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Justin Ling
@justinling.ca
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Uh-oh!!!!!!! Columnist/journalist @thestar.com, sometimes @wired.com, @foreignpolicy.com
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 3d
My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: Rebuilding Canada’s military may be the right thing to do — but Mark Carney still needs to sell us on his plan
Ottawa must communicate the scale of the changes we’re about to see and the time it will take to get them right. So far, it hasn't.
www.thestar.com
justinling.ca
i'm putting the whole system on trial
it's a screenshot of a legal filing, a civil lawsuit against, for starters, the Vatican — and which includes approximately 200 names inducing George Bush, the World Bank, the Rothschild banking family, Dick Cheney, the CIA, and *a lot* of others.
December 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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“I’m sorry if you’re having a bad time" is an insanely funny thing to say to a guy you're e-cucking
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 14h
PART 4: Means of Control gofile.io/d/ycgOQR

by Ryan Lizza
Part 4: Means of Control The Mar-a-Lago tape, the Bobby phone call, Olivia's side of the story, and the neighbor who cracked the case. RYAN LIZZA DEC 1
December 1, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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woohoo
onestpress.onestnetwork.com Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h
Canada has reached a final agreement to join the EU’s €150B Security Action for Europe (SAFE) program.
December 1, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Justin Ling
theintercept.com
Follow @nickturse.bsky.social to stay up-to-date with all of The Intercept's coverage of boat strikes in the Caribbean and Pacific Ocean.

He broke the story that the U.S. attacked a Venezuelan boat multiple times to kill survivors on September 10:
December 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Even worse than I had imagined. Trump is screwing Ukraine for a bunch of pipe dream resource projects that will make his friends and family richer. www.wsj.com/world/russia...
In the days after Alaska, a European intelligence agency distributed a hard-copy report in a manila envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump administration had been pursuing with Russia, including jointly mining rare earths in the Arctic.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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My column this weekend is all about how Canada (and Europe) can't help Ukraine and defend itself unless it can build out military strength. To do that properly, it needs to get social license. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: Rebuilding Canada’s military may be the right thing to do — but Mark Carney still needs to sell us on his plan
Ottawa must communicate the scale of the changes we’re about to see and the time it will take to get them right. So far, it hasn't.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
justinling.ca
The Putin loyalists win, America sells out Ukraine. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Trump hands Putin Ukraine’s occupied territories US president sends envoys to Moscow with peace plan that recognises Russia’s war gains
November 28, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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“I can see why all these people without heads wouldn’t be good for a community." www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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uh, that's bad.
reuters.com Reuters @reuters.com · 6d
Exclusive: Officials from Tulsi Gabbard's office arrived unannounced at a secret CIA archival facility in April to seize still-classified files on the JFK, RFK and MLK Jr. assassinations, sources told Reuters reut.rs/3XRquHg
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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Steve Witkoff is such a Russian patsy. Just absolutely embarrassing.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Steve Witkoff: I would make the call and just reiterate that you congratulate the president on this achievement, that you supported it, you supported it, that you respect that he is a man of peace and you’re just, you’re really glad to have seen it happen. So I would say that. I think from that it’s going to be a really good call. Because — let me tell you what I told the President. I told the president that you - that the Russian Federation has always wanted a peace deal. That’s my belief. I told the president I believe that. And I believe the question is — the issue is is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise and when we do, we’re going to have a peace deal. I’m even thinking that maybe we set out like a 20-point peace proposal, just like we did in Gaza. We put a 20-point Trump plan together that was 20 points for peace and I’m thinking maybe we do the same thing with you. My point is this... Yuri Ushakov: Ok, ok my friend. I think that very point our leaders could discuss. Hey Steve, I agree with you that he will congratulate, he will say that Mr. Trump is a real peace man and so and so. That he will say. SW: But here’s what I think would be amazing. SW: Yeah because listen to what I’m saying. I just want you to say, maybe just to say this to President Putin, because you know I have the deepest respect for President Putin. YU: Yes, Yes. SW: Maybe he says to President Trump: you know, Steve and Yuri discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace and that could be something that we think might move the needle a little bit, we’re open to those sorts of things — to explore what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done. Now, me to you, I know what it’s going to take to get a peace deal done: Donetsk and maybe a land swap somewhere. But I’m saying instead of talking like that, let’s talk more hopefully because I think we’re going to get to a deal here. And I think Yuri, the president will give me a lot of space and discretion to get to the deal. YU: I see...
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Reposted by Justin Ling
juddlegum.bsky.social
1. EXCLUSIVE

Musk’s xAI has secretly built its AI supercomputer, Collusus, using Chinese-made transformers, a security risk that leaves it vulnerable to espionage or sabotage

The use of Chinese components was previously unreported

Collusus performs sensitive work for the U.S. military
Musk’s AI supercomputer, used by U.S. military, secretly relies on Chinese hardware
Records obtained by Oligarch Watch reveal that the facility relies on Chinese transformers, creating a major security vulnerability.
oligarchwatch.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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maxboot.bsky.social
The administration stayed home from Halifax and forced the US military to do so as well. This isn’t an aberration: Also over the weekend, the administration boycotted the G20 in S Africa. How does the Trump team expect to win any diplomatic victories when it’s not even on the field? wapo.st/4oZH3wz
Opinion | America has become a rogue nation. U.S. allies are looking elsewhere.
Europeans and Canadians are talking about making their own security arrangements.
wapo.st
November 25, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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i see that Big Paper Towel has gotten to the Washington Post.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlXc...
November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Wherein I do a bit of Kremlinology around the White House's chaotic Ukraine peace negotiations. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Justin Ling: American leadership looks chaotic. The truth may be more sinister
A recent flip-flop on Ukraine may be less a sign of disorganization than infighting.
www.thestar.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Justin Ling
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Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
The Eye That Never Sleeps
Social media is making us afraid and anti-social. What if that's the point?
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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So, to recap, Ukraine and Europe understand that America has effectively endorsed a 28-point plan to force Kyiv to capitulate, set a Thursday deadline to accept it, and threatened to cut off all aid.

Now Marco Rubio says it's all wrong, that's not the plan, there's no deadline and no threat.
November 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Reposted by Justin Ling
sarahweinman.com
This is a wonderful time to support journalists who do the work, don’t fuck sources, and actually have moral clarity.
andylevy.net andy™ @andylevy.net · 10d
i promise i don’t mean to high horse this but if you’re thinking about giving lizza ten bucks there are a lot of good independent journalists whose work you could subscribe to for a month instead
November 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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lukeharding1968.bsky.social
My dispatch from the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv. Russia has destroyed the region's energy infrastructure, bombing sub-stations, and leaving people without heat and in the dark. a sad story, with beautiful chiaroscuro pictures by @alessiomamo.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘They decided to kill us with cold’: Ukrainians struggle against Russian assault on power network
Chernihiv residents say they are without power for 14 hours a day as they gather in ‘invincibility points’ to charge up and warm up
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 AM
justinling.ca
Social media is making us paranoid and afraid of each other. Maybe that's the point. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/the-eye-th...
The Eye That Never Sleeps
Social media is making us afraid and anti-social. What if that's the point?
www.bugeyedandshameless.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:56 PM
justinling.ca
This weekend I'm at the Halifax International Security Forum, which — for the first time — has no official delegated from the U.S. government. I'll post some occasional thoughts from the Forum over the weekend, below 👇
Photo of HISF president Peter Von Prague at a podium under a logo that says DEMOCRACY (in "Ukraine yellow"
November 21, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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The Trump family has been bragging that Trump's energy policy has enabled their Bitcoin-mining bonanza.

Turns out they're running part of their mining operations in Canada. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: The Trumps’ latest money-making scheme has a little-known Canadian connection. Can we do anything about it?
It's a refuge for criminals and a cash cow for the man who wants to annex us, yet bitcoin is still being mined in Canada.
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Baby Grok will no longer rizz up Elon Musk, rizz king
Tweet from Musk: Earlier today, Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me.
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
justinling.ca
The year is 2035. The Meta People's Liberation Army breaks into my underground printing press. But I've already escaped on my pedal-powered flying machine. "Death to the machines!" I yell before crashing into the city's last remaining tree.
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: I’m a new columnist at the Star. I’m going to be focusing on our era’s most influential gatekeepers
The decline of the gatekeeper isn't the boon some think it is.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
justinling.ca
This rules. @404media.co www.404media.co/ukraine-is-j...
Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song
A few years ago, Putin hyped the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Now electronic warfare is knocking it out of the sky with music and some bad directions.
www.404media.co
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Oh great, Steve Witkoff has been given another "peace plan" by his Russian minders. www.axios.com/2025/11/19/u...
Scoop: U.S. secretly drafting new plan to end Ukraine war
"We feel the Russian position is really being heard," Russia's envoy told Axios.
www.axios.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:52 PM