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Max Fawcett
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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer.

Also: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
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My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...
Mark Carney just shook up the world
His speech in Davos might be the most important one ever delivered by a Canadian prime minister. Its consequences will determine his place in history — and ours.
www.nationalobserver.com
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
January 27, 2026 at 1:15 AM
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You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
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brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Oh my god she admit it
January 26, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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Stephen Miller’s wife reacting this way to someone literally pointing out what the constitution says is pretty telling
January 26, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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looking forward to using “he got sent to El Centro” as a euphemism for getting fired
January 27, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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Greg Bovino seen leaving Minnesota after his demotion (photo: AP)
January 27, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports
January 27, 2026 at 12:31 AM
January 26, 2026 at 11:54 PM
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I know people say the plan was always to destroy WaPo, but truthfully I think their take away from Trump's victory was that America was a lot more conservative and thus they had to be as well. But turns out the right barely reads as it is and their liberal audience fucking hated it.
January 26, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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Feels like Trump is pretty much unconditionally surrendering as support collapses
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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You mean this big trade deal he and Lutnick announced with much hype and fanfare never even happened? I’m shocked.
January 26, 2026 at 10:12 PM
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The same people who cannot control a city of 400,000 are manifestly incapable of cancelling a midterm or ending the peaceful transition of power. Keep reminding yourself that you are a lot stronger than they are.
Bovino retreating from Minnesota per CNN's Priscilla Alvarez
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM
January 26, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM
"But this much is certain: Whether or not the Conservative Party of Canada decides to give Canada’s National Observer a press pass, this reporter is flying to Calgary next weekend."

Go get 'em, @arnokopecky.bsky.social.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/24/a...
Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders
When Conservatives gather in Calgary at their convention next weekend, right-wing “content creators” will be welcomed as journalists. This publication, not so much.
www.nationalobserver.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Mood in minneapolis right now
January 24, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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A reminder that Chipper Jones is a Sandy Hook truther
How do so many ex-baseball players get CTE
January 26, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Even quislings have their fave songs.
I'd boycott this one.

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Singer Paul Brandt teases support for Alberta separatist movement
Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame member Paul Brandt appeared to signal that he has a soundtrack for the Alberta separatist movement.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 PM
Bitcoin is getting Trumped.
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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Therein lay the contradiction:i t isn't about sovereignty. It is about joining the United States, which, at this moment is bonkers.

"Of the most committed separatists in Alberta, 70 per cent would consider joining the United States instead of becoming an independent nation."
3 in 10 Albertans would vote for independence — but only half committed to separating: poll | Globalnews.ca
Ipsos said for about half of separatist supporters, independence is more a political message to Ottawa than a plan they are prepared to suffer costs and sacrifices to achieve.
globalnews.ca
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 PM
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"The influencers milling about his rallies frequently shared outlandish conspiracy theories, and many were one step removed from the 2024 Tenet scandal, in which Russian state media paid Canadian and US influencers $10 million to spread Russian propaganda."
Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders. "...the influencers who now enjoy the full embrace of Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives wear no such mask. They are all-out cheerleaders for Poilievre, trumpeting support for almost everything he says and does." t.ly/_p44P
Federal Conservatives trade journalists for partisan cheerleaders
When Conservatives gather in Calgary at their convention next weekend, right-wing “content creators” will be welcomed as journalists. This publication, not so much.
t.ly
January 26, 2026 at 2:14 PM
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And, tonight, the network's flagship news program -- 60 Minutes -- ran a clip show of old celeb interviews to "celebrate the movies" rather than put together an episode focused on what's going on in Minnesota.
The person who publishes the Free Press — where the words “Minneapolis” and “Minnesota” never appear tonight — also runs CBS News.
January 26, 2026 at 2:34 AM