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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Bravo @mapquest.com…. for not bending the knee! #LakeOntario-Now&Forever🇨🇦

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We're not changing the name of Lake Ontario. Name it whatever you want at your leisure: gulfof.mapquest.com/lakeontario (tag us so we can see your work 🙂)

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.

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The Whimsical Muse @whimsicalmuse.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Surround yourself with the kind of people who find the Oxford comma to be illuminative, beautiful, and necessary.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

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Leila Brillson @leilza.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The victory of the opposition in Hungary yesterday, like the Polish election in 2023, is a victory for democracy, not just in Europe but around the world.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/04/2026

"Intellectual property" was once an obscure legal backwater. Today, it is *the* dominant area of political economy, the organizing regime for almost all of our tech regulation, and the most valuable - and most controversial - aspect of global trade policy: pluralistic.net/2026/04/01/m... 1/

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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

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WIRED @wired.com · 09/03/2026

Exclusive: Jay Graber is stepping down as head of Bluesky. Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will be the interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found.

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down

Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Awful day for journalism. And ominous day for democracy.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

That tech oligarchs are noisy and incensed about the remote possibility of a wealth tax and utterly silent about the murder of a man who was only using the phone they invented to chronicle the thuggish government goon squads should tell you everything about these desiccated souls.

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Deborah Smith-Webber 🇨🇦 @dsmithweb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

“Canada cannot solve all the world's problems, but we can show that another way is possible: that the arc of history isn't destined to be warped towards authoritarianism and exclusion, it can still bend towards progress and justice."

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Praising 'coexistence,' Mark Carney says Canada can show the world 'another way is possible' — Toronto Star

The prime minister spoke directly to Canadians on Thursday in a wide-ranging address that served as a clarion call for national unity.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026

Jack Smith: "My fear is that we have seen the rule of law function in our country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted. The rule of law is not self-executing. It depends on our collective commitment to apply it."

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This is the best speech, just from a pure rhetoric perspective - its sophistication and persuasiveness - that I've seen a politician deliver in a good long while. Really recommend watching or reading the whole thing.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Q: Do you want your Board of Peace to replace the UN? TRUMP: Well, it might. The UN should have settled every one of the wars I settled.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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Brian Platt @brianplatt.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:

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Matthew Mendelsohn @mendelmatt.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Keep 'em coming! More! Universities can use their endowments strategically to recruit top young researchers. U of T hires three top U.S. scholars, plans for 100 new postdocs - The Globe and Mail share.google/5tirGz79w1Eh...

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U of T hires three top U.S. scholars, plans for 100 new postdocs

New hires include Canadian-born MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Teen Vogue has become a top-tier political journalism authority and doing this the day before election day is just cruel.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Tweet From Obama mentioning my firing from the Washington post. Wirh a photo of me

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Stay tuned. Big news coming for creating an alternative anti-fascist, pro-resistance information network here in Canada with @meidastouch.bsky.social

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 14/07/2025

Elon Musk's anti-woke MechaHitler proudly announces a new contract with the Department of Defense

Announcing Grok for Government - a suite of products that make our frontier models available to United States Government customers

We are especially excited about two new partnerships for our US Government partners

1) a new contract from the US Department of Defense
2) our products being available to purchase via the General Services Administration (GSA) schedule. This allows every federal government department, agency, or office, to purchase xAI products

We're hiring mission driven engineers who want to join the cause

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Deborah Smith-Webber 🇨🇦 @dsmithweb.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“After years of political polarization, we’re suddenly (mostly) united…We’re demonstrating a David-versus-Goliath resilience that we didn’t realize we had…The message is clear: forget post-nationalism. It’s taken the risk of losing Canada to realize how much we appreciate it.” #CanadaSky 🇨🇦

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Canada’s New Nationalism - Macleans.ca

This country has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. Here we go again.

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Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

scoop: Skydance's David Ellison has held early talks about acquiring The Free Press. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/b... Bari Weiss et al could have a role in shaping the editorial voice of CBS News, if the deal comes to fruition.

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Skydance Is in Early Talks to Acquire The Free Press

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

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Canada’s New Nationalism - Macleans.ca

This country has spent 250 years fighting American aggression. Here we go again.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Canada is one of the EU’s closest partners – and a trusted friend. Today, I am proud to sign a new Security and Defence Partnership with Canada. At a time of rising tensions, it will deepen our defence ties and unlock new cooperation.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Grok’s going to get one of Musk’s updates again. Can’t wait to see what conspiracy theory it just repeats nonstop this time.

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Mel Brooks @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I told you we’d be back

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Fresh off a national election, Canadian political leaders face a long to-do list on tech policy and a brewing trade war with the US. Tech Policy Press Associate Editor Cristiano Lima-Strong spoke with three experts, Renee Black, Maroussia Lévesque, and Vass Bednar, on what’s ahead for the country.

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Podcast: Canada’s Post-Election Outlook On Tech Policy | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong talks about what's in store in Canada with Renee Black, Maroussia Lévesque, and Vass Bednar.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Pentagon officials have called on SpaceX rivals to speed up development of alternative rockets and spacecraft. A NASA official said the feud between Trump and Musk was initially “entertaining. Until Musk called for decommissioning Dragon. Then it turned really terrifying.” (WaPo)

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

It's the Washington Monument in the background that really takes this to next-level dystopian

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Deborah Smith-Webber 🇨🇦 @dsmithweb.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

"We are taking away Elon's friends," a senior Trump administration official bluntly tells Rolling Stone. "If he wants them back, he will need to kiss Donald Trump's ass harder than he's ever kissed anybody's ass before in his entire life."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I guess Musk will be forming a 3rd party.

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CPAC TV @cpac.ca · 06/06/2025

“Today is an important day for Canada, and it’s a day that has literally been decades in the making,” PM Mark Carney tells reporters in Ottawa after the tabling of his government’s bill to remove internal trade barriers and advance nation-building projects. #cdnpoli

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

An administration that puts someone like this in charge an $18 million grant program to fight violent extremism is not an administration that is taking fighting antisemitism seriously, no matter how many times they cite antisemitism to justify attacking universities.

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