History will remember the collaborators and the do-nothings

A tectonic shift away from investing in US markets is underway "the U.S. is no longer as reliable as a trade partner, we have to take care of our own needs on defence," said Tim Graf, head of macro strategy for EMEA at State Street Global Markets. www.reuters.com/markets/glob...

🇨🇦 We are seeing the geopolitical equivalent of the Ewing Paradox. EU and Commonwealth countries are playing a stronger game now that USA has benched itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

🇨🇦 When you buy groceries, you aren’t subsidizing the grocer. When you buy a house, you aren’t subsidizing the builder. Trump got rich by not paying his bills, he thinks paying bills is for losers. This is why he’s mad at Canada, the US has to pay what they owe, and it makes him feel like a loser

Announcing your intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza the same week you are gutting both the CIA and the FBI seems like the perfect set up for a terrorist incident in the USA, creating the national emergency circumstances he’s been looking for to declare martial law

🇨🇦 Quite aside from the damage to goodwill, which is already incalculable, the US is no longer a safe supplier of unprocessed food, because it’s no longer tracking outbreaks of infections. No sane purchaser will buy produce that might contain E. coli, dairy that might contain listeria,

When everybody in the C-suite looks the same, sounds the same, thinks the same and has the same lived experience, they have the same blind spots. Techbros’ “conformity hire” business practices made them vulnerable to getting blindsided by shit they did not know to watch for. Chinese AI, for example

What we can expect from a PP vs Carney debate. Carrney has Pete Buttigieg energy, smart, reasoned, and on point. PP is a gotcha weasel, with nothing but slogans. youtu.be/SPY_SxyNB5M

This would be a good day for 🇨🇦 to shut off the electricity, no?

I think this interview is the reason Christie Clarke has withdrawn from the leadership race. I suspect she’s not the only conservative who was feeling shaken this morning

Inside you are 2000 light years from home

People who never thought they’d be homeless are homeless today. People who believed in rugged individualism are relying on the kindness of strangers. We are one disaster away from the kinds of desperation that compel refugees to travel through danger in search of safe harbour. It could be any of us.

A country that elects a serially bankrupt rapist felon for president can’t be trusted to be sheriff of Tinytown, never mind the world. The US will be iced out of strategic intelligence sharing by former allies and opportunists like Putin will gleefully manipulate Trump thru misinformation

The state of social media is such that I have to come onto BlueSky to find out if Meta is messing with me personally or if it’s down for everyone. It is down for everyone, turns out. And I’m taking it personally.

“Please don’t shoot me” policy reversal from Anthem Blue Shield Blue Cross

Martial law declared in South Korea. I expect Trump will follow suit in January. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...

Free Leonard Peltier

Good.

Je pense que la France se moque de Trump et essaie de décider s'il est plus drôle de laisser cet idiot être l'ambassadeur américain ou de dire non. Aucun Européen ne va partager des renseignements stratégiques avec un criminel condamné, qu'il ait été gracié ou non.

Trump should steer clear of windows in tall buildings, sounds like

Petition to save journalism at the Guardian and Observer

During Trump’s last term, the UN considered relocating to Geneva. Now that Trump has made it clear that the US will no longer be a world leader, and he intends to create a hostile environment for foreigners, I wonder if the UN will reopen the relocation discussion press.un.org/en/2019/gadi...

Many Washington Post and New York Times subscribers switched to The Guardian in protest, due to the relentless sanewashing of a serially bankrupt rapist felon by the NYT and WP. Now journalism at the Guardian is also under threat

Tariffs can’t be inflationary if they are recessionary ~ the subtext Nothing but idiots all the way down

Note to self ~ check that any book I look to read has not been published by Spine

DOGE: Department of Oligarchs Get Everything Musk is stripping the federal government for parts

“You must consent to be gaslit by right wing ideologues or what’s the point of journalism” ~ the subtext

I’m not typically fond of “I left Twitter” posts, but this one cracked me up

Leak the report. Pass it on

“They dirty them up” is what happens when your cognitive decline has gotten so bad that you can’t recall the phrase “dig up the dirt”

Mr. “One in thirty kids could die and that’s okay” has been tasked with destroying Medicaid

Every fcuking exploitative bastard gets a grift opportunity in Trump’s government

Woman who kisses the ass of a rapist lacks credibility to speak about the rights of sexual assault victims to have a penis-free environment

For every journalist involved in investigating and reporting the news, there are ten people being paid to manipulate the narrative and gaslight the public.

Missing the ring of the crime boss so that you don’t get executed ~ American politics and journalism have sunk to this and world history tells there will be no walk back without significant violence

The National Emergency will never be lifted, martial law will remain in place until he’s overthrown by the military ~ people who refuse to learn from history end up learning from painful experience

“We’re going to give infectious disease a break” Infectious diseases are thrilled by this announcement #VirusesRuleHumansDrool

Trump’s supervillain <delete> cabinet is nearly assembled

I hate that I was right

Time for pragmatism. Also, if there’s fresh fruit or veggies on sale, buy it and freeze it, the food supply is going to be disrupted by a shortage of agricultural workers next year

From @asuiterclarke: Stop worrying about whether Black women know you're a safe white woman to be around, and start making sure white women know you're not a safe person to be racist around.

The senior editor of New York Times is engaging in election interference by suppressing stories about how unhinged Trump is becoming. If Trump wins, a class action lawsuit might be in order

How fragile is Trump’s ego? So fragile that he did a photo op working at McDonald’s because Harris got public attention for working at McDonald’s. As much as I adore Walz, I think we missed an opportunity with Mark Kelly, we could be sending Trump to the moon right now

Techbros who worship technological advancement are making the same mistake

Twitter and threads refugee, ready to give this platform a try. There’s too much at stake not to stay in touch with what’s happening around the world