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Probably because most Canadian media is controlled either by hostile Americans or treasonous Canadian oligarchs. We should be seeing the "traitor" label used more frequently.

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

Millions. We should count ourselves lucky if we keep his butcher's bill in the single digit millions.

Imagine this in Russian on Russian state TV

The word for what Jesse Watters is describing here is un-American. A shredding of the constitution.

There nothing funny about it.

So many people made such a big deal about these oaths they swore to uphold, in the end it was just play acting.

In this case "cautiously" means minimizing brand damage while still collaborating with Musk.

They lost on the battlefield. The propaganda at home was a success. I thought we studied Goebbels to recognize and avoid a repeat, but we let the right do it in plain sight.

Didn't Harper pioneer shutting down climate research to help his oligarch buddies when he was PM?

Just thinking about Tim Cook hanging out at the WH, endorsing the rounding up of US citizens and people speaking Spanish.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Robert Hawks “Technical State of Civil War” Let’s dispense with the pleasantries. We are at war. Not a shooting war. Not yet. But something worse in its own quiet, choking way—a technical state of civil war. The kind of war that makes cowards of rules and turns procedure into shrapnel. And in Texas, Greg Abbott is lighting the fuse. On August 4th, Governor Abbott announced—proudly, defiantly—that any Democratic legislator who fails to appear for a surprise session of the Texas state legislature by August 5th will see their seat declared vacant. This, in a bald attempt to force a quorum for an unscheduled redistricting effort that would gerrymander at least five new Republican congressional seats into existence. Five seats. Bought not with votes, but with ink and knives. Five seats to hold the U.S. House hostage after a 2026 election that, by all current indicators, will be a biblical catastrophe for the Republican Party. This is not about state politics. This is not about Texas. This is about power. This is about permanently tipping the balance of national representation using the architecture of a dying republic to rig the new one being born behind its back. It is a dagger aimed at the heart of the Constitution itself—and it is being sheathed in plain sight. Governor Gavin Newsom of California has responded in kind. So have the governors of Illinois, Washington, New York. They’ve declared their own intent to redraw maps, to counterbalance Abbott’s theft with a theft of their own.And just like that, the pretense is gone. The guardrails are being sawed off by both sides. The game is rigged, the referees have joined the teams, and the field is splitting down the middle. We are not drifting toward civil war. We are being carried there—on gurneys, on motorcades, in armored trucks painted red, white, and blue and driven by men with no conscience and nothing left to lose. Donald Trump—the increasingly frail, increasingly unhinged re-occupant of the Oval Office—ha…

return. That’s how we arrive at a technical state of civil war. Not with cannon fire. Not with a shot at Fort Sumter. But with deadlines and district lines, and governors signing paperwork like generals drawing battle maps. And yes, it leads—eventually, inevitably—to the real thing. Because what happens when blue states stop sending taxes to a red federal government? What happens when governors of California, New York, and Illinois say, flat out, “We no longer recognize the authority of a president elected by gerrymandered fiat”? What happens when National Guard units are federalized and told to act against their own citizens? We’ve already seen it. Federal troops in Portland. Federal agents in unmarked vans in Minneapolis. And now, a sitting U.S. president selecting military leadership based not on strategy, but on loyalty. This is what a soft coup looks like. This is how republics become dictatorships—one signed order, one packed court, one nullified election at a time. We are standing on the edge. And I want to be clear: I’m not even opposed to the collapse in principle. Because unlike the Abbott crowd, I’ve thought this through. If the United States breaks apart—and God knows, we are dangling over that edge like Wile E. Coyote holding a stick of TNT—here is what happens next: California, Oregon, Washington, Nevada—the spine of the West—will form a new nation. They will be joined by Illinois, Michigan, New York, Massachusetts, and most of the northeastern corridor. The population, economy, and military of this new Union will be vastly superior to anything the southern rump states can cobble together. And yes, you can wave your little Wyoming flags, but the brutal math is this: once the U.S. Constitution is abandoned, so too is the notion that two Dakotas matter more than one California. In the new post-America, power will come from population, productivity, and force projection. Which means: the south is screwed. The GOP’s strongholds—Mississippi, Alabam…

No more. Because now, if we do not fight, we die. If we play fair, we lose. If we tell ourselves it can’t happen here, we will wake up in the ash of what once was. Greg Abbott is trying to fire on Fort Sumter with a fountain pen and a smirk. If we don’t match him force for force—not violence for violence, but action for action, map for map, court for court, and yes, goddamnit, declaration for declaration—then the next fight won’t be about democracy. It will be about which side gets the tanks. And you know what? I say let it come. Because I promise you: the right has not thought this through. They think blue states are weak. That liberal means soft. That cities can’t fight. But I’ve seen New Yorkers when the train’s late. I’ve seen Californians during wildfires. I’ve seen drag queens in Texas standing alone against armed mobs and not blinking. You want to go to war with those people? Be my guest. Just don’t be surprised when they’re still standing and you’re neck-deep in the mud, wondering why the federal aid convoy never came. Let me say it again: this is a technical civil war. The only question left is whether it becomes a real one. Whether maps give way to bullets. Whether executive orders become execution orders. And if that day comes, the outcome is not assured. But the blame will be. It will rest on the heads of men like Trump, like Abbott, like the perjured judges and the cowardly Senators and the hollow-eyed billionaires who looked at democracy and said, “That’s too risky—let’s buy it instead.” But history has long arms. And the schoolchildren they’re so terrified of? The ones they think will be traumatized by learning about slavery? Those kids will write the textbooks. And they will tell the truth. They will say that the Republican Party, faced with the loss of cultural hegemony, chose to burn the country down rather than share it. That the right feared democracy more than death. That in the end, they didn’t win. They ended. Because power isn’t loyalty…

A long, depressing read, which is nevertheless accurate in where we are as a nation and a people, and where we're headed.

What makes it more probable is this simple fact:

"Half the country still thinks the Democrats are overreacting."

Are YOU ready for what's coming?

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The top 1% now owns more than $54 trillion in wealth.

That’s 468 times more than the bottom 50%.

One man — Elon Musk — owns more than the bottom half COMBINED.

This is what I mean when I talk about oligarchy.

A journalist with Canada’s public broadcaster was not allowed on the Canadian plane air dropping aid into Gaza because of Israeli restrictions.

When she made it onto a Jordanian plane, she was not allowed to film what she saw on the ground in Gaza because Israel forbids it from being shown.

"Donald Trump is an existential threat to democracy."

-Senator Elissa Slotkin

Note: Slotkin is a former (CIA) analyst and Department of Defense official, ending her career in the field as the acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs.

If anyone knows...she does.

Much more propaganda targeting billionaires as the enemy would be helpful. That truce should have ended the moment they funded hate to get tax cuts.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Yes. The remaining democracies must take on the propaganda/disinfo problem with social media and AI seriously. We are under attack on this front.

YouTube video by Cheri Jacobus Trump orders satellite that measure global warming to be DESTROYED along with data on global warming

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Liz Oyer, most recently served in the Department of Justice as US Pardon Attorney (April 2022 to March 2025), overseeing the Office of the Pardon Attorney.

She is discussing how & why Ghislane Maxwell was transferred to minimum security.

So wwhat exactly did Ghislane give?

And said aloud "the billionaires are a problem".

This is what is happening right now.

Cemented my view that billionaires aren't compatible with democracy and nothing gets better until we address the oligarch problem head on.

“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.”

Melinda Gates

The Invention of “Sesame Street” Renata Adler’s 1972 review of the program that revolutionized children’s television.

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

People are getting fired for not manipulating the stats to hide the lies about the failing economy. They’re supposed to cook the books like Weisselberg or an Atlantic City bookie to hide the failures of Trump. Jerome Powell is next.

I’ve been watching ‘Shiny Happy People’ season 02. If you’re wondering how people grow up to be MAGA fascists, it’s definitely eye opening. Good interview footage with @jeffsharlet.bsky.social

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I had thought the point of studying the rise of Nazism in history was to avoid repeating the same mistakes. Turned out the authoritarians used that knowledge as a model and the good guys were completely unwilling to act despite the right acting in the open.

Dr. Brian Goldman-RFK Jr is an evil man. He is a dangerous purveyor of health disinformation. If you believe him, you’re a fool. The damage he is doing to healthcare in the IS and global public health is incalculable.

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Dune, 1965