A brief guide for Americans

The administration concluded last month that Maine had violated federal law by allowing transgender athletes to play on girls’ or women’s teams.

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I think each of us has our own superpower. A thing we do with uncommon skill. It often, I've discovered, takes a good while to find, or accept, or understand, or feel. It's different in everyone, how it manifests, and when. Often, or just as often, we are tricked into believing that our superpower is the thing we are maybe most known for.

I’m an American citizen who grew up in Canada—because why settle for a normal childhood when you can have a frosty mix of hockey, maple syrup, and universal healthcare? My dad is American and my mom is Canadian. The one element that defines both families, is generations of ancestors in the same place, on the same land, going back to well before the founding of both nations.

Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

You didn't ask, but I'm offering it anyway.

... where I talk about having a mental space to vent, diving into thoughts on politics and the chaos in the land of my birth. Reflecting on American arrogance and the MAGA movement while contrasting it with Canadian values of unity and strength.

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.

Hey, hi, long time no read anything from me, eh? Well, this that and the other has blocked me. The words were there, but they felt wrong, ideas swirling and whirling, but all falling flat. Yet, fun…

The president confirmed his long-threatened tariffs will come into effect on Saturday, and said they “may or may not rise with time.”

When Nazi Germany drew up the racist Nuremberg Laws, it looked to the Jim Crow laws and anti-immigrant policies of the US

The intimidation is the point.