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Marxist Monster Mayhem

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He/him. Writer, teacher, radical left scum. New fiction in the Dalhousie Review issue 104.3. “I’ll be around in the dark.” 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇵🇸

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 04/10/2026
Last year, just 21% of students from an Austin charter school using an AI learning platform passed state-mandated tests. Texas education leaders helped get the technology in front of public school leaders.
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How Texas Helped a Private School Chain’s AI Tool Get Into Public School Classrooms
Just three months after the Texas State Board of Education raised concerns about Alpha School’s AI learning platform, Education Commissioner Mike Morath was in talks about using the tool in public sch...
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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Mitchell Northam @northam67.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar and thousands of other convicted sex offenders have been removed from Michigan’s official sex offender registry. www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar removed from Michigan sex offenders list
Ex-USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar and thousands of other convicted sex offenders have been removed from Michigan’s official sex offender registry.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Until the Reagan years, the SEC considered stock buybacks to be illegal stock manipulation. Now, NVIDIA has announced the largest buyback in American history — fueled by the data center boom. It's time to make buybacks illegal again.
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Stock Buybacks, Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich explains that Trump's corporate tax is going to stock buybacks, leaving most workers behind.Watch More: Tru
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I think Vladdy was right the first time. How much money does Rogers make off the Blue Jays? Who has driven more ticket sales in the past 6 years? Whose jersey is all around town?
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 25/09/2026
so cool how "cybertruck owner commits horrific crime" is just part of our cultural landscape now www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/0...
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Upstate NY driver killed pedestrian, then tried to hide Cybertruck in woods
The man was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. The crash took place in 2025.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 24/09/2026
in which I get real pissy about Newsom enabling the Paramount merger, vetoing protections for abortion & gender affirming care providers, and pulling policy fakeout after fakeout while acting like he's the saving grace of the left
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/09/2026
When Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government proposed overhauling environmental assessments and major project approvals last spring, they were warned against centralizing power and infringing on Indigenous Rights. Critics say Bill C-39 does just that.
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Canadians warned Carney not to sideline scientists. Bill C-39 does just that, critics say
When the Liberals proposed overhauling major project approvals, the public worried it would concentrate power and infringe on Indigenous Rights. Now, pipelines and nuclear development will be reviewed by an energy agency, instead of environmental
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Avi Lewis and the NDP on the Picket line with @psac_afpc members being replaced by SCAB LABOUR while Carney refuses to enforce anti-scab legislation
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 22/09/2026
Labour groups are warning about new Liberal changes coming to a little-known section of the Canada Labour Code that the government has used to try and end several high-profile strikes. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Unions Slam Liberals’ Federal Labour Code Changes | The Tyee
The Canada Labour Congress says the legislation would let Ottawa break strikes.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
NEW: In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe that could ensnare top lawmakers, including Sen. Susan Collins. Then Trump was reelected and eviscerated the FBI and DOJ teams handling public corruption probes.
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I have no words for Musk and Space X getting to destroy a second national wildlife refuge. These are all disgusting, horrible people.
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Widow’s Bay is alright. But why does it look like that? The colour saturation might be the scariest part of the show.
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Emily St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
In case you needed another reason to dislike Gavin Newsom, a truly loathsome man, and/or back anybody else in the 2028 Dem primaries.........
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NDP @ndp.ca · 19/09/2026
A strike is by definition a labour disruption. Liberals are going after the right to strike.
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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
To my friends in the Bay Area: I'm hearing Rob Bonta is about to cave and hand Warner Bros over to the Ellisons. We can't let him do that. Can you show up outside his AG office in Oakland tomorrow at 5pm to reject this backroom deal? Reject the deal. www.mobilize.us/notabovethel...
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Block the Merger: Don't Settle with Paramount! · Not Above the Law
Join us to rally outside of the California Attorney General's Oakland office! We need Attorney General Rob Bonta to stand strong against a Paramount-Warner Brothers Merger. A core principle behind a...
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The woman who made Barbie directing the first ever adaptation of this novel from a children’s fantasy series that has been popular for 4 generations. Yeah, they probably won’t make any money at all 🙄
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 17/09/2026
“A senior executive at Microsoft said A.I. systems built on the work of others will be seen as ‘an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions’ and possibly the greatest robbery of labor in human history, according to court documents unredacted Thursday in an ongoing Manhattan lawsuit.”
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Docs in A.I. copyright suit reveal startling admission by Microsoft exec over ‘astonishing theft’
The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...
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Cycle Toronto @cycletoronto.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"The Court of Appeal’s ruling settles a constitutional question about legislative authority. It does not settle the engineering and safety questions that prompted our original response to Bill 212."
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 15/09/2026
Union Alleges Targeting After Ontario Science Centre Fires Entire Science Unit Nearly half of all people laid off last week were elected officials in OPSEU Local 549 pressprogress.ca/union-allege...
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Union Alleges Targeting After Ontario Science Centre Fires Entire Science Unit
Nearly half of all people laid off last week were elected officials in OPSEU Local 549
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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/09/2026
Iowa Dem. Gov. candidate Rob Sand was confronted at a rally yesterday over anti-trans positions. A constituent asked if he would walk them back. He refused to, and in fact said he supported sports bans. Another constituent shouted "COWARD!" in the background. Subscribe to support our journalism.
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“Coward!”: Iowa Dem Governor Candidate Rob Sand Comes Under Fire At Campaign Rally After Saying He Agreed With Trans Sports Bans
Apparently, Sand could not tell this prospective constituent that he supported equal rights for everybody.
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ll tell you one award Widow’s Bay wouldn’t win, and that’s Best Lighting in a Comedy Series. What the hell, guys? Turn up those dimmer switches a little.
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
💀His touring band quit. Amazing. I want nothing but misery for that untalented little fraggle
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PublicWrx @publicwrx.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Liquidate labor, liquidate stocks, liquidate farmers, liquidate real estate. It will purge the rottenness out of the system. High costs of living and high living will come down. People will work harder, live a more moral life. Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Carney is engaged in distaster capitalism. He is selling Canada off and gutting the public sector. He is far, far worse than Harper. His MPs are complicit. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...
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NDP's Avi Lewis says Carney is selling Canadian assets to 'the captains of Wall Street' | CBC Radio
Prime Minister Mark Carney says his Investment Summit in Toronto will help diversify the economy, but NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it will only make Canada more beholden to wealthy American corporations.
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soleil ho @soleilho.com · 15/09/2026
I almost forgot that 1 year ago, @coyotemedia.org went live!!! holy shit, what the hell? in the past year, we’ve published so much good shit, like @annaleen.bsky.social asking Bay Area govs to be more visionary with transit www.coyotemedia.org/funding-bay-...
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A Modest Proposal for Funding Transit Instead of AI
In the ’60s, the Bay Area almost got a high-speed train from Marin to San Jose. What could happen if we dreamed big again?
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Rob L @robll.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Meanwhile, coming to a water table near you. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I must have been on a coma. When was this glorious period of “unflinching support for the transgender community”? Could the AP supply some dates or examples for this?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
the plot to enslave america:
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Yo. This is the union calling for a boycott. Here in America people like to say "Well I was already boycotting Starbucks!" No you were not. You were just choosing not to buy their stuff. That is not a boycott. A boycott is an organized, collective activity. "I" don't boycott: we do.
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 12/09/2026
We have power in numbers, and we'll continue to fight for a better Starbucks. Support us by BOYCOTTING STARBUCKS until the company finalizes fair union contracts with workers! boycottstarbucks.net
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BOYCOTT STARBUCKS
Starbucks is the biggest violator of U.S. labor law in modern history. Join the movement - Boycott Starbucks!
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Jessica J. González @jgo4justice.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Ellison to California: Give me what I want, or I’ll shutter a historic studio and take away your jobs. Anyone else tired of billionaire oligarchs breaking all the rules and holding our communities hostage to their selfish whims? F this. #BlocktheMerger #NoConcessions deadline.com/2026/09/para...
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Huge Job Losses And Economic Pain If Paramount Exits L.A., Report Says
Nearly 60,000 L.A. jobs could be lost if David Ellison carries through on a threat to move Paramount out of California amid his antitrust battle.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This lie is why I can't support Mark Carney. Ten years ago 1.5c was thought catastrophic, now it's just a number. 💔 "Every day this deception whispers seductively in the ears of mankind: “global warming is real but not urgent… Keep doing what you’re doing." www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mas...
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The Gargantuan Lie That is Collapsing The World’s Climate
Thinking we have time left to address climate change, or that “Net Zero by 2050” will save us, is driving us toward full social collapse in ways that become more obvious with every new broken temperat...
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Anti-Fascism and Far Right @ffrafaction.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Sweden goes to the polls on Sunday in an extremely close election that could see the far right enter government for the first time if the country’s rightwing parties can form a majority. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Sweden’s extremely close election could see far right enter government
Latest poll shows 0.3-point gap between left and right blocs, with country’s reputation as global champion of human rights said to be at stake
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The Trump regime doesn't want you to know how it's arresting record numbers of immigrants It's called 287(g) I went to Trump-loving Pa. coal country to report on how local cops, promised $$$ by ICE, have created a "show me your papers" police state My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/penn...
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In Pa. coal country, local police join with ICE to bring arrests, fear | Will Bunch
Schuylkill County is the new face of Trump’s mass deportation, as local cops, lured by federal cash, bust scores of migrants.
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Sure, sex is great, but has your community softball team ever won its 1 and only game on the last game of the season?
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is the guy you all want to move over and lead the federal NDP? He praises Ronald Reagan, and now he forces striking lab techs back to work? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Dynacare sucks,' Manitoba premier says after labour board agrees to halt strike | CBC News
Premier Wab Kinew says the province might consider taking over testing services provided by Dynacare after his NDP government successfully applied to halt a strike by the company's workers.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/09/2026
The US has caused more than 40k deaths in Venezuela via sanctions alone all because Venezuela dared to have two presidents in a row that werent bribable and who re nationalized the oil industry that used to be nationalized only a decade prior. And Maduro and his wife are still illegally kidnapped !
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
To each according to his needs
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Marxist Monster Mayhem @calderwood.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It’s honestly amazing. You could not make up a worse person.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 08/09/2026
"The RCMP has quietly changed its uniform policy to no longer require officers to wear name tags while on duty, a move that has drawn criticism from advocates and experts who say it will limit police transparency, complicate the complaints process and fuel distrust in Indigenous communities."
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Mounties no longer required to wear name tags while on duty
Previous RCMP policy allowed name tag removal only while working at protests
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Sasha Fury @sashafury.myatproto.social · 07/09/2026
OMFG. The audacity of this banker piece of shit doing a video on the importance of organized labour while attacking labour at every turn.
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Prime Minister Carney's message on Labour Day
YouTube video by Prime Minister of Canada
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andrea shea @whattheshea.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 07/09/2026
“My whole life has been on pause as I work on getting this sorted and at the last possible moment it feels like it's been wrenched away without warning."
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NHS cancels all gender-affirming surgeries for adult patients of Welsh Gender Service with immediate effect
Some trans patients received news their surgeries had been cancelled just days or even hours before they were due to take place
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 03/09/2026
About 45 per cent of people experiencing homelessness for the first time are over the age of 55. “Unfortunately, many seniors are one unexpected expense or rent increase away from losing their housing,” said B.C.’s seniors advocate Dan Levitt. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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Senior Surprised to Find Herself Unhoused Four Years After Retirement | The Tyee
Elizabeth Davis lost her apartment after months in hospital. She was discharged to a shelter in the Downtown Eastside.
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Meanwhile, the Canadian government is prolonging the gas tax holiday. So it's now basically functioning as a gas subsidy, paid for by public funds, to keep Canadians in their gas guzzling vehicles for as long as possible.
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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 03/09/2026
BREAKING: 9 activists arrested protesting gender affirming care reductions in MA More here: assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...
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BREAKING: 9 Activists Arrested After Demanding MA AG Restore Trans Youth Care - Assigned Media
In Boston, Massachusetts this afternon a group of 40 protesters associated with Protect Trans Futures ratcheted up pressure on the Attorney General’s office to take action against providers who have c...
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