The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
I am begging my fellow Canadians to take a break for a second from obsessing about American corruption to focus on our home grown versions.
Ford is a corrupt crony goon who has done countless shady backroom deals. He wants to remove one of our most powerful tools to hold him accountable. Fuck that!
Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!
Himes: I have a theory on how this ends…
You’re going to see oil go across $100… Projections for economic growth are going to go down.
And at some point in 3-5 weeks, the president is going to say this is really not tenable. And he’s going to declare victory and walk away.
Lol
H/t @horadam.bsky.social
Maybe Tom Hanks will get stranded in the Persian Gulf and we’ll all realize oh wait this is real life
For more information on this story that would be getting much more attention if not for the state of the world, @wencyleung.bsky.social wrote an excellent story earlier this week.
#OntEd #OnPoli
[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]
Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.
Here's what I believe: no more business as usual in the Senate. We shouldn't be voting to proceed to normal legislation until Republicans schedule a debate and a vote and on a declaration of war against Iran. Let's see if Trump has the votes to authorize war. I bet he doesn't.
A navy torpedo detonates under the target, lifts it out of the water and cracks the hull. The people who aren’t thrown overboard by the blast are knocked unconscious and buried alive in their compartments when the ship sinks. We did that to 141 people today for no reason.
JUST IN: Jasmine Crockett concedes and urges Democrats to rally around James Talarico, who is now officially the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Texas.
It took longer than it should have, but congratulations to everyone - colleagues, diplomats (you know who you are), MPs, etc. - who pushed, and pushed hard, to force the government to accept reality: the attacks on Iran are a blatant and manifest violation of international law.
Smear campaigns in Reddit comments have become a fixture of celebrity legal dramas, but they aren't just affecting public figures. For @spitfirenews.com, I investigated anonymous online attacks against a woman who reported a music professor for sexual harassment.
spitfirenews.com/p/she-report...
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
"Get on board AI or get left behind", say the people willing to ignore the child sexual abuse materials and the mental health crisis it is causing. Among other issues!
"OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT." (!!!!!!!!)
84% of the time, “ChatGPT Health” killed a customer using their paid service as advertised
Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
I don't care if Congress authorizes War on Iran. NO WAR ON IRAN. I want people to fucking reclaim their morality.
"Aside from the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese Americans in the 1940s, such facilities have no precedent in American history..."
US Conference of Catholic Bishops statement on Trump's new mass prison camps.
Full statement at the link:
www.usccb.org/news/2026/th...
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.
Dear Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social, this thread expresses the Davos-speech-type sentiments Canadians had hoped to hear from you.
This Canadian is ashamed. We do not support the actions of the United States. Did your words at Davos mean nothing?
In case you’re just waking up, the U.S. has teamed up with Israel overnight to start an illegal war of regime change, apparently on a presidential whim with no involvement of Congress, and they are already committing horrific atrocities.
