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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

…and there he is. The one guy that will go out in February weather wearing shorts. #Toronto

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This white supremacist, Darren Beattie, was just given a role in the Trump administration at the state department.

A tweet from Darren J. Beattie on October 4, 2024 saying:

Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work.

Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

In the coming weeks and months, don't expect anything from @democrats.org in the U.S. in opposition to Trump. Canada, Mexico, Denmark, non-fascists in Germany, UK, France and rest of the Western world needs to band together, without any help from American liberals. They can't rise to this moment.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

The biggest learning of the late-19th to mid-20th century was that trade wars are bad, and they lead to military wars. It's one reason why the UN Charter, pushed for by Americans, specifically condemns tariffs that violate trade agreements. Trump is undoing a 150 years of learning and progress.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

youtu.be

Trudeau: Canada will retaliate with 25% tariffs on $155B of U.S. goods

YouTube video by CBC News

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The @democrats.org "winning" message in this moment is we deported more people than Trump? The Democrats are the most useless, clueless liberal political entity in the Western world, this is why Trump is getting away with everything, because his opposition is total garbage.

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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

“Made in Canada” products must be made of a minimum 51 per cent Canadian material or content, while “Product of Canada” is the gold standard, with the product needing to be 98 per cent Canadian to get the certification.” www.cira.ca/en/resources...

cira.ca

How to shop and buy Canadian – CIRA

Want to keep your purchasing power within Canada’s friendly confines? In this guide, we’ll show you how to spot, shop and support Canadian products and businesses.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Tricky fixture? No problem. Liverpool doing what it needs to do. Thank you Mo Salah and the woodwork at Bournemouth. #lfc

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Are Doug Ford and the Ontario Conservatives up to some shady shit as usual? There’s no way I should be on the “PC Ontario Fund” database, I suspect they’re accessing voter contacts from other sources just as they did in 2018. #onpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I’m begging rudderless liberal parties and politicians in the West to embrace the backlash against tech billionaires. The “techlash” is real, people feel it, but it needs to be nurtured politically. Instead of being completely useless, @democrats.org could make this their thing, but they won’t.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Yes, let’s have liberalism with a backbone again. US Democrats are useless, Macron & Scholz are on their political deathbeds in France & Germany, respectively. There’s a global liberalism void to be filled where Carney and Starmer (UK) could lead the way by standing up to Trump and Musk.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

In a caravan of mistakes made by @democrats.org in Joe Biden's last year, banning TikTok is among the stupidest. Quite the streak of getting everything wrong for 12-14 months, culminating with free advertising for Donald Trump to tens of millions of Americans. US liberalism needs a hard reset.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

We're back to an era where a leader of a Western nation decides he can just take other countries, and it's coming from the US, the country that put an end to that sort of thing (covert CIA operations notwithstanding). What's next, Donald Trump starts wearing a pointy helmet like Kaiser Wilhelm?

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

This is what Justin Trudeau should've been saying from the outset instead of waiting until he resigned. Canadians like liberals who show steel (St. Laurent, Pearson, P. Trudeau, Chretien - all benefited from muscular liberalism), and there had been flashes of it in J. Trudeau, but all too fleeting.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Liverpool didn't start playing until United went ahead. Opportunity lost here, the Mancs weren't anything special, our side looked off for most of the match, then got careless again up 2-1. Hopefully some key players get a rest at midweek, play youngsters and Endo in the league cup. #livmun #lfc

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

This unholy alliance between tech bros and right wing politics should be the defining fight of our generation if you're a liberal. Sadly the most influential liberal party in the world that could and should be making opposition gains out of this, @democrats.org, are completely asleep at the wheel.

bbc.com

Washington Post cartoonist quits after satire of Jeff Bezos is rejected

The newspaper decided not to run Ann Telnaes' cartoon of tycoons kneeling before Donald Trump.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

What do @democrats.org offer and to whom? Who is this party for anymore other than beltway insiders like consultants, pundits and lobbyists? After losing every branch of the government they’re still hanging out with and celebrating Liz Cheney because they’re determined to learn nothing.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

If you're wondering what's happening over at Twitter ...

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

That Elon Musk is one of only two paid subscribers to a pro-apartheid, South African white supremacist account that thrives on his website is the least surprising thing you'll learn today. Elon is vile, and he will be ruling the world's most powerful country through surrogacy just because he's rich.

mediaite.com

Elon Musk Is a Paid Subscriber to Shockingly Racist Pro-Apartheid South African X Account

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and advisor to President-elect Donald Trump, is a paid subscriber to a virulently racist X account.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This Colin Jost #SNL episode is emblematic of today’s malaise in liberalism: not understanding the moment. People don’t trust systems that are letting them down. Conservatives respond with false promises to make bad people pay, while liberals prefer to scold critics instead of seizing on the anger.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Elon Musk's attempt to normalize AfD is very similar to something he did in the US presidential campaign. Musk funded ads falsely claiming Ruth Bader Ginsburg held the same abortion views as Donald Trump. In his recent tweets, Musk is saying AfD has the same policies as Barack Obama, another lie.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

What's happening in the United States right now is extraordinary. They've basically gone back to being a monarchy except the new king, "president Elon Musk" is somehow even less accountable to the public than a monarch might be. The natural endpoint of modern conservatism is anti-democratic chaos.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Donald Trump wanting to suspend the debt ceiling for two years is a big indication he and his co-president Elon Musk will rob the treasury by giving themselves and/or allies huge government contracts. The Republican holdouts will fall in line once they get a piece of the action.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Crazy that the most dangerous man in a Trump admin could be a ... Kennedy. Being a PR-oriented politician, RFK Jr. will say the right things on the surface to satisfy Americans, then backchannel his batshit ideas into health policy to harm people at home and abroad, particularly in US foreign aid.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

This year @aoc.bsky.social traded her "outsider" credentials hoping to get more support with the Democratic establishment, but in the end they shunned her and closed ranks around insiders. There's no reason to support @democrats.org right now. American liberalism is a gerontocracy on its deathbed.

axios.com

AOC loses key vote in race for Oversight Committee leader to Gerry Connolly

It's a huge blow to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) hopes of leading the high-profile panel.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

An appalling move from Joe Biden. Those in power who lock people up for profit are among the worst people in society. When liberals show they don't have any values, why would anyone be attracted to liberal politics? Biden could've left this alone, there was no need to do this.

citizensvoice.com

Biden commutes sentence for Kids-for-Cash judge

Former Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Conahan, who gained notoriety for wrongfully imprisoning juveniles in the Kids-for-Cash scandal, is one of nearly 1,500 inmates whose sentences President Joe …

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Biggest political misstep @aoc.bsky.social has made so far is steering toward the ambiguous "centre" to back establishment Democrats. Today, AOC could've positioned herself as an outsider offering new ideas over tired losers like Nancy Pelosi, who got it all wrong and still dominates @democrats.org.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Big tech, and more specifically the people who run it, are a threat to the public good. The best tool to rein them in is democracy - which the Zuckerberg, Musk and Thiel types subvert daily to make it difficult to hold them accountable. If liberals need a populist cause, "techlash" might resonate.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Of course Donald Trump won't bring down grocery prices, that requires actually going after those who plot with him at Mar-a-Lago. Same in Canada, Pierre Poilievre is blaming everyone but powerful oligarchs for high costs, because Conservatives won't bring down grocery prices either. #cdnpoli

rollingstone.com

Trump Is Starting to Walk Back His Vow to Bring Down Grocery Prices

Donald Trump didn't seem so sure that he could bring grocery prices down in an interview with Time for his "Man of the Year" cover story.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

What’s remaining at Twitter really is the worst, social arsonists and bootlickers for the wealthy bordering on sociopathy.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

The “socially progressive, fiscally conservative” pretty much doesn’t exist, not in any big numbers to matter. Yet liberal parties still chase this virtually nonexistent “centre” like it’s a silent majority waiting to be reached. This is the big mistake Ontario Liberals are making. #onpoli #cdnpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One of my favourite genres of Conservative Twitter is these accounts learning about mundane, accessible government business for the first time and pretending it’s some grand conspiracy. Not an ounce of knowledge about anything. Yes, government funds services. That’s why it exists. #cdnpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Not only "masculine anxiety" (product of right wing media manipulation) it's also that political alternatives aren't being communicated. North American liberal parties have been poor at sharing an optimistic vision for the future, the consultant class loyalty to "centrism" doesn't inspire. #cdnpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

"Macron must look left." A sentiment that might've helped Kamala Harris in the US, and would help Bonnie Crombie in Ontario. The weird loyalty to a "centrist" label that's subjective and meaningless doesn't excite anyone, and politically, it's not a winner in the West today. #onpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

It's not just that Elon Musk spent $277 million in an election cycle, it's also how he did it, like funding a lying "RBG PAC" that claimed Donald Trump and Ruth Bader Ginsburg held the same abortion views. Is the US even a democracy anymore when the ultra rich can just buy elections like this?

cbsnews.com

Elon Musk spends $277 million to back Trump and Republican candidates

Elon Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 election cycle, spending at least $277 million to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This pain is self-inflicted by the West, it’s completely unnecessary and only happening due to the rise of the most destructive ideology in our society, nationalism. You can’t be only inward looking and expect to be prosperous, even China’s communist overlords figured that out decades ago.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

This interview with the @bsky.app CEO doesn’t reveal much about the future (it’s all on the table), but one thing I’d like to see is what made Twitter initially successful, become the home for legitimate, quality journalist-driven news & discussions of current events and communities built around it.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Contemporary liberals are fools to move right instead of left — where there’s a more natural base. We just watched Kamala Harris lose in the US by chasing nonexistent “moderates,” and in France Emmanuel Macron is humiliated after his prime minister gave leverage to the hateful witch Marine Le Pen.

bbc.com

Barnier vote: Why France's turmoil is grave concern for Europe - BBC News

There's no end in sight to the political instability as French PM Barnier faces a no-confidence vote.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

'Nobody is coming downtown,' but also, there's 'bumper-to-bumper traffic' because too many people drove downtown during construction including the driver who is complaining. Suburban car brain + AM Talk Radio host = the epitome of disconnected and entitled. #Toronto

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The Conservative Party clearly has skeletons in the closet with regard to India’s interference with their leadership race that anointed Pierre Poilievre. A chronic attention-seeker like Michelle Rempel doesn’t run away like this unless she’s hiding something. #cdnpoli

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Only a highly corrupt government like Doug Ford’s Conservatives would have data go “missing” to avoid accountability. The fact that the Conservatives used personal devices to conduct public business was bad enough, that they made those conversations disappear should be seen as criminal. #onpoli

globalnews.ca

Doug Ford’s chief of staff ‘missing’ months of government texts after phone was ‘reset’ | Globalnews.ca

The Ford government has been engaged in a months-long freedom of information appeal with Global News over text conversations on Patrick Sackville's phone.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The subjective interpretation of "centrism" as an idea is hanging by a thread in #France, failing all over the West. The rise of autocratic, anti-intellectual forces like Trump, Le Pen and co. will not be defeated by liberals shuffling to the right, which is what most self-described centrists do.

lemonde.fr

The specter of Barnier government collapsing sends shivers through the markets

The prospect of a country without a government or budget is increasingly worrying investors. France is now borrowing at the same rate as Greece and the CAC 40 is down sharply.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Kash Patel looks and sounds like someone who is up all night having his brain fried by right wing YouTube channels and podcasts, and he can't live without it. Like a substance addict, except one that instead of getting help is appointed to be the top law enforcer of the most powerful country.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Liverpool relentless in the opening 12 minutes, well deserving of the lead, and it's once again that man Mo Salah playing provider with a pinpoint pass. 1-0 to @lfcr.bsky.social - Manchester City look average at best. #lfc #ynwa #livmci

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Amie Archibald-Varley @amievarley.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

For a country who is hellbent on prosecuting “criminals” can someone explain to me why they keep getting elected? Photo credit/Tweet from @asifhossain.bsky.social

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Countries should start calling Donald Trump on his bluff. He's trying to use tariffs as a one-size-fits-all weapon against everyone, probably in order to enrich his family through side deals, but in the end it's Americans who stand to be hurt from it if there is a coordinated effort to call him out.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Doug Ford talks so much about housing while building so little. His relationship with developers isn't about homebuilding, it's to do with which land to buy (Greenbelt, Hearn, Foundry) paired with favourable legislation (Hwy 413, MZOs), so developers can increase their net worth. #onpoli

thestar.com

These Canadian cities are finally doing something to fix the housing crisis. Almost none are in Ontario

While British Columbia and Quebec move to address the lack of housing, Ontario is going backwards.

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Asif Hossain @asifhossain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Something to watch in the UK similar to what happened in Canada in 2003. The right wing Reform party (same name as the one in Canada) is growing rapidly, some day could absorb the Conservatives, as was done here. Modern conservatism keeps moving to the right, not many "moderates" there. #cdnpoli

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