More on the “US doesn’t need Canada front”
Everyone talks about tariffs like the US doesn’t need Canada. Let’s talk facts.
Potash: the US imports 90-97% of what it uses. No substitute at scale. The only other big suppliers are Russia and Belarus. Good luck with that.
Uranium: Saskatchewan has some of the highest grade deposits on earth. American reactors run on it because domestic production doesn’t come close to covering demand.
Heavy crude: Gulf Coast refineries were built to process it. Alberta oil sands are one of the only sources of that grade on the planet. You can’t just swap in light crude from somewhere else.
Electricity: Quebec and Ontario feed power directly into the US grid in real time. That’s not a shipment you can reroute. It’s wires.
Aluminum: Canada is the world’s second largest exporter, powered by cheap Quebec hydro. Nobody else matches that cost structure.
This isn’t a one way relationship where the US does Canada a favor by trading with us. American farms, refineries, and power grids run on Canadian resources every single day. Threaten that and you’re not hurting Canada. You’re hurting American farmers, American factories, and American families paying the bill.
Maybe Vance doesn't know this history because it's in one of the books his administration banned.
The difference between Watergate and now is that back then, Republicans actually did something about a law-breaking president. Today, they only roll over for their cult leader.
I was just in #Ottawa after an 8 year absence…my city is crumbling 😞. @_MarkSutcliffe what have you done to my city? Beggars on every corner, unfinished construction and roads in dire need of repair. It’s awful 😢
Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!
In December, President Trump called for me to be investigated, arrested, and hanged over a 90-second video that restated existing law.
My lawyer's advice was straightforward: go quiet. Keep your head down. This will blow over.
But in this administration, the reality is that keeping your head down does not keep you safe. Staying quiet when power comes after you does not make the threat go away. It just teaches the people making the threat that it works.
When a president can call for the arrest and execution of a sitting senator for quoting the law, and the expected response is silence, that's a problem that goes way beyond me. That affects every American who works in government, every journalist, every ordinary citizen who might speak up.
A grand jury of ordinary Americans looked at this situation and said no. They understood what was at stake, and I think most Americans do.
We refuse to accept that this is the new normal.
This moment isn't really about me. When the administration is willing to go after a senator this way, it sends a message to every American who might speak up. That should concern people in both parties.
'You put that ratbag in his place'
Sir Rod Stewart raised the King's four-day trip to the United States with Charles and Camilla during an event on Monday celebrating the 50th anniversary of the King's Trust at the Royal Albert Hall.
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So the Trump Admin can release all the classified files about ALIENS over the last 75 years, but they still can’t manage to RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES???
President Obama: “The White House shouldn’t be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting whoever the president wants prosecuted. The AG is the people’s lawyer, it’s not the president’s consigliere. You can’t have a situation in which whoever’s in charge of the government starts using that to go after their political enemies”
Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.
The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.