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Eleanor Grant

@eleanor7.bsky.social
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Senior in Waterloo Region, Ontario. Social Justice. Climate. Palestine. Reducing corporate control.

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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 13h
TRUMP’S PLAN B FOR THE MIDTERMS seymourhersh.substack.com/p/trumps-pla...
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TRUMP’S PLAN B FOR THE MIDTERMS
The GOP aims to keep control of the Senate by disqualifying voters in Democratic precincts
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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadians warned Carney not to sideline scientists. Bill C-39 does just that. Liberals overhauled major project approvals; a concentration of power & infringement of Indigenous Rights. Pipelines & nuclear development now reviewed by energy agency, not environmental. thenarwhal.ca/canada-bill-...
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Canadians warned Carney not to sideline scientists. Bill C-39 does just that, critics say
When the Liberals proposed overhauling major project approvals, the public worried it would concentrate power and infringe on Indigenous Rights. Now, pipelines and nuclear development will be reviewed by an energy agency, instead of environmental
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Buckleup36 @buckleup36.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The decline in visitors travelling to the U.S. would have been much bigger without the World Cup this year (1.24 million international World Cup visitors). Without the World Cup, the decline in international visitors would have been 3+ million. bsky.app/profile/sema...
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Jill Wine-Banks @jillwine-banks.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday Jack Smith was the target. Today the #wsj reports it’s me and my #Watergate colleagues from 50 years ago. Hope I behave as admirably as Smith if I’m subpoenaed.
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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Manitoba acquiring campground near former residential school to keep ‘truth alive’: Kinew "We live in an era where people are trying to deny what happened in residential schools,” Premier Wab Kinew said about acquiring a campground where at least 50 children are buried. thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-res...
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Manitoba acquiring campground near former residential school to keep ‘truth alive’: Kinew
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says a former Brandon-area campground acquired by the province will help educate future generations about the horrors of residential schools. “We live in an era where people are trying to deny what happened in residential schools,” Kinew said during a Tuesday afternoon visit to Turtle Crossing Campground, near the former Brandon...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 29/09/2026
Over 540,000 people have been deported since the start of the second Trump administration in January 2025. This has had a devastating impact not just on those detained, but on the children left behind. Human Rights Watch spoke to many parents in the aftermath of their deportations. Read more:
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Children in Anguish as US Immigration Arrests Surge
Teresa M., a 30-year-old Guatemalan woman, had just left home for her job manufacturing cabinets when she was stopped by Alabama police in June and asked about her immigration status. A colleague was ...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor US midterms fuels fears of serious election-related human rights concerns. This is the first time the US has declined to invite in OSCE monitors since they began observing US elections.
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US: Trump Administration Rejects External Election Observers
The Trump administration’s decision not to invite the leading international election observation body to monitor crucial US midterm polls fuels fears of serious human rights concerns around the upcomi...
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 14h
United States forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ecuadorian fishing vessels between August 28 and September 16, 2026, detaining over 140 of 160 crew members and abusing some. The US and Ecuadorian governments should disclose the legal basis for these operations and investigate the abuses.
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US: Rights Concerns for Maritime Operations Near Ecuador
United States forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ecuadorian fishing vessels between August 28 and September 16, 2026, detaining over 140 of 160 crew members and abusing some.
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Canadians Please Sign 🇨🇦 No taxpayer dollars for Pacific Link pipeline!
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OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
@amsickofpollies.bsky.social I recognize the flags of Australia and Zambia - but what's the one in the middle?
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 30/09/2026
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Freedom Writers Collaborative @fwcollaborative.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI investment is fueled by an anti-labor agenda. The goal is to automate jobs away and dismantle unions in the process. Tell your Congressional reps: legislate national AI-related safeguards to protect workers, consumers & the environment.
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Support our campaign to oppose MAGA extremists
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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Canada takes next step in potential listing of Deep Geological Repository project under Building Canada Act. iaac-aeic.gc.ca/050/evaluati...
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I just heard about this upcoming book: Requiem for Gaza by Chris Hedges Pre-order at www.fantagraphics.com/products/req...
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Requiem for Gaza
In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the ge...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Very important analysis here from @markhamhislop.bsky.social noting numerous risks beneath yesterday's LNG Canada Phase 2 announcement...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 30/09/2026
The minimum wage in Ontario goes up by 35 cents tomorrow, taking it to $17.95 per hour. "Advocacy groups like the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and some Toronto residents say the increase is not enough to meet living wages." #canlab @policyalternatives.ca nowtoronto.com/news/ontario...
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Ontario rules and changes coming in October 2026 | NOW Toronto
Between indoor temperature requirements and minimum wage increases, Ontario residents will see a series of changes this October.
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American Oversight @americanoversight.org · 30/09/2026
Read more about our ongoing investigation: americanoversight.org/investigatio...
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What We Know — and Still Need to Learn — About ICE’s Expansion Under Trump
ICE’s budget, scope, and visibility has exploded. Here’s what we know about how it operates — and what we’re still fighting to uncover.
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I am angry at the aggressive fundraising in Waterloo by WRHN hospital. Door-to-door canvassers over and over again as well as phone calls. Don't they have better ways to spend their money? @wrhnfoundation.bsky.social
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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social
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Happy Stanislav Petrov Day
Take five minutes to not destroy civilization
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Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Liberal MP Sean Casey was demoted by Mark Carney last week after voting in favour of Jenny Kwan’s Bill C-233, the No More Loopholes Act. When will the Liberals stop punishing MPs for doing their job—and finally act to close this loophole?
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markmcan.bsky.social @markmcan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been signed by every nation on Earth except one. Can you guess?
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this day 26 years ago I was a child watching another Palestinian child on tv, about my age, hide behind his dad & then get killed, because the soldiers shooting didnt value his life at all. His name was Mohammad al-Durra. 26 years later, the lives of Palestinian children matter even less.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules. That’s the amount of heat the oceans absorbed in 2025. A number so huge it’s almost meaningless…until you realise it’s roughly 40× humanity’s annual energy use. The ocean is buying us time. We’re running out of it. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 30/09/2026
Canada promised a new citizenship guide that better addresses reconciliation a decade ago. It still hasn’t arrived
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Canada promised a new citizenship guide that better addresses reconciliation a decade ago. It still hasn’t arrived
Ottawa has left the outdated 2009 Discover Canada booklet in place, pushing the work of teaching reconciliation to newcomers onto underfunded community educators.
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Bridget123goooo 🌊🦋🏃🏻‍♀️⛰️ @bridget123goooo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
7 years uninsured is a death sentence. We brew our own medicine or suffer because hospital bills would ruin our families. It is a disgusting lie Republicans tell that we are broke while blank checks get signed for everything but our lives. Total betrayal. #GOPWarOnHealthcare
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing to celebrate here. It's a sad day. Combined, LNG Canada Phases 1 & 2 will have downstream carbon emissions roughly equivalent to TOTAL annual domestic emissions for all of BC. Phases 2 will only result in about 240 more permanent jobs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to oversea...
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Dan Benbow @danbenbow.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Food pantries struggle due to Trump’s war of choice, which has dramatically increased food costs. Children’s meals are being shrunken or taken away completely. Salaried employees have started going to pantries. Is this the United States of America? meidasnews.com/news/they-do...
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 29/09/2026
In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today.
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This AI Panic Is Nothing New
In the 1940s, The Nation asked questions about the atomic bomb we’re asking of artificial intelligence today.
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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 29/09/2026
I’ve got problems with the Major Projects that increase fossil-fuel use, and emissions. But bringing back passenger rail—the greenest form of long-distance overland travel? I’m all in.
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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 29/09/2026
Former special counsel Jack Smith forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics. to.pbs.org/3Vna0J1
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WATCH: Jack Smith testifies before Senate Judiciary as GOP targets past Trump probes
Former special counsel Jack Smith forcefully defended his prosecutions of President Donald Trump and his investigative tactics, pushing back against repeated Republican efforts to paint him and his te...
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.com · 29/09/2026
The Trump administration is preparing to automatically enroll every American child in a Trump Account before the midterm elections. www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/tr…
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Trump Is Preparing to Auto-Enroll Every Child in a Trump Account
Few Americans have set up Trump Accounts on their own.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Medical Insurance is now using AI to limit coverage even when you have medical coverage. The GOP is fine with this because Trump told them so... #GOPWarOnHealthcare www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/b...
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Battle of Hospital A.I. vs. Insurer A.I. Is Pushing Medical Costs Higher (Gift Article)
The use of artificial intelligence by hospitals and health insurers is escalating their longstanding feud over paying for medical care.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29/09/2026
"It’s possible Vance really is very shallow. Or perhaps he really is amoral. Or maybe he believes it all. It’s hard to know which option is worse."
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The Man Who Would Inherit MAGA
JD Vance has spent years sucking up to the “five families” of the New Right. But does the vice president actually believe anything?
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5pennyj.bsky.social @5pennyj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And if they decide it's illegal, are they going to bring all those people back? What happens if they're now dead?
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Central Michigan Maverick @thedevilzadvoc8.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are potentially illegal policies allowed to continue while their legality is being litigated? Shouldn't they be stopped until it's been decided?
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/09/2026
BREAKING: The Supreme Court lets the Trump administration continue deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy.
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Supreme Court lets quick deportations to third countries resume while justices weigh Trump policy
The Supreme Court will allow President Donald Trump’s administration to continue deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal.
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BernardoVerda 🤔 @bernardoverda.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why, when the corporate sector doesn't consider it worth doing themselves?
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Jacqueline 🇨🇦 @jacqueline99.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All we want is investment in health and education.
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Americans don't grasp how deeply Canadians' trust has been broken - Max Fawcett
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 29/09/2026
Ontario Premier Doug Ford said he is prepared to use taxpayer dollars to deliver on his proposed pipeline from Alberta to Ontario within the next four and a half years.
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Doug Ford says he'll spend public money on east-west oil pipeline
Ontario’s premier sees no reason why it should take more than four years to build a 3,300 kilometre pipeline between Alberta and his province. “We just believe that it can get done,” he said.
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Time to remember Randy Rainbow's first song of the Trump era: 🎶Fact-checker Fact-checker Find me some Facts🎶 share.google/IoPRplo63g3s...
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FACT-CHECKER, FACT-CHECKER Randy Rainbow Song Parody
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 29/09/2026
Rohingya left terrified as Malaysia begins deporting them to war-torn Myanmar: ‘It’ll be a death sentence’
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Rohingya refugees say Malaysia deporting them to Myanmar is a ‘death sentence’
As Kuala Lumpur ships some 1,500 refugees back to Myanmar, Rohingya activists and human rights campaigners warn it will set a dangerous precedent for refugees across the region, reports Shweta Sharma
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Daniel Dale www.cnn.com/2026/09/27/p...
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I started fact-checking Trump 10 years ago. Here are 15 things I’ve learned | CNN Politics
Ten years ago this month, in my old job as Washington correspondent for the Toronto Star, I started what I believed would be a quick little side project: fact-checking underdog presidential candidate ...
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪  Sept 25 (Year 2, Week 39) - Justice Dept drops 50+ longstanding school desegregation cases - no new NIH EO (but threat isn’t past) - $1B in new pocket rescission & more buttondown.com/liminalcreat...
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Year 2, Week 39
Sept 19-25 – digging in
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Eleanor Grant @eleanor7.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hormuz being closed boosts the oil barons' profits. Just as Trump promised them. He cares about helping them, not the voters.
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cinnamongirl9.bsky.social @cinnamongirl9.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, thanks for bringing that up! I remember during early voting reading in the Dallas paper that that happened to local voters who were trying to vote straight-party Dem. I’ve always wondered if that made the difference and whether Beto would’ve won.
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