Gutting the federal government and outsourcing basic regulatory functions to foreign governments is the exact opposite of what you’d do if you actually wanted to reinforce Cdn sovereignty and strengthen the country. This isn’t governing in econometrics; it’s old-fashioned blind ideological thinking.

“Critics are worried that Trump is trying to build an alternative, or rival, to the United Nations.” With himself as the chairman, natch…

No, these are very serious comments. ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell. And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

Trump says he needs to take Greenland to stop Russia. He is currently planning joint Arctic energy deals with Putin. He is blocking aid that would actually stop Russia in Ukraine. You don't go into business with an enemy you are trying to contain. Trump’s excuse is a scam

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.

A great way to undermine readiness for real threats.

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

I really, really did not want to write anything today. And yet, here we are. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/what-is-tr...

This is a great explainer to lawyers (or otherwise curious people) on what quantum computing is and is not. Via my colleague @aumasson.jp, a prolific cryptographer and advisor to some of the largest banks in the world.

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It used to be "normal" to drink untreated water and millions of people died every year of Cholera. This is the bottom of the barrel, stupidest argument anyone has ever made for not taking a simple precaution.

Let this sink in for a minute.

The writing has been on the wall for a while, but this may well go down in history as the specific moment NATO died, and American leadership of the free world ended.

If Carney gives a dime to this we should riot on Parliament Hill.

Nice summary of the importance of Antarctica's ice shelves and how little we know about them. Major differences between models of present day ice shelf melt need to be resolved. Paper here tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/...

How it started ... How it's going

Perhaps not surprising but over at FoxNewsDotCom you need to scroll waaaaaay down to see anything about Greenland and even then, nothing about Europe's coordinated response to the threats of tariffs.

Oh my God a literal wallet inspector

Canada needs to get in on this in a robust way, and show support for Greenland, Denmark, and other northern European allies, for two important reasons: 1) It's the right thing to do. 2) We could very well be next.

Thousands of people protested in Nuuk, Greenland against Trump's threats to take over their country. Just over 55,000 people live in Greenland, which means that this was a significant portion of the country's population. Details: abc7ny.com/post/thousan...

What makes this statement by Emmanuel Macron so unprecedented is, for the first time, a leading European ally is equating Trump with Putin. “No intimidation or threat will influence us - neither in Ukraine, nor in Greenland, nor anywhere else in the world.” EVERYTHING has changed.

Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Nobel laureate in literature, sided with the Nazis so much he presented Goebbels with his Nobel medal in 1943 (which wasn't widely known until later). Norwegians responded by mailing so many of Hamsun's books back to him that his local post office had to hire extra staff.

What Europe and Canada need to do, months later than they should have done, is decide how to deal with a US that's an adversary not an ally, that has a predatory approach to them, and that can't be negotiated with in good faith. It's encouraging that France, at least, seems to understand this.

"A year of Trump has been more catastrophic for American democracy than we could have predicted." Let me highly recommend this devastating litany of the first year in office by @debthompsonphd.bsky.social, whose columns on America's undercurrents are crucial www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

These people are utter psychopaths, and Canada needs to treat pivoting away from the Americans with far, far more urgency.

you know this guy is a FOR REAL photographer because he's telling the story of his brutal, unconditional arrest by federal goons and can't help but slip in a gear review

As a Canadian, my advice: do it anyways.

Trump and others have changed the permission structure not just in the US but elsewhere to be openly, loudly racist. Much less shame being a racist asshole these days.

At least six preventable deaths and more than 30 “near-misses” occurred in Alberta ERs since the beginning of the year because of overcrowding, according to documents obtained by The Globe and Mail, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com

The families of Danes killed in Afghanistan have a message for Trump www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Trump likes “Donroe Doctrine” but it’s really the “Darth Vader” doctrine: "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.” Whatever government thinks they've reached an agreement with the US is deluding itself. These agreements are not worth the gold embossed napkins they are written on.

The whole MAGA discourse is that Europe is too feeble to stand up for itself. Then we send a few troops to Greenland and they throw a tantrum.

Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.

Take Trump at his literal word and it becomes abundantly clear that the next three years promise almost bottomless downside risk for the U.S., us and the West writ large. I can hardly think of a possibility that should be off the table for those whose job it is to plan ahead for bad outcomes.

I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.

So to reiterate now they are attacking an orphaned child

Remember last year when Vance went and visited, it went awkward, the officer running Pituffik sent a letter out implying she was against US attempts to acquire Greenland, and got fired? taskandpurpose.com/news/space-f...

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I feel like the Nobel peace prize people could have avoided this if they gave their medal to someone who dedicated their life to peace, rather than just "this person is an opposition leader."

and, yes, Miller ignores the fact that no one is threatening Greenland and Denmark as long as NATO is a going concern. Another example of how Trump's desire to kill NATO is bad for American security.

The more academicy version: anarchy (the lack of a world government) is what countries make of it. It can be really conflictual but does not have to be. It is up to the countries, especially the more powerful ones, to exacerbate or mute the competitive dynamics.

Miller is a shitty historian/international relations scholar. Since WWII, plenty of countries can't defend their territory and don't have their territory poached by a great power. Shit changed. But, yes, it can change back when the great powers are run by ignorant assholes.

Notably, one (of many) reasons he was not able to intervene in Iran is bc the Ford was in the Caribbean, not the Gulf.

Whatta quote "The ppl who risk their lives in defense of the Constitution have earned the right to the press freedoms of the 1st Amendment,” Slavin wrote. “We will not compromise on serving them with accurate and balanced coverage, holding military officials to account when called for.”

The complainant said Alberta Prosperity Project CEO Mitch Sylvestre made a number of inflammatory comments about immigrants during the town hall at the Didsbury Memorial Complex edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n... #Alberta #abpoli

NEWS: the entire staff of the Alberta Law Foundation has resigned in the wake of Bill 14, which gives the justice minister more say in how the independent org operates. This is according to a board member who says she was ousted by the law society for speaking out edmontonjournal.com/news/crime/a...

“Old stock white Canadians, and that’s us, and we don’t have to apologize for this room being filled with white people,” said Sylvestre. “This used to be what Alberta was. We’re not apologizing for being ourselves.” Out loud now. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...