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Trump just twice blamed Trudeau and Obama for kicking Russia out of the G8, called it a mistake. It happened before Trudeau was PM. edition.cnn.com/2014/03/24/p...

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I spoke to this 100-year-old woman at a protest today. Ellie Newman. She turned 100 the month Trump was reelected. She's lived through the rise and fall of fascism, the creation of the modern welfare state and civil rights. Here’s what she told me: www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

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Report: Trump admin pauses deportation raids on farms, hotels and restaurants. One similarity between mass deportation and tariffs: He’ll push, and push, til the elastic starts to snap on Americans. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/u...

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Today one AI product’s getting sued by Disney. And there’s a report that another — Meta’s Llama — can recall 42% of Harry Potter. A blog on the possible copyright implications. www.understandingai.org/p/metas-llam...

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Random tweet, or acknowledgement of an impending reverse-U-turn in deportation planning? Tune in next week…

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Russian air attack damages Kyiv's historic St. Sophia's Cathedral, "a shrine that has survived centuries and symbolises the birth of our statehood" www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

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🚨 Job alert! There’s a position available: Mine. If you want my job, here it is, come get it —> www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

A rare case of culture shock, visiting my own home country — Canada. I’ve gotten used to seeing $8 deodorant locked up behind glass cases the last few years. Currently at a downtown big-city pharmacy in Canada where $262.49 products are sitting out in the open

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Canada, recently: We can never hit 2% on defence spending Canada, today: We will hit 2% by March www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

You’ll be shocked to hear this is escalating

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

Trump in the last hour moved to: -Ban travel from a bunch of countries -Proceed with the freeze on foreign visas for Harvard -Investigate overturning Biden pardons and executive orders, if they were signed by autopen

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

U.S. aluminum producers: Um, these aluminum tariffs are a bit much, no?

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Here one of AI’s ‘godfathers’ announces a startup based on an idea he’s been discussing for a while: a new form of ‘Scientist AI’ programmed to avoid deception, with a more targeted mission and designed to deliver probabilistic assessments in answers rather than confident-sounding statements.

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A masterpiece of a profile. Begins with a look at a post-democratic dark lord, then slowly builds a portrait, rich with anecdotes and examples, of an emotionally stunted idiot-savant. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Stephen Miller unhappy deportations happening too slowly, dismissing the line that the main target is dangerous criminals: “Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. 'You’re horrible leaders.'...‘Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-11?'” www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-h...

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A congressional reporter, covering a congressional delegation, is struck by the level of rage in Canada. punchbowl.news/archive/5312...

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

I wish reporters would ask follow-ups like: "Article I, Section 8 of the Constitutions says that 'Congress shall have Power To lay and collect ... Duties,' so on what basis are you arguing that the founders gave the president the power to impose tariffs?"

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Well, here's a surreal experience. Just stumbled into a website telling PR people how to pitch to... me intelligentrelations.com/journalist/a...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Yet another loss for Trump IEEPA tariffs. New injunction, stayed for 14 days. Yesterday's takes effect within 10 It's a double-blow against the 10% global tariff & the 25% fentanyl tariff on some Canada/Mexico imports No change for steel/aluminum tariffs storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A deeply disconcerting map

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Two men sentenced -- 10 years and 6 years -- for their roles in a Canada-US human smuggling conspiracy that resulted in the deaths of four Indian nationals. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-m...

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A U.S. court delivered a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's trade policy on Wednesday, declaring he abused his authority and striking down many of his tariffs — at least for now. Here are several immediate impacts: www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

The U.S. Defense Industry just went into cardiac arrest. They didn’t vote for this. Oopsie!

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Trump's ambassador to Canada is still on stage in Detroit, and the CBC broadcast cut away to host and guest expressing disbelief at his comment that Canada's main political parties ran an "anti-American" election campaign

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

Whoa. Sec State announces: If you try moderating US tech platforms in a way that threatens US-based free speech, you'll be barred entry into the US. TBD: What they envision with this. Aimed at, say, PRC and Russia targeting dissidents? Or at allied countries in Europe targeting hate speech?

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/ Wrote a while back about how independence referendums became a 30-year electoral millstone for the Parti Quebecois. Similar conditions are starting to align for Alberta's governing party: The party base in conflict with the broader electorate on issue Numero Uno www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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PM wants Canada to sign onto a major European defence plan by July 1, a step toward reducing the country's dependency on the US for weapons and munitions. "Seventy-five cents of every dollar of capital spending for defence goes to the US. That's not smart," Carney said. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments