Groundhog Day

Someone wake me up when this thing finally ends. In the meantime, any ideas out there as to how this script will be wrapped up?

President Donald Trump on social media accused Iran of violating the ceasefire and warned of a point where the U.S. may no longer be reasonable “and will be forced to militarily complete the job.”

“If that happens, the Islamic Republic of Iran will no longer exist!” Trump wrote.

The exchanges of fire began when an Iranian drone struck a merchant vessel off Oman on Thursday and the U.S. military retaliated with strikes.

 

A Brief History Of Showing Up Late For Work

“White Time”.

Zakia Essanhaji, a professor of “organizational ethnography” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is the latest to make the case against “white time.” Her recent paper titled “Academic time theft: stealing time, producing racialized inclusion in Dutch academia” builds on prior work condemning time as racist.

Rutgers Women’s and Gender Studies/Africana Studies Professor Brittney Cooper has also written about how time is racist. Mainstream media has positively cooed at the suggestion, including an interview with NPR. Cooper claimed that “white people own time” after framing the concept of time in “histories of European and Western thought.”

There is also apparently black time: “Time has a history, and so do black people. But we treat time as though it is timeless, as though it has always been this way, as though it doesn’t have a political history bound up with the plunder of indigenous lands, the genocide of indigenous people and the stealing of Africans from their homeland.”

Or, you know, the history of the earth’s travel around the sun.

The City That Rhymes With Incompetence

What is the REAL District?

Located in the heart of Regina, Saskatchewan, the REAL District is Canada’s largest interconnected event complex and serves as the central hub for sport, business, and entertainment in the community. Spanning 100 acres, it is operated by the Regina Exhibition Association Limited (REAL), a not-for-profit organization.

The REAL District is the venue for most of Regina’s major events, including Canada’s Farm Show (CFS), Queen City Ex (QCX) & Canadian Western Agribition (CWA).

Oh.

New Rules

I believe California State Senator Scott Wiener to be a weird, and possibly perverted, fellow. He’s definitely a man of the Left. Unfortunately, he hasn’t yet adhered to the rules of the 2026 Radical Left: You must loudly proclaim your hatred for Israel. As such, here you will see him being severely harassed in Dolores Park in the center of San Francisco. I almost feel bad for him.

Worked well with India…

Anand welcomes Turkish counterpart as two countries explore nuclear deal

For the record – back in the 60s or so, Canada did the same with a little place called India. And India promptly used the first reactor we built for them to develop their own nuclear weapons program. They have since iterated out their own version of the CANDU since we decided them building nukes with our tech wasn’t nice and sanctioned them for years. They said, “Thanks for the tech, and we’re going to keep building nukes, thank you very much.”

And since India built a nuclear weapon, Pakistan decided it needed its own. And they did. Then in 1998, both nations set off test bombs, after the first set in the 60s or 70s or so.

So your mileage may vary.

Also

Arctic roads, nuclear repository first to be designated as national interest projects

New Rules

Politico;

Former national security adviser John Bolton pleaded guilty Friday to illegally retaining classified information from his tenure in President Donald Trump’s White House, exposing himself to potential prison time for putting top secret information into private emails and chat messages and sharing them with members of his family.

During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang, Bolton admitted to the allegations in an 18-count indictment brought against him last October, but under a plea deal with prosecutors he entered a guilty plea only to a single felony charge of willfully retaining classified information.

That charge is punishable by up to 10 years in prison, but under the terms of the deal, Bolton, 77, can withdraw his plea and go to trial if Chuang decides a sentence of more than five years is warranted. Bolton has also agreed to a fine of $2.25 million.

Prosecutor Tanner Kroeger declared that, during 17 months as Trump’s top national security aide in the first term, Bolton “abused his trust” by forwarding more than 1,000 pages of daily notes detailing his activities to his family members in apparent preparation for a book the hawkish foreign policy adviser later published.

Our Chinese-Installed Governor In Ottawa

Way too late for that: Beijing offers a poisoned chalice. Carney shouldn’t drink from it

Burton says Canada is a “bellwether” country in Beijing’s subversion of developed economies. Before Carney’s election, Canada was already the most deeply compromised member of the G7, and since January’s Canada-China strategic partnership was declared, the Chinese Communist Party’s influence operations in this country have expanded exponentially, Burton told me. “By exploiting Canadians’ natural anger over Washington’s betrayal, the CCP have successfully overseen a campaign of calculated deceit. It’s a classic deflection tactic: by keeping the public’s focus squarely on American betrayal, they effectively defuse and neutralize mainstream concerns about the PRC’s own escalating campaign of subversion, espionage, and transnational repression in Canada.

The “W” Word

You’re a decade or two late to the party, Ben – but thanks for showing up.

For Ben’s next assignment: Picture the hard working civil servants who authorize the project funding at the Department of Global Affairs.

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