Hell and damnation

Calling this a crime is simultaneously inadequate and a very important thing to repeat. This is a criminal action, just like the murder of fishermen in the Caribbean, and we need to make it clear that the second Trump is out of power that we will treat everyone in the chain of command like criminals

This isn't rhetorical wishcasting, it's our job to make it clear to every elected leader, from senator to dog catcher, that these bastards need to spend the rest of their days in a cell, and if they're not willing to do that we'll find someone who will

Drive slow tonight, folks. Or don't drive at all if you can swing it

if i were to bet the budget *might* pass with NDP abstaining from the vote and enough BQ votes, but we'll have to see

There's a chance of another election already. NDP (+1 Green) don't want to support a conservative austerity budget, Conservatives don't want to anger their base by supporting anything done by Liberals, and Bloc are using their leverage to make big demands. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #CdnPoli

Books on the subject you should read: - Jeff Lewis's 2020 Commission: a actually plausible sketch of how Donald Trump bumbles into a (limited) nuclear war with North Korea - Command and Control: a fact based history of US nuclear weapons whoopsies - Arms and Influence: *actual* deterrence theory

will kim is still in ICE detention

Help for Rowans and kitties

Judge rules George R.R. Martin and other authors can sue OpenAI for copyright infringement • Said ChatGPT generated 'Game of Thrones' content similar enough to infringe copyright • OpenAI’s motion to dismiss was denied

hey uh what the fuck

Since this has broken containment: No, this would not cause nuclear winter or massive fallout. No, this would not automatically cause nuclear war. Yes, there are reasons a sane person might want to test other than megalomania; no, I do not believe Trump qualifies as sane here

East Wing staff hid a time capsule behind a bookcase that was being installed in 1992. Nobody seems to know if it was destroyed when Trump demolished the building.

I think a problem with a lot of military sci-fi is that they enjoy reading a lot of complicated military stuff, but shut down at the labrynthian complexities of civilian-military relations.

the trajectory of the Red Scare girls is a good example

There’s a Hegelian dialectic to be written about how people want humanoid robots so they can be masters and LLMs so they can compel their slaves to recognize them

When Canada’s public broadcaster asks: “is America becoming a police state?”

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

The problem with a clause letting gov’ts exempt laws from the the constitution, whose only limit is that the exemption must be renewed every 5 years, is norms & a belief that using it too often would make gov’ts unpopular enough to lose elections are the only things that prevented its regular use.

To get buy-in from all 10 provinces (which it didn't), Canada's constitution has a clause allowing provinces to override its fundamental rights and freedoms. The framers -- I've spoken to some -- imagined it used in existential-crisis cases. Well, a province just used it to break a teachers' strike

Looking through this, like I've said before, the overpayments (which may eventually be ruled to include ALL the payments) may be worse than the underpayments, because at some point DFAS will absolutely recoup that money. This happens with some regularity.

JB Pritzker: “Not everything is a both sides issue. When someone’s breaching the Constitution, it needs to be called out. There’s not two sides to it. When there’s fact and fiction, you don’t present those equally”

i think this basically gets to @jamellebouie.net's point. this is a document that is attempting to solve a perception problem by doing policy. but biden made economic policy--IRA, CHIPS, BIF--absolutely central. every national dem has been running away from "abolish the police" for years!

democrats have been pivoting to the economy literally my entire life, and yet somehow centrist pundits are still convinced we're the party of identity politics. maybe the problem isn't policy. maybe you can't run from the culture war. maybe you just have to win it!

yeah, well, Microsoft's decision to donate money to Trump's ballroom project is all the "comment" anyone needs here

Its amazing what sorts of soft cowards so many of our elites have turned out to be

SNAP isn't about "people who don't work." It's about people who don't get paid enough to live. Of the 40 or so million people who rely on food stamps: * Two-thirds are children, seniors, or disabled * Most working-age adults who receive SNAP are employed—but in jobs that pay poverty wages

Andrew Wakefield (breaking up the MMR shots into three separate shots) spotted.

This went under the radar, but 3/4 of recent PhD and student scientists are considering fleeing this country. Nature-journal conducted this poll in March, but I'd guess their dismay has only worsened since. I've begun applying for foreign jobs too and already have an interview

Yes, Ottawa alone is responsible for conducting trade negotiations. But it can’t enforce compliance with trade provisions that fall under exclusive provincial jurisdiction. This makes a formalized framework for intergovernmental coordination so important... www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Since at least 2010, the provinces - through the Council of the Federation - have repeatedly called on the federal government to create such a framework. Unfortunately, this never materialized....

Such an intergovernmental framework could long have replaced the problematic Team Canada approach. We would likely be in a better position now, from a governance point of view. bsky.app/profile/jbro...

To put this into perspective: Draghi is correct when he calls for improving intergovernmental relations in the EU. But the EU has already a much more sophisticated system of intergovernmental coordination than Canada... www.politico.eu/article/mari...

...which shows how outdated our federal system is. Team Canada may work to fend off an emergency in the short term, but it is not an institutional foundation for an "adaptable country". Trade policy illustrates the larger problem A. Roberts discusses in his great book. www.mqup.ca/the-adaptabl...

Backed by the Heritage Foundation and Big Tech, KOSA will force everyone to upload their ID to access the internet. In an age when Palantir has direct ties to ICE, where technofascists are in power and want to eliminate and censor everything, we CANNOT allow KOSA to pass. It NEEDS mass pushback.

Rural Pennsylvanians will recognize this as the classic doublewide adjacent to a three-car garage with upstairs apartment

It is kind of funny how much speculative fiction thought social media would make people Too Woke, but it turns out the actual sociological effect was restarting gutter racism as a political movement.

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It is wild how Trump really does make Reagan sound reasonable. Which I hate having to say.

Hmm, what roiled the relationship? 1/ an increasing unhinged US president who wants to annex Canada and cripple its economy with an emotion-driven trade war? 2/ an anti-tariff ad? To-may-to to-mah-to, I guess

how long until he goes after USMCA exempt goods and then gets talked out of it 36 hours later

so like, this is definitely going to shape SCOTUS litigation, right? because it's hard to argue that these tariffs are for national security if he's openly admitting that he's trying to hurt Canada out of his feelings getting hurt

this is just a litany of threats

it's the end of the month so shot in the dark with this tbh but. just posting just in case anyone is kind enough to want to help me get through the next week or so. i finally landed a j*b but im still far from stable :( i do have a few slots open for art ko-fi.com/leekiings

Hey I know that one

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