Mel

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[Mel @bubbaray90]

I feel seen.

[David Fisman @DFisman]

Stop doing dumb shit and I’ll stop being negative

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Nearly 60 people in Idaho have contracted bacterial infections after drinking raw milk.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

He took a trip abroad to Europe and found out what they think of us.

[D. R. @DavidRo64445462]

Every time Trump and his sycophants tweets about Canada being the 51 state. The U.S. Loses a billion dollars in Canadian tourist dollars. The Art of The Deal.

[Mel @bubbaray90]

@JasJohalBC NDP breathed a sigh of relief tonight.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Nothing to see here, just Israel live streaming its war crimes.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

BREAKING: A CIA official was just arrested after $40 million in stolen gold bars was found stashed at his Virginia residence. The United States is the most corrupt country on earth, bar none.

[Mel @bubbaray90]

@Ben_oharabyrne Nah man, it’s anti-American. Fg “joke” about the 51 state with my teen daughter trapped on a chairlift with 3 yanks. F that shit. Filthy pigs stay home, Canada doesn’t need them. We’re better off with the EU.

[Mel @bubbaray90]

@FoodProfessor No MapleMAGA on my feed thanks.

[Mel @bubbaray90]

@sarobertson_ He is either a moron or incompetent or both.

[Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette]

Opinion: Cheers to keeping the U.S. alcohol ban going https://t.co/GTmdGoGkWA

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇮🇹 Italy Just Told Boeing to Get in the Bin

Let’s be clear about what’s happened here. Italy, a country that has been loyally refuelling its air force from American-built tankers for fifteen years, has just written a €1.39 billion cheque to Airbus. Six A330 MRTTs, signed on 16 April, quietly published to the EU procurement portal on 19 May, and absolutely devastating in its implications.

This is not a procurement decision. Procurement decisions are boring. Men in grey suits argue about maintenance contracts and through-life costs and nobody outside a defence ministry cares. This is a statement, delivered in the universal language of very large sums of money.

And the statement is: we’re done.

You have to appreciate the audacity of it. Italy is a NATO member. Italy hosts American troops. Italy has spent a decade and a half operating Boeing’s KC-767, which is, by most accounts, a perfectly serviceable aircraft. There was no catastrophic failure here, no scandal, no tanker that caught fire over the Adriatic. The Italians simply looked at the current state of American reliability, looked at an Airbus catalogue, and made a decision that any sensible person watching Washington in 2026 would probably also make.

The A330 MRTT is, for what it’s worth, an exceptional machine. It is larger, more capable, and rather more elegant than what it replaces. But nobody is writing about it because of its impressive fuel offload capacity. They’re writing about it because Italy just became the latest European country to quietly redirect a billion-plus euros away from American industry, and toward the continent it actually lives on.

Boeing, meanwhile, continues to have what can only be described as a very bad decade.

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[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The Netherlands Just Told America to Get Its Greasy McDonald’s Fingers Off Their Data

The Dutch government has blocked American IT giant Kyndryl from buying Solvinity, the cloud provider behind DigiD, the system every Dutch citizen uses to access their taxes, medical records and pension information. Washington responded with a formal statement expressing “disappointment.”

The Dutch public responded rather differently.

“You have been spitting in our faces for 1.5 years. Did you think that came without consequences?”

“Fuck off yanks.”

“Get lost.”

“Cry all you want.” And, in what may be the most perfectly constructed sentence in the history of transatlantic diplomacy:

“We don’t want your greasy McDonald’s fingers on our data.”

These are not the words of people who feel they have been heard.

The U.S. Embassy invoked “shared prosperity,” “mutual reliance,” and “co-creation.” The Dutch, a nation historically not known for mincing words, heard all of that and collectively said: mate, you threatened to invade Greenland. You pulled troops. You voted with Russia at the UN. You tried to meddle in our elections. You slapped us with tariffs while calling us partners. At what point exactly were we supposed to keep nodding along?

One commenter summed up the root cause with surgical precision: “The reason is one orange clown you voted into office.”

And here is the thing. This is not just a Dutch problem. Canada is buying Swedish fighter jets. Europe is building its own defence industry at speed. Country after country is quietly but very deliberately reducing its exposure to American infrastructure, American platforms and American goodwill, because American goodwill has turned out to be a subscription service that cancels without notice.

The Embassy called it disappointing.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney: "Most countries don't think that they're headed in the right direction. Canada, with all our imperfections, challenges, Canadians think we are headed in the right direction. And part of the reason why is because we're Canadian, because we know we'll come together and we'll work to find a better way."

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

We’re working together — and getting major projects built that will bring our vast natural resources to new markets around the world.

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Canada negotiating purchase of aerial surveillance system with Swedes instead of American competitor https://t.co/5hthLEkTJZ

[Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @terry_truchan]

‼️MUST WATCH‼️
When asked why Canada doesn’t end the boycott on US booze as it is an “irritant” to the US, PM Mark Carney replies with what REALLY is an irritant.
#cdnpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #USPolitics

[Mike Angelle ⬛⬜⬛⬜⬛⬜ @trainofangels00]

The U.S. has now confirmed that tariffs on Canada will remain in place, and they will be a permanent fixture despite the CUSMA pact no matter what.

And to think there's losers out here that blame Carney for this.

Shut the front door.

#canpoli
#Canada

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

Canada has entered into negotiations to procure Saab’s Airborne Early Warning & Control Aircraft.

This new system will help the Canadian Armed Forces to detect and deter threats across the Arctic — and support more than 3000 Canadian jobs, from the skilled trades to engineering and tech.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

PM Carney on rearming Canadian Armed Forces: "The world's changed. We all know that Canada must change with it. We get that. We embarked on this project, first and foremost, to protect Canadians, to defend our territory, to secure our borders, and to protect our sovereignty."

[🇨🇦 Jamie Carroll 🇨🇦 @jec79]

So… deals are meaningless. Got it.