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>We’re putting a 27% tariff on your exports >No wait we’re just doing 10% >No wait we’re gonna give you a letter with your new tariff >Letter says 27% Okay what’re we even DOING here

submitted 21 hours ago • 59 comments

The Director of the FBI is openly lying to the American public about Canada being a major source of fentanyl. In the first three months of 2025, a grand total of 1.35 lbs of fentanyl was seized by border officials at our border with Canada — 0.06% of total seizures.

submitted 19 hours ago • 370 comments

Just six years after his Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered, at MBS’s direction, Jeff Bezos is going into business—and, thus, helping to enrich—the man who orchestrated it. My latest for @status.news www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos...

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

NEW: Ottawa Police deny inviting convoy figure to help them with anti-LGBTQ+ protest at elementary school Community groups are now calling for police to face an investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was “invited” to help police manage aggressive protests

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

No Strings by @deAdder Substack: open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

This is the most important story of the day. A Tulsi aide ordered a senior analyst to redo an assessment of the relationship between Venezuela’s government and a gang after intelligence findings undercut the WH justification for deporting migrants. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 133 comments

Despite years of protests and organized opposition, the Alberta Energy Regulator has elected to approve the Grassy Mountain coal project in the Rockies.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

they're: stealing Verizon's FAA contract for Starlink pressuring countries to use Starlink revamping the infrastructure bill to give billions in new subsides to Starlink (which is inferior to better tech like fiber) duct-taping unencrypted Starlink terminals on the White House roof...

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

submitted 4 days ago • 311 comments

#NEW: Former Alberta UCP infrastructure minister Peter Guthrie has accused the husband of Premier Danielle Smith of working as an unregistered lobbyist, which allegedly included an attempt to meet with Guthrie about a major rail link between Calgary and Banff. @charlesrusnell.bsky.social reports.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

This entire administration wants power without responsibility.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

submitted 5 days ago • 209 comments

"Meanwhile, authorities also helped households to switch from coal-fired boilers to cleaner fuels, and worked to repair degraded ecosystems while also increasing the amount of green spaces within the city, UNEP says." basically: less fossil fuels, more trees theprogressplaybook.com/2025/05/12/i...

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Allegation is Smith's spouse lobbied Alberta Government without registering as a lobbyist, a fact confirmed by Smith before she had the House Leader deflect by saying he was offended by the question.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This is an explosive allegation aimed squarely at the premier and her spouse. Never quite seen anything like this in Question Period. www.facebook.com/share/v/1EXo...

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Looks like Parker and Marco Van Huigenbos are not paying their fines. Several more like this on the Elections Alberta website. Van Huigenbos' prison sentence from his Coutts blockade conviction at least until his appeal is heard in January.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

BREAKING: Corey Hogan tries to get local EDA to refund him for custom cake

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

you want to know one reason people are losing trust in the media? it’s the total inability to call things what they are some guy on YouTube: “wow this is the most corrupt shit I’ve ever seen” the Times: “critics say it raises appearance of impropriety” who are people going to take seriously?

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

I've been hesitant to write something like this because I didn't want to give oxygen to Alberta separatists. The conversation alone is dangerous. But with the threshold to a separation referendum lowered so dramatically, we can't let myths out there go unchecked. www.coreyhogan.ca/p/three-albe...

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

They want more MOMS at home. And not just because they hate women. Their economic model depends on unpaid labor. And the most effective way to coerce unpaid labor is to create a second class of people and teach them that they're only "naturally" suited for labor they're forced to do for free.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

This story offers a glimpse into how the RICO case against Stop Cop City protestors––"likely the largest criminal racketeering case ever filed against protesters in U.S. history"––has damaged, frozen, and endangered the lives of those facing charges.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is so important because the framing has shifted as RFK Jr tries to make the death of children from a preventable disease seem normal, when normal was very recently (before anti-vax creeps like rfk jr) ZERO children dying of measles. Because vaccination was normal.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

#Canada #Doctors #Trump#MedSky tinyurl.com/mryucrya The snitch site included all provinces & territories of Canada. HHS has refused to answer questions on the issue. Our worries include health care providers being stopped at border & detained, as well as potential legal action. Besties no longer!

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Like I said, things bode ill for your society when people start feeling like they’re being actively punished for being honest and hardworking

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

The UCP is facing 8 investigations into corruption, plus no fewer than 3 major public sector union strikes (all of their own making). The affordability crisis looms, as does a trade war with the US. Wildfires & measles are raging. And the premier chose now to clear a path for a separation vote.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

Just randomly remembered this as he tries to put Space X in charge of the FAA. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sc...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

The highest paid editors in the world rewrote "Qatar Bribes Trump With" as "Trump Is to Accept" you know the way normal people talk normally

submitted 7 days ago • 107 comments

It’s really striking how irregular the bands of mostly men conducting federal immigration enforcement are. They seem to have no particular uniform, they wear a variety of different agency initials on their tactical vests, or none at all, they’re inconsistent about displaying a badge…

submitted 8 days ago • 628 comments

Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights democrats-cha.house.gov/media/press-...

submitted 8 days ago • 137 comments

He was also violently arrested at the UN in 1961 while protesting US involvement in the murder of Patrice Lumumba. A protest I wrote about here: www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2361-a... - Amiri Baraka often put his body on the line.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Here are the federal charging documents accusing Newark Mayor Ras Baraka of "trespassing" by walking onto private property... ... that belongs to a prison company... ... that contracts with the feds... ... and is therefore government property.

submitted 9 days ago • 144 comments

More on Danielle Smith govt breaking access law in this report by @matthewblack.ca - Edmonton Journal: “McLeod’s investigation began in August of 2023 following reporting from the Narwhal and the refusal of all government departments to process a series of requests made by the Globe and Mail.”

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is an appalling development with Bill 54. “McClure writes that some of the bill makes improvements, but other changes "will deteriorate the service provided to electors, compromise Albertans' trust in the democratic process, and remove elements of transparency and accountability."”

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Oh wow, Alberta Information and Privacy Commissioner has issued a report finding the Alberta government is broadly not complying with freedom of information laws

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

On Election Day, I sat down with Ryan Sauvé on my campaign and he asked my thoughts on the campaign, Canada, volunteers, and democracy. It captured a moment where I, an exhausted and sunburned candidate who needed a haircut, didn't know what was going to happen. Now, the work begins.

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...

submitted 10 days ago • 309 comments

I would once again like to point out, if you are really truly afraid of fascist infiltration then you have to plan your exit in a way that guarantees fascism won’t be allowed to take hold. The pope stacked his conclave with the people he wanted to move power after his death. Joe Biden did not.

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

“We’ve not lived in this America before.” Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones talks with Al Letson about the Trump administration’s radical transformation of the federal government and the dismantling of DEI across the country.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I wonder what will happen to these lawsuits if he wins

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with y’all calling Joe Rogan “intellectually curious” … the man is nearing the 6th decade of life with curiosities that should’ve been quelled by a library card and community college enrollment

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

God Loses $400 Betting On Cardinal Tagle

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

submitted 10 days ago • 690 comments

that today's right wing explicitly takes political awareness as a named enemy just feels like bad writing, like this season of the America really doesn't trust its audience

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

Amid all the other news, it's easy to become inured to the basic facts here. Öztürk: -Is not accused of committing any crime -Is nonviolent -Was in this country legally -Merely engaged in speech that the administration objects to -Has been locked up for six weeks

submitted 12 days ago • 39 comments