Way to read the room fascist-loving Paramount/CBS propagandists. Did Bari Weiss create the show? Get the fuck off our TV!

The Canadian gov has "no intention" of repealing or changing the Online News Act despite U.S. pressure. Even so, officials have been talking to Meta about potentially bringing news back to its platforms, sources said. By @lauraosman.bsky.social & @patriquin.bsky.social. thelogic.co/news/exclusi...

I consider myself pretty well informed on the nazi precedents for today, but I didn’t know this one. They truly are just running the playbook.

Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love

Someone has won the Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes!

Which game show is this again?

This is what a Nobel Prize medal looks like, just in case you see one in a jumble box at a Washington, D.C. garage sale.. This one, on display at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, was awarded to Prof. Sir Robert G. Edwards, who was responsible for the first in vitro fertilization (test tube baby),

Cory Doctorow thinks Evan Solomon, Canada's Minister of AI-everything, might not know what he's doing, and that the tech sector needs to be regulated in the public interest. www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

I dunno guys… if I was a passenger in a bus and the driver was smashing into cars and running people over I wouldn’t wait for them to stop driving before grabbing the wheel.

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Is it possible someone has persuaded the Government of Canada that these positions are no longer necessary because the work can be done by AI?

In 1968, a US B-52 carrying four hydrogen warheads crashed near the US military base at Thule, Greenland. Three of the bombs were recovered. The fourth was thought to have sunk to the bottom of a fjord. If I were the Danes, I'd start hinting that they recovered it, and they now have an H-bomb.

This Pete looks like he could beat the shit out of our Pete.

Recall Sir Henry Wotton’s early 17th c pun definition of a diplomat as ‘one sent to lie abroad for his country’.

In my inbox: Eleven new CBC news bureaus just dropped.

Pedantic, I know, but since at least 1971, with the release of Dirty Harry, American entertainment culture has been steeped in its police forces shooting American citizens. Cops shooting people is a genre of fun in the US.

Not too many Muslim interviewees on this segment, I’m guessing.

The best time to plant a tree, it’s said, was 20 years ago. The second-best time is right now. That also holds true for leaving X, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.

These Instagram Reels featuring AI-generated influencers having sex with celebrities frequently have hundreds of thousands and sometimes millions of views. They don't disclose that they are AI. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social: www.404media.co/instagram-ai...

“Unenviable job” = programatically lying without conscience or shame to erstwhile allies.

The New York Times may think this is “transparency,” but it comes across as embarrassing self-promotion and emphasizes mainstream media‘s addiction to access.

Won't someone think of the corporate landlords?? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

How does the New York Times know he was involved in the heist? No charges have been proven in court.

just one thing, more of a comment than a question really: what the fuck

OK. Light, comical. But "Solidarity with Denmark." I'll take it.

If the Hell's Angels or the Proud Boys or Millwall British soccer hooligans for that matter were running riot through an city, terrorizing the locals, you'd expect the local police to do something about it.

What the hell was the point of this subterfuge anyway? Is a small boat going to be able to evade a Predator drone or being strafed by an F-16?

It is indeed egregiously illegal. So why doesn't Minneapolis deploy its police force to protect its citizens and arrest any ICE agent engaged in illegality? If the mayor won't do that because he can't trust his police force not to side with ICE, then he should say so publicly.

In all that time, did they ask him if he could identify which of the following drawings was the giraffe?

I know a prime minister or two I wish would speak this plainly.

Does the position of acting president of Venezuelan come with a salary?

And, the word of the day is now "perfidy." www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

Look, I’m not saying La Cosa Nostra are nice guys. But during the Second World War the Mafia were bitter enemies of the fascists and indeed aided the Allied invasion of Sicily. So if local city police forces won’t take on ICE, perhaps the US mafioso might do America a solid?

Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe is promoting a “study” that is actually a user-generated Serbian website The website includes a disclaimer that its data is unvetted and cannot guarantee its information is “accurate or reliable” The website’s data claims Sudbury, Ontario is more dangerous than Baghdad

This is the account of the French Foreign Ministry

"If the Government of Canada can’t be bothered to do the easy things, to preserve the most basic sense of principle and dignity in the face of glaring red line offenses, then we can’t possibly trust it with the more difficult and complex issues." emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/is-canada-...

I got a Nexus card when I was doing a book tour in 2024. It made me twitchy to be giving so much info to the US government, but I didn't realize it was also the only option for a verified traveler program if you're traveling within Canada! This really needs to change, wow. Cc @equitableeducation.ca

If Canadians, travelling domestically, want to use the "good" security line at the airport, they need a NEXUS card, even if they aren't going to the US. And they need the blessing of Donald Trump's Homeland Security apparatus to get one. I'm calling on Canada to end this absurdity. #Canada #NEXUS

Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X? I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets 34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs 3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

There are reports that this is what ICE agents are saying in encounters with protesters. If so, it is a script they have been told to recite. Since these encounters are being recorded, I look forward to hearing the officers' answers to the follow-up question. "What am I supposed to have learned?"

Very interesting thread. One of its points is that MAGA thoroughly policed mainstream media commentary on Charlie Kirk as soon as he was killed. Pointing out he was a loathsome hate-monger became risky. The youths, however, will not be cowed, and have gone wild with vicious mockery of his memory.

like if you’re only on this website, I don’t think you’re emotionally prepared for the tsunami of “Charlie Kirk as an e-girl/furry/piss-fetishist/esoteric Nazi alien” Content that is on the social media platforms young people actually use

Thanks! I’ve created a starter pack to make following them easy. go.bsky.app/3aaJKdt

This is a very kind wish. But I'd also like to ask you to follow other Canadian senators who are already here, and who haven't been as lucky as I have in connecting with an audience. I convinced a fair few Senate friends to give this platform a try, but many didn't feel it worked for them. #cdnpoli

Again, the answer to this should be, "Did you not learn from Derek Chauvin? He's the cop serving 22.5 years of hard time for murdering George Floyd in Minneapolis."

the great Finding Out of our time has begun.

The CBC has just posted a transcript of my recent As it Happens interview about X and Grok. I’m posting a couple of screen shots here - since they are a bit too long for alt text, I’ll post the link to the full transcript below. #cdnpoli #X #Grok #yeg #CSAM

People do kinda forget that America waged the worst war in human history up to that point on itself, 1861-1865, a nightmare premonition of the First World War. The US has always been able to wage continental war.

By now, there are clearly Grok AI-pornified images of all the top MAGA figures -- Noem, Hegseth, Miller, Bannon, Bondi -- and many of these carnal fantasies will have been realized by their supporters and admirers. What, this doesn't bother them?