2025 roundup, Part Two

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 Wilkes (@gilesyb.bsky.social) December 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM

Well, yes. 

But its still worthwhile to take a glance back and see whether we have come far enough, and if we're going in the right direction:

👏👏 Canada is quietly but firmly putting the bully in the corner. "[Felon's] worldview crashed into a wall of reality in 2025 when Canada, America’s polite northern neighbor, finally decided to stop apologizing and start fighting back."

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— strea3m.bsky.social (@strea3m.bsky.social) December 28, 2025 at 5:36 AM

2025 roundup: a dumpster fire of a year, really

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 sucked.

- Howard Fox

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Works as a 2025 metaphor on so many levels!

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— Betty Cracker of Florida (@bettycrackerfl.bsky.social) December 28, 2025 at 1:38 PM

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SHOWN: 2025 in a photo.

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— Middle Age Riot (@middleageriot.bsky.social) December 29, 2025 at 10:02 AM

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

Funny posts

- Carlita Shaw

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— Albino Badguy (@albinobadguy.bsky.social) December 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM

Announcing that I am "Radical Left Scum" too

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.

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— Frank Amari (@frankamari.bsky.social) December 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM

Actual Christmas posts from yesterday, Christmas 2025.

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— Laguna Beach Democratic Club (@lagunabeachdems.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 11:17 AM

I am radical left scum. You are radical left scum. We are all radical left scum. 😏🤭😂

— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 12:42 PM

We are Radical Left Scum. We fight fascists. 🇨🇦

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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 1:03 PM

Do I need a separate membership card to be Radical Left Scum, or will my ANTIFA card suffice?

- The Mouthy Renegade Writer

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On behalf of everyone in The Resistance movement following the massive EPSTEIN coverup, I want to wish all my fellow Radical Left Scum the happiest of holidays!- ♥️, Mar🐫

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 2:25 PM

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) December 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM

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

 

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 Tom

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This....would be memorable:

they don’t tell you when you buy a christmas tree at the christmas tree farm that you could take it home, decorate it, and then be relaxing in your living room seven nights later when A BAT suddenly flies out and starts CRASHING AROUND YOUR HOUSE

— Will Oremus (@willoremus.com) December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM

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

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 execute laws in Illinois. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

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— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) December 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM

And another miracle:

Kudos to everyone who called them “Kavanaugh stops.” The name stung. So now he’s saying: “DON’T CALL THEM KAVANAUGH STOPS! Ignore what I said before. Of course DHS needs reasonable suspicion and can’t racial profile. Why would anyone think otherwise?”

— Kira (@kiragooddog.bsky.social) December 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM

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

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 rakes.

The US Justice Department fucks up the Epstein file release 

So you all know about the thousands of pages of Epstein file material that the US justice department released on Friday?
Well, so then this happens:
First, on Saturday they took 16 pages back, then they released some again:

DOJ Restores Image of Trump to Epstein Files Website After Backlash The Justice Dept said it pulled 15 files from its released Epstein documents to assess whether further redactions to protect victims. Read in TIME: apple.news/A65X_70-1Sae... 🔥nobody believes you are trying to protect the victims🔥

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— enuffsaysv.bsky.social (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM

Next, you all know that Epstein file pages have been set up so that if you search for "Trump", nothing comes up. 

Turns out there was an easy way around that:

HAH: If you search "Trump" on the Files you get zero results. But if you search "Trump " with a space after, you get 600+ results. So, they blocked "Trump" searches, but they're so stupid they didn't block the workaround. Have fun, and enjoy. Pass. It. On. 😎✨

— California Dreamin’… 😎 (@jerasikehorn.bsky.social) December 22, 2025 at 1:24 AM

Next, you know all those hundreds of pages of redactions in the Epstein documents? 

Turns out there's an easy way around that too.

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

Hi all - I found some great posts this week to share.

Short takes and funny posts
Word 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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I think it was windy all across the country this week:

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A Festival of TrumpWatch

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 that crazy Rant To The Nation that interrupted everyone's TV viewing, or the release of heavily-redacted Epstein files, but people have gone absolutely overboard with so many TrumpWatch posts recently that I just can't resist sharing them all. 

Enjoy!

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

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)

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

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 Trumpsters are outraged - OUTRAGED - to be quoted accurately in the article. How dare they?
You know, the same type of thing happened all the time during Trump 45, where some flunky blabbed all over the place then Trump gets mad and the flunky blames the reporter for reporting exactly and accurately what they said:

"We had no idea the conversations we were having were going to be used for a Vanity Fair article!"
"Hey everyone please come to the conference room we have a Vanity Fair photoshoot at 2pm."

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— The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠 (@getmoresmarter.com) December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM

I have found several great threads - not about the article itself but about the great photos for this article -- which I thought were worth sharing.

Is Trump going to declare war on Venezuela?

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 with Venezuela in the next three days.

— Mr. Spock 🖖 (@spockresists.bsky.social) December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM

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

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

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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Today's News: "tired of the petty little games"

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 was at the Conservative Christmas party on Wednesday night:

This is a photo from the @thestar.com from the CPC Christmas Party last night. Ma is smiling with Poilievre.

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— Duane Bratt (@duanebratt.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM

And then he literally crossed the floor to the Liberal party:

Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes new Liberal MP Michael Ma on stage at the Liberal Christmas party.

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— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM

I'm afraid that Michael Ma doing this to his former Conservative colleagues right before crossing the floor is absolutely iconic. 10/10, no notes:

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— Glonzo In Exile 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 (@glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social) December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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

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

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.

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/...

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM

Next, why?

WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

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— BNO News (@bnonews.com) December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM

Hey if you were wondering whether Hegseth's soldiers are willing to obey illegal orders, let's ask the ones who were last seen scurrying down ropes onto the deck of a Venezuelan oil tanker like contemptible Somali pirates, jonesing to steal some oil as part of a unilateral and unprovoked act of war

— Seth Abramson (@sethabramson.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

— Tim Onion (@bencollins.bsky.social) December 10, 2025 at 12:57 PM

Another Sideshow Bob moment for Poilievre. Another "bite me!" moment for Carney.

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 Pierre Poilievre’s effort to get the House of Commons to vote in support of a new oil pipeline failed after Liberals refused to back an endeavour they described as a divisive political stunt....
During Question Period, Mr. Carney pushed back on Mr. Poilievre for not supporting all of what Alberta had agreed to, and said that if the Conservative Leader did support it, he would have included the entirety of the MOU in the motion.
“I am not a lifelong member of this House, so I don’t know all the rules but I do not think there is a limit on the size of motions,” Mr. Carney said.
The NDP and Bloc Québécois had said earlier Tuesday they would vote against the motion.
Interim NDP Leader Don Davies – who called the pipeline bad for the country – said that given the Conservatives’ mid-debate amendments, the motion amounted to a political game.
“We’re talking about a multibillion dollar issue that has incredible consequences for people across this country, and the fact that the Conservatives couldn’t get their own motion right I think says something about their motivations,” he said....

Dale Smith explains the basic problem:

...The MOU states a “private sector constructed and financed pipelines, with Indigenous Peoples co-ownership and economic benefit, with at least one million barrels a day of low emission Alberta bitumen with a route that increases export access to Asian markets as a priority” whereas the motion simply says “pipelines enabling the export of at least one million barrels a day of low-emission Alberta bitumen from a strategic deepwater port on the British Columbia coast to reach Asian markets,” and adds “respecting the duty to consult Indigenous people.” One of these things is not like the other....
The thing we need to remember in all of this is not the shenanigans, or the Conservatives thinking they’re too clever, or any of that—rather, it’s that they think they can ram through these projects without Indigenous consent. Sure, they’ll talk about “meaningful consultation,” but consultation is not consent, and in their press releases, consent is never mentioned, nor is even consultations. That’s not realistic, nor even legal in the current framework. Of course, they also think a new pipeline will “unblock the trillions of dollars of privatesector energy investment to produce more oil and gas, build profitable pipelines and ship a million barrels of oil to Asia a day at world prices.” My dudes—this is a post-2014 world. It’s not going to be trillions of dollars, and world oil prices are tanking because of a supply glut. All of this is fantasyland...

Prime Minister Carney flips the script on Poilievre: "I don't think there's a limit on the size of motions. And in fact, since the MOU is already translated, I think it would be very easy to take the entire MOU in both official languages and propose them."

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— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM

Today in "Christ, what an asshole!" - Poilievre, Tech Bros, and our potash industry

Poilievre's big idea - lets play "gotcha!"
So Poilievre thinks he can fiddle while Canada fights for its life against Trump. What an asshole.
As Dale Smith commented on Saturday:

Because Pierre Poilievre thinks he’s a tactical genius, he has announced that next week’s Conservative Supply Day motion will be about the MOU with Alberta, and forcing a vote on the language about a pipeline to the Pacific, in defiance of the tanker ban.
...It’s a transparent attempt to try and jam the Liberals, at least rhetorically, into supporting the motion in order to show support for the MOU, after which Poilievre can keep saying “You supported it!” and “Give me the date when construction starts,” as though there’s a proponent, a project and a route already lined up (to say nothing about the long-term contracts about who is going to buy the product once it’s built, because yes, that does matter). The thing is, these kinds of motions are non-binding, and really means nothing in the end. So if a number of Liberals vote against it, it doesn’t actually mean anything, other than the rhetorical notion that lo, they are not fully in lock-step on something, which actually sets them apart from pretty much every other party where uniformity and loyalty to the leader and all of his positions are constantly being enforced in one way or another. Maybe he will tolerate differences of opinion—or maybe he’ll crack the whip. We’ll see when Tuesday gets here.

I actually think this might serve the government's purposes. Liberal MPs were looking for a way to say we don't support this. Now, the Conservative Party gave it to them. Carney gets to show the Liberals are a big tent, and he still has a firm(ing) agenda. https://t.co/yv7DgOkei2

— Althia Raj (@althiaraj) December 5, 2025