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Liberal, progressive, educator, Traveler, writer of fiction and facts. Anti-fascist. Woke. Vaccinated. Believer in climate change, democracy, and the Guillotine. War is mass murder. Photos are mine. Not looking for a relationship. 🚫DMs. 🚫Porn. 🚫$ 📚🇨🇦🇨🇵😱

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1h
‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live
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‘No beardos, no weirdos, no wimps’: Hegseth says he will cut number of US generals by 20% in anti-diversity speech – live
Defense secretary summons military leaders for speech railing against diversity policies * Sign up for the Breaking News US email Rachel Leingang and Riley Messer Some of the biggest food and agriculture corporations in the US are funding a campaign that pays social media influencers to combat elements of Robert F Kennedy Jr’s Make America Healthy Again platform, according to an investigation by the Guardian and Documented, an investigative watchdog and journalism project. Continue reading...
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 1h
No new indictments from eight-year investigation as state attorney general says church knew about abuse
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Catholic clergy sexually abused nearly 1,000 Massachusetts children over decades, report finds
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Ohio Capital Journal @ohiocapitaljournal.com · 1h
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/09/29/r...
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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations outside immigrants’ home countries • Ohio Capital Journal
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday granted, for now, the Trump administration’s request to continue rapid third-country deportation of immigrants to countries not their own.
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Sky News @news.sky.com · 22h
'Can existential threat be managed'?: Sky News asks Trump and AI leaders
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'Can existential threat be managed'?: Sky News asks Trump and AI leaders
Watch Mark Stone's exchange with the president and AI leaders
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CNN @cnn.com · 22h
Videos testing whether boyfriends can pronounce words like "epitome" and "hyperbole" are racking up views on TikTok and raising some bigger questions about literacy. CNN's Leila Gharagozlou spoke to an expert who says the viral test may not prove what people think it does.
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Can Americans guarantee that if Democrats are elected in the midterm elections, they will return the billions stolen from Venezuela by the Trump mob? You should be asking the candidates that question... amongst many others.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 29/09/2026
No matter what happens in the upcoming midterm elections or even the 2028 presidential contest, Canadians will not forget how they are being treated right now — or how some Americans react when we fight back, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes.
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America still doesn't understand how deep the rift goes
Memo to our friends (and yes, our enemies) to the south: the problem isn’t just Donald Trump. It’s you
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 29/09/2026
As the US midterms approach, Trump’s boasts on the economy fall flat with voters
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As the US midterms approach, Trump’s boasts on the economy fall flat with voters
Trump’s tariffs and his war against Iran caused prices to to rise, but the US president continues to claim it’s ‘the greatest economy in history’
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 29/09/2026
Commentary: EU citizens do not want "more Europe" in the abstract, but rather a union that is capable of protecting, investing, anticipating, deciding and acting whenever national-level policymaking is insufficient.
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Europeans must choose between power and dependence
In today’s world, ensuring citizens’ control over their future requires the freedom to act together
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Poland had some wise words, for Russia. They can puff out their chests all they like, they can keep killing... But this Polish Foreign Minister is 💯 correct. They will never win.
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Pirateking Blues Jazz Rock Radio @pkradio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 28/09/2026
World’s biggest economies release lists of products in latest move away from trade war – but no strategic goods are included
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Foie gras, live dolphins and toasters: China and US cut reciprocal tariffs on $30bn of goods
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/09/2026
Trump: "The big problem is refineries in Russia are being blown up. This isn't really a Middle Eastern problem, this is a Russia problem, that Ukraine & Russia are going at it & Ukraine is blowing up diesel refineries. I told to President Zelenskyy, 'You gotta take it easy on the refineries.'"
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"The U.S. and Russian teams also removed a provision requiring that humans review military targets developed by AI before a strike..." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/09/2026
Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
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Palantir’s co-founder thinks we should be less judgmental about that deadly Iran school strike
The AI-assisted attack at the start of Donald Trump's war killed more than 150 people, mostly children.
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Chevron @lachevron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
People need to get madder about them just flaunting it so hard
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MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · 28/09/2026
It’s easier than ever to design killer pathogens.
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The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
It’s easier than ever to design killer pathogens.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Norway produces more oil than Venezuela. And yet, between January and August 2026, electric vehicles made up 97.8 percent of all new cars sold in that country. Moving to EVs is often based on intelligence, not need. Which is why it lags in the notoriously short-sighted and stupid United States.
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@Cali-Candace.bsky.social @cali-candace.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
His deranged and UNCHECKED mentality is a psychology that WILL NOT CHANGE!!! He’s mentally SICK!!! There’s no befuddlement when you understand that he’s a the MOST DANGEROUS NIHILIST!!! Listen to @npr and what Tucker Carlson said tRump told him; youtube.com/shorts/1BzBg...
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Conservative pundit Tucker Carlson recalls talking to President Trump days before the Iran war
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I’ve heard people dismiss Trump’s mendacity with a shrugging “they all lie,” but we are witnessing a rare, very possibly once-in-a-lifetime political liar.”
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Happy Sunday. It's Team Frank for me
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Euronews @euronews.com · 27/09/2026
Iran's Revolutionary Guards claim that the vehicle is a REMUS 600 and has been handed over to Iranian military experts "to retrieve its data". ➡️ l.euronews.com/iSjw
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Denmark is trolling Trump.
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Euronews @euronews.com · 27/09/2026
"Respectable women in long skirts": Tajani under fire for his remark
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'd like anyone who supports Trump or Republicans to explain to me why you think it's okay that the United States wants to get rid of the International Criminal Court. The court was created to punish war criminals. Do you think war criminals shouldn't be punished?
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newtometoo.bsky.social @newtometoo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I encourage all of you to vocalize the following: 1. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) 2. The International Court of Arbitration 3. The International Criminal Court (ICC). These courts must be allowed to conduct legitimate work without acts of terrorism by a few lowly state dept imps.
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The Salt Lake Tribune @sltrib.com · 26/09/2026
Letter: Does anyone else question why so many of our representatives and senators in Congress just go along with whatever Donald Trump does — even when it’s crazy?
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Letter: I challenge our lawmakers to be brave enough to stand up to Trump
Letter: Does anyone else question why so many of our representatives and senators in Congress just go along with whatever Donald Trump does — even when it’s crazy?
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Just my thoughts 🇨🇦 @bc60.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social anti-Zionist is not antisemitism…
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/09/2026
President Donald Trump declined Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expects to resume bombing Iran after the US midterm elections in November, the Wall Street Journal reported
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Trump Rejects Iran’s Seven-Day Ceasefire Proposal, WSJ Reports
President Donald Trump declined Tehran’s proposal for a seven-day ceasefire and expects to resume bombing Iran after the US midterm elections in November, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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denyou.bsky.social @denyou.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
What Senator Paula Simons says…
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you know that the United States officially withdrew from the Human Rights Council last Friday. The day after a UN group accused the Administration of multiple war crimes in Iran. Seems like something shithole countries do.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Nancy Mace told me there is not a genocide in Gaza. It's just a 'narrative,' she said. So I educated her on Gaza and genocide in less than 60 seconds. I brought receipts. I named names.
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Politico @politico.com · 25/09/2026
Pennsylvania man dies two years after he was wounded in Butler shooting
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Pennsylvania man dies two years after he was wounded in Butler shooting
Jim Copenhaver was struck twice when a gunman opened fire at President Donald Trump in a shocking act of political violence.
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Carney considered chance Trump might use military against Canada: NYT flip.it/wyGWim
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Carney considered chance Trump might use military against Canada: NYT
The prime minister says Canada must consider even extreme scenarios as Trump continues pushing for annexation.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
⚡️JUST NOW: MASS UN WALKOUT ON NETANYAHU
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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10/11 News @1011now.com · 24/09/2026
Senate rejects resolution to halt the Iran war as gas prices upend midterms
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Senate rejects resolution to halt the Iran war as gas prices upend midterms
Despite rising political anxiety over the Iran war, senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolution seeking to halt President Donald Trump's military action.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So does anyone wonder why Vladimir Putin wasn't allowed to speak at the United Nations because he's wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes, but Benjamin Netanyahu, who's also wanted for war crimes, including genocide, was allowed to address the UN?
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone that I follow on another platform says emphatically that the United States should expect a false-flag attack before the midterms so that Trump can declare martial law and cancel the elections. What do you think?
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
In his speech to the United Nations Trump stated concerning the theft of Venezuela's resources, "to the victor belong the spoils". It is now the official policy of the United States that a country only needs to be more powerful than another nation in order to justifiably steal its resources.
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IrishStar.com @irishstar.com · 23/09/2026
The US and Israel launched a devastating joint assault on Iran in February, with missile strikes on Tehran that claimed the lives of numerous senior figures within the Iranian regime, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
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'Embarrassed' Trump could order nuclear strike on Iran, expert warns
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wut? www.wsj.com/world/russia...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
About damn time
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CynicallyOptimistic @cautiousoptimistic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A German writer just pointed out that once Trump is gone, things are not just going to go back to the way they were. Trust will take decades to restore. The bell cannot be unrung.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Trump: "Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions & millions into the Country, essentially unchecked & unvetted, & who are causing problems that'll soon be too big to handle. It is a Liberal takeover that will end very badly. Already showing up in their numbers. Big unemployment. ‘Oh Canada!"
Trump: "Canada is destroying itself by allowing millions and millions of people into the Country, essentially unchecked and unvetted, and who are causing problems that will soon be too big to handle. It is a Liberal takeover that will end very badly. Already showing up in their numbers. Big unemployment. ‘Oh Canada! President DJT"
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Sir Turd of Squirrel 💜MagaPedoSuspensionServices @squirrelturd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The mango moron knows that the world is coming for him and his cronies. They will be executed. Just like the good old days. #ExecuteTheNazis
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🔥🔥🔥👍💯🖕 Amid boos and the withdrawal of diplomats from around the world: War criminal Netanyahu speaks to empty chairs at the UN General Assembly! #cdnpoli
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not your imagination, groceries ARE much more expensive 😡👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember in Schindler's List when the Nazi commander uses a sniper rifle to shoot prisoners in the Concentration Camp. This is a video of Israel using machine guns from a tank to shoot prisoners in a Concentration Camp.
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