James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

I joked cautiously with a neighbor who I think of as Republican or independent about Social Security worries. He told me that for him it's a double whammy—Social Security and the Veterans Administration. News like this finds a way.

Money corrupts, and money in politics corrupts completely.

The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.

I noticed he didn't say thank you.

(CNN) - The Trump administration’s latest assertion of power over the press corps, the White House intends to take over the seating assignments in the press briefing room, according to a senior official. https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/30/media/white-house-seating-chart/index.html

I explained the substance of the J.G.G. v. Trump suit here: https://heidi-says.ghost.io/trump-aiming-for-contempt-of-court-fight-to-be-on-his-terms/. In that blog post I also explained why Trump is rushing to get the suit in front of the Supreme Court… 4/

#househippo

Elbows up.
Things are going to get ridiculous very soon...

I think we're overreacting that a journalist was accidentally added to a US National Security chat discussing an imminent attack on the Houthis.

After all, the chat was already full of Russian agents.

#uspol

Yeah this won’t go Bondi’s way at all.

Rather telling that 🇨🇦 Conservative Party appear more concerned about Trump crushing #Poilievre's election chances than Trump crushing our country.

This piece was posted by Kevin Bosch, Chair of the [Lester B.] Pearson Centre in Ottawa. Stephen Maher is a longtime Parliament Hill columnist.

(Edited to add un-paywalled link to Maher's article https://archive.is/jDU5B)

#MapleMAGA #cdnpoli #election2025 #canada

Tesla is under investigation in Canada for falsifying thousands of sales to game our rebate system.

What if some of the vandalism at Tesla dealerships in the USA were simply insurance fraud scams?

This is actually funny!

Weren't tariffs going to create American jobs?

So Canada says because of the idiocy, it will cancel the F35 order and will source new jets from Europe instead. And .... Lockheed Martin says, wait, we'll create Canadian jobs!

And here we are, with our own Orange Julius.

for the record and I know this is super obvious but legit tough guys never have to say "I'm a tough guy.'
#cdnpoli #Poilievre https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-trump-taunts-1.7487589

"#Teslas are electric cars, which #MAGA has been told for a decade now will detach your testicles upon plugging them in. The only real customer base was well-heeled liberals, and having #Trump and #Hannity endorse the car is kryptonite, and rightfully so." -- Amanda Marcotte on 🔥

https://www.salon.com/2025/03/20/they-basically-wanna-me-efforts-to-turn-musk-into-a-maga-martyr-are-backfiring/

#swasticar
End #Acartheid
#USPol

Good heavens, these people vote!

Holy shit. I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say they’re trying to kill us all.

“The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html?unlocked_article_code=1.404.aeUC.tdm1nbDIVEL2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Starship is the cybertruck of SpaceX - the moment when a Musk company runs out of plagiarised, borrowed and bought technologies and start having to rely on the deeply shitty brain of Elon Musk "how did SpaceX get here?.......Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design"

Starship Was Doomed From The B...

Of all the spineless worms out there, Rubio may be the wormiest.