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And while we're on the subject: it's not just happening because Trump is being blackmailed. Every nation has compromising material on him. He's for sale. He's making money. He's the tinpot dictator you'd see in other countries only the narcissism of the US makes it hard to understand.

I remember how much on Twitter, there was an obligation to “be nice” when someone slid into your feed to be abusive to you. I don’t have to understand insult. I don’t have to “smile” when you say “smile”. I don’t have to be grateful.

Today I voted in my municipal election (as one does). Made sure not to vote for the guy who has huge advertising signs blocking visibility on the road. He didn't care so ... hopefully he is toast. Public safety versus your sign... seems obvious Noticed this little guy all by himself

Oh, no,no,no. We were just assured by the Imbeciles themselves (witkoff & kushner) that it’s not corruption. It’s “expertise “ Assholes everywhere I look these days

But…. the US doesn’t need anything Canada has. Or so I’ve heard. financialpost.com/commodities/...

By Trump's economic philosophy doesn't this mean we are trying to lose money to Belarus and they will be stealing from us?

Done and done (hopefully... but really, do we have to give him time to pack?)

we’ve started an arms race of LLMs. there are a lot of good and noble applications of AI, but those also shouldn’t set aside the environmental, economic, and technological risks of AI built by people who don’t care much about the fate of their fellow humans

I'm just asking WTF happened and are guillotines the only solution? We could mix it up a bit, oubliettes are also available.

I mean the treaty stuff is pretty far downstream from him trampling every tenet clearly articulated in your constitution. Like we don't trust you guys because you've become a lawless authoritarian state

Did not know our wolf eels are friendly (despite nasty looking teeth), seems very Canadian www.nsnews.com/highlights/w...

Nice to see an American acknowledge we weren’t doing anything wrong, so expecting Canada to fix this trade war is asinine (ok, maybe he didn’t use the term asinine) paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-moose-...

Because America is so respected now, no?

We aren’t just in a trade war. We are in an info war, too. This isn’t something we are normally good at due to our reflexive secrecy. But we need to win. That means going on the attack. Right now. Tell the world EXACTLY what happened. My latest in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Benjamin Chee Chee "Learning" Have a print of this one on my wall.

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Liberal fantasies still treat Canada as a player in US politics. Being a different country means that fixing America is not Canada’s fucking job.

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

Worth the read and time to consider. I grew up with a malignant narcissist and am all too familiar with the lies, euphemistically called “stories”. I like his ideas for disrupting existing frameworks but a caution NOT to take on a cluster B. Story of Me www.the-reframe.com/story-of-me/

Having no hobbies & taking no time to read & listen to things we like for no reason other than we like them, is an excellent way to stall & flame out in trauma recovery. We need as much dopamine & serotonin as we can get in this process. The things we like are recovery tools.

"But though you may find this slightly macabre, We prefer your extinction to the loss of our job"

Letter to My Fellow Americans: About Canada open.substack.com/pub/rossboul...

Sniffle. …. Lo. gic. Wait……… Logic……..LOGIC. Mindless gaze. So…. foreign. Can we put a tariff on it?

Great visual. Terrible that I worry someone might see it and think an enormous, empty, pollution free Greenland is there for the taking. It is not any of that.

Ahead of its 250th birthday, I make the case that the greatest work of American art ever produced is made of garbage and was assembled at the behest of God by a Black man working the night shift as a janitor in DC johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/americas-g...

LOL - these are roughly the terms that would apply if the IRGC had taken NY and DC and the Iranian navy had imposed a blockade along the east coast. Absolute fucking embarrassment.

“I feel like I’m going blind,” Farid said, and he worried that A.I. was obscuring the truth, distorting reality, fracturing democracies and slowly breaking him, too. A gift link to an extraordinary story because if he has to see we should too www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/u...

And there is nothing more embarrassing and pathetic than an 80 year old throwing himself a “big strong man birthday party” when he’s spent his life befouled with garish comfort and spending his free time bragging about musical tickets and commenting on tabloid celebrity garbage.

”we are all of us fighting dragons, every day” www.kameronhurley.com/the-wild-hor...

The price some women pay.What It Costs Women To Survive Men www.huffpost.com/entry/women-...

There are so many good things @hankgreen.bsky.social has done, but I don’t think any of them have moved me more than this one. It’s just such a beautiful, clear explanation, all the more touching for its simplicity. Please do set aside some time to watch it. youtu.be/oaXRREHVkHo

themarkaz.org/we-live-in-a...

Men resigning after the horrors revealed in the Epstein files is NOT justice.

Kao Kalia Yang at @literaryhub.bsky.social - "If they take me and leave the children." One of our great local writers at this moment of crisis.

If you intend to record ICE on your phone, make sure mobile data upload to the cloud is enabled.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

We see this similar garbage logic in Canada. There are people defending timid-ass statements from our leaders because speaking out to defend democratic and law-based norms won't move Trump or might antagonize him. As if Trump is the only audience. The public reinforcing of norms is its own good.