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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

60% of the vote is now in, here's where the pollsters are at so far

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The US already got a do over. A mulligan. A second chance. Much of the world, especially US allies, were ready to write off Trump’s first term as a fluke. The American people’s choice to put him back in power—as a convicted felon, after an openly bigoted, anti-democracy campaign—showed it was not.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is the part many Americans -- including the Bezosites at the Washington Post -- don't understand. Canadians don't see this just as a Trump thing. It's that America elected him twice, and the second time with an even bigger mandate. The problem we're addressing is America, not Trump.

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/09/2026

This new, shocking action by the US Administration just one part of a portfolio of severe taxes and restrictions on high-skill immigration to the United States. The resulting blow to our ability to attract global talent, and thus for the US economy to innovate & grow, will be terrible & permanent.

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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The year is 2028. All places in America are now named after America itself.

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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The Senate stakes are real. Among likely voters, Democrats lead in four of the five races we surveyed. The trade war did not create those deficits on its own, but our data suggest it is making the Republican path harder. Full report: abacusdata.ca/the-trade-w...

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026

Today's @xkcd.com

It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Benefits of Being a U. S. State: 1) No universal healthcare. 2) Your kids get shot at in school. 3) You get no disaster relief if you didn’t vote for the malignant crazy person in the Oval Office. 4) Get diarrhea from your food. Think long and hard before saying “no” to such a utopia, Canada!

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"

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Jess Davis @jessmarindavis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

A really good read on the reality (and future) of the Canada-US relationship from @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social. This is something that Canada (Main Street) grasps, but that Bay Street has yet to fully internalize. There is no return to normal. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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A deal with Donald Trump isn’t the end of instability. It’s just the start of it

Canada’s leaders need to stop expecting that a deal with Trump will lead to a new status quo, rather than never-ending turmoil for as long as he’s in office.

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

La prochaine vague d’innovations ne viendra pas des États-Unis.

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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

One of the smartest ideas I've seen in the last few years is instead of trying to find "the Joe Rogan of the left," buy up the news sites of defunct papers and put some money into providing local news coverage in rural areas.

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🇨🇦 Bernice Hillier 🇨🇦 @bernicecb.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

"Would-be future American leaders who recognize the value of allies and think all will be forgiven when the White House has a new occupant need to appreciate the depth of the damage being done by its current resident." #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...

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Opinion | ‘You Aren’t Going to Like What Comes After America’ (Gift Article)

Remember when ‘blame Canada’ was a joke?

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Elisabeth Vallet @elisabethvallet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This map 👇🏼

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Le prochain Silicon Valley ne sera pas aux États-Unis. Bravo les champions.

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Shoe-per Intelligence @shoe.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This is beautiful

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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DeadGamerUK @dadgamer.uk · 24/05/2026

Jesus Christ

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

La cour suprême américaine est en train de détruire tout le semblant de légitimité qu’il pouvait bien lui rester. Cela aura des conséquences dramatique pour son avenir et celui du système politique américain.

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Opening with “we owe a moral debt to the country that made us possible” and then arguing against everything that made that country possible, is… quite rich.

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’ve never seen the actual population estimates comparing Pr(pdf) to Pr(pdf|Jan 6) but it seems like the latter is way higher? Like, this is crazy?

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

A lot of Orbán's American fans are saying that this election proved he was never an authoritarian in the first place. This is completely wrong — and, in fact, betrays a complete misunderstanding of both Hungarian politics and modern authoritarianism. Here's why.

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Frédéric Mérand @fredericmerand.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

If you had time for only one article to read this week, it should be this one. How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Administrative burdens are political tools. Add administrative requirements or automate them depending on your goal.

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Ken Schultz @kschultz.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s crazy that the vice president openly intervening in a foreign election for the candidate backed by Russia ranks a distant second in insane things happening today.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

“The president is a well-known pathological liar, so it should not be newsworthy when he threatens genocide.”

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The trend in Trump's approval ratings since he was elected has been relentlessly downward - now sub-38%. Trump is not immune from the laws of political gravity. Poll estimates via @gelliottmorris.com @fiftyplusone.news

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V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

📢 Out Now! V-Dem Dataset v16 & the V-Dem Institute Democracy Report 2026 💾 The V-Dem Dataset: v-dem.net/data/the-v-d... 📰 The Report "Unraveling The Democratic Era?”: v-dem.net/publications... 📈 Explore the new data with the V-Dem Graphing tools: v-dem.net/graphing/gra... #PoliSky #PoliSciSky 1/3

Two map graphs show the state of liberal democracy according to the V-Dem Liberal Democracy index for 2025 and 2024. The higher the score (or darker blue), the more democratic the country. Lower scores (or dark red) mean less democratic. While North and South America, Western Europe and Oceania are mostly in the blue, most parts of Asia and Africa are in the red in 2025.
In comparison to the map for 2024, the map graph for 2025 shows democratic backsliding in some traditionally stable democracies in Western Europe and North America, in particular the USA, United Kingdom and Italy.

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Hier, j’ai lu un article de nouvelles sportives produit par un journaliste québécois. Il y utilise sans aucune espèce d’ironie le mot « palet ». Voilà l’un des dangers de l’IA : normaliser l’inacceptable.

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Deux buts sur la même séquence pour Alexandre Texier? — HabsolumentFan

Tous les détails ici !

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The election of Trump—both of them—will reduce the scope of every American’s future, as well as reducing the scope of who can be and will want to be an American

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 06/03/2026

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it). the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

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Alexandre Blanchet @alexblanchet.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Ma fille de 3 ans et des poussières aussi.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/03/2026

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

If the government gets to decide if you have them, they're not human rights.

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