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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/12/2025
every article about Elon that doesn’t start with the fact that he starved thousands of children to death is malpractice this man should not be walking around free let alone as a respectable member of society
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Controversial Victims Of Communism Memorial Won’t Include Names www.readthemaple.com/controversia...
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Controversial Victims Of Communism Memorial Won’t Include Names
The monument was unveiled in December 2024 after a more than one year-long postponement.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."
Statement on Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s Genocide Denial at the Israel Hayom Summit

December 9, 2025

The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention and Human Security feels called to point out that former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton’s recent remarks at the Israel Hayom Summit on 2 December amount to outright genocide denial.

During her remarks, the Secretary correctly noted that the recent deterioration of Israel’s standing among U.S. voters is not a “Republican versus Democrat kind of divide” but rather a generational one. Nevertheless, she incorrectly diagnosed the reasons for the shift as a matter purely of optics, stating that “Israel [has] the worst PR of any group” and accusing social media, particularly TikTok, of presenting “pure propaganda” that American youth are uncritically ingesting.

Secretary Clinton’s framing is not at all an accurate reflection of why Americans are growing more critical of Israel. Young Americans of all political stripes have not fallen prey to propaganda, though that is always a legitimate concern. Rather, they have consumed two years of videos depicting Israel’s genocide against Palestinians that have been uploaded by Palestinian journalists, ordinary people trying to survive in Gaza, IDF soldiers, and ordinary Israelis themselves. There has been no convincing refutation of the sheer amount of raw evidence of genocide coming out of Palestine. Young people in the U.S. are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well.

Secretary Clinton appears not to be bothered by the reality of genocidal violence – in fact, she did not mention anything about it. Her concern is, rather, in her words, “the narrative” – the fact that these crimes are no longer hidden and are now being live-streamed and documented in real time, making it harder for her and others to control it. TikTok cannot be blamed for the fact that many members of Gen Z understand that Israel is …It is in fact highly ironic to blame TikTok for the dissemination of content laying bare the realities of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Like many other social media conglomerates, TikTok has been accused of systematic censorship of pro-Palestinian content. In July of this year, TikTok appointed an ex-IDF instructor as its new manager of hate speech. This person can hardly be accused of pro-Palestinian views given her background and stated opinions. It appears that what Secretary Clinton really means to say is that TikTok is not being effective enough at censoring the truth.

What truly seems to unsettle Secretary Clinton is not “misinformation,” but rather the fact that younger generations are no longer consuming a single, state-controlled narrative. They are accessing unfiltered images and testimonies that challenge decades of political messaging. This helps explain why TikTok has become a target, not because it is misleading students, but precisely because the content uploaded by its users allow them to see beyond official propaganda.

When former Secretary Clinton calls this “a serious problem for democracy,” it sounds less like a defense of democratic values and more like concern for the weakening of a long-standing political and ideological agenda, one that, it must be stated, is highly undemocratic.

Secretary Clinton did get one thing right, although quite inadvertently: When you do not have the truth on your side, all you left with is indeed optics and “the narrative.” But she is wrong to think that any amount of PR – even really great and expensive PR – is going to hide this genocide. Israel would be better served by advice to end the genocide, engage in a transformational process that brings the perpetrators to justice, and build a future with Palestinians. That is the only way to change its image.

America’s young people are no longer fooled by genocide denial – whether it is being presented by Israel, the United States, Sudan, Myanmar, Russia, or Secre…
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I make music for a living, I consider myself to be very lucky although it comes with its share of challenges. I want to forgo some big picture conversations about corporate cruelty in the arts and try to recount some personal reflections on @chom977.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/pulse/corpor...
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Corporate radio is failing independent artists, a personal story.
I consider myself to be very lucky, and privileged. I've made a decent living in a creative field which I realize is very rare.
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
In June, I released this #antifascist anthem w/@jonathanemile.bsky.social. The video just hit 50k views on Youtube! Thank you to every one who's listening... to the song and message. ✊ youtu.be/l2WgEOr-jaI
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Paul Cargnello w/Jonathan Emile - Fascists In Our Midst
YouTube video by Paul Cargnello - Official
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
My son #DeclanEC is an extraordinary artist in his own right. So proud that he provided the music for the new #RemyxPicasso EP (feat @jonathanemile.bsky.social). Out today. Congrats to everyone, but especially to the seventeen year old who can hold his own ❤ & ✊. music.apple.com/ca/album/los...
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Lost In Dysfunction by Remy Picasso on Apple Music
Album · 2025 · 9 Songs
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
❝ I'm drawing a line in the sand, between artists like myself and those who are willing to placate exploiters. It's time for artists to creatively reject Artificial Intelligence and instead bring back a more important AI: Artistic Integrity. ❞ Read the article 👉 www.linkedin.com/pulse/artist...
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
I want to express how lucky I am to be working with such wonderful people.Thanks to @jasminebleile.bsky.social for being a long-time collaborator. Tomorrow I’m dropping a #NewVideo for my song #UpperGen. 📸 @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social www.youtube.com/c/PaulCargnelloOfficial
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Back by popular demand! ❗GROOVE CRITIQUE❗ with @brendanfromndg.bsky.social Friday, July 18th #CabaretBerlin 8pm is when the Funk, Disco, New Wave, and Post-Punk begins. Hope to see you there!! 🔗 www.facebook.com/events/montr...
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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
The bulk of tech bros and people with inherited wealth do not fundamentally understand skilled labor at all because they have always been in a position to fail up, and they assume that they are actually the high performers and that everybody else is more incompetent than they are.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
And meanwhile in Canada, Prime Minister Carney has announced that building yet another oil pipeline is "nation-building." This after we just spent $34 billion of public money on TMX. And we pay to subsidize every barrel. Canada now leads the world in increased oil production. #astheplanetburns
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Nice to see my 20th album COMBAT BLUES on the @naccchart.bsky.social TOP 30 ADDS. Ten stations all over the US putting the record into rotation this week alone ! Thank you Vitriol Radio, and to the college listeners !! ✊
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Good @wickdchiq.bsky.social piece on how Mark Carney is caving to Trump even as he gets credit for opposing Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canadians said no to Trump – so why is Mark Carney pushing a Maga-inspired border bill? | Erica Ifill
If it goes ahead we will see the construction of a surveillance state that is in some ways worse than the US, writes political columnist Erica Ifill
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 13/06/2025
“It’s free, it's outdoors and it's all ages. It's going to be a celebration of revolutionary politics and love and partying all at the same time.” Paul Cargnello launches his album Combat Blues at Fringe Park (Rachel & St-Laurent) on June 14, 8 p.m.
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Paul Cargnello dropped a new video today and spoke to us about the resurgence of protest music
An interview with Montreal singer-songwriter Paul Cargnello, who dropped a new music video today from his latest album Combat Blues.
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
RIP to Sly Stone. Truly one of the most groundbreaking and important artists of the 20th century. He changed contemporary music as we know it and he can't possibly get all the credit he deserves. An absolute legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWQ...
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Sly & The Family Stone - I Want to Take You Higher (Official Audio)
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 08/06/2025
After repeatedly failing fact-checks year after year after year, the Toronto Sun is copy-pasting this 3 paragraph disclaimer to the end of their annual Tax Freedom Day write-ups acknowledging all of the Fraser Institute's numbers they just reported might be "incorrect and misleading":
Toronto Sun:

"Finally, it should be noted that calculating the total tax levels Canadians pay has long been a controversial issue and critics of how the Fraser Institute calculates Tax Freedom Day say its numbers are incorrect and misleading, 

These criticisms include that the use of average family incomes instead of median incomes inflates the amount of money average Canadians pay in taxes; that it includes taxes paid by businesses as if they were being paid by families and that it fails to calculate the benefits families receive from paying taxes such as hospitals, schools and other public infrastructure they could not otherwise afford.

A more accurate calculation of Tax Freedom Day, they say, would be weeks or months earlier than the Fraser Institute claims"
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
There's so much to dunk on in this NYT piece and so little time, but I gotta start here: Some law profs at U Chicago did a study to see if the chatbots could answer questions based on specific materials and found, unsurprisingly, that they make shit up. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/t... >>
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Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT.
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Deontological Warfare @clockworklady.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
if the wheels had come off this thing any faster it'd be a Cybertruck
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
“We’re our own diverse crew,” he continues. “That’s going to be the thing that defeats ignorance and fear, right? It’s going to be the acceptance of diversity, and here’s this really cool fusion of sounds.” Gotta love, @paulcargnello.bsky.social. Great first track! cultmtl.com/2025/06/paul...
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Paul Cargnello dropped a new video today and spoke to us about the resurgence of protest music
An interview with Montreal singer-songwriter Paul Cargnello, who dropped a new music video today from his latest album Combat Blues.
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
⭐️⭐️⭐️ New Video Alert! ⭐️⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ FASCISTS IN OUR MIDST ⭐️ w/@jonathanemile.bsky.social 🎬 @nikbrovkin.com ✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿✊🏻✊🏼 #antifascist #newvideo #newsong #antiracist #reggae #punk #blues #mtl youtu.be/l2WgEOr-jaI
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Paul Cargnello w/Jonathan Emile - Fascists In Our Midst
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Carney and the Liberals' Strong Borders Act is one of the reasons some of us did not and would not ever vote Liberal. They are a right-wing party! We know this! (Very glad we didn't get a Conservative government, in case that needs to be explicitly said)
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 04/06/2025
63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Guess what? I've got shows! Everything kicks off next weekend. Dates au Quebec avec #MarcoCalliari mai/juin, launch of #CombatBlues at the #Mtlfringe June 14th, DJ sets in NDG throughout the summer (thank you #RendezVousNDG) et j'ai hâte au #FestivalFocus en août. See you out there comrades!! ✊
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Green Left @greenleftonline.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Here's this month's best protest music, including @paulcargnello.bsky.social‬ www.greenleft.org.au/content/10-n... #protestsongs #protestmusic
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
"Ten new albums to bring sanity to a mad world" Thank you to @greenleftonline.bsky.social & @matwardmusic.bsky.social for putting me in such good company! ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 👇 www.greenleft.org.au/content/10-n... #SuzanneVega #BruceSpringsteen #Propagandhi #PeggySeeger #protestsong #protestsinger
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Toula Drimonis @mtltoula.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
“What hurt the most, she says, was knowing she had done everything required of her, including prioritizing the French language. “I chose to study in French,” Farhat says, “and yet this is how the government treats people like me.” #Bill21 #Bill94 thewalrus.ca/bill-21-queb...
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Bilingual, Educated, Qualified—and Still Not Welcome in Quebec | The Walrus
As the province seeks to expand on its controversial Bill 21, critics warn of deepening discrimination
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Brent Butt @brentbutt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
"Requiring that we be invited into someone's home before we can enter is kneecapping the vampire industry."
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/05/2025
I haven't seen the same outpouring of support for Rodney Hinton, Jr. that we saw for Luigi Mangione. GoFundMe took down the fundraiser for Hinton, who is accused of killing an officer shortly after he watched bodycam footage of police killing his 18-year-old son.
Rodney Hinton, Jr., a Black man wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, mean mugs a crowd of police as he is led past them in court
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Combat Blues ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ My 20th album! Available online as of today! Buy it 🔗 paulcargnello.bandcamp.com/album/combat... Stream it 🔗 orcd.co/paul-cargnel... ❝ Et bon Dieu que ça groove ! ❞ - Philippe Renaud (Le Devoir) ❝ Killer album. ❞ -Charlie Angus (The Resistance) ✊
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
♫ "Ça groove pour vrai" @iciradiocanada.bsky.social @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social #funk
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 "Il denonce des fascistes" @iciradiocanada.bsky.social @rci.bsky.social #antifascist
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 08/05/2025
Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
La ministre Pascale Déry doit démissionner www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...
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La ministre Pascale Déry doit démissionner
Nous demandons aussi la fin immédiate de l’enquête ministérielle lancée par son cabinet.
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Merci @ledevoir.com ! Merci @philrenaud.bsky.social ! Merci de m'avoir laissé parler de mon 20e album solo ! Je suis vraiment fier, #CombatBlues sera disponible la semaine prochaine !! 👉 www.ledevoir.com/culture/musi...?
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Paul Cargnello, le dernier des musiciens engagés?
Sur «Combat Blues», il interpelle ses collègues qui ont délaissé l’art de la chanson politique.
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Paul Cargnello @paulcargnello.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me in CULT MTL's #BestOfMontreal ! I'm sincerely touched that after all these years people are still voting for me. Montréal comrades, I appreciate you! ✊ @cultmtl.bsky.social #montrealer
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
As long as the people who hate the Liberals feel like their only alternative is to vote Conservative, and the people who hate the Conservatives feel like their only alternative is to vote Liberal, we will never have real change in this country. Still, could have been worse.
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
I've never voted Liberal in my life, including today, but I do take immense pleasure in witnessing the Conservatives' colossal loss in blowing what seemed like a sure thing just a few weeks ago
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Pivot @pivot.quebec · 28/04/2025
OPINION | « Un examen de ses propres communiqués par le BEI a permis de repérer plusieurs communiqués erronés ou incomplets, certains omettant de mentionner les manquements policiers. » #polmtl #polqc #polcan #spvm La nouvelle chronique d'Alexandre Popovic 👇 pivot.quebec/2025/04...
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La vérité ne sort pas de la bouche du Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes – Pivot
Des documents exclusifs révèlent une épidémie d’erreurs dans les communiqués du BEI.
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
So few people seem to be aware of this
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Apart from being terrible for the environment, Chat GPT is also extremely unreliable as a source
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
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Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 13/04/2025
Hey, just a quiet reminder: it’s not true that people get more conservative as they age. *Populations* get more conservative as they age because poor and marginalized people die sooner. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Seniors Are More Conservative Because the Poor Die Off
Sometimes older voters aren’t just naturally more conservative. It’s just that wealthier and whiter people tend to live longer and healthier lives.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The ideas around “neutrality” and “bias” have done so much damage in the mainstream media. These ideas only work in one direction—against the left—and result in people in the industry who personally identify as left-leaning overcompensating and doing the right’s work for them
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This is what happens when you destroy the labour movement
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Taylor Noakes @taylornoakes.com · 07/04/2025
"One tweet from a Poilievre spokesperson created a far-right social media shit-fit that led CTV to kibosh Rachel Gilmore’s fact-checking segment Doing your job well is all it takes for a woman journalist to get cancelled in #Canada" Latest @cultmtl.bsky.social #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2025/04/rach...
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Does CTV work for the Poilievre campaign? Or are they just spineless hypocrites?
Rachel Gilmore's fact-checking segment on CTV was cancelled this week because of Conservative hate sparked by the Poilievre team on Twitter.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
calling trump “orange”? kinda cringe but whatever calling it “orange monday” thereby forcing future generations of economists to explain why its called that? absolutely hilarious
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
The White Lotus is maybe the most overrated show I've ever seen. Great cast, but this season had a totally long winded and very predictable plot (apart from that one thing!). Why all the hype? The first season was the best one and even that one wasn't THAT great.
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Crime Is Beauty @crimeisbeauty.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
RIP Val Kilmer 3 of my favourite movies: Thunderheart, Willow, Bad Lieutenant Port of Call New Orleans
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