The Stupid Cuban Missile Crisis Donald Trump is unfit for office. He might do genocide before Congress recognizes that.

Had anyone in a position of power during the Cuban Missile Crisis acted this stupidly, we’d all be dead. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-stupid...

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It

Man Finally Good Enough At New Hobby To Understand How Bad He Is At It theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-...

👏 Canada 👏 Post 👏 is 👏 a 👏 public 👏 service 👏

Nothing proves how capitalism has brain rotted everyone than thinking the post office, hospitals, public transit, libraries, etc. need to turn a profit to be worthwhile.

Trump's war on Iran hasn't altered Canada's cost of making gas — at all. So why are we being hosed at the pumps? Policy choices, not market forces of a war halfway around the world, explain the spike in prices, writes Jim Stanford, leading to unnecessary economy-wide inflation and higher interest rates.

Corporate windfall profits, which should be taxed by the Carney government but won't be.

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U.A.E. Asks U.S. About a Wartime Financial Lifeline — The Wall Street Journal Emirati officials speak with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about accessing dollars if Middle East conflict drags on

This is interesting:

"Emirati officials told the U.S. officials that if the U.A.E. runs short of dollars, it may be forced to use Chinese yuan or other countries’ currencies for oil sales and other transactions"

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The analogy that is quickly forming in my head is how opioids replace normal endorphins and your brain stops making them, making you dependent on the opioid and subject to its many negative side effects.

That’s the relationship that online socialization has to traditional socialization.

Report: FIFA Plans To Ask Peace Prize Winner If He Would Maybe Consider Pausing Domestic Terrorism Program For One Month With just under two months until the start of the 2026 World Cup, it seems that FIFA executives have finally looked up at the horizon, seen the looming shitstorm, and are now scrambling to head it…

Report: FIFA plans to ask Peace Prize winner if he would maybe consider pausing domestic terrorism program for one month: defector.com/report-fifa-...

Meme of a man boldly standing up to share his opinion

I don't think it's ethical to build a majority government through floor crossings and I think democracy works better when we have minority governments with opposition MPs working together to best reflect the interests of Canadians who voted them in and scrutinizing legislation

Is Anyone Actually Apathetic? Canada is up against growing challenges at home and around the world. Are we up to the challenge, or will we check out?

When I talk to people about politics, I rarely find someone who is truly apathetic. But I find people who are alienated from politics all the time.

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A drawing of abolitionist John Brown, with crossed arms. The text reads: “NEVER ARGUE WITH SOMEBODY JOHN BROWN WOULD HAVE SHOT”

Fantastic life advice.

WSJ Trump Promises Mass Pardons to Staff Before Leaving Office In a recent meeting, the president said he would pardon those within 200 feet of the Oval Office, say people familiar with the remarks By Josh Dawsey Follow April 10, 2026 at 3:18 pm ET

⚠️ Trump promises mass pardons to staff before leaving office, per WSJ

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Absolutely horrifying. ICE continues to terrorize and shoot innocent people.

The US Torpedoed an Unarmed Ship. Who Are the Good Guys Again? | The Walrus The destruction of the Iranian IRIS Dena was a warning about what American power has become

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Also IF IT IS FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT WE ARE AT WAR WITH IRAN, it is ALSO FRONT PAGE NEWS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO TOOK US TO IRAN ARE TALKING LIKE THIS.

The war does not exist in a separate, more serious universe than its leaders! This is the guy who decides if it happens and how many people die!

An Easter message from the president which should really force the VP and the cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

I’ve never written anything using AI, I never will, and I have zero respect for any professional who does.

The tale of the tape: Trump repeatedly pledged to cut gas prices by 50% “Mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it.”

"Energy costs...including gasoline, will drop by more than 50% within the first 12 months" — Trump, 8/19/24

"12 months from January 20th… your gasoline for your car is going to be 50% cheaper" — Trump, 10/10/24

"Mark it down, and you can get very angry at me if we don’t do it” — Trump, 9/21/24

Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time The wildly popular children's educator is taking on ICE's notorious family detention center.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

how far does it have to go before western countries sanction this apartheid state?

I go into schools to teach violence prevention and we've just shown a generation of young men that raping someone won't ruin your life and might even make you President one day.

Editorial: Here's why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP - by a centrist Liberal By Martin Kearns, man who has never voted NDP once in his life This weekend the NDP chose Avi Lewis as their leader. And as much as it pains me, a Liberal commentator who loves Mark Carney and would n...

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

The immediate status quo, centrist attacks on Avi Lewis are precisely why he is effective and needed.

In face of growing right wing escalation, an unbashadely left opposition that is anti capitalist & internationalist is both principled *and* realistic.

The days are gradually getting longer & warmer.

The Blue Jays are playing great.

Things in Canadian politics may be turning a corner.

Is this… optimism?

Nancy Fraser | After Habermas Jürgen Habermas may be variously described as the moral conscience of postwar Germany, the last great systematic...

Incredible, sharp, critical reflection on Habermas’ legacy from Nancy Fraser. This is the postmortem I’ve been hoping would come and also sums up so much of my relationship to his work

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market.

$1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.

These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else.

They made huge gains.

Unusual.

We’ve all heard of TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out. But there’s a new wrinkle to consider: Escalating to deescalate. If that sounds absurd, it’s because it is. Yet here we are, and in fact, we’ve been here before. My write-up in the replies.

Carney did not 'proactively' raise human rights or foreign interference with Xi: docs Prime Minister Mark Carney did not “proactively” raise human rights or foreign interference with Chinese President Xi Jinping during his Beijing visit in January, the government says.

Of course not. He doesn't care about human rights, only "the economy" (read: corporate profits). Carney fans, who have also revealed that they don't actually care much about human rights, will rationalize this as "pragmatism".

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God took a 20% cut of his lifespan

This is going to get worse under Carney. Much worse.