Philip Koop 🇨🇦
@philkoop.bsky.social
Computer programming / financial risk management.
Like in computer programming, you can solve any problem with another level of indirection.
Carefully qualifying my "I've never racially abused people" claim, in a totally normal and non-suspicious manner.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Like in computer programming, you can solve any problem with another level of indirection.
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Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Third Kentucky infant dies from whooping cough as statewide cases surge
A third Kentucky infant has died from whooping cough in the last 12 months, the Kentucky Department for Public Health said Monday.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another baby has just died of whooping cough in Kentucky, thanks to RFK Jr. and his merry band of anti-vaxxers.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
My feeling toward RFK Jr. and the Republican Senators who confirmed him is utter contempt.
Unless, of course, Gobble & Waddle purchase at least $1MM of TrumpCoin.
Trump: "Instead of pardons, some of my more enthusiastic staffers were already drafting the paperwork to ship Gobble and Waddle straight to the Terrorist Confinement Center in El Salvador."
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Unless, of course, Gobble & Waddle purchase at least $1MM of TrumpCoin.
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War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism
Nine out of 10 residential buildings in Mariupol were damaged or destroyed during Russia’s invasion. Now, the apartment blocks are being rebuilt – and offered for sale to Russians with low-interest mortgages. youtube.com/shorts/yxsIV...
From Ruins to Russian Residences
YouTube video by Bellingcat
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
War of aggression, mass killing of civilians, and settler colonialism
"With America at odds with itself, the time for us to escalate our contribution is now, not later."
Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: American leadership looks chaotic. The truth may be more sinister
A recent flip-flop on Ukraine may be less a sign of disorganization than infighting.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:00 PM
"With America at odds with itself, the time for us to escalate our contribution is now, not later."
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He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
Opinion | He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.
Daniel Burnett: A 61-year-old Tennessee man was arrested for sharing a meme during the moral panic following Charlie Kirk's assassination.
www.ms.now
November 24, 2025 at 9:46 PM
He spent 37 days in jail for a Facebook post. Larry Bushart’s story is a warning to us all.
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
www.ms.now/opinion/tenn...
Our Sublime Padishah Emperor has charged me to take possession of Ukraine and end all dispute.
We are in a bizarre moment of diplomatic history. The purported "peace plan" that appeared a few days ago beings in Russian unreality and American weakness. Demanding everything of Ukraine and nothing of Russia, its purpose is imperialism and profiteering.
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
snyder.substack.com/p/russian-un...
Russian Unreality and American Weakness
Notes from a bizarre moment of diplomatic history
snyder.substack.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Our Sublime Padishah Emperor has charged me to take possession of Ukraine and end all dispute.
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I wrote about the Imperial Pub this week & then diverted from writing about the Imperial Pub.
Shawn Micallef: What a Toronto councillor’s bizarre, AI-generated image of Lawrence Plaza says about nostalgia and change in our city
The outpouring of grief for things that are lost is understandable, but nostalgia can also be harnessed for questionable reasons.
www.thestar.com
November 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I wrote about the Imperial Pub this week & then diverted from writing about the Imperial Pub.
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1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
November 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression
3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press
4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim.
Russian policy 2025
Ah yes, the Law of Two Prices.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Ah yes, the Law of Two Prices.
No leaf can outrun them.
Cheetahs continue to be scary predators.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
No leaf can outrun them.
This would be a big win for Russia and yet Putin will not accept it. One reply reckons that the point is to get the US to accept it and I think that is right but also it is pointless. The EU needs to understand that the US is determined to become a minor actor here.
Full text of peace plan by EU published the Telegraph
November 23, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This would be a big win for Russia and yet Putin will not accept it. One reply reckons that the point is to get the US to accept it and I think that is right but also it is pointless. The EU needs to understand that the US is determined to become a minor actor here.
Is there no task they won't delegate to immigrants?
The biggest takeaway from this whole Twitter account origin story is that, in addition to every other task, chuds are also too lazy and incompetent to do their own bigotry without the help of people from the developing world.
November 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Is there no task they won't delegate to immigrants?
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"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."
November 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"Unfortunately, due to a terrible miscalculation of scale, the entire 28-point peace plan was eaten by a small dog."
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Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
November 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Grand opening, grand closing.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
X quietly disabled a new feature that showed which country an account was posting from when it revealed that lots of popular right wing MAGA accounts were being run from foreign countries like India and Nigeria.
Well he's certainly an American liability. So by the rules of double-entry accounting ...
November 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Well he's certainly an American liability. So by the rules of double-entry accounting ...
Another good post by Heath: "In order to do populism effectively, politicians ... must ... accept the public’s framing of those problems. This creates a dilemma for the left, because that framing, in a complex modern society, will usually be incorrect."
josephheath.substack.com/p/the-prospe...
josephheath.substack.com/p/the-prospe...
The prospects for left-wing populism
Consider for a moment the volume of commentary that has been dedicated to the subject of inequality – the number of articles documenting the growing chasm separating the wealth of the 1% from the rest...
josephheath.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Another good post by Heath: "In order to do populism effectively, politicians ... must ... accept the public’s framing of those problems. This creates a dilemma for the left, because that framing, in a complex modern society, will usually be incorrect."
josephheath.substack.com/p/the-prospe...
josephheath.substack.com/p/the-prospe...
The smol cat has found the smol box
November 22, 2025 at 3:08 AM
The smol cat has found the smol box
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
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[Q]: Do you believe that only D Trump can end this war?
EU foreign policy chief Kallas: No, in order to end this war, you need the 🇺🇦 & 🇪🇺 also to agree to those plans. Of course, Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped bombing civilians and killing people.
#Ukraine #Russia
EU foreign policy chief Kallas: No, in order to end this war, you need the 🇺🇦 & 🇪🇺 also to agree to those plans. Of course, Putin could end this war immediately if he just stopped bombing civilians and killing people.
#Ukraine #Russia
November 20, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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The basic truths that escape “both sides.”
Since January 2023, the New York Times has cited Rep. Ralph Norman, R-SC, in 78 stories. None mentioned that Norman secretly urged the Trump White House in 2021 to declare martial law – in effect, a military-backed coup. Norman wasn’t charged, but the NYT gave him a “pardon” anyway.
My newsletter.
My newsletter.
How the media ‘pardon’ political criminals
News outlets paper over the ugly pasts of right-wing extremists
www.stopthepresses.news
November 21, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The basic truths that escape “both sides.”
At the start of the day, really.
At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 AM
At the start of the day, really.
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My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America