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Look waaaaaay up.
In the morning, a planet alignment:
In the afternoon, a solar eclipse — with totality in Greenland, Iceland and Spain, and a partial eclipse in eastern Canada:
Here is a link to a Solar Eclipse tracker where you can input your city and it will calculate what you will see:
Solar eclipse tracker: What time will it hit your location on August 12? https://aje.news/rsu1f9
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— Al Jazeera English (@aljazeera.com) August 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Finally, on Wednesday night, the Perseid meteor shower will be reaching its peak – because of the new moon, the sky will be darker and the meteors will be even more visible:
Google “perseids” – your search screen will go dark and meteors will shoot across it.
And there’s more!
Sun in Leo III 2026
The Sun enters Leo III The Banner on Wednesday 12 August 2026 at 12:48 pm EDT, and will be here for ten days, nine hours and and 31 minutes, ingressing to Virgo on 22 August 2026 at 10:19 pm EDT. (Patreon members only)…
https://andrewbwatt.com/2026/08/10/sun-in-leo-iii-2026/
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— Andrew B. Watt (@andrewbwatt.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Finally, the latest social media conspiracy theory says NASA is hiding a secret “Project Anchor” report that the earth will lose gravity for 7 seconds during the eclipse. So that will be fun!
🚨 NASA IS HIDING A 7-SECOND GRAVITY BLACKOUT ON EARTH – INTERNET ERUPTS
A wild claim is ripping through social media after a viral video alleged NASA knows Earth will briefly lose gravity for seven seconds on August 12, 2026 and isn’t telling the public why.
The rumor centers… pic.twitter.com/oRYX7enYqn
— HustleBitch (@HustleBitch_) January 8, 2026
Catching up with the news
So Prime Minister Carney is going to Italy for a vacation this week, and Warmington and Lilley are pissed.
Nobody else is.
Yes, yes, we know the US trade deal is imminent or maybe happening soon or maybe not or maybe something something. I suspect Carney thought about cancelling his vacay and finally said, fuck it, I’ll do a Zoom call if LeBlanc needs me.
Even Canadians who don’t like Carney particularly aren’t begrudging him a few days away.
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Speaking of that trade deal, I think The Line makes an excellent point in his column on Sunday:
…It is imperative that we are all in agreement with the simple facts here: Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to annex Canada and Greenland. He continues to speak and act in ways that make it clear that he continues to have designs on this country. His business cronies are currently doing a little green men routine in Greenland, and there is no real reason to think he would not do the same thing in, say, Alberta. In fact, the current administration has maintained a posture of strategic ambiguity on the issue of separatism — and that’s putting it generously. The Americans are actively working to stoke regional grievances in order to undermine our capacity to retaliate to their economic pressure as a unified polity; they are cultivating and boosting ideological allies that shun Canada for retaliatory economic measures. And they are at least tacitly supporting outlets and personalities that are actively working to break the country.
…Again, let’s make things plain: this is the current, explicit policy of the United States of America toward Canada. No one in the administration has ever said anything that would lead anyone to think otherwise.
So, what does that mean for a trade agreement? By any sane standard, it means we should not enter into one. We understand that the reality before us is difficult for many Canadians to grasp both intellectually and emotionally; but the Americans are not our friends, they are not our allies, and they are not our “closest trading partners”. They are a country with which by force of geography we have strong economic, political and military ties, and a shared history of peaceable coexistence and cooperation. Those days are done, for now and probably for a very long time to come, and they simply cannot be trusted to uphold their end of any bargain.
At the very least, it means that any deal we enter into must be as easy to get out of for us as it is for them. Our commitment level must be as limited as possible. None of our options should be closed off, and we should not agree to anything that cannot be quickly undone. Don’t let them into markets we cannot remove them from; avoid procurement deals that lock us into their defence chain of command and control; don’t commit to common development projects that permanently alter the infrastructure or geological balance between the two countries; don’t sign anything, on any subject, that prevents us from signing whatever we want with whomever we want, and so on.
And most importantly: Do not agree to anything that does not include as a preamble a loud, clear, and uncompromising commitment, from the President and Congress to the unity, integrity, and sovereignty of the Dominion of Canada, now and forever. If they can’t say it, then we know where we stand.
And our message should be: no deal….
In other news, Poilievre don’t get no respect
Pierre PoiLIEvre is a D!€k: Part 306
Poilievre is calling on PM Carney to show some “backbone” in US trade negotiations
Rich coming from the guy whose solution was: “I would’ve gone to the president, respectfully and say: You remove your tariffs and we’ll remove ours”
Respectfully = “On my knees”
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— 🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 (@teamcanadaforever.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 11:55 AM
And speaking of getting No Respect, neither does Trump.
On Monday night the internet was both shocked and hooting with laughter about this one:
STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
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— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Because Trump hid in a catering truck when he secretly changed planes – leaving the press and the rest of his staff to be maybe shot down by Iran.
-George Washington led the American military in our War for Independence.
-Ulysses S. Grant led the Union Armies in the Civil War.
-George H.W. Bush flew combat missions as a Navy pilot in World War II.
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— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
People are furious of course but this is one of the funniest things that’s ever happened. He’s been posting memes of himself hanging out with Douglas MacArthur and George Patton and he snuck off the plane in a box of pizza rolls
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— Ian Boudreau (@ianboudreau.com) August 10, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Republicans depicted Abdul El-Sayed as the guy hiding in a Trojan horse, but the president was actually the one hiding in a Turkish meal truck.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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— Matt Ortega (@mattortega.com) August 10, 2026 at 7:30 PM
And it look like Trump will have years to be afraid of Iran. Apparently they’ve had it with trying to negotiate anything with him now.
Greenland was in the news again too, when a US oil drilling company (with Canadian connections) shipped in some drilling equipment without permission.
In yet another assertion of unlawful authority over Greenland, an American oil company connected to Donald Trump is preparing to sink wells in remote Greenland despite not having received permission from the local authorities. The move is seen by the Greenlanders as an intentional provocation.
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— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) August 8, 2026 at 6:38 AM
Rachel Maddow was ON IT! in her Monday show.
Is the Trump administration using a private oil company’s illegal incursion into Greenland and Dr. Phil’s propaganda campaign as an opportunity to trigger a new military action and distract from its disastrous defeat in Iran?
youtu.be/uTVtBsK76U0
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— Dr. WTF, kinda like Dr. Who but . . . WTF? (@badatom.org) August 10, 2026 at 11:34 PM
Over the weekend I read some posts saying that this US company, Greenland Energy, a Texas company started in 2025, had purchased a defunct company which apparently had received some Greenland drilling permissions 12 years ago but never acted on them – I don’t know if that is true- and the Canadian connections apparently only involved routine drilling equipment -I don’t know if that is true either. But the Greenland government is pissed, and so is the government of Denmark, and likely both are wondering if another shoe is about to drop.
On a side note, here’s something to warm your heart
Wildfires update
A NASA visualization from July 15 to August 5:
Here’s a useful column to bookmark – Hayley Easto at The Recovering Environmentalist substack writes a weekly news roundup where she flags useful articles on environmental issues from various media. Check it out – this week, she excerpts from a Narwhal article Canadian wildfire misinformation is mutating online, thanks to AI slop
…One viral AI-generated graphic purports to show the location of Ontario wildfires, but directs people to a non-existent Ontario government website. Another, claiming 10,000 people in Alberta were under evacuation orders as of July 16 (not true), includes a map where Jasper National Park appears to cover most of the province. One map puts Ontario on the west coast, Quebec over the southern United States and Alberta up around Alaska — and includes a province called “Onjebio”, where the wildfire situation looks pretty bad.
But just as often, it’s hard to tell fact from fiction. And it’s getting harder: in May, Statistics Canada reported 43 per cent of Canadians find it more difficult to distinguish between facts and misinformation online, compared to three years ago. Those with less trust in news media reported even more difficulty.
Each year, it seems, the onset of wildfire season in Canada is accompanied by the onset of wildfire misinformation season on social media….
Sounds like they expect more evacuations:
And in the States:
There have been 183 new wildfires, including eight large ones, across the U.S. since Saturday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported on Sunday. n.pr/4hjizO1
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— NPR (@npr.org) August 9, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Three wildfire/climate change impacts I hadn’t expected at all:
Lost solar power because of the smoke
Lost solar power due to smoke blocking the sun cost Europe and North America nearly $2 billion in 2023 alone
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— New Scientist (@newscientist.com) August 10, 2026 at 7:12 PM
Smoke affecting the grapes and the taste of French wine:
French winemakers dread ‘smoky taste’ after wildfires
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2765314/french-winemakers-dread-smoky-taste-after-wildfires-2/
Winemakers are worried about the effect of the wildfires on this year’s vintage (Thibaud MORITZ) Brushing his hand over crackling vine leaves, …
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— Wine Topics (@winetopics.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 7:36 PM
Extreme heat affecting stored Italian cheeses:
You can’t predict the turns this sentence takes.
Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral.
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— Albert Pinto (@70sbachchan.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Finally, let’s end with a little good news for a change!
🍓🎨 How cool is this? CBC Indigenous profiles Grade 8 student Reese Simon of Natoaganeg First Nation, whose Mi’kmaw-inspired artwork is now appearing on thousands of granola bars across Canada. Her design even includes the Mi’kmaq words for strawberries and sun. Congratulations, Reese! ❤️
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— Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ (@savethecbc.bsky.social) August 10, 2026 at 2:30 PM
