In the sane part of the universe known as Canada, an adolescent Cardinal showed up at my feeder this morning. Family probably refugees from south of the line. Welcome to stay if they will tolerate winter in Quebec City -- this is the northern extreme of their range. But climate change is undeniable.

Broadcast TV is slowly dying of cowardice. It started when they sacked Mehdi Hassan and has now progressed to Colbert and the rest. In a real democracy, it would be illegal for a broadcast network to be owned by a business subject to federal approvals. Kleptocrats and politicians are a toxic mix.

I finally figured out how to get back in. Let's say I'm technologically challenged. Got to say I thought Homan was dumber than a brick from his public statements his powers, but am amazed to see how cheaply he could be bought. I thought most folks in the Trump circle had a higher price than that.

If you believe that Trump's EEOC investigation into 'antisemitism' at Barnard College is being conducted in good faith, take a clear look at what his administration is doing about visa revocations and 'gang member' deportations. Pro-Netanyahu Zionism and Judaism are not identical.

VP JD Vance, a Catholic ultra, gets a chewing out from a senior cardinal rather than the audience he sought with the Pope; then gets brief Easter audience. "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me." Matthew 25:40 Food for thought, JD?

Issue is joined: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bluesky seems to have a spellcheck as invasively idiotic as Facebook. I write "Vox populi; vox dei." It substitutes "Vox populism ; fox dei." The former is Ciceronian wisdom; the latter seems to identify TRumpism with a Japanese Shinto cult. Go figure. Or is AI trying to tell us something profound ?

I have begun to doubt the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in constitutionally prohibiting Bills of Attainder by both Congress and the States. It is true that they thought the Electoral College would prevent anyone like Trump from getting near the Presidency. Not too prescient on either call.

Apparently to avoid being classed as an antisemite, you now need to deny the Nuremberg Principles can be applied to Israel. That bodes ill both for the Jewish religion and the US government, but it probably pleases neoNazis, Hamas and Benjamin Netanyahu. In fighting Satan, avoid using his methods.

Trump's Justice Department put career attorney on leave for conceding the case for deporting Maryland man to El Salvador lacked any basis in law. No other proof of Pam Bondi and Todd Blanche's unfitness for their posts (AG and lead Deputy) is needed. Fascism, thy name is TRump. Where is the Senate?

Specifying WHY I'm down on Harvard. 1) it enabled the sinister career of Henry Kissinger; 2) the Kennedy School's post-defeat rehab spots for egregiously corrupt Canadian politicians; 3) it caved to Elise Stefanik's attack on its President, Claudine Gay Where have its New England morals gone?

While we are terminating and destroying for fun, what about Elon and DOGE ? Unlike their handiwork, preliminary results of their efforts show massive dystopic effect -- deaths, own goal shots, vanished data sets worth hundreds of millions. Besides, we should all get to play shooter video games.

Among other reasons to diss Facebook, there is an epidemic of crypto fraud trying to exploit Canadian nationalism and the election pouring onto my feed. Variants of the old 'give us a few hundred' we automatically trade it and you make thousands schemes. Lots of Maple leaves and Carney pics. SCAM!

While Secretary Rubio is working on foreign-born threats to the Republic, do you think he will get around to the Afrikaner-Canadian with the ketamine addiction? The one who seems to be firing government employees at random, trying to buy judicial elections (and Presidents) and other nasty stuff.

Did you notice, while the media wasted hours on phoney national emergency tariffs, that Trump and Elon destroyed the scientific research capacity of the USA, Kennedy sacked your medical system, disease control and vaccines, and the vets were turned out to pasture. How to kill a Republic on live TV.

Do you really think this scam will work? Recycled crypto fraud posing as CBC News on Facebook. Lots of eye candy but URL has nothing to do with CBC. URL is expandingsocialcircles.com/gbs8wi/?medi...

I think the third term stuff is addled wish-projection from Trump. He and Elon may think they are immortal; Nature thinks otherwise. Compare any recent photo with a year ago. Trump's health is going downhill faster than an Olympic bobsleigh. Even since the Inauguration the decline is obvious.

OLIGARCHY: : government by the few The convenient thing about oligarchy is regime change requires only getting rid of a few bastards. Only a few folks have skin in the game. Madison designed the Republic to give many some skin in the game. That's how it was supposed to work. Did, until recently.

Reflections on the departure of three Yale scholars of authoritarianism and tyranny , including Timothy Snyder; www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_f...

The latest filing against the executive orders aimed at lawyers and law firms can confuse laymen with their detail. The issue is that the Trump White House is convulsively tearing at the Constitutional fabric like the Devil dipped in Holy Water. Trump thinks his Will is law.

JD Vance's granmaw would have known Greenland wasn't for sale. You forget so many things at Yale Law and in Silicon Valley. Like perhaps who you were and what human decency consists of. Vance's diplomatic style seems to have been learned from Don Corleone. He should have stuck with Granmaw.

What's with the algorithm? My Home screen is being deluged with cutesy angels and fairies and cat pictures. I came here for sane discussion, folks. I think we've been infiltrated by Vlad's boys and the MuskRATS.

In favour of those in the 'Signal Chat for the Ages', participants are more coherent than in public, seem to be interested in the idea of protecting US interests (albeit ineptly) and are not nearly as traitorous as their Dear Leader. Unlike POTUS on Truth Social, they discuss. They do not rant.

Must reading: Jeffrey Goldberg, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans" The Atlantic Online The Gang Who Couldn't Shoot Straight strikes again. If you tried this one on as a TV melodrama writer, you'd be laughed out of the room. "Only the very best people ..."

As the precedents accumulate, the net of potential CIVIL LIABILITY is closing around the MUSKRATS and ICE agents like the assault of the Ents on Isengard.

Anyone who wants an advocate dedicated to the zealous pursuit of their cause must be regarding the Paul Weiss copout with horror. If I were an associate there, I'd be headed for the door. They rolled over for extortion rather than sueing for an obvious win.

Action to reinstate USAID upheld. There is now a widely public precedent holding Musk and Doge cannot lawfully close a Congressionally established agency. This means the qualified immunity defense to a Bivens action is no longer valid. CIVIL LIABILITY for the MUSKRATS is on the table.

It appears that if you have a green card and Marco Rubio holds you are an antisemite, the administration can arrest you without warrant, hustle you out of the the jurisdiction to hinder habeas corpus, and put you on a secret flight for an El Salvador prison. WOW. USA was once a free country. No more

Trump and Homan are claiming powers that have not existed in Anglo-American law for -- as a minimum -- since before the Revolution. Habeas corpus is flaunted; arbitrary arrest and imprisonment are used wholesale, and detainees are whisked out of the country. This is what lawless tyranny looks like.

ICE/CBP has moved on from Venezuelan gang members. This Canadian lady tried to renew a work visa at San Ysidro Border Crossing. ICE/CBP prevented her return to Mexico; made an arrest. They have her in prison ever since. Guess I won't be visiting family in the US. 🦫 www.10news.com/news/local-n...

Wish these posts could be longer. The American and Australian units in the Kapyong battle retreated, leaving the　Canadians alone on their hill to stop the Chinese. They were assumed doomed. IMHO The battle is comparable to the Spartan 300 at Thermopylae We are POLITE; we can also be DETERMINED.

Article in Atlantic "Invading Canada is Not Advisable" Author left out my favourite Canadian battle honour -- the stand of Princess Patricias Canadian Light Infantry in the Kapyong battle.(Korean War) 700 encircled men held Hill 667 for 3 days against 20,000 Chinese, preventing a rout. Google it.

Canada is considering dropping its opinions on the F-35s not firmly contracted (about 80% of the deal) because the Americans do not turn over the source codes in the contract. That would give the USA veto control over Canada's air defence. Sorry, Donald, but we don't trust you as an ally any more.

If you think the new government is the problem, think again. Trump insulted Canada's whole population from grandmas to tykes. It will take you a fulsome official apology and years of good behaviour to get back to square one. Meanwhile, take your summer vacation in ??? and leave your Teslas home.

Elbows are up; the gloves are dropped. The American press has yet to do more than scratch the surface on how furious we are. You have mistaken our habitual politeness (born of survival instincts in an unforgiving climate) for our being wimps. The boycotts won't go away. On products, on tourism ...

Sec. Lutnick was a mensch before (see his charitable activity and response to World Trade Centre 9/11 disaster.) It's sad he must demand respect for a deranged boss who every day demonstrates why he has not earned any. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

The Trump rant in the Great Hall at Main Justice was shameful, full-tilt fascist, and in a sane democracy would be grounds for immediate impeachment or 25th Amendment removal for dementia. The GOP is long past being part of a sane democracy, so the slow motion coup continues.

TRump's performance art in Great Hall at Main Justice before invited stooges (not DoJ staff) breaks new records for crazy. The chief law enforcement officer of the USA is the Attorney General, NOT the President. AG Bondi was in the room and took it -- so much for her integrity or legal expertise.

I seem to recall people once fought a Revolution for the right to have their taxes levied and spent by their elected legislators. It was a right the English had won by long struggles, and were denying their American colonists. How soon we forget.

Chess is played more than one move ahead; the GOP was NOT afraid of a shutdown ; it would have left the administration with even MORE powers. Cut experienced Senators like Schumer, Durbin and King some slack. They saw the Fool's Gambit and refused it. CR was not the hill to die on.

Is Trump a dupe, an asset or an agent? I guess that's why he's cleared out the security apparatus of the US. He doesn't want anybody asking that question. They might find answers: Which; and Of Whom.

Supporting genocide in the Middle East no longer satisfies Trump's need for mischief-making. He is doubling down on insults to Canada and his tariff war; he doesn't know about Mexican mineral resources yet, or he'd be trying to annex them too. Maybe he thinks Canadians won't fight; don't try it.

Did the world learn nothing at Nuremberg? It's clear the Zionists, Netanyahu, Trump and his GOP lackeys would like to forget those lessons. The ICC tells them they are committing war crimes; the photos and statistics are there for the world to see. Time to sanction the ICC ... Jesus wept.

It is trendy to think the "Rule of law" is unnecessary in the post-modern world. If John Locke or "The Federalist" is too much for you, read the "Oresteia." The Greeks had it figured out 2500 years ago.The alternative to law is tyranny, corrected by bloodfeuds.

The end game will be the same. I do not know when it happens. From Agamemnon's Argos to now, the pattern is the same: HUBRIS ATTRACTS NEMESIS Cultures define overweening pride differently; often they punish it by termination with extreme prejudice. Those who only get cancelled are the lucky ones.

US Presidential announcement includes sponsorship of crime against humanity in Gaza: ethnic cleansing. The Saudis are not impressed with lies about their position on a two state solution. Donald is outside the box all right, but I doubt he is thinking. Thought the Dems were problematic on Gaza?!

Trump's Gaza Policy pronouncement: 1) he's hoping for Zionist votes 2) after his tariff backdown with Canada/Mexico, he needed to change subject 3) it'S a bright shiny object for pressing domestic issues 4) he's batshit crazy Your guess is as good as mine

Trump has affirmed that Musk can and will do nothing he does not authorize. This is both an effort to pull Musk's actions within Presidential criminal immunity and compelling evidence in any CIVIL suit against Trump personally(no immunity) for Musk's illegal actions as a Trump agent. Watch the fun.

Are Supreme Court Justices feeling buyers remorse over their Presidential Immunity decision? Seems he can damage a lot making illegal decisions within the scope of presidential powers that have nothing to do with combatants with dual US citizenship. Vacuous pontification for the ages was such fun.

Page, former Parliamentary Budget Officer, sees Trump's tariff play as economic power grab -- has nothing to do with either fentanyl or the border. I agree. This is economic warfare aimed at Canadian sovereignty. If you have a MAGA bumper sticker, better not vacation in Canada or Mexico.