> Darren Beattie also invoked the antisemitic trope that George Soros orchestrated efforts to oust President Trump

> Musk’s embrace of far-right politics and Zionism reveals the fractures in Western liberal democracy, where whiteness trumps equality and justice.

> U.S. President Donald Trump warned Americans they may face economic “pain” because of his newly imposed trade tariffs on the top three U.S. trading partners and he threatened a wider trade war to include the European Union and perhaps Britain.

> Trump’s policies will lead to neither domestic cohesion nor external peace, the essential pre-requisites for making America great again

> On February 1, President Trump signed executive orders that will slap 25% tariffs on all products from Mexico and Canada, and 10% tariffs from China, ostensibly to punish those governments for failing to stop undocumented immigration and fentanyl shipments into the United States (‘stopping the flood of illegal aliens and drugs” according to the White House fact sheet).

> Today, the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Finance and Intergovernmental Affairs, and the Honourable Mélanie Joly, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government of Canada is moving forward with 25 per cent tariffs on $155 billion worth of goods in response to the unjustified and unreasonable tariffs imposed by the United States (U.S.) on Canadian goods.

> President Donald Trump late Friday issued an executive order requiring that whenever an agency promulgates a new rule, regulation, or guidance, it must identify at least ten existing ones to repeal. It is a radical expansion of Trump’s first term one-in-two-out executive order, which Public Citizen [sued](https://www.citizen.org/news/trumps-one-in-two-out-executive-order-on-regulations-violates-constitution-and-should-be-blocked-groups-tell-court/) to block. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, released the following statement: > > “Trump’s preposterous deregulatory executive order — demanding ten rules go for every one issued — is a flat out gift to polluters, grifters, reckless employers, and Big Business overall. What’s more, the order is unbelievably stupid and illegal.

> The president cannot unilaterally change the Constitution, but he’s sowing chaos by trying

> The new head of the U.S. Department of Transportation issued sweeping memos this week, directing the department to “identify and eliminate” nearly all initiatives relating to climate change, racial equity, gender identity, DEI or environmental justice implemented during the Biden administration.

> TL;DR: Chinese LLMs (including DeepSeek) are trained on my illegal archive of books and papers — the largest in the world. The West needs to overhaul copyright law as a matter of national security.

> Emerging proposals from the Trump Administration and key congressional Republicans could wreak havoc on essential public services, leaving millions of people worse off through lost health coverage, less money for groceries, weakened access to a quality public education, and other harms.

> A new study concludes mass deportation of undocumented immigrants would drain the construction workforce, significantly slowing an already sluggish rate of new residential construction.

> Ottawa Asks to Jail Migrants, Asylum Seekers Despite Rights Violations