Today's News: Comment Roundup on Minneapolis, disinformation, Alberta separatism, Canadian progress, Greenland, Venezuela, Mid-Terms and more

On days like these, where there are so many things going on around the Internets, I want to highlight a few of the comments and commentaries that help us keep up with what's going on. 

First, a few shorter observations, to which I can only respond "Wow!":

i hope all the people resisting ICE on the ground know how fucking inspiring they are. minneapolis right now, and chicago and LA and charlotte and DC and portland before them, you’re setting the blueprint for the future battles sure to come. thank you.

— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM

Premier Wab Kinew expressed solidarity with Minnesotans Monday, following days of protests in the U.S. state where a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in the head last week.

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— Winnipeg Free Press (@winnipegfreepress.com) January 12, 2026 at 3:52 PM

Kim: I was having a conversation with someone within his administration, we were talking about something we disagreed with the president on. And they were just like, “Let’s just not talk about this and keep it quiet, and maybe he’ll forget about it.” Literally—someone on his own team was saying this

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— Acyn (@acyn.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 11:17 AM

A reason I get sort of annoyed by the “this is part of a plan” stuff—besides these guys lacking enough foresight to find their own dicks—is that they are so totally disconnected from reality that any plan they could actually make would be useless

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— Vituperative Erb (@vituperativeerb.bsky.social) January 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM

There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >

— Mark Harris (@markharris.bsky.social) January 11, 2026 at 11:23 AM

What more proof do you need that they are Nazis !!! ???

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) January 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM

Sunday Funday: Comments on the passing scene, plus funny-odd and funny-ha ha, and of course Trump Watch and Animal Crackers

Well, our times are officially "interesting" now aren't they, so we really need a Funday. (And does everyone get the joke in the wombat cartoon?)

I still have to start with a few comments on the passing scene, because its getting crazier by the day. But I'm also sharing the funny-odd and funny-haha posts I've found over the last couple of weeks. 

Comments on the passing scene:

I appreciate America trying to make me feel at home, but heavily armed men in masks demanding papers is going a bit too far!

- Garry Kasparov

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"I think I liked it better when Americans didn't know where Canada was"

More comments today on Canada's precarious situation as Trump continues his fantasy presidency.
When I saw this tonight on Threads, I couldn't help but agree:

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Yeah, I know.

Today's News: Speaking truth to power

With everything that's going on, our political cartoonists have really outdone themselves. 

So I thought I should share some of the ones I found yesterday and today:

I’d like to cancel my free trial of 2026. I’ve seen enough to know this isn’t working out. Please do not auto-renew.

- Christopher Webb

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The most profound statement you will hear today, said by David Cochrane, CBC:

About our boy Pierre and his support for Trump's Venezuela adventure:

Today's News: Reaching our gag limit with ICE and Trump

Today, we saw tragedy in Minneapolis and war-mongering by Trump and his administration. 

The world has reached its gag limit with Trump, and maybe even Americans are fed up too.

Minneapolis
So you all know what happened in Minneapolis today:

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Today's News: Scenarios of Doom

I think we are all a little frightened now. 

Trump has lost his mind, and so has President Miller. And they're taking America with them. 

I'm reading way too many scenarios of doom tonight.

Want a visualization of how the Trump administration is rapidly increasing the risk of war? On the left, a US government tweet. On the right, a Russian tweet a day later.

- Dan Gardner

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The US is threatening Greenland and Denmark because Trump had a brainiac idea a few months ago and now the entire US government is running with it. There’s no strategy. It’s not about minerals, Arctic access, the Russians, the Chinese or anything else. It’s naked power and gangsterism writ large. All at the behest of an unstable, ill educated, malignant narcissist and a bunch of warped nationalist ideologues.

- Black Cloud Six

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Stephen Miller, if allowed to guide US policy, will start World War 3.

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— Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social) January 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Speaking out against Trump and his banana-pants economic "regime change" wars

When Trump is doing crazy stuff in the United States, Americans can take refuge in saying "well, I didn't vote for him!"

And when it is people inside the United States who are being hurt, international relations morality doesn't require that politicians in other countries speak out (though basic human decency may demand it.)
But when borders are crossed and the United States is trying to implement economic regime change in other countries, this refuge is denied.
That is when the political leaders of other countries MUST speak up, however uncomfortable or terrifying this is, to object to Trump's brazen attempts to tell everyone else what to do.
With the Venezuelan War, so far, Mexico has met the test. And so far, Canada really has not.

Tonda MacCharles / Toronto Star

Mexico denounces arrest of Venezuela’s president as Mark Carney issues carefully worded statement
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum dismissed Trump’s assertion of his America First doctrine, and the right to dominate the hemisphere in the name of U.S. national security.
...As Trump ramped up his own rhetoric to paint Colombia and Cuba as other states with failed leadership, and to muse about Denmark’s ability to secure Greenland, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum denounced the U.S. military action in Venezuela and called on Trump to respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other nations.
“We categorically reject intervention in the internal affairs of other countries,” Sheinbaum said.
“Unilateral action and invasion cannot be the basis for international relations in the 21st century; they lead neither to peace nor to development,” Sheinbaum said in a strongly-worded three-page declaration Monday.
Sheinbaum referenced past U.S. presidential greats George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and dismissed Trump’s assertion of his America First doctrine, and the right to dominate the hemisphere in the name of U.S. national security.
“Mexico firmly maintains that the Americas do not belong to any doctrine or power. The American continent belongs to the peoples of each of the countries that comprise it,” Sheinbaum said, outlining all the ways Mexico is working with the U.S. to curb narcotics and weapons trafficking.
“Co-operation, yes; subordination and intervention no,” said Sheinbaum — a leader whom Trump has previously counted as an ally in his so-called war on fentanyl....

1.Attack Venezuela 2.???? 3.PROFIT!

No Sunday-Funday post tonight - things are just too serious right now. 

Hopefully next Saturday night we can laugh again...

There was world-wide reaction today to Trump's "regime change" war of choice against Venezuela. I'm focusing tonight mainly on  Canadian reactions and comments.  But first, remember the Underpants Gnomes? I'm afraid this will prove prescient:

So what is happening? Is the US setting up a puppet government? Extorting compliance from the remaining Venezuelan government? Setting up an occupation and Generalgouvernement? Honestly I’m really perplexed by what they think happens next. 1. Attack Venezuela 2. ???? 3. PROFIT!

— Shower Cat (@shower-cat.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 11:30 AM

And don't forget the oil which we're stealing to pay for everything.

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— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 4:08 PM

Watch this. Watch again. "This incredible thing last night... We have to do it again [in other countries]. We can do it again, too. Nobody can stop us."

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— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress.onestnetwork.com) January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM

Finishing the week with a few more Good News stories

Following from my "good news" post yesterday, I wanted to wrap up this week with a few other stories along the same lines. 

First, this performance is just stunning and makes me look forward to the Olympics, just a month away now:

Ilia Malinin, an American skater lands the first routine with 7 quad jumps in it and set a world record score. This performance was on December 6, 2025, at the ISU Grand Prix Final in Nagoya, Japan. Note the impressive backflip: the ban was lifted by the ISU in 2024, allowing it in routines without penalty.

- Alexander Verbeek

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Some happy to enjoy

Oh, aren't we all just tired of feeling like everything everywhere all at once is going wrong? 

I can hardly stand to hear Trump anymore, or Poilievre, or listen to MSNBC - or whatever they are called now.

So I thought I should just post a few of the happy posts I've seen lately. At least it will give me a blog post to look back on when I need a lift.

I guess 2026 is the Year of the Horse and that's great isn't it.

So, I say, nobody has actually seen the horses? No, she says, but a myth about wild horses is just as real as the wild itself. She says that everything, at its best, is a wild horse. The earth is a wild horse, she says, and so is the sky. She says you're a wild horse and so am I. https://open.substack.com/pub/shermanalexie/p/the-year-of-horses-wild?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

- Cathie from Canada

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I like to name years in advance. I'm calling 2026, “Triumph".

- Akashic Spy

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Happy New Year, I hope! Here are some funny posts, great fireworks, summaries of 2025, advice for 2026, new year's resolutions, great dogs, Calvin & Hobbs, and Thomas Hardy

Some funny posts about New Year's Eve:

Welcome To New Year’s Eve

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— Brittlestar (@brittlestar.com) December 31, 2025 at 3:18 PM

My error. I turned on the TV, and I thought he was dead.

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— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@nothoodlum.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM

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