When fascism came to America in 2025, it wore a red baseball cap and carried an AR-15 #Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social

Mark Carney says Canada will no longer describe itself as having “a feminist foreign policy”. Is this a change in the deep substance or superficial branding of our diplomacy? I spoke with @jeyantvo.bsky.social and @shannongormley.bsky.social on @therundowntvo.bsky.social . 📺 youtu.be/VW1VpdMwpI4

So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate. Got it.

Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶

This adorable retriever mix — this brave, good-natured glutton for love — entered our lives on the streets of Tbilisi, Georgia. We found him half dead from a broken hip and a mangled paw, but now look at him: full of life and ready to play at a moment's notice, still very much a pup at 2½ ... /1

No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does #Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social

My travel destinations will now be based off this photo

Caption this photo? I'll start: Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv. Your captions ⤵️

Canada should join the UK in committing forces to Ukraine, but our Latvia mission is barely sustainable as it is. And if we decide to add thousands of troops along the US border? Forget it.

"What if Trump insisted the tariffs are to take effect unless Canada listed water as a tradable good?... Nice little economy you have there, Canada; shame that your refusal to turn on the faucet could wreck it." @ereguly.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank. Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.

I think something broke in Canadians this weekend. Everyone has had enough - but will it be enough for us to finally get our act together on defence, foreign affairs, and finally nixing internal trade barriers?

If Trump keeps up this 51st state shit, I think Canada should ask its other NATO allies to station *their* troops along our border.

I believe it says explicitly in the treaty text that this is not an "EU border". We'd have to change the text of the treaty, but that's very doable....

We don't even have to complete shut off the taps to start with. Just throttle back supply, and watch prices rise. We can hurt them AND keep our own economy turning over, and leave something in the tank (ha) to demonstrate measured resolve.

never have i felt so seen by a 50-year-old book

I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.

This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.

For Americans, it was one of 100 shocking headlines during Trump's first 15 days of office. For Canadians, it was a nation-transforming event of historic proportions

I’m being so serious, this is a great chance for countries to do their own brain drain visas, especially in western countries that are struggling with birth rates

Economic nationalism has never been good for Canada. But for the moment some of it is necessary

No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.

Looks like this is happening. This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening. But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate. A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....

My piece from yesterday: surviving in a world in which America recognizes no friends, and doesn't care about credibility. open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

I’ve spent every day of the last hundred days scribbling down what Trump has said and done. Here, for the @thestar.com, I write a chronology that I hope gives some order to the chaos. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

“Whatcha got here, some Graham Greene? More of a Malamud guy, myself.”

“Eventually, every woman must learn that being nice to an egomaniacal bullshit artist won’t long protect her from him.” My latest, on men who masquerade as feminists, for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props, @shannongormley.bsky.social writes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at Nationalnewswatch.com

This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄

No one can answer why I subsidize my local taco joint to the tune of over $2000 a year. What am I getting out of this? I man, aside from hundreds of tacos, quesadillas and bottles of Jarritos. They should become members of my family!

Donald Trump and Barack Obama agree on this one thing. They’re both catastrophically wrong, @shannongormley.bsky.social writes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at Nationalnewswatch.com

”When I was arrested by #Russia’s security forces in 2023—the first foreign correspondent charged with espionage since the Cold War—I never stopped reporting. On my release I set out to identify the man who had taken me, and to learn more about the spy unit that had carried out his orders.”

Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government @chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...

Just checking on YouTube how to fly this captured regime helicopter. #Syria

At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes

imagine being a cat outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi tonight.

"History helps, because everything that has happened was something that could have happened. And those things that could have happened, usually unexpected at the time, stretch our minds about what might happen."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Like ships in the night

I have about 500 missed calls from Assad.

This may be a problem Georgian protesters need to fix (I’m no strategy expert). Reporting on 2019 HK protests though I repeatedly heard that its centralism weakened the Umbrella movement, creating easy targets. In 2019 they adapted to be more diffuse and spontaneous. Thoughts?

“Numerous studies support the power of individual acts of connection to drive larger-scale change.” theconversation.com/an-upward-sp...

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Freedom Square in Tbilisi.

Clarifying: In 2021, Musk clearly stated that he was interested in doing business in Russia, something he has repeatedly denied ever since. “I think we’re close to establishing Tesla presence in Russia and that would be great." edition.cnn.com/2021/05/21/b...

Classic move: authoritarianism is about undoing checks and regulations that prevent elites' ability to plunder societies and treat people as assets to exploit.

I head someone explain this as “Good weird is being weird about your own business, bad weird is being weird about other people’s business” and I thought that summed it up pretty well.