I dunno, are Pete Hegseths 'warriors' ready for this kind of resistance?

Oh honey, and just when you were almost having a moment of lucidity on Twitler, too....

But surely the 'perverse Latin sex demon' at half-time bump in ticket sales should mitigate the prospect of meeting war-ready armed ICE storm-troopers 'all over' the stadium and approaches.

Hey, silver linings!

Caught between *🙄 sigh* and wishing the non-accomplices would find a more effective resistance strategy than posts in social media.

Trump's Plan To invoke the Insurrection Act

"The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war."

And it will be martial law on fascism's terms.

open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Opinion | How to Save the American Experiment

'The crisis of democracy, [Walter Lippman] wrote, was in its essence “a crisis in journalism.”

'The “stream of news that reaches the public,” he discerned, was democracy’s most glaring vulnerability."'

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

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So, just letting us aliens know to expect wholesale war crimes whenever American troops operate in our streets.

Right.

Good to know.

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GFY.

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Canada’s climate contradictions come with economic risks Overinvesting in oil and gas is not just a problem for the climate — it also poses serious risks to the Canadian economy.

What you’ll never hear from PM @mark-carney.bsky.social nor Min Champagne :
“With global oil and gas demand projected to peak by the end of this decade, Canada is vulnerable and ill-prepared to adjust to the impending decline. Up to 66 per cent of future

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/o...

Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives Back in 2012, when Canada's Harper government announced that it would close down national archive sites around the country, they promised that anything that was discarded or sold would be…

Remember Canada. #cdnpoli 👇
Harper/Poilievre Tories torch and dump centuries of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives.
The government's concerted attacks on environmental science compares to the rise of fascism in 1930s Europe.
boingboing.net/2014/01/04/c...

Pierre Poilievre Is a Serial Liar: We're Calling It Out Pierre Poilievre calls other people "elites" while living off taxpayer perks, voting against affordability, and importing American chaos. We’re calling out his lies with facts.

Pierre Poilievre Is a Serial Liar: We're Calling It Out #cdnpoli open.substack.com/pub/theplane...

'There is no B.C. coast. It's Canada's coast': Sask. premier supports Alta. pipeline proposal | CBC News Sask. Premier Scott Moe repeated his support for the proposed pipeline between Alberta and the northern B.C. coast earlier this week by Alberta Premier Danielle Smith.

Wait. So Alberta’s federal income taxes don’t belong to Canada but BC’s coastline belongs to Alberta?

What in the When It Suits Us kind of Trumpian thought pretzel is this now?

I wish every Canadian media outlet would stop offering X as a one-click share option on every story.

If PM Mark Carney reads one thing in the NYT today, I hope it is this. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Bertolt Brecht and 'Mother Courage' come to mind.

Opinion | The West Is Lost

Researchers find we feel a nickel's loss more sharply than a dime's gain.

"Once societies no longer believe that the future will inevitably be better, losses appear more severe. [S]oon, they begin to seem irreversible. This forms the basis of today’s crisis."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/o...

Clearly, that leaves quite a spectrum.

Russia isn't a failed state by my measure but it certainly isn't truly democratic or free.

Canada is both free and democratic, but I see our 'most vulnerable' daily on the street.

I'm racking my brain to think of a state that meets Chomsky's standard.

Sadly by that standard very few states have succeeded.

I guess my standard is more pragmatic - are the lights normally on all the time, the water drinkable, most of the people going about their usual daily business, the levels of repression and immiseration tolerable to a majority?

Gee... elect just one vengeful ignorant racist sex predator and proven business criminal... for a second time... and oh my gosh... who'd ever have imagined, eh?

May I add:

One that protects guns better than kids' lives.
One that sells its legislators' votes to the highest bidder.

If only they were the only ones paying.

Begging the question of what kind of shit-hole voters then elect him.

Actually, no. The state is alive and well. It's the democracy that failed.

So now the [Trump/GOP/white christian nationalist/fascist] coalition is turning the state against the people.

😢

It was already rickety. Written by whale-oil light, exclusively by propertied white males,* with a finesse to let those men own other people, with some subsequent patches.

* In fairness, so was Canada's. But parliamentary v republican forms is beyond the character limit 😆.

That's the sad part: there used to be a good (if never quite as 'great' as they imagined) alongside the worst. I loved travelling America. I worshipped at the church of rock 'n roll with Bruce Springsteen.

Now it's all just worst. And Bruce has to apologize for his country.

I miss that America.