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Ex-🇨🇦 ambassador (🇳🇱 & OPCW) and Head of Mission a.i. (🇬🇭 & 🇮🇪). Mom; lawyer; foreign policy, security, and democracy wonk; after-hours nerd. PEC fan (IYKYK).
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Listening to Donald Trump babble content-free BS about "I don't know what I'll do" and "I like to make decisions seconds before they're due" confirms that he has NO CLUE ABOUT ANYTHING. He is a 3rd-rate "reality" actor who needs a script to function and thinks a cliffy between episodes is the bomb.

This ruling is legal, moral, and humanitarian obscenity. Time to reopen th underground railroad to Canada...?

"Two scientists on Rosenberg’s team who have specialized skills to prepare cells for immunotherapy trials were among the thousands of probationary employees fired in the Trump administration’s push to shrink the federal workforce." This is why you figure out what people do BEFORE you fire them.

Ask George Bush jr. He invaded Iraq, only to belatedly realize that it was full of Iraqis who didn't like being invaded.

Trumps tweets about Iran prove yet again that he is basically an 11-year-old pretending he's a teenager. No wonder he left the G7; two days with the grown-ups and the gig is up.

Is the NRA at all worried about their "good guy with a gun" making an appearance?

Looks like Trump found a way to ditch meetings with Presidents Sheinbaum and Zelenskyy - by convincing himself that his inflammatory live-tweeting hostilities between Iran and Israel is "dealing with the Middle East situation".

The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

"Christian."

Note to dotard: The initials are U-K, not E-U. (I wonder what he'll do if someone ever tells him that "US" abbreviates to "E-U" in French...)

"American service members have been ordered [to LA] not to protect their compatriots but to intimidate them at gunpoint for the sin of opposing the president." Gift article on an extremely important subject.

Joining forces with our friends (supporting local restaurants affected by Ottawa’s LRT construction, local strawberry farmers, and @princeedwardcounty.bsky.social vintners in the process) to bring our culinary A-game to our regular movie night!

This looks like the security line at the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, when I went there with a friend, a week after the 2016 coup.

Well, you already have a bunch of leeches in high places.

Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

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Symbolism is one thing; logistics another. If the parade ends at the White House, where does everyone go after? Pitch tents on the Mall? Stick around DC "just in case"? Mill about on Pennsylvania Avenue until the Ubers come for them, like at those wonderfully organized Trump rallies?

Camouflage cat #caturday #tilly

This is what divisive, dehumanizing rhetoric brings: It activates and grants permission to every fanatic, psychopath, and ordinary loser looking for attention. My heart goes out to the Hortman family; wishing the Hoffmanns a speedy and full recovery.

Wishing our American friends the very best today as they march for their communities, freedoms and rights. #NoKings

A lesson drawn from DJT's Bro, Vladimir Putin: Use licensing and registration to choke the voices of opposition. (Or, as in the case of the Democrat legislators attacked in Minnesota, guns.) Watch for people falling from windows.

Why is Kristi Noem’s bone-chilling pledge of a “regime change” in Calif not getting media coverage?! Noem’s speech yesterday called for "liberating" Calif from Gov Newsom and Mayor Bass. Trump wants to remove elected officials who defy him. My new article: deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/why-is-kri...

I join all who want Iran to become a flourishing democracy. I join all who want regime change in Iran. I join all who want Gender Apartheid in Iran to end. I join all who want all of this - all of it - without wanton violations of international law & mass civilians casualties.

Exactly right. The assault on a senator was a crime but Noem’s “liberation” comments were actually even worse.

IMPORTANT: Before the fascist attack on Senator Alex Padilla, Kristi Noem said that her gestapo in California were staying to "liberate the city socialist and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country." Don't let that slide by.

Bleak and scary but true. The destruction of "the administrative state" (Bannon's effort to demonize normalcy) will lead to the destruction of all form of democratic and accountable governance, as well as of all social cohesion, in the US. "The Last of Us" is set to become a reality show.

Wow. States rights, anyone? And yes - it does sound like "regime change" rhetoric, Ă  la Iraq, on US soil. Are we ready to impeach yet, Congress?

Mississippi - yearning for the good old days of the 19th century. Why not toss teaching evolution, too, or is that gone already?

You do not have to say “pro vaccine groups.” You can say the vast majority of doctors and scientists and the American Medical Association.

Putin must be wringing his hands in glee every morning at the degradation he has visited on the US - even as Reagan spins in his grave.

Rubio would’ve sent Hitler a birthday card in 1943.

Horrible. My condolences to all those affected by this tragedy.

Well, on the positive side, Trump may learn tonight that (a) helping the poor, the starving, and the wrongfully imprisoned is Good; (b) overly zealous law enforcement and greedy inn keepers are Bad; and (c) revolutions can succeed, if properly thought out and funded.

FIFA might want to reconsider relocating … I’m sure Canada and Mexico can pick up the extra games.

I note the military dudes aren't afraid to show their faces...

Well, it was by the WaPo writer who provided "context" for Elon Musk's Nazi salute... If her definition of a "bubble" is a space where you can find reasoned discourse; people asking questions in good faith & getting actual answers; and where Nazis and trolls get called out & blocked - I'm all in.