Jim Beam is shutting down its distillery for 2026. They blame a "glut" on the market even though the industry produced 55 million less gallons this year than last. Some glut. People aren't buying MAGA whiskey. Score another one for the Canadian boycott. whiskycast.com/beam-to-shut...

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

American liquor exports collapsed 85% because of the Canadian boycott. File the Jim Beam white flag under FAFO! "In the winter of 25 they were hungry, just barely alive. By January Jim Beam had fell It's a time we’ll remember, oh so well The night we drove old MAGA down And the bells were ringing"

During his latest special, Dave Chappelle takes a shot at Bill Maher: "F*** That Guy" 💀 #TheUnstoppable 😂

Friends, Some humor in these dark times. I hope you like this. Sound on.

It would be great if we could legally identify Second Sons as a terrorist group. They are Nazis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

NEW EPISODE: I recently argued my 5th Supreme Court case. As I prepared, I came across a conservative gun case that I realized could help restore the right to vote as a first-class constitutional right. I promise you will learn and I hope you are inspired to stay in the fight for democracy.

There is no universe -- none -- where oil companies start building those megaprojects again. Why? They require confidence in long-term oil prices staying above $70ish a barrel, and that doesn't exist any more. Demand growth is a huge question mark. And their shareholders want cash now, not later.

Upstream investment didn't just collapse in Alberta, either -- and it wasn't Justin Trudeau's fault. Conservatives have been dining out on this spurious correlation for a decade.

That isn't even the biggest problem with this piece. This is:

TSX year-to-date: ⬆️ 27.5% S&P500 year-to-date: ⬆️ 16.5%

The White House has been caught. The administration inserted a photo of Bill Clinton, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross into the Epstein files and falsely implied it showed them with victims. In reality, it’s a publicly available fundraiser photo featuring Jackson and Ross’s own children.

The formula aggressors use to make conquest sound like self-defense hasn't changed in 86 years. Will the response? euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/20/p...

MAGA: I voted for this! $400 million ballroom. Triumphal arch. Qatari jet. Renaming an arts center. Foreign crypto deals. Blowing up boats. Saudi golf resorts. High tariffs on goods. Record deficits. Epstein cover up. Pardons for drug traffickers and rich fraudsters.

CBC has put together an impressive collection of clips exposing Diagolon and Second Sons in their own words. These are white nationalists and neo-Nazis who want an ethnic cleansing and believe "violence is the answer." Largest group of its kind in Canadian history. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Nobody works this hard for this long to cover up something this bad unless they are guilty.

Lots of pipeline talk there - 2 threads worth reading. Just a quick note on the Native side. Your average margin of victory in a First Nations band election is fewer than 50 votes. One nation, if aggressively mobilized by the chief and council can exponentially increase the cost of a pipeline. 1

🚨BREAKING: PM Mark Carney Just Shut Down All Trade Talks With Trump Until Washington “Stabilizes” bit.ly/4aXcJhV “Mark Carney didn’t “pause” talks with Donald Trump. He didn’t “de-escalate.” He didn’t “leave the door open” He walked away F*€king boss move by PM Carney. 👏🏽 ❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️

Pam, darling, you missed a spot.

This was found in the batch of Epstein files the DOJ released today.

This is an incredible achievement. And it's only just getting started. www.science.org/content/arti...

Good!

Donald Trump’s televised speech this week was a “presidential address unworthy of the American people and the American nation and its democracy,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: theatln.tc/ZwUx7dcZ

Canada’s growing clean tech sector has created thousands of high-paying careers — many of those in methane reduction. Our new measures to drive down those emissions will cut pollution and could create nearly 35,000 new careers in the field by 2040.

For more on our latest methane reduction measures: www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Just received word from my publisher ballastbooks.com that #IfIDontReturn is getting ready to ship from the printer. Pretty excited about all this!

"The pattern is also a lesson. News organizations that have stood up for themselves and pushed back against the attempts at intimidation prevailed. "The only way to lose a fight against Trump is to pursue appeasement. "It’s true for law firms, higher ed, news orgs..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

We brought back the Canada Strong Pass until Jan 15, so you and your family can see more of Canada this holiday season — more affordably.

“However dim Europe’s bulbs have grown — and they have dimmed — the rest of the west can still emit light.” My Swamp Notes with @gideonrachman.bsky.social on how we must call the old world to help redress the balance of the new. as.ft.com/r/783475a5-c...

* Number of additional unemployed Americans since January: 982,000. * Number of federal government job losses: 271,000. 🤡

There are a lot of stories like this that seem not to effect the overall narrative of the war for some odd reason. www.theconcis.com/p/novorossiy...

Mitch Hedberg if he were alive today: I give you the money, you give me the donut. End of transaction. We don't need to bring AI into this

"I don't know." For a White House that claims Trump is involved in every policy decision, there's a lot he doesn't know about...

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vanity fair photographer christopher anderson posts this story on his instagram, suggesting he intentionally posed stephen miller underneath a painting of native americans

Mark Rutte: Putin has to know that after a peace deal, if he will try to attack Ukraine again, the reaction will be devastating. And this is exactly how we are designing these security guarantees.

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

Notice that the parts of Trump's economic program that help working and middle class Americans — DOGE checks, tariff rebates, and warrior dividends — are popular, progressive, and non-existent. Tax cuts for the rich are unpopular, regressive and very very real.

Leaving Congress didn’t give me all the answers. It forced me to ask better questions. Here are the first ten things I’ve learned about myself, politics, and humanity since the lights went out. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

(1/4) This is the Conservative Party of Canada today—bending reality to fit its ideology and hoping no one notices the distortion. And none of this should shock anyone when it’s being pushed by a leading voice of the party’s alt‑right faction, Jamil Jivani, who proudly aligns himself with JD Vance.

Moskowitz: Speaker Johnson seems to have memory problems: I haven’t seen that. I haven’t heard about it. You’re telling me this for the first time. He just can’t get away from trying to defend the president without making it look like he has absolutely no idea what’s going on at any point in time…

He wants to be Henry Kissinger when he really should be known as the guy who was allegedly banned from a Lane Bryant for groping the mannequins and saying that “the headless ones are the hottest.” Allegedly.

Carney takes a machete to the spin put out by the media and Polievre. #cdnpoli

Chancellor Merz: The outcome of the war will decisively determine the future of the entire European peace order. And already Russia is bombarding us with hybrid attacks every day, with drone overflights, assassinations, sabotage, espionage, cyberattacks, and targeted disinformation campaigns.

I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855 quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...