"If you don't call me cool and give me my lil award I'll kill as many people as possible out of spite" really does appear to be the driving animus of everyone in this administration and its adjacent oligarchy.

A functional country would shut Grok down permanently. Like, immediately. Right now. Last week. Whatever. Just flip the switch. Obviously.

Agree or disagree with the merits of the operation, you can't help but be in awe of the Wehrmacht's Blitzkrieg of Poland

Whenever I see someone getting out over their skis on a foreign policy take I remember Caitlin Flanagan confusing Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khomeini and then claiming she was actually expressing a profound truth.

People being like, "But Venezuelans are happy about Maduro being gone!" have the memories of goldfish. IN 2003, the narrative was that Iraqis celebrated the U.S. invasion and capture of Saddam. Whether they were happy or not, invading Iraq was still the wrong thing to do.

This isn’t about “saving alberta”. The same folks pushing separation to save Alberta from “Canada’ collapse” are also advocating for Quebec to leave Canada. This isn’t about Alberta. It’s about destabilizing and destroying Canada. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

my sense is this: not only are trump and rubio and hegseth lying to the public about the purposes, impact, planning, etc of the attack on venezuela. they are lying to each other. they have no idea what they're doing or where this ends.

greetings from hell

Want to see what MAGA is thinking right now?

we did it! a perfectly structured democracy. it's got checks, it's got balances. this thing is made to last. there's only one weakness: bad guys. if somehow some bad guys who don't care about decorum got elected they could basically just tip the whole thing over. luckily such men are unelectable

christ, what the fuck are we even doing here

Carney and Starmer’s statements are almost identical. The fine art of diplomacy Hoping Trump will read the ‘we also hated Maduro’ opening paragraph Hoping the rest of the world sees the ‘we like international law’ paragraph under it

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isn’t just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Miller’s wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.

NYT gonna NYT: "Both Mr. Mamdani and Mr. Maduro identify as socialists, though they have no relationship.” — would be funny if they did this every time you write about two capitalists. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/w...

This should be worth another floor crossing or two.

you simply do not have to preface your statements about this with “but Maduro sucks” whether or not Maduro sucks is entirely beside the point - we invaded another country and grabbed their leader with no justification other than “we wanted to” don’t give them cover on it

This press conference should be a wakeup call to anyone who (still) doesn't think Trump and America represent a clear threat to Canada's sovereignty and independence. Cuba is clearly next. Then who?

It’s old-fashioned to defend mainstream journalism these days but some of the most reliable reporting from people actually on the ground will be the AP and Reuters the next 24 hours. Your Substack journalist writing takes will be using frontline reporting from them.

The president of Venezuela must be held legally accountable for his crimes, which the Supreme Court forbids to happen for the president of the US, who recently pardoned the president of Honduras for similar crimes.

Trump's regime has murdered people in the water. He has seized ships on the high seas. He has invaded a country and kidnapped their leader. All bets are off with the United States. Canada needs to build alliances with Europe and to be ready on the home front.

what the fuck did I wake up to

I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris. In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).

"We're going to spend less time listening to people who are educated and informed" is certainly....a choice.

The world has a new king of electric-vehicle sales. insideevs.com/news/783252/...

I am not, by disposition, an optimist, but I am one who tends to “well… actually” my doomsaying friends. The hopefulness of this piece is a boon in that regard. That said, if our climate salvation really does come via the invisible hand and technical innovation, I shall have some crow to eat. Yum.

Fantastic column—and advice for government—by @maxfawcett.bsky.social to start the New Year. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o... #cdnpoli

ah yes, news focused on the concerns of the average american

This is a major Bluesky achievement.

It is time for every citizen of good faith and good conscience to get off X. I am not sure how you can justify contributions to a website that publishes sexualized images of children. I think it’s time to start naming and shaming those who donate their time to give free content to Elon’s X.

It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X, @jameswsthomson.com writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.

Climate advocates lost some political battles in North America last year, but technology and economics are winning the war everywhere else. 2026 will make the inevitability of the energy transition even more difficult to ignore. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...

I just love real America so much

Breaking news: Tesla lost its crown as the world’s biggest electric-vehicle maker in 2025, as it was overtaken by Chinese rival BYD following a second year of declining vehicle sales. ft.trib.al/ai3CHsS

Hey, Canadians, ESPECIALLY in ALBERTA, read this article by @maxfawcett.bsky.social in today's National Observer. The world is embracing renewables and we don't want to miss the boat like the USA is. How to (still) be a climate optimist www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/02/o...

when i say that democrats have got to stop worrying about what republicans will to do us and make republicans worry about what we will do to them, this is what i am talking about www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

a Warrenite with Bernie's message discipline and Obama's charisma is a hell of a thing to watch in action

if you still use Twitter please understand that you are enabling and supporting this. It’s only going to get worse, so you may as well leave now and start rebuilding your “following” anywhere else.

one of my recent preoccupations is the visceral hostility the MAGA right has for the histories and traditions of the United States. these are people who spit on the Declaration and salute third-rate European despots!

BIG 2026 ENERGY. I like it. Next POTUS: take note.

It's so fucking refreshing, and so fucking cool, to see a politician that loves the city he lives in and represents. Cities are the Real America. Both in practice and in the ideal.

We should all be so lucky to have someone who looks at us like this.

the Post is going to be monumentally unhinged about Rama the entire time Zohran is in office and it is going to get real, real weird (and racist, but it’s the Post so that goes without saying)

A List of Predictions Made in 1926 About 2026 🧵

I like how this looks like a scene in a TMNT movie where the mayor gets inaugurated in a sewer because he ran on a platform of driving the ninja turtles out of New York's sewers.

This remains the only countdown I care about on New Year’s Eve