Ooh, bioweapon attacks are about to become way easier for US enemies! What a truly masterful stroke from the world's top military strategic minds. Having sick soldiers is freedom!

I mean, we know Mandelson passed on confidential information about government decisions to Epstein before. I'm not sure we know yet what he might have done this time, but ordinary people have the right to expect government officials will act on the people's behalf, and not for their own benefit

Are you serious? You think being concerned with the issues in processes that ended up with a PM giving a corrupt and potentially criminal crony a top diplomatic and negotiating job is ridiculous? Wow...

I'm actually starting to believe we would have been less badly off with a minority PP-led government...

PM Lester B Pearson challenged Canada and the world in 1969 to contribute 0.7% of our economy to the development of lower income countries. We never achieved this target, but we were close in the 80s. This latest budget will push us down to 0.17%. Lower than in 1969 when Pearson made the pledge 3/x

The cuts emerging from the fall budget at Global Affairs and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship will drastically cut Canada's official development assistance over the next 3 yrs. We haven't seen values this low since 1964. 2/x

So... the US has been at war with Iran for 47 years, but actually, it's only been 6 weeks, and it's the Dems who said he said it would only last six weeks. But who cares, cuz it's actually lasted less than that, and anyway, no one is going to rush this?

His brain is barely enough for RFKJr's worm.

This Summit terrifies me, I have to admit... does Canada need to become even more "three corporations in a trenchcoat"? I do not trust Carney not to sell Canada to private equity, who will strip it for parts, syphon out the value and leave Canadians poorer

If he thought he could use our money to buy himself a private jet just imagine what's on his phone records he doesn't want us to see.

On the one hand, good. On the other, what are the chances we will not be selling at a loss, so that Ontarians' money isn't being wasted?

So... when do we think markets will start pricing in the Trump market manipulation tactics? Because this Friday good news, Monday crash cycle is getting OLD

So you if are promised that will change AND you get to be racist? Not surprising that this happens. Until the "natural governing coalitions" make an effort to improve conditions on the ground rather than cut taxes for the rich, this will keep happening

I'm very, very left-wing and I will never discount the power of racism to get people to vote against their own interests, but I think we also have to contend with the fact that, around the world, the centre parties that have had power for decades have delivered way more for the rich than for others

I'm sure alienating Canada, Latin America and Europe was the first step of getting these Western Hemisphere priorities and resilience in order...

Ooh, Discovery is about to be so fire!

Canada’s elbows-elevated ambition to secure digital & technological sovereignty faces a lot of practical hurdles.

But, at a minimum, it requires disentangling government and public services from at least this one company. If they continue to operate here, everything else is just hand-waving.

@mark-carney.bsky.social this manifesto is explicitly against the most core of Canadian values and truly, the most beautiful part of being Canadian. For that reason (among many), we cannot use Canadian funds to support this or use any of their services within our borders. Please end your contracts

This is unintentionally hilarious, because it shines a massive spotlight on how ridiculous these anti-trans moves are, and how deeply they are based on assholes' absurd fears of being attracted to trans women. It's not like these aren't already a surgeon instead of "natural-born beauty" competition!

Has @dieworkwear.bsky.social ever published a thread on pocket squares that we can use to teach Jake Tapper how these accessories are traditionally worn, which makes them poor choices for a text-based "protest" move?

Using AI slop to promote this is an awful choice. Is that pie diagram thing on the flag supposed to be a medicine wheel? An event supposed to defend indigenous sovereignty and rights can't even respect indigenous symbols (or even notice the disrespect)? Oof

It took me a second to realize this isn't meant as satire... literally, anyone who watched like one episode of Madam Secretary 10 years ago would know better than to write this, yet some supposedly serious people not only wrote but published this take!

I vote sepsis after an incomplete miscarriage. Or an ectopic pregnancy, those are fun to learn about!

If you cannot hold a government accountable in any way...

If there is no remedy to obvious and overt corruption...

If you are not allowed to know what is being done in your name, with your money...

You don't live in a democracy.

Ontario has been post-democracy for quite some time now.

Algorithmic music is the worst of both worlds. You don't listen to songs you know you like unless you actually seek them out and you forget about entire back catalogs of songs you used to love.

Whenever I pull out my old ipod it's a revelation.

And streaming video more and more has ads

Me, every time I fail at meeting this exact insane expectation

So I guess Dougie saw what God did for Kristy Noem and asked himself: "well, why not? Why shouldn't I ALSO be comically corrupt?"

Is it weird that I'm almost glad that he's just this blatant about his disdain for Ontarians now? Like... even the dumbest voters will eventually catch on at this point

"Devastated" by creating lots of unnecessary demand? I'm confused... everyone will still try to buy this stuff, they will just create new stuff that can be shipped faster to buy in the meantime, no?

Imagine if instead of cutting taxes on gas, the government had created a Canadian equivalent to the Deutschland pass and made it WAY, WAY cheaper for Canadians to use public transit... I know lots of rural communities would still need support, but given that 80+% of Canadians live in urban areas...

Jesus F'ing Christ... I've spent the last few days tempted to figure out which of the awful, unnecessary department cuts this stupid tax cut could have paid for, but ultimately deciding knowing the answer would just make me grumpy. And yeah, it makes me grumpy as hell. I hate these guys so much

Hezboolah, baby! New Covfefe just dropped