I don't know about you but whenever I see somebody write a 38-page essay about anything I assume they are having a psychotic break.

Not today. Not this hour. That’s the deal.

This thread:

This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

The meeting between the Danish foreign minister and vice president Vance and secretary of state Rubio went so badly today that the following nations are now sending military troops and personnel to Greenland: Denmark, Canada, Germany, Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and the UK. Good times.

So to be clear we have actually reached the point where NATO states are deploying tripwire forces to deter *another NATO state* from invading *another NATO state.* I struggle to communicate the strategic and just regular insanity of this moment.

We are far past the stage of permissiveness with white-supremacist violence inside DHS. We are witnessing ICE transition into a death squad. This cannot be reformed. The only question is who will fight to abolish it, and who will accommodate it instead.

Seems like a good time to re-up this antifa anthem: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLkP...

The Virgin Democratic Party Establishment Candidate: "ICE isn't coordinating with local police. This is no way to bring down prices!" The Chad Episcopalian Bishop: "I have instructed my priests to prepare for martyrdom."

If Trump dies in office, the funniest thing is going to be look on everyone's face when they come to work and see Vance in the Oval Office.

Trump’s Venezuela attack has been a boost to Canada, according to Bloomberg. Chinese refiners, cut off from their Venezuelan supply, are switching to Canadian heavy oil. A boost for Alberta and Ottawa trying to diversify from the US.

lot of things i could say here but mostly i guess i would like to implore everyone to find a personality other than "least favorite roommate during a house meeting in portland, oregon"

No cheating, repost with the most recent photo of your pet

Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social If you haven't watched the season finale of Robin Hood, where they seize a castle and then fall back when the cavalry charges the (closed) gates, you should just... not.

Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!

Rob Reiner's first film was Spinal Tap. His last film was Spinal Tap II. There's something extra beautiful about a film legacy, bookended by those two great movies.

So, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S. is stepping down. OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG LET ME DO IT OMG www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

PRESIDENT’S PHYSICIAN: He’ll probably be out cold for a while; this last episode of diarrhea was quite painful for him. STEPHEN MILLER: Hm. Is there any chance we can get him to say something incredibly racist at 3pm? PHYSICIAN: (pulling out a syringe filled w/ liquid Adderall) I love what I do.

What's the over/under on whether Nuzzi/Lizza are in on this together? All he's done is up the scandal quotient for her, which can't hurt book sales. I bet there's a payoff down the road for him.

trying to start a moral panic and the stories are all like “the ADHD meds really helped but didn’t solve everything”

Well, we have reached peak headline. My work here is done. 🤣 #Nanaimo

Um, @markscrivens.bsky.social do you need to start getting into shape? ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

SONG FOR A FURRY Does he run? Does he play? Does he like to dance? My Sherwood Forest angel ain’t so big on wearing pants Face as cute as kittens, can he please be my mate? And show me all the downstairs Disney did not animate

But why would gunfire do that?

"The Epstein Ballroom, we're calling it. The Epstein Ballroom. It'll be covered in the finest gold, 14 carat gold -- the best golds are in their teens, you know."

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

I hate it when TV chefs, whilst cooking with alcohol, take a little swig and beam in naughty delight at their own mischief. You're 54 years old. You can buy it legally in a shop. You want to impress me, drink the raw chicken juices you fucking coward.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

I copped my first direct block today and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I respect the nuclear block, but this seems a little hair trigger to me.

Peter Thiel giving lectures about the antichrist is just another illustration of the fact that the most dangerous thing about billionaires is that they exist in a world where nobody tells them their stupid ideas are stupid and are therefore prone to inflict their stupid ideas on all of us.

@markscrivens.bsky.social NATO is a vestigial bureaucracy now.

As I was saying…

The best defence of wokeness, in the form of common decency, that I have read in a long time.

I expected 10 minutes and stayed for 90. Great video.

Meanwhile, the meanest and most accurate thing you can say about Jimmy Fallon is that the Trump administration isn’t worried about him in the slightest.

Trans rights are human rights.

I remember reading this at the time, and being horrified.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

I would watch the hell out of a straight to Netflix ”Kash and Dan investigate” starring, let’s say, Kal Penn and Jesse Plemons portraying the hijinks of two totally unprepared meatheads running an investigation in Utah and getting into zany adventures

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

It’s the only sane response in these times.

It really is very stressful to be living through an era of escalating mass deceit and mass delusion.