Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

@harryjsisson @TheRickWilson Who is making or sending him these AI memes. My bet is on Barron

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is posting about Hunter Biden in the middle of the night. He has a SEVERE and terminal case of Biden Derangement Syndrome.

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Bro it just came out that Trump’s ballroom donors got $50 BILLION in government contracts in just six months! HEIST OF THE CENTURY!

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Agriculture Sec @BrookeLRollins in November: "We have screwworm under control south of the border. Beef prices will come down by spring 2026"

Beef prices continue to rise, and screwworm is now in the US.

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

@0xRuzy He was to create a generation conflict when it is a class thing. Also, boomer women did not have access to the same opportunities as boomer men. They couldn’t get a credit card and needed a man’s signature to get a loan. He is ignorant

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

On this day in 2003, Andy Serkis accepted Gollum’s MTV Movie Award for Best Virtual Performance and turned it into one of the greatest acceptance speeches ever.

It was so good it won a Hugo Award the next year for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

@GOP__Ls @TheRickWilson But Trump shut down Canada’s border …

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[Jonathan Slater @slater57649]

Every once in a while, I need to bring this out again

[Michael Gerald Gibbs🏳️‍🌈🍁 🇺🇦 (He/Him) @Mikeggibbs]

Absolutely obscene.

And there is no security justification for it whatsoever bc he travels with OPP VIP detail.

Every other premier in Canada flies commercial *when it's available* depending on their location.

The Premier of Ontario has the easiest and most convenient access to commercial travel of all the premiers, that's why this is so obscene.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

She is acting like she found that island. Romanticizing colonization.

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

@goldstar002 His base won’t believe he is dead even if it is caught on camera.

[Aikido Security @AikidoSecurity]

⚠️ New "IronWorm" supply-chain attack: 30+ npm packages from @ asteroiddao shipped a malicious Rust binary firing on preinstall.

It sweeps 86 env vars + 20 credential files (AWS, GCP, Vault, npm, plus AI keys like Anthropic & OpenAI), hits Exodus wallets, hides behind an eBPF rootkit, and beacons over Tor. Self-propagates via npm Trusted Publishing OIDC, with backdated commits faked as claude/dependabot/renovate.

[Nan Douglas @nandouglas]

The provincial portion of our property taxes which goes to education, increased dramatically this year, not to fund public education but to fund Danielle Smith’s charter schools. I didn’t vote for this.

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

Cool

[Ms_J_ 🇨🇦👖☀️ @_Ms_J]

@sentdefender What happened to the suit?

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Trump is using a specific language from the 1930s: “enemies within,” “enemies of the people,” migrants and political opponents as “vermin,” migrants “poisoning the blood” of Americans.

That language comes from Hitler, Stalin and the Stasi. 1/

[Hobbsy @Ho88sy]

@HiddenHistoryYT You do know that on May 9th 1941, Sub-Lieutenant David Balme RN from HMS Bulldog under orders from Commander Joe Baker-Cresswell RN, captured the enigma and cyphers from U110.
The enigma was taken to Bletchley park where Alan Turing and his team broke enigma.

[Hidden History @HiddenHistoryYT]

82 years ago today, eight American sailors jumped onto a sinking Nazi submarine in the middle of the Atlantic.

What they pulled out of it changed the war. And the Navy buried the whole story for years.

First, you need to know that U-505 was already cursed. German sailors called her the unluckiest boat in the fleet. In October 1943, during a brutal British depth-charge attack, her own captain shot himself in the head in the control room, in front of his crew. He remains the only submarine commander in history known to have killed himself underwater in combat. His second-in-command calmly took over, rode out the attack, and sailed her home.

Eight months later, her luck ran out completely.

June 4, 1944. Two days before D-Day. Captain Daniel Gallery's hunter-killer group, built around the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal, had been stalking U-boats off West Africa. Gallery had an idea his superiors considered borderline insane: don't sink the next one. Capture it. No US Navy crew had boarded and taken an enemy warship on the high seas since 1815.

The destroyer escort USS Chatelain caught U-505 on sonar and fired a salvo of hedgehog bombs. The U-boat broke the surface 700 yards away. Gunfire raked the conning tower, wounding her captain. He gave the order to abandon ship.

The Germans rushed out so fast they botched the scuttling. The sub was flooding, but her engines were still running. She was circling the battle at six knots, empty, sinking, and very possibly rigged with demolition charges.

So Lt. Albert David and eight men from USS Pillsbury chased her down in a whaleboat, leaped aboard, and climbed down the hatch into a dark, flooding submarine that could explode or go under at any second. They shut the scuttling valves, disarmed the charges, and stopped the flooding.

Down there they found the prize: Enigma cipher machines and roughly 900 pounds of codebooks and charts. Current settings. The keys to the German navy's secret communications.

But here's the catch. The treasure was only valuable if Germany never found out. One leak and Berlin changes every code overnight.

So the Navy ran one of the great cover-ups of the war. The sub was towed 1,700 miles to Bermuda and given a fake American name: USS Nemo. Around 3,000 sailors were sworn to total silence. The 58 captured German crewmen vanished into a POW camp in rural Louisiana, hidden even from the Red Cross. Germany declared U-505 lost with all hands and notified the families. The dead men were alive in Louisiana, and their boat was working for the US Navy.

The secret held until the war ended.

Lt. David received the Medal of Honor, the only one awarded in the Atlantic Fleet in all of WWII.

And the submarine? In 1954, Chicagoans raised $250,000 to bring her home. She was towed across Lake Michigan and dragged through the streets of Chicago to the Museum of Science and Industry.

She's still sitting there right now. You can walk through her.