"Hegseth complained that America’s traditional allies “wring their hands and clutch their pearls, hemming and hawing about the use of force.”
Well KegBoy, Trump is Putin's lap dog, you've threatened Denmark, pissed off all of Europe and you wonder why they aren't rushing to assist an illegal war?
Gifted. What he says about his meeting with Trump says it all.
South African President Talks Trump, Racism and That Oval Office ‘Ambush’ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/w...
Reupping for the US. Your president isn't very good, you know. A word to the wise.
The Big Problem With Tariffs Isn’t the Rates. It’s the Corruption. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/o...
I want a free Iran, but deep down I don’t trust Trump to do it
www.thetimes.com/article/9469...
Forget the drawings. This is a flawed project being sold with false claims. My column: www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
“Around the world, powerful men are facing consequences for their actions. They’re all unfortunate not to be American. Otherwise they probably would have gotten away scot-free.”
every word (bc of course Adam Serwer)
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Right turns on red — it’s time for a change "Eliminating right turns on red lights helps reassert a clear hierarchy: when the light is red for drivers, pedestrian space is fully protected." t.ly/z374B
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I want to close by addressing Smith's claim of disastrous open borders and unprecedented strain on services. I'm a big fan of the Alberta government's dashboard that gives basic information on a bunch of questions. Here's the page for Alberta's population, going back 35 years and ending last October. As the premier says, the province's population grew quickly in the last five years, from 4.41 million in October 2020 to 5.04 million in October 2025. ... (Screenshot also shows a chart with relatively steady growth, with a flattening and then moderate uptick near the end)
That's a difference of 630,000 people, much higher than the increase of 250,000 people between 2015 and 2020. I'd say the combination of the immigration increase and the consumer carbon tax, skilfully prosecuted by Pierre Poilievre, were the biggest reasons Justin Trudeau lost his job. You could argue it would be a problem if Alberta's population continued to expand at the 2020-2025 rate. But Smith chooses a different comparison: between the Trudeau decade ("disastrous... strain") and the Harper decade ("responsible... manageable"). Fair enough: During the decade from 2015 to 2025, by the provincial government's own numbers, Alberta's population increased by about 880,000 people, whereas during the decade from 2005 to 2015, it increased by about 810,000. That's because the half-decade Smith complains about followed a half-decade of much slower population growth. Put it another way: Harper's "responsible... manageable" decade of immigration led to Alberta's population growing 92% as fast as Trudeau's "disastrous" decade.
Paul Wells with the numbers on Danielle Smith's claims to need referendum questions to deal with the problem of Trudeau era immigration. Harper era immigration was about 92% the number that came in under Trudeau.
The depth of corruption infesting SCOTUS is shown by the fact that the tariffs ruling was 6-3, and not 9-0 as it should have been. This is an utterly corrupt and compromised court.
Independent Alberta would have nothing in common with Norway. It would be "a country that reviles taxation, scorns shared sacrifice, treats climate change like a conspiracy theory & bets everything on oil...separatists could learn from Norway, but learning isn’t really their thing either. t.ly/7GRwW
Brazil has decent economic growth, an independent central bank and its primary budget is almost balanced. The country has one big problem, however
Over a million views in 11 hours. Guess the bad guys trying to silence this Colbert interview with @jamestalarico.bsky.social really didn’t work, huh? Such a shame… #StreisandEffect @colbertlateshow.bsky.social youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...
The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.
So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.
Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...
David Frum: Why Trump is Failing
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
Wuthering Heights isn’t a love story — it’s a novel about violence
I cannot believe anyone that has read this novel would ever describe it as a love story or romantic even. It’s Gothic, dark cruel, yes passionate and poetic but really about dark obsession.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/o...
TACO: Trump removes the racist post depicting Obamas as monkeys after 12 hours of overt racism.
Perhaps the Obamas should sue Trump for 100 billion gazillion dollars?
American Milk Has Changed
A dramatic increase in fat content is causing pains in the dairy industry.
This past fall, butter prices collapsed as a “tsunami” of butterfat inundated the market. “We really have an oversupply right now.”
Going...
Going...
Gone!
The Global Counsel "Our People" page is like a relic of Stalin's purges.
Time to pile into foreign stocks and precious metals.
https://economist.com/leaders/2026/02/05/the-age-of-a-volatile-falling-dollar-has-dawned?giftId=OTBhMTkxNTEtMzIyMi00OWM1LWI1Y2QtODFhNzBmZWM3ZjY2&utm_campaign=gifted_article
If you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
Fingers point at Morgan McSweeney, the chief of staff who championed Mandelson, but the final blind eye was Starmer’s. www.ft.com/content/1a29...
