Tonight I watched Prime Minister Mark Carney take the actual Heated Rivalry Canada fleece from Hudson Williams, slip it on and say: “This is true soft power.”

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

This is what I keep saying: Stephen Miller is the biggest threat, the one that helps create and ideate all of these evil machinations. Focusing solely on Trump, or on ICE is not it. Focus on the evil (+bald) head of the whole thing.

It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.

If the US were a geopolitical rival the headlines would be like: US Secret Police Execute Second Dissident In the Streets As Militarized Occupation Enters Sixth Week

Let's be clear: a modern version of the Nuremberg trials must be a minimum mandatory for anyone working for ICE or this current government.

Turns out they didn't think all lives matter

Glad I'm not alone in responding to the insanity below our borders by taking action. Proud of Canadians.

The post of an absolute madman.

The US at Davos this year

Canada should kick the U.S. ambassador out of the country for this, not even joking

I dunno guys… if I was a passenger in a bus and the driver was smashing into cars and running people over I wouldn’t wait for them to stop driving before grabbing the wheel.

Hey Las Vegas - remind me who you voted for in 2024 again? Hmm? Yeah. No thanks.

Just for laughs, the official Canadian government response to this should come from Katy Perry.

He's taking his ball and going home. Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Donny boy.

Horrific.

Fascism in America:

NEW: This is a REAL story in The Globe and Mail today. Canadian Armed Forces are modelling responses to a US military invasion from the south. They expect Canadian forces to be overrun in a fortnight, so the plan centres on Afghanistan-style insurgencies to inflict mass casualties on US troops 👇

"Almost violently" means nonviolently.

Reminder to Canadians: Don’t book connecting flights through US airports

Hours later, Carney’s speech is the lead story on the Guardian. Lead video on the New York Times. Not sure I recall seeing anything from a PM resonate quite this much globally…

Pipe down, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social. If YOUR American system of checks and balances actually worked, we (the rest of the world) wouldn't even HAVE to deal with this bullshit. Smarten up and shut up with your insufferable American haughtiness. Americans, dear gods, don't vote for this asshole.

All of these guys benefit from survivorship bias in the sense that they’re remembered for their occasional correct guesses about the future and not for their much more numerous and risible prognostications that end up being waaaay off

This program is a model for the entire Western hemisphere.

Canada should do it too

This is embarrassing, #BBC. Might be time to recall your WH correspondent, seems like he needs a bit of time away from the brainwashing.

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The Calgary Public Library (CPL) has reached a historic milestone.

This morning's news catch-up gave me a weird flutter of hope. Watching world leaders today, they seem to be finally saying the quiet part out loud: a line has been crossed. The old rules-based order can't survive this new US government. So we rebuild together. Ready for another thread post? 1/

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

Reading the big Bari Weiss piece, all I can think is how it reinforces that she has only one value proposition: aiding the backlash against the democratization of speaking truth to power.

Carney today in Davos: "What would it mean for middle powers to 'live in truth'? It means naming reality. Stop invoking the 'rules-based international order' as though it still functions as advertised... "We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy"

This is the most momentous speech any Canadian leader has ever made, and it makes further supplication to Trump impossible: www.policymagazine.ca/the-old-orde...

The United States should be regarded by Canadians as an existential threat to our country. In other words, the USA is now an enemy & should be treated as such. Now is the time for PM Mark Carney to work closely with our European allies to devise a defence of Canada from America.

The next US government should immediately introduce strict gun control. When the 2nd amendment mob start screaming that they need their guns to protect themselves from a rogue government. They can literally tell them to sit the fuck down as the events happening now prove they’re just pussies.

I need the Americans to do something about this guy asap because I just cannot fight in a guerilla land war when he invades Manitoba, my back is very bad

After being continuously told "the US doesn't need us," looks like we're finally pivoting away from that abusive relationship. Glad to see Canada is aiming to become the first in North America to build high-quality electric vehicles in the next few years. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuJ2...

Why did anyone expect anything less from a man who used to be married to Kimberly Guilfoyle?

So Americans, don't tell me you're dumb enough to vote for this Republican in Progressive clothing right?

I think it’s basically time to retire the peace prize because it really is meaningless at this point. Another 100+ year-old tradition cheapened, wrecked, and discredited by the gauche garish gangster.

This visibly gets to him so people should keep doing it.

i dont know guys i guess im just really tired of the us shitting all over the entire world only for americans to be like "what do you want us to do!!! youre not even american!!!". yeah buddy and i thank the lord for it everyday, but unfortunately i still have to share this world with you.

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

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Fuck. This breaks my heart.

Canada had the #1 performing stock market in 2025 of the 10 largest markets 🇨🇦 💪 #Canada

I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j