Martin Grasdal 🍁

Monstrous beyond all reckoning. The US is using remote sensing *designed for humanitarian purposes* for the opposite purpose, potentially drowning civilians en masse. Trump hates Somalis. His troops appear to be exploiting the weather to help slaughter them. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

men have always been pretty questionable but imo not enough people have really wrapped their heads around how thoroughly the internet has cooked men's brains over the last ~15 years.

It would be nice if news headlines/reports stopped saying “BC Conservatives win first majority in a century” when the BC Liberals and Socreds won plenty of majorities and were, you know, conservative.

Well this is eleventy-million kinds of Fucked Up. @latimes.com (who once contracted with me as a freelance reviewer and whom I struggled to get paid by) asserts that *merely reading its website* constitutes a permanent waiver of your right to sue it under *any circumstances*.

NEW from me: Last year, Mark Carney set a goal to double Canada's non-US exports by 2035. Today, he's already halfway there In response to Trump's tariffs & threats, Canadian businesses, consumers, & even tourists are taking difficult steps to decouple from the US🧵 www.apricitas.io/p/how-canada...

There’s a story behind this and it’s quite funny. Apparently Flock got Fckd by AI, then Flock hired Doppel to scrape it’s data back, that’s when the data was moved to Proton, in Switzerland. Now Doppel’s cease & desists are ignored. proton.me/flock-camera...

Free weekend update is out. Its mostly a deep dive into the Starlink/Starshield move by Trump and Musk (yes both of them) which did real damage to Ukraine and proved a point. Trump reacts to pressure, not flattery. Standing up to him is the only way. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

BC about to experience the find out moment very quickly, perhaps earlier than most expected.

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...

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Michal de Adder

BC about to experience the craziness of Alberta under a UCP government, except worse. Cue the extreme right wing nutbars and political consultants who will move quickly to consolidate this gift to maple MAGA.

David Eby is about to learn the same lesson about political opportunism that David Peterson (1990) and Jim Prentice (2015) learned.

How to make sure 75% of the people who clicked leave after the first sentence.

Obama: "Canada, that historical adversary of ours. It's your neighbour, a few minutes drive over the bridge. They are the nicest people. And somehow we've gotten them so mad because they're just constantly being abused and talked about. Talking about annexing their country, making it a 51st state."

American politicians and business leaders were too busy interfering in Alberta referendum to actually do their homework and realise this isn’t true. Hoekstra is a liar going back to his days in the House anyhow

A Russian subsidiary of Germany’s Metro AG transferred 1 billion rubles to the Russian military without the company’s approval. Metro AG says it did not authorize the donations. On Sept. 28, Putin placed the subsidiary under Kremlin control.

So many have come out to protest in Paris for an end to endless austerity to make the billionaires trillionaires and everyone else homeless.

One can only hope that Maine voters are not dumb enough to fall for this latest cynical gambit. The Trump admin could have easily removed these tariffs months ago and can easily put them back, assuming no is able to stop this lawless activity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Put aside the economic stupidity of the Trump admin's Canada tariffs, the political stupidity is just unbound. The election is in less than two weeks. The cake is baked. No Maine voters are changing their mind because you exempted blueberry producers for a week.

Has Danielle Smith just relegated the UCP to the Boneyard of Broken Alberta Political Brands? albertapolitics.ca/2026/10/has-...

it’s amazing how these billionaire tech freaks *love* mainstream sci-fi and superhero movies, and also manage to completely miss the incredibly unsubtle and heavy-handed “we need to protect human creativity and freedom” moral that essentially all those movies are imbued with

How right-wing authoritarian politics is intertwined with domestic liife. MAGA parents who think Trump is worthy of respect, despite his broken promises and horrible conduct, might believe their children owe them similar respect, regardless of their conduct toward them. Great read.

The concentration of American wealth—and the accompanying concentration of political power—now poses an existential threat to our democracy. Stock buybacks have made this situation measurably worse than it otherwise would have been.

Trump summons a conclave of MAGA Republican Catholic bishops to the Oval Office to demonstrate their fealty to him and to bless his election campaign. The Vatican is not amused. Expect early retirement for many of them.

Trump's new fraud hotline got flooded with accusations against him and his criminal family.

You might have to be Canadian to get this joke, but it's a real banger.

Once mass spam texts were made legal, younger donors vanished, leaving a grassroots fundraising machine that subsists on squeezing vulnerable seniors, some of whom give hundreds of times a day. It’s a horrific model. Consultants get generationally wealthy, and the party hollows out its future.

Why is this government allowing Israeli companies blacklisted for genocide to acquire Canadian companies - contrary to our own laws and policies? The government's response is what exactly?

Krugman is a liberal economist but even still 10 years ago I couldn't imagine him calling for expropriation and (temporary) nationalization of a major company. What stage of capitalism is this? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-time-t...

Both one of the funniest and, at the same time, horrifying things I have read today. I don't think I'll see the the film, but the gullibility and depravity of the Cohen's targets in this film is next level. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

Great article in the Guardian, but it got the causality wrong. "But as a growing number of Albertans sour on immigration, the government position has shifted." No. The government soured on immigration and launched a propaganda campaign against it. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Dozens of reports now that Tennessee voting machines have been rigged by the state's GOP to make it impossible to vote for any other than GOP candidates. This story is viral in British media, but not in the US. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

What we all knew was coming has finally begun www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

"I'm WaItInG fOr ChInEsE eVs" [bonus unserious-ness points if it's a market that discourages them like Canada or the U.S.] Bummer, time and time again, we are reminded there are already better options here, and time and time again, they're Korean 😘

Now at its highest level in five months.

if you wanna know what software dev is like sometimes, dusklight is currently crashing for people in Alberta, Canada because Microsoft didn't update their timezone database when they added a new timezone to windows

No rest for weary democrats in Alberta this week. Next up: pushing back against gerrymandering. Here's my latest on what it is, why we should care, and what we can do about it. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/plain-chea...

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