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WOW! "John Roberts is being targeted for disbarment for taking $20M from firms he rules on. On Friday, millions of Americans caused a massive economic blackout and/or turned out in the streets in protest of the Trump regime. Pennsylvania will use $267 million in Biden-era climate funding to support 31 projects cutting industrial emissions. MoveOn projected “F*ck your censorship” on the FCC building Reports find the U.S. renewable energy sector could install a record amount of new capacity in 2026 and attract $120 billion in investment as developers race to meet demand growth and claim expiring federal tax credits. Uninstalls of Chat GPT are soaring and the company is freaking out about it. I couldn’t be prouder of y’all. The Venice Biennale’s jury panel resigned, saying they will not consider art from countries whose leaders are currently charged with crimes against humanity. Pizza Hut’s “BOOK IT!” summer program returned in order to promote children’s reading goals. The U.S. House of Representatives passed an amendment to a bill that will allow SNAP benefits to be used to purchase hot rotisserie chickens at a grocery store. After almost three decades, Infowars officially shut down this week. And Alex Jones still owes about 1B to the Sandy Hook families. Good! A National Institutes of Health employee who was put on paid leave after organizing a public letter that criticized the Trump administration said on Friday that she had been reinstated. Republicans in the House finally acquiesced to voting for Democrats’ bill to fund all of DHS except for ICE and CBP, so the full government is open again. One of the Trump family’s biggest crypto endeavors is in turmoil. Pete Hegseth confirmed that $400 million in aid to Ukraine, approved by Congress back in December 2025, was released this week. The largest clean energy project in the U.S. has officially started generating power. Once California’s SunZia wind farm is fully operational, it will generate enough energy for roughly 1 million to 1.2 million households. Thanks to rising vaccination rates, South Carolina has declared the end of a measles outbreak that sickened nearly 1,000 people over 6 months. Watch This! 👀 This is from a couple of weeks ago but it’s gorgeous. The dance is called “ResistDance vs. Redaction, and it was performed at the Capitol. Brought to you once again by The First Amendment Troop." Extra! Extra! 5/3 open.substack.com/pub/chopwoodca…

Four days ago, I wrote that after every Trump-Putin phone call, something deranged follows within weeks. I said mark the date. I said the clock is ticking. I was wrong. It took seventy-two hours. Allow me to recap what the leader of the free world has done to his closest allies since that cosy ninety-minute phone call with a man who poisons people in their driveways. Germany: 5,000 troops withdrawn. More promised. The Army’s Long Range Fires Battalion, scheduled to deploy to Europe, quietly cancelled. Germany, which actually met its NATO spending targets, which opened its bases and airspace to American operations, which did everything Trump asked, got punished anyway. Because its chancellor had the audacity to point out that Iran was humiliating Washington at the negotiating table. He was right. That was the problem. Italy: threatened with troop withdrawal because, in Trump’s words, Italy “has not been of any help.” Italy, a founding NATO member. Italy, which hosts tens of thousands of American troops and several critical US military installations. Useless, apparently. Spain: “horrible. Absolutely horrible.” Spain’s crime was refusing to let the United States use Spanish bases and airspace to bomb Iran. A sovereign decision by a sovereign ally. Described by the President of the United States as horrible. The European Union: 25% tariffs on cars and trucks, announced in the same week as the troop withdrawals. Germany builds cars. This was not a coincidence. And through all of this, Vladimir Putin got a ceasefire proposal endorsed, a nuclear diplomacy role handed to him on a plate, and not a single harsh word. Four days ago I predicted one unhinged announcement, one ally humiliated, and one idea so catastrophically stupid that the national security apparatus would spend a weekend trying to undo it. We got four allies humiliated, two economic attacks, and a full military retreat from the continent America spent eighty years promising to defend. I would say I am surprised. But I wrote it down in advance. Which makes this less a prediction and more a schedule. Stay connected, Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

And so it begins. An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address — along with the addresses of 2.9 million other Albertans — was made public by a separatist group.

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

In a recent statement, Poilievre challenged PM Carney to clearly explain what leverage Canada holds in upcoming U.S. trade negotiations to renew the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement and end sectoral tariffs, after Carney rejected using energy and critical minerals as bargaining chips. Looking back on my last CPC vote, inept ideas like this from Poilievre proved I wasted my support on a party whose leader is asking something so asinine amid delicate talks—suggesting negotiators give up vital leverage when facing an economic monolith like the United States. The more I drift from this leadership failure, the opposite of the change I once expected, the more satisfied I am with the government I did not help elect. How can any team surrender what it needs most? What a silly statement. I'm going to say it now. Regardless of who doesn't want the job, Poilievre won't be leader of the CPC by this time next year. Especially with brain-dead statements like this. #CPC #TradeTalks

It’s a little ironic that these assholes are around 30% of the Alberta population and think they should be able to force separation on the 70% of us that don’t want to separate. Ya’ll been high on your own supply for too long.

@roglfac I would rather Carney being respected enough to be invited to Armenia, Than having Pierre drinking, lying and spewing hate in front of the cameras again. Pierre is so unfit...

PM Carney: “A lot of countries rushed into deals with the US—they weren’t really worth the paper they were written on.” I love the way Mark Carney calls out Trump’s performative bullshit. This is what I voted for.

If conservatives wanted an election, Scheer wouldn’t have hid behind the curtain. They could have forced one. Remember when all the influencers and all the separatist ditch billies were all fired up about the ‘no confidence vote’ last fall? What happened? They knew. Lol.

wow..nicely played sir

It can’t be tolerated any longer. The Conservatives lecture our government about hungry kids but repeatedly voted against a National School Food program. We are investing $200M per year to feed 400,000 kids at school, while the Canada Child Benefit and lower child care fees put hundreds of dollars per month into families pockets! Thats real help, not cheap talk! #Cdnpoli #ChildCare #Affordability

Exactly. Canadian media needs to hold Pierre accountable for his lies.

- Kaja Kallas: "Washington is not trying to manage Europe. It is trying to dissolve it. They do not like the European Union,... The tactics, resemble those used by the EU's adversaries.. The answer is not bilateral deals with Trump. It is unity. Because when Europe stands together, it is an equal power. And that is exactly what Washington cannot stand."

Danielle Smith got her beak wet on this deal. Mark my words. Almost a billion dollars in public money to one unqualified supplier is the sort of Central American larceny we are not used to here. Alberta’s procurement controversy explained youtu.be/e3IdaURYGpU?si… via @YouTube

In life, there are real winners and very bad losers. PM @JustinTrudeau won 3 elections in a row. @PierrePoilievre can't even win one. @liberal_party

Oh dear oh dear @PierrePoilievre Lmao. You’re cooked.

Most of you did not know who you were voting for. I’ve known Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson for twenty years. I fucking warned you.

David Parker is in trouble. And I'm delighted. 🚨 The Centurion Project illegally obtained Alberta's protected electors list, nearly 3 million voters' personal data, and built an app around it. Elections Alberta investigators showed up at the launch with police. The RCMP is now investigating. Here's what Parker is likely facing: ⚖️ Alberta Election Act: unauthorized possession and use of the electors list. Statutory violation. Clear. 🔒 PIPEDA: unauthorized collection and distribution of personal data at scale. Federal exposure. 🚔 Criminal Code: if the RCMP establishes the list was obtained through theft or fraud involving a registered party insider, this goes beyond regulatory fines. He's already a repeat offender with a $120K elections fine on his record. He's responding with phone book jokes. The RCMP doesn't open investigations for fun. #cdnpoli #abpoli #TakeBackAlberta

Absolute bombshell on CNN. CNN confirms precise Iranian strikes have caused unprecedented destruction to the majority of US military sites. At least 16 American installations are heavily damaged and virtually unusable. The Pentagon is hiding a massive defeat.

- Stephen Harper: robocalls - Jason Kenney: kamikaze candidate - Danielle Smith: David Parker - Pierre Poilievre: India, fake whistleblower Conservatives hate democracy. They rely on shady tactics and people to break the law for them to win They hate free and fair elections