My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

The Putin loyalists win, America sells out Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...

uh, that's bad.

Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

1. EXCLUSIVE Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage The use of Chinese components was previously unreported Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military

The administration stayed home from Halifax and forced the US military to do so as well. This isn’t an aberration: Also over the weekend, the administration boycotted the G20 in S Africa. How does the Trump team expect to win any diplomatic victories when it’s not even on the field? wapo.st/4oZH3wz

i see that Big Paper Towel has gotten to the Washington Post. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...

Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...

So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid. Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.

This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.

My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...

This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇

The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza. Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Baby Grok will no longer rizz up Elon Musk, rizz king

The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

This rules. @404media.co www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...

Oh great, Steve Witkoff has been given another "peace plan" by his Russian minders. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...

"Donald Trump’s claims that Mohammed bin Salman knew nothing about the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi directly contradict a CIA report concluding the crown prince approved it." — CPJ MENA's Regional Director Sara Qudah

The U.S. has formally signed a deal to integrate its icebreaker-building capacity with the Canada and Finland — just a few months after Trump ranted that he was going to cut Ottawa out and build everything at home. www.canada.ca/en/public-se...

Two Ukrainians collaborating with Russian special services are behind two railway sabotage acts in Poland, PM Tusk said. Speaking at the Sejm, Tusk said that the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had been operating with Russian intelligence for a long time

oh my god @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social, this headline. www.garbageday.email/p/epstein-he...

A little bit of 🌈💫🦣personal news🦣💫🌈 After years in the freelance game, I'm joining The Toronto Star as a full-time columnist. I'll be covering my usual beats: Security, politics, global affairs, policy, misinfo, etc, but with a new accent on Big Tech.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

this is quite possibly the worse writing i have ever experienced. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/o...

This absolutely rules. @lastweektonight.com johnoliversjunk.com

the president is truth truth is what the president says www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

When I visited PEN Ukraine in Kyiv in September 2023, I was photographed by Kostiatyn Huzenko, who documented the war. He enlisted in the Ukrainian armed forces this April and was killed on November 1 by a Russian missile. Courage, truth, memory united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

"They tried to shut me up by deporting me." www.npr.org/2020/12/22/9...

the combo of Derschowitz doing the ephebophilia bit and Chris Cuomo's sex pest musketeer mustache is too much

As the FBI’s deputy director, Dan Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau background check is unprecedented, insiders say.

Still so funny to me that ol' Benny here can sit around calling everything an "op" when he was (at least according to him) an unwitting target of a successful multi-million dollar Russian influence operation. It's like calling everything a pyramid scheme before reading an ad for Amway.

"This is state media now" - @parkermolloy.com www.readtpa.com/p/a-new-reut...

The @theglobeandmail.com has a stringer in Gaza, Hasan Jaber, and he is very much worth reading. "It is a tense grey phase, suspended between neither war nor peace. There is neither full-scale bombing nor a truce restoring life to its normal rhythm." www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

The terrorism continues. open.substack.com/pub/countero...

Israel's prime minister says nothing.

Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online. It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Pizzagate: If you replace the word “hot dog” with “little boy” and “pizza party” with “child sex orgy,” you will see the lengths these elites go to cover up their crimes. Real elite emails: Send me nude pictures of those 8th graders we abused last weekend post-haste! I am the Ambassador to Turkey.

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

thinkin about opening an etsy shop

Rod Dreher got an audience with his Pope (Viktor Orbán) and apparently learned some valuable lessons about antisemitism.

but if he behaves himself, they'll let him out in 1,231

"When Trump took office again, MAGA expected answers. But, frustratingly for the right, the installation of Trump diehards like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino as the leaders of the FBI hasn’t turned up any more information." The latest answer isn't one either. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-blaze-...

Tech Won’t Save Us is celebrating 300 episodes! 🎉 This week @parismarx.com took over the show to discuss an issue that’s been motivating a lot of his work this year: the problem with our dependence on US tech and why we need digital sovereignty! Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/300_...

excuse me I have been actively soliciting Edmund Fitzgerald memes for years

The International Olympic Committee is set to ban trans and intersex women from competition. This is despite the fact that for 20 years, the IOC has allowed trans athletes to compete and only 1 has ever competed and none have ever won a medal. www.the-independent.com/sport/olympi...