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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If you watch one video today please watch this. The story of how the people of Orillia put the run on the Nazis is a model for putting the run on hate. Please watch and please share. @meidascanada.ca youtu.be/rf6Aw3CdIcg?...
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HOW TO PUT THE RUN ON FASCISTS IN YOUR TOWN
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Canadian Government Is Dumping Donald Trump youtu.be/2wj7DI2NMPk
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The Canadian Government Is Dumping Donald Trump
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Simon Johnson🇺🇦 @simonrjohnson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The greatest 34 seconds of piano playing ever recorded youtu.be/V9EociNekTU?...
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Glenn Gould Plays Bach : Goldberg Variation #5
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/08/2026
“What Canadians have done, of course, is they’re boycotting the U.S.,” one expert told ProPublica. People can only do so much about federal politics, he added, but by refusing to cross the border, “what they can do is … vote with their feet.”
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As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice
Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"I just cannot believe that no journalist stood up to demand that the President stop this outrageous attack on their colleague. What are you doing? What is wrong with you?" - @sifill.bsky.social bluevirginia.us/2026/07/satu...
Sherilyn Ifill: "I just cannot believe that no journalist stood up to demand that the President stop this outrageous attack on their colleague. What are you doing? What is wrong with you?"
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Public outcry works! The Federal government nixes Toronto Island airport expansion www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Ouch #USMNT www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/socce...
Most World Cups are remembered for one thing, often something silly – Ronaldo’s pie chart haircut or Zinedine Zidane’s headbutt in the final.

This one will be remembered for Trump gleefully admitting the crime, followed a few hours later by 4-1.

This is the sort of small humiliation that lingers longer in the collective memory than sweeping policy insults. You can’t get people worked up for very long about tariffs. They’re too math-y. But rigging the World Cup? People will never forget you did that, and how badly you screwed it up.

So congratulations America, you’ve really run the table in this one. You were at your best, then your worst, and then your most hilarious.
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Heather Anne Campbell @heathercampbell.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
@KateHarding

What haunts me is that I am just not smart enough for so many people to be this much stupider than I am.
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Lizzy Lawrence @lizzylawrence.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...
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Eli Lilly gave extraordinary obesity drug access to a 79-year-old patient. Who was it?
Exclusive: STAT has learned that Eli Lilly and the FDA allowed a 79-year-old to gain extraordinary access to an experimental obesity drug through the agency’s “compassionate use” program.
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Niall Stanage @niallstanage.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.
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aisling murphy @aislingmurph.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
That's a wrap on opening week at @stratfest.bsky.social – seven shows in six days! Here's a roundup of my reviews for @theglobeandmail.com 🧵
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The NYT sees itself not as a defender of journalistic principles or a champion of democratic values, but rather a theater critic for political actors. There are no real-world consequences here, no pain or suffering for the common people who aren't in their social circles. It's just a parlor game
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
...then WHY ARE YOU DRIVING SO SLOWLY IN THE OUTSIDE LANE?!?!?
A new white Ford Bronco with a personal licence plateClose up of the licence plate of a new white Ford Bronco reading "NOT OH J"
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/04/2026
The government should be protecting our public airports, not selling them off for parts. History is littered with examples of the failures of privatization. It drives up costs for the public, quality suffers, and workers always end up paying the price.
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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars. There's just gotta be a line somewhere. Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.
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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Pete Hegseth experience is revitalized when you realize that he's Mac from It's Always Sunny
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 12/04/2026
The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
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The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit
The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment
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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 10/04/2026
Ontario’s Recent Policy Changes Are Part of a Larger Pattern to Centralize Power and Silence Dissent, Critics Say Ford’s attempts to "streamline" the province are infringing on local democracy. pressprogress.ca/ontarios-rec...
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Ontario’s Recent Policy Changes Are Part of a Larger Pattern to Centralize Power and Silence Dissent, Critics Say
Ford’s attempts to
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
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mahsa alimardani @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We didn't deserve this day.
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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."
I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You  know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Daisy isn't actually on the countertop so technically she's not breaking the "no cats on the kitchen counter" rule #caturday
A medium hared dilute tortie cat is loafed and very sleepy in a small brown wicker basket on top of a black and grey countertop
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 01/04/2026
Everyone remember to hide when the astronauts comes back.
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Simon Little 🍁 @simonplittle.ca · 31/03/2026
There's actually a handy chart!
Complex flowchart outlining the insane hybrid way we measure stuff in Canada
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao
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Megan Amram @meganamram.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
My latest piece for @newyorker.com "THE TRAD-EST WIFE"! Possibly my best work EVEN THOUGH it was snubbed for an Oscar www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts...
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The Trad-est Wife
I decided I would give my children a traditional spin on Pop-Tarts. I started with the first step of any traditional recipe: screaming.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Yeah I’m with Cuba on this one.
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 20/03/2026
6 months before bombing Iran and closing the Strait of Hormuz, the Trump admin fired the State Dept. oil and gas experts. The people who modeled exactly this scenario. The ones with contacts at Gulf energy ministries. Now nobody knows who to call. You can't make this up.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Trump’s DOGE Cuts Slashed Staff That Handled Middle Eastern Oil and Gas Crises
Six months before going to war in Iran, the U.S. government cut staff that would have been central to the current situation.
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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/03/2026
I have been a skymiles member for probably 30 years. I will never ever fly this evil airline again. I’d rather walk. Eat shit @deltaairlines.bsky.social
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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 18/03/2026
A lot of us in USA would be well served to recall that when we look back on that era we don't call it Germany With Some Nazis we call it Nazi Germany. We don't distinguish between people who silently disapproved or didn't like it but accepted it. We lump them in with the Nazis. And that is correct.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 30/07/2024
On 16th March, 1968 Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson Jnr was flying helicopter recon for a US attack on My Lai, an alleged Viet Cong-controlled village in Vietnam. But as the attack developed below, Thompson realised he was witnessing something something else: A massacre. He decided to act. 1/28
a young, brown-haired, clean-shaven american man in a green army uniform. he looks stern.
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
ONDP leader Marit Stiles on Doug Ford's proposed FOI changes: "These changes just simply shield Doug Ford and his government from accountability over things like the Greenbelt carve up, all of the preferential treatment that they've been giving to companies."
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 13/03/2026
Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.
Senator Tuberville on x writing a response to the @endwokeness account 

Original tweet from @EndWokeness - “less than 25 years apart”
Image 1 - the twin towers as they are hit by a the planes on 9/11/2001
Image 2 - Mayor Mamdani sitting on a prayer rug while hosting an Iftar  at city hall

Quote tweet from Senator Tuberville - “the enemy is inside the gates.”
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Reposting because, well, everything
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 05/03/2026
[Exit Murderer.]
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 28/02/2026
Are Americans really doing better than Canadians? Debunking the prosperity gap #Opinion
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Are Americans really doing better than Canadians? Debunking the prosperity gap
GDP per person is often treated as the yardstick for a nation’s prosperity, writes Gustavo Indart, but it’s a crude one — and is misleading about how Canadians are doing
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 26/02/2026
Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowards #Opinion
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Hockey-loving kids just witnessed their heroes acting like cowards
If 12-year-olds knew something was wrong with the extravagant endorsement of the Trump administration, how did, say, Auston Matthews, the captain of the Maple Leafs not know this?
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
U.S. men's hockey with Curt-Schilling-in-Boston levels of good will squandering. A 25-mile lead in the good will marathon and they tripped on their dicks right at the finish line.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 21/02/2026
Kevin O’Leary credits acting chops to years of convincing people he wasn’t driving the boat
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Kevin O’Leary credits acting chops to years of convincing people he wasn’t driving the boat
LOS ANGELES, CA - Responding to widespread praise for his performance in the new film Marty Supreme, businessman and television personality Kevin O’Leary revealed that what critics are calling “surpri...
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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
REID: "The President of the United States is a colicky baby. And now Mark Carney and the whole country has to face that constant decision: Do we pick him up and walk him around and make soothing sounds? Or do we let him lay in his crib and cry it out?"
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 13/02/2026
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
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[not that] Dave Brooks @daveb1970.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Heated Rivalry and Marital Bliss: Two Wives Go Head to Head in a Scary Olympic Sport
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