The TACO cycle:

Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank.

So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.

In other obvious news, “A recent study shows that encampment bans & other policies that criminalize homelessness don’t keep people from living on the street. The analysis did not find any reduction in homelessness in any cities studied as a result of such ordinances.”

Homes and supports. Obviously.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

A summer of streetcar chaos is almost upon us. And TTC riders are already frustrated: 'Is this the best plan?'

www.thestar.com/news/gta/a-s...

The Vice President and the National Security Advisor discussing how they pre-targeted a building housing civilians.

This is new: “A source with direct knowledge of the discussions told NBC News that Trump is heavily focused on Canada in conversations with aides, who believe he is completely serious about making the country the 51st state—even with Trudeau out of power”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“For the KGB, it was a charm offensive. They had collected a lot of information on his personality so they knew who he was personally. The feeling was that he was extremely vulnerable intellectually, and psychologically, and he was prone to flattery.“

Seems relevant.

Canada already announced a $1.3 billion border plan a month and a half ago, so it sounds like the only concession Trump is getting here is someone with the title of ”Fentanyl Czar“?

www.canada.ca/en/public-sa...

It’s time for Canada to import Japanese zoning, Korean and Spanish transit construction practices, Dutch road design, and Swiss building codes.

i mean. trudeau is right. donald trump represents a betrayal of everything america promised to be. canada has been our ally for a hundred years, through the fires of two world wars, the cold war, all the great struggles of the twentieth century--and this is how we repay that? it's disgusting

There hasn't actually been a serious border security problem between Canada and the US.

Wanna know a good way to create one? Create incentives in the tens of billions of dollars for successful smuggling operations.

When we look back at atrocities we wonder why people in authority are so quick to obey inhumane orders. Wonder no more. Good people easily do evil things.

Sometimes I look at the art on my walls and think about how the idea of art may be older than the idea of walls.