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Morning. Whew. Turnip tried to rename Lake Ontario. Canada said “hydronym.” MAGA found Google. CIA chief skulks to Moscow. Trust Washington? Sure. Nepal is hurting. Norway lost a king. Canada recruits researchers the U.S. drives out. Their loss, our gain. Twitter, the brand, may live again. ☕🇨🇦
Trump is renaming Canadian geography and dystopian lines have crawled out of fiction and into the news: “They didn’t rename the country. They wrote around it until it disappeared.” I wrote that as a warning. I’d really like current events to stop treating Pejorative like a fucking checklist.