🍁Mel🇨🇦
@melhathnofury.bsky.social
🇨🇦Project Canary Org - 🇨🇦 NPO - Educator - Researcher - Podcast Host/Producer - Writer - ME/CFS - www.project-canary.org - chronicler - observer- 🥄- ND - subject matter expert- consultant -
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@melhathnofury.bsky.social
· Nov 11
Want some background reading to understand the asymmetric warfare Canada is under?
Here’s my read/watch list.
The Great Hack on Netflix
Then Read ⬇️
Alt-America by David Niewart
The Evangelicals: The Struggle To Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
Sold Down the Yangtze by Gus Van Haarten
Here’s my read/watch list.
The Great Hack on Netflix
Then Read ⬇️
Alt-America by David Niewart
The Evangelicals: The Struggle To Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
Sold Down the Yangtze by Gus Van Haarten
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Poland’s Donald Tusk framed yesterday’s EU leaders’ summit around a stark choice: pay to stop Putin now or fight when his troops arrive.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
Summit shows Europe still doesn’t want to pay to save Ukraine
Some northern countries have been sending cash to Kyiv for years, but many Europeans don’t see why they should.
www.politico.eu
December 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Poland’s Donald Tusk framed yesterday’s EU leaders’ summit around a stark choice: pay to stop Putin now or fight when his troops arrive.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
His equation — cash or casualties — exposes the conflict at the heart of Europe's struggles over supporting Ukraine.
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As the Trump administration turns its attention away from Europe, Britain and Canada will double down on their relationship in 2026 with an "ambitious" new strategic partnership, Ralph Goodale, Canada’s High Commissioner to London, told POLITICO.
Canada eyes an ‘ambitious’ new partnership with Britain amid Trump turmoil
The two countries’ relationship is “incredibly valuable in the kind of dangerous and turbulent world in which we live,” Canada’s High Commissioner to London, Ralph Goodale, tells POLITICO as he steps down.
www.politico.eu
December 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As the Trump administration turns its attention away from Europe, Britain and Canada will double down on their relationship in 2026 with an "ambitious" new strategic partnership, Ralph Goodale, Canada’s High Commissioner to London, told POLITICO.
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The reduction of human beings to biological essence, to be extracted and destroyed. The creation of interconnected "death worlds" -- plantations, prisons, probation. This all started with the Middle Passage, and it never ended for Black people.
Project 2025 makes sense through an afropess lens, tbh
Project 2025 makes sense through an afropess lens, tbh
December 19, 2025 at 9:07 AM
The reduction of human beings to biological essence, to be extracted and destroyed. The creation of interconnected "death worlds" -- plantations, prisons, probation. This all started with the Middle Passage, and it never ended for Black people.
Project 2025 makes sense through an afropess lens, tbh
Project 2025 makes sense through an afropess lens, tbh
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We need to teach necropolitics in grade school social studies.
Expanding the list of people who can be "un-personed" by the state. The legal framework by which a human being is reduced to Homo Sacer -- "bare life", a biological entity that can be killed without it being considered a crime.
Expanding the list of people who can be "un-personed" by the state. The legal framework by which a human being is reduced to Homo Sacer -- "bare life", a biological entity that can be killed without it being considered a crime.
Breaking News: The Trump administration plans to ramp up efforts to strip some naturalized Americans of their citizenship, internal documents obtained by The New York Times show, marking an aggressive new phase in President Trump’s immigration crackdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...
December 19, 2025 at 8:52 AM
We need to teach necropolitics in grade school social studies.
Expanding the list of people who can be "un-personed" by the state. The legal framework by which a human being is reduced to Homo Sacer -- "bare life", a biological entity that can be killed without it being considered a crime.
Expanding the list of people who can be "un-personed" by the state. The legal framework by which a human being is reduced to Homo Sacer -- "bare life", a biological entity that can be killed without it being considered a crime.
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Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential
Influenza isn’t just a respiratory disease. Measures to stop its transmission, such as vaccination, could prevent thousands of heart-attack deaths.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Flu’s link to cardiovascular disease shows why vaccination is essential www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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No, we did not fail.
We got Ukraine the money that it needs, full stop.
No if's or but's.
And we will revisit the issue of the frozen assets in 2026.
90 billion will keep Ukraine fighting for another year, and Russia can't afford that.
We got Ukraine the money that it needs, full stop.
No if's or but's.
And we will revisit the issue of the frozen assets in 2026.
90 billion will keep Ukraine fighting for another year, and Russia can't afford that.
December 19, 2025 at 7:36 AM
No, we did not fail.
We got Ukraine the money that it needs, full stop.
No if's or but's.
And we will revisit the issue of the frozen assets in 2026.
90 billion will keep Ukraine fighting for another year, and Russia can't afford that.
We got Ukraine the money that it needs, full stop.
No if's or but's.
And we will revisit the issue of the frozen assets in 2026.
90 billion will keep Ukraine fighting for another year, and Russia can't afford that.
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Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
France exonerates women convicted over abortions before legalisation
Between 1870 and 1975, more than 11,660 people were convicted for performing or seeking an abortion, according to official estimates.
www.lemonde.fr
December 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Today, French lawmakers unanimously approved a bill exonerating women punished for abortion before it was legalized in 1975.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
This "is an act of justice toward those thousands of lives shattered by unjust laws," said Aurore Bergé, minister-delegate for gender equality.
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It's bad - really bad: "At the end of 2024, 4.5m children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, living in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income. And 18% of all children were growing up in food-insecure households, without consistent access to nutritious food."
Child poverty: how bad is it in the UK?
Four and a half million children are growing up without basic necessities in the UK.
theconversation.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:16 AM
It's bad - really bad: "At the end of 2024, 4.5m children – 31% of all UK children – were in relative poverty, living in households earning less than 60% of the UK’s median income. And 18% of all children were growing up in food-insecure households, without consistent access to nutritious food."
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Jennifer Lawrence is a menace
December 18, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Jennifer Lawrence is a menace
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I say again -- white nationalist media outlet Rebel News has signed convict Tamara Lich to a "job" that allows her to entirely circumvent the conditions of her sentence, and it's unfathomable that the Crown would be OK with this.
December 18, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I say again -- white nationalist media outlet Rebel News has signed convict Tamara Lich to a "job" that allows her to entirely circumvent the conditions of her sentence, and it's unfathomable that the Crown would be OK with this.
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Question 🙋♀️
How do these “contracts” affect Trade Talks with “contract holder” countries?
How do these “contracts” affect Trade Talks with “contract holder” countries?
Every detention bed is a contract. Every contract creates pressure. That’s the mechanism hiding in plain sight.👇
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Question 🙋♀️
How do these “contracts” affect Trade Talks with “contract holder” countries?
How do these “contracts” affect Trade Talks with “contract holder” countries?
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‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
US pressure, broken promises by China and corruption scandals have halted Taiwan’s slide to diplomatic irrelevance in the region
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
‘Better off with Taiwan’: Honduras joins other Latin American countries rethinking ties with China
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It’s unacceptable that women and girls continue to suffer because the poison of misogyny continues to infect our society.
I welcome this important step by the government to stop misogyny before it takes hold - and to protect the next generation.
I welcome this important step by the government to stop misogyny before it takes hold - and to protect the next generation.
Violence against women and girls strategy: Boys to be sent on courses to tackle misogyny in schools
The measure is part of the government's strategy to tackle violence against women and girls in England.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It’s unacceptable that women and girls continue to suffer because the poison of misogyny continues to infect our society.
I welcome this important step by the government to stop misogyny before it takes hold - and to protect the next generation.
I welcome this important step by the government to stop misogyny before it takes hold - and to protect the next generation.
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Cannabis companies face hurdles accessing big banks despite reclassification, experts say reut.rs/4977JVF
Cannabis companies face hurdles accessing big banks despite reclassification, experts say
U.S. President Donald Trump's move to relax marijuana regulations could ease some burden for cannabis companies, but will likely keep doors to access capital from big banks closed, experts said.
reut.rs
December 19, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Cannabis companies face hurdles accessing big banks despite reclassification, experts say reut.rs/4977JVF
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This is a deliberate choice to place patients and healthcare workers at risk in order to shield incompetent leadership from scrutiny.
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
December 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
This is a deliberate choice to place patients and healthcare workers at risk in order to shield incompetent leadership from scrutiny.
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
This link is to section 217.1 of the Canadian criminal code.
Can *anyone* explain how whoever is responsible for this abomination is not guilty of violating it?
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Europe infinitely immobilizes Russian assets | The Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/euro...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/euro...
Europe infinitely immobilizes Russian assets
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz made a Christmas appeal to the Kremlin.
www.thewhig.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Europe infinitely immobilizes Russian assets | The Kingston Whig Standard
www.thewhig.com/opinion/euro...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/euro...
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Denmark accuses Russia of having carried out two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in
To angreb i Danmark kædes direkte sammen med den russiske stat: »Her er det simpelthen blevet for voldsomt«
Med budskabet på torsdagens pressemøde i forsvarsministeriet sendes der både et signal til Rusland, men også til den danske befolkning, vurderer forsker i hybridkrig.
www.berlingske.dk
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Denmark accuses Russia of having carried out two “destructive and disruptive” cyber-attacks in what it describes as “very clear evidence” of a hybrid war. The Danish Defence Intelligence Service (DDIS) announced on Thursday that Moscow was behind a cyber-attack on a Danish water utility in
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YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines. on.wsj.com/3N6apva
They Get Wheeled on Flights and Miraculously Walk Off. Praise ‘Jetway Jesus.’
Travelers bemoan a rise of able-bodied passengers who game the system to skip the lines.
on.wsj.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:39 AM
YOU DUMB FUCKS. THIS IS ME.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
I have a scooter. I can walk. I can't, however, walk through 80 miles of airport. I can walk onto an airplane or through hallways. I can't walk the .5 mile to the convention center.
People, get smarter, it's embarrassing at this point.
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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'With repeat "spillovers" into different species, #H5N1 might be edging closer to a random mutation that facilitates airborne transmission of a pathogen that seasonal-flu vx would not protect against.' @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The quest to hatch a bird-flu vaccine
Although development of a jab for the H5N1 strain of avian flu is well under way, other strains are receiving less attention — and political obstacles to research could hamper progress.
www.nature.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:03 AM
'With repeat "spillovers" into different species, #H5N1 might be edging closer to a random mutation that facilitates airborne transmission of a pathogen that seasonal-flu vx would not protect against.' @nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
I thought this was an Ai video joke.
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Election Night 2024. We cut to a @thebeaverton.com pitch meeting. We are brainstorming headlines for Trump's second term.
"He'll create 'The Patriot Games,'" I say. "Like the Hunger Games, but dumber."
"He can't," my editors say. "That would break satire forever."
We laugh. That's true. It would.
"He'll create 'The Patriot Games,'" I say. "Like the Hunger Games, but dumber."
"He can't," my editors say. "That would break satire forever."
We laugh. That's true. It would.
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"
December 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
I thought this was an Ai video joke.
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