Nick Heer

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President Trump threatened on Friday to charge Canada tariffs to pay for harms caused by the wildfire smoke affecting American cities, joining a handful of Republican lawmakers who have criticized the Canadian government for what they claimed was poor forest management.
A person in military fatigues and a white cowboy hat stands in a field faces away from the camera and looks at a helicopter landing a short distance away.
dril tweet reading ‘the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron”’
A sign on the road reads “tree work ahead”.
“The CNN model has to wait for something to happen IRL. But something is always happening on X. And of course, X is — and has always been, the real world. Or at the very least, it’s the place where the people who run the real world make sense of what’s happening.”
“DVD stands for ‘digital video disc’, a disc-shaped form of digital storage widely used from the 1990s to the 2000s to hold films and other video content.”
Google Scholar error page reading “We're sorry... ... but your computer or network may be sending automated queries. To protect our users, we can't process your request right now.”
Screenshot of section from the linked NYT article, reading “John Smith, a 38-year-old content manager who avoids caffeine for health reasons, is taking advantage of the shift. “I still get the ritual of the tiny espresso cup and the complex taste without all the side effects,” he said. In San Diego, where he lives, he looks out for Swiss Water beans, which are stripped of their caffeine through water instead of chemical solvents.”
Semafor headline: “What media leaders got wrong in 2025”
A screenshot of two posts, the first of which reads “So this is something I've been noticing more lately: people seeing an image, wrongly assuming it's Al, and then confidently raging about it being Al when it wasn't. Example: the replies to this Pluribus-themed image Tim Cook posted on X.” The second reads “Even the replies to this post on here are filled with "Erm, well it looks like Al to me!" and dumb shit like that. The image wasn't Al. The Apple TV account even tweeted it with the artist's name.”
‘In 2024, as in 2023, the largest recipient of its donations was “The Foundation,” the nonprofit that operates the elementary school near Mr. Musk’s businesses in Bastrop, Texas. The nonprofit says it also wants to open a high school and, eventually, a university. The Musk Foundation has now given that nonprofit about $607 million since 2022.’
“Why it matters: The intoxicated suspect was a raccoon.”
Screenshot of an Amazon listing for “Self-Esteem for Dummies”.
Screenshot of an email from the NDP, the text of which reads: Zohran's historic win in New York is a win for everyone who's hungry for politics with substance and courage. His victory is part of a pattern: movements built on big, practical, popular ideas are breaking through around the world. The federal NDP can be next. Think about what he was up against: an outsider taking on the establishment, tens of millions in super PAC money, a drumbeat of "too radical, can't win." We've seen this playbook forever-powerful interests insisting that common-sense solutions are somehow fringe, while their allies in corporate media use polls and op-eds to convince people that what they're seeing with their own eyes isn't real. In New York, we even saw "polls" waved around to claim Zohran's core ideas weren't popular-at the exact moment those ideas were driving one of the biggest upsets in recent history. That's how the political establishment works: it tries to talk people out of their own lived reality.
Screenshot of a Zero Hedge article entitled "There's Something Odd About Meta's New Ray-Ban AR Glasses…" containing a bizarre theory about how oversized black-rimmed glasses are a "status symbol within the Democratic Party".
Screenshot of the Wall Street Journal offering “a visual breakdown of the Trump birthday letter to Epstein”.
A photo of Calgary’s Chinatown at dusk with lanterns hanging above buildings with glowing windows.
Screenshot of this segment of the quoted article: A North Korean boat appeared out of the dark. Flashlights from the bow swept over the water. Fearing that they had been spotted, the SEALs opened fire. Within seconds, everyone on the North Korean boat was dead. The SEALs retreated into the sea without planting the listening device. The 2019 operation has never been publicly acknowledged, or even hinted at, by the United States or North Korea. The details remain classified and are being reported here for the first time. The Trump administration did not notify key members of Congress who oversee intelligence operations, before or after the mission. The lack of notification may have violated the law. The White House declined to comment.
Screenshot of a Maureen Dowd column in the New York Times, headlined “Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk”
Screenshot of a post by Matt Novak containing an embedded video with blackletter text reading “Save America”. Novak’s post says “I’m sure the typeface at the end there isn’t meant to evoke anything Nazi-like.
Screenshot of the attached article, reading: Musk felt Yaccarino was not being fully transparent about the company's status with advertisers, and put a gloss on reality. He wanted her to more quickly restore the business to financial health. "He did not dig her style as a shiny, flashy Madison Avenue executive," said one person who worked with them both. "He wants to have an authentic conversation and not be bullshitted." The last sentence is highlighted.
Graphic from a Times of London article during the War in Afghanistan showing "Bin Laden's mountain fortress" with a drawing of a Bond villain-style lair.
Screenshot of pinned (!) Matt Yglesias tweet from five days ago (!) reading "Self-criticism corner: By suggesting it is bad to increase the salience of immigration, I have generated meta-discourse that has only further increased the salience. No more posts about this from me ever!"
Screenshot of a Google AI summary reading: "The saying "two beavers in the pants are better than one in a trench coat" is a humorous, slangy way of suggesting that having two people of the same sex in a relationship is better than being single, or potentially better than being with someone you don't find as appealing. It's a playful, lighthearted expression, and the "beavers" and "trench coat" imagery are used in a non-literal, suggestive way."
Screenshot of a photo of Nayib Bukele, zoomed to show his pants floating above his shoes.
Screenshot from the linked article: “Asked about the anecdote, Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, did not directly address it but said that the president "is a virtuoso and his musical choices represent a brilliant palette of vibrant colors when others often paint in pale pastels."”
Screenshot of Carrot weather app showing weekly forecast going from 12°C to –26°C.
Screenshot of a CBC News article showing the following text: “Last week, Trudeau urged consumers to seek out Canadian-made products to avoid U.S. imports. "The example from last time was Heinz's ketchup being replaced by French's ketchup because French's was still using Canadian tomatoes in its ketchup," he said. While Trudeau's statement was not completely wrong — it is true that Kraft Heinz was not making ketchup in Canada from 2015 to 2020, and he was speaking about the past - the company said it was misleading, since it has moved its production back to Canada.”
Photo of a lilac-coloured bag of coffee. The label reads “Monogram, Finca Milan. FLAVOURS: Watermelon, Strawberry, Hibiscus ORIGIN: Pereira, Colombia VARIETY: Caturra PROCESS: Anaerobic Nitrogen Fermentation”
Screenshot of a Threads post by Mark Zuckerberg, reading: “5/ Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content.”
Screenshot of a Matt Yglesias quote: “I thought Joe Biden was going to prove his doubters wrong at the big debate. I know that ever since that humiliation the whole world thinks the entire media was in on a massive coverup, but the fact is many of us (and seemingly many members of his team) genuinely thought the situation was better than it was. In a lot of ways it's more embarrassing to have been gullible and wrong when so many people with no sources and no inside info could see it clearly, but that's what happened - I was just wrong about one of the big questions of the year.”
Screenshot of an Amazon page with a product titled "Certainly! Here's a sample breakdown of potential contents for the cookbook: Palate Poetry: Epicurean Elixirs and Culinary Chronicles Kindle Edition"
Screenshot of the calendar application showing a suggested event I did not create.
Screenshot of a Siri Suggestion notification to turn on Do Not Disturb until the end of my non-existent reservation at Bar Gigi at 8:30 in the morning.
A photo of a (very large!) rutabaga sitting on a park wall.
The New York Times: “Trump Disavowed Project 2025 During the Campaign. Not Anymore.”
Screenshot of Bluesky showing the post about glitter maple syrup below another post about a ring one could wear to which you can mount a cigarette.
A picture of about twenty (??) falafel frying in a cast iron skillet.
Screenshot of ZeroHedge article announcing “Not Funny: The Onion Buys Infowars In Bankruptcy Auction”
Screenshot of a tweet from Matt Stoller reading “While it's easy to rail against unnamed elites, there's a broad cultural problem among Dems in general. One beloved Dem Twitter account is that of a snob who mocks wardrobes for not being authentically aristocratic.”
Screenshot of the New York Times, with the title “What’s at Stake: Still More Scandals” and a quote from reporter Peter Baker saying “Donald Trump has been enveloped in more scandals than any other president.”
Screenshot of a tweet from Ryan Girdusky, as seen in the quoted video, saying "You can stay on CNN if you falsely call every Republican a Nazi and have taken money from Qatar-funded media. Apparently you can't go on CNN if you make a joke. l'm glad America gets to see what CNN stands for."
Screenshot of an email containing a press release wih the headline “The Old And In The Way Podcast Uses AI To Interview Deceased Celebrities About Life and Aging. First Interview With Marilyn Monroe Is Available Now.” It only gets worse from there.
Screenshot of a post from Meta on Threads showing AI-generated pictures of the aurora borealis.
A vertical image of the centre of an aurora, graduating from pink through magenta to teal.
A photo of aurora borealis framed by a sunroof.
A photo of a hillside in autumnal colours.
A screenshot of a third-party app’s Manage Subscriptions page showing an ad for Apple One.
A photo of the book “Character Limit”
Screenshot of Miami Fruit’s website advertising a banana for sale for $47.
A screenshot of a person opening their blue sport coat to reveal a camouflage lining.
A photo of JD Vance with a massive phone outline in his pants pocket.
Screenshot of email from PublicSquare advertising: “Switch to Patriot Mobile for All Your Data & Cell Phone Needs! Join Patriot Mobile! - support 1A, 2A, veterans, first responders, and pro-life causes with America's only Christian conservative cell service! Free activation if you switch today!”
Screenshot of a tweet positing “AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible” with a graph showing an aggressively straight line on a logarithmic scale.
Screenshot of Stoller newsletter, with this sentence highlighted: “Indeed, the reason TikTok exists is because we allowed Facebook to kill Vine,”