Hugh Gillis 🇨🇦

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Not subtle: new party line is to associate Communists with every crime, every offense. Create a sense of Communist threat to justify a rightwing crackdown. Old playbook used with coups and Fascist takeovers.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

This story is crazy.

It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists.

https://t.co/MNJX3CMBqJ

[Luke Montalbano 🇨🇦 @LukeMontalbano]

In the words of Stephen Harper, “I would accept any level of damage to preserve the independence of the country.” Our forefathers have given too much for us to allow Canada to be subsumed by a foreign republic in exchange for a tax cut.

[Just Dempsey @LifeInThe306]

The Truth About Milk 🥛🇨🇦🇺🇸

Yes, Canada has high over-quota dairy tariffs on the books. But here’s the part that keeps getting left out:

They’ve never been triggered on U.S. milk under USMCA. Not once.

The U.S. gets a large tariff-free quota to sell dairy into Canada. Those quotas have never been filled, so the 200–300% over-quota tariffs have never actually been applied to U.S. exports. Even the U.S. dairy industry has acknowledged it has never come close to exceeding the quotas.

Canada is a country of just 41 million people. We simply don’t consume enough imported U.S. dairy to hit the quota limits. The “270% tariff on Canadian milk” talking point/ sound bite leaves out the most important fact: it has never actually been charged on U.S. exports.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Hegseth admits that Russia and China, whose leaders Trump worships, are helping Iran.

And who is Trump attacking?…Canada.

Let that sink in.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Eby: "I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, then you almost certainly do not have a friend anywhere in the world. And that is a very lonely place to be."

[Spencer Fernando @SpencerFernando]

Ultimately, the actions of those who counsel surrender do not change the fact that the time for more Canadian concessions has long passed. Canada must stand firm, recognize that we are dealing with gangsterism, and focus our efforts on building our own national strength, standing with democratic allies around the globe as well as Americans who reject Trump’s dishonest approach, and, most importantly, stiffening our spines and keeping our elbows up rather than giving in to fear.

[James Moore @honjamesmoore]

I genuinely appreciate what Donald Trump has done in smoking out those Canadians who love Trumpism more than they like Canada or appreciate being Canadian. I won't forget.

[John Mark Taylor @prairiecentrist]

The issue for many conservatives seems to be that they think Donald Trump is a rational actor, doing sensible things. That is a problem for their entire movement. They’ve lost control of the plot.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Richard Gere: “Trump uses the same words that Hitler did. Calls them vermin. They’re not vermin. These are human beings. I’ve met them. He’s never met a refugee or a migrant. These are human beings like us who are usually running from a fire of one kind or another”

[Hugh Gillis 🇨🇦 @hgillis]

@MeghanEMurphy @ItsDeanBlundell I am aware he was not found guilty of rape. E. Jean Carroll won the case because the jury ruled he sexually abused her. You are arguing over New York state's narrow definition of the term 'rape' to defend him.

[Hugh Gillis 🇨🇦 @hgillis]

@MeghanEMurphy @ItsDeanBlundell Yes. Did you?

“the jury’s finding that Mr Trump ‘sexually abused’ Ms Carroll implicitly determined that he forcibly penetrated her digitally – in other words, that Mr Trump in fact did ‘rape’ Ms Carroll”

[Hugh Gillis 🇨🇦 @hgillis]

@MeghanEMurphy @ItsDeanBlundell https://t.co/VFuqOA42MV

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Climate change.

Canada’s boreal forest is far north.

Most parts of it only reach 64F (18C) averages in the heat of the summer.

Its density and climate also means it gets very little evaporation compared to its rainfall, and is subject to frost 9 months of the year, and heavy fog the rest of the time.

This kept this biome very humid, kept soil damp, and left most of the low level foliage coated in dew all day long.

Some parts of the forest even had thick levels of permafrost beneath the topsoil that on rare hot days would seep water back into the ecosystem.

Just as many wildfires started by lightning strike in previous decades as now.

The difference is they struggled to catch and spread in this damp environment.

Now extreme dry weather, record breaking heat, northern thaw, erode that protective moisture barrier, leaving the boreal forest vulnerable especially in the more southern parts.

Boreal forests previously went through this process naturally when an over density caused a drier environment you’d get high-intensity crown fires that were cyclical. Every 50-200 years depending on region.

Now we get them annually.

Boreal forest fires are much more severe than others too. The long history of cyclical burns means the soil contains charcoal, the thick multi-layer foliage adds fodder and causes the fire to spread quickly, and pine, spruce, and aspens are all some of the trees with both the most density and the best for wood burning.

It results in towering forest fires of immense heat and rapid spread.

These forests are denser than anything else in North America or Europe, and the current fire in Ontario alone, is the same square mileage as the entire state of Delaware.

From the time it ignited, to covering that size, took less than 20 hours.

While some in the US still think climate change is a hoax, we are all going to deal with the consequences of it, as we’ve turned the largest forest in the world into a tinder box, and fires in less than 0.01% of it drowns the entire continent in smoke.

[🇨🇦 Policy Hawk @CDNPolicyHawk]

You know what are strategic resources?

Steel & Aluminum.

You know what America imports 750,000 tons of from China every year?

Steel & Aluminum.

You know what Canada can supply America with in abundance?

Steel & Aluminum.

You know what Canadian product the US is tariffing that's leading to Canada's "restrictions" on specific non-strategic US goods?

Steel & Aluminum.

I'd love to see America work with Canada to limit both countries' dependence on China.

Do you know who's standing in the way?

America.

[Ron Butler @ronmortgageguy]

Let's Get This Forest Fire Stuff Straight: American Politicians Are Dead Wrong On This One

Grab a Map Fuck-Wits, Google Canadian Boreal Forests

These Forests have no people, no towns, no roads

100's of thousands of square miles no human has EVER set foot

No way to manage it

[Ben O'Hara-Byrne @Ben_oharabyrne]

Lecturing and threatening Canada on managing nearly 1.3 billion acres of boreal forest when you can’t properly renovate a 2000ft long reflecting pool in your capital is peak MAGA.

[megan ⭕️🇨🇦🇨🇦 @megwrestling]

the lack of humanity in America is truly frightening

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

Control the smoke. Stop the wind. Control the wildfires in a forrest area larger than the entire US? And these statements are being made by people elected to government in the US.

Holy fuck, American stupid is absolutely legendary.