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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Trump: “I'm a high-IQ person, among the highest IQs anywhere in the world.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 12h

Trump: “I know more about everything than anybody in this room, anybody anywhere in the world. “Well, there's a woman sitting right over there. She's a housewife, but she's very good. She's got a natural instinct for business. “She perhaps knows more than I do, but I actually don't think so.”

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 9h

Another good thing about Canada is that the death penalty has been abolished everywhere.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 12h

Another good thing about Canada is that this is legal everywhere.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 13h

It's disappointing that there are no flu vaccines in London, Ontario yet. But a colleague told me that Quebec isn't even providing flu shots except to those who are immunocompromised. This is poor public health.

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Jeff Shaumeyer 🌈 @jnshaumeyer.bsky.social · 15h

I'm sure I wouldn't *tell* you what to do, but I thought I'd reached peak Brussels Sprouts prep when I halved, added some olive oil, and roasted. Then, I tried a recipe that was essentially this but also added split grapes, then tossed all in olive oil and roasted as before. It was very good combo.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 16h

Canadian Thanksgiving is on October 12. It's a harvest celebration. Here's my menu: Mandarin orange, goat cheese, and slivered almond salad with orange honey vinaigrette Turkey Stuffing Cranberry sauce Garlic mashed potatoes Sweet potatoes Roasted carrots Roasted brussels sprouts Pumpkin pie

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 21h

Also Lula da Silva: "In our negotiations with the United States, we will strive for dialogue, but without compromising our sovereignty. Because, to me, the people are not just a number. The people are my roots. They are where I come from." ❤️🇧🇷 2/2

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #BanX #NoAfD #FBR @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 21h

This is what Lula da Silva says about the fascist in the White House: "Trump needs to realise that he’s in charge of the United States. As for Brazil, I’m in charge here. Brazil has strategic interests and knows how to defend its workers, its businesses and its sovereignty." 1/2

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 17h

“Just as Germans who backed Hitler and the Nazi Party after 1933 were fully aware of what they were joining, so Christians who have backed Trump and the MAGA movement a second time know and bear responsibility for what they are now endorsing.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

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When is the right time to compare US politics to the Nazi era? This expert on Christian nationalism says: now

Robert P Jones argues that declining white Christian influence has fuelled an alliance with Trump, and warns it is reshaping US democracy

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 21h

Any walk with a kingfisher is a good walk :) #birds #photography

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · 21h

Otters 🦦 make me happy.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 19h

This is a brand new, human-made park in downtown Toronto, if you can believe it! And we're all tremendously proud of it.

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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 19h

Beautiful day

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Ashley Blewer @ashleyblewer.com · 02/10/2026

and just ONE MORE thing: I love these candies I got yesterday that test one's manliness as determined by ability to eat lemons

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

Projects that truly serve the national interest would lower costs, create good jobs, protect our environment and prepare us for the green economy of the future.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026

The environmental and climate consequences of building a new oil pipeline are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.

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Ann Douglas @anndouglas.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“The horror lies not only in what is being done, but in how rapidly the unthinkable is stripped of its capacity to shock. Violence becomes policy, cruelty becomes procedure, and moral thoughtlessness becomes a condition for making both appear normal.”

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Protect Trans Kids, Scare Local Fascists" Sign spotted in Waterloo, Ontario

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I remember I had Mary Quant crayons that could be used for eye shadow and lipstick.

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Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee @cchac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Because the Library of Congress has updated the subject heading for Lake Ontario to "Lake America," Library and Archives Canada has established Canadian Subject Heading (CSH) “Ontario, Lake (N.Y. and Ont.)”.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hospital cuts: -Hamilton HS: 413 positions, 143 nurses -Ottawa Hospital: 400 positions, 200 nurses -London Health Sciences: 212 nurses -Queensway Carleton: 160 positions -Sunnybrook: 100 nurses -Quinte Health: 59 positions -Bruyere Health: 55 positions -St. Joe's Hamilton: 24 positions #OnPoli

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Canadian Cultural Heritage Advocacy Committee @cchac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The Canadian government allocated $925.6 million for AI in its 2025 budget, while permanently cutting $22.1 million annually from Library and Archives Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

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AI agents tried to hack a Canadian government website, research firm says | CBC News

AI agents tried to hack into a Library and Archives Canada website, according to a report by artificial intelligence research firm Transluce.

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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Maria Ressa was awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize (with Dmitry Muratov) for "their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression, which is a precondition for #democracy and lasting peace." She is the first Nobel laureate from the Philippines. Happy birthday @mariaressa.bsky.social 🥳

A color photograph of Maria Ressa, born October 2, 1963, the pioneering Filipino journalist, co-founder of Rappler, and co-recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize. She is standing at a dark wooden podium, captured from the chest up. Smiling broadly with an expression of joy and animation, she looks slightly to the right of the frame. She wears thin, rimless eyeglasses, a black turtleneck, and a textured, patterned blazer in shades of cream and light pink or soft orange. Her right hand is raised forward with her palm open and fingers extended in a welcoming, expressive gesture, while her left hand grips the flexible neck of a black microphone attached to the podium. The warm, soft-focus background suggests a grand indoor lecture hall or auditorium with architectural details. The bright, direct lighting emphasizes her optimistic and commanding presence, reflecting her historical significance as a fearless champion of freedom of expression and democratic resilience.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

To those who somehow don't seem to understand: Which part of authorising weapons sales to a state committing genocide, banning the protest movement trying to stop these sales, using the RAF to provide surveillance flights for Israel and providing major diplomatic and media support is NOT complicity?

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This Labour government could have responded to the genocide in Gaza in so many ways, instead they cut aid. This is a dereliction of duty.

Stuff of nightmares UK cuts aid to Un Gaza food operations by 78%

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Absolutely loved visiting the People's Museum in Somers Town - such an important archive of this community's history and a rallying cry for what's possible when we come together to improve people's lives.

Zack with staff and volunteers in the people's museum

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 01/10/2026

The government needs to make clear where it stands: on the side of international law and climate science, or the side of big fossil fuel companies, wrecking our planet, and aiding atrocities in Palestine.

Letter from Zack Polanski to Ed Miliband, first page reading in full:

"Dear Ed,

Ithaca Energy's interests in UK and oil and gas production

Earlier this month you announced a commitment to introducing a sanctions regime for companies trading with illegal settlements – a critical and overdue step, and one which the Green Party strongly welcomes and has long campaigned for.

It is however an overdue first step that must be strengthened and followed by wider action to end British complicity in the Israeli government’s illegal occupation and the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

In respect of your proposed sanctions package, we would welcome clarity on your position on Ithaca Energy, the Aberdeen-based company that is a subsidiary of Israeli firm Delek Group which is blacklisted by the UN for operating in the illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank.

Since 2000, Ithaca has already paid over $1bn in dividends from its UK oil and gas interests to the Delek Group. This amount would soar if the government gives the green light to new drilling projects in which Ithaca Energy has a stake – Rosebank (20%), Cambo (100%) and Tornado (50%). Revenues to Delek from Rosebank alone are expected to amount to £235 million.

The government has been on notice since January 2026 that greenlighting these projects would put it in breach of Articles 49 and 53 of the Geneva Conventions. Therefore, a sanctions regime fit for purpose would see the government ruling out these projects and reviewing existing licences to make sure they have not been issued in contravention of our obligations under the Geneva Conventions."

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"With the significant public interest and the apparent proximity of the decision on Rosebank, I am seeking your urgent answer to the following: What steps will you be taking to ensure revenues from UK oil and gas production are not financing support for illegal settlements?

The UN has blacklisted Delek Group for “the provision of services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport” and “the use of natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes.”

This would seem to fall squarely under the remit of your proposed sanctions regime as you outlined in your oral statement to the House of Commons: “To those who finance or facilitate illegal settlements, let me say this: you will face the full force of UK sanctions.”

For the FCDO to sanction companies involved in illegal settlements while DESNZ approves North Sea operations by subsidiaries of those companies would not only be counterproductive and hypocritical, but a flagrant failure of our moral and legal duties. It would stand in direct contradiction to the vision of Britain you laid out to the House earlier this month – “a Britain that upholds its values at home and around the world.”

I look forward to your response.

Yours sincerely,

Zack Polanski
Leader, Green Party England & Wales"

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

SOLIDARITY! On International Coffee Day - and every day - farm workers stand with Starbucks workers in their struggle! Just like many farm workers, @sbworkersunited.org is fighting back against greedy employers for the contract they deserve. #NoContractNoCoffee

A farm worker at the side of a field wearing a face mask holding a sign saying farm workers support Starbuck workers #nocontractnocoffee

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Amnesty Canada @amnesty.ca · 02/10/2026

Our world is in a state of climate emergency. Canada could be part of the solution; regrettably, it has chosen to be a major part of the problem amnesty.ca/press-releas...

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LNG Canada Phase II advancement a major blow to climate, Indigenous rights, Amnesty International says

The Canadian government has announced that the investors behind LNG Canada have opted to proceed with Phase II of the project.

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Amnesty International USA @amnesty-usa.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Tennessee’s botched attempt to execute Christa Pike, as witnessed by her attorneys, demonstrates why the death penalty truly is the ultimate cruel, inhuman & degrading punishment. All execution methods are inhumane & unacceptable. The death penalty must be abolished, everywhere. bit.ly/47stTB4

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Tennessee unable to carry out the execution by lethal injection of Christa Gail Pike, witnesses say

Media witnesses say Tennessee officials were unable to carry out the execution of Christa Gail Pike for a 1995 murder on Wednesday.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

California farm workers: There is a heat advisory across much of California this week. Please be careful. If your worksite is not offering WATER, SHADE, and REST - call the farm worker heat safety hotline at 1-877-881-8281. #CALOR #WeFeedYou

Graphic that says heat kills learn the warning signs and shows the difference between heat exhaustion and heat stroke

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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 01/10/2026

Everyday Canadians keep rolling their eyes at the NDP but after they pushed Justin Trudeau into dentalcare, my dentist gave me a free cleaning and excitedly said she could get me a discount on a crown. But then in came Carney, her claims have been repeatedly rejected and it hurts when I chew 🫤

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Come on Toronto, give Olivia Chow another term!

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I made this. I made a ganache icing with 3/4 c rich cream, 1 c chopped semisweet chocolate, and 3T espresso coffee. If I made this again, I’d definitely bake for no more than 25 minutes, and then refrigerate the cake with the icing for several hours. scandinaviancookbook.com/kladdkaka-sw...

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Kladdkaka (Swedish Sticky Chocolate Cake) - Scandinavian Cookbook

Kladdkaka (or kladdkake in Norwegian) is somehow both the best Swedish chocolate cake and the easiest chocolate cake to make. In fact this is one of the easiest cakes ever to make. How fortunate! Klad...

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Steve the Muppet Wrangler @beardog63.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Not all men" I keep seeing this...so let's use it. "Not all men" are doing enough to to stop rape culture. We all need to do better. It's not up to women to stop this, it's up to us.

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Mary Grace @emgeekay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is beyond my comprehension. Toddlers alone in courtrooms clutching teddy bears and being asked to choose voluntary departure or a removal order. And once deported, where are they sent to, and is there anyone to care for them? www.cnn.com/2026/09/28/p...

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Inside the Texas courtroom where toddlers face immigration judges | CNN Politics

Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

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Tristan Bouchard @tristanbouchard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm making the long trip to my childhood home tonight as my grandmother is not doing well and we're saying our goodbyes. If I'm gone here for a bit, that is why. I remember her enjoying this piece from the Ken Burns Civil War documentary. Ashokan Farewell - Jay Ungar

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