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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Look, I'm not saying Trump is a Russian agent sent to destroy American political, economic, and legal institutions, plus erode its relationships with its allies, plus plunge it into civil war to cause chaos and a rising death toll... ...but what exactly would be different if he WERE a Russian agent?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Anyway watch the whole thing from Broadview. "Proud" isn't even the word, it's nowhere near how I feel about how strong she's been in the last month.

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Kat Speaks at Broadview ICE Facility Press Conference | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Everyone has a role to play in society today, this is not the time to sit on the sidelines. And every role matters, truly🙏🏻

A protest-themed graphic styled like a role-playing game character selection screen. The brown background has text that says: “Welcome to Protesting! Choose your class:” followed by different roles:

Fighter: March in demonstrations

Tank: Put your body between the vulnerable and cops’ attacks

Rogue: Flood snitch lines with false reports/kpop facecams/etc

Healer: Provide medical support and supplies to protesters

Bard: Spread the word and help others keep up their spirits and mental health

Chemist: Provide food and supplies to communities targeted by police and agitators

Wizard: Use technical skills/platforms to keep communication lines open and inform people

Support Caster: Donate money/time to bail funds, protest orgs, etc.

At the bottom: “No matter your skills and resources, there’s a class for you to play and a role you can fill!” with an illustration of a sword beneath the text.

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

A - freaking - men NO MORE BILLIONAIRES

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

DISNEY: "OK, we are putting Jimmy Kimmel back on the air. You can resubscribe now." ME: "I unsubscribed because you immorally bowed to fascism. I'm not going to resubscribe because you immorally bowed to finances."

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

Under 100 days until Christmas?? Celebrate the holidays NOW by embodying the lessons of these classic Christmas movies: ; terrorize the rich into treating the working class fairly (A Christmas Carol) ; punch Nazis (The Sound of Music) ; help your neighbors, yes even the poor (It's a Wonderful Life).

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

‘There’s no way they’re going to win’: Journalist Rachel Gilmore on reporting on the far right in Canada Morning File by @suzannerent.bsky.social, who as the headline states, interviewed @rachelgilmore.bsky.social

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'There's no way they're going to win': Journalist Rachel Gilmore on reporting on the far right in Canada - Halifax Examiner

An interview with the Halifax Examiner.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Preface: I do not condone violence. But it's a question society must tackle... at what point *is* violence not only condoned but necessary? Self defense from an attacker? Yes. We don't like who won the election? NO. Foreign country invades? Yes. The gov't enacts laws that will kill its citizens? Etc

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Hope is always the right decision, and it will overpower fear.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Cancel Culture in a nutshell. Progressives: "If you say racist stuff, we're going to call you racist." Conservatives: "If you call me racist, I'm going to kill you." Progressives: "...you're threatening violence?! That is not okay." Conservatives: "The Left just declared war! It's us or them!"

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Political violence isn’t just assassinations It’s workers paid pennies while CEOs pocket billions It’s people starving while supermarkets dump food It’s genocide livestreamed & ignored It’s kids gunned down at school while leaders do nothing Those are policy choices and that’s political violence too

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Political violence isn’t just people being shot with guns. It’s starving people while food rots in warehouses. It’s denying healthcare so preventable illnesses kill. It’s leaving people homeless in a world of empty houses. Those are policy choices, and that’s political violence too.

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Seán Ferrick @seanferrick.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Seeing a white person say 'No one's words EVER got anyone killed' Yes, because MLK and Malcolm X were killed for their finger paintings. Words have power. 🙄

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This echoes MLK Jr. “Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that” Fred Hampton spoke the same truths. He knew what terrifies the powerful is solidarity across race & class. You don’t break the cycle by repeating it. You break it with solidarity & socialism. #socialistsunday #marxistmonday

Black-and-white photo of Fred Hampton speaking into a microphone, looking determined. Overlaid text reads: “We say you don’t fight racism with racism. We’re gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don’t fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.” —Fred Hampton.

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Beautifully said! Racism isn't a viewpoint to be debated. Shut that shit down.

A tweet by Angela Dennis reads: “Racism and racist ideology is not a ‘political view.’ It’s not about left or right it’s about right and wrong. Framing them as a difference of opinion is dangerous because it minimizes the harm, violence, and inequality it produces. Political debates are about policy. Racism is about stripping people of humanity and denigrating their existence. Don’t confuse the two.”

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

When you strip away humanity

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

History repeating. Extra History on YouTube just posted their first episode on the history of several American mass deportation efforts. Heartbreaking and infuriating to see America repeating these mistakes due to ignorance, fear, and prejudice. FUCK ICE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vk2R...

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American Mass Deportation 1: The First Crackdown | US History | Extra History

YouTube video by Extra History

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 29/08/2025

1. My newest Anti-Trans Legal Risk Map is here. Risk has increased sharply for youth in many states as clinics shutter under Trump and state AGs refuse to enforce civil rights laws. For adults, some increases in risk. Nationwide risk remains extreme. Subscribe to support my journalism.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 28/08/2025

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

Alt text: A tweet from Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) dated August 27, 2025. The tweet calls for Health and Human Services to violate HIPAA laws and forward information about every transgender and transgender-questioning person to law enforcement for immediate detainment, claiming they are killing children in schools. It describes this as a matter of national security, says transgender people should be locked away and studied, calls for medical professionals who enable transitions to be expelled from the profession, and demands that the federal government treat transgender people as if they were terrorist organizations. The tweet shows it was last edited at 1:11 PM and has 5,049 views.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Behold: The distillation of everything wrong with and in America.

White text on a black background. A quote from Oliver Kornetzke describing in powerful poetic detail how President Trump is the distillation of everything wrong with America.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

The literal Nazi Party in Germany were transphobic. The Conservative Party of Canada has awful role models. As always, Rachel Gilmore has phenomenal journalism on the most recent ignorance and *dangerous* transphobia rampant in the Conservative Party. Trans Rights are Human Rights.

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sirfielding O))) @sirfielding.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Hi #parkrun friends, I am running my first ever 10km race. Please consider donating to my Terry Fox Run page and help continue the legacy of one of Canada's most inspirational athletes. 🇨🇦🏃‍♂️❤️ Fund raising goal: $500 10km goal: 50:00 run.terryfox.ca/page/fieldin...

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Terry Fox Run

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

After Israel slaughtered several Al Jazeera journalists, I asked the foreign affairs minister's office whether Canada intends to take action. Their response made me, as a journalist, feel sick. They pointed me to a tweet repost. One with a grammatical error. It didn't even name Israel:

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

My American friends: Please watch this and stay safe. With love, Your Canadian neighbour

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Israel murdered Anas Al-Sharif, a journalist. War crime. After war crime. After war crime. This is a difficult video to watch. But Rachel Gilmore and all journalists deserve our support and protection. We are failing them, failing Gaza, failing Palestine. History will not forgive. Neither will I.

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endeavorance 🕊️ @endeavorance.camp · 09/08/2025

Haven't been loud enough about this in a minute so imma be loud about it real quick TRANS LIVES MATTER. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. PROTECT TRANS KIDS. TRANS LIVES MATTER. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. PROTECT TRANS KIDS. TRANS LIVES MATTER. TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS. PROTECT TRANS KIDS.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Whatever your thoughts on the hostages, starving thousands upon thousands of children to a slow and painful death is pure, unrestrained evil. Phenomenal reporting from Rachel Gilmore, as usual.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

@arlostuff.bsky.social you'd probably like to hear insider insight into Nintendo's game submission process! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBh9...

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Nails and Nintendo | Randy Feltface Comedy

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Insta Science @instascience.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

This is how a swan lands on the water.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

This. Is. Nazi. Shit. Pure f***ing evil.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

No, the men are not okay. "Manosphere" influencers are making boys violent and funneling them into the self-inflicted male loneliness epidemic as women protect themselves from abuse and hate by staying away from their violent ignorance. Rachel Gilmore's reporting is worth following.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

We failed to stop Nazi Germany until far too late. Now we're failing to stop genocidal Israel. Our failures don't deserve forgiveness. Rachel Gilmore's reporting deserves attention.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

If the Canadian Conservative Party was fact checked for every claim, almost their entire policy doctrine would collapse. Let's make it illegal for political parties (or their fundraisers) to spread misinformation. Brilliant reporting (as usual) from @rachelgilmore.bsky.social - Worth a follow.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The CBC, The Toronto Star, and other legacy media companies are complicit in the Palestinian genocide. History will remember their part in the mass murder of innocent children.

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

🙌 Women 🙌 👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Adam Conover @adamconover.net · 12/07/2025

Well this is one of the best sketches I’ve ever seen youtu.be/bl8Z7Dl7P9A?...

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Professor has MENTAL BREAKDOWN and accuses class of cheating

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University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk · 11/07/2025

Hundreds of scientists are set to take part in the first performance of a new Scottish country dance inspired by the ripples in spacetime whose existence was first theorised by Albert Einstein. More: gla.ac/3ICip4Q #GR24Amaldi16 #GravitationalWaves #Glasgow @uofgravity.bsky.social

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Journalism is a social good, like firefighting or education, and thus should not be driven by a profit motive 👏

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Official Government of Canada e-petition to deploy peacekeeping forces to Gaza, "for the protection of civilians, to support the delivery of humanitarian aid, and to uphold... international humanitarian law". End the genocide. By force, if necessary. Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Petition e-6619 - Petitions

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Dave Toms @davetoms.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

"The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe as its handle was made of wood and they thought it was one of them..." May all those who voted for this barbarism one day understand the blood on their hands. But in the meantime, may we all save from harm whoever we are able to save.

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