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New reporting: many apparently fired at CDC in 'error'. This is a failure by design given that the admin does not care about fulfilling agency missions. This is the kind of error that should have political consequences. Unserious people cause real-world harm. 🎁 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Imperial boomerang.

More good stuff. Thinks I like PP. Claims I only comment back to women.

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This is a nice two-fer. A) Thinks I'm maple MAGA, B) replied to this by telling me to f*ck off, called me a loser, told me to grow balls.

Carney fans getting pretty upset these days. I understand why. Cognitive dissonance is tough.

American explaining to Canadians what we apparently don't know about Canadian politics.

Partisan politics melts partisan brains.

Frogs are my favourite animals and now also my favourite protesters.

Unusually high number of annoying commenters first thing in the morning today.

This pretty much sums up the exceedingly low bar these folks have set for their leader. It's why we'll be stuck with PP within a few years.

Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to late September. XFG.* "Stratus" was higher at 73%. NB.1.8.1 "Nimbus" fell to 18%. #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Global #NB_1_8_1 #Nimbus #XFG #Stratus 🧵

If the theme song is playing in your head, you're as awesome as you are old.

Imagine having the gall to post a word salad comment like this, *clearly* without having read a single thing I've posted since before the election.

I have yet to see a single dismissive rationalization by Carney's fans turn out to be accurate. Not one. Rather, every single thing that was pointed out as a warning sign has borne out, sometimes even worse than feared.

Carney’s strategy is the exact opposite of what Canadians voted for. It’s clear that he’s making many unacknowledged/unexplained assumptions, while ignoring many obvious risks. Mark Carney is not the CEO of Canada. He’s an elected leader. He needs to explain himself to Canadians.

“Carney’s decision to work with Donald Trump on an advanced missile shield ... will set the stage for deepening military co-operation between the two countries.” How much more directly can it be said? This is deeper integration. Where you buy your guns doesn’t matter if you’re still on Team USA.

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law. Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Told ya. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Ah yes, softening us up before dropping an austerity budget next month. Partisans will, of course, gleefully fall for it. youtu.be/3PnzRO8cnzg?...

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Orwellian.

Good. More of this. Less of cuts and pipelines and missile shields and appeasing Trump and undermining labour and going backwards on climate. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Especially when there is no real competitive search. Friends, internal candidates, etc.

JFC

The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL. It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto. But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet. My latest. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Listen to the former Keystone XL executive here. Straight up climate change denial, fine with trampling on Indigenous rights, wants existing environmental policy undone. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

Give me the Nobel Peace Prize or else. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

We could be treating Canada Post as not just an essential delivery service, but an essential social infrastructure in our communities. Instead the government prefers to treat it as a costly burden that must be subject to death by a thousand cuts.

Is there a term for just wanting results independent of objectives?

Not just Trump. Carney is looking backwards too. grist.org/internationa...

Great piece here by @charlieangus104.bsky.social. 👇 (And thanks for the shout-out Charlie 🙏). The Great Derangement: Carney, Trump and the Return of Keystone XL open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

This is what courage in the face of authoritarianism looks like. No university should take Trump's bribe & surrender their integrity — bending the knee to a bully only feeds the beast & puts ALL our rights at risk. Others should follows MIT’s example ASAP.

Told ya. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Um.

Very clearly a real danger that this is how it will be used. breachmedia.ca/new-hate-cri...

Satire but

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No one could have foreseen this. (Actually, Indigenous folks and climate advocates totally foresaw this.) www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

No one calls it "Frankenstein". If you want to use the informal nickname that is already established for XFG, it's Stratus. Also, can we please stop with the "Is this new variant more dangerous?" framing? 🤦 www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

Attenuation of the SARS-2 furin-cleavage site (FCS) continues apace. It's beginning to look as if some form of FCS-weakening mutation might well become fixed in the near future. Collectively, they are at ~12% globally—a totally unprecedented level—& rising quickly. 1/4

1/ Keystone XL died the first time because it was a climate catastrophe without a viable business case. Now Carney wants to zombie it back to life to appease Trump. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...