With Colin James band at the opening of the Affinity Mobile Stage at the Vancouver PNE. Thanks for having me Colin!

This tactic, honed by Joseph Goebbels, is known in German as "Lügenpresse."

"Trump said, 'You know why I [attack the press]? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so when you write negative stories about me, no one will believe you.' Trump said that," Stahl told the audience, adding, "So, put that in your head for a minute." www.cbsnews.com/news/lesley-...

Mimicking the opening chapters of 1984, Trump's DOJ quietly deleted thousands of press releases about the Jan 6 insurrection. So Lawfare restored them: more than 5,700 pages recovered and publicly archived.

$300 billion for the IRGC and its bloodstained leaders, not a penny for the families of the murdered schoolgirls or for the rebuilding of their school (those DOJ has now acknowledged that Elon Musk's Grok AI furnished targeting for the attack). www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Brexit set the UK on a course for poverty. But it was an entirely self-inflicted wound. Showing for the first time how Britain's enemies could manipulate populist movements for their own ends. www.ft.com/content/102b...

Bill Day

Because "the general" was a woman and Black, and that's two strikes in the book of corporal bone spurs

So Elon Musk can avoid paying taxes, Trump opts to let 4.7 million children starve. Since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed, SNAP enrollment fell by 4.7 mn—kids losing access to meals. The Trump administration describes this as a success story. JD Vance cites it as Trump being a Christian.

Fascism in action. bsky.app/profile/wash...

"I don't really understand these things." This should be carved on JD's tombstone.

Do these and similar remarks by Elon Musk constitute incitement to riot? Not under US law. But the context matters. And many legal experts think yes, under the law of multiple jurisdictions.

Elon Musk says while the advocacy of mass murder technically violates X.com platform rules, the Israeli police minister gets a special pass to do it just the same.

How Nigel Farage embezzled EU funds to launch his campaign against the EU. A stroke of sheer genius. www.ft.com/content/e637...

Best Twitter riposte of the day.

Proud to announce I’m partnering with @marcelias.bsky.social's 501(c)3, the Free Election Fund, which supports pro-democracy, voting rights and election litigation. I’m donating proceeds from every book sold to the Free Election Fund. AND my editor AND publisher will match those funds.

Both of my kids loved team sports but weren't 'athletic' in the competitive sense. They started being denied team sports participation at GRADE SIX in Canada's public schools. The same story for so many kids. Then we scratch our heads at childhood obesity. Imagine what message this sends?

"Recapping. In these months, the President of the United States Donald Trump has praised Putin, Kim Jong-un, Orbán, Netanyahu, Lukashenko, Xi Jinping. And he has attacked: Pope Leo XIV, Meloni, Macron, Starmer, Merz, Sanchez, Carney, the European Union and NATO."

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has been fully captured by the tech bros and has aligned herself with Peter Thiel. Here's how it happened. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

How to lose a war in three easy steps; ① have muddled objectives, ② do not know thine enemy, ③ alienate all your friends and allies while bolstering your self-defined enemies. Ed Luce does Swamp Notes with Abigail Hauslohner.

Trump uses security measures at the World Cup in a sustained effort to humiliate the Iranian and other disfavored teams. FIFA won't intervene or do anything about it.

Here is a brand new excellent resource on MAiD in Canada. Kudos to @dyingwithdignity.ca I love the phrase: "A death you can live with" even with the dangling participle thingy. www.wecanchoose.ca

In conclusion, all the latter day attacks on Track II MAID are based on a false premise, that it departs from the original concept of MAID as a last resort for those already facing death. In fact the original concept was laid down by the SCC and it hinged on suffering as determined by a … 11/12

and that cannot be relieved under conditions that they consider acceptable.” Again, the assessment of suffering is to be made autonomously, and there is no talk of last resort. 10/12

reasonably foreseeable. There it is, right in the Criminal Code as amended in 2021: “that illness, disease or disability or that state of decline causes them enduring physical or psychological suffering that is intolerable to them … 9/12

TO THE PERSON AFFECTED in their own autonomous judgment. And when parliament finally enacted Track II MAID, in addition to hedging it about with all sorts of safeguards, it virtually copied the Carter language of 2015 in setting the key criteria of intolerable suffering where death is not … 8/12

Crucially, the SCC said nothing about a requirement that death be reasonably foreseeable. Nothing about ‘last resort’. Instead they focussed on suffering. And not ‘suffering’ as assessed by some law professor or religious zealot. Instead the key is suffering that is intolerable … 7/12

that causes enduring suffering that is intolerable to the individual in the circumstances of his or her condition.” 6/12

finally enacted it in 2021. Note the words in Carter: Physician-assisted suicide must be permitted “where (1) the person affected clearly consents to the termination of life; and (2) the person has a grievous and irremediable medical condition (including an illness, disease or disability) … 5/12

amounting to a cruel provision that impermissibly violated the Charter right to life, liberty and security of the person. In doing so, the SCC used language that just about defined precisely the right to Track II MAID that Canadians have enjoyed since a sluggish parliament … 4/12

dreamt up by an enlightened parliament in 2016. That legislation was in fact a cowardly response by politicians to the Carter decision of the Supreme Court in 2015, a year earlier. Carter struck down the criminal offence of assisting another person to end their own life as… 3/12

permitted. This requirement gave rise to a false origin story claiming that MAID was always meant to be a last resort when all other treatments had been tried and there was no point in prolonging the agony of someone who was about to die anyway. The fallacy is this: MAID in Canada wasn’t … 2/12

Long lawyerly🧵 Current commentary about Track II MAID (death not reasonably foreseeable) is rife with misinformation. Track II is treated as an ill-considered add-on to 🇨🇦Canada’s original MAID legislation of 2016 which required death to be “reasonably foreseeable” before MAID would be … 1/12

Now we know who Greg Bovino is: an idolizer of vampires.

I KNEW we'd done a Juneteenth video! Found it, and I think it holds up. (I was determined to get in the "fled to Mexico" line even though it was a bit of a rabbit hole. 🙂 )

Meanwhile Israel scuttles the ceasefire agreement with military operations in Lebanon that are almost entirely funded by US taxpayers...

The MoU that Trump negotiated provides that Israel will now withdraw from Lebanon. Netanyahu responds that he has occupied and intends to keep a big chunk of Lebanon. So the US is out of compliance with the MoU from Day 1, thanks to Netanyahu. A demonstration of Trump's weakness.

The core of this story is how DHS was fleeced by Russian mobsters paying a huge multiple of market price for warehouses which were not suitable for its ICE project in the first place. Probably reflects inside corruption. But Russian mobsters preying off a US law enforcement is really something

The mentality that led to humiliating defeat in Iran. Just saying.

This man, a four-time convicted terrorist, is also a key minister in Netanyahu's government

On this day in 1865, after white Southerners in Texas had extended the enslavement of countless Black people by concealing the Civil War’s end for months, Union troops arrived in Texas calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

On this Juneteenth, it is important to acknowledge — both in sadness and in outrage — that the person occupying the position of president of the United States is a white supremacist. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-reality-that-must-be-acknowledged

Amidst all the noise and hysteria from the anti-MAID battalions, here’s some sensible, thoughtful information. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 open.substack.com/pub/maidinca...

A comprehensive charting of the tech bro conspiracy. authoritarian-stack.info

All the presidents and first ladies are there... but not Trump and Melania. Fancy that.

Another Trump prosecution relating to ICE operations in Chicago evaporates upon exposure to sunlight, and is dismissed. But the judges aren't finished, they tell misbehaving prosecutors.

Talarico goes all-in with attack on Paxton plea deal in child sex abuse case. Paxton bailed out a former roommate and GOP donor who had been sexually abusing a child for six years.

This 14 year old was reported missing and found dead in March 2026. Now her uncle and an accomplice have been indicted. 20 years ago the uncle pleaded to first degree manslaughter and got a life sentence. Kristi Noem communted that sentence. www.ktiv.com/2026/06/18/l...