They’re on to us.

Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 13h ago

The new Axis of Evil. It's just Canada.

Weekday at Bernie's

Marlene Robertson🍁🇨🇦@marlenerobertson.bsky.social · 8h ago

Trump just mere moments after he said, “Sleepy Joe Biden, have you heard of him?” I kid you not.

Well, of course, if The President does it, it can’t be communism since he’s immune against everything. Just like it isn’t corruption, or sexual assault, or fascism, or…

Aaron Black@aaronblack.bsky.social · 2d ago

Trump seeks to label Democrats as communists, but he was the one who rolled out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping and kissed his ass. He is clearly Putin’s comrade and buying government stakes in private companies, so why aren’t more people calling out this bullshit? #ComradeTrump

I guess that’s the Trumpian equivalent for “high IQ”, which usually also doesn’t mean what he thinks it means.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

TAPPER: Was anything else agreed to regarding artificial intelligence? MIKE WALTZ: We're going with 'super intelligence' now, Jake

Diplomacy 101.

Global Affairs Canada@globalaffairs.canada.ca · 2d ago

Minister Anand thanked Oman for its efforts to de-escalate tensions in the region and promote freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb in accordance with international law.

Is anyone tracking where the profits/proceeds go…?

Adam Mockler@adammockler.com · 4d ago

Trump's Government Now Has a Stake in 30 Companies

This is Trump trying hard to look as tough as Obama did when staring down Putin, except he can’t do it to Xi’s face…

George Wallace@mrgeorgewallace.bsky.social · 4d ago

Xi is like, "Who the fuck are these weirdos?"

Just had the most glorious day in Niagara today showing relatives from Germany around. Canada in September is hard to beat! Also a reminder how close we are physically, and may be politically again at some point, to the United States.

Emmm… who was in charge again during the 2020 election? I forget…

Berny Belvedere@bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 4d ago

There is no psychiatric treatment powerful enough to break the right's collective hallucination about 2020. Like, literally none of this even came close to happening.

I really wish US politicians were as interested in serving the public as they are in hanging on to their jobs. Maybe if they were, those jobs wouldn't be in danger in the first place? What a concept.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6d ago

New in PN: The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood "Republicans — even some who not long ago donned red MAGA hats — have decided their survival calculation has been flipped upside-down, and now the riskiest move isn’t to break from Trump; it's to stick with him unequivocally."

Well, he did say he’d save billions if the US bought nothing from foreign states…

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last wk.

🤔🤔🤔

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

Cartoon by Dave Granlund | cagle.com/granlund.

Counter-offer: we keep Carney. But you could send us the orange dimwit anyway. I think we can charge him with extortion and lock him up for you. No immunity here...

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · last wk.

Dear Canada 🇨🇦, We have an offer for you. We’ll trade you our President for your Prime Minister. To sweeten the pot, we’ll throw in $100 billion — cash! You can even keep your weather. We’re totally serious. Please say yes. Love, 
America 🇺🇸

Fascinating list. As far as I can see it, Trump has done 1-20; on 21, the US Supreme Court has already given him a leg up with that abominable "immunity" ruling.

Jeffrey Brown @texasgeologist.bsky.social · 2w ago

See Items #6 & #7:

We're officially entering the Fuhrerbunker phase of the Trump presidency

New cat alert!! 😍😍😍 Best news of the week!

New cat species identified in Bolivia | CBC News

A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in...

cbc.ca

75% of truckers and 75% of farmers and ranchers voted for Trump. For this. And a ballroom and triumphal arch.

To all those complaining about a "lack of transparency" in what's in the association agreement between 🇨🇦 & 🇪🇺, a reminder: IT HASN'T BEEN NEGOTIATED YET! V d Leyen said she *wants to open the door* for a *new form of membership*. Open door => negotiations. At least these will be done in good faith.

A recrafting of the transatlantic alliance has commenced in Brussels: "We...are pursuing resilience so that no one can control our open markets, impair our sovereignty, threaten our territorial integrity, or undermine our freedoms, our democracies, our rule of law." www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

FULL SPEECH | Carney calls for 'alliance for the future' in speech at European Parliament

Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered remarks about Canada-Europe ties a day after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen opened the door to Canada becoming an 'associate' member of the EU.

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“Must.” I don’t think that word means what they think it means… But then again, this is an administration that does not understand the word “choice”, either.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w ago

Federal officials say there’s no other choice—Trump’s “Triumphal Arch” must go on, even if it harms surrounding historical sites. trib.al/aEkXc2u

A true guardian of humanity and human knowledge.

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 2w ago

Friend shared this video of a man unveiling the library he hid when he fled Damascus in 2011. It’s incredible

This is women in sports (1992 edition).

"We are the best credit?" What does that even mean? He really is just leaking random words today.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2w ago

Trump: "The only problem we have is interest rates are artificially high. Interest rates in the U.S. should be 1% or less because we are the best credit in the world by far."

"We don't need anything from Canada", he said...

Club Announcement Spurs 🤦‍♂️@markscrivens.bsky.social · 2w ago

This means that any US federal procurement of Cobalt-60 would need to come from Russia.

I wonder how Trump’s billionaire donors feel about being cut off from champagne and Italian suits.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Trump threatens to cut off all trade with Europe if Canada associates closer with the EU

He just opens his mouth and incoherent blubber comes out.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 2w ago

Trump on Canada/EU: I think it's laughable. Canada has been a terrible trade partner. If they do that, if I think it's at all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things. If Europe does that with a bad intention, if it's a good intention, that's fine

What do these people think ambassadors do???

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 2w ago

President Trump nominated the wife of “God Bless the USA” singer Lee Greenwood to serve as the U.S. ambassador to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.

My wedding cost $35 - $15 for the Justice of the Peace, $20 for the licence. (I take it that's gone up, but it's been 47 years.) We may not have had a two-day island party - what is it with these people and islands? - but we've also never been beholden to any Russian oligarchs. It can be done!

Katie Phang@katiephang.bsky.social · 2w ago

Russian oligarch, who is besties w/Putin, bankrolled Don Trump Jr.’s wedding to Bettina Anderson, the daughter of the banker who vouched for Jeffrey Epstein’s character. The details, incl. a trip down memory lane on Jr.’s proclivities to associate himself w/Russian things: youtu.be/rcPPCdo-gLc?...

ICE, it would appear, learned the wrong lessons from Guantanamo Bay and Bush era CIA black sites - and dropped even the pretense of using torture for "interrogation" or "crime prevention" purposes. I can only hope that the USA will return to accountability for human rights abuses in my lifetime.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2w ago

@attackerman.bsky.social reported on the Amnesty report at the time, and astutely compared it to the torture boxes at Gitmo, where Ron DeSantis, as a young military lawyer, oversaw the torture. So once again, mainstream media is months behind independent media. www.forever-wars.com/torture-tech...