RK Atkinson
@rkatkinson.bsky.social
Unilateral disarmament is now official policy. Because—despite its name—this National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Unilateral disarmament is now official policy. Because—despite its name—this National Security Strategy is not really a strategy document. It is a suicide note.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The Soulless Train
December 14, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The Soulless Train
Asked by the News Literacy Project for one word to describe today’s news media, 84% of teens responded with something negative — “biased,” “crazy,” “boring,” “fake, ”bad,” “depressing,” “confusing,” “scary.”
Yikes!
themapleleafrag.substack.com/p/the-road-a...
Yikes!
themapleleafrag.substack.com/p/the-road-a...
The Road Ahead
The search for truth and trust in a chaotic new world
themapleleafrag.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Asked by the News Literacy Project for one word to describe today’s news media, 84% of teens responded with something negative — “biased,” “crazy,” “boring,” “fake, ”bad,” “depressing,” “confusing,” “scary.”
Yikes!
themapleleafrag.substack.com/p/the-road-a...
Yikes!
themapleleafrag.substack.com/p/the-road-a...
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We’ve reached the point where Fox is telling viewers to buy artificial Christmas trees so the farms can be turned into data centers. “Everyone needs to get on board.”
December 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM
We’ve reached the point where Fox is telling viewers to buy artificial Christmas trees so the farms can be turned into data centers. “Everyone needs to get on board.”
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Canada Strong Pass returns, drawing families to National Museums for the holiday season #Canada
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Canada Strong Pass returns, drawing families to National Museums for the holiday season
The Canada Strong Pass is back this holiday season and the program is already bringing more families and young adults through the doors of Canada’s national museums.
www.ctvnews.ca
December 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Canada Strong Pass returns, drawing families to National Museums for the holiday season #Canada
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Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
December 14, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.
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American customs. Today’s Age cartoon.
December 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
American customs. Today’s Age cartoon.
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Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
December 13, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Remember: The oligarchs who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us so they can become more powerful.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see where all the wealth and power have gone.
Don't fall for it.
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"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it.
It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.
www.publicnotice.co
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."
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If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
How to Get Rid of "Citizens United"
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.
open.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
If you’re looking for something to do, start working on overturning citizens united in your state. States control the power corporations have. Take their political power away with a ballot initiative. Here’s how: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
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Another snippet about Trump from the excellent Oliver Kornetzke, an insightful writer if ever there was one.
December 12, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Another snippet about Trump from the excellent Oliver Kornetzke, an insightful writer if ever there was one.
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A simple question
December 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
A simple question
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Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
December 12, 2025 at 3:56 AM
Apparently we’ve established that if the US can seize the largest tanker off Venezuela, it can just as easily seize a small, alleged drug boat without murdering the occupants.
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So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
December 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
So the US just hijacked an oil tanker and the president casually says “I guess we keep the oil”
Is this not just theft
Is this not just theft
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"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
"For, as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we be brought under foreign rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom which no honest man gives up but with life itself."
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
- Life lessons taught by a Scottish granny, immigrant mining widow.
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🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside.
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🇨🇦 If you are a Canadian who still wants to travel to the US, you may want to put that thought aside.
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
The US Thought Police want your social/personal history for the last five years.
If you have said anything against Felon 47 you might be banned or jailed.
US Tourism is dead.
#CanadaSky🇨🇦
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2026 #Canada trade mission to #Mexico will be ‘biggest’
MacKay says hundreds of businesses have applied to be part of the mission, focused on diversifying Canada’s exports. 🇨🇦🇲🇽
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
MacKay says hundreds of businesses have applied to be part of the mission, focused on diversifying Canada’s exports. 🇨🇦🇲🇽
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
2026 Canada trade mission to Mexico will be ‘biggest one’
The federal government is preparing for its largest trade mission in history: Mexico in February 2026, says Cameron MacKay, Canada’s ambassador to Mexico. MacKay says hundreds of businesses have appli...
www.cbc.ca
December 11, 2025 at 9:49 AM
2026 #Canada trade mission to #Mexico will be ‘biggest’
MacKay says hundreds of businesses have applied to be part of the mission, focused on diversifying Canada’s exports. 🇨🇦🇲🇽
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
MacKay says hundreds of businesses have applied to be part of the mission, focused on diversifying Canada’s exports. 🇨🇦🇲🇽
www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
Trump declares war on US tourism industry!
Who the fuck would plan a business trip, attend a convention or take a vacation in the US under the thin-skinned orange guys regime.
See you in 20 years (maybe) America.
FIFA games are gonna be packed in Canada & Mexico!
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
Who the fuck would plan a business trip, attend a convention or take a vacation in the US under the thin-skinned orange guys regime.
See you in 20 years (maybe) America.
FIFA games are gonna be packed in Canada & Mexico!
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
President Donald Trump was under fire from critics on Wednesday who accused him of killing tourism in the United States with a new policy that would require visitors to undergo social media inspection...
www.rawstory.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Trump declares war on US tourism industry!
Who the fuck would plan a business trip, attend a convention or take a vacation in the US under the thin-skinned orange guys regime.
See you in 20 years (maybe) America.
FIFA games are gonna be packed in Canada & Mexico!
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
Who the fuck would plan a business trip, attend a convention or take a vacation in the US under the thin-skinned orange guys regime.
See you in 20 years (maybe) America.
FIFA games are gonna be packed in Canada & Mexico!
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
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Poillievre:
'I don't care what the natives say, damn them all, my Oil Patch Buddies want their tankers on the BC coast and that's what I'll give em'
JUST LIKE TRUMP: damn the environment, dam what people want, dam the consequences..I'M THE KING (of chaos)..
Solar is King.. PP living in the past..
'I don't care what the natives say, damn them all, my Oil Patch Buddies want their tankers on the BC coast and that's what I'll give em'
JUST LIKE TRUMP: damn the environment, dam what people want, dam the consequences..I'M THE KING (of chaos)..
Solar is King.. PP living in the past..
December 10, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Poillievre:
'I don't care what the natives say, damn them all, my Oil Patch Buddies want their tankers on the BC coast and that's what I'll give em'
JUST LIKE TRUMP: damn the environment, dam what people want, dam the consequences..I'M THE KING (of chaos)..
Solar is King.. PP living in the past..
'I don't care what the natives say, damn them all, my Oil Patch Buddies want their tankers on the BC coast and that's what I'll give em'
JUST LIKE TRUMP: damn the environment, dam what people want, dam the consequences..I'M THE KING (of chaos)..
Solar is King.. PP living in the past..
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Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
December 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Immigrants ‘plucked out of line’ at citizenship ceremony at Faneuil Hall “the cradle of liberty”.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
If you ever claimed you want immigrants to do it the right way, this should outrage you. On the other hand, If you think this was okay, you need to come to terms with your white nationalist views.
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Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."
December 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Powell: "Inflation for goods has picked up, reflecting the effects of tariffs."