ass before in his entire life."

I guess Musk will be forming a 3rd party.

“Today is an important day for Canada, and it’s a day that has literally been decades in the making,” PM Mark Carney tells reporters in Ottawa after the tabling of his government’s bill to remove internal trade barriers and advance nation-building projects. #cdnpoli

An administration that puts someone like this in charge an $18 million grant program to fight violent extremism is not an administration that is taking fighting antisemitism seriously, no matter how many times they cite antisemitism to justify attacking universities.

I wish them both the worst.

This all gets even better: crypto is getting lit up.

Bannon is going for it. Calling for Musk's deportation on grounds of immigration fraud.

hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha (breath) hahahahahahaha

Good Lord

we'll tell our grandkids about this

Lmao.

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

With U.S. science in crisis, G7 researchers mount a candid defence. The Ottawa Declaration reminds the G7 that science is an important and beneficial activity for them to pursue, by @ivansemeniuk.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien... via @theglobeandmail.com @src-rsc.bsky.social

A budget proposal for the Department of Health and Human Services details extensive cuts to funding for the National Institutes of Health, part of an effort to consolidate the work of its 27 institutes into just eight while reducing the agency’s budget nearly 40%

Gifting this brutal and appropriately bitter assessment of Elon musk’s legacy by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. The unsparing headline sets the tone. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Trump just nominated Paul Ingrassia to run the Office of Special Counsel. Ingrassia is a former far-right podcast host and election denier who once shared an article calling for “martial law” to keep Donald Trump in office following his loss in the 2020 election. He's 29.

🚨BREAKING: The SEC just dropped its lawsuit against Binance—days after the crypto exchange listed the Trump-backed stablecoin USD1. me, for @forbes.com

Hey RFK Jr:

The Trump administration is canceling a nearly $600-million contract to the drugmaker Moderna that was intended to develop a shot for humans against bird flu.

"I told Canada, which very much wants to be part of our fabulous Golden Dome System, that it will cost $61 Billion Dollars if they remain a separate, but unequal, Nation, but will cost ZERO DOLLARS if they become our cherished 51st State. They are considering the offer!"

Bluesky kinda in a weird place where its dramatically less popular than it was 2-3 months ago, but that's still dramatically more popular than it was 6 months ago.

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

“[T]he experts in how authoritarianism takes over… tell us is, do not wait for somebody else to come and save you. If you wait for that, it will be too late[.] When institutions fall, it is up to people to organize. That’s the tool we’ve got.” ~ Levin

The Environmental Protection Agency has drafted a plan to eliminate all limits on greenhouse gases from coal and gas-fired power plants in the U.S., according to documents reviewed by The New York Times. Follow live updates.

“Fight (rage), flight (escape planning), freeze (paralysis), fawn (capitulation) and flop (hopelessness) are natural survival responses — but they also keep us stuck. Healing…begins by recognizing when we’re trapped in these states and learning how to return to grounded, organized action.”

Like I said a few times before, it was NEVER about campus protests or anti-semitism. It was always about seizing control of higher education through govt blackmail and coercion.

“We won everything.... We had a great mandate, and it gives us the right to do what we want to do to make our country great again, and that's what we're going to do."

Oh she’s an all-purpose racist, don’t worry

As Trumpsters claim they really truly care about antisemitism, note the new Pentagon press secretary. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...

The White House just dropped an executive order significantly shaking up operations at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the government’s nuclear safety regulator widely regarded as the “gold standard” for global nuclear power safety operations. I used to cover NRC closely. Here are some notes🧵