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At the NATO meeting a loud US republican saw my CDN flag pin on my lapel and reached for it saying, "Hey Canada." I stopped him. "Don't touch the Canadian flag." "Just joking," he said. "You'll die before you touch our flag," I said, "not joking." He scrambled out of there. #notfuckingaround

The Lancet, the world's most trusted medical journal, has published a new study showing that life expectancy in Gaza has dropped by almost half during the first 12 months of Israel’s live streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians. loom.ly/OuzGfEc

I am at the NATO meetings in Brussels. Trump and Putin are plunging the world into dark chaos. Here is my dispatch from day one of the meetings. I decided that it was time to go over the boards for Canada. Please read and share. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Yes! This!

Good news, everyone! You get to do whatever you want! As long as you say you were trying to save the country, it’s all legal now.

Gaza might appear unique, but it is part of a decades-long pattern of Washington denying, minimizing, downplaying and rationalizing genocide by U.S. allies. @szunes.bsky.social surveys the historical record in an important essay for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/essays/by-re...

I'm just gonna post this Wikipedia screenshot because I don't believe most people will actually look it up:

75 years later Aimé Césaire's “boomerang effect” - whereby violence in the colonial periphery manifests itself in the colonial metropole - finds new evidence argues Noura Erakat in an important piece to read www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Trump and Putin negotiating peace in the Ukraine = Hitler and Stalin negotiating peace in Poland.

Stay strong Canada! As an American I support you👊🏼

Project 2025, the American Mein Kampf

Je vous propose une piste de réflexion pour comprendre comment on en est arrivés là, et pour échapper à cet avenir qui se dessine. Le fascime est en marche et nous avons des choix cruciaux à faire, pour protéger notre démocratie et notre modèle inclusif de société. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

Help get MSF to 100k followers plz, they're an important organization

Weimar and the Superbowl - here's my latest reflection on how we got where we are and how we can get out of it. Fascism is on the move and we have to make clear choices to protect democracy and an inclusive society. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Trump says dismantling USAID will save money. Experts say it’s a ‘great gift’ for China

“I think we should react, and we should react united” Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof tells Paddy O'Connell there should be a retaliation were US President Donald Trump to impose tariffs on the EU. #Newsnight

Gutting the FBI is like waving a red flag at terrorists and other criminals.

Who wants to tell him how that story ends???? 🤔🤔🤔🤷‍♀️🤷‍♀️😉

Every day is Christmas for Putin now.

There have been MASSIVE protests this week across the country. If you took any videos or photos from the protests, or have seen great videos or photos of them online, post them below! Let's show the world that the pro-democracy community is just getting started!

The New York Times is tracking the actions and statements by President Trump and his administration during the first 100 days of his second term. Here's a gift link if you'd like to bookmark it. We will be updating daily. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Build Canadian. Buy Canadian. Boycott American. The True North Strong and Free! 🇨🇦✊🏽

Musk’s DOGE to ‘upgrade’ air traffic control system. ✈️ 🤦‍♂️ Don’t fly anywhere for 4 years at least.

Thou shalt not let the foreign billionaire whose rockets blow up all the time anywhere near the air traffic control system.

Extremism experts say a now-familiar playbook to scapegoat transgender people in the wake of high-profile tragedies is part of a political strategy to sow division and expand authoritarian control.

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“[Y]our silence and the silence of all Americans in response to this aggression leaves me disheartened. That silence speaks volumes. I — we — have heard you loud and clear how little our friendship as a country means to you.”

Shopping Against Fascism. #BoycottAnazon #BoycottUSA

Canadians used to joke that we were a mouse beside an elephant. Then comparisons got darker - living above a meth lab. Now we understand we live next to a gangster regime. But Canadians won't bend. The resistance is coming from ordinary folk. Please read and share. open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

Trump isn't just a threat to our economy he is threat to democracies everywhere. Under his reign, we can no longer trust the USA. Shop local, buy Canadian. The resistance starts at the grassroots. We have kick ass beer, kick ass coffee and kick ass people. www.villagereport.ca/village-pick...

The local LCBO (liquor Control Board of Ontario) store in our little town is putting Kentucky spirits back on the shelf. It took staff 5 1/2 hours to pull the bottles. From just one store. Kentucky has learned that Canada is their biggest market. Btw...staff are ready to pull the bottles again.

President Trump says the US "will take over" the Gaza Strip, after earlier saying he doesn't think there is a permanent future for Palestinians in Gaza.

Google’s updated AI ethics policy removes its promise that it won’t use the technology to pursue weapons and surveillance.