- Donald Trump has issued yet another executive order, this one imposing travel sanctions against officials of the International Criminal Court involved in cases being brought against American or Israeli personnel. So far the sanctions don't seem to be as harsh as some had feared, though.
- The new US Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, has issued a memo mandating the department to give preference to communities with high marriage and birth rates when allocating funding. It's not The Handmaid's Tale yet, but it seems to be getting closer to that by the day.
- The US Center for Disease Control has ordered the retraction of all papers submitted by their researchers for publication in outside journals so that they can be scrutinized for reference to things that the Trump administration thinks don't or shouldn't exist (like, say, LGBT* people).
- The CIA has reportedly offered buyouts to its entire workforce. If you thought the CIA was bad before, just wait until it's completely staffed by Trump's sycophants.
- Elon Musk's Departement of Government Efficiency has gained access to highly sensitive financial data with the Treasury Department, ostensibly to make sure that proper precautions are being taken when sending out money. Musk claims, without providing evidence, that payment approval officers were instructed to never deny payment no matter who the recipient. I have to assume that this is a lie, and that Musk's real reason for gaining access was to find potential dirt on his or the president's enemies, or to otherwise cause them grief.
- A recent poll found that 82% of Canadians would favour placing export taxes on oil shipments to the US if Trump's threatened tariffs materialize. This includes 72% of respondents in the Prairies, but Danielle Smith is most definitely not among that 72%.
- The National Football League has banned teams from posting on Bluesky, evidently to avoid the wrath of the Trump administration (or rather the administration's puppeteer Elon Musk).
- Two Russian colonels fell out of windows in two days, one of them fatally. Evidently Russian bigwigs are terribly careless around windows, failing to take basic precautions like making sure an FSB officer isn't in the room before going near the window.
- Manitoba Progressive Conservative leadership candidate Wally Daudrich has proposed a novel solution to the homelessness problem - feeding the homeless to polar bears. While the conservationist in me is all in favour of making sure polar bears have enough to eat, I'm not sure this is the best solution to the problem.
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