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Justin Ling
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Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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The Putin loyalists win, America sells out Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Trump hands Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Trump is so clearly not being read in on these negotiations (or, equally likely, he doesn't care.)

The "few remaining points of disagreement" are the quintessential issues that have always been at play — i.e. should Russia be allowed to use these negotiations to seize even more territory?
Trump truth social: Over the past week, my team has made tremendous progress with respect to ending the War between Russia and Ukraine (A War that would have NEVER started if I were President!). Last month 25,000 soldiers died. The original 28-Point Peace Plan, which was drafted by the United States, has been fine-tuned, with additional input from both sides, and there are only a few remaining points of disagreement. In the hopes of finalizing this Peace Plan, I have directed my Special Envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with President Putin in Moscow and, at the same time, Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll will be meeting with the Ukrainians. I will be briefed on all progress made, along with Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. I look forward to hopefully meeting with President Zelenskyy and President Putin soon, but ONLY when the deal to end this War is FINAL or, in its final stages. Thank you for your attention to this very important matter, and let’s all hope that PEACE can be accomplished AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!
November 25, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Steve Witkoff: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call. Because — let me tell you what I told the President. I told the president that you - that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that. And I believe the question is — the issue is is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise and when we do, we’re going to have a peace deal. I’m even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this... Yuri Ushakov: Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say. SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing. SW: Yeah because listen to what I’m saying. I just want you to say, maybe just to say this to President Putin, because you know I have the deepest respect for President Putin. YU: Yes, Yes. SW: Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things — to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done. Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal. YU: I see...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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What the actual fuck is going on.

America put forward a nearly carbon copy version of the Russian plan for Ukrainian conquest, admitted it and backtracked, then doubles down.
Tweet from Marco Rubio: The peace proposal was authored by the U.S. It is offered as a strong framework for ongoing negotiations It is based on input from the Russian side. But it is also based on previous and ongoing input from Ukraine.
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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If you get the chance, watch this panel on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/BqZO0VR...

It features Vladimir Kara-Murza, the Russian dissident and human rights activist who Putin tried — and failed — to break and kill; and Tawakkol Karman, Yemeni Democratic activist and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
November 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇
Photo of HISF president Peter Von Prague at a podium under a logo that says DEMOCRACY (in "Ukraine yellow"
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Baby Grok will no longer rizz up Elon Musk, rizz king
Tweet from Musk: Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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oh my god @daveweigel.bsky.social
February 15 On February 15, in an article on US singer Livvy and her single 'Jailbait', we noted that this was "a song celebrating the lighter side of paedophilia with a social conscience and lightness of touch that makes Ke$ha seem almost sentient". Unbelievably it seems this was misinterpreted as positive coverage — at least by Livvy herself, who quotes it in her MySpace.
November 18, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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ok, i'm calling it, Olivia Nuzzi is not real. she is a Markov chain text generator. we've been duped.
We were primed to participate in the farcical parable in which the son of a businessman dreams of making movies, goes to Hollywood, comes home, becomes a businessman who thinks, still, of the screen, thinks of Hollywood, who makes himself a star as consolation, becomes the skilled practitioner of a screen art that perverts notions of truth and make-believe, who like many stars succumbs to tyrannical impulses and authoritarian fantasies because the compromise of his life feels like a loss of control, an expression of weakness, because it is, and whose fantasies, in a pretty good twist, are not his alone but are instead woven into a mass delirium that splits us into a Gemini nation under a Gemini ruler.
November 17, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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thinkin about opening an etsy shop
it's a pillow that says "Of course [Trump] knew about the girls - Jeffrey Epstein"
November 12, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Last year, Orbán's government unveiled a memorial to István Csurka, who spent a lifetime in politics warning that the "hegemony of the Hungarian Jewry" — led by George Soros — was destroying the country. Orbán stole that shtick.

I wrote about it here: www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/trump-to-t...
Unveiling of a bronze statue of Istvan Csurka, in a field, as two people look on
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Rod Dreher got an audience with his Pope (Viktor Orbán) and apparently learned some valuable lessons about antisemitism.
November 12, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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I was under the impression that this was for a new story. But, no, this is around the story from

I still find this whole article kind of bewildering, but it's worth noting that her response to that question ended up being core to the piece! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...
Last month, the advocacy group StopAntisemitism labeled Accurso the “Antisemite of the Week” and, The New York Post reported, sent a letter urging Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate whether Accurso is receiving funding to further Hamas’s agenda. Accurso “posted nearly 50 times about the children of Gaza, most of which is filled with misinformation from Hamas, and only 5 times about Israeli children,” the group, which monitors statements about Israel on social media accounts of prominent figures, said on its website. “In the case of the Israeli children, she only posted due to widespread public backlash, never condemning Hamas and the Palestinians.” Accurso, 42, in an emailed response denied having received money from Hamas. “This accusation is not only absurd, it’s patently false,” she said. Accurso said: “The reason I post about Israeli children is because I care deeply about them. The accusation that I would be doing it for any other reason is outrageous and wrong.” “I’ve spent my life committed to the learning and well-being of children,” she added. “I have always believed that safety and security are a basic human right for every child — so you see, caring about children in Gaza is a direct continuation of the work I’ve been doing most of my life. We don’t care about only some of our students because of where those students were born, we care about every one of them.”
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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and what do you call your act

The Aristocrats!
Ernie Clément sliding home at game 7 of the world series and doing some fancy jazz hands
November 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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I keep trying to use ChatGPT as a super rudimentary fact-checker (mostly just to flag really dumb stuff that I should catch myself) but my god is it ever shit
⚠️ Factual Issues or Implausibilities These appear to be fictional, satirical, or speculative elements presented as reportage. I’ll note them as factual inconsistencies with real-world data: Trump’s “second term” (2025) — as of October 2025, Donald Trump is not currently president of the United States. The events described (Saudi trip, crypto reserve, etc.) have not occurred.
October 30, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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fun fact: the Netherlands also has a Justin Trudeau
Groenlinks leader Jesse Klaver
October 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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i mean
D66 leader Rob Jetten
October 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Hot damn. Exit polls are in for the Dutch election: Geert Wilders' racist party has fallen from the top spot (according to the polls), behind the liberal D66 party.
nos.nl/artikel/2588...
D66 takes 27 seats in the exit poll of the House of Representatives elections that research firm Ipsos I&O has kept on behalf of NOS and RTL. The party is followed by the PVV with 25 and the VVD with 23. GL-PvdA (20) and the CDA (19) will follow.
October 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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The right-wing influencer-pundit-grifters class is not shy about trading their access for cash from their followers.

(Spoiler alert: This guy has a get-rich-quick online course he wants to sell you)
WHITE HOUSE INSIDER BUCK SEXTON: “TRUMP’S NEXT MOVE WILL SHOCK THE WORLD” Dear Reader, I just returned from a private interview at the Biltmore hotel… Where I shared a chilling prediction regarding a major plan currently developing inside the Trump administration. See, I have had direct access to top-level defense and national security officials… Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Marco Rubio and others… Which is why I was recently invited to a sit-down meeting with President Trump and Vice President Vance inside the West Wing of the White House. And what I learned gave me the chills… That’s why, today, I’ve decided to give a rare interview breaking down something I believe every American needs to hear – especially investors. It’s not about tariffs, crypto, or the Fed. Or anything else you’re hearing about ad nauseam from the mainstream press right now. It’s about a radical move I believe Trump is going to make as soon as this fall – one that could shock the world. Because I believe it could single-handedly reshape the global order… dramatically increase U.S. power… and trigger a massive American market boom the likes of which we haven’t seen in 75 years. President Trump himself said this is all about one thing… Igniting what he calls “the most extraordinary boom the world has ever seen.” This is a rare opportunity, folks. And I’m bringing it to you on a silver platter… long before anyone else gets wind of it. Take it while you can. Because once this story and opportunity hits the mainstream, it could be too late to act. You deserve this… Get the details here now. Sincerely, Buck Sexton Editor, Paradigm Press Website featuring Sexton speaking to Trump with the headline "Exclusive Interview with Trumo's 2020 CIA Director Pick. Codename Manhattan II. How an estimated $2.2 trillion Trump AI plan could spur a new golden age in America"
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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A reminder if you're in Montreal: It's election week!
An Elections Montreal sign that says "Vote"
October 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It's BJ birdy, the only true Toronto Blue Jays mascot
October 25, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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These are the offending posts, in case you missed it.
CANADA CHEATED AND GOT CAUGHT!!!They fraudulently took a big buy ad saying that Ronald Reagan did not like Tariffs, when actually he LOVED TARIFFS FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND ITS NATIONAL SECURITY. Canada is trying to illegally influence the United States Supreme Court in one of the most important rulings in the history of our Country. Canada has long cheated on Tariffs, charging our farmers as much as 400%. Now they, and other countries, can’t take advantage of the U.S. any longer. Thank you to the Ronald Reagan Foundation for exposing this FRAUD. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!! The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs. The ad was for $75,000,000. They only did this to interfere with the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, and other courts. TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND ECONOMY, OF THE U.S.A. Based on their egregious behavior, ALL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH CANADA ARE HEREBY TERMINATED. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DJT
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I broke things down further here.

I'm starting to think we're wrong to even say that Trump's trade negotiations are getting "deals." They're not deals. They're the terms of other countries' economic capitulation. #giftlink

Canada is lucky not to have signed!
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Just look at where other countries have ended up. The United Kingdom thought it would gain an advantage by being the first to sign, acquiescing to 10 per cent across-the-board tariffs and a quota on its automobile exports. The Europe Union’s agreement, which even its members seem to hate, was even worse, imposing a 15 per cent tariff rate and a requirement that it buy USD $250 billion in American energy products per year. As for Japan and South Korea, they negotiated tariff rates ranging from 15 to 50 per cent, but were also expected to cough up huge sums of direct investment — USD $550 billion from Tokyo and USD $350 billion from Seoul. Trump claimed that the deal requires 90 per cent of the profit of that investment remain in America and said he would personally direct the capital. Trump’s shakedown was effective. French President Emmanuel Macron conceded as much when he declared last month that “to be free, you need to be feared. We were not feared enough.” Instead, they feared being left out — but as Trump himself wrote, showing fear “makes the other guy smell blood, and then you’re dead.”
October 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Trump is posting on Truth Social that he's terminating negotiations with Canada over a "fake" ad criticizing tariffs (that was run by Ontario, and which isn't fake.)

It's all theatre. There was never a deal to be gotten. Trump just wants to claim victory. #giftlink www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
But here’s the deal: There’s no deal to be had. Behind the glad-handing and theatrics, Trump doesn’t even know what he wants. He has found his preferred tool in achieving his grandiose goals — ending the drug crisis, eliminating America’s trade deficits, reviving American manufacturing — and it is tariffs. Don’t like those demands? Don’t worry, he has others: A place to send the people he’s deporting, free capital to invest in American manufacturing, or unrivaled access to rare earth minerals. Exactly what Canada is supposed to do to escape tariffs remains murky as ever. We’re not the only ones. Trump’s conspiratorial trade adviser Peter Navarro once promised to sign “90 deals in 90 days.” The administration’s biggest deal has been with China — and it’s a loser. The deal reduces, but doesn’t drop, American tariffs on China in exchange for more critical minerals from Beijing. This is Trump’s version of a win-win: He gets concessions, but gets to keep the tariffs.
October 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Significant ruling out of the ICJ today, finding that Israel has an obligation to allow sufficient aid into Gaza, including from UNRWA, and that Israel cannot "impede such relief." www.icj-cij.org/sites/defaul...
The Court considers that the information before it is not sufficient to establish UNRWA’s lack of neutrality for the purpose of assessing its impartiality as an organization under Article 59. In particular, the circumstance that the OIOS investigation in 2024 led to the dismissal of nine members of UNRWA personnel due to their possible involvement in the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks against Israel is insufficient to support a conclusion that UNRWA as a whole is not a neutral organization. In addition, the Court finds that Israel has not substantiated its allegations that a significant part of UNRWA employees “are members of Hamas . . . or other terrorist factions”. The Court notes that an occupying Power is in principle free to choose the humanitarian organizations through which it fulfils its obligation to agree to and facilitate humanitarian relief. However, Article 59 limits an occupying Power’s discretion in so far as it requires that Power to allow and facilitate sufficient relief to ensure that the population is adequately supplied.
October 22, 2025 at 9:27 PM