"But even the president of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked." Thanks Bob, now I can't get that image out of my head.

This person has never heard of IEDs.

The moral arc of the universe now bends towards Jupiter.

Things so bad that fmr Deputy PM moving to Ukraine.

Jesus. If Dylan offers to share his Nobel with Trump I'm going to have an aneurysm.

"The sound of gunfire / Off in the distance / I'm getting used to it now." We might want to get used to these lyrics and this song. It's 47 years old but it has 2026 written all over it.

Terrific resource. The BC rep is David Sutherland, a very well respected media lawyer who also assists Black Press.

Why should Alberta stay in Canada? The reasons aren’t just economic or legal. I hope you will read and share my robust rebuttal to those trying to break up our country. And I hope you’ll respond. #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #Canada #SenateofCanada

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

From Google AI overview. But please, go ahead and trust this slop.

This annual survey from the Canadian Medical Association has important (and often sobering) data about the state of our information landscape. Well worth attending:

Don't just sail past this. It's the explicit denial of the principle of sovereignty. It is a return to pre-UN global politics, in which interstate conflict was the norm, not the exception. There's not even the hint of justification. Might makes right, full stop.

I did not know about this organization. Looks to be an excellent initiative for independent Canadian journalism publications.

Zelenskyy has appointed Canada's Chrystia Freeland as Ukraine's Special Advisor on Economic Development. This places one of the most experienced Western economic & geopolitical operators directly into Ukraine’s reconstruction and long term development strategy. #cdnpoli 🧵

Pretty much how the rest of the world sees it.

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Denmark’s PM Mette Frederiksen is blunt: If the U.S. attacks a NATO ally, the post-WWII order dies and America becomes the threat NATO was built to stop.👀

The anti-Trump folk post things like this to expose the hypocrisy of the MAGA movement. Look how we have caught them in a dishonesty! MAGA doesn't care about that. JD Vance said what was was needed at the time to get Trump elected. The goal is what mattered.

The news team that lands the first interview with the worm inside Trump's head is going to be remembered forever.

I must admit, "Sweden fully stands up for our neighbouring country," sounds better in the original Swedish. More forceful. Sverige står fullt ut upp för vårt grannland.

Get this. In Swedish, the word for Greenland is Grönland. And the word for neighbouring country is grannland. The Swedish PM's statement says: "Only Denmark and Greenland have the right to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland. Sweden fully stands up for our neighbouring country."

As long as we're reeling backwards into colonialism, imperialism, and empire, how about we return to family-hostage diplomacy? World leaders offer members of their family to live in the households of other world leaders. So, you invade Canada, Don Jr. eats some really bad figs.

the number of people who can't clock bad AI-generated video footage as such really makes me more sympathetic to the people who fell for the Cottingsley fairies. Our eye for the real in video or photo footage isn't natural, it's a learned skill.

Gun control? We don't even have war control. 😶

‪ Nation with the most powerful military in the world, which lost in Vietnam, accomplished nothing in Iraq, and ignominiously abandoned Afghanistan, shows it has learned nothing. ICBMs, stealth bombers, and aircraft carriers do nothing to prevent occupying troops from having their legs blown off.

Yea, I bet that's a bunch of wishful thinking.

I guess. Every angry denunciation of American gunship freebooting risks inviting a hostile response. At the same time, Trump's America is monitoring the world's reaction, and every milquetoast statement only shows them who's under their heel, who's so frightened they won't speak up.

Look, here's some good news. Because of medical research. That has been adequately funded, apparently.

Any Canadians in the States know this guy? Care to pull his sweater over his head and give him the Shoresy treatment? It's hard to mouth off when you're spitting your teeth onto the ice.

This seems to be more than Carney, Macron, Starmer or Merz have done. Sheinbaum, meanwhile, has been as forthright as Mamdani. I don't fault Carney, Macron, Starmer or Merz as long as they are working together on something bigger and long-range out of public view.

"The US doesn't need Canadian oil any more." Fine and dandy. Then no need to get all Anschluss-y about things.

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.

This should be worth another floor crossing or two.

Old Ottawa saying (and longtime practice): Never do by halves what you can do by quarters.

There are 33 nations in Latin America (South America, Central America, and Mexico) and the Caribbean. As of yesterday, not a single one of them was at war with any other country.

Really looking forward to replanning my entire syllabus on my "Weapons of the Weak States" foreign policy class half a dozen times this term as the world changes and changes again.

Bahia de Cochinos! Bahia de Cochinas!

I’m looking and looking but I can’t find an actual statement in here.

Yes there are Americans who are loudly protesting Trump’s invasion of Venezuela. But if you add up those Americans who love to see the US flex its military muscle, and those who honestly don’t care, I think they would be the majority. And that is what makes the US such a dangerous country.

What’s with the people waving American flags in the streets of Tbilisi? Poor, deluded souls.

We had a good run

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Meanwhile, it’s Day 402 of daily #GeorgiaProtests against the illegitimate regime that has rigged elections, usurped power, and now serves as the bridge and enabler for the Russia-Iran axis, as well as the global Autocracy, Inc. in general. 📷 @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social 1/2

Larry Summers, Alan Dershowitz, now this mook. The faculty at Harvard aren’t much of an advertisement for the university, are they?

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

London in the good old days - before everyone's feet pointed forwards.

If you are an Afghan who helped the US, meanwhile, Trump is ready to deport you back into the hands of the Taliban.

This is important. AI gives the superficial appearance of being sentient but it isn't, and almost no-one claims otherwise. Grok isn't responsible for creating child porn any more than Photoshop would be to blame if someone used it for that purpose.