Paula Thompson

“Putin’s ideologue” urging Trump to annex Canada (while presumably allowing Russia to do what it wants to its neighbours…)

canada pm justin trudeau: “what [trump] wants is to see a total collapse of the canadian economy, because that will make it easier to annex us.”

astounding words from america’s (former) closest friend

This is a ticking timebomb in Ontario. Measles vaccination rate must be above ~95% to prevent serious outbreaks. As predicted, the RFK effect is making its way north.

Way too optimistic

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

I’m horrified. This is absolutely disgusting.

share of the global population that lives in a full democracy as of 2024: 6.6% (new low for ~20 yrs of tracking...until next year)

2 in 5 people living under authoritarian rule

-eiu democracy index

president trump: the european union was “formed to screw the united states.”

25% tarriffs being announced “very soon.”

I’m reading that King Charles, who is allegedly Canada’s head of state, has just invited Donald Trump to visit Buckingham Palace.

One hopes that one will raise the matter of threatening part of one’s realm with annexation, but one does not hope too much…

How Regime Change Happens In America Podcast Episode · Fresh Air · 02/19/2025 · 45m

Most people imagine that democracy ends with a military coup. But they are wrong

With @nprfreshair.bsky.social

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trump announcing tariffs on canada/mexico to begin march fourth, plus additional 10% on china

markets have been overly complacent on this

ANALYSIS | Allies appear to duck and cover as Trump threatens Canada and Greenland | CBC News If this were any other time, and any other country, the sort of talk we've been hearing from Trump would have drawn howls of allied and international outrage. Yet, there has been no direct public cond...

NATO allies duck and cover as Trump threatens Canada and Greenland.

“If this were any other time, and any other country, the sort of talk we've been hearing from Trump would have drawn howls of allied and international outrage.”

Is it time for Ottawa to invoke the alliance’s Article 4?

No kidding, this is a line of dialogue from a 1970 movie funded by the Russian government.

Two nurses suspended in Australia for making antisemitic remarks to Jewish patient Two nurses in a Sydney hospital have been suspended from work for threatening to kill Jewish patients and refusing to treat them in a video on TikTok,

Two nurses in Australia suspended for vowing to murder Jewish patients english.alarabiya.net/News/world/2...

Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists After years of GOP attacks on US health agencies, Trump appointees are poised to bring Covid-19 conspiracies to their leadership of US agencies. Federal workers are scared of what comes next.

Trump “intends to curtail research on infectious diseases, ban a wide swath of virological work, & perhaps even prosecute those who, it believes, created the Covid-19 pandemic.…’There is a vendetta.’”

Essential reading from @justinling.ca @wired.com

www.wired.com/story/reveng...

head of un aids agency: number of new hiv infections could increase more than 6x by 2029 if usa ends support (and nothing replaces)

‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe Dismantling of USAID could disrupt clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn

What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...

We are here: a Ukrainian border guard, upon seeing my passport, told me he felt sorry for Canada. “Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping,” he said as he stamped me out…

Vive le Canada

Sorry isn’t good enough anymore.

U.S. tariffs on Canada to start Feb. 1 with levies on oil and gas ‘around’ Feb. 18, Trump says The tariffs will be 25 per cent on Canada and Mexico, a White House spokesperson said, with Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly responding that Canada will be ready from ‘Day One’ with a retaliation...

Canada-US trade war set to begin today, with Trump expected to impose 25 per cent tariffs, and Canadian leaders vowing to respond in kind.

"This dramatically resets the entire relationship overnight."

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

share of brits who think it was right to leave the eu: 30% (new low)
#bregret
-yougov

Vladimir Putin, who has clung to power for 25 years by repeatedly altering his country's consititution, says he can't "legally" negotiate with Volodymyr Zelensky because the latter's term in office has expired...

(NB: Ukraine's 2024 elections were postponed because of the Russian invasion.)

there won’t be enough seats at the table

number of undersea sea cables damaged in the baltic sea since october 2023: at least 11

Trump order on foreign aid sees Ukrainian veteran’s organization shut down Veteran Hub, which supported Ukrainian soldiers in their post-combat lives, is one of many casualties after Mr. Trump ordered a 90-day halt to most U.S. foreign aid projects

Ukrainian NGOs are already feeling the pinch of Donald Trump's executive order freezing all US foreign aid.

Programs worldwide are being affected - from HIV relief to landmine clearing - but it's Ukraine that's being hit hardest.

My report from Kyiv

www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

This is bad news. It suggests reassortment of circulating H5N1 viruses with viruses containing N9 NA.

Although this indicates reassortment with avian viruses, it's still bad. Reassortment makes pandemics. The last 3/4 flu pandemics (and likely 1918 too) were reassortant viruses.

what a rigged election looks like:
lukashenko “wins” presidency with 87% of the vote, extending his 31 year dictatorship in belarus