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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
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...
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) December 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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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
Next, you all know that Epstein file pages have been set up so that if you search for "Trump", nothing comes up.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🔥
— enuffsaysv.bsky.social (@enuffsaysv.bsky.social) December 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Next, you know all those hundreds of pages of redactions in the Epstein documents?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
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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"We had no idea the conversations we were having were going to be used for a Vanity Fair article!"
— The Get More Smarter Podcast 🧠 (@getmoresmarter.com) December 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
"Hey everyone please come to the conference room we have a Vanity Fair photoshoot at 2pm."
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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
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This is a photo from the @thestar.com from the CPC Christmas Party last night. Ma is smiling with Poilievre.
— Duane Bratt (@duanebratt.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomes new Liberal MP Michael Ma on stage at the Liberal Christmas party.
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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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:
— Glonzo In Exile 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦 (@glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social) December 12, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Carney just needs one more now. Who's next?Ontario MP Michael Ma crosses floor to Liberals. One short of a majority. 😬
— Holly Jolly Hoye 🎄 🇨🇦 (@hollyhoye.bsky.social) December 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Live shot of Pierre Poilievre at the Liberal Xmas Party:
— Edge O. Erin (@edgeoerin.com) December 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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WATCH: U.S. forces seize oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela
— BNO News (@bnonews.com) December 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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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
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....Dale Smith explains the basic problem:
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....
...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."
— Scott Robertson (@sarobertson.bsky.social) December 9, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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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
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How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!! No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣
— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
My impression is that Putin has outlined a vision to Trump where the U.S. withdraws from Europe and Asia, and in return is given a free hand to focus on dominating the Americas. This is where the Greenland and Canada annexation talk comes from.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) December 4, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The guys are feeling a little squirmy about war crimes…
— @NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) (@newsjennifer.bsky.social) December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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...These letters imagine what Mark Carney might say if he could speak freely to Canadians — not as a Prime Minister bound by diplomacy, but as the thoughtful economist, public servant, and citizen he’s always been. They’re written from the desk he’s never actually had: the one where he can set aside decorum and speak to the country without filters, handlers, or the fear of headlines.And here is an excerpt from his letter from yesterday:
In an age when political communication has been stripped of candour, these “unauthorized” letters restore the voice behind the restraint. Each entry draws from Carney’s real words, gestures, and silences — the things implied in his tone and timing but left unsaid in public. Together, they form an imagined correspondence with a nation he’s trying to rebuild: pragmatic, principled, and just a little weary of the noise.
Dear Team Canada — Day 218 — Who Cares? We Do.
...when I said “Who cares?”, what I meant was:
Who cares about the theatre when the real work is happening elsewhere?
I shouldn’t have said it that way. But the sentiment — the prioritization — was not wrong.
As one senior official in my Johannesburg briefing dryly remarked:
“The U.S. is a partner. It is not the plan.”
And increasingly, that is true.
Meanwhile, the Economy Delivered Something Remarkable
Last week’s national accounts confirm what many analysts doubted was even possible:
-Canada’s GDP grew at roughly 2.6–2.7% annualized in Q3.
-Inflation remains near the 2% target.
-Unemployment is stabilizing rather than spiking.
These are not small accomplishments.
They happened during:
-a heated tariff war,
-a deliberate attempt by the Trump Administration to damage our manufacturing base,
-a global energy price shock, and
-accelerating geopolitical instability.
You do not get GDP growth and anchored inflation in those conditions unless something deeper than luck is at play.
As one economist put it to me this week:
“Prime Minister, this feels like watching a plane climb during a stall warning.”
In aviation terms, that’s not supposed to happen.
In policy terms, it means the strategy is working — and the stall warning may have been premature.
Still conservative commentators in Canada and the United States insist the economy is “running on fumes,” yet every week I meet with more world leaders eager to invest in Canada, and more Canadian business owners preparing to expand. The irony, of course, is that conservative media does not actually want conservative economic strategy to succeed — because the results would benefit all Canadians, not just an elite few.
We are not clear of turbulence. But the wings are holding — and the lift is real.
...Canada has formally concluded negotiations to join the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (SAFE) initiative — the central procurement and financing pillar of Europe’s Readiness 2030 plan. ... SAFE mobilizes up to $244 billion in loans for EU member states to rearm — part of a broader $1.3 trillion European defence modernization effort. As Europe urgently acquires ammunition, drones, artillery systems, missiles, and next-generation infantry technologies, Canada will be the only non-European country with preferential access to that massive demand...
For Canadian workers, engineers, and manufacturers, this is the largest defence-sector opening in generations...
