Martin Rayner

Such an absolutely charming delight... 🎄😊 (Despite the title card, it’s *not* colourized.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o9S...

Not Christmas without this … (at least since 1975 when it was released). #Xmas, #Musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfY4...

A timely message from Bedford Falls that somehow got completely lost on the millions of people who elected to throw their lot in with a deeply selfish “Pottersville” view of the world, not caring whatsoever about the widespread misery and cruel suffering it entails. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQDj...

Can’t wait to see what he comes up with. 😆 Hopefully, something as wickedly clever as his Moms for Liberties parody website: www.momsforliberties.com.

Hard to believe this utterly moronic and painfully awkward Xmas Eve performance featuring a flustered Trump and the contractually obligated “First Lady” attempting to communicate with innocent little kids as they track Santa’s progress on NORAD is actually real. 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxcs...

This fearless young man is brilliant... an absolute delight to watch him engaging with brain-broken Trump supporters who suddenly flee, mentally shut down, or descend into blithering incoherence whenever their idiocy, ignorance, and flaming hypocrisy is exposed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjoU...

A closer look at the patently insane folly of Trump’s new class of “battleships” and his ludicrous “Golden Fleet” that “flies in the face of all modern thinking, all military logic, and against all the evidence seen in the ongoing development of modern navies.” 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uxm...

The outrageous lies and disturbing insanity of Tucker Carlson. Unfortunately, in our present timeline, cynical fear mongering clowns like this cannot simply be dismissed as they have a certain constituency among the right-wing... on both sides of the border! #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak4j...

This is more than a little interesting... 🤔 Seemingly worth further investigation, if nothing else. www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoAU...

Wealth inequality viewed through the prism of Dickens. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI24...

A highly informative report from “Business Insider” that explains the current challenges facing the overstressed US power grid, the growing role played by renewables, the economics of utility companies, and the variety of reasons why electricity costs are rising. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Z...

Arron Kowalski, a Nebraska farmer and Republican politician, explains the reasons behind the increasing problem of harmful agricultural run-off and proposes a pragmatic solution to mitigate the issue that otherwise could result in an ecological disaster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5Sh...

Intelligent conversation goes to die on a painfully awkward podcast between a terrible interviewer and a horrible person. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz5H...

“A groundbreaking economic experiment… where traditional market dynamics are turned upside down!” Well, that’s one way of describing what turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. Even so, as expected, Anthropic insisted the laughable failure represented “enormous progress.” tinyurl.com/bde4h3yd

Indeed. 🙁

When life gives you stumps... 😆 tinyurl.com/ymxh5rdw

A disgruntled Uber driver tours the desolate streets of St. Pete Beach, a forlorn Florida resort town on the “Gulf of America” where many of the houses are now for sale or rent… No longer quite the bustling seaside tourist mecca that it once was, evidently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAUj...

Sorting fact from fiction when it comes to Trump’s childishly simplistic and erroneous claims about why pharmaceutical prices are so much higher in the US than in Europe and why his proposed executive order addressing the problem will be more of a grift than gift. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbPd...

No shortage of irony in this look at Bentonville, AK, the hometown of Walmart, that benefits from the largesse (and personal interests) of the Walton family, despite the company having contributed to the hollowing out of countless Main Streets across America. 🤨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=61JL...

Another example of Elon Musk’s blatant lies and corporate fraud. In this instance, the safety claims made for Tesla “robotaxis” that are, evidently, 50X over-inflated compared to the actual crash/incident data the company is required to file. 🙄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT-s...

Cute. 🎄😆 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEy...

Trump is now invested in a nuclear fusion venture. The world gets stranger by the day... 🤷‍♂️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gDE...

Tech industry Cassandra and self-described “AI hater” Ed Zitron dumping on the concept of artificial intelligence and the financial legerdemain driving its current boom in the market even though it’s proving to be “horribly unprofitable and not particularly good.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=64g4...

Publicly shaming and stigmatizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent for being a shockingly stupid and malevolent prick who’s directly responsible for policies that have resulted in widespread death and suffering around the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wny...

Interesting discussion between Ben Meiselas and Andrew Ross Sorkin about the shift to “state capitalism” under Trump, the uncertain state of the now troubled US economy, and concerning parallels to policies and conditions that led to the Great Depression. www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_iZ...

“This was not a holiday address from the president of a great democracy to its citizens. This was a desperate tin-pot leader yelling into a microphone while cornered in his palace redoubt.” Tom Nichols nailed Trump’s unhinged performance last night. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

An eye-opening report about Fermi America, a delusional, possibly fraudulent, and now doomed energy generating company founded by a failed banker and unhinged pro-Trump grifter that’s also closely affiliated with former Texas Governor and Energy Secretary Rick Perry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANE...

The abrupt implosion of the far-right OneBC party affords an opportunity to take a closer look at the internecine conflict now taking place among the hateful pack of deranged lunatics that it had attracted prior to becoming a circular firing squad. #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShHE...

A thoughtful rant from a Vancouver footie fan about FIFA’s egregious price gouging scheme and unfair distribution model for the upcoming 2026 World Cup tournament in North America that is expected to generate $13 billion in ticket sales. #FIFA, #FIFA2026WorldCup www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA_t...

Hmmm. What if Trump’s absurdly large White House ballroom is more than just a vainglorious architectural folly, but in actuality an ultra-secure underground data centre built to house the agentic “brain” of the US government? 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbJ4...

Some gastronomic escapism. British food reviewer Gary Hanna shares an insanely expensive, once-in-a-lifetime dining experience: a highly creative, multi-course Christmas meal staged by Heston Blumenthal’s renowned Fat Duck Restaurant in Berkshire, England. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXDr...

Aside from being a snarky, lying weasel and a shameless hypocrite, Poilievre is a broken record, just repeating the same vapid campaign slogans and hysterical fear mongering that has disaffected many voters, including some within his own party. #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjll...

This deadpan Nebraska farmer explains a few essential things about the economics of the US agricultural system that are generally not that well understood by a lot of people who normally don’t think over much about such things. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHVz...

No surprise that Trump would double down on being an awful person with no class and who’s absent any decency whatsoever. Same for deplorable MAGAts defending or lamely justifying his deranged reaction in the most wildly disingenuous and dishonest ways possible. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXlE...

A appalling new low... even for Trump. What a vile creature.

A very edifying (and timely, under the circumstances) documentary about the shameful history of US interventions in Central and South America during the last century, often in collaboration with the monopolistic United Fruit Co., much to the detriment of that region. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-a9x...

Had no idea that two-thirds of Vancouver Island is made up of volcanic basalt from the Late Triassic age, some 200 million years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guwz...

Somewhat comical that the OneBC party, which has just two elected members in the legislature, has defenestrated its leader just weeks after the BC Conservative Party did the exact same thing. The right-wing in western Canada seems really stressed at the moment... tinyurl.com/77y9umaf #CdnPoli

These new coins the US Mint will be issuing to commemorate America’s 250th anniversary are, for the most part, really quite off-putting, if not downright ugly. 🤔 More here: tinyurl.com/4ukyc4su

ICYMI: NDP interim leader Don Davies delivered a wickedly funny speech at the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner in Ottawa a couple of weeks ago. A real joy to watch. 😊 #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVfw...

Mmmmm. Honey mustard Buffalo wings… a success! Damn, should have made more.

Arches on the brain for some reason... Quite a fascinating little video on the subject, actually. BTW, seriously doubt the proposed “Arc de Trump” will “blow away—in every way” the iconic one in Paris commissioned by Bonaparte and completed three decades later. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8eb...

Sure that’s going to resonate with the millions of ordinary Americans struggling to make ends meet amid a worsening affordability crisis. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Arkansas is the top state to move to in 2024, a result of our focus to make it the best state to live, work, and raise a family!” — Sarah Huckabee Sanders Not so much outside the immediate environs of Benton County, apparently. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YTR...

There’s something symbolic about everything that’s gone horribly wrong w/ late-stage capitalism in America’s, ahem, “Golden Age” when places like this luxury “grocery store” in one of NYC’s trendiest neighborhoods exist just miles away from so-called food deserts. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMe9...

Always amusing (edifying?) to see what right-wing blowhards are saying… In this case an infuriated, catastrophically dim, MAGA Maple Alberta separatist who vows not to vote in future elections because he’s sick of Canada’s federal political system. 😆🍁 #CdnPoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=voYO...

“Let X=X” from Laurie Anderson’s 1982 album “Big Science”. Still sounds ahead of its time. #Musicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4_q...

Interesting... 🤔 studyfinds.org/conservative...

“The Christmas of Those Left Behind” (1903) a sombre scene of loneliness and abandonment by the brilliant (but obscure) Italian Divisionist painter Angelo Morbelli. #Art More here about Morbelli: tinyurl.com/2ykrcvbn

McDonald’s & AI-generated Xmas slop… what could go wrong? “When we asked the artery-clogging megacorporation why it had taken the ad down, it responded with a statement that’s the linguistic equivalent of a chicken nugget: unfulfilling, and strangely evasive about its origins.” tinyurl.com/mrzyfhhv