CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@Babcia54 @SnowyCA if Trump doesn't need Canada then why are they building a pipeline to Alberta for our damn oil!

"What we have seen is a slow almost sleepwalk into increasing dangers over the last decade. And we see these problems growing", thanks to the "complete failure in leadership" in the US and other countries, which are doing little to address global, catastrophic threats, even as they feed into one another:https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/may/09/doomsday-clock-ai-iran-ukraine-war-climate-breakdown-nuclear-apocalypse#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown #NoPipelines #Polycrisis #USPoli

From @paulkrugman.substack.com "And there is a strong correlation between #rightwing #politics and increased #mortality — stronger than many of the statistical associations that guide #publichealth policy.... Deep red states like Alabama and West Virginia have life expectancy comparable to, say, Kazakhstan."#uspoli #mahahttps://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-will-kill-many-americans

“The continued standoffs in Iran's Straits of Hormuz are expected to push gas prices up by as much as 12 cents per litre, observers say.”Apparently Wall Street traders have come up with a new acronym to go along with TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out). It’s NACHO (Not A Chance Hormuz Opens).#uspoli #Trump #IranWarhttps://ottawacitizen.com/news/new-gas-price-jump

PM Mark Carney has told the world that the old order is dead, and “nostalgia is not a strategy.”But nostalgia is precisely what precarity encourages, writes Tyee contributing editor Crawford Kilian, and precarity is defining this era.#canpoli #uspoli https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/04/29/Dawning-Age-Precarious/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

Political “work” is maintenance. “…For all their fixation on revolutionary design solutions, innovators often find it expedient to ally themselves with the opportunists who already control the more conventional levers of politics and capital. The rest of us are left to navigate the world they have built, and to maintain it as well as we can.”#books #technology #politics #uspoli https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/04/stewart-brands-lost-promise-maintenance-book-review/686898/?utm_medium=offsite&utm_source=flipboard&utm_campaign=books

“Too many guns. Too goddamn many guns.”#uspoli #guns https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71076082/shootings-louisiana-indianapolis-mike-johnson/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other

"The Financial Times has reported that #Canada’s #oil producers are in line to land $90 billion in windfall profits due to the #Iran war." https://sethdklein.substack.com/p/urgent-need-for-a-windfall-profits #uspoli #cdnpoli #BigOil #ClimateCriminals #WarMachine #CapitalismKills

“Who in the hell are you when you’re at home, Sparky?”#vance #pope #uspoli #humour https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a71026058/jd-vance-pope-theology-arrogance/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=other