big ruling today

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism A $30 million "fine" for no crime. Politically-motivated extortion of private institutions.

Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."

🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority! 📨 openmedia.org/Privacy4Cana... @openmedia.org

When one MP crosses the floor and an entire province loses all opposition voices, it shows just how broken our voting system is. Proportional representation would ensure no party can sweep every seat without sweeping the vote.

You would be kicked out of any writer’s room in existence if you had the villains celebrating a Great Gatsby-themed party while taking away food benefits from millions of poor people.

it's fun how the degenerate gambling/crypto/corruption plotlines are all converging.

It literally took decades of advocacy to pass these reforms, which would have prevented prison phone and teleconferencing companies from ripping off inmates and their families to the tune of hundreds of millions annually

Even with this sanitized (not declassified) report from NSICOP, nowhere is the case made out for Bill C-2's intercept technologies or even the specifics of what they're asking for. If the public safety minister were to release what he'd propose as regulations, we could have a real discussion.

How George Will describes the unlawful arrest of George Retes in the Bezos Post. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

There are no meaningful permanent deals to strike with the Trump administration. It isn’t about fentanyl. It isn’t about ads that rightly characterize President Reagan as anti-tariff. Canada is on our own and have to act like it.

Trump: "I don't think we're gonna necessarily ask for a declaration of war. I think we're just gonna kill people... Okay? We're gonna kill them. They're gonna be, like, dead."

The perversion of our nonpartisan criminal justice system exactly mirrors the methods used to establish the Erdoğan dictatorship in Turkey—now in its 22nd year. Forcing public servants to “find” crimes by political opponents equates to suspending our Constitution. It will harm all on Right & Left.

This is chilling. The President is asserting authority to kill completely outside of the law. And plans to keep at it. We are not at war, and he is ignoring the criminal laws that actually apply (eg, murder). No limiting principle stops him from doing this to others he labels "terrorists." 1/3

Right in front of us. Every day.

Same reason why everything has to have an app. Sweet sweet consumer data, to be sold to ad brokers.

Grateful to have MP May quote me in 🇨🇦’s House today to state the obvious truth: #BillC2 and little sibling #BillC12 are designed to please President Trump, and nothing else. Not in keeping with Canadian privacy, values, or national interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-6z...

I mean, this is just flat out corruption. It’s blatantly obvious. He’s stealing our tax dollars.

So racist it's a news story in 2025. The administration's nominee to head the Office of Special Counsel.

GET RID OF YOUR RING CAMERAS www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Explaining why he pardoned Santos, Trump openly admits crime is ok if you’re a loyal Republican

Could AI replace political pundits? This company is hiring a Conservative political analyst to help train AI. work.mercor.com/jobs/list_AA...

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you www.motherjones.com/politics/202... A stunning investigation by @lighthousereports.com of what I call "despotism as a service"👇

This pic really makes the US collapse into full despotism feel real, doesn't it? Leader's dead-eyed, meritless teen son shoved into powerful role solely because Leader wills it: a marker of corrupt autocracy recognizable on every continent and in every century.

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

hi hello unpaywalled

The FCC is weakening rules making it easier for broadband monopolies to rip you off with bogus fees. which is definitely something Trump's base was asking for!

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey.

Amen

"It’s not the journalists’ burden to keep the government’s secrets for it," @seth-stern.bsky.social told @columjournreview.bsky.social. "That is the opposite of the press’s job, which is to tell the public what the government doesn’t want the public told."

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

“.. no modern American president has positioned his family to make so much money while in the White House. Already, since the early days of his reelection campaign, he’s more than doubled his net worth to about $5.4 billion.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society 22% in 2022 47% in 2025 No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

"no more superficial individual expression"

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Google is *only* paying $24.5 million, not $25 million like Meta. To fund Trump’s tacky White House ballroom. Truly historic levels of embarrassing behavior.

I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...

Full force is a threat to kill American citizens for protesting the actions of their government Authoritarianism isn’t creeping, it’s here (if not evenly distributed)

We are so humiliatingly deep into tinpot dictatorship territory. The government has just brokered the coerced sale of a major media platform to an ally of the president, who is openly boasting about converting it into (even more of) a partisan propaganda outlet.

Compare this with Kavanaugh's baby-brain concurrence

We have always been at war with Tylenol

Was not expecting this...

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

For years people have been yelling at me about how the FCC has to get those crooks at Fox off the air and that there’s no risks of such power being abused or used by people they don‘t like because that’s slippery slope nonsense.

Whether you agreed with Charlie Kirk or not, the right to express yourself freely without fear of being shot is one of the things that makes our country great. Using his death as a pretense for an authoritarian crackdown on free speech is abhorrent and anti-American.

You don’t. You *could*. But the state is the last party who can or should decide for you.