“Trump has reportedly been pushing for U.S. direct action against drug labs and traffickers in Mexico since his first term,” @bcfinucane.bsky.social told @theintercept.com “In his second term, he now has some officials in his administration eager to do a ‘Sicario..."
theintercept.com/2026/04/21/c...
Impressive
Alex sits across from a woman at a table who reads from pamphlet "OK, so the rules of this game are: 1. players move around the baord in a counter-clockwise fashion..." Alex thinks to herself "this board game woman is tedious, but her dating profile indicates she's a real freak in bed." Her expression remains placid as the speech bubble containing the endless rules recited by the board game woman collapse Alex's face. Later in the boudoir, Alex is in fetish gear with the board game woman who says "alright, let's do this." She then picks up a pamphlet and reads "the rules of this are: 1 players move around the board in a counter-clockwise..."
Researchers have been watching this network of YouTube accounts for awhile--the accounts post regularly, push a consistent message and if one goes down, another pops up. They've now turned attention to Alberta separation, and US annexation.
www.thestar.com/news/investi...
Tweet from Pete Hegseth: "The War Department is once again restoring freedom to our Joint Force. We are discarding the mandatory flu vaccine, effective immediately."
Photo of large ward of soldiers stricken by the 1918 influenza pandemic
Pete Hegseth: "No more mandatory flu vaccines."
History: "Well Pete, In WW1, influenza killed as many American soldiers as died in combat, about 50,000".
Canada's political soil provides particularly fertile ground for left wing populism. To a greater extent than at any other point in my adult life, the Liberals and Conservatives have ideologically converged & are mostly fighting over the aesthetics of their shared agenda.
As a reminder, the US Military is the largest single polluter on Earth.
Slashing its budget and not going to war every other week would be great for the world.
www.sciencefocus.com/news/us-mili...
Yesterday, CBC Front Burner looked at the threat to the global food supply posed by supply chain disruptions due to the Iran War, with an El Nino kicker.
The concurrent breakdowns of the climate and international order are coming to a grocery store near you.
This is the face of a war criminal.
The IDF say they are rooting out terrorists. Instead their soldiers are terrorizing people out of their homes and then setting themselves up in the abandoned homes and stealing their food.
Israel is a terror state.
The American blockade continues, which Iran considers a violation of the ceasefire which "must be met with a military response."
They’re claiming fraud was committed because SPLC used paid informants to collect intel on extremist groups. Claims they used donor funds without disclosing that, used shell companies for dispensing said funds.
SPLC broke the news yesterday: www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Prime Minister Mark Carney is rebooting a Canada-U. S. trade advisory council — and he's reaching across the aisle to do it.
Here's a look at who he tapped:
The CEO of Agropur is on the council, too
Israeli ambo summoned after the killing of a Canadian in Lebanon.
🇨🇦 has called for investigations into killings of citizens & the destruction of 🇨🇦-built civilian infrastructure. Nothing has come of them.
Investigations must be independent, not done by offending parties. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Black-and-white portrait of Norman Bethune standing outdoors. He wears a light-colored turtleneck sweater under a textured jacket. His hair is receding, and he has a short mustache and goatee. He looks slightly upward and away from the camera. A brick wall and a wooden post are visible behind him.
Dr. Norman Bethune was one of the most influential physicians of his era.
He pioneered the use of a mobile blood transfusion unit in war zones, and introduced modern medicine to rural China.
Revered in China, it took decades for Canada to honour him.
This is his story.
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WOW, very harsh words for Prime Minister Carney from former Liberal Minister of Foreign Affairs Lloyd Axworthy. Very damning indeed.
Forget the Rhetoric, Watch What They Do: Canada’s Liberals Move Right
open.substack.com/pub/lloydaxw...
Very powerful piece here by @billmckibben.bsky.social:
Big Oil Breaks Everything
open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
This is the same logic Stephen Miller used to make it harder for immigrants to enter the US. It is the same logic that populists have always used to demonize immigrants.
And in RFK Jr's case, he is using it to cover up his own failures.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro got 27 years for trying to overturn the results of an election. Meanwhile Donald Trump is back in power. What does Brazil have that the U.S. doesn't? I was in Sao Paulo, Brazil and spoke to activists about what it takes to hold coup-plotters accountable.
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
This is a nightmare: the destruction of Florida's orange industry. Tariffs, drought, deep freezes and a bacteria that is destroying the trees. They have lost 95% of production since 2003.
3/4s of growers are out of business. This is the dangerous eco-future staring us.
slate.com/business/202...
well I'll be damned:
"Carney to name new Canada-U.S. trade advisory council, sources say | CBC News"
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
wonder if MacNaughton will also be on the new one, or not
That’s an actual win.
He was a strategic advisor at CIBC in the '90s, too, in their Capital Markets subsidiary
bsky.app/profile/its....
There’s a real disconnect in anglosphere discourse because a lot of it centres in the US where people aren’t seeing Chinese EVs at all, while much of the rest of the world is
SCOOP: McGill University's on-campus doctors are now refusing to prescribe hormones to trans youth and adults under age 19... if they're U.S. citizens.
They claim liability issues, but this isn't the first time U.S. EOs have interfered with Canadian doctors.
My report: celeste.lgbt/en/2026/04/d...
