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Carney confirms: When Washington whistles, Ottawa salutes The Canadian prime minister was quick to jump on the Iran war bandwagon, seemingly forgetting his own speech at Davos.

"Carney has now established that he is not a serious antidote to the politics of expediency that he promised to transcend. He is simply its more articulate custodian."

Blistering column from Andrew Mitrovica

Drains across the Iranian capital Tehran are continuing to explode after earlier Israeli and US strikes on oil depots and infrastructure.

Medical experts are warning the toxic smoke and runoff has increased the risk of deadly illnesses, including cancer.

Israel unlawfully used white phosphorus in Lebanon: HRW Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Images verified by Human Rights Watch show Israel fired white phosphorus in populated areas of southern Lebanon.

Almost 90 people being cut.

Canadian historian Adam Chapnick, a professor of defence studies at the Royal Military College of Canada:

“I don’t know how you justify this decision if you have any sort of commitment to history."

holy shit

Arab states

Western countries backing what the US and Israel are doing in Iran aren’t just going to lose legitimacy in the eyes of their domestic publics, but are shredding any notion a new alliance of middle powers or whatever can defend any semblance of an international order.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

The national suicide being committed by the Republican-led United States has no historical precedent. Centuries from now (if humanity survives that long), historians will struggle to explain how such a thing was possible.

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

Good news! Drax to stop clearcutting BC forests for wood pellet power in UK (which is worse for our climate than coal, and diverts wood from other uses that provide way more jobs & value per tree). But Drax may try to export to other countries! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #bcpoli #axedrax

Apparently the US and Israelis personally delivered a huge pile of "fell for it again awards" directly to the members of the Iranian government who had been planning on selling out.

WE DID IT! THIRD gosling encounter in the first week of baby bird season 2026!

These are over a week old and not nearly as round, but still around till the end of the thread because I got THE SHOT! it's soooo good!

Encounter over so posting whole thread 🧵

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Iran's parliament speaker said Saturday that the attack on a freshwater desalination plant on Qeshm Island was carried out with support from one of the airbases in a southern neighboring country. He did not name the country. "The crime will receive a proportionate response," he said.

The US doesn’t seem to understand how many targets there are for Iran in the Gulf.

Attacking the desalination plant in Iran is monstrous in itself as so many people depend on them, but it also opens up the way for Iran to target the Gulf’s desalination plants, which would also be monstrous

We have suffered our worst national humiliation since the Suez debacle, if not the fall of Singapore. This time, though, we lack the excuse of having been pressured by allies or attacked by foes. The decision to cower and plead neutrality even as Iranian proxies were lobbing ordnance at us was entirely our own. Sir Keir Starmer’s pusillanimity has left us looking weak, needy and duplicitous. And all for what? Anxiety about anti-Israel voters in constituencies like Gorton and Denton? Fear of crossing our human-rights obsessed Attorney General, Lord Hermer? Paywall down.

the UK right *really* wants Starmer to join the Iran War.

have they all gone mad, or?

US +Israel now in full blown war against Iran's civilian population.
"Expect a deliberately created humanitarian catastrophe with food, water & energy shortages, hospitals destroyed...massive internal & external displacement"

Also expect Iran to retaliate likewise on Gulf
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I don’t want to be alarming but I think this energy shock will be worse than the Russian invasion of Ukraine and that gave us $150/barrel

Oh my god the only thing missing is jingling keys and him laughing and clapping like an infant

buddy, just declare victory and retreat or commit yourself to a legacy-defining quagmire that destroys your presidency and political movement — this is taking forever.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands

But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed

FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.

Rosie DiManno: Why John Tory shouldn’t feel the need to step aside Dirty tactics about personal shenanigans have taken the former mayor out of the race, writes Rosie DiManno, but voters don't have a track record of caring about such things.

Dimanno: Tory should have gotten away with sleeping with a subordinate because Toronto Star managers used to do that kind of thing all the time.

?????????

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LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

What do you do when your oil and lng isn't as secure as you thought? in the short run, you probably burn more coal, but there are countries that were heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels that have embraced solar and electrification

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