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[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Four months ago, Canadian PM Mark Carney sat in a living room, looked into a camera and delivered a message which is summarized thusly: The United States — our neighbor, our largest trading partner, the country whose economy has been braided into ours for the better part of two centuries — is no longer an ally we can count on. They are compromised by a conman. America is breaking, and yes, that special relationship isn’t just over; it’s a liability. The ties that made us strong have become the ties that make us vulnerable because, to its neighbors and "allies," America has become a non-functional, malevolent nation.
Yesterday, Carney - accompanied by a perfectly consistent press release - cancelled trade negotiations with the US. It wasn't Trump who canceled them, it was Carney. He looked at the final terms, called them unfair and uneconomic, tinged by animus and envy, so he pulled his negotiators home, and matched the 50% tariffs levied by Trump dollar for dollar. He refused to sign a bad deal just to claim a deal.
What Carney has been saying, very effectively, consistently, on the world stage and at home, over and over - 4 months ago and again yesterday - is that Canada is not going to negotiate by dysfunction and not going to capitulate to a madman and bully who is trying to use Canada as a pawn to feign grandiosity.
Carney sees Trump for who and what he is.
And most of all, Carney is saying that Canada is a sovereign nation, will remain as such, is not for sale, will make its own determinations, and will do fine.
He's right and I believe him.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you stand with Canadian PM Mark Carney and the people of Canada against Donald Trump! 🇨🇦✊🏾

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🚨 HERE WE GO AGAIN — TRUMP’S MYSTERIOUS BLONDE GATEKEEPER IS AT THE CENTER OF ANOTHER DISGUSTING SCANDAL.

Natalie Harp — the fiercely loyal Trump aide who has become one of the most unusual and powerful figures in his inner circle — is now under fire over one of the ugliest posts ever to appear on a sitting U.S. president’s social-media account.

The post showed BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA AS APES.

Yes. America’s first Black president and first lady.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Harp was the staffer behind the posting. The White House previously blamed an unnamed employee and called the post a mistake.

Some “mistake.”

Harp isn’t an intern who accidentally found Trump’s password. She reportedly sits at the heart of his Truth Social operation — feeding Trump flattering stories, conspiracy theories and attacks on Democrats, getting his approval through printed drafts, and then publishing material to his account.

This is the woman so devoted to Trump that she reportedly called him her “guardian and protector” and wrote: “You are all that matters to me.”

And NOW we’re supposed to believe this was just some innocent little posting accident? 🤡

Give me a break.

Forget the bizarre Trump-Harp soap opera for a moment. Here is what actually matters:

THE OFFICIAL ACCOUNT OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES POSTED RACIST CONTENT DEPICTING BARACK AND MICHELLE OBAMA AS APES.

Someone selected it.
Someone approved it.
Someone pressed POST.

And the American public deserves to know exactly who did what.

No hiding behind “an unnamed staffer.”
No convenient excuses.
No sweeping this filth under the White House carpet.

If Natalie Harp was responsible for publishing it, she deserves every ounce of PUBLIC SCRUTINY and ACCOUNTABILITY that comes with putting something this grotesque on the president’s account.

🔥 LIKE AND REPOST if you think the White House owes Americans the FULL STORY.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YEAH! The top preservationist group battling Trump's hideous ballroom files a brilliant response to his emergency Supreme Court request to continue construction.

This is the only thing that Trump truly cares about...

“Petitioners, however, insist they will keep building — no matter what anyone says,” lawyers for the National Trust for Historic Preservation wrote after the Trump administration asked the court to block a lower court's decision that would halt the above-ground work on the ballroom starting Friday.

That lower court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, ruled that Trump legally requires congressional authorization for his sprawling, costly project. His attorneys have been pathetically arguing that the ballroom is an urgent national security priority.

“If Petitioners believe there is a pressing need for a ballroom, nothing prevents them from asking Congress for one — today, tomorrow, or any time in the future,” the preservationist group wrote.

“But Petitioners’ efforts to foil judicial review and arrogate Congress’s exclusive powers should not be rewarded with a stay that allows Petitioners to complete a ballroom they lacked any authority to commence in the first place,” it continued.

Gregory Craig, one of the attorneys for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, further explained that allowing expedited construction will soon make the ballroom "virtually impossible to deconstruct." It will mean that "this case is over—despite every court to have reviewed their project having found it to be patently unlawful, and no matter the fact that this Court has not reviewed those decisions on the merits.”

While we put little faith in the MAGA-controlled Supreme Court at this point, the justices do occasionally surprise us by handing down a just ruling. In this case, there can be no argument made in Trump's favor. He does not have congressional approval. He cannot proceed.

This ballroom is a blatantly illegal use of taxpayer dollars that's made even worse by the fact that it's being partially privately funded, meaning it's a vector for pay-to-play corruption. If, by some gross miscarriage of justice, it's allowed to be constructed, the next Democratic President must tear it down on day one!

Please ❤️ and share if you strongly oppose the ballroom!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: "Trump came to China! We won!" CNN anchor reveals the tidal wave of mockery coming from China as a dejected Trump begs Xi Jinping for mercy!

CNN’s Erin Burnett was visibly stunned by the sheer level of unrestrained mockery China is hurling at Donald Trump during his high-stakes visit.

While Trump begins meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese social media has exploded with viral posts openly ridiculing the U.S. president, and Beijing’s strict censors are happily letting it spread.

Some of the posts going viral across China include:

-- “America has lost its swagger. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.”
-- “Trump came to China! We won the tariff war!”
-- “They will look up to us from now on.”
-- “Trump, you’re welcome to visit China and learn from us.”
-- “The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength.”

Burnett pointed out that this kind of open political mockery – especially during a visit by a foreign head of state – is extremely rare in China unless the government explicitly wants it to happen.

The message from Beijing is crystal clear: they believe they have the upper hand and are enjoying Trump’s humiliation.This is the embarrassing reality of Trump’s failed tough-guy act.

After years of bluster and tariffs, Trump is now flying to China as a weakened leader, getting openly laughed at by the Chinese public with their government’s approval.

The “strongest president ever” is being treated like a joke on the world stage by America’s biggest rival.

This is what happens when an incompetent, blustering president thinks he can bully the world. The rest of the planet is watching, and laughing.

If you are embarrassed watching Trump get clowned and disrespected by China, like and share this post.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Holy sh*t!! Twitter BANNED the creators of this ad. 🤯

I guess this hits Republicans and their Big Oil sugar daddies a little too close to home. 🤔

You know what to do.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

American Catholics will protect Pope Leo XIV.

Standing alongside us will be Christians of every other tradition who love this man’s voice for the poor and the hunted, along with Jews and Muslims and secular Americans of goodwill who recognize a moral leader when they see one.

Together, we will defend his good name, his ministry, his life, and his right as Bishop of Rome to speak the truth of the Gospel without being menaced by larping warmongers in cheap suits.

To the anti-Catholic and authoritarian forces in MAGA and around the world — in the Pentagon, in the White House, and in the Bannon-Epstein networks that have been gunning for Leo and his beloved predecessor Francis for a decade — I am telling you now, on behalf of this community and millions more like it: we will defeat you.
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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Another step in Trump & Hegseth’s relentless effort to politicize the military. By the time this stuff gets the attention it deserves it will be too late. But I will keep talking and writing about it.

[💕 Brittany Belle 💕 @BrittanyinTexas]

Kudos to whoever wrote this… 🤭

Presenting: The Ballad of Stephen Miller. 🎶

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@steve_hanke Is Putin paying you in rubles? Good luck exchanging them

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@Mylovanov No settlement without accountability for war crimes

[Rob Koehler @RobKoehler2]

Encourage everyone to post this on their profile. #SlavaUkraïni #Remembering @ZelenskyyUa

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@DrHelenFry My father’s E pin, from Manhattan Project

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Not this campaigning shit again….JFC, I just want him gone, his family gone, that fucking name erased from the news cycle. I’m sick of seeing him, hearing him & hearing about him. I’ve never hated anyone like this motherfucker. The world will be better the minute he’s gone.

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@Smil3yAngel Oh Canada, you haven’t lost your mind,
Bravely you stand, a light for humankind.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

This photo captures the moment that ICE became murderous, unlawful killers who answers to no one but Donald Trump. Don't let the importance of this image fade from your conscience! A line was drawn that cannot be erased. Silence is acceptance. I will not be silent! Will you? 🤔

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@theamelia__ Cricket, squash, soccer, rounders, golf

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@dontforgetchaos Just like the gestapo - execution by Genickschuss (bullet in the nape of the neck)