Trump and Musk's dismantling of government is shaking the foundations of US democracy apnews.com/article/trump-…

There are recognizable steps to a self-coup. America still can conquer this creeping cancer, but it is imperative that we recognize that it is happening to stop it. The Dismantling of American Democracy open.substack.com/pub/stevescher…

nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/… via @NYTimes

Horrifying. Plane from Minneapolis to Toronto upside down on the runway. The word from the airport is, “All passengers and crew are accounted for.” Praying that means they are okay.

🇲🇽 Mexico’s President Claudia argues that if cartels are terrorists, then those supplying their weapons—over 74% of which come from the U.S.—should be held accountable for aiding terrorism. In response, Mexico will expand its lawsuit against U.S. gun manufacturers. She also

Seeing the richest man on earth, concealing his eyes, unable to make a coherent sentence and idiotically waving a chain saw should alarm every American.

During his first administration, President Donald Trump did not have an ideology he could use to frame his radical and often non-sensical approach to foreign policy. Now he does. America Embraces Monroe Doctrine 2.0 open.substack.com/pub/stevescher…

Vance mistook Ukraine for the Republican congressional caucus

I love my country with all my heart and I've never been more embarrassed for America than the spectacle I just witnessed in the Oval Office. Zelensky is fighting for the survival of his country, his people and their democracy. Trump and Vance appear to be completely aligned with

Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who

Trump and Vance have declared themselves to be on Russia's side in the Russo-Ukraine war.  This is a catastrophic mistake for America's national security.  And let's be clear:  Trump and Vance now personally own that policy.  It is not the view of a majority of Americans of

No, Trump has destroyed America in the eyes of the world.

Trump berates Zelensky, the leader of a democratic country courageously fighting Russian imperialism, while he allies himself with Putin, a dictator who started the bloodiest European war in 80 years. Sorry, President Trump. We believe in democracy, not authoritarianism.

This is disgrace … this bullying, this arrogance of Vance and Trump attacking the most courageous man on earth …we can be happy that Roosevelt and not Trump was American President in 1941…otherwise we still lived in Europe under a Nazi regime…

The real leader of the free world.

Prime Minister Mark Carney's upcoming visit to the U.S. "sends a critical message about the importance of de-escalating the tensions President Trump has needlessly stoked with one of our closest allies," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen. Her full statement ⬇ foreign.senate.gov/press/dem/rele…

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Outstanding piece by Alexander Panetta on the foibles and contradictions of my country, where I have just landed after 28 years abroad. It is indeed the outside perspective that sometimes captures the essence of things. cbc.ca/news/world/us-…