I had a post about politics almost ready to go, but not tonight!
What a great game:

Report: CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA! CANADA![image or embed]— The Beaverton (@thebeaverton.com) February 20, 2025 at 10:43 PM

You can’t take our co…

How funny people can be about politics, even when things are just so grim!First, isn’t this good news!And isn’t this the way we all feel now: 
Moving on:
Can’t spell tariffs without FFS.— Jen The Feisty Librarian (@Feisty_Waters) February 12, 2025…

America won’t go down without a fight. There were massive protests across the US on Monday, with the rallying cry “No Kings!” — that precisely expressed the new American message to Trump and Musk. Here are some of the best signs – and I also…

So now, in this Year of Our Lord 2025, let’s look at where are we at.

In Canada, by mid-March, we will have a new federal Liberal leader – I hope it will be Pat Carney – who will immediately need to deal with Trump attempting to crush us with tariffs….

Our weather here on the Prairies has been generally awful this winter — cold cold and more cold, week after week since November.Well, its going to be a little more springlike next week, apparently.

Next up — politics!

It sounds like our prem…

Just a post to highlight some of our most impressive Canadians in these times. First, Elizabeth May is a national treasure:

Elizabeth May: “This is what you get: free health care – universal free health care….Those gun laws that your Congress i…

The Cons are trying to re-litigate and downplay Mark Carney’s role in protecting Canada from the world financial melt-down in 2008, and Scrimshaw is having none of it:Mark Carney was an “invaluable support” to Jim Flaherty, who praised him relentlessly…

Doom-scrolling through social media today, I learned some things:First, its always better to be pissed off than pissed on!

This is what is happening across all of Canada right now!🇨🇦😊 pic.twitter.com/VgtW7rJvVU— JustMePam (@PamelaApostolo1) February 1…

Media organizations in the US are expected to bend the knee now:

There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the pr…

To illustrate this post, here is an artwork called Non-Sign II, which was built at the Peace Arch border crossing in 2010 – I think that messy tangled black border framing an empty centre is symbolic of our Canada-US border war today.Here are some usef…

After this week, we need a little break:First, some new maps for Canada to enjoy:A comment on DEI:Some comments on our times:I don’t plan on watching the Super Bowl – except maybe to enjoy the whole stadium booing Trump! – but here’s a good football po…

Coming soon to a university hospital in America:
 “Maybe us barbers have been wrong all these years to rely on ideas which have failed us. Maybe we should study the human body intently and make our observations on fact, not superstition. Perhaps t…

 Well, this has been a shit show of a week, eh:

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: “imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of ‘Yakety Sax'”…

I’m seeing many people running around with their hair on fire tonight, desperately trying to get the Democrats in Congress to stop bleating about bipartisanship and finding common ground, and to FIGHT BACK. The American people are slow to rouse, but I …

I am seeing real fear tonight in the United States. This sums it up in a few paragraphs:Paul Krugman

What the Musk is Happening?
It’s a catastrophe, but what kind of catastrophe?

….Musk associates have been given access to the U.S. Treasury’s …

Well, what a day, eh?…We all got up to dance Oh, but we never got the chance  ‘Cause the players tried to take the field The marching band refused to yield Do you recall what was revealed The day the music died?*Here are…

 Does anyone still remember Paul Simon’s American Tune? 

…And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered
I don’t have a friend who feels at ease
I don’t know a dream that’s not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it’s alright, it’s …

 I think this will go down in history as Trudeau’s best speech — warm but resolute, articulate, clear, telling America they are wrong without blaming them, reassuring Canadians they will be treated fairly without minimizing the pain, detailed wit…

So it looks like the tariffs are on, and the suggestions are coming thick and fast — some funny, some serious: First up, maybe a bribe?
When I read Josh Marshall’s comments today, it made me wonder — since the Trump administration appears to b…

What a shameful day – 67 people die and Trump makes it all about him. This is really just another “Sharpie-gate” — remember in 2019 Trump insisted that he hadn’t made a mistake when he panicked Alabama about a hurricane warning, by inviting …

Yes, I know, I know, the Foreign Interference Commission report is more important than a polling bump – and if you want some good reporting on that report, see Dale Smith and Wesley Wark and Scrimshaw. And the tariff questions. And the Onta…

Well, yes, maybe it’s hopeless but we can still laugh.”GARGLE MY BALLS!” will be my new battle cry. https://t.co/gkuezCaBtP— Qiilu (@Qiilu1) January 29, 2025

“Gargle my balls” is the revolutionary slogan this country needs.— Pete Kotz (@petekotz.bsky…

Well, it sure wasn’t a pleasant week, really, but I still found a few good posts for everyone.First, some great stories: View on Threads

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Next, the FOTUS (Felon of the United States) first week: 🤣 gotta love a good ches…

In our Canadian way, we’re all actually mad as hell at Trump and MAGA and the whole benighted American enterprise tonight.  

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‘Canada is Not for Sale’ hats go viral in response to Trump’s tariff threats and suggestions …

Some useful opinions about the latest news:
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 Paul Krugman / Krugman Wonks Out

Voodoo Trade Policy Comes to America
What to expect when you’re expecting tariffs

…Donald Trump didn’t impose tariffs on day one. But he di…

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