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@onewheeldoin200.bsky.social
Aggressively, zealously centrist. Authoritarianism and disinformation, in all its forms, can get stuffed. #ElbowsUp and #SlavaUkraini 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
Has there been a bigger and faster and more total strategic failure in American history than Trump’s decision to attack Iran?
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 16h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
Free tip for Canadian business owners: maybe DON'T host treason-planning events? 🤷♂️ Just a thought.
Alberta café northeast of Edmonton closes after losing customers over separatist event
An Alberta café owner says his business has shuttered after he hosted separatists and lost customers. John Ewanek says his café in Cold Lake, called Beantrees, was already struggling due to inflation....
edmonton.citynews.ca
Yeah I think the separatists believe the US would just force the rest of Canada to allow that oil to transit through the remaining provinces royalty free or something. Delusional.
Jason Markusoff@markusoff.bsky.social · 2d agoIf it separates, Alberta would have to reckon with fact that nearly all the oil it exports to US gets shipped through other Canadian provinces. By me: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17h agoThis is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
Just a reminder that Russians continue to conduct "human safaris" in Kherson, hunting and murdering Ukrainian civilians with drones.
Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16h agoThe experience of being chased by a murderous kamikaze drone, a flying machine that behaves as if it were alive, is not one that humans are equipped to understand: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Ukrainian civilians are dying under Russian missiles. Trump used up all of America's Patriot interceptor stocks in a stupid war in Iran to distract from the Epstein files. America stopped giving Ukraine anything in 2025; now they won't even sell them the weapons. MAGA is cancer.
Russian missile and drone barrage in Ukrainian capital region kills 17 | CBC News
Russian missile and drone strikes on Kyiv and the surrounding region killed 17 people and wounded 42 others overnight into Wednesday, Ukraine's state emergency service said.
cbc.ca
KAKISTOCRACY Meanwhile, China has full stocks and is undergoing the fastest navy expansion in the world right now. America's adversaries are LAUGHING. They can't believe their luck.
EXCLUSIVE: US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war, sources say
The degree to which the military is running out of ATACMS and Precision Strike Missiles has not been previously reported.
reuters.com
Good news for 🇨🇦Canada (and the 🇪🇺EU)! I'd also plug this CBC import/export tracker, which shows some interesting trends.
How Canada’s imports and exports have changed since Trump | CBC News
CBC News tracks how trade between Canada and other countries has changed since Donald Trump came back to power.
newsinteractives.cbc.ca
Phil Smith@philsmith26.bsky.social · 2d agoCanada's monthly exports to EU nations are volatile, but have been trending up since early 2024. They plunged during the pandemic period, but have now recovered to the pre-pandemic level. The government is doing what it can to keep them growing at a strong pace. #cdnecon
For reference, Westminster is about 21.5 km², so Russia took about one and a half Westminsters. If you've ever strolled around Trafalgar Square, Big Ben, and Hyde Park, that gives an idea of the progress Russia made in July, at a cost of over 40,000 casualties.
Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · 2d agoDeepState estimates Russia gained a net 36 km² in July 2026. The hottest spots are near Rodynske, Kostiantynivka, the state border, and toward Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, where Russian forces made small gains. Taking the entire Donetsk region in 2026 is impossible, and in 2027 it is highly unlikely.
What this means is that Trump has stolen an estimated $100mm from US taxpayers by avoiding the pending audit of his filed returns. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Blanche Strikes Deal With GOP Holdouts to Advance His Nomination
Holdout Republican senators are backing a deal with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to formally rescind an order creating an “anti-weaponization fund” that could have paid $1.8 billion to Preside...
bloomberg.com
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
thebeaverton.com
Fun fact: this is insane tin pot dictator stuff, and Americans won't do a damn thing about it. 🤷♂️
Murshed Zaheed@murshedz.bsky.social · last wk.“Trump has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.” Right now people in blue states are basically paying federal taxes as if they’re colonized territories of red states. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...
Musk is now calling anyone who disagrees with him on immigration a "traitor". Previously, he promoted a violent movie where a "vigilante" murders random immigrants, and retweeted a comment on it, “Always hang a traitor before you shoot an enemy”.
When Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
The Real Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed “Zero” Kids
In his explosive interview with The Economist, the SpaceX billionaire inadvertently revealed something darker about his true vision for the future—and about his affinities with global fascism.
newrepublic.com
Jesus, you guys 😂 No but for real, the MAGA America government is a literal joke.
The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · last wk.Republicans insist Mitch McConnell resting comfortably following routine taxidermy procedure
In today’s Vatnik Soup REBREW, we’ll reintroduce Laura Loomer, an American political activist. Our first possible case of a former vatnik, she’s best known for her unhinged takes on Ukraine and for admitting those were the result of falling for Russian propaganda. 1/20
We know exactly where it's going. He's stealing it. What other outcome did anyone think was going to happen? He'd collect the money and use it to raise Venezuelans' standard of living? Come on.
Trump's worrying responses when asked 3 times where Venezuela's money is going
Donald Trump failed to confirm where the reported $13 biillion from Venezuela has gone after he was asked three times
themirror.com
What people like that don't understand: a US attempt to annex Canada would result in America's dissolution, not Canada's. They can barely deal with $4/gal gas. Imagine if there were NO GAS because saboteurs damaged the refineries. The American psyche couldn't bear the monthly 9/11 they'd have.
Martin Regg Cohn: Americans who covet Canada always underestimate our resolve
We need to think back to our first moves the last time Americans tried to hold us hostage, Martin Regg Cohn writes.
thestar.com
Oh great idea, from Maple MAGA Tobi Lutke: just tie voting to how rich you are. Literally saying it's a good idea to deny poor people THEIR RIGHT to vote. If you're using Shopify, people...maybe don't.
Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?
OpenAI and Anthropic actually lobbying government to restrict open-source AI models, even as Sam Altman publicly says he supports open source AI. *SuprisedPikachuFace.gif*
Silicon Valley Splits Over Closing the Borders to Chinese A.I. (Gift Article)
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing with the rest of the tech industry over whether “open-source” models from China should be freely available or restricted.
nytimes.com
I'm sorry but it simply isn't possible to amass a trillion dollars of wealth without being a psychopath. It just isn't.
Jonathan Harris@jonathan-a-thon.bsky.social · 2w agoHe's quite possibly one of the worst people to have ever lived.
I've been giving $5/week to this since 2022. By myself I make no difference, but with thousands or millions of people doing it, it all adds up. #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦
Timothy Snyder@timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2w agoIf you would like to help Ukrainian soldiers survive, this is always an excellent place to donate. savelife.in.ua/en/
This is the exact moment Andrew Tate's life fell apart.
If this is even partly true that is both INCREDIBLE and HILARIOUS
Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2w agoUkrainian cyber specialists hacked the air-defence systems at Russia’s BARS Moscow training ground, where Russians were training to counter Ukrainian UAVs. The hackers gained access to combat-operation algorithms and tricked the Russians into shooting down the Su-57 by making it look like a drone.
They're now lying about the number of military members killed in Trump's idiotic Iran war. I keep letting myself think there is some floor to how awful the MAGA cult is. And then the floor is lowered. Like...daily.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump is now doctoring data on the number of casualties in his Iran war: "the Trump administration decided to remove four service members killed this past weekend from the list—three in Jordan and one in northern Iraq — b/c their deaths occurred after Trump declared a cease-fire in the war in April"
