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Erika McCallion

@erkmcc.bsky.social
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Mississauga, Canada | she/her | politicizes everything and generally leftist | Political Organizer | Dyslexic, ADHD | obsessed with Podcasts | only child still learning to share

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Mississauga News @mississauganews.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
At the debate, organized by the Town of Port Credit and Lakeview Ratepayers associations, candidates will address key municipal issues, including taxes, transit, and intensification.
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4 Mississauga mayoral candidates invited to a resident-led debate in Port Credit Thursday — doors open at 6:30 p.m. voters have one chance to question four mayoral candidates before the Oct. 26 election
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TheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
‘It’s unfair’: Silence and uncertainty define RCMP’s Greenbelt investigation at 3-year mark
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‘It’s unfair’: Silence and uncertainty define RCMP’s Greenbelt investigation at 3-year mark
People who’ve spoken with investigators say they’re in the dark on the criminal probe’s progress
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
“A really boldly anti-democratic move”: the Ford government is regularly violating legal orders from Ontario’s Information & Privacy Commissioner. Unlike in other provinces, the IPC can’t take the government to court to have these orders enforced www.cp24.com/politics/que... #onpoli
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Ontario transparency watchdog warns government is dodging its orders
Ontario’s transparency watchdog is warning that the government is dodging its orders more frequently, including orders that would shed light on how a multi-billion dollar government fund pushed grants...
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My latest newsletter is a friendly bit of political advice for Democrats.
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Don't Surrender On Trans Rights
Many Democrats are running scared on trans issues. They shouldn't be.
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great thread about the Trump Admin’s crackdown on the left since Charlie Kirk’s death from @taliajane.bsky.social (one of the must-follow journalists of our era, imo)
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Doug Ford government has so underfunded Ontario hospitals that St. Catharines is currently asking for linen donations for their NICU. Ford spent $25,000 of taxpayers' money for a stupid sign but no blankets for babies. www.niagarahealth.on.ca/site/neonata... #DougFordIsCorrupt #onhealth #onpoli
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I'll be teaching twenty Gr 3 students this fall. This partial back-to-school order would cost $290.38 through my school board and $668.98 at Staples. #DougFord loves talking tough about protecting us from Tr*mp, but he's taking $60M out of public education and handing it to an 🇺🇸 company. #OntEd
A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.

The total for the school board is $290.38.
The total for Staples is $668.98.
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Qtain P. Faulkes @qtainpfaulkes.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If you live in Ontario and want to comment on proposed legislation the government is putting forward regarding large data centers, you can do it here (either with an account, or anonymously). #onpoli #cdnpoli Your thoughts matter. ero.ontario.ca/notice/026-0...
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Economic and Strategic Assessment Framework for New Data Centres | Environmental Registry of Ontario
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Erika McCallion @erkmcc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 07/06/2026
Premier Doug Ford is taking a break from Queen’s Park. A long, long break. The extended recess until late October comes as Ford marks eight years in office — and as a poll found 70 per cent of Ontarians believe it is time for a change in government. #onpoli More from @robertbenzie.bsky.social:
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Doug Ford gives his aging government a long summer to regroup
The premier will be hitting the road to push back against any impression that malaise is setting in, Robert Benzie writes.
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Rob Cerjanec @robcerjanec.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The energy is building! Join me and supporters from across the GTA as we shape Ontario’s future. 📅 Sunday, June 7 at 2:00 PM 📍 St. Francis Centre for Community, Arts and Culture 78 Church St S, Ajax, ON L1S 6B3 Let’s build Ontario. RSVP: joinrob.ca/rally
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Rob Cerjanec @robcerjanec.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
June 6 is a day to remember the Afzaal family — four lives taken by senseless act of Islamophobia in London, Ontario, leaving the only survivor, a young boy, without his family.
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lukewsavage.bsky.social @lukewsavage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Doug Ford has somehow been in power for eight years now. In my latest piece for Substack, I consider how and why the PCs have managed to stay entrenched despite so much rank corruption and dishonesty — and why things may well be about to change. www.lukewsavage.com/p/doug-ford-...
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Doug Ford enters his Nero phase
Are the wheels finally coming off for Ontario's decadent PC regime?
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Rob Cerjanec @robcerjanec.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Doug Ford and his government are cowards. They just announced the Ontario Legislature won’t be coming back until the end of October. They’re afraid to face basic questions about their actions and are running away from their scandals and wasteful spending. It’s time for change in Ontario.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Ooooh, this is interesting. And this is the real Doug Ford. Expect more leaks to media. #OnPoli
In early May, as the Ontario PC Caucus gathered for its weekly meeting on the second floor of Queen’s Park, the two issues collided.

MPPs were told that, given the blowback over the jet, the premier would no longer authorize the pension top-up because it would be viewed as “enriching each other,” sources said.

Will Bouma, who served as the chair of the PC caucus, then took on the issue on behalf of colleagues and confronted the premier.

Multiple sources said Bouma told Ford directly that MPPs were being negatively affected because of his decision to purchase a jet and that it was a disappointment.

Immediately after the caucus meeting ended, sources said, Bouma was pulled into a meeting with Premier Ford, where he was relieved of his duties as caucus chair.
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Jonathan M W Hughes 🇨🇦🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇦🗳️ @jmwhughes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Rob Cerjanec joins the fray with his entry in the @progresscanada.bsky.social podcast series. @ontarioliberal.bsky.social #onpoli @robcerjanec.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
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Rob Cerjanec | The Next Ontario Liberal Party Leader
Podcast Episode · Progress Canada · May 28 · 1h
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Erika McCallion @erkmcc.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
#onpoli
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Rob Cerjanec @robcerjanec.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
A room full of Liberals. A room full of organizers. A room full of people ready to rebuild Ontario. The energy in the room was clear: Ontario Liberals are ready to roll up our sleeves, reconnect with communities, and get back to work. #onpoli
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Erika McCallion @erkmcc.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Ontario Liberal appeal decision is out! #ONpoli #OLP
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Scarborough Southwest Arbitration Panel Decision
The official site of the Ontario Liberal Party
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
📱: On a totally different topic to the FOI freeze... My email is isaac.callan@globalnews.ca My Signal is isaaccallan.64 DMs are open - and I can send my Whatsapp/number there. All tips are confidential and treated with care. #OnPoli
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Micah @rincewind.run · 17/05/2026
the overwhelming message the AI industry has sent to young people is “this will ruin any chance you have at a stable career”, of course college grads are booing it regardless of the reality of the claims, the way this technology has been sold is one of the greatest self-inflicted PR disasters ever
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Rob Cerjanec @robcerjanec.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
This week, we celebrate the backbone of our healthcare system: our nurses. Our communities rely on you. Our health depends on you. And your impact cannot be overstated. Thank you for your dedication, resilience, and heart. #onpoli #nursesappreciationweek
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CJTO🍁🏳️‍🌈 @cjtoronto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
They want to expand northern farming because their donors want to pave over the Greenbelt. With this government, you cannot take these stories at face value. Only once you find the corruption angle, does it starts to make sense. #onpoli Source: CBC share.google/5edSrDAEPvIA...
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ANALYSIS | Ontario bill aiming to expand northern farming raises land ownership, affordability concerns | CBC News
The Ontario government says expanding agriculture in the Clay Belt would strengthen food security and support farmers. But some farmers, researchers and environmental advocates say the plan leaves que...
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
We should all be very concerned about what Doug Ford is doing here. #DeclineOfDemocracy #ONpoli buff.ly/FZPeJDw
Text: Experts have warned that Ontario’s new law is even more restrictive than other places, because it applies retroactively and keeps documents secret indefinitely. The federal law allows for certain documents from ministers’ offices to be released.
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Stephen Lautens @stephenlautens.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Anyone who has had experience with Ontario Liberal Party nominations knows how ridiculous it is to think the party is organized enough (esp. these days) to effectively fix a nomination. #ONpoli nationalnewswatch.com/2026/05/09/l...
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Liberal MP Erskine-Smith loses nomination battle for Ontario…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Understand the Ontario Liberals were planning to stand on a point of order and claim contempt of parliament for inaccurate answers on accidental inmate releases before Solicitor General Michael Kerzner apologized yesterday and corrected the record. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1180936...
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Ontario solicitor general apologizes for ‘imprecise’ answers on inmate releases | Globalnews.ca
Solicitor General Michael Kerzner told MPPs last week inmates are 'immediately' re-apprehended when they're released by mistake, something documents show isn't true.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Transparency is central to accountable government. It is the enemy of corruption, which is why Doug Ford hates it so much. The Trillium has been dogged in reporting on Doug Ford's efforts to remove all accountability from his regime. Worth a listen. #onpoli pressprogress.ca/heres-what-c...
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Here’s what changes to Freedom of Information laws mean for Ontario
Doug Ford is making it harder for reporters and the public to find things out about the province.
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
NEW: Ontario’s jails are releasing dozens of inmates by mistake every year, according to new documents, which show errors from provincially run jails account for the majority of accidental releases. #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1180145...
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Dozens of inmates released from Ontario jails every year because of ‘errors or oversight’ | Globalnews.ca
Documents obtained by Global News show the government tracks tens of inmates every year who are 'improperly released' by a jail in Ontario.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
"Doug Ford isn’t responsible for the current spike in oil prices, but all of Ontario is more fragile and less resilient to oil shocks because of decisions he’s made." -John Michael McGrath #ONpoli www.tvo.org/article/anal...
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ANALYSIS: Is Doug Ford waging a war on cars? | TVO Today
Soaring gas prices. Worsening congestion. Fewer options. Are drivers better off than eight years ago?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I genuinely think the president and many of his advisers, scammers, hustlers, and keyboard gangsters, don’t understand this concept at all and you can see it in the pattern of their mistakes from Minneapolis to Tehran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...
Yet never has so much been seen, so precisely, by so many people who understand so little of what they are seeing. A system can tell you where a man is. It cannot tell you what his death will mean for a nation. Such systems are trained on behavior, not on meaning — they can track what an adversary does but not what he fears, honors, remembers or would die for.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Someone help me out here. Is Doug Ford covering up the crimes he's already committed, or the ones he's planning? #onpoli bsky.app/profile/ruth...
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 26/03/2026
The budget includes money for infrastructure, highways, tax cuts — and on page 139, a plan to make government information harder to access.
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Opposition balks at Doug Ford government’s record $244.2 billion budget
The province says it will achieve that target through its record $244.2 billion budget, which has a deficit of over $13 billion, up from the $7.8 billion it projected in its fall economic statement.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 08/03/2026
Happy International Women's Day. 🏴
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading:

WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME
THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE

Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out-
stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red

Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violence—The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Down—Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New story out from @cloelogan.bsky.social and me. Data centres are being planned across Ontario, with some using the same amount of electricity as 700,000 homes. Where are they? And why are communities being left in the dark? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...
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One data centre or one million homes? Mapping Ontario's proposed hyperscaler boom
Canada’s National Observer found and drew from multiple sources to put together a map of planned data centres in Ontario, and found at least 15 projects with a combined capacity of 2,202 MW currently ...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.
The political effects of X's feed algorithm
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2
Received: 16 December 2024
Accepted: 4 January 2026
Published online: 18 February 2026
Open access
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Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m
Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects.
Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I've been saying it a lot, but these deaths line up with what happened in early concentration camps during other regimes: Deaths from poor conditions, disease, or abuse. These deaths are not accidental. They are the direct result of a camp system that is designed to harm those being imprisoned.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18/02/2026
"iS tHeRe a tEcHnoLoGY tHe leFt Is eXcItEd aBoUt" yeah, renewable energy, mRNA vaccines. Lots of cool stuff like that! Probably not the one whose main promise was cutting payrolls
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!
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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 18/02/2026
Why are people always yelling at The Left, a group almost entirely shut out of public life, including mainstream news outlets. You are mad at people on social media. Get a life
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/01/2026
politicians leaving twitter/x should be a no-brainer
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Frank Domenic @frankdomenic.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
A foreign for profit healthcare company has been approved to extract blood plasma at twice the rate of Canadian Blood Services. While this plan is effective, it also comes with health risks for donors, many of whom are poor and vulnerable. #canada #cdnpoli #canadianbloodservices #frankdomenic🍁
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s really important to have publications like People covering this because it’s going to get seen by so many people who don’t consume political media
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing
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an appliance is making a weird noise that isn't on youtube @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
i don't know what to do about a system where people in power believe the antisemitic CSAM generator is too important of a platform to leave because the worst pundits on earth think the platform signals something about free speech
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/01/2026
Abysmal statement from Canada on the illegal US action in Venezuela. It doesn’t matter how much you dislike Maduro, that doesn’t justify a violation of international law and the UN Charter. You can’t call on “all parties” to respect international law and not call out US lawlessness.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/12/2025
Just a general reminder that your experience on any social media app depends a lot on what *you* make of it. It is easy to find some annoying people on any platform. But platforms like Bluesky also give *you* way more power to control your own experience and to fix whatever annoys you.
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