Francis Wilkinson

Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

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Interesting that despite the projectile bile she nonetheless seemed eager to avoid overt perjury. Apparently, not everyone is confident that the Maga Reich will last 1,000 years.

Ring of truth here

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

I have a very low opinion of Donald Trump. I did not, however, think the USG possessed photos of Trump with half-naked Epstein victims until Pam Bondi’s testimony today.

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

“People talk a lot about ‘can you get a deal with Trump?’,” said Gerald Butts. “As someone who spent a lot of time trying to do that … the … question is, ‘Is a deal even possible with a person who does not believe in the dictionary definition of the word deal?’” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

“While less than 1 percent of the fentanyl intercepted at the US border comes from Canada,” Trudeau said, clearly signaling that his nation was performing a costly charade for an audience of one, “any amount of fentanyl is too much.”

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Today, Josh Hawley -- who voted to overturn the 2020 election after fanning the Big Lie that the election was stolen from Trump, the same lie that fueled the Jan. 6 insurrection that Hawley was egging on -- is outraged the FBI reportedly analyzed some GOP senators' phone records in its Jan. 6 probe.

Well, there's a jarring sequence of words to read.

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If Trump escalates pressure, Canada’s choice may well be to submit and suffer, or resist and suffer more. The US can inflict enormous and disproportionate pain in a trade war. Even if Canada can maintain its democracy under US pressure, it is highly likely to be collateral damage of US decline.

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, Canada’s future is less secure than perhaps at any time in postwar history, says @franciswilkinson.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Consequences of US political degradation cannot be contained within the US. African children who were alive Jan. 19 are dead today. Summary executions are US policy.
Canada’s precarious state is not the direst consequence of US political degradation. But it’s an all-but-impossible one to rectify.

Hundreds of ex-DOJ staffers accuse Pam Bondi of putting Trump over the constitution The former staffers warn that the Justice Department is failing its mission in an open letter released Monday.

At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis. www.axios.com/2025/10/06/d...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Patriot Front goons got new uniforms.

If Trump escalates pressure, ##Canada’s choice may well be to submit and suffer, or resist and suffer more. The US can inflict enormous and disproportionate pain in a trade war. Even if Canada can maintain its democracy under US pressure, it is highly likely to be collateral damage of US decline.

If the US grows more authoritarian, Europe will seek to further collective defense capacity while distancing itself from Washington (and fending off its own far-right threats). Canadians can shop for European hardware and share their woes with like-minded democracies. They can’t alter geography.

In Canada, as in Europe, increasing the defense budget is often described as an effort to placate Trump. That’s not wrong. But it’s also incomplete. Higher defense spending also represents a necessary, if inadequate, hedge against a US administration that is openly hostile to democracies.

On defense, Canada is even more locked into US priorities. “It’s very easy...to say that Canada needs to diversify its security partnerships,” said Thomas Juneau. “But in practice it’s extremely difficult. We are so deeply integrated with the US that diversification [will] take years and decades.”

The realities of capitalism and markets imply that if Trump accelerates his assault on the Canadian economy, forcing Canadian companies to choose between insolvency or moving production and jobs to the US, nationalist fervor may not last. Some executives are already considering it.

In Canada, sovereignty itself could be in play. “If the US becomes even more authoritarian, we will be pushed further,” said Ward Elcock, a former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and a former deputy minister of national defense. “They will want more subservience on trade.”

Consequences of US political degradation cannot be contained within the US. African children who were alive Jan. 19 are dead today. Summary executions are US policy.
Canada’s precarious state is not the direst consequence of US political degradation. But it’s an all-but-impossible one to rectify.

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump? Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

OTOH if you want to become president of Vichy U. that’s an impressive audition tape.

“reset race and gender relations, to establish new frameworks for anti-discrimination efforts, to rebalance the commitments of higher education to American and international students, and to restore debate across the full spectrum of views...” [Read that again with “Trump” as the subject.]

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

The Senate Judiciary Committee needs to get a copy of this OLC memo publicly released.

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Those who can’t get jobs making iPhones will have other terrific opportunities.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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