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Poilievre announces crime legislation in Montreal Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says he'll use the notwithstanding clause to push legislation that will allow for consecutive sentences.

Poilievre vows to use the notwithstanding clause to implement some of his crime agenda — something no federal government has ever done.

Elon Musk is a bandit.
And Doug Ford just signed $100 million deal with him.
Meanwhile he and Trump are trying to crush the people of Ukraine.
Doug Ford says it's the "best bang for the buck."
No Doug, this is what vichy collaborators do.
Slava Ukraini

I’m not sure federal lands will remain open to the public. You gotta drill baby drill somewhere.

This is all so sad and unnecessary.

This one’s pretty rich too……they voted for this shit!

ARGH!!! It's freezing out with blowing snow. I can't imagine being one of 81,000 Ontarians that Doug Ford has helped push into homelessness.

While he wastes time in Washington and promises expensive projects to enrich his wealthy donors PEOPLE SUFFER!

Vote him out Feb 27. #ONpoli #CanadaSky 🗳️

They removed the T and then they removed the Q and what letter are they coming for next?

Our countries have been reciprocal for so many years and it’s insane how it’s changed on a dime with 47. We hope we can get back to the stable relationship we’ve had with the US, including helping one another with disaster aid.

Fight fire with fire. If 47 wants to economically cripple Canada, we will do the same, especially red states.

Don't spend another dollar in America. Across the country people are cancelling long-planned trips.
I just heard from a Canadian travel agent who is telling her customers she won't book trips to the United States.
Canada
The boycott is strong.
Canada #strongasfuck
We don't bend.
We don't break.

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl You Cant Do That Bro

Um JD, your power comes from the same document you’re trying to undermine. So….
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I think my dad experienced the same.

My dad emigrated from Mexico City
to Canada and received this label pin along with certificate when he became a citizen in 1987. I’m glad I took time off school to see him sworn in as a Canadian citizen.

Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained access to the bureau's systems and accounts, including sensitive data.

Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained access to the bureau's systems and accounts, including sensitive data.

EPA employees who work on environmental justice are put on leave In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.

In an email obtained by NPR, employees at EPA's Office of Environmental Justice and External Civil Rights were told they were on administrative leave, effective immediately.

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

Memory-Holing Jan. 6: What Happens When You Try to Make History Vanish? The Trump administration’s decision to delete a DOJ database of cases against Capitol riot defendants places those who seek to preserve the historical record in direct opposition to their own…

NEW: The removal of the DOJ’s Jan. 6 database signals the Trump administration’s intention to not only spare his supporters any further consequences for their role in the riot, but to erase the event from the record.

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Trump and Musk demand termination of federal office leases through General Services Administration One of the next moves in President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s effort to fire government employees and curtail operations is using the agency that manages federal employee worksites around the countr...

This may not sound shocking, but it is one of the most shocking parts of this coup: why would you shut down all the federal offices unless you're nihilists who've decided we don't need a government? apnews.com/article/trum...

YouTube video by PoliticsGirl What is Happening?! A Conversation with Dr. Allison Gill

NEW POLITICSGIRL PODCAST OUT NOW!

What in God’s name is going on in our country right now? Join me and the brilliant Allison Gill @muellershewrote as we break it down.

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Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.

The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.

There is still beauty in this world

Screenshot of a CBC news article in which Trump suggests permanently displacing Palestinians so the US can take over Gaza.

Gaza belongs to Palestine — and no one else.

Trump's threats are utter madness. They violate every international law. Destabilize the region. Threaten the ceasefire.

Canada must stand up to this forcefully.

Gaza is not for sale, it belongs to Palestinians.

“I don’t think the United States Senate should vote for a single nominee until this is over!” - @chrismurphyct.bsky.social

RFK Jr. and his family stand to profit off lawsuits against vaccines. An HHS Secretary shouldn't have a financial interest in making our country sicker. I’m demanding RFK Jr. recuse himself from any work on vaccine policy while he has a financial interest in the outcome.

We Are Not Who They Think We Are: How Human Nature Matters In This Emergency Rebecca Solnit 04 Feb 2025 — 10 min read Welcome to the emergency--or rather Meditations in an Emergency, this newsletter, not the national emergency, which is of course very unwelcome. What's striking to me about all the things our morally and imaginatively impoverished billionaires, notably Musk and Trump, right now is: they do not expect or imagine or understand consequences. Any of them– their theory of change seems to be that they are going to do stuff and then it will be done. Like they're moving furniture around, like you and I and the trans and immigrant communities and federal workers and Canada and Mexico are just so many sofas and chairs that are going to sit where they place us. Like we're inanimate objects. Maybe everything is dead in the sad lonely worldview inside their head. Which would also explain their recalcitrance about climate and nature: if you see it as a collection of inert objects rather than an intricate living system in which what you do to any one part may affect the whole, you grant yourself more license to meddle. But today I'm here to talk about the human--and human nature, and how they misunderstand that too.

from Meditations in an Emergency, my new newsletter, day three: But I do not believe the people of this country will submit to the destruction and the attempts at dictatorship. We are not submitting now. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/we-are-not-w...

More USAID staff ousted after Trump administration dismantles aid agency Two officials were removed for trying to prevent DOGE access to restricted areas.

The Trump administration removed two top USAID security officials over the weekend after they tried to stop representatives from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from gaining access to restricted parts of the building reut.rs/4hmspfa