Calvin Chan

I work in a Frankenmonster of a profession. I say things, but they're from my own brain. @[email protected]

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

On one hand volunteers aren’t paid a US government salary, but on the other hand volunteers don’t have to pass background checks that would flag things like getting paid $2 billion from a foreign government

[Raghu Venugopal MD @raghu_venugopal]

Today I wish Ontario hadn't wasted:
-$2.2 billion on an Austrian spa
-$1 billion on an unneeded Science Centre
-$1.4 billion on early alcohol sales everywhere
-$3.2 billion on election bribe cheques
Every billion mattered.
https://t.co/EVHANHjPfd

[David Doel @daviddoel]

This clown ran 8yrs ago on “balancing the budget”. All he’s done since is decimate health care, education, housing, and public services while giving handouts to his rich developer friends.

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Every single day there are multiple stories that would sink a presidency 15 years ago.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“'The guy, I’m telling him like, "Please step off the school grounds," and this dude comes up and bumps into me and then tells me that I pushed him, and he’s trying to push me, and he knocked me down,' an official at Roosevelt High School said. 'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'" https://t.co/LjF92xbF1t

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

Pretty unequivocal, and conscience-shocking to call the driver a domestic terrorist given the video evidence. https://t.co/04VH3dTee3

[Carl Bildt @carlbildt]

This is rather dramatic but lost in the general media turmoil over everything else - 🇺🇸 is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law.

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

What’s more: Trump knew he lost.

Two firms his campaign *paid* hundreds of thousands of dollars to find alleged fraud told him he lost.

His inner circle told him that he lost, and in his private moments, he admitted that he lost. The new White House website is an ongoing attempt to play the public for suckers on a knowing lie.

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

The fact that he wasn’t impeached and made ineligible to run again in 2020 is criminal.

The fact that he isn’t being impeached and thrown from office today is criminal.

America is deeply sick. And getting sicker.

Let’s just admit it.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Which pipeline should be approved right now? To/from where? Capacity? How is it tolled? Contracted or common carrier? How is it financed? Construction plans? Spill and emergency response plans? Insurance? Which Indigenous rights are implicated? Has consultation even begun?

[Ben Fowlkes @benfowlkesMMA]

I remember watching it on TV at the gym and thinking, well at least that’ll be the end of the MAGA movement now that people have seen where it inevitably leads. I vastly underestimated how stupid and gullible a lot of my fellow Americans were and are.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture repainted, every statue and street and building renamed, every date altered, and that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
Orwell, 1984

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Walz is out of Fs: "Not a single Republican supported this, so every Minnesotan from here on forward, whoever uses this program, there is no bit of thanks that would go to the Republican legislators who did all they could to stop this ... our schools have the money to pay their teachers? I'll take credit for that too."

[Vince Mancini @VinceMancini]

Dems message should be “these guys are insane psychos doing shit no one wants for zero benefit.” This should not be hard.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨UNBELIEVABLE: The Washington Post reports that Donald Trump withheld support for María Corina Machado because she accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

Trump’s explanation, per the report:
“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today.”

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

They lost their parents. Their parents were assassinated. And they actually are forced to go to the trouble of publicly asking the President of the United States to stop spreading lies & conspiracies about who killed their parents. He’s despicable. Trump is evil.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨 If you’re confused why the Trump administration is suddenly claiming there’s “massive fraud” in daycares… without evidence… here’s the reality:

It’s not about fraud.
It’s about defunding childcare.
And it’s laid out plainly in Project 2025.

Project 2025 argues that the federal government should stop supporting large-scale childcare systems and instead “support parents directly” so one parent can stay home.

Sounds benign… until you look closer.

👉 There is no plan to replace a real income.
👉 No wage replacement.
👉 No guarantee families can survive on one paycheck.

“Paying parents to stay home” in Project 2025 does not come anywhere close to replacing what a parent earns in the workforce. It’s not a living wage. It’s not sustainable. It doesn’t cover rent, healthcare, groceries, student loans, or childcare for other kids.

So what’s actually happening?

👉 They want to defund daycare
👉 While not offering a real financial alternative
👉 While cutting programs like Head Start
👉 While rolling back access to birth control and abortion

That’s not support. That’s coercion.

When childcare disappears and reproductive autonomy disappears, women don’t “choose” to leave the workforce… they’re forced out.

This is the pipeline:
• Undermine abortion access
• Restrict contraception
• Defund childcare
• Offer symbolic “parent support” that doesn’t cover lost income
• Push women back into financial dependence

Project 2025 isn’t subtle about its worldview. It prioritizes a single-income, male-breadwinner household… without building an economy where that’s actually possible.

So when you hear panic about “daycare fraud,” understand what’s really being set up:

No childcare.
No reproductive choice.
No real economic alternative.

That’s not family values.
That’s economic and government control.

The more financial desperate families get, the more the rich can exploit the working class.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

What if I told you the real welfare queens in America are the Walton family of Walmart worth $488 billion & Jeff Bezos of Amazon worth $255 billion who pay wages so low their workers rely on food stamps, Medicaid & public housing subsidized by U.S taxpayers? That’s mass looting.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Wow insane internal email, leaked to Wall Street Journal from CBS.

Bari Weiss pulled a story without even talking to the news room.

Between the DoJ and now puppets in media, this administration thinks you’re too dumb to see political cover-ups, right in front of your face!

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The Trump administration sent dozens young men with no criminal record to be tortured and abused in a foreign prison.

@bariweiss can keep reporting, delaying, or kill the story altogether, but the basic facts have been well-documented in multiple court cases, including by Trump’s own DOJ and Trump-appointed judges.