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Old news good to remember.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I don't think people in the US fully understand how much our government has made us broadly hated in other countries

submitted 9 days ago • 207 comments

'60 minutes' formula has been proved successful for 57 years. And now darkness falls.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

How could it be a mere blunder?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Fascism is now in the algorithms, the neural pathways, the social interactions. How did we fail to see all this? “We wanted to see Trump in terms of his absences, so that our way of seeing the world would go unchallenged,” Timothy Snyder writes.

submitted 13 days ago • 695 comments

And another good reason to buy local...in Canada.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The US economy is set to lose billions of dollars in revenue in 2025 from a pullback in foreign tourism and boycotts of American products.

submitted 17 days ago • 1132 comments

Nature ran *opt-in* poll of US-based readers and troubling number report their interest in leaving the US. As Nature caters to hard-sciences, this is mainly about funding. US hegemony in hard-science is over, only question is how far and fast our fall will be.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 18 days ago • 870 comments

One day, this pic will make history books.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

In Ukraine and Gaza, the same PutNet 'kill baby kill' strategy is displayed on a daily basis.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, to be young at heart.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Shuāngyíng (Win-Win)

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Keep looking for ideas crossing the border, guys. What a nice job you have.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Surprisingly, Thailand and US lèse-majesté laws are the same.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This manosphere is working hard at cheating.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Putting words on US trade factions, their goals and obsessions.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Air (bad) quality in Paris has been cured...in 16 years.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The ugly truth.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Eh, eh, the environment may be the big Tariff winner!

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Good trouble by China.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

New York! 😳 Fifth Avenue is filled. Trump will hate this 🎉 #HandsOff #FiftyFiftyOne #HandsOff2025

submitted 27 days ago • 137 comments

A big YES to the regrouping of Arctic Nations, possibly inside the EU. And what about a stronger handshake with Mexico at the same time? Blowing ice & fire, and ignoring the midfield player.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Nothing artificial in this.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

As if it wasn't complicated enough as it is.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

China had it easy, that one.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, the joyful post...and savy advice for business people.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, the 'good trouble' of Science!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

This was….five months ago

submitted 30 days ago • 1667 comments

Science fiction no more.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Please, take notice.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

BTW, Welcome to Canada, Mr. Snyder. You are a seer and a magician of words.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

People are really better than natural disasters at killing other people.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

This.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

submitted 36 days ago • 2387 comments

Because, of course, who needs Tourism in the States? Millions of advertising dollars are flushed by the stroke of a magic pen.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

“I hope you’re sitting down. For that six month period (April-Sept), the number of airline tickets booked between Canada and the United States is down anywhere from 71.4% to 75.7%.” onemileatatime.com/news/airline...

submitted 37 days ago • 166 comments