I don't know if this is the conventional wisdom or a conspiracy theory but I have wondered whether some high-clout accounts backchannel to set up fights with each other, bc as much as they seem like they're mad they're clearly both benefiting from having a crowd watching

This isn't a "can't we all just get along" post or even a conventional left/right take.

The fights are just inconsequential! I don't really care whether some Twitter personality is actually a hypocrite + I don't need to get baited by someone who's engagement farming

Oof. I haven't really followed the Canadian context, so curious what's driving the aid cuts. An active anti-aid constituency, or more that there are general budget pressures and aid is perceived as an easy thing to cut?

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest.

The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says.

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

"The cost of hiring help to care for an elderly or a sick person at home is skyrocketing... the White House's crackdown on immigration and funding cuts are making things worse."

www.axios.com/2025/10/30/t...

For the prospect of coalitions of the willing moving forward without the US, the successful US coercion sets a very worrying precedent.

But it could well be that the outrageousness of the US tactics brings a short-term victory at the medium-term cost of marginalizing US influence

It really is just that the Trump admin has hitched its fate to fossil fuels and is determined to drag the world down with it. International cooperation, especially for climate, is seen as an unacceptable threat to the US fossil order.

It probably still won't work www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

But ahead of the October vote to formally approve the rules, the US terrorized some countries into changing their votes and gave license for reluctant fossil states to go against it, peeling off enough countries to delay the vote for a year
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/16/u...

The US assault on it is kind of bizarre.

Only about 1% of ships are US-flagged.

And the shipping industry actually supports the regulations! They argue that it's better to have predictability and uniformity than "a growing patchwork of unilateral regulations"
www.worldshipping.org/news/global-...

Some countries feared the tax would hurt their export industries and the use of revenues was contentious.

But in April a compromise set of rules was agreed: gradual emissions reductions w/modest levy, revenues to support shipping decarbonization + vulnerable states
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...