In a Facebook post Jan. 17, the Minnesota Department of Public Safety said that at “Gov. Walz’s direction,” the Minnesota National Guard was mobilized and was “staging to support local law enforcement and emergency management agencies.”

Hmm, nothing there about supporting the people of Minnesota. Just up to 13,000 more soldiers to add to the 3,000 ICE agents already in the Twin Cities, the 1,000 local cops and the 1,500 US soldiers Trump wants to send in.

Good job Jeff! Maybe you need to kiss ass a little harder.

He saw Putin’s kleptocracy and imitated his hero.

A Christian leader encouraging actual love-thy-neighbour things and selfless actions. That’s refreshing to see when we hear so much about the USA’s worst “Christians”. And of course the US Government is attacking him for it.

Is the US military by now really, as some want to imagine, populated by courageous conscience-torn patriots with a rock-solid allegiance to the constitution, prepared to take the huge personal risk of disobeying orders out of love for the laws and people of the USA? Or is it a bunch of young people who are bored until they see some action, who’d rather do as they’re told and get through in the hopes of better opportunities later, commanded by the remaining generals Trump has picked for their loyalty to him above the country? Probably somewhere in between, but some journalists’ hope that the military’s moral sense and commitment to their oaths will lead to mass disobedience of illegal orders seems highly optimistic. The US military has a long history of invasions and atrocities, and although it messes people up and they may struggle to live with what they have done afterwards, they still tend to do it.

https://archive.is/plLB2

It’s not clear how long Canada can fend off the far right, both internally and from the USA. I hope we can survive but there are too many damn Conservatives around.

Americans want all kinds of extreme and crazy things, like healthcare and education and housing and food and not being shot in the face. Unfortunately the best the government can do is shoot them in the face.

What will you pay us to take it?

He might be better in being harder for MAGA cultists to like. But I’m not sure how much they care about being liked, when they’re talking about simply cancelling elections.

There’s this talk, where researchers found major US cellular networks decrypting people’s conversations at the tower then broadcasting them unencrypted to the entire continent via satellite:

https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-don-t-look-up-there-are-sensitive-internal-links-in-the-clear-on-geo-satellites

It wasn’t that long ago that being a fascist was absolutely unacceptable in mainstream society, and the idea that the USA and other wealthy countries could fall to fascism seemed fantastic.

You don’t get that rich by being honest or caring about your world.

So what’s the movie? The Empire Strikes Back?

Boycott US products and services in general too. Switch your online accounts to non-US companies. If you have investments, pull them out of the USA.

They conserve small-mindedness and bigotry.

Unfortunately, we’re going to be feeling less keen to let Americans in while Trump is actively threatening our country.

So is Poilievre’s enthusiastic praise for the US invasion of Venezuela, and his pandering to fascists.

Hey look, a photo of Hitler and Stephen Miller.

Doesn’t sound fun to me.