It would amuse me if sociopath billionaire Elon Musk's repeated appearance in the Epstein files was referred to as "Elon gate." Has anyone told him yet that "I don't need Epstein to make a sex torture island where kids are abused, I could easily make my own!" isn't the defense he thinks it is?

No other nation should ever send athletes, or, you know, anybody else, to the United States under any circumstances under this hideous fascist regime. Submitted for your perusal, a glimpse of a potential headline from 2028.

If the Mark Carney sitting in the PMO was at all like the impression Mark Carney wanted us to have of him from his book or from his public speeches, I'd probably like the guy a whole lot. But sweet Dr Jeckyll Carney the writer & orator doesn't resemble Mr Hyde Carney the actual PM much at all. 1/

Corporation with more than half a billion a year in revenue blatantly steals work of struggling independent journalist & takes credit for research they didn't do, demonstrating that billions can't buy enough integrity to fill a thimble.

As part of my work, I've been part of commissioning additional climate data analysis. In our baseline period of 1991-2020, Canada collected great data until 2007, at which point Stephen Harper ended most climate data collection, deliberately creating a black void of ignorance in our data set. 1/

Thousands of LPC supporters keep endlessly insisting to me that caring deeply about the climate is Carney's defining value, so it's clear that partisanship will never acknowledge every single climate policy from his PMO being a deliberate step backwards that makes a decent climate future impossible.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Soaring grocery costs in 🇨🇦 are the most obvious & frustrating element of the worst cost of living crisis in generations, exacerbated by the highest level of economic inequality in Canadian history. Any effective policy response begins with honesty about the problem's root causes. A food in 🇨🇦 🧵 1/

But but, "job creators". Criminals! "The lawsuit goes on to link the repression of competition to negative impacts on Michigan consumers, such as “forcing them to rely on fossil fuels which pose significant negative externalities, instead of cheaper and substitutable renewable energy options.”"

The idea that there's "a right way" to be oppressed is like telling victims of sexual violence that it was their fault for wearing the wrong outfit. It moves the onus of responsibility away from the crimes of the perpetrator to victim blaming. A 🇺🇸 poli 🧵 1/

Mark Carney vs Mark Carney. Carney made an exemplary speech at the WEF. Sadly, his words and his actual policies tell two very different stories. When words & actions don't match, actions matter most. Orator Carney really needs to sit PM Carney down & give him a stern talking to. A 🇨🇦 poli 🧵 1/

🇨🇦 could give Trump all the obeisance he demands yet still be targeted for not awarding him the Stanley Cup Peace Prize the instant he feels like claiming our resources. There is no behaviour that will successfully avoid being a target. Existing in his line of sight is enough to make you a target.

"When I talk to Canadians about this, they express concern that this will make Trump even angrier at us. Of course it will: literally anything that works will make Trump angry. I don't think that means we should only respond to Trump tariffs with useless gestures." pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/d...

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

Bill C-5 lets Carney officials decide that "major projects" can ignore a broad range of laws. C-15 lets them decide corporations can ignore a broad range of laws. All for subjective reasons, with no appeal or oversight. Carney = anti-rule-of-law. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"These exemptions just have to be justified as being “in the public interest” and “encourag[ing] innovation, competitiveness or economic growth,” concepts so vague that they could be invoked for virtually any law. " Extremely troubling.

Carney joining Trump cronies to sit around a table deciding the fate of multitudes on the other side of the world without their input or consent is yet another clear signal to the globe that Mark Carney chooses team Trump colonialism over team human rights every time they clash. Utterly deplorable.

Is the reason Canada apparently isn't considering a ban on hate speech, disinfo, and nonconsensual AI porn ground zero site X because PM Carney personally profits from X? Or is it just that our MPs look at that godawful cesspool and think it's totally cool and fine?

Mark Carney has made AI expansion a central component of his economic strategy. There are just a few glaringly obvious problems with that, including but not limited to being a hugely unstable economic bubble with brutal impacts on jobs, mental health, the environment, & the public discourse. 🧵 1/

The difference between a public service and a public-private service is that in the former, public dollars go directly to providing the service, and in the latter, only as many public dollars go to providing the service as haven't first been redirected into shareholder yacht budgets instead.

Mark Carney is "combatting crime" with policies that will very definitely make crime worse. His "solutions" to various problems we face bear a horrid similarity: they deliberately ignore evidence of actual root causes to provide us with performative non-improvements. 🧵 1/

It's not as if Mark Carney doesn't know how to expressly condemn violations of international law. He shows us frequent examples of his capacity to clearly do so without ambiguity. Yet Donald Trump enjoys a special and distinct immunity to that sort of criticism from Mr Carney like no one else. 🧵 1/

This isn't the first time that Mark Carney has provided diplomatic support for Donald Trump's commission of war crimes, but it's the worst to date. bsky.app/profile/sust... It clearly won't be the last without intense public pushback. actionnetwork.org/letters/acti...

If Canada won't condemn Trump bombing Venezuela & kidnapping Maduro, how can we expect other nations to speak or act on 🇨🇦's behalf when Trump targets us? This is how you squander our soft power: signal to the 🌍 that when it's Trump vs international law, Carney'll condemn the victim, not the crime.

Extreme hostility coming from cult-of-Carney LPC loyalists escalates by the day, mirroring the very worst behaviour of their CPC counterparts ever more completely. This movement is entirely antagonistic towards any possibility of evidence based policy discussion.

I can't possibly be the only person who sees this.

Mark Carney’s initial social media response to Trump attacking Venezuela criticizes the Maduro regime, but doesn’t criticize or even name the Trump regime. Carney's response here is pure moral cowardice. 🧵1/

You probably heard the US admin is threatening to break up the National Center for Atmospheric Research: but did you know they already froze funding for the 9 regional Climate Science Adaptation Centers? From tracking invasives to helping tribes with drought, here's why the CASCs matter ⬇️

The only way Trans Mountain can look remotely profitable is by hiding debt payments by moving them off the books. Oh, and also by ignoring everything the world's top economists keep telling us about climate impacts on economies.

"While the Liberals claim to have cancelled permits for weapons bound for Israel, a new report exposes that claim as a complete deception. .. In other words, the “heart” of one of the primary instruments of the genocide is made in Canada." www.marxist.ca/article/new-...

"Christian" nation.

No two people can be each other’s saviours. But I do think it is possible for two people who #love each other to suffer better together, so to speak, and in that way help make the suffering bearable and worthwhile, and to help each other find goodness and beauty in life despite it all.

It's open season on endangered species in Canada for fossil fuel companies handpicked by PM Mark Carney. The fine for violating the endangered species act in 🇨🇦 is already the equivalent of charging someone making $50k/yr less than a nickel. It's a sick joke. 🧵1/ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Mark Carney keeps telling us that the best way to strengthen Canada's economy is to focus on expanding an industry that is predominantly American owned and which sends the majority of its profits out of Canada. That's not how it works. www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/m...

Canadians pay some of the highest telecom rates in the world. It doesn't have to be this way, but Canadian private telecom companies demand massive profit margins, and governments consistently have corporate backs, not citizen backs. 🧵1/ www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

This is powerful important stuff, and every time I read or hear Cory Doctorow I appreciate him even more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-...

this excellent review of oral arguments in trump v. slaughter gets to the profound dishonesty of the conservative majority — the refusal to own the consequences of their actions

The Carney government clearly has a major problem with the whole concept of accountability. Instead of strengthening 🇨🇦s laws, they keep legislating themselves new ways to circumvent them. Rather than changing things like the Endangered Species Act, they just choose where it will & won't apply. 🧵1/

Nothing the Carney government is doing is good for the climate. Every single climate step they take is a deliberate step backwards. There's no hope for the climate here. None. Evidence-based threads like this are the reason that the official Mark Carney account on Bluesky has blocked me. 🧵1/

This is Harper level destruction. Mark Harper.

Someone really, really needs to explain to @mark-carney.bsky.social that "prior" means "before" and that "consent" very definitely doesn't mean "if you say NO this is still going to happen anyway."

Remaining politically unbiased requires staying neutral on matters like evidence, relevant past behavior, clear patterns, obvious lies, and observable truth, which is worth remembering whenever somebody starts complaining about political bias.

The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with @naomiaklein.bsky.social who called it a classic example of the shock doctrine.

Carbon Capture and Storage is NOT a credible climate solution. It's a really expensive way to make big oil look a lot cleaner than it is to dishonestly manufacture support for expanding instead of reducing fossil fuel dependency. @mark-carney.bsky.social is gaslighting the country about it. 🧵1/

I think a big thing I struggle with, and something that is an important thing for people of my generation to attempt to understand, is separating toxic nostalgia from knowledge of the actual ways in which American life has gotten appreciably worse in my lifetime

I never want to hear a supporter of @mark-carney.bsky.social use the words "nation building" ever again. It's not nation building to completely exclude a province from negotiations about their interests, and it's not nation building to lie directly to a premier. www.biv.com/news/comment...

Canada's grievous lack of badly needed affordable housing goes hand in hand with a massive oversupply of overpriced condo units that sit empty. Both of them spring from the same cause: putting our trust in private enterprise to manage basic public needs. A Housing in 🇨🇦🧵 1/

One of the many ways that fossil fuel shills capitalize on embarrassingly low levels of public scientific literacy is the way that partisans pretend a few token gestures towards the climate being sprinkled on top of fossil fuel expansion can be called leadership. It's very much the opposite.

I'm noticing something about @mark-carney.bsky.social's growing list of proposed "nation building projects" that seems kind of important: the nation they seem to be focussed on building isn't Canada. These are climate hostile policies that put US profits before Canadian benefits. It sucks. 🧵1/