Danielle

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.” Terry Pratchett

[Michael MacKay @mhmck]

Witkoff and Kushner presented commemorative coins to terrorist leader Putin.

One side features a map showing all of North, Central and South America under U.S. political domination. It is an expansion of the "Technate of America" map presented by American fascists in the 1930s.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Canadian Hardwood Plywood and Veneer Association: Chinese plywood is being dumped in Canada.

Liberals: it isn't happening, America's tariffs are unfair.

CBSA: Our investigation confirms it is correct.

America: we 👏 told 👏 you 👏

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

This isn't the first time the USA has placed 50% tariffs on Canada.
In 1890, the USA's Tariff Act was touted as a way to build up American industry, but the true goal was forcing the annexation of Canada.
It backfired and made Canada stronger.
This is the story.

📸 LoC

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[cbcwatcher @cbcwatcher]

RCMP taking its marching orders from the Chinese Communist Party "The RCMP says it won’t release the full agreement it signed with China’s Ministry of Public Security without Beijing agreeing to do so, despite demands from the federal Conservatives and NDP for answers on what it contains.

In a statement to Global News on Wednesday, RCMP spokesperson Robin Percival said the memorandum of understanding signed in January “outlines specific forms of mutual collaboration” on policing, the exchange of information and investigative assistance, but did not give further details.

“The RCMP will not unilaterally make public or share the contents of an MOU with a third party without the concurrence of the other party,” Percival said.

“As such, the RCMP is not releasing the contents of the MOU at this time.”"

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Despite a frantic 48-hour effort by the High Court to scrub the internet, the 45-second hot-mic recording of Mohammed Hijab has surfaced on an offshore server. This is no longer just a PR disaster for the establishment; it is a total collapse of their moral authority.

In the leaked clip, the Imam is heard clearly acknowledging to his associates that the figures Katie Hopkins cited were not only accurate but were actually understated. He reportedly goes on to mock the British legal system for its inability to stop the grooming gang crisis, calling the government’s response a sign of terminal weakness.

Insiders at the Home Office are in a state of absolute paralysis. A leaked memo suggests that if this audio reaches the mainstream, the political fallout will be terminal for the current leadership. The BBC remains under a strict blackout order, forbidden from acknowledging the existence of the recording while it spreads like wildfire through private channels.

This is the moment the mask did not just slip—it was torn off. The authorities are not protecting community relations; they are protecting their own complicity in a decades-long deception funded by your taxes.

[National Post @nationalpost]

CSIS officials say China is more of a concern in Canada’s Arctic than Russia https://t.co/QpMu6Z2axz

[ChrisO_wiki @ChrisO_wiki]

1/ Trump Administration officials have reportedly held several secret meetings with Canadian separatists, who are seeking US$500 billion to bankroll their efforts. It suggests that the Administration is interested in breaking up Canada and absorbing the remnants. ⬇️

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

The University of Nebraska completely debunks out the misleading narrative on cow burps & methane on climate change:

“They have not accounted for the capture part, they only account for methane being released. Carbon capture in soil and grass - helped out by cow grazing and manure - can far outweigh the emissions from cattle. Grasslands can take up more CO2 and carbon in the soil and plants, that offsets the CO2 that cattle are producing but it also offsets the methane.

[Robert (Durden) @realrobdurden]

@factsandfire Blackstone is owned by BlackRock and Vanguard. Don’t let these fuckers gaslight you.

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

Today, I published what is probably my most important article in quite a long time. In this piece, I revealed how the Trump administration is covertly manipulating social media platforms & algorithms to boost the administration’s narrative and suppress opposing lines of thought.

[Adrian Zenz @adrianzenz]

Major media investigation finds thousands of Uyghurs forced to work in 75 factories across 11 Chinese regions, with links to major western companies. I supported this joint investigation into state-imposed forced labor transfers by @nytimes @derspiegel @TBIJ. THREAD: 👇

[Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @LeahGazan]

Is this for real? The Conservatives blocked Parliament for months. They filibustered almost every committee.

Nobody believes you PP.

[Jens Christiansen @jenshigh]

🌿 Fun fact: Finland quietly proved the "nuclear vs wind" debate wrong.

Instead of choosing sides, they built both, achieving a much faster clean energy growth than similar-sized Denmark who went all-in on wind. Excluding nuclear does not make your transition faster 🇫🇮 ⚛️🌬️

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

It’s 10 times deadlier to give birth in America than in any other industrialized country, @ElaineWelteroth says at #TAF24—and midwifery could be a solution.

“Midwifery is the default care model in every other wealthy country in the world except for here in America. "

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

The Atlantic tropics are completely broken, unable to produce tropical storms even w/off the charts "climate fueled" oceans.

Our models no longer work, forecasters can't figure it out. This is not normal.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I cannot wait for the time to come when this self-absorbed coward will permanently exit public life into a tarnished + thoroughly mediocre legacy that will haunt him for the rest of his days.

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Full essay version available here for easier sharing: https://t.co/1C2XFUSyo8

[Restoring their Dignity @RestoringDign]

This is one of the hardest photos we’ve restored and colored, and perhaps one of the most necessary.

These two men are showing their liberators what their work was like as part of the Sonderkommando at Dachau camp. But what was the Sonderkommando?

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[Oliver Alexander @OAlexanderDK]

🧵Analysis of footage from the Trump assassination attempt shows that Trump and David Dutch were hit in Crook's initial 3 shot volley. Corey Comperatore and James Copenhaver were struck by Crook's follow-up volley a few seconds later. (1/8)