Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

A bunch of Vancouver cyclists achieved in a day what three (four?) levels of Ottawa government and law enforcement took three weeks and the Emergency Act to accomplish. A rare convergence of Peak Vancouver and Peak Ottawa.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

you don’t have to write “police involved shooting.” use english. It’s not hard

New TikTok privacy policies under its MAGA ownership are vastly more intrusive than anything the PRC dreamt of doing. This new entity is much more a threat to your privacy than ever...and given the likelihood elements of the U.S. police state will get hold of the data, needs to be taken seriously.

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

Remember you can turn off autoplay in your settings

Imagine claiming you believe in the sanctity of life and then cheering on a VP who blamed Renee Good for her own murder & defended the taking of little Liam. Many of us Catholics have known who these right-wing “Catholics” are for a long time.

Sigh. Okay, grandpa. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

I don't think the US is the ethically worst country to host the World Cup but it actually is likely the most dangerous for fans to travel to. Sportswashing regimes at least have incentive to treat sports fans well - the US on the other hand is addicted to performative cruelty to travelers!

It does and it can up in a search I tried 🤮

Those famous Adults in the Room have decided to watch ICE abduct toddlers and be disappointed, but not enough to do something non-Adult about it

NYT: U.S. Automakers’ Foreign Troubles Now Extend to Canada www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/b... (🎁 link)

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

ICE out of MN

Reading the new US defence strategy and honestly, I have a feeling that this was always the plan, but they are just being more open and jerks about it.

The real march for life was in Minneapolis today.

According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

inspired

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...

This Feb 11-12 I will be teaching the online Practical Certificate in Canadian National Security with Carleton's NPSIA-PT&D. We cover national security issues like violent extremism, espionage, economic national security, ethics of surveillance, and foreign interference. Details below!

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

Shorter ICE: After we started using the child as bait we don’t understand why the family did not open the door when we brought the child back. Clearly they are monsters.

I don’t know if this has had any play in the US news, but Trump’s comments about Nato troops not fighting alongside the US have caused a pretty big backlash across Europe. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd...

As clergy pray, arrests begin

Two features @bsky.app needs 1. URLs don't count against character count (or count a fixed number of characters) 2. tagging accounts take up a fixed number of characters regardless of how long the account name actually is @support.bsky.team

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

don't put it in your newspaper that i got mad

Sky Lights Dana Irving 2022

This is what comes from electing a rapist: an administration that views women suffering as pleasurable entertainment.* To the point that women who aren't visibly suffering will be deepfaked to satisfy sadistic MAGA misogyny. * See the many MAGA memes celebrating the bloody death of Renee Good.

I find it hard to reconcile applauding for Carney's speech and Musk (who has done everything he can to bring about the chaos Carney speaks about) at the same event, but then again, no one invites me to Davos.

“I never thought the anarchic multipolar world would eat MY face” sobs Russian president who voted for the Multipolar World Eating People’s Faces Party

If I were a PM who had delivered a seminal speech on the global rupture and the need for new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t send hundreds of layoff notices to my foreign affairs department the next day www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

This is big. Cardinal Martini was, for decades, the leading liberal Cardinal in the Catholic Church.

Prime Minister Carney to deliver another speech in Canada tomorrow ahead of his cabinet retreat and the opening of Parliament. 1pm ET

Just saw on KARE 11 that this boy was sent to a detainment facility in Texas and that his family didn't know his whereabouts for almost 24 hours.

I had a great conversation with @jenstden.bsky.social yesterday about Carney’s speech which she writes about here. Bottom line: it is a good analysis but cuts to aid/GAC aren’t going to help us in this new order. Carney also needs to meet his words with action.

From the creator of Heated Rivalry

At this point my group chats are just people constantly posting links with “WTF!!!” Or “No really WTF??!!?!?!” And “WTAF!!!!!”

I am more worried about war in Minnesota than in Greenland or Canada. The US is hours or days away from civil war. This might sound extreme, but if Walz has the Minn National Guard blocking ICE ops, the usual response of the fed govt to governors using NG against feds is to call out the army. 1/

Really enjoyed this take on Carney’s speech. ⬇️

Yikes. Did not think this would be so high.

If I were a PM who believed we were at a global rupture moment, upending decades of international order, and requiring totally new relations with the world, I probably wouldn’t cut my foreign affairs staffing and budget by 15%

Yeah yeah. 🇨🇦

I was about to post a similar thing The problem is not just Trump and his deranged speech, the problem is also that none of the checks and balances work It's not a personal breakdown, it's an institutional breakdown Electing a new president in 2028 will not be enough to restore trust within NATO

Iceland at Davos