Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 05/10/2026I’d suggest the genre of profile journalism has some shortcomings 31193270
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Legal C @legalclaret.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Unproductive includes…. Students. Students who decide to spend thousands of pounds to study in the UK. Who then come to the UK and spend money on rent, food, entertainment. Who are then qualified to work, and get graduate and postgraduate jobs, where they pay taxes for decades…. 55810
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Well done lads and ladies 741738
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦whoopsbuni @whoopsbuni.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Funny how so many “patriots” giving money to the “patriotic” party don’t seem to live in the country they have so much “patriotism” about… 38114
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The Ben Delo who has just given Reform £36m is the same Ben Delo who US prosecutors said was the leader of a ‘criminal enterprise’ But hey ho, it’s fine for him- and any other crypto bro - to buy British democracy lock stock and barrel democracyforsale.substack.com/p/reforms-4m...democracyforsale.substack.comReform's £4m donor "thumbed his nose at the law", US prosecutors saidBen Delo has called his US conviction a "non-crime". Prosecutors said the Farage-backing crypto billionaire was a “leader of a criminal enterprise”. 13433216
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Peter Ramsey @pramsey342.bsky.social · 29/08/2026And yet anyone left of Chris Coons should tremble in their boots over Hasan Piker 118922
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Note on pieces like these, not only is there no suggestion that Republicans should distance themselves from him, there's no hint that there's a reason to. No recap of his CSAM machine. No inflammatory racist quotes. No mention of the DOGE death toll. No history of his fabulist quotes.axios.comExclusive: Musk plans massive push for GOP in midtermsMusk is resuscitating his America PAC, which spent more than $260 million in 2024. 10334241094
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Adrian Bott @cavalorn.bsky.social · 11/11/2024'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party. 491957465
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 10/06/2026A reminder that Brazil banned Twitter for failing to stop the spreading of disinformation. There is nothing stopping the British government from doing the same. 8136031128
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 26/08/2026I'm not an economist but my back of the envelope math suggests that Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI can't all simultaneously sell $30 trillion dollars worth of enterprise solutions to a global economy where the sum total of all economic activity currently adds up to under $120t. 491100258
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 26/08/2026Some people with power haven't learned anything from the past six years. When someone attacks your electoral system, being passive just invites more attacks. 131070177
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 25/08/20262025 was the year of a lot of “what could go wrong?” posts by me. 2026 is the year those questions are being answered. 721624398
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026On 9/11, US airspace closed, Canada launched Operation Yellow Ribbon. Gander, a town of 10,000, received 38 airliners. Residents immediately sheltered, fed, clothed, and supported stranded passengers for days, providing this hospitality free of charge. interestingengineering.com/culture/oper... 1236235657687
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23/08/2026One thing Ossoff is showing that you can hold pretty normie Dem positions but still campaign like you can read the room and understand the high stakes of this election. People are incredulous and angry at what’s happening, maybe common ground is a necessity later but nobody wants to hear that now. 563177492
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/08/2026NEW: Hakeem Jeffries met with Kushner recently to discuss how democrats could work with the administration when we take the house back. We shouldn’t work with fascists, and I’d appreciate a leader who felt the same. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...nytimes.comJeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks FlyPresident Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. 109660361495
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Matt Gurney @mattgurney.bsky.social · 23/08/2026We aren’t just in a trade war. We are in an info war, too. This isn’t something we are normally good at due to our reflexive secrecy. But we need to win. That means going on the attack. Right now. Tell the world EXACTLY what happened. My latest in the @thestar.com. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...thestar.comMatt Gurney: Mark Carney should tell us more about what went wrong with TrumpIt’s time to take it up a notch. Tell the entire world exactly what we were prepared to agree to and precisely what the Americans dropped on us at the 611138
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 23/08/2026“Called into question the reliability of any deal.” My guy. Imagine if he’d realized this back when he gifted billions to US tech giants by cancelling the digital services tax. 1166
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 23/08/2026I really do not understand the purpose of this. No one is asking for this. 165193351796
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Gary, Indiana is 77% percent Black. Thousands have been without power for nearly two weeks. Many are without safe water. Yet every data center is operational & using enormous amounts of both power and water. This is what oligarchy looks like. Everyone suffers so the 1% can make even more. 522179837327
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026You'll be amazed to learn that Hannan is not being truthful 1726751
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Jeff Colgan @jeffcolgan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026🇺🇸 has stabbed 🇨🇦 in the back. The consequences to fear are not what comes immediately afterwards from the person who was knifed. (Canada's tariffs will hurt 🇺🇸 only so much.) The reason not to do it is that you've become a gangster. No one trusts you. You're alone. And eventually a moment comes. 12711
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23/08/2026A member of Trump’s cabinet thinks that Canada doesn’t have a military. 61583122
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Dave Against The Machine🏴 @johnbrownbread.bsky.social · 23/08/2026The median American voter does not want this, and even if they did, you do not give them fascist collaboration with a fascist who should be in fucking prison. there is no circumstance in which you collaborate with fucking fascists. 1935994
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 23/08/2026Do it, Canada. Do the funni. Export tax of 500%. I want to see gas at $12/gal 452109349
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/08/2026Trump reported 1,051 trades in his June disclosure. These two stood out: — June 18: Bought $250K–$500K in Boeing, the same day the Navy awarded Boeing an $880 million contract — June 23: Bought $15K–$50K in SpaceX, the same day NASA recorded a $425.6 million award to SpaceX 39856992977
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Dependency is the goal. 152852933
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22/08/2026funny-not-really-funny how similar the US approaches to negotiating with Canada and Iran are. 2128755
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 22/08/2026Carney on the US: We cannot accept what they’ve offered, and we will not give what they’ve asked. 832195884246
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Steve Lafleur @stevelafleur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Another thing to consider. A huge swath of pundits believe that if we just made concessions on their own pet issue (usually supply management), we'd get a perfect deal. Going through the motions puts that argument to bed. 04514
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 22/08/2026"It is also important to keep in mind that although El Niño events often provide a temporary boost to global temperatures, these new global climate records are ultimately being driven by human-caused climate change" ➡️ Learn more in our highlights report: www.climatecentral.org/climate-brie... 318151
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It really is crazy the way NYT just adopts the admin's framing for headlines 713322
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Trump is *illegally and unconstitutionally* imposing 50% tariffs on $20 billion worth of Canadians products *after his attempt to bully the erstwhile U.S. ally into an unfair new arrangement failed* Those details seem pretty important 16369125
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦James McLeod @jamespmcleod.ca · 21/08/2026The basic notion that we can cede our ability to regulate American big tech, in exchange for lower (but not zero!) steel and aluminum tariffs, is just a basic misiread of what parts of the economy are most important and valuable. 510029
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 20/08/2026from "the golden age of america" to "you don't need a job" 610723
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Tony - Pod Guy - Groves @tonygroves.bsky.social · 20/08/2026BBC invited Palestinian writer, researcher and analyst Muhammad Shehada on to talk about Israel’s decision to investigate the killing of Hind Rajab. Below is Muhammad’s account of what happened next. Full disclosure: I know him years and he’s a regular on the pod. So naturally I believe him 100%. 16589364
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Trump doesn't follow laws or court orders or international treaties. He literally violates dozens of signed, ratified treaties every day, including the USCMA he negotiated in 2018. I don't know why anyone, Mark Carney included, would waste time negotiating a new treaty with him at this point. 46617
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/08/2026This was a standout moment in the hearing … 218103032530
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 13/08/2026I was at an opticians yesterday and they were selling the Ray-Ban Pervert Glasses. I'd never gotten a close look before. They are virtually visually indistinguishable from any other pair of sunglasses unless you REALLY know what to look for. Ban them immediately, what the fuck? 741631338
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Running Dog @runningdog.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It’s a sad indictment of the media that a billionaire can compare a 5% wealth tax to the Soviet Union in an interview with the NYT and the NYT journalist does not laugh in their face and write it up as an insight into the mind of somebody who has lost touch with reality 32996277
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties, the pro-authoritarian billionaires who collaborate with them, & the “journalists” they hire to lie on their behalf. 29015
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 24/07/2026RFKJ “has long supported lifting restrictions on peptides. In the weeks before Thursday’s hearing, his office nominated eight new members to the committee of academics and doctors… six of whom have sold peptide products, some banned, with health claims backed by minimal science.” 211329
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Larry got a mouse this morning. 231455110
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 22/07/2026There's a reason why not driving feels the same as getting bullied 2268
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦ELANA MCDOUGALL 🇨🇦 @elanamcdougall.bsky.social · 22/07/2026That @CNN journalist are so astonished by the overwhelming percentage of Canadians who are angry at America, is evidence of the lack of awareness they have of the world outside their borders The US has been attacking us for 2years! Insulting us! Did they really think Canada would love the US? 3103396601
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Incidentally, we still don't know how much Nigel Farage was paid over the years for all his appearances on RT. 218454
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026In a US-started Middle East war with major, ongoing geopolitical and economic implications, but Trump went “I’m bored, there’s peace now, we did good,” and most of US media went “yes, well done, it’s not a big story anymore,” and it took multiple days of bombing for “oh wait, this still matters.” 220537
Reposted by Ben 🇨🇦Molly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This is some “let the abusers do foreign policy” logic right here. “We wouldn’t have to hurt you or leave you if you would just lie down and take it. Then we will need you to abuse forever and never leave you baby” (Of course from clarem*nt) 811728
