Painting by Dylan Cease with childlike lettering of "Toronto"

This monstrosity is the curse, take it down and give the artist some run support

The lowest possible bar - "denounce and distance yourself from the guy openly threatening genocide" - but Carney is incapable of clearing it

Blue Jays are oofmaxxing this April

The nightmare is always the same, doc. I hear this deep velvety voice in the distance saying "Brendon Little is getting loose in the bullpen"...

The world energy shock is coming The US and Israel's illegal attack on Iran will provoke a global economic catastrophe

There's a strong argument that Trump and Israel have set into motion a catastrophe that will imminently transform all of our lives, for the much worse.

laminated flyer pushpinned to a community board. we see a photo of a coyote, and the text reads: HAVE YOU SEEN THIS DOG? [photo of a coyote] DUMMY THAT'S A COYOTE. OH MY GOD WHAT DO I DO???: —NO ACTION REQUIRED —IT IS WILDLIFE IN THE WILD (!) -HERE TO EAT DELICIOUS RODENT -LET HER COOK —NOT INTERESTED IN YOU, LOL GET OVER YOURSELF BABE;) —KEEP DOGS ON LEASH AND CATS INDOORS -(LIKE YOU SHOULD BE DOING ANYWAY) —YOTE IS A RESPECTED NEIGHBOR AND CRITTER CONTROL PROFESSIONAL

Seen tacked to a community board on my walk

The World Baseball Classic, Team USA, and the war problem On conduct unbecoming.

Never thought I'd be sharing anything written by a Yankees fan, but this gets it absolutely right: www.pinstripealley.com/yankees-edit...

thinking about the hero of this game for Team Venezuela, Eugenio Suárez, and his comments about ICE’s effect on Latino baseball players just last week

Empires always begin by telling themselves that they are bringing the light to the dark corners of the world. The reality is always the opposite.

Lost among the many other horrors of 2026, Israel is attempting to create another Nakba in Lebanon, no one is even attempting to explain or justify this, they're just bombing and killing and taking

Gtfo American ump in an American park

Like I'm sorry but that's just trash

Get ABS in the WBC so I don't have to watch the Americans win on a "strike" that's a foot low

(Which, of course, I find deeply colonial and insulting to Cubans)

There are ways they could have done it, but this would have meant cooperating directly with the Cuban govt (whether giving direct aid or sending actual food rations to be distributed by the Cuban state). Clearly, Canada wanted to boost to the idea that the Cuban state 'can't be trusted' with this.

All that to say, the relatively paltry $8 mil was promised to these NGOs so despite the framing by Anand, it will do little to alleviate the immediate crisis. But Canadian airlines cancelling flights to Cuba is definitely aggravating the crisis and giving moral support to Trump. Villain behaviour.

So theoretically if WFP is running a school lunch program it could get out into that. More likely, it will get funneled into more long-term projects like agriculture programs (as if Cubans don't know how to grow food). Purpose of these is often to 'teach' western market-oriented practices.

It's unlikely that anything has moved that quickly, because Canadian aid is not given to the Cuban govt but to North American NGOs (like WFP) that choose how to disperse it. A lot of money typically ends up staying in the NGO as staff salaries etc, and money is put into their programs.

Still holding out hope for team USA to get knocked out so that there is at least some modicum of justice

Tragic to watch Canada knock Cuba out of the WBC even while -in real life- the Canadian govt is helping Trump commit mass murder against Cubans. Watching baseball in Cuba is one of the most joyous experiences of my life: no ads, no luxury boxes, just incredible baseball played by normal people.

Can't imagine why Carney would be eager to protect data centres in the region.

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So while I'm sympathetic to the sentiment that many members of the current US administration are openly announcing themselves as war criminals, I worry that sitting back and waiting for the machinery of war-criminal-prosecution to happen reflects a serious misunderstanding of how such justice works.

And this is only the high-ranked Nazis we are talking about. Mid-level Nazis were desperately trying to get out of the socialist bloc (where they would be jailed or executed) and tens of thousands found refuge in the west. (Canada became a haven for Banderites from Ukraine, Ustaše from Croatia, etc)

So while the Allies were still Allied and trying to cooperate in the defeat of Nazi Germany, and with the public demanding justice for Nazi crimes, some measure of accountability was doled out through the Nuremberg process. However, it was short-lived and often undermined. Many Nazis walked free.

One major problem with the war crimes tribunals was that the western powers - particularly the US - were secretly exfiltrating captured Nazis back to Washington to work for them. Reinhard Gehlen, for instance, was a high-ranking Nazi whom the CIA recruited to run the secret police in West Germany.

Scholarship on this period indicates that without Soviet pressure, the Nuremberg trials might never have happened. The terms were premised on the work of a Soviet lawyer, Aron Trainin, but lost some of their strength as Allied powers worried they could set standards they, too, would have to follow.

Ok, but nevertheless the west did join the war against Hitler and he was defeated. Notably, tribunals for war crimes (which would culminate in the creation of a court in The Hague) were undertaken at the insistence of the Soviet Union, after the western powers tried to kill the idea in 1942.

(Among the many receipts for this claim, I can point to the 1937 visit of the Canadian Prime Minister to Berlin, which was strategized alongside the British govt, and was designed to convey to Hitler that as long as he limited his ambition to Eastern Europe, he would have a free hand.)

The Anglo-American powers joined the war eventually, but only opened up serious offensives against the Nazis after the Soviets had pushed them back and were marching towards Berlin. Western leadership had been very warm with Hitler through the mid 1930s and tried hard to forge an alliance.