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buddy, just declare victory and retreat or commit yourself to a legacy-defining quagmire that destroys your presidency and political movement — this is taking forever.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

UK must stockpile food in readiness for climate shocks or war, expert warns Prof Tim Lang says country produces far less food than it needs to feed population and is particularly vulnerable

I can sort of understand people treating climate breakdown as a distant, peripheral issue when they thought it was just a future threat to polar bears and Pacific Islands

But we're seeing these sorts of warnings all the time now, and little seems to have changed

FDD is currently experiencing the definition of dog catching the car and not knowing what to do with it— it begged and begged and begged and begged and begged for a war with Iran, in their case explicitly for Israel, and now some of its most senior fellows are freaking out at the repercussions.

Rosie DiManno: Why John Tory shouldn’t feel the need to step aside Dirty tactics about personal shenanigans have taken the former mayor out of the race, writes Rosie DiManno, but voters don't have a track record of caring about such things.

Dimanno: Tory should have gotten away with sleeping with a subordinate because Toronto Star managers used to do that kind of thing all the time.

?????????

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

LA City Council’s City President Marqueece Harris-Dawson says he has been pulled over four times while a member of the council; the most recent was this week. He missed a committee meeting because of the stop, according to him.

Among the questions: “how do you have this vehicle,” according to him.

A Reductress post features a photo of Kristi Noem with the headline, “Kristi Noem Put Down for Being Too Hard to Train”

Screaming

It takes real galaxy brains to mass cancel solar and wind projects and then start a pointless unpopular war that sends oil prices soaring.

What do you do when your oil and lng isn't as secure as you thought? in the short run, you probably burn more coal, but there are countries that were heavily reliant on imported fossil fuels that have embraced solar and electrification

heatmap.news/energy/iran-...

On the left: a photo of a brunette woman smiling with her hands in the air while surrounded by people clapping. On the right: text that reads “Quebec’s governing party is running out of time to save itself. In the leadership race, Christine Fréchette leads Bernard Drainville as the CAQ faces political collapse.”

The Coalition Avenir Québec has governed Quebec for eight years. Now, trailing in the polls, it risks losing nearly all of its National Assembly members. In the race to replace leader François Legault, one question looms: Who can stop the bleeding? https://ow.ly/Fpbt50YpZoE

Trump's war on Iran hasn't altered Canada's cost of making gas — at all. So why are we being hosed at the pumps? Policy choices, not market forces of a war halfway around the world, explain the spike in prices, writes Jim Stanford, leading to unnecessary economy-wide inflation and higher interest rates.

The gas in those pumps was refined weeks ago, from oil extracted months ago, none of which came through the Straits of Hormuz. So why does it cost 15c more per litre than it did LAST Friday? I ask why, in
@thestar.com: thestar.com/business/opi.... #canlab /2

> @benstiller.redhour.com

full blown panic in the WH by the sounds of it. They want to
(1) insure more tankers with DFC
(2) provide US navy escorts to ships that are too scared;
(3) keep prices down (by trading in oil futures)
(4) increase supply (waiving india russia sanctions for 30 days)
bsky.app/profile/70sb...

Scenes from a personalist regime: it is the presidential vibes that determine when the opponent has surrendered and when the war is over, not any pesky observable facts

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

The Guardian on our new study, which shows that global heating is significantly gathering speed. Our efforts to overcome our fossil fuel addiction should do the same.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

War crime on war crime. The chain of command here should face justice.

"At least 87 sailors were killed in the torpedo attack in international waters in the Indian Ocean, & the Sri Lankan navy responded to the Dena’s distress call & rescued 32 survivors...The U.S. didn’t respond to the call..."

a graph of the year-on-year change in us tech emploment

Here's a longer-term chart of US tech employment growth—the only thing that compares to the scale and length of current job losses is the dot-com bust

People criticizing Carney for hypocrisy but in the narrow technical sense of globalism, he’s perfectly consistent: transgressions of international economic law are more concerning than other violations. Protecting free trade and capital rights are the prime directives for guardians of world order.

Tasneem's youngest daughter, Alma.

WHO: Medical stocks 'critically low' in Gaza. "The situation is difficult, and we'll be running out of whatever is remaining."

The displaced Gazans need our voice and our help. They rely on donations to survive.

Please give to my dear friend Tasneem. And help others. ❤️

chuffed.org/project/1587...

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.

Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.

We live in Orwellian times.

“.. National average gasoline price is now up by 10.8% over the past 4 days ... the only other time we've seen a larger increase was in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.”

- Schwab ⛽️

Quite an opening paragraph.

Mark Carney’s Stance On Iran Throws His Davos Doctrine Into Question “What we’re hearing right now, at a time when it really matters, is … that we’re giving in.”

Mark Carney’s Stance On Iran Throws His Davos Doctrine Into Question

www.readthemaple.com/mark-carneys-stance-on-iran-throws-his-davos-doctrine-into-question

Two white nationalists I exposed in a recent article showed up to try to intimidate me in person last night.

This is a press freedom issue.

Here’s what happened:

lol 🥲

The Iran War threatens a fertilizer shortage. El Nino returns in the fall. A global food shortage may arise in 2027. We just cut agricultural science so we can spend more on defence. To defend who? The slavers and pedophiles of the Gulf monarchies on behalf of Israel and the US, who started the war.

General Jenny Carignan: "We are not talking about participating to Epic Fury per se. This is not a mission that we are considering. However, our Gulf partners may require defense and support. So within that context, these would be the type of military options that we could consider."