Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen is blunt: If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀

A thing I don't talk about often enough: I actually really like bagpipes. youtu.be/5WOBQCWLvFk?...

Just remember that when the AI bubble bursts and wrecks the economy leaving us all broke, the billionaires who caused this will still have more money than God. Even before the bailouts.

A 2026 prediction on the QCIB Blog: The city will announce a baseball stadium for the Yards! queencityib.com/blog/2026/1/... #yqrcc

How long before Scott Moe offers up Saskatchewan to the Trump regime?

And while I'm providing links to where to find stuff on the city's webpage, a thing I suspect most people don't know about is the Open Data portal. It contains a wealth of documents, from bylaws to policies to old FOI request material. It's a treasure trove. #yqrcc openregina.ca

Council is off until February 11 2026. I've heard Henry Baker is being renovated during the break. Hopefully, the meeting portal will sorted too b/c right now there are THREE places to access agendas & meeting video. First there's the old portal page: reginask.iqm2.com//Citizens/de...? #yqrcc /1

Almost everything in Trump 2.0 started in the first term. 2018: “Trump repeatedly suggested Venezuela invasion, stunning top aides” (Guardian) 2018: “Trump Formally Orders Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Imports” (NPR) 2019: “Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland” (Guardian)

4/So what is going on? @segoddard.bsky.social and I argue the confusion is people using old models of global politics. This is not balancing or spheres of influence. It is international politics based on elite cliques rather than national interest i.e. neo-royalism. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I bet he's just as servile when Trump comes for Greenland. And Canada.

talked to the owner of a denim company that produces jeans in the US. he said that he's seen declining sales abroad in EU and Canada. stores tell him that customers don't want to buy MiUSA products bc Trump makes dumb, pointless threats like "taking over Canada or Greenland"

I think you're delusional if you think Trump invaded Venezuela for the oil.

“Sure, he did A, but he wouldn’t do B.” “Sure, he did B, but he wouldn’t do C.” “Sure, he did C, but he wouldn’t do D.” There has to be a limit. But “wherever we are right now is the limit I’m sure” is naive.

This whole album fucking slaps. youtu.be/cIMrCzIJTow?...

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Hate to break it to you but Darth Vader was the Pete Hegseth of the Galactic Empire.

Watched some anti-Trumpers being angry about Venezuela and the thing is they are not nearly angry enough.

Well… I had blocked out some time to do some Regina city hall writing today. Somehow, the moment the feels off… I think I'll be logging off instead.

oh yeah there's no subtext here, it's not even regular text, he put that shit in BOLD - what happened to maduro can and will happen to anyone who won't play ball. he's threatening the world.

Also for anyone suggesting Canada is limited in what it can say because of its proximity to and dependence on the US, that didn’t stop Mexico.

If you care about the values of liberal democracy or the rule of law, you don't celebrate this the way Pierre Poilievre just did. You deplore it.

There are many, many people still viewing world events like today's through an ideological prism, as if the Trump regime has coherent or principled worldviews. The sane among us realize Trump could just as easily "capture" the Canadian Prime Minister next month, on a whim.

CNN commentator just now: "You have to congratulate the administration on keeping this quiet". The news media is a huge contributor to the rise of unlawful tyranny.

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

I did try to warn folks: zeteo.com/p/trump-anti...

Elliott Abrams specifically wants this, as does his network. It didn’t begin in Trump term two. Began with Iran-Contra and continued through multiple admins, including Bush and also Biden, who installed Abrams as an advisor in 2023. Same horrible people with same horrible plans for a half century.

and with the rise of Discord, the internet has come full circle back to BBS

Elon Musk has proudly built an AI that can be exploited for what is basically child pornography. Meanwhile, Elon Musk is calling for the execution of his political opponents. And people are… ok with this?

It is to Canada's shame we have not spoken out or supported a Canadian judge being sanctioned by the US Her life is frozen. She cannot use credit cards, travel, move money, or access email. This is not sustainable www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

If they still plan to go the P3 route, City of Regina ultimately holds all the risk if this thing goes sideways - including any baseball stadium.

Posit if you will, Ly Ph*m is now the public relations director for brandt as well as the new house of semple. I got a press release from her announcing their new brewing staff

Prediction for 2026: Mayor announces that we will be getting a baseball stadium and it will be built by "private investors". All we have to do is hand over the Yards. And I actually have reason to believe this may already be happening behind the scenes. Check this moment from budget day 5 #yqrcc

Been thinking about this thread & vid a lot over the holidays. In short, how do we design public transit so that people WANT to use it? That is, what happens if we think about transit as a psychological rather than an engineering problem? /1 #yqrcc

I get a lot of crazy looks when I say self-driving cars are designed for lawbreaking. But it’s 100% true.

"the increase in real estate values relative to incomes has been...entirely due to rising rents on old, depreciating homes that are not improving in quality or providing more real housing services...rising rents is a claim on future incomes of tenants, lowering their real spending potential."

What Putin has just done is show everyone that all he needs to do to render a US security guarantee worthless is to claim, with no evidence, that Ukraine attacked a non-military Russian target. This works because Trump will always choose to take Putin's word for things.

8. The world’s two nuclear superpowers are now headed by irrational decisionmakers.

In 2017-21, many Europeans told themselves that Trump was a one-off and as long as they were patient, things would go back to normal. But four years later, Trump was back. People who should know better are saying the same again now.

5. Under the Trump administration, the US is no longer an ally of Europe or Canada, it has aligned itself with Russia.

Regina is undertaking something similar to both of these but the notion of any of this work being completed in under a year? Utterly unimaginable here. #yqrcc

There will be so many cars that none of them will be able to move

Clr Bezo tried to tie extra accounting software funding to AI adoption but I've been reading about how AI has a kinda high error rate on precise work like accounting but you know a job where a ~10% error rate might actually be an improvement? City councillor! <rimshot> #yqrcc

Density of a neutron star

This is an excellent list of predictions. The list of goals for 2026 is also pretty great. I may just steal all of this thread. And if you aren't following @newsandcoffee.bsky.social, you should be.

A thing Prairie Dog did in its final years was declare Just Bins winner of Best Online News Site one time (based on reader votes, btw). And instead of people seeing that for what it was — a warning — folks mostly just shit on P-Dog for "giving the garbage site oxygen" or some shit.

A thing from 2025 I found personally tragic: Prairie Dog, one of Canada's last free alternative newspapers, finally called it quits. I wrote regularly for them starting in 2008 & it's the reason I cover Regina city hall. I miss hearing from Steve all the time to talk about what to write next. #yqrcc

im an outdoors hater 99% of the stuff people call nature is just a garden you can die of exposure while exploring that's way too far from the nearest convenience store

About time Nardwuar got an Order of Canada.