Today's News: Fed up with awful news

Maybe I just felt grumpy because it's snowing, but today I saw so many news stories that really pissed me off. 

First, an incredibly disrespectful and dismissive remark from Natural Resources minister Tim Hodgson:

Does Tim Hodgson understand how *spectacularly* shitty he comes off with this? Treating Indigenous leaders as obstacles instead of negotiating partners is so deeply disrespectful 😡

[image or embed]

— scott dagostino (@scottdagostino.ca) November 28, 2025 at 12:34 PM

He later apologized, sort of:

Minister, are you aware now that a lot of Indigenous communities lack the access to high speed reliable Internet that make a Zoom call possible?

— Christina DiEdoardo (@ChristinaSFLaw) November 29, 2025

Tim Hodgson is meeting with Eby to "mend fences." There is a definite pattern emerging from the Carney government about bulldozing through and asking for forgiveness later. #PnPCBC

— Dale Smith (@journodale.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM

2 months ago Coastal First Nations asked Minister Hodgsons for a meeting. The liberals got back to them Wednesday and said they could talk on Friday- after Carney announced the pipeline. Hodgson's is a Goldman Sachs buddy. This isn't going to end well. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

[image or embed]

— Charlie Angus (@charlieangus104.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 8:42 AM

Next, an awful Washington Post article (gift link) about Pete Hegseth playing war games with real people:

The US is now led by war criminals. According to a new report by the The Washington Post, the following happened: Pete Hegseth, U.S. Defense Secretary, reportedly gave a verbal order to “kill everybody” aboard a suspected drug-trafficking boat near Trinidad. A first missile strike destroyed the boat, killing 11 people. After that, two survivors were seen clinging to the burning wreckage. A second strike was then ordered by the Special Operations commander on the scene — reportedly to follow Hegseth’s directive — and the two men apparently were “blown apart in the water.” Neither man was captured, charged, or given any trial. The Pentagon denies the leaked account. What is reported amounts to the lethal killing of untried persons who at that moment posed no evident combat threat, on what are reportedly orders from high-level U.S. officials. Many legal and human-rights experts quoted in the reporting describe the strike as illegal under international law, and potentially a war crime or murder, because the victims were no longer a threat once incapacitated and thus couldn’t be lawfully targeted. It is time to do everything in your power to avoid supporting the US in every way possible. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/28/hegseth-kill-them-all-survivors-boat-strike/

- Glen Lancaster 🇨🇦

Read on Substack

Next, this news story barely got any coverage, because I guess the US media think it's only another "just Trump being Trump" story - last week Trump was trying to help convicted felon and former Brazil president Bolsonaro escape to the US before he was due to start serving a 27-year jail sentence. It sounds like the plan was to grant him asylum in the US embassy in Brazil, which is 15 minutes away from Bolsonaro's house, and then fly him to the US somehow. Trump blabbed, of course, so Brazil has now sent Bolsonaro directly to jail:

Trump thought he would be meeting with his dictator buddy Bolsonaro in a few days. Trump said as much. Bolsonaro was caught tampering with his ankle monitor & told authorities he was going to a foreign embassy. Trump was going to whisk Bolsonaro out of Brazil.

[image or embed]

— DanaKay 🇺🇦 (@malketchupstain.bsky.social) November 26, 2025 at 7:54 AM

An amazing new Trump controversy, Part I of II: - Friday night: Jair Bolsonaro’s son summons a crowd to their family home - Later Friday night: Bolsonaro takes a soldering iron to his ankle bracelet days before starting a lengthy prison - Saturday morning: Bolsonaro is re-arrested

[image or embed]

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) November 25, 2025 at 12:35 PM

An amazing new Trump controversy, Part II of II: - Saturday afternoon: Trump says he spoke to Bolsonaro the night before and planned to see him “in the very near future” - Monday afternoon: The Trump White House isn’t sure whether Trump actually had the conversation he referenced two days earlier

[image or embed]

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM

When I say that Trump gets away with chaos, this is why:

The really fun part, every time the president says something utterly psychotic, is that right after all his little toadies and goblins go on camera to say that he didn't mean what he said and that you're stupid for thinking so, his next move is always to announce that he meant every word of it

— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) November 20, 2025 at 6:53 PM

View on Threads

What an incredibly stupid man:

Something under-discussed is Trump understands government as individuals. Agency Y isn’t delivering X? Because Person A isn’t doing their job. Protocols, best practices, data, public input, resources, laws, bureaucracies…he can’t conceive any of it. He thinks of Treasury or Defense as a person

[image or embed]

— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM

Stephen Miller is scum.

Stephen Miller is of Ashkenazi Jewish descent. His great-grandparents inhabited the Pale of Settlement (western Russia where Jews were allowed to live) and escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. All the same racist, xenophobic, ignorant things he is saying were said about his own family.

[image or embed]

— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM

🎁 link to the WSJ editorial that made Stephen Miller so mad. "It would be a shame if this single act of betrayal became the excuse for deporting all Afghan refugees... "Thousands are building new lives here in peace. Collective punishment won’t make America safer." www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

[image or embed]

— Bill Grueskin (@bgrueskin.bsky.social) November 28, 2025 at 9:10 AM

And so is J.D. Vance:

Vance loves to deploy fabricated racist fearmongering. First Haitians are eating the pets, now Indigenous people sacrificed children?! Sheesh.

[image or embed]

— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) November 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM

The replies to this post are just profoundly distressing too:

In honor of Larry Summers, I asked the female members of my college class (1987) to say if they had any experiences with sexual harassment by teachers/professors, back when this was tolerated as, I dunno, the cost of attending college, and OH MY GOD.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal.bsky.social) November 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM

Boy what a crappy day. 

But then I saw this video of a priest yelling at ICE to get out of his church and it just made me feel so much better:

View on Threads

I saw this comment some time ago but never posted it so here it is:

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

[image or embed]

— Radley Balko (@radleybalko.bsky.social) October 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM