Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Where the free world once looked to a leader... now slouches a feckless fool. #trump #Ukraine 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026John Tory on TV dog-whistling "free lunch" and framing Toronto's mayoral race in terms of "stop (Olivia) Chow". He isn't running... resigned as mayor years ago amid his infidelity/workplace affair 'scandal'. Was receiving six figure fees from a private corp. while mayor. #irony #freelunch #vote 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Advance polls in Ontario municipal elections open today. Odd how many of us still malign the providion of expanded and more affordable public transit as some kind of "free lunch" but have no such concern for spending on roads and freeways. #Canada #vote 020
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"They're gonna come in and they're gonna say 'sir, we're sorry'" Trump and Navarro are getting even crazier on US relations with Canada. Sorry, no sorry. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The US boycotted the 2025 G20 meet in South Africa. The US, hosting the 2026 G20 in Miami, withheld an invitation to South Africa. US president Donald Trump has invited ICC accused war criminal Vladimir Putin to attend the Miami meeting. Seems the groundwork has been laid for a fiasco. 020
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Really? Same person, first term, same venue, same threat, target North Korea. Maybe this is the part where we repeat the history we 'forget'... 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Same UN speech, new term, different target country. Oh, that target has since consolidated its nuclear state status and ignores Trump at will. #NorthKorea 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026New push for the Nobel... the peace prize, that is. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Circa 2018, revisiting Brexit and #Trump, the snake that always bites. Trump backed Brexit. Then he used it as leverage. | Brookings share.google/VsIl3Pf0Ixhm...share.googleTrump backed Brexit. Then he used it as leverage. | BrookingsThe Trump administration has pursued a predatory policy toward Britain designed to capitalize on the U.K.’s need for new trading arrangements after Brexit. Under this president, the ‘special relations... 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"...large, and highly strategic, parcel of land" 😲 #Greenland? 001
Reposted by Colin KingThe Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 17/09/2026The Republican Party no longer has principles, only a lust for power and money. LP Sr Advisor Stuart Stevens highlights the GOP decay on MSNOW: 42724200
Reposted by Colin Kingashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 09/09/2026i really answered my own question yesterday: how do you get out of feeling useless and crawl out of a depression blackhole? raise $1300 for a mom to pay her rent and buy her kids food and clothes. remember that mutual aid is as important for the helpers as the recipients. 521858206
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Any who Identify Jewish people outside Israel with the actions of Israel are usually condemned as anti-Semitic and often terrorist-supporting... which should make the chief rabbi his own worst enemy in this excerpt from Guardian. 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Trump has change of 'heart'... tens of thousands of deportees to regain US status... 000
Reposted by Colin KingMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 26/08/2026The old order is not coming back. From the fracture, we can build something bigger, better, stronger, and more just. 852303537
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Tried to put 2 and 2 together and all I keep getting is Hegseth. Think he'll travel down there? 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I could be wrong but Iran might today have more friends than the US under Trump. 010
Reposted by Colin KingMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026We are masters in our own home. 54286512084
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 21/08/2026The same 'thinking' that consigned Doris Miller to cook duties in WWII is the same thing that in 2026 pushes towards the removal of his name from a US aircraft carrier under construction. Making America 'Great' Again... 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 19/08/2026France joins a still short list of countries... www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comFrance’s ‘aid in dying’ law comes into effect after constitutional approvalRight to assisted dying established for patients with conditions assessed as incurable and causing unbearable pain 000
Reposted by Colin KingDee 🇨🇦 @peaceotter.bsky.social · 18/08/2026North Korea is good. Canada is nasty. Got it 011
Reposted by Colin KingMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Thousands of good Canadian jobs. Stronger supply chains. Better access to global markets. This is what building Canada strong looks like. 38575113
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Many of us as children experienced simple, routine, and necessary work being imposed as punishment... (to our detrimental in later life?) As an adult, and parent, I nursed a pet peeve about the seemingly universal use of the word "chore" in the context of the home. It's too loaded for our own good. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 01/08/2026At St Jacobs Farmers Market, Waterloo, Ont. today and happy to see it bigger than ever, and at least as good as ever. I left musing maybe Canada's biggest farmers market is blooming off of Canadians' responses to adverse US economic actions. Whatever the case, it's certainly worth a visit. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Here's to all the CPC trolls in Canada parroting that PM Carney "fails" to make a trade deal with the US 011
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Canada-U.S. Friendship Day game, Toronto Blue Jays hosted by Washington Nationals, currently in rain delay. 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 25/07/2026This still seems to understate the problem... unless the reference is to off-planet migration. How many of us, anywhere on Earth, can outcast a lengthy power outage, coinciding with wildfire smoke on a 38 C day? 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Where US-Canada relations stand, both sides of the US congress need to understand (and act accordingly) that Trump is breaking things that neither Republicans nor Democrats will ever fix. 8+6+4+7 = 25th 000
Reposted by Colin KingM Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Arizona Senator Mark Kelly Is Direct And To The Point, KegsBreath........ 460192954752
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 21/07/2026"They need us to survive" in no circumstances rises to the level of rational national policy. Individual abusive behavior? Probably... I'm confident that Canada is quite capable of turning away this... abuser. 000
Reposted by Colin KingMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 21/07/2026My statement on the United States administration’s intention to impose new tariffs on Canadian goods: 94381522340
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 20/07/2026As a Canadian who has a favorite California wine or three... I am today a bit more removed from considering resuming purchases. www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...cbc.caTrump's new 50% tariff to hit even CUSMA-compliant goods | CBC NewsU.S. President Donald Trump is moving to impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neighbour. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026We continue to dig even as we despair that the hole we're digging is filling with water around us. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.com‘Profound, resigned hopelessness’: people across US and Canada share effects of wildfire smokeAir quality in North America has plummeted, affecting the health of millions of people across the continent 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Israel, single-mindedly, sowing the wind... Guardian excerpt: 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Kareem spoke and after last night, the entire WNBA should ponder did Caitlin listen, and take it personally. If the 45 point outburst was indeed a response, great things are in store for the WNBA and basketball fans, once the recent, sickening, explosion of racial agitation can be checked. 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Seeing the US (R) Reps among others fuming about Canada and wildfire smoke... It's not as if Canadian planes are patrolling the border trailing banners "Rollin' Smoke"... 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Air Quality Index soaring in Southern Ontario, Canada... f40m 207 a mere three hours ago to current 411 where I am. Pushing this is smoke from wildfires in northern Ontario and possibly Quebec. AQI at 411 is dangerous to everyone, regardless of age or health status. 001
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Just saw Carole King recognizing today as the 80th birthday of Linda Ronstadt and my old dad self could only think "Wow, the time Blue Bayou!" 010
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 14/07/2026When next can we expect a meeting of the Board of Peace? Obviously time has been constrained post Venezuela, pre Iran, but is there any slot possible post(?) Iran/pre-Cuba? 000
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Today is really not a day for excuses, for blinkered 'tributes' or for downplaying the enormity of what we all saw. That was one enabler. There are others as bad, as dangerous. 100
Reposted by Colin Kingcaptainfrogbert.bsky.social @captainfrogbert.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I fell to the seductive siren's call of Poe's Law... Call it Frogbert's Corollary to Poe's Law: It is impossible to write anything so stupid it cannot be reasonably attributed to Donald Trump. 1133
Colin King @colinhking.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I have to believe Graham would approve... blatant lies for dubious 'cause' 000
