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In which I let fly on the disgusting spectacle of our government playing legal reindeer games while an innocent man rots in a Salvadoran hellhole.

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“Canadian 51st statists want to join the MAGA ‘family’ using a method — annexation of their country — that lets them bypass the normal immigration system and receive American citizenship regardless of their skills, qualifications, or even crimes.” thecoldfront.substack.com/p/the-ironic...

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The NDP is in the process of getting obliterated. It might lose official party status. As it begins to rebuild, it needs to pay more attention to economics -- and find a leader who can actually talk about it competently. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/14/o...

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State Terror open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

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Treating the idea of sending Americans to concentration camps as if it's just another policy proposal (Betteridge's Law of Headlines strikes again)

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WHAT THE FUUUUUCK

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Imagine that the main political issue in Canada would be who can best stand up to an aggressive and authoritarian U.S.?

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It's pretty funny that the success sequence is "don't get married or have kids until you have a job and an education" but then the exact same people who push them get FURIOUS about those things resulting in women not becoming breederslaves at 19 and instead... get an education and jobs

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Sigh. This reads like a dispatch from fantasyland that ignores all of the lessons of the past six months, let alone the past eight years. Quick 🧵 First problem: The article begins from the false premise that restoration of the relationship is even possible. It’s not. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

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Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

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Some major public institutions in Canada, including a pension management firm and a leading hospital, are advising staff against traveling to the US.

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'Trump donors eye potential bonanza if U.S. succeeds with Greenland land-grab' "What’s unfolding in Greenland represents the 'circle of grift.' ..Put money into the Trump family bank and the money comes back to you in the form of some government policy." By Tom Perkins via @theguardian.com

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What the American people want on immigration is simple: a vast armed sweep of the country kicking out the illegals with no exceptions, except they don’t want to see it too much on the news, it can’t make them sad, impact anyone like them, or hurt anyone sympathetic.

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Fund managers haven't been this bearish on US assets in 30 years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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LMAO Do not visit the United States if it can be helped Even if Gavin Nuisance asks very nicely

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Last chance to complete the survey on the newly revised Woodside–Shearwater bikeway concept. I'd like to see a half signal added at Corsair Drive to replace the existing, hazardous RA-5 crossing. Otherwise, I am really excited about this project. 🚲 #BikeHfx

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NEW ODD LOTS: The truth about China's dominance of rare earth metals. @tracyalloway.bsky.social and I talked to the one and only @javierblas.bsky.social about why my whole career I've been hearing stories about what happens if we get cut off. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...

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Just to build on this, one of the reasons the death camps were built in the occupied territories was because the Nazi command knew they were illegal under German law and the nominally-still-extant Weimar constitution

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Canada joining the European Union would increase the EU’s current population by 10% but would more than triple its land area, from 4 to 14 million square kilometres. Canada is really big.

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bluesky can be a bit of a torment nexus sometimes, so the conversation with kristol and longwell is a bit of a tonic: this guy can be stopped and we can stop him. you can be clear-eyed about the threat and also a happy warrior. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-can-...

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Brampton, Ontario is getting very high ridership despite a car oriented development pattern. (So is @translink.ca in Surrey, BC). The key is to run lots of service, especially linking areas of high demand, to maximize access to opportunity. This could be done in the US too. Thread … 1/

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Ummm... are there going to be campaign platforms in this election?

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If elected, I would get rid of the Notwithstanding Clause. I wouldn't replace it with anything. Or if I did, it would require an 80% vote.

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Maybe it's time to revise the idea that you can have a big "ignore the constitution" button on the desk of federal and provincial governments, when the only thing that prevents its abuse is the existence of a gentlemen's agreement that apparently doesn't hold anymore. www.google.com/amp/s/www.cb...

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You know what would be scary right now? If the U.S. had something like Canada’s Notwithstanding Clause, a constitutional escape hatch that lets legislatures override certain rights for five years at a time. Yes, that really exists in Canada.

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Not sure we’re going to like the answers to some of these ultimatums.

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still remember that the US Army was wanting to transfer the couple of iron dome batteries it got for testing to ukraine, but israel blocked the transfer in late 2021

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There have been many movements in political life I was repulsed by. But none provoke such a visceral response as the anti-vax quacks. They will literally kill children for their own benefit.

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senakw rising. it's beautiful

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Post in the hopper but I'm going to take the radical view that even gang members shouldn't be sent to a Salvadoran murder prison with no due process and no possibility of relief. If that makes me a pantywaist pinko commie liberal pansy, so be it.

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The real problem isn’t just China. The real problem is that every other country is pondering the same question.

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Trumpism is not just authoritarian, it is totalitarian in the literal sense that it tolerates no institutions in society, no aspect of people's lives, outside their agenda of political coercion. Even trying to be neutral is unacceptable. Anything they don't dominate and control must be destroyed.

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There we go.

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We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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Seat projections are pretty unanimous on a Liberal majority as of today

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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

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the internet: left-nimbys don't exist and they can't destroy your state left-nimbys:

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“We often wonder how people went along with regimes like Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. Watching America in 2025, it’s suddenly much easier to understand.” Living Through It: Chilling Lessons on the Rise of Authoritarianism

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Partisanship not only hampers people's capacity for common sense or adherence to basic norms and principles, it can also make them stupid.

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I will lay down a marker on the sending US citizens to El Salvador thing: it happens suddenly in that we will wake up one day and they did it to dozens-hundreds of people with no warning, or not at all. I do not think there will be any gradual ramp up that succeeds.