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The entire American conservative MAGA “movement” has been a Russian funded op the entire time. Follow the money. It’s a straight line from Putin to CPAC.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."

Instead of panic moves like gas tax holidays, maybe governments should respond to high gas prices by providing alternatives to driving. buff.ly/Uo5UrYn

may this define her for the rest of her life. she was willing to stoop this low and still got fired. girl, bye.

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Jared Kushner wants to find a way to reward Putin for invading Ukraine with “business deals.”

The Putin Caucus.

just a breathtaking self-own here from Ted Cruz

America’s major cities should have zoning capacity for at least 4-5x their current populations, like they did back before the Big Downzones of the 60s and 70s.

There wasn’t a single Democratic elected official who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death. Not one. Donald Trump is openly celebrating Robert Mueller’s death and no Republicans are condemning him. Both sides are not the same.

Multiple sources report that Trump’s Federal Reserve Chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, is included in the Epstein files. It’s essential that the public fully understand the extent of any interactions or relationship he had with Jeffrey Epstein. I’m pushing for answers.

America spent 80 years building the most powerful alliance network in history. We blew it up in 12 months so one man could feel important. China is laughing. Russia is relieved. Our allies are making backup plans. Let’s flush the toilet of bad history. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

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He warned us he would run our country like his businesses.

Nice empirical data how upzoning works to reduce prices. By reducing the cost of the land component of housing. Also a good explanation of why one can’t take the observations from upzoning a single parcel and think they work the same for broad upzoning (a fallacy also known as Condonomics).

It’s genuinely astonishing: Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022 began along the lines of late-Soviet large-scale land warfare: with armored thrusts and insane massive artillery barrages.

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EV trucks are taking over in China Can't wait to be rid of the noise and smell of diesel trucks www.electrive.com/2026/01/23/y...

"Russia wants to be able to launch 1,000 Shaheds per day, but by 2026, they aim to reach a production capacity of 600-800 drones daily." - Zelenskyy.

Here’s a fantastic new receipt you can drop on anyone who claims that industrial carbon pricing is the cause of food inflation. Bookmark it.

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Toronto police really, really do not want to be investigated for corruption. The union represents the rank & file. This is their official stand. This is not in the public interest, the public service, the public protection.

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week alone, the Russians struck Ukraine with 1,770 attack drones, more than 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 86 missiles, including more than 20 ballistic ones.

A timeline: Russia helps Iran target civilian infrastructure and military bases in the Persian Gulf area The Gulf States and the U.S. military ask Ukraine for help. Ukraine sends drone warfare experts Putin puppet Trump eases sanctions on Russian oil and again insults Ukraine

The mayor of Toronto can barely critique the police when they’ve engaged in mass violent corruption. Her police chair will only signal support for the police. Canadian policing, nothing to see here.

The secretary of defense saying we almost have cnn in our grasp is some dark, dark shit

First news today is not really news. The US confirms countries can now buy Russian oil, striking down sanctions until at least 11 April. Experts say it will add $5bn to Putin's war chest. Trump leading the US & the world into a crisis and helping Russia. Just as Putin planned.

A very Vancouver story. The Vancouver planning system essentially requires land speculation. That’s considered so normal by now that the school board argues the land it leases should be valued on the speculative value. But ultimately judge disagrees that speculation is part of “immediate” value.

"A ten-year record of shutting down our oil and gas sector"

Vancouver City Council unanimously approved Vancouver's Official Development Plan. Vancouver's been a bit an oddity, with no statutory city-wide plan in its history.

There’s so much interesting research and innovation in Europe around sustainable materials. But unfortunately since US and Canadian codes don’t reference (essentially, trust!) the Eurocodes or other international standards, everything has to be retested at great expense for the North American market

Ukraine is actively protecting our troops and Russia is actively helping Iran target them. But every single time he's tested, Trump sides with Putin. It's the most consistent he is on any topic. No matter what they do, Trump is on Team-Russia. At this point it really doesn't matter why.

Russia is giving Iran US troop locations. Trump removed sanctions on Russia. The US is asking Ukraine for help on how to shoot drones down. What the actual fuck am I missing?

Not Putin though. He’s one of the good guys now I guess. bsky.app/profile/atru...

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Over the past week, Russia has attacked our country thousands of times – the enemy used nearly 1,750 attack drones, 1,530 guided aerial bombs, and 39 missiles against our people.

www.bbc.com/news/article... Bondi suddenly finds Epstein documents accusing Trump.of sexual and physical violence, after hearing Bondi will receive subpoena to respond under oath concerning the accusation to FBI and their 4 interviews. Filed by 13 year old victim

It could not be more obvious that the president does not care about US service members and in fact regards their deaths as mere political inconveniences. He has more sympathy for Putin than Americans who died because he decided to wage illegal war. Just listen to him.

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Well would you look at that

True colors. The IAEA Board of Governors passed a resolution condemning attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure as a nuclear safety threat, with the US voting against alongside Russia, China and Niger. 20 voted in favor, 10 abstained, 4 opposed. #Ukraine

They aren’t here for Torontonians. You have to ask why they aren’t standing up for residents.

I’m so tired of seeing people bash Bluesky for being an echo chamber when X is an actual intentionally constructed echo chamber that is demonstrably radicalizing people across the political spectrum who still use it