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Usman Valiante 🇨🇦
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Circular Economy Policy Analyst and Commercial Strategist. Mountain Biker, Skier, Soldier. In pace paratus. Ex coelis. Ducimus. Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) 🇨🇦
Daniel Drezner quoting Ferguson
January 27, 2026 at 6:24 PM
Another Drezner quote of Ferguson’s moron take on Trump
January 27, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Quotes from a Daniel Drezner substack post.
January 27, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Alex Pretti with his bike, an Ogre, from Reddit

www.reddit.com/r/Surlybikef...
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 AM
That’s a good mood!
January 23, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Greenhouse gas reductions need to be the product of a national competitiveness policy, not a thing unto itself. China’s greenhouse gas reductions are coming from making itself more competitive and energy resilient.
January 22, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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My god this Mark Carney speech.

Here in its entirety:
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
paulwells.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Bring more ammo…
January 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
Mensch.
January 12, 2026 at 3:21 AM
His rifle didn’t discharge. That was the light on the weapon turning on momentarily. There is a pressure pad on the hand guard that activates it. Had it been the weapon discharging there would have been a splash of the bullet hitting either the icy concrete or snow covered grass.
January 10, 2026 at 5:59 AM
This US govt views a wide swath of society as insurgents and political opponents as terrorists.

The tactics in question aren’t about “teaching people to be racist” but to integrate electronic surveillance tools & traditional HUMINT with AI to improve targeting.

warontherocks.com/2025/10/will...
Will Israel’s Algorithmic Counter-Insurgency Proliferate to the West?
Israel’s recent campaign in Gaza marks a turning point in modern warfare: the fusion of counter-insurgency and artificial intelligence. Will Western
warontherocks.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:12 AM
No one can do anything. First sign of resistance by local police against federal agents and Trump will declare an insurrection. That will trigger much more federal aggression and more backlash.
Widespread conflict will be used to suspend the midterm elections.

This is what team Trump wants.
January 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
Yep and it is widely known who was funding them to do it.
January 10, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Fuck right off.
January 10, 2026 at 3:06 AM
He has usurped congress so many times it is irrelevant.
January 8, 2026 at 6:41 AM