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Today’s News: Reaching our gag limit with ICE and Trump

Posted January 8, 2026 by Anonymous

Today, we saw tragedy in Minneapolis and war-mongering by Trump and his administration. The world has reached its gag limit with Trump, and maybe even Americans are fed up too.Minneapolis
So you all know what happened in Minneapolis today:

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Today’s News: Scenarios of Doom

Posted January 7, 2026 by Anonymous

I think we are all a little frightened now. Trump has lost his mind, and so has President Miller. And they’re taking America with them. I’m reading way too many scenarios of doom tonight.

Want a visualization of how the Trump administration …

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Speaking out against Trump and his banana-pants economic “regime change” wars

Posted January 6, 2026 by Anonymous

When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying “well, I didn’t vote for him!”
And when it is people inside the United States who are being hurt, international relations morality doesn’t require that politician…

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1.Attack Venezuela 2.???? 3.PROFIT!

Posted January 4, 2026 by Anonymous

No Sunday-Funday post tonight – things are just too serious right now. Hopefully next Saturday night we can laugh again…
There was world-wide reaction today to Trump’s “regime change” war of choice against Venezuela. I’m focusing tonight ma…

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Finishing the week with a few more Good News stories

Posted January 3, 2026 by Anonymous

Following from my “good news” post yesterday, I wanted to wrap up this week with a few other stories along the same lines. First, this performance is just stunning and makes me look forward to the Olympics, just a month away now:Ilia Malinin, an…

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Some happy to enjoy

Posted January 2, 2026 by Anonymous

Oh, aren’t we all just tired of feeling like everything everywhere all at once is going wrong? I can hardly stand to hear Trump anymore, or Poilievre, or listen to MSNBC – or whatever they are called now.So I thought I should just post a few…

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Happy New Year, I hope! Here are some funny posts, great fireworks, summaries of 2025, advice for 2026, new year’s resolutions, great dogs, Calvin & Hobbs, and Thomas Hardy

Posted January 1, 2026 by Anonymous

Some funny posts about New Year’s Eve:

Welcome To New Year’s Eve[image or embed]— Brittlestar (@brittlestar.com) December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM

My error. I turned on the TV, and I thought he was dead.[image or embed]— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.soc…

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2025 roundup, Part Two

Posted December 31, 2025 by Anonymous

Hey gang, I threatened to post another 2025 round up if I found more posts… and here they are!For the life of me I can’t comprehend the demand for so many Year 2025 in Review pieces. We were there, mostly conscious – why do we need reminding?— Giles …

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2025 roundup: a dumpster fire of a year, really

Posted December 30, 2025 by Anonymous

I’m starting to see some of the “2025 in review” posts here and there, so I thought I would begin a round-up of the most interesting ones. If I find more, then I’ll do another batch tomorrow. First, some short posts:The 2025 Year in Review:

It su…

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Sunday Funday: Some good and funny posts, Paul Fairie’s headline contest, Trump Watch, and Animal Crackers

Posted December 28, 2025 by Anonymous

Funny posts
– Carlita ShawRead on Substack

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[image or embed]— Albino Badguy (@albinobadguy.bsky.social) December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Funny Numbers

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Announcing that I am “Radical Left Scum” too

Posted December 27, 2025 by Anonymous

Not a lengthy post tonight, but I just have to join the thousands online who are announcing themselves as “Radical Left Scum” following Trump’s crazy Christmas Eve rant:

“Radical Left Scum”

What an asshole he is.[image or embed]— Frank Amari …

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Christmas Funday: Some good cartoons, funny posts, and videos. And a little politics, of course

Posted December 25, 2025 by Anonymous

Just some good stuff to enjoy on Christmas day.

This is wonderful:
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🔴 Merry Christmas, Prime Minister. 🎄

To you all, especially Nico. 🙂 – Fun TomRead on Substack

This….would be memorable:
they don’t tell you when you b…

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Festivus for the rest of us, plus the CBC Carney interview, and a few funny posts

Posted December 24, 2025 by Anonymous

Happy Festivus!

First, there was actually a Festivus miracle today:
BREAKING: Huge loss for Trump administration at Supreme Court, which rules that the Trump administration had lacked authority to federalize and deploy the National Guard to exec…

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Today’s News: Its the incompetence, stupid! #EpsteinFiles #BariWeiss

Posted December 23, 2025 by Anonymous

If there is one thing that might save the United States from sinking into fascism and tyranny, it will be the utter incompetence of the entire Trump administration and all its sycophants.
Two cases just today show the Trumpsters stepping on rake…

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Sunday Funday: A roundup of short takes, funny posts and interesting stuff, plus Christmas is coming, more TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

Posted December 21, 2025 by Anonymous

Hi all – I found some great posts this week to share.Short takes and funny postsWord of the year
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.— Merriam-Webster (@merriam-webster.com) December 15, 2025 at 8:07 AM

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A Festival of TrumpWatch

Posted December 20, 2025 by Anonymous

TrumpWatch is what I call the world’s most desired event. And usually I include a TrumpWatch section in my weekly Sunday Funday posts. But this week, I’ve seen a positive plethora of TrumpWatch – maybe its the coming war with Venezuela, or tha…

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Talking about Canadian politics: The CBC At Issue panel, Eric Blais, Evan Scrimshaw, Brittlestar

Posted December 19, 2025 by Anonymous

The CBC At Issue panel
This was the panel’s “wrap up” discussion about 2025:

TLDL: best stories of the last year (Trudeau, Carney, Trump, and Poilievre’s election loss), most newsworthy premiers (Ford, Smith, Kinew)Eric Blais on how Poilievre d…

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Today’s News: The photos are the bonfire of the Vanity Fair articles. Plus short takes on Trump, Skate Canada, Poilievre, and hockey refs

Posted December 18, 2025 by Anonymous

Yesterday everyone was talking about the blockbuster Vanity Fair article – Part One and Part Two – mainly on Trump’s Chief of Staff Susan Wiles.And here are gift links to Peter Baker’s New York Times articles about the VF pieces – here and here.
The T…

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Is Trump going to declare war on Venezuela?

Posted December 17, 2025 by Anonymous

I used to think that the Iraq War was the stupidest war in history.
I was wrong.
It will be the Venezuela War that Trump is going to declare on Wednesday.

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Four days to go to release Epstein files.

Which means he’ll go to war…

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Today’s News: Poilievre loses the media and Trump loses his mind

Posted December 16, 2025 by Anonymous

Poilievre did a couple of big media interviews this weekend, displaying the incisive rhetoric, perceptive analysis and nuanced review of his own performance as leader that we’ve all come to expect:

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Sunday Funday: A bunch of funny posts, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Posted December 14, 2025 by Anonymous

A shorter post tonight, as I have a busy day tomorrow. But I did find some good posts this week so enjoy!

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Now this is the kind of convoy I actually like to see:
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History is j…

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Today’s News: “tired of the petty little games”

Posted December 13, 2025 by Anonymous

In my post yesterday I noted that Conservative MP Michael Ma had crossed the floor to join the Carney Liberals – another Festivus miracle!
Today I saw some more good comments about it, including some chuckles about the timing.
Because first, Ma w…

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Things that make me cheer out loud – Canada grows, and Trump declines

Posted December 12, 2025 by Anonymous

So after yesterday’s gloomy post, I found some good stuff to share tonight:

First, Carney keeps growing that Liberal caucus!

Ontario MP Michael Ma crosses floor to Liberals. One short of a majority. 😬

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— Holly Jolly Hoye 🎄 🇨🇦 (@hollyhoye.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM

Carney just needs one more now. Who’s next?

Live shot of Pierre Poilievre at the Liberal Xmas Party:

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— Edge O. Erin (@edgeoerin.com) December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM

Canada is quickly implementing an enormous but manageable expansion to its armed forces:

CBC: The Canadian military is planning to put together a force of “100,000 reserve soldiers and an additional 300,000 citizen soldiers in a supplementary reserve, should the need arise”. This makes sense to me. There are so many threats to our country from climate change to our neighbours doing something unthinkable.

Organizing and training citizens allows communities to help themselves and each other when emergencies arise. Far too many of us just expect the government will swoop in and save us in a crisis. We’re not a bunch of helpless victims, or we shouldn’t be. This is Canada for goodness sake. We need to get back to knowing we can take care of ourselves.

When I was a kid we lived a long drive from grocery stores or a hospital. Our freezer and cupboards were always stocked. We had a garden and a pantry full of preserves. We had a wood stove and lanterns.

When the power went out we knew it probably going to be off for a while. When snow shut everything down we knew it might be days before we could get out again. We weren’t in a panic because we were prepared. We checked on our neighbours and counted on our neighbours to work together and just deal with it as best we could. Sounds like our government is planning to help us get back to taking care of ourselves and each other. That’s a plan I can get behind.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/army-mobilization-canada-troops-9.7009323

– Karen Bringleson

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I did not realize our Arctic communications systems would be so complicated to build, but the Canadian governments are putting it in place:

A Quick FYI: Canada’s Long Road to Better Arctic Communications

If you missed it, Ottawa’s new Defence Investment Agency just made its first move: a small ($3M) early-phase contract with Telesat and MDA Space to design new satellite communications for the Arctic.

Nothing flashy yet — this is still the planning stage — but it’s part of a much bigger, much older project called the Enhanced Satellite Communications Project – Polar (ESCP-P). And that’s where the story really gets interesting.

1. This work didn’t start this year — it started in 2017.

The first federal documents for ESCP-P went out eight years ago. Since then, the project has rolled through feasibility studies, consultations, and technical pre-work. It’s one of the quiet, long-haul files that rarely makes headlines but matters hugely to sovereignty.

2. And it won’t finish quickly either — we’re talking about a 2041 horizon.

Full operational capability isn’t expected until the late 2030s or even 2041. That’s not government foot-dragging; it’s the reality of building secure satellite systems for one of the harshest regions on Earth.

3. The goal is simple: keep Canada connected where it matters most.

Reliable Arctic communications aren’t just a military wish-list item. They’re the backbone for:

Search-and-rescue

NORAD operations

Local sovereignty patrols

Monitoring shipping and climate shifts

Responding quickly to emergencies

In the Arctic, distance and weather erase the usual options. Satellites aren’t a luxury — they’re the only real line of communication.

4. The big signal here: Canada has been working on this… and we can’t slow down now.

The 2017–2041 timeline tells two truths at the same time:

a) This isn’t a new concern. Successive governments have understood that the North is becoming more contested — by climate change, by global shipping, and by foreign powers testing boundaries.

b) We don’t have the luxury of pausing. If anything, we’re playing catch-up. The Arctic is changing faster than our timelines, and Canada’s communications, surveillance, and response capacity need to keep pace.

5. For now, this first contract is tiny — but symbolically important.

It shows the new procurement agency is active, and it marks a shift toward treating Arctic security as a long-term, industrial-scale project involving Canadian companies.

It’s the start of a long relay — one we absolutely can’t drop the baton on.https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/economy/article-ottawas-defence-investment-agency-completes-first-procurement-aims-to/

– Leni Spooner

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Our agriculture production is finding markets worldwide – I’m not sure who’s post Ward is quoting from here, but this is well said:

From the post … “Trump believed that the rest of the world would obediently go along and pay the gangster administration whatever Trump demanded.

That isn’t happening.

Countries like Canada, Brazil, Australia, and Mexico are moving into markets that were previously dominated by the American brand. Our allies know longer see the United States as a reliable partner.

This has resulted in real benefits for Canada.

We are witnessing a huge increase in corn exports – particularly to Europe, the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Ireland. An RBC report (https://www.rbc.com/en/thought-leadership/the-trade-hub/food-first-how-agriculture-can-lead-a-new-era-for-canadian-exports/ states Canada could increase global sales by 30% with the key element being to diversify from the American market.

At the same time, there has been a huge uptake in domestic production as Canadian farmers and entrepreneurs move into areas once dominated by the U.S. Domestic food security must be considered a vital strategic goal because, as economic losses mount south of the border, Trump will start to play hardball.

The only way we get through to the other side of this dark time is to diversify, hold the line and deny victories to an increasingly desperate MAGA machine. In the fight against the 1930 gangster revival, Canada must last one day longer and be one day stronger than Trump.

We’ve got this.”

– Anne Ward

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#ElbowsUp is making Canada stronger:

“Canada’s GDP grew in Q3” because #CanadaStrong #UnCanadaFort 🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp #ViveLeCanada 🇨🇦 #BuyCanadian #MaîtresChezNous #CanadianStaycation

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“Canada’s new government is investing big to attract world-class talent in science and technology — and become an innovation powerhouse.”

— Mark Carney
Canada’s Prime Minister 🇨🇦

PM Carney and his team are working hard for Canada while PoiLIEvre hang by a thread 🪡

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 8:57 PM

Meanwhile, it is gratifying to see how the Trump administration is getting pulled up short on its cruelty to immigrants:

BREAKING: Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been released from immigration detention after a federal judge’s order Thursday, his attorney’s office says.

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— The Associated Press (@apnews.com) December 11, 2025 at 4:27 PM

Churches are speaking out:

Faith leaders across Minnesota are coming together in solidarity with their Somali neighbors!

Rev. Paul Graham with St. Ansgar’s Lutheran Church in Cannon delivered a #CupOfJoe w/ a message of #LoveThyNeighbor.

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— TizzyWoman (@tizzywoman.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM

I don’t know what city this was, but this teacher telling ICE to get out of her school is wonderful:

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America is organizing to fight back:

@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.

This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.

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— 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 (@50501movement.bsky.social) December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) December 6, 2025 at 5:42 AM

Trump still yells at clouds but they’re not listening:

More of this, please!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/us/indiana-senate-redistricting-republicans.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

– Canada Resists

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And apparently the MAGA faithful aren’t listening to President Whine anymore either:

Aw, I love that for Grampy Piss-Pants. A nice tiny crowd to match his dick.

Hopefully, he freaks out enough to stroke out over it.

– The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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Finally, even typefaces are choosing the right side:

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Things that make me go hummm…. a Russian plot, a tanker hijacking, old man goes crazy and takes America with him. And the world won’t forget it.

Posted December 11, 2025 by Anonymous

Today I seemed to see a lot of stuff that was just crazy, so I thought, hey, lets share it!
First, what?

Wow — Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/…[image or embed]— Aaro…

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Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another “bite me!” moment for Carney.

Posted December 10, 2025 by Anonymous

Today was the day that Parliament voted on the Conservatives Gotcha! motion about the Canada-Alberta pipeline MOU.
Poilievre stepped on a rake while Carney skated through it. In The Globe and Mail, Stephanie Levitz writes:

Conservative Leader …

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Today’s News: Reaching our gag limit with ICE and Trump

Today’s News: Scenarios of Doom

Speaking out against Trump and his banana-pants economic “regime change” wars

1.Attack Venezuela 2.???? 3.PROFIT!

Finishing the week with a few more Good News stories

Some happy to enjoy

Happy New Year, I hope! Here are some funny posts, great fireworks, summaries of 2025, advice for 2026, new year’s resolutions, great dogs, Calvin & Hobbs, and Thomas Hardy

2025 roundup, Part Two

2025 roundup: a dumpster fire of a year, really

Sunday Funday: Some good and funny posts, Paul Fairie’s headline contest, Trump Watch, and Animal Crackers

Announcing that I am “Radical Left Scum” too

Christmas Funday: Some good cartoons, funny posts, and videos. And a little politics, of course

Festivus for the rest of us, plus the CBC Carney interview, and a few funny posts

Today’s News: Its the incompetence, stupid! #EpsteinFiles #BariWeiss

Sunday Funday: A roundup of short takes, funny posts and interesting stuff, plus Christmas is coming, more TrumpWatch, and Animal Crackers

A Festival of TrumpWatch

Talking about Canadian politics: The CBC At Issue panel, Eric Blais, Evan Scrimshaw, Brittlestar

Today’s News: The photos are the bonfire of the Vanity Fair articles. Plus short takes on Trump, Skate Canada, Poilievre, and hockey refs

Is Trump going to declare war on Venezuela?

Today’s News: Poilievre loses the media and Trump loses his mind

Sunday Funday: A bunch of funny posts, plus TrumpWatch and Animal Crackers

Today’s News: “tired of the petty little games”

Things that make me cheer out loud – Canada grows, and Trump declines

Things that make me go hummm…. a Russian plot, a tanker hijacking, old man goes crazy and takes America with him. And the world won’t forget it.

Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another “bite me!” moment for Carney.

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