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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11d

So sorry to hear this. Always loved reading his work.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 11d

It seems that Kaleb Horton has passed away. A devastating loss. One of the best writers of this generation. Kaleb was a friend for ten years and in all our conversations I was trying to convince him how good he was, something he seemed to know but also never fully believe. I am going to go cry now.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Jun 18

Zohran Mamdani has surged in the past few weeks of New York City’s mayoral race, Michael Powell writes. “But transmuting socialist dreams into electoral victory is a tricky business, and governing by those principles is trickier still”:

The Magic Realism of Zohran Mamdani

The socialist New York mayoral candidate’s proposals don’t hold up to serious scrutiny. Will that matter?

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 23

The disinformation on fentanyl is particularly concerted: nossalk.org/2025/05/19/d...

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 19

Kash Patel's "get to stepping" criticism of Canada is just the latest in an organized campaign by the Trump administration to convince Americans that Canadians are responsible for the fentanyl crisis afflicting the US. For a sample: nossalk.org/2025/05/19/d...

Die große Lüge: The Trump administration’s drumbeat of claims that Canada is a major source of fentanyl

Although US Customs and Border Patrol data reveal that only about 0.2% of all seizures of fentanyl entering the US are made at the Canadian border ( and although Canada was not mentioned at all in …

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 18

This is the latest in a concerted campaign since November to convince Americans that Canada is a major contributor to their fentanyl crisis. Trump, Vance, Navarro, Hassett and now Patel have all “blamed Canada.” Time to start calling it out for the Nazi-style große Lüge that it is.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · May 18

Kash Patel: "You know who has to get to stepping? Canada. Because they're making it up there and shipping it down here. And I don't care about getting into this debate about making someone the 51st state or not ... say what you want about Mexico, but they helped up seal the southern border."

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 6

Great to see you too!

Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 6

Given Trump's dismissive comments about Carney's visit today, does the PM really want to sit in what @kevinmilligan.bsky.social has so aptly called the "Humiliation Chair" so that Trump can later characterize his visit as evidence of yet more "ass-kissing"? /x

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 6

Trump sneered as he recounted what other leaders supposedly said to him: "'Please, please, sir, make a deal; I'll do anything, sir.'" IMO @stewartprest.ca has it exactly right: the PM should move tonight to "reschedule" the meeting and just fly back to Ottawa. No explanation. /3

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · May 6

Trump on the purpose of the PM's visit: “I don’t know. He’s coming to see me. I’m not sure what he wants to see me about, but I guess he wants to make a deal.” A month ago Trump was bragging that leaders were "kissing my ass" in order to make a trade deal. (www.theguardian.com/us-news/vide...) /2

’They are kissing my ass’: Trump says countries are pleading to negotiate tariffs – video

US president says countries are ’calling up and kissing my ass’ over tariff rates

www.theguardian.com

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Apr 25

Trump's interview with Time shows his Inaugural Address promise that the US would again be a "growing nation," one that "expands our territory" and "carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons" is still on the agenda. See my opinion piece in the latest Round Table: nossalk.org/2025/04/25/d...

Dreaming in Technicolor™? Donald J. Trump and the Annexation of Canada

Just days after he won the 2024 election, Donald J. Trump began talking about Canada becoming America’s 51st state. He has been pressing the case for annexation ever since — in social media posts, …

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · Apr 9

From a negotiating perspective, racing to the White House to offer concessions is not the best strategy. That’s what Trump is counting on, but domestic pressure on him to compromise will continue to intensify, particularly if major US trade partners use this moment to match his tariffs.

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Roland Paris @rolandparis.bsky.social · Apr 4

Dear countries hit by Trump's tariffs: Now is the time to retaliate. If you instead start with concessions, Trump will simply pocket them, claim victory, and demand more. He will bend in the face of the economic and political costs at home - and they are now mounting.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Apr 3

“So unbelievably stupid, incompetent and insane.”

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Apr 4

Canada’s travel advisory for the US needs to go well beyond the present highly ambiguous “Take normal security precautions.”

ᴅᴀɴɪᴇʟ ᴍɪʟʟɪᴍᴇᴛ ✡️☮️❤️ @dlmillimet.bsky.social · Apr 3

##EconSky

Our seminar speaker for tmr was coming from U Toronto. He was apparently detained (politely) for several hrs by US customs in CA. He was then cleared to travel to the US after his flight had left. Needless to say, no seminar tmr.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a snl logo

ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a snl logo

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Apr 4

The Chief Penguin of Heard and McDonald in the “humiliation chair” (h/t @kevinmilligan.bsky.social)

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · Apr 3

It’s 9am TFT time here, and citizens are already gathering to protest Tariffs by the United States. Our plain clothes Officer Penguins are attempting to maintain calm, but unfortunately we keep losing them in the crowd.

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Bessma Momani @bmomani.bsky.social · Mar 27

Why would Canada want to ‘reward’ the Trump administration with even the perception of acquiescence in continuing through with these purchases? Not a commentary on whether CAF or DND needs these F-35. The perception in DC would be a win. Why would Ottawa ‘give’ them that?

Aaron Stein @aaronstein1.bsky.social · Mar 27

The way that the Canadian F-35 arrangement was structured from go was to give the next PM the flexibility to radically downsize the size of the buy, or to stretch the deliveries well beyond 2032. And into this domestic decision walks Trump, creating the room to do what was probably already discussed

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 27

This Substack needs to go to every Liberal and CPC candidate. Ask why their leaders are making tax cuts the most important campaign issue instead of the annexationist threat — which will require huge tax *increases* to deal with effectively. Make this make sense.

Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · Mar 27

NEW POST: Canadians aren't being asked to meet the moment
emmettmacfarlane.substack.com/p/canadians-...

Canadians aren't being asked to meet the moment

As Donald Trump triples down on his economic war against Canada, one of the things that inspires the most hope is the vociferous and passionate response of Canadians.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 26

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Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future

Canada thrived within a U.S.-led liberal international order after the Second World War, but that era is over. Our economic and security policies must evolve to meet modern threats.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 25

For those who think the way out of the annexationist threat is a renegotiated trade agreement, this by @bhaggart.bsky.social is a reminder that we should just skip this bit of psychodrama, since we won’t be able to trust any “treaty” signed by this admin. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: Canada’s free-trade agreement with the U.S. has no free trade, nor is it an agreement

Withdrawing from the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement may sound like a radical proposal. It is not. It simply acknowledges reality

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · Mar 24

At a time when Canada needs MASSIVE investment to transition away from the US, to build new facilities and transpo towards our ports, to rebuild our military, to build HOMES, to rebuild science and post-sec ed... to see the two main parties jump on *tax cuts* for their campaigns is depressing.

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Ross O'Connor @oconnor.bsky.social · Mar 21

The UK Germany, Denmark and Finland have issued advisories warning about travel to the US, and Canada should too. We often go to the US in the summer but this year? Forget it, not worth it.

Melanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · Mar 19

Germany is now having to issue a travel advisory for the US.

Between Canadians staying home, and Europeans cancelling plans, RIP US tourism.

Good job America.

www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Germany updates US travel advice after citizens detained

Germany updated its travel advisory for the United States to emphasise that a visa or entry waiver does not guarantee entry for its citizens after several Germans were detained at the border recently, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 21

In times of peace Canadians have always spent as little as we can get away with on defence because we have never had to pay a price for our cheapness. But we have never faced a US president who is so openly committed to our elimination as a sovereign state. So that might be a game changer.

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 21

Sovereignty Bonds

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Kim Richard Nossal @kimnossal.bsky.social · Mar 21

This is *exactly* what is needed given the existential threat posed by the Trump annexationist agenda. But our governors need to begin leveling with us: stop pretending that facing down Trump can be done on the cheap. We need to spend seriously on defence; we will need to be taxed seriously…

Philippe Lagassé @plagasse.bsky.social · Mar 21

New from Peter Jones and me in @theglobeandmail.com:

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: Can Canada-U.S. defence ties survive Trump?

Canada must spend the coming decades developing its own systems and partnering with other, more reliable allies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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