Trump’s propagandists are trying to spin Colbert’s firing as a business decision. But Trump has made it crystal clear this was a personal vendetta. His apologists refuse to admit Trump campaigns for the removal of hosts he hates and, for the most part, TV networks are complying.

New paper out in BMC Infectious Diseases, led by Natalie Wilson with Alicia Grima and Clara Lee: how we define hospital-acquired COVID changes whether we see its true mortality burden, and most common definitions hide it. 🧵

New from 404 Media: in December a freshman boy allegedly made AI explicit videos of five 9th grade girls. Soon, the whole school had heard. Read this deeply reported account of how deepfakes tore a high school apart “The entire school knows about it.” www.404media.co/radnor-high-...

The bigger challenge is we have a handful of sociopaths who can circumvent and undermine democracy. We have no bigger challenge.

He just gave himself, and his entire family, a pardon, both criminal and civil.

“I don't think this is just a phase.” As the backlash grows against U.S. tech dominance, companies, countries, and individual users are trying to find alternatives https://restofworld.org/2026/big-tech-backlash-alternatives-upscrolled/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

1. What I found in Trump's new 113-page financial disclosure report. It doesn't look good.

Conservative outrage politics increasingly treats journalists, scientists, teachers, the CBC, universities, public healthcare, minorities, and even experts themselves as “the enemy.” If Canadians are taught to distrust every public institution… what replaces them? And who benefits from that? 🇨🇦

... but not in Canada, where we still have too much red tape. Interconnection permits and need for an electrician need to go. solarbuildermag.com/news/balcony...

Uh… Yeah… yeah, that’s what he meant.

The ignorance of some Trump supporters is flabbergasting. The ONLY time NATO collectively came into action under Article 5 of its charter was immediately after 9/11. Over one thousand allied soldiers died supporting the U.S. But this idiot claims that "they aren't there". Sack him.

This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DYU074V...

The Beaverton interviews an Alberta Separatist. thebeaverton.com/2026/05/the-...

Oh FFS this again - Canada version. "Bill C-22 allows the Public Safety Minister to demand any email provider, messaging app, cloud service or social media platform to introduce a backdoor surveillance capability for law enforcement and CSIS."

Indeed this fellow has filed a defamation suit against Google. It is important to note that the suit has been filed in Ontario, Canada, and not in the United States. I suspect he has a rather better chance up north than he would here. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

DIDcomm--are you using it? Suvey of DIDcomm implementations for international standards bodies. Please fill out our survey either anonymously or with your company/implementation name.

NEW: Secret Handshake installed working arcade games called Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell at the DC War Memorial. The game features "furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope..."

NEW ANALYSIS: What's going on in Spain? Spain's wholesale electricity price in early 2026: €44/MWh. Italy: €127. Germany: €96. UK: €103. Wind+solar now deliver 44% of generation. Gas sets the price in just 9% of hours, down from 55% in 2022. Full analysis: janrosenow.substack.com/p/spain-just...

So close Inigo!

The government of Ontario just took over a college because of ‘serious mismanagement’. Conestoga was (in)famous for recruiting (and exploiting) international students more aggressively than any other public college in the country, peaking at 3 international for every 1 domestic student. /1

This website shows you what your browser is leaking about you. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

agrifooddatacanada.ca/writing-bett... can help. Post source @neilshyminsky.bsky.social

Messages could include "medical circumstances, accessibility accommodations, disputes, sexual assault allegations," and more.

This is like one of the worst security vulnerabilities I've ever seen, they hard coded the root password identically in every single mower and the firmware resets it back every single time you update it. It can shows you the wi-fi credentials, address and email of every user. Great piece by Sean.

Exposing fake Canadians pushing to join the U.S. | Visual investigations buff.ly/HnewxSt

Haotian AI is an especially impressive piece of deepfake software. Look at this demo video of an Asian woman turning into Gal Gadot. It can handle changes in light, pinching of the cheeks, covering of the face. A generational leap over stuff other scammers are using www.404media.co/hello-boss-i...

I know the innate British response to most things is to ban them, and I know that's not always a good solution - but sometimes it is, and in this case I really think we should ban the nonce goggles. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Slopaganda: pushing lies to normalize separation "A network of inauthentic YouTube accounts is targeting Albertan audiences, exploiting genuinely-held grievances and repurposing them to advance narratives that normalize the prospect of secession and U.S. annexation." www.cdmrn.ca/slopaganda-t...

FDA officials yank two studies of Covid vaxx after they were accepted for publication and forbid scientists to release one study of shingles vaxx. Both Covid studies were large, w/ 11M+ total subjects; both showed vaxx was safe, as did the shingles study. No real explanations given for these acts.

OMG YES!

8 vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia www.gavi.org/vaccineswork... "Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%." #VaccinesWork!

Is it parody? Is it real? Is it AI misinformation? I've lost the plot, I can't tell anymore.

Trump says anyone running for president should take a cognitive exam because you could end being stuck with a moron for years. “I mean, you get a guy who gets in there, he's got a good line of crap. He gets in and all of a sudden you're stuck with a man who's a moron”

Wow. Trump approval down to 34% in Pew. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

RightCon's organizers said Beijing was upset over over the inclusion of speakers from Taiwain.

Film you've watched more than six times with gif. hard mode: no star wars, star trek, lotr, dc, marvel, disney, pixar, dreamworks, spielberg, cameron, wachowskis, or ghibli

Market manipulation!!!! #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Ugh, I want to do my research for tools etc. using the web and not just ask a chatbot. However, for some searches the web sites are all AI slop anyway! I might as well just ask the chatbot myself rather than go through a Slop Site.

<stares in January 6th>

Here's the CDC report -- on how effective the Covid vaccines are -- that was censored by Jay Bhattacharya. Good for @jeremyfaust.bsky.social getting the leak: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

So much of Silicon Valley has reached the conclusion that there is money to be made from American authoritarianism, writes Dave Karpf. With its ‘manifesto,’ Palantir wants to remind you that it reached that conclusion first, he says.

“The larch branch is expanding its young green leaves which look like small, green shaving brushes” Writer: EL Grant Watson Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

From cell phone logs to jets it's clear the only thing Doug Ford cares about is Doug Ford. The people of Ontario deserve a government that cares about the issues that matter to them—not one that hides from honest accountability.

San Telmo Palace in Seville, Spain

Americans aren’t just “paying attention” to Canada. They’re shaping the narrative. The convoy was boosted by MAGA networks. Now AI-driven content posing as Canadians is pushing division, separatism, even annexation. Are we still defining our own politics… or importing someone else’s outrage machine?