By the way, the posts in this section are all over the place because Trump is too:

So glad to see someone so beautifully articulate what I think about almost every day….

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— Kimm Rogers (@kimmrogers.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 6:59 AM

Last week this man was Chamberlain to his own Hitler. This week he is Judas to his own Jesus.

One can pile up the blasphemies and the ironies or one could just say that this man is unwell.

— Timothy Snyder (@timothysnyder.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 7:06 PM

Guessing this is why he’s having ‘Executive Time’ until 2 PM today … 😉

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— ljconrad (@ljconrad.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 8:17 AM

So he posted a Come to Jesus meme and then was forced to withdraw it.

“I thought it was me as a doctor…”
🙄

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— ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected (@adelpreore.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM

And he got into a stupid fight with Pope Leo:

Presidementia attacks Pope Leo as “WEAK on Crime, and terrible for Foreign Policy” as one does in the wacky, backwards, upside-down Bizarro White House.

Bonus Pic: Messiah tRUMP raises Jeffrey Epstein from the dead
(a downright miracle considering he’s never been to church before)!

#25/47_ASAP

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— Mark Hamill (@markhamillofficial.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM

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— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 8:16 PM

This is what losing to Iran looks like:

So Pedo Trump’s plan to unblock the Strait is to block the Strait.
Pure Genius !!!

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) April 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM

Now that the Pedo in Chief has ordered the US Navy to block the Strait of Hormuz:
Are the Europeans still supposed to use their militaries to open it or help block it ?
If this is how it looks when the US wins a war under Pedo Trump, I don’t want to know what losing one looks like.

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— JeffTrnka (@jefftrnka.bsky.social) April 12, 2026 at 8:37 AM

Rudy Martinez writes on Monday night:

…The rest of the world is not reading this as a story about the blockade. It is reading it as a story about the Atlantic alliance. From London to Paris to Madrid to Ankara, the question being asked is the same one that arose over Iraq in 2003: how far does allied loyalty extend when Washington acts unilaterally in a way that directly harms allied economies and populations? Starmer and Macron have answered carefully but clearly — they will not follow. The Macron-Starmer conference this week will be the most consequential test of that position: whether Europe can organize a credible independent alternative, or whether the initiative dissolves into diplomatic gesture. The Financial Times is framing this as a defining moment for post-war European strategic autonomy. That is the frame the rest of the world is using. American media is covering it as an allied disagreement. It is more than that.
… The US is now running a blockade that its two closest European allies have publicly refused to join — and that has prompted five NATO members or partners to either criticize it directly or organize an alternative to it. The ceasefire expires in nine days. Diplomacy is still alive, but the gap between Washington and its allies on how to end this war is now in the open….

it’s crazy that Trump just straight up lost a war to Iran and no one really knows what to say or do about it

— Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) April 12, 2026 at 4:56 PM

Now Americans are talking about the ICE concentration camps too:

Members of Congress are gaining access to ICE facilities and surprise, surprise, the conditions are inhumane.

— M.A. Hamilton (@hourofignorance.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM

ICE prison construction stopped. Detainees freed. Another huge lie exposed.

Trump’s deportation machine keeps crumbling and we are NOT slowing down.

New post:

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— The Watchdog Coalition (@thewatchdogco.bsky.social) April 11, 2026 at 8:36 AM

Epstein-Gate Update 

The Epstein files are also back in the news and they won’t go away. Melania’s pointless press conference last week is going to prompt congressional hearings, and there will be a new Attorney General at some point to question.

America, you really don’t need the Epstein files. You already know the truth. 😕

— Glows Only Child (@glowsonlychild.bsky.social) April 13, 2026 at 3:02 AM

This dismissal should encourage more reporting too:

BREAKING: Federal judge DISMISSES Donald Trump’s defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal over the Epstein birthday letter story without prejudice.

Judge rules Trump failed to show “actual malice” in a major win for the WSJ.

Link: meidasnews.com/news/federal…

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) April 13, 2026 at 7:46 AM

As Trump’s foolish defamation case against the Wall Street Journal gets thrown out of court, there’s a larger lesson here:

Those who push back against his abuses — news organizations, law firms, universities, et al. — succeed, while those who try appeasement fail.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo…

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— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) April 13, 2026 at 8:16 AM

The Trump administration just can’t stop themselves from associating with Epstein’s friends:

Canada Good News 

One of the substacks I have started following is It Is okay, Eh! which focuses on good news about Canada. Here is an excellent observation from a columnist who calls themself Dr. Owl:

…While most of the news cycle chased conflict and uncertainty, something quieter was happening beneath it. A series of announcements, investments, and decisions, each reported separately, each filed under its own headline, that, taken together, describe something significant.
…A $3.8 billion commitment to protect 30% of Canada’s land and water by 2030. A Vancouver biotech company receiving federal backing to develop what may be a functional cure for Type 1 diabetes. A University of Calgary researcher winning the award that has predicted 103 Nobel Prizes, for work that gives spinal cord patients their lives back. A Canadian astronaut traveling farther from Earth than any human in recorded history, carrying maple cream cookies and a message for the next generation.
….Here is what I think is actually happening.
Canada is in the early stages of a fundamental repositioning from a country that extracts value from its natural resources to a country that creates value from its natural and biological capital.
Natural capital: intact ecosystems, fresh water, carbon sinks, biodiversity. The things Canada has more of than almost anywhere on Earth, and has historically treated as inputs rather than assets.
Biological capital: bioprinted tissue, cell therapies, advanced life sciences manufacturing anchored here rather than licensed away.
Both require long time horizons. Both require stable institutions. Both become dramatically more valuable as climate change, aging populations, and supply chain fragmentation reshape what the world needs most.
And both are happening simultaneously, right now, largely unnoticed.
This is not a policy platform. Nobody in Ottawa has stood up and named this strategy. It is emerging from the accumulation of investment decisions, research breakthroughs, and conservation commitments happening across unconnected ministries and sectors.
That is actually the more interesting signal.
Intentional strategy can be reversed. A new government, a different budget, a shifting political wind — and the strategy changes. But emergent patterns — the kind that grow from multiple independent sources pointing in the same direction — are harder to stop. They have momentum that outlasts the decisions that started them.
Canada is not building a strategy. It is becoming one.
There is a second signal hiding inside the first.
Every major Canadian conservation story this week had Indigenous stewardship at its centre. The 30×30 nature commitment allocates over $230 million to expand Indigenous Guardian programs. The Klamath River restoration, the largest dam removal in history, was led by Indigenous tribes who fought for decades and then watched the river come alive within a week of the dams coming down. The Seal River Watershed, one of North America’s last intact watersheds, is being protected through a Cree-led initiative in northern Quebec.
This is not tokenism. It is the recognition, finally, formally, in dollar terms… that the people who have stewarded these lands the longest are also the people best positioned to protect them going forward.
The combination of Indigenous knowledge systems and modern conservation science is not a compromise. It is a competitive advantage.
Countries that figure this out first will hold the most defensible conservation assets in the world. Canada is figuring it out right now….