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MoleMarg

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Moleman in the Morning, but for night owls. Just Say No to AI art. Commuter cyclist, polisci PhD, and public transit enjoyer who also makes clothes sometimes in Ottawa, 🇨🇦

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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 17h
Yessss these incredible Toronto cyclists gathered tonight to stop the first of Ford’s bike lane removals. And it looks like they crushed it ❤️ Love the “Get home safe” chant too #onpoli #urbanism
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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Forever Canadian Pale Ale wins bronze medal at the Alberta Beer awards!!! Congratulations to the @RedHartBrewing company. Amazing place. Amazing guys. Amazing beer. #ForeverCanadian
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I’m surprised I didn’t see it in r/bitchImatrain first lol
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BC-ers: I know you didn’t want this election but you do *not* want the BC Conservatives in, unless you want the highest rates for auto insurance in the country alongside Alberta & Ontario. ‘Berta is already trying to switch out of this model because it’s so bad, don’t do it man #BCelection
globalnews.ca
B.C. Conservatives plan to repeal no-fault insurance, leaked letter shows | Globalnews.ca
The NDP government introduced the no-fault insurance system in 2021, that generally prevents car accident victims from suing.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
*Assemblée Nationale Du Québec, missed the second e on the first word typing it out
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looks like it’ll be a minority government for the PQ, will be interesting to see who they work with. They’ll have three parties in the Assemblé Nationale du Québec that will hold the balance of power: One right, one center, and one left party (which is also separatist-lite).
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Quebec election results | CBC News
Get the latest results from the 2026 Quebec election.
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Brandon - "Fietser" @americanfietser.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cities everywhere are discussing the dangers of ebikes in cities and passing swift legislation to tightly control them. Meanwhile:
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This breathtaking NYT story about Trump's Russian entanglements includes three people who've been part of the operation to cultivate Trump since 2015: Bryan Lanza, Sheikh Tahoon, and Kirill Dmitriev. This is literally the culmination of the original plan. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Seth Rogan catching strays from this This Hour Has 22 Minutes sketch is making me lose it 😆
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Pete Hegseth did some recon on Canada... | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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Michael Mechanic @michaelmechanic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Kushner can whine all he wants, but he has clearly exploited his undeserved diplomatic role for personal profit. No doubt about it. @motherjones.com had a cover story about it recently.
motherjones.com
How Jared Kushner used his position to hop in bed with autocrats
And sell out America.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
338 Canada has a good riding map that shows how each party is polling in every provincial riding. A great resource for gauging the frontrunners and judging the extent to which strategic voting is necessary in each #BCelection
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Map | 338Canada British Columbia
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I understand BC friends when they say they’re annoyed with Eby for calling an election, but I can’t stress enough how important it is not to sleepwalk into a BC Conservative government. These people are SNAKES, dawg
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B.C. Conservatives slammed over talks with ‘far-right’ splinter party
A high-profile former B.C. Conservative caucus member has accused the party of “cozying up to the far right” in an effort to win this month’s provincial election.
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this is the first one of these "the alarm must be raised" pieces that actually makes sense, largely because he says something obvious: no one at the company has any clue about how safety engineering works
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Good for Detroit Red Wings fans, they’re actually beauties for this. Guys like Larkin (and Helly of the Jets while we’re on the topic) are sapping whatever joy is left in the NHL with their bratty BS and I’m okay with them not being shielded from that fact for once 😮‍💨
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 02/10/2026
great speech. FDR had Stephen Miller and his blustering bullshit dead to rights 90 years ago www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/ad...
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Address at the Annual Dinner of White House Correspondents' Association | The American Presidency Project
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Crisse, comme Paul St-Pierre Plamondon est un tel mononcle. Les gens ne réalisent-ils pas à quel point il est plus de droite par rapport aux anciens pequistes? Tout ce fil vaut la peine d'être lu
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ⴰⵔⵔⴰⵎⴰⵜ Ărramăt Project @arramatproject.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is a day of remembrance & mourning for #IndigenousPeoples across Canada. Join us in taking time to reflect, listen, & learn about residential schools & the lasting impact on Indigenous Peoples, their families, & their communities. #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On this national day of reconciliation we remember that the fundamental journey in Canada is between Indigenous and settler. We must learn to walk together for a better shared future.
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James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Lol so Trump tried to make a deal with Belarus for potash and Luka told him the obvious (that their supply is spoken for). One in a series of reasons why this gambit would never work. When indirectly leaving your food supply at the mercy of Putin is the *least* idiotic part of your plan…
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New video of ICE agents ramming into car during traffic stop in Texas. Then shooting man in his back—from several feet behind. Agent who fired his gun does not appear to be in any danger from a "weaponized vehicle."
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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The horror has come to our city: ICE has shot a person in Austin this morning. As the facts emerge, I am demanding a full, independent investigation, immediate release of the body camera footage, and accountability for any ICE officer who broke the law.
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Houston Chronicle @houstonchronicle.com · 20/09/2026
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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ICE agent shoots and wounds person in North Austin, officials say
An ICE agent shot and wounded a person Sunday in North Austin, according to three state and local officials.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Ding ding ding. When the Huggingface hack was explained to me it sounded a lot more like a problem of reckless and sloppy programming than AI “going rogue.” Although I did also wonder if Taskmaster the show had been used in its training lol
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/09/2026
Nailed it as always, sir
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal opinion column by Peter Navarro, published March 12, 2026, headlined “Iran War Will Lower Energy Prices,” with the subheadline: “The risk of regime violence has long been baked into the global price of oil and gas—and everything else.”
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
!!! So excited about the potential to join Erasmus+, it’s such a great program and would open up a whole world of possibilities for the young’ins 🤞 🤞
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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued state's the attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have saved her life and the state's near-total ban on the ‌procedure is unconstitutional.
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Texas abortion ban caused pregnant woman's death, lawsuit claims
The family of a Texas woman who died from a pregnancy-related condition has sued the state's Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, and doctors who treated her, claiming an ​abortion could have save...
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Luke BOO 👻 ber @coolhand.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
A scene from wolf of Wall Street wheee Leo asks someone to sell him a pen. In the meme that person is labeled anthropic, and he says it’s going to kill everyone
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The way AI is going to “kill everyone” is just by manufacturing consent for ever worse outcomes & conditions, like many governments do. It is a governing technology after all. And like bureaucracy it launders responsibility so the people & institutions who deploy it aren’t accountable for the harms
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Fair, I’m not American but if I were I might phrase it as a fait accompli as well. Thinking about our own far right up in Canada, the logic they operate with is similar internationally
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The more he fails to dominate, the more insane Trump gets www.editorialboard.com/the-more-he-...
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The more he fails to dominate, the more insane Trump gets
Can reporters see it? Yes, Mark Jacob told me. But they are afraid.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
They certainly like to entertain the idea that “this one weird trick” can usher in industrial, social, and economic utopia. Anti-immigration has been presented by the far right as that, knowing full well they’ll need to shift blame to new enemies if they ever get their way
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Just as former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien said about the whole lake naming thing, this really “seems like a very weak gesture.” With his characteristic nonchalance, Chrétien also added “And you know, Lake Ontario is not suffering. It’s a lake.” 🤣 youtu.be/W8NDe0jVwIE?...
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Chrétien offers blunt assessment of Canada-U.S. trade war
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The last time I looked (and it was a while ago), the US content in a Bombardier jet was higher than the US content in a Gulfstream jet. (In both cases, the planes are predominantly US content.)
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Unprecedented corruption www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
NEW: the man who attacked Amy Acton is the brother of a Ramaswamy donor who worked for Husted’s campaign. tiffinohio.net/posts/patric...
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Armed man arrested after pushing toward Amy Acton is brother of Ramaswamy donor who quit Husted campaign
Patrick Havas, 38, was arrested Sunday while carrying two pistols and a Taser. His brother, Andrew Havas, gave more than $10,102 to Vivek Ramaswamy and resigned from Jon Husted’s campaign after scruti...
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This country was built on the opposition to tyranny...so ICE must be abolished.
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Jay Hightman @jay.hightman.org · 04/09/2026
As the province prepares to rip out some or all of Toronto’s core cycleways, two sources confirm that the Doug Ford government walked away from compromises that would have restored traffic lanes while keeping bike lanes. Protected bike lanes save lives! My daughter died because there wasn't one...
Bike Lanes
Now and Always

Piste Cyclables 
Aujourd'hui et pour toujours

Ontario
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Ugh so annoying, Olivia Chow’s idea could have kept everyone happy but can’t have that 🙄
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Huh, apparently being funny is against Zuck’s terms of use now? So glad I left his scammy AI slop-ridden platforms
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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Beavis And Butt-Head creator Mike Judge informed Paramount about his intention to reclaim the rights of the series which he is legally allowed to after 35 years. kotaku.com/mike-judge-t...
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Tim Hirschel-Burns @timhirschelburns.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Wake up, babe. The Prime Minister just dropped “hydronym”.
The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms. 

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Both Wyandot and Haudenosaunee are part of the Iroquoian language family and “shining waters” and “sparkling waters” seem like just slightly different translations of the same concept so I can see both being true
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Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) @ericlombardi.ca · 25/08/2026
Why is Doug Ford fighting with Toronto over bike lanes? The city has already invested heavily in cycling infrastructure, and Bike Share Toronto is at record-high ridership. His plan will cost taxpayers across the province millions and won’t do anything to improve congestion.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“We then simulated a scenario in which the larger vehicles involved in these crashes were hypothetically reduced to the size of a typical passenger vehicle today, while everything else about the crashes stayed the same. The model predicted about 9% fewer pedestrian fatalities.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/08/2026
Mark Carney: "It's not a surprise that the US would take some form of reprisal to our response to their unjustified tariffs, which was on top of other unjustified tariffs. But what message does that send to the workers in Michigan and Ohio and Kentucky and Alabama who rely on Canadian demand?"
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An Amazon worker died in one of Amazon's warehouses. As he lay on the floor dying, management told the other workers: "Just turn around and don't look. Get back to work." That was a human being. A child of God. Sacrificed on the altar of corporate greed.
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
So Trump is threatening a new set of 50% tariffs on Canadian autos today. I guess no one told him that Canada is a net importer of autos, and we have a negative trade balance with the US on autos? I don’t think this is going to work out the way he thinks it is canadianautodealer.ca/2025/04/cana...
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Canada remains a net importer, not exporter, of auto products
Canada remains a net importer with many trading partners — including the United States — where we sent 95% of our automotive products and procured 57% from them, according to DesRosiers Automotive Con...
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MoleMarg @goodmoleman2you.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And Carney said during the Q and A that the US negotiating team wanted limit Canada’s ability to sign other trade deals with other countries at the 11th hour, which was obv a non-starter
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