I watch TV for free: Contributing Columnist and Former TV Watcher for The Toronto Star, Canada's largest daily newspaper
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Tony Wong retweeted
Stop trying to make us every sexier the world can’t handle it 🇨🇦
EXCLUSIVE: U.S. ambassador warns Canada could shoulder blame if midterms go against Trump ctvnews.ca/world/trumps-tari…
Tony Wong retweeted
It was actually our 250th anniversary.
Not that you would know — you spent it with the British.
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Less than 24 hours into her second term, Mayor Chow may have secured her crowning achievement.
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Ronan Farrow reported in 2023 that the Pentagon signed a SpaceX contract to keep Musk from being able to cut off Ukraine’s battlefield connectivity at will. Colin Kahl described it as a way to lock in service so Musk couldn’t just flip the switch.
WSJ now reports U.S. officials say Musk ordered the Oct. 14 Starshield slowdown anyway, after speaking with Trump.
If that reporting holds, the guardrail didn’t hold.
1/3 Musk ordered last week's slowdown of Starshield, which Ukraine fights on, after talking with Trump, per @WSJ. In '23 the Pentagon signed a contract with SpaceX to “prevent Musk from turning off the switch," per fmr Under Sec of Defense Colin Kahl.
newyorker.com/magazine/2023/…
Tony Wong retweeted
What about my paintings again?
Jared Kushner’s Hacked Phone Revealed His Secret Negotiations—Including More Than $700 Million In Transfers vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
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President Trump strongly defends Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad featuring Amy Acton’s estranged mom. Trump: “That took a lot of courage to do but, essentially, what she was really doing was saving Ohio from making a truly horrible choice! The Press is trying to convince everyone that this Ad is bad, because it’s so good! Who wouldn’t use such an Ad? I would, it’s called, ‘hitting pay dirt.’”
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🔴🔴📰 Le Wall Street Journal, journal de Rupert Murdoch, pilier de la presse conservatrice américaine, publie un éditorial dévastateur : Donald Trump serait devenu "le meilleur ami de Poutine dans le monde".
🗃️ Les faits
Ce week-end, le comité éditorial du Wall Street Journal (@WSJ), propriété de Rupert Murdoch, le magnat de la presse qui a bâti Fox News et soutenu Trump pendant des années s’en est pris frontalement au président.
Le déclencheur est le fait que Trump vient d’accorder une dérogation aux sanctions visant les grands acheteurs d’énergie russe. Les États-Unis ont prolongé jusqu’en 2027 un régime de faveur pour le géant pétrolier russe @Lukoil et exempté la Hongrie, pour un an, des sanctions sur le pétrole et le gaz russes. S’y ajoute un accord sur l’achat de diesel russe, conclu après des échanges avec Poutine, pour faire baisser les prix à la pompe avant les élections de mi-mandat.
Sa justification officielle ? Cette dérogation serait "dans l’intérêt national des États-Unis".
Le Wall Street Journal juge que c’est l’exact contraire de la vérité. "L’aide de M. Trump à Poutine ne cesse de croître de jour en jour", écrit le comité éditorial, et d’ajouter que le président est désormais "le meilleur ami de M. Poutine dans le monde, après peut-être Xi Jinping".
Le même comité éditorial réclame, une fois l’élection passée, "un examen de conscience bipartisan sur l’alliance naissante de M. Trump avec le Kremlin, contre l’Ukraine, l’Europe et les intérêts américains".
Ce n’est pas un pamphlet de l’opposition démocrate. Ce n’est pas un éditorial du New York Times, que Trump pourrait balayer d’un tweet rageur en parlant de gauche fanatique. C’est le Wall Street Journal, l'organe de la droite des affaires, le quotidien que lisent les patrons et les élus républicains, la propriété de l’homme qui a peut-être le plus fait, en Amérique, pour installer le trumpisme dans les esprits.
Quand ce journal-là écrit que le président sert les intérêts de Moscou, le reproche vient de la maison.
🔴 Comprenons bien ce qui se joue.
Depuis bientôt quatre ans que la Russie a envahi l’Ukraine, la ligne occidentale tenait sur un principe simple : on n’achète pas l’énergie de l’agresseur, on ne finance pas la main qui bombarde. Trump vient de la franchir par calcul, et non par la contrainte : du carburant russe moins cher à la pompe, et tant pis pour Kyiv, pour l’Europe, pour la cohérence de huit décennies d’alliance Atlantique.
Désormais, ses propres soutiens, jusque dans la presse de Murdoch, commencent à poser tout haut la question que mon essai, 'Le Pantin de la Maison Blanche" pose depuis le début : au service de qui ce président travaille-t-il vraiment ?
Il était franchemen temps de se poser cette question.
Un pantin ne choisit pas les fils qui le tiennent. Mais nous, nous pouvons encore regarder qui, à l’autre bout, les actionne.
ALT Rupert Murdoch
Tony Wong retweeted
This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.
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It is a basic principle of American democracy that the government can’t selectively target individuals simply because of their political beliefs or what they say. But that’s exactly what the Trump Administration is doing to Congresswoman Ilhan Omar of Minnesota.
To understand why this is so appalling, it’s important to know the facts. Congresswoman Omar came to this country with her father when she was 12 years old. Five years later, her father became a naturalized citizen. If Ilhan had been 18 at the time, she would have had to apply for citizenship separately. But because she was 17, she became a naturalized citizen automatically.
Congresswoman Omar went on to graduate from college, work as a community organizer, become the first Somali-American legislator elected to public office in the U.S., and win a seat in Congress. There, she has been one of the Trump Administration’s fiercest critics, which has led the president to repeatedly single her out as someone who he believes does not belong in this country.
Now the Administration is actively trying to deport Congresswoman Omar, seemingly based solely on the unsubstantiated theory that she was actually 18 when her father was naturalized, and therefore is not a citizen. Federal agents have raided her home, confiscated personal records, and seized her phone — all to try and uncover a nonexistent smoking gun from 20 years ago that will somehow make their case.
Think about that. The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the president. And it’s not the first time this has happened. Under President Trump, the Justice Department has repeatedly gone after those he considers his political enemies — from the Attorney General of New York, to the former head of the FBI, to members of the Federal Reserve.
In those cases, the prosecutions either stalled or were dismissed for having no basis in law, and the same is likely to happen in this case. But not before Congresswoman Omar’s life has been turned upside down, her legal bills have piled up, and she’s been forced to spend time fighting unsubstantiated charges instead of serving the people of Minnesota.
The fact that any president, or any administration, is willing to engage in such transparent efforts to intimidate someone should outrage all Americans, regardless of how they feel about Congresswoman Omar’s political views. Because if this becomes the new normal, there’s no reason to believe it will stop with her — or that future presidents, in either party, won’t do the same.
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Larry Ellison’s TikTok has shut down the promotional account for Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary. theverge.com/tech/1013453/ti…
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Republican Senator John Cornyn of Texas calls to investigate Republican President Trump's Aid and Comfort to Russia/Putin.
Zelensky confirmed Starlink continues to disconnect above 161km/h - Ukraine can't intercept Russian drones, and tests show the sabotage is willful.
Congress Must Investigate Trump’s Aid and Comfort to Putin nationalreview.com/2026/10/c…
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To put this in laymen's terms, Musk and Trump are now hobbling Ukraine's ability to protect its civilian population from a type of Russian drone that functions more like a cruise missile. This is not the United States adopting a neutral position vis-a-vis the war. This is the United States facilitating Russian terror.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
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⚡️️️️️️️Musk suggested Trump restrict Ukraine's Starlink service, Telegraph reports.
Four sources familiar with the discussion said that Elon Musk approached Donald Trump with the idea of slowing down Ukraine's Starlink service on the battlefield.
kyivindependent.com/musk-ask…
Tony Wong retweeted
Just so you understand the scale of betrayal: first, our "partners" didn't warn Ukraine about the incoming ballistic missiles, so the air raid alert wasn't activated before impact, robbing people of their chance to survive.
Then, Starlink was restricted to stop working at speeds above 100 mph. This renders useless, first and foremost, our interceptor drones. It doesn't limit our ability to attack inside Russia, it limits our ability to stop another apartment building or school full of civilians from being hit.
Wow, just wow.
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How Trump Became Mob Boss of the United States
The most corrupt president in American history has been preparing his entire life to co-opt the government for personal gain
rollingstone.com/politics/po…
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Calling Canada “one of the worst countries in the entire world” after more than 40,000 Canadians served alongside us in Afghanistan and 158 of their troops died...
while saying “we get along with China” as Beijing has supported Iran's military during a war killing and wounding Americans...
may be the peak of geopolitical absurdity.
CANADA FOUGHT BESIDE US.
CHINA IS HELPING ARM THE OTHER SIDE.