Robert Cooper

Metaphor alert:

“If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.” Justice Brett Kavanaugh www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Where we are a a country: the Secretary of State waning a Nobel Peace Prize winner not to peaceably assemble because that won’t lead to democracy. www.axios.com/2026/10/27/r...

Evidence "shows that Trump lied about kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club," according to a new report from the House Judiciary Dem staff. The report also reveals for the first time Beatrice Keul's account of allegedly having been raped by Trump. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

🧊🛩️ INDIA 🌏⛓️ 😲 A Journey Aviation G5 (tail: N62FF) on a long-range ICE mission out of Arizona traffics chained humans to New Delhi 🇮🇳

But is there anything about Trump's public behavior or attitudes about women that might suggest he's a rapist? Oh? Never mind.

SCOOP: The RCMP is investigating fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering in connection with Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to a letter filed in court www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

What kind of numerals do you use when you make up fake statistics about vaccine harms, you shitweasel?

"Even if everybody who voted Green had heeded Eby’s warnings on the campaign trail about vote-splitting and voted NDP instead, the Conservatives would still have won a majority government with a nine-seat margin." @macleodandrew.bsky.social writes. #BCPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

This was a good reminder. One of the trustee candidates in my ward had the dog-whistle language about how schools are encouraging children to "keep secrets" from parents, which is code for queer/trans students and pronouns. Be aware of these assholes.

On this day in 1993, Five Days in July, the fifth studio album from Blue Rodeo, was released in Canada. The album received critical acclaim and was the band's most successful album. It reached #3 in Canada and went six-times platinum in the country.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

I've been having fun exploring the WA State Climate Projections today. It's um... not good. Under the SSP3-7.0 emissions scenario (high emissions, 3.6C by 2100), precipitation across most of the southwest is projected to decline by 5-15%. I cross-checked […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

Trump's vicious abuse of a female reporter who pointed out the sexual abuse that Amy Acton faced shows MAGA is betting on misogyny as their midterm Hail Mary. On the pod, @pastpunditry.bsky.social is just brilliant on misogyny as longtime bedrock of MAGA politics: newrepublic.com/article/2171...

Are you fucking kidding me. www.wsj.com/opinion/vikt...

Both can be true at the same time - they are both lying.

After Hungary and Poland, Serbia becomes the third Central/Eastern European country in few years where massive youth mobilization has contributed to the electoral defeat of the ruling autocratic party.

Wow. Canada has made a deal: accept the most right wing Liberal goct if it resists Trump and American domination. The bet is paying off despite the costs to much of the government and Liberal priorities

A popular uprising of Serbian students — who put forward a list of experts and technocrats to oust the country's corrupt mini-Putinist strongman — have succeeded spectacularly. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Amazing. First Orban, now Vucic. The Kremlin has unexpectedly lost two of its top allies in Europe…

This is just pure racism. Republicans objectively are campaigning on little more than bigotry.

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

Mel Woods, always worth reading.

If Musk can disable Starlink against the Ukrainian or other European militaries, he can also disable it against the US government. Musk's brain is so utterly fried that in trying to prevent US state intervention he is making claims that make nationalisation of SpaceX more likely

Not all Green Parties are crazy. Or at least, this one has the right idea.

BC nobly sacrifices good governance to teach one man about hubris

Ageing users and record deaths – the data behind Britain’s £9.8bn-a-year cocaine habit. Sewage samples and crime statistics paint a picture of established users taking more cocaine, more often, by @michaelgoodier.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/2026... via @theguardian.com

How cocaine conquered the UK: in pubs, festivals and workplaces the drug has become an everyday habit as price drops have made it more widely available, and created a new set of problems, by @robynvinter.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i... via @theguardian.com

FWIW, I’m seeing several ridings where you could make a plausible argument that Green vote splitting elected Conservatives, but even taking those into account, you still end up with the Conservatives winning a majority

BC voters have delivered a massive defeat to Eby's shameless election opportunism. 61-27 in seats and 48% to 37% in popular vote.

I remain surprised that Trump’s social media attention never once flitted to Alberta’s unity referendum

My advisers often doubt how big of suckers you are. I promise you, I NEVER do.

The crime happens if a Democrat is elected. Anywhere

Nobody wants violence. It would be nice if conservatives could focus on the brewing constitutional crisis instead of pearl clutching over the leftist boogeyman of the week. Also, Republicans have been threatening civil war since we dared to elect a Black man. 🤷‍♂️

“Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen.” 🙄 Trump and his allies are *openly* floating using the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines or ballots in order to upend an election they expect to lose.

BC has elected a Conservative majority. This is the first time BC has elected a Conservative majority since 1928. globalnews.ca/news/1211217... #BC #cdnpoli