Nic McGinnis

But a BBC director had to resign for editing two excerpts from the same speech

Dire.

Well, that's worrying.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

I was told in grad school this was 'scientism' and never quite got the full argument why.

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck.

So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo | CNN The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative look at how climate change is affecting the United States, according to an email sent to a...

Trump administration dismisses all authors of major climate report, throwing US assessment into limbo

Source: CNN
search.app/WCNPF

Shared via the Google App

US ex-ambassadors warn of slide into authoritarianism amid ‘climate of fear’ Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiar

“The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, four former U.S. ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

GOP Rep: "Climate Change Is A Sham Because God Controls The Climate Because He Controls The Sun" - Joe.My.God. “I’ve been very outspoken about this. It’s a sham – this whole climate change is a sham. First of all, God controls the climate because he controls the sun and the sun controls the weather, primarily....

I'd call this childlike, but I've met smarter children.

Florida’s DOGE agency asks university faculty to hand over research A letter sent last week asks colleges to compile a list of all research and grants.

Florida officials are demanding that universities send lists of all research that faculty/staff have published or publicly shared in the last 6 years, even if it wasn't publicly funded.

It's not clear what they'll do with the lists, but my bet is on nothing good.
www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals To date, projections of how climate change will affect global GDP have been massively underestimated.

Global warming of more than 3°C this century may wipe 40% off the world’s economy, new analysis reveals

Source: The Conversation
search.app/aKRf6

Shared via the Google App

Should Canada explore developing a nuclear weapons program? Amid a changing global security landscape and ongoing sovereignty taunts from U.S. President Donald Trump, one military expert says Canada may need to reconsider its position on nuclear weapons.

Apart from the non-proliferation treaty and the risk of escalation, probably the timeline wouldn't work: it would take years we don't have.

Competitive authoritarianism

What the actual fuck

JD Vance, "Denmark is not being a good ally"

"If we need to take Greenland that is what President Trump will do because he doesn't care about what Europeans scream at us"

"I have here in my hand a list of two hundred and five people that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department."- Joseph McCarthy

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

Again, they think we should be grateful to join this shit show

The right dominates the online media ecosystem, seeping into sports, comedy, and other supposedly nonpolitical spaces As Americans increasingly get their news from online shows and streamers, the influence of this media ecosystem becomes more prominent — and Media Matters has found that the most popular of this conte...

C'est la droite qui domine les médias traditionnels et les médias sociaux. Une enquête de @mediamatterza.bsky.social à lire absolument.👇

Kim Campbell fut Première Ministre pour genre 15 minutes (euh 6 mois) en 1993! Mais d'accord Joly se démarque

Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.

There is no bottom.

Again, this should be the end of it, & the fact that we’re tolerating it is both a massive national security crisis & a massive constitutional crisis. Maybe nothing ever mattered, but I don’t think that’s actually true, & one wonders why we are so deeply unserious now.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

No premier should share the stage with this.

This is criminal behavior.

Inside look at Russian disinformation playbook from the DoJ

They will do us like they did Iraq with the WMDs

A Hitler-quoting 'Aryan' has the attention of JD Vance and Elon Musk—who is @captivedreamer7? The account, followed by JD Vance, previously boasted of being a white supremacist.

Again, fascists. This one is apparently Canadian. I hope he gets recognition for his work.

Fucking fascists