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John Q Public 🇨🇦

@freeintheforest.bsky.social
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Watching the collapse of civilization from an off-grid paradise in the woods All rants solar powered Ontario, Canada

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Daniel Chomsky @danielchomsky.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
If only there was some way that American intellectual and media elites could find out about living standards in Europe. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/europe-v-a...
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Europe v America: Who’s Really Winning?
A wonkish but important discussion
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Victoria Ying @victoriaying.com · 25/02/2026
Burn it down.
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
It is now estimated that 80-90% of Russia's casualties are coming from Ukrainian drones. These videos are insane.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/02/2026
this is outrageous and the clearest example yet that carney is downplaying human rights and credible threats to canadians to pursue his economic agenda. cozying up to the emiratis despite what they’re doing in sudan was bad enough, but many canadians will not just accept this u-turn on india.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I’m sitting at a table on the Fox 32 debate stage holding my hand high in the air. My opponents, Daniel Biss and Laura Fine, are talking to each other. The chyron reads, “SUPPORT FOR PALESTINE”
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
How many MAGAs does it take to change a light bulb? None. Trump just says that it's fixed, and they sit in the dark and applaud.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.
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El Jefe Gone Dark Security @eljefe.social · 20/02/2026
Aren't you glad you didn't verify?
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😱 Spooky SpectreKILLoquy 🔪 🩸 @caulimovirus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
dear god, when it happens please let it be on camera 🙏
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/02/2026
So archive.today (archive.is, archive.md, etc.), the archive site that is frequently used to bypass paywalls, added javascript to their site that causes unwitting users to DDoS a blogger they don't like... Not good gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/a...
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archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog
Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal b…
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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Boy I sure hope eradicating native wildlife so humans can have unencumbered access to a natural resource doesn't have any unintended consequences. Has anyone ever tried that before because maybe we can learn from their incredible success
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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
I keep hearing that the Epstein files are so big if we held everyone accountable everything would collapse. And no it wouldn’t. These rich guys don’t do any actual work. They aren’t actually important or useful they are just rich.
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 20/02/2026
Video of the aftermath of today’s Israeli ceasefire in Lebanon. Reports of about a dozen killed and about 4x that wounded from several attacks across the country. The bombings are likely preparation for war with Iran, during which it is expected that Hezbollah will return to fighting.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The justification for war with Iran is so paper thin it's almost funny. Everyone knows it's for two stupid illegal and immoral reasons: 1: Ensure Israel has no state enemies 2: Residual anger by our gerontocracy who haven't gotten over 1979 and the hostage crisis
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/02/2026
Trump genuinely has a head full of mashed potatoes and zero understanding of how literally anything (outside of sexual assault and real estate fraud) work yet it's curiously not a consistent throughline in establishment press narratives
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 19/02/2026
The brunchlord establishment press hates progressives (especially female) exponentially more than fascism and it's simply not subtle
NY Intelligencer headline: "AOC's stumble is a warning to the left"
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 19/02/2026
For comparison, we spend $118 million for all geothermal energy R&D for the whole country.
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Poppy Dee @759dp.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
“AI” is a marketing term. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
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Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom @nunesalt.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
As Sun Tzu said, the wise warrior waits while his enemy shoots his dick off.
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Travis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Like, everyone basically acknowledges the Iraq war as the foundational American crime of the 21st century and the primary inflection point for the decline of all aspects of American power and quality of life And we're about to do it again but worse, everyone acknowledges that, and nobody cares
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Brave missions underway to finally rid this country of Good Samaritans
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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
locally it's going to take eight years to design and build a new 12 mile long bus rapid transit line by which time china will have completed another 6000 miles of high speed rail. we're so dog shit at doing anything that isn't shooting moms or stealing data
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Hi. Former NSA hacker here: This portal will be used by US intelligence and law enforcement for intelligence collection and to deliver 0-days to targets of interest. You can take that to the bank. I'd bet my mortal soul on it.
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Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Trump has no choice but to attack Iran, Netanyahu gave him the order.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Goodbye to Frederick Wiseman, the legendary vérité documentarian, who just died at 96. His first movie, Titicut Follies, is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen, as upsetting as The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRIE...
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Titicut Follies - The Silencing Of Suffering
YouTube video by You Have Been Watching Films
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Phil Burton-Cartledge @philbc3.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/02/2026
I don't think "invading a country, kidnapping its President, then stealing its oil" is what I would call "diplomacy." But perhaps I'm not a political science expert like some folks.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 18/02/2026
Do Americans know that in 39 states it is ILLEGAL to boycott Israel? I wrote about it today because we have a chance in Illinois to right this wrong. But I'm realizing most Americans have no idea Netanyahu spent at least $25M to criminalize boycotts of Israel. www.qasimrashid.com/p/illinois-m...
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Illinois Made It Illegal to Boycott Israel
How you can help Illinois rectify a Constitutionally indefensible error committed by 39 states, and repeal its anti-BDS legislation
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas 
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by 
@micarosenberg
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Jordan Uhl @jordanuhl.com · 18/02/2026
We’ve come full circle
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 15/02/2026
A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...
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Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer
Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.
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NPR @npr.org · 13/02/2026
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
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John Q Public 🇨🇦 @freeintheforest.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“Our loved one’s action against Elbit Systems and the state’s brutal response have exposed the true values of the government. The government is determined to do business with Israel and protect its weapons industry at any cost." www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary at Israeli defence firm site
None of the six activists were convicted of any offence over break-in at Elbit Systems factory near Bristol in 2024
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Sad mazov @sadmazov.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
These networks appear during mass-casualty events such as wildfires, shootings, and terrorist attacks, and their goal is to create panic, distrust, and enhance the harm done. They are 100% a hybrid war / psyop operation, and it is being funded and operated by hostile forces. #CdnPoli
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
These same coordinated actors / networks repeatedly surface during national emergencies, amplifying disinformation, destabilizing public trust, rage farming + rage astroturfing, instigating disruption, and undermining crisis response efforts. #CdnPoli
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
US-funded and other foreign-based troll and bot networks exploiting a Canadian mass-casualty event makes it clear there is an urgent need for Canada, and allied governments, to legislate and enforce meaningful penalties against this form of hybrid-terrorism. #CdnPoli
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Just a reminder: Trump dropped support for Ukraine, Europe picked up the difference.
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nice handsome boy @edward86.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
oh my fucking god dude
me joking that the "drone" was probably a party balloon
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
At the moment when the EU needs unprecedented citizen support for fundamental strategic choices, national governments are systematically reducing democratic participation and grabbing the little power left in the Commission’s and EU Parliament’s hands euobserver.com/202382/europ...
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Europe’s democratic winter — How EU leaders impose deregulation, bypassing citizens and MEPs
At their 'leaders' retreat', we are seeing the curtailing of EU democracy in the name of saving Europe’s economy. They should be unleashing citizens' demand for a stronger, independent Europe.
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Lois Weiner @drloisweiner.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
This is a great clip for us to use when talking to working people about the GOP. "Raise your hand if your food, rent, or mortgage costs are covered, your kids clothed and health protected by the booming stock market?"
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President Werewolf G. Harding @popeawesomexiii.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Just as a fun experiment I divided this number by 8 billion and got $6500. I mention this for no reason.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A brand new Super PAC — Elect Chicago Women — just dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars into this race. Why? Because it’s actually a front for AIPAC dark money. And they’re doing everything they can to buy my race:
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
There are drawdowns. And then there’s Melania Coin.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 06/02/2026
Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too
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Thomas [DARK MODE], DO @tom.medsky.social · 06/02/2026
Hey so trumprx actually went live and it's got the same cost savings as goodrx. Exactly the same. However it's worse because it doesn't include generics. Generic protonix is about $6. This literally does nothing. What a joke.
Trumprx screen shot showing he cost for protonix brand name is 200.10 using trumprxGoodrx showing the exact same price $200.10
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
And now they all love the taste of leather. Bootlicking shitbags, every one.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 06/02/2026
We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):
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The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
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