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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It is the source of so many of our evils: the astonishing concentration of wealth in the hands of a very few, and the immense political power that gives them. We cannot solve our problems until we tackle it. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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At the root of all our problems stands one travesty: politicians’ surrender to the super-rich | George Monbiot

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Trading partners need to pack-up. Tariff one of us, and we'll all tariff you. Bear beats dog, shit load of dogs beat bear. Enough with a corrupt leader gaming world markets for his family of gangsters. apnews.com/article/denm...

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Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the US controlling Greenland

U.S. President Donald Trump says he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland. Trump didn't provide details Friday.

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Dave Levinthal @davelevinthal.com · 16/01/2026

As @netflix.com attempted to purchase Warner Bros. last month, a most notable American bought a large amount of the companies’ corporate debt: President Donald Trump. New in @notus.com: www.notus.org/money/trump-...

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During Merger Talks, Trump Bought More Netflix and Discovery Communications Corporate Debt

Trump also invested in Minneapolis school bonds last month.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

And Iran has an EXTRAORDINARILY strong sense of identity and pride. Iran has been Iran for over 5000 years. Iran has remained Iran through centuries of war and conquest. Every regime that has tried to control us, from inside or out, has toppled. This one will as well.

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Iran is so much more diverse than you realize. We have Afghanis, Africans, Arabs, Armenians, Azeris, Balochis, Bakhtiaris, Gilanis, Kurds, Loris, Mazanderanis, Qashqais, Turks. We have Ithna'asheris, Ismailis, Sunnis, Christians, Zoroastrians, Baha'i, Jews. This isn't comprehensive. At all.

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

I was talking to someone yesterday about how climate support is just evaporating even in states and among people who were vocal champions, out of fear of alienating voters. That is a strategic error, and folks really need to take lessons from @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social on how to do better.

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/01/2026

When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States. It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.

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Escaping the trap of US tech dependence

Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/01/2026

Can't wait.

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Canada bringing back the draft? Ugh. Images of men marching in circles. Maybe, think more Outward Bound, w/ weapons training. Mountaineering, whitewater, avalanche safety. Beyond comfort levels, teaching an individual how to endure & as a team how to prevail. Much like a country.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

To understand how stupid this is - and what it says about Chris Wright’s character, I want you to imagine that it’s April 15, 1947 and you’re the manager of Brooklyn Dodgers… www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/c...

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Trump Wants to Halt Almost All Coal Plant Shutdowns. It Could Get Messy.

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 16/01/2026

“ICE agents, get out now because historically, this ends with you hanging from a lamppost and your body paraded through the streets.” - the …we rate dogs guy

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Emma Berquist @emmaberquist.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

we have a fascist party and we have a party of fascist enablers

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

It's kinda hilarious, is a dark way, the United States crowing about capturing Venezuela's vast oil reserves just as the rest of the world is on the verge of electrification. "Guys, guys! I built the world's fastest passenger ship!" "That's cool Don, but those guys just built an airplane."

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

...which [Doctorow] calls the “money-losingest technology ever seen.”

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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Just the Telegraph casually referring to an Irish woman as a ‘washer woman’ You hit the jackpot there, lads: xenophobia, misogyny and unbridled class snobbery

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

FUCK KEIR STARMER

Keir Starmer ‘will accept place on Trump’s board to run Gaza’
The PM is set to join a core group organised by the US president to oversee end of the Israel-Hamas war — while Sir Tony Blair will be on ‘executive board’

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

“We were born into an unjust system, we are not prepared to grow old in it.” - Bernadette Devlin - 🇮🇪 🤝 🇵🇸

A Palestinian child throws a stone at an Israeli tank

A young boy with a gas mask on Bloody Sunday in Derry

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 15/01/2026

Today, @wikipedia.org turns 25 years old. It's never been more important — or under more attack from authoritarians. Here's what to know about how we got here, and what we can do to push for its future. There's no better example of the web we make together. www.anildash.com/2026/01/15/w...

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Wikipedia at 25: What the web can be - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Apparently we stand should-to-shoulder by not showing up. “The Canadian Armed Forces are not initiating any new operations at this time,” said government sources, adding that Canada stands “shoulder-to-shoulder” with the people of Denmark and Greenland, which is an autonomous Danish territory."

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Remember when I reported Ben Mulroney and Steve Paikin received a briefing from the Israeli government? Well, it turns out the Israeli consulate paid nearly $10,000 for some of their fellow attendees to be there. Were Mulroney and Paikin covered too? Story here: www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

Toronto Star article excerpt reads: "According to documents released Monday by the office of integrity commissioner Paul Muldoon, the Israeli consulate paid nearly $10,000 for Pasternak and Colle to attend a six-day "Canadian political leadership mission" to Israel last Nov. 23 to 28. A social media post indicates other members of the delegation included media personality Ben Mulroney, journalist Steve Paikin, former Green Party leader Annamie Paul and former independent MP Kevin Vuong. The expenses covered by the consulate came to about $3,600 for Pasternak, and about $6,350 for Colle, according to the documents, which are mandatory gift disclosure statements filed by the councillors"

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 15/01/2026

Stunning photos from Minneapolis, including this one by John Locher for the Associated Press. www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

A family member reacts after a federal immigration officer used a battering ram to break down a door before making an arrest on January 11, 2026, in Minneapolis.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

They will not shrink from genociding civilians by the tens of thousands - peasants and workers and children; they will not flinch at killing half a million people each year with illegal sanctions; they will rape the earth and doom our collective future without a qualm.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It's not hypocrisy, it's capitalism. The bizarre behaviour of Western states and leaders often seems to betray a moral double standard. But in fact it is all perfectly consistent with a single standard, namely, the objective of maintaining the conditions for capital accumulation in the core.

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.

Telegraph Newspaper, UK

'Angry young women are the vanguard of the Left's toxic empathy'

By Caroline Downey

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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

CIJA's latest brazen campaign against academic freedom and freedom of expression. UBC must resist calls to censor @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social.

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Weird people view Trump's actions through a legal lens. Trump doesn't give a shit about laws. He owns SCOTUS. Trump is a spin master. His team looks at public perception. Spin Venezuela as good business. Spin Greenland as prime real estate. His people swoon for that shit. Reality TV gen voters.

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Michael Love @elkmovie.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This was a particularly urgent ruling because there's a special boat that they need to use for it that they only have until February (and could not get back for another year) www.thecity.nyc/2026/01/14/w...

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Major New York Wind Project May Die if Trump Pause Lasts Past Friday, Developer Says

Trained workers are in limbo, waiting for jobs at sea to start at Empire Wind.

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The "no money down, no payments till..." worked pretty well for marketing. If I was trying to sell a dictatorship I wouldn't cancel, I'd delay. "Events in the US are too volatile. For YOUR safety, because I LOVE YOU, elections will be put on hold for one year because of the violent RADICAL LEFT!"

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This is incredible, an Army doctor who treated survivors of 9/11, was the doctor who saved Tammy Duckworth’s life in Iraq, then went to Gaza on multiple medical missions & refused to be evacuated amid siege & assault — is now running for Congress in NJ. He doesn’t even mention the Duckworth...

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Fergus @infiniteguff.com · 08/01/2026

Micheal Martin

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ecowen @ecowen.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

As Trump's economic policies flounder his reasoning for war will grow louder. Watch as young men rally to flag. Patriots all. Unfortunately, the vaunted US free press, which could mitigate this insanity, has gone MIA - during one of the most critical times in history.

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

When the Catholic Bishops have had enough of ICE’s shit:

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Amy K @amyklassen.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Clean energy threatens the oil industry. Healthcare threatens insurance profits. Peace threatens weapons dealers. Capitalism only cares about greed. The system is working as designed.

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Keep sharing. Not a single thing has come in today for this family since. They got so close. Please help them if you’re able to.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 09/01/2026

It unfathomable that news media just continues to repeat the lies of the administration and present this as a dispute when not only we can see with our own eyes but also they’ve done nothing but lie—as proven in courts of law!—about these incidents.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 09/01/2026

The Trump admin are already hard at work smearing their latest victims.

U.S. Border Patrol agents were conducting a “targeted vehicle stop,” and one fired a shot after a driver tried to run them over, a Homeland Security Department spokeswoman said in a statement.

The spokeswoman, Tricia McLaughlin, described the agents’ target as an undocumented immigrant and member of Tren de Aragua, a gang with roots in a Venezuelan prison that has been a frequent target of President Trump. She provided no immediate evidence of his gang membership.

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Shamus Brown @shamusbrown1.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Anyone else infuriated by this? Let’s name & shame him & Scotiabank. Capital doesn’t like heat. Let’s make them uncomfortable. Here’s the contact info to email/call. Post your email on his LinkedIn account. If he locks it, flood Scotiabank’s account.

Screenshot showing Scotiabank President L. Scott Thomson’s contact information.

Posted to inspire people to email & call to express outrage at Thomson’s abhorrent comments regarding US behaviour in Venezuela and their re-embrace of Monroe Doctrine

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 09/01/2026

President Trump said "it’s up to" Chinese President Xi Jinping what China does on Taiwan, but that he would be "very unhappy" with a change in the status quo, according to an interview the New York Times published on Thursday.

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