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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The hot mess in postsecondary. Unless evaluations are conducted in-person, many students AI their way to high grades. The same student can score 90s in an online test and demonstrate they don’t understand a thing when evaluated in a classroom. #onted #highered lfpress.com/news/local-n...
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'Overwhelmingly clear' students cheated on exam: Western University prof
Jacob Shelley, an associate professor at Western University, is refusing to use results of the final exam in a health law course grade
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Anti-ICE protesters accused of being part of antifa found guilty of support for terrorism in Texas
Case was seen as major test of the first amendment and whether the US could use broad anti-terrorism statute to prosecute leftwing protesters
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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/03/2026
Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount reut.rs/4lsTRe5
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Exclusive: Meta planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
Meta is planning sweeping layoffs ​that could affect 20% or more of the company, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, as ‌Meta seeks to offset costly artificial intelligence infrastructure bets and prepare for greater efficiency brought about by AI-assisted workers.
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
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Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.
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karenatsharon.bsky.social @karenatsharon.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
"Very focused on transparency" Ha, ha. #DougFord and his criming Conservatives are at it again. Call and tell them no! Ford government proposes FOI l... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #cdnpoli
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Ford government proposes FOI law change that would keep premier's records secret | CBC News
Ontario is set to make Premier Doug Ford and cabinet members' records secret as it "modernizes" freedom-of-information laws, which critics say will dramatically curtail public scrutiny of the politica...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
“A mannequin simulating a child crossing the street .. was crushed over and over again by a Tesla equipped with a self-driving feature on Thursday — safety advocates' latest warning .. as it prepares to launch robotaxis on Austin roads.” @houstonchronicle.com $TSLA www.chron.com/culture/arti...
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
They want to throw a new generation of working-class people into the meat grinder of war for access to shipping lanes and rare earth minerals. Fuck these war pigs. apnews.com/article/hegs...
apnews.com
Hegseth says the Pentagon has contingency plans to invade Greenland if necessary
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is appearing to acknowledge that the Pentagon has developed plans to take over Greenland and Panama by force if necessary.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Graduating and worried about finding a job? Got a job but worried you'll get axed? Got axed and worried you'll run out of savings before you find another? So much worrying. What will all the "working for workers" parties actually do for workers? www.thestar.com/business/the...
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Armine Yalnizyan: The parties all say they’re working for workers, but are they? Here’s what their platforms say
Conservatives are silent on EI. The Liberals say they’ll improve EI in the coming year. The NDP would fix EI right away.
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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
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Stephen Mag-GH-GH... @stephenmag.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
"McLean’s allegiances can be difficult to peg down. After leaving the Alberta NDP, McLean became a donor supporting Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives in 2023 and decided only a month ago she would now be running for the Liberals in BC." 🤔 #bcpoli
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Oh, turnips... When Ford's in the PMO, you can't say you weren't warned. On our last three Twitter accounts, and this one... 😵‍💫😆
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
@officialjackwhite.bsky.social did Canada's right-wing Conservative party pay you to use "Ball and Biscuit" in their cringey commercial? Btw, their leader appeals to a base, often called Maple MAGA, due to their fondness for, well.... you know.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
This sounded even more ridiculous in the original North Korean.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
"A 9-foot-tall sculpture of Elon Musk's head located near SpaceX's launch facilities in Boca Chica, Texas, was busted up in recent days." www.chron.com/culture/arti...
Bust statue of Elon Musk is damaged across face.
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
And Canada Proud is #IDUPlaybook Here's Jeff giving a lecture to the IDU Executive (including Mike Roman 😉) back in 2018. Chairman Harper invited Jeff to lecture to the senior executives of IDU, hot off his success helping to install Ford in Ontario.
Screenshot of a tweet from Jeff Ballingall, with a picture of him at a podium in front of an IDU banner. Last week I had the incredible honour to present to the International Democratic Union Executive Meeting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Thank you to the Right Honourable Stephen Harper for the invitation.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Ron DeSantis is pushing to let employers schedule children as young as 14 for an unlimited number of hours, including overnight shifts. At the same time, Florida lawmakers are considering a bill that would let employers pay kids below minimum wage. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis pushed for child labor rollbacks behind the scenes, records show
Email communications first obtained by Orlando Weekly through a public records request show that staffers from DeSantis's office emailed draft legislation for Republican lawmakers to file.
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 03/04/2025
I first started reporting on the Republican-Russian-Musk plan to crash the US economy back in early 2021. Here's my piece from summer 2024. No one can say no one knew this was coming. washingtonspectator.org/peter-thiel-...
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Peter Thiel and the American Apocalypse | Washington Spectator
Between the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the race, and the rapid coalescence around Kamala Harris as the presumptive Democratic nominee, everyone’s rushing to…
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I can't decide if this is comically disingenuous or comically stupid. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Fox News pundit believes Trump tariffs will reverse ‘crisis in masculinity’
‘Donald Trump is actually saying ‘no more’ to this and to the crisis in masculinity,’ political pundit Batya Ungar-Sargon said
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Palantir CEO Alex Karp said in a February earnings call. “Disruption at the end of the day exposes things that aren't working. There will be ups and downs. This is a revolution, some people are going to get their heads cut off.” www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
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DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data
DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Just Trump and his cronies manipulating markets for profit. Again.
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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 04/04/2025
#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with Mar 23 data - London data updated: wwater.ca/Ontario - Also updated: AB, NS, QC wwater.ca Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/
Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario
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Orla Hegarty @orla-hegarty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Replace the word “mask” with “bicycle helmet” in this piece to see how political it is We all want Covid to go away The reality is the science can prevent it, & shaming can’t www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Evermaskers
The isolation of people who take precautions against COVID has only gotten more intense.
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Salon.com @salon.com · 03/04/2025
Planned tariffs shared by the White House included a 10% duty on imports from the barren Heard and McDonald Islands.
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"Trade war with penguins": Trump places 10% tariff on uninhabited Antarctic islands
Planned tariffs shared by the White House included a 10% duty on imports from the barren Heard and McDonald Islands
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Fanshawe College announces huge program closures. One correction: College prez's didn't ask for the review by StrategyCorp. Doug Ford paid the colleges to agree to it. And 1 note absent in the article: the root of the problem is that #Onted is being STARVED by Ford. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Fanshawe College program suspensions announced to staff as major cuts begin | CBC News
Fanshawe College has begun telling staff and faculty which programs will be cut as it faces a dramatic drop in enrolment.
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
The 84 candidates: 50 - Conservative Party of Canada 24 - PPC 7 - Christian Heritage 2 - United Party of Canada 1 - Libertarian Party. 29 of them responded “No” to the question: “Are there any circumstances under which you believe a woman should have access to abortion?”
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Canadians Against Trump @canadiansagainstt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Holy Fuck.... These people will see us all dead just to make a buck on our corpse.. pressprogress.ca/danielle-smi...
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evy kwong @evystadium.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
if you thought signalgate was bad… just wait, there’s more
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Perfect 🤣🎯
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
BREAKING: Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi, has directed prosecutors to seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
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Clash Montréal @clashmtl.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A Tesla appears to have been set on fire last night on the south shore of Montreal. 👍 lapresse.ca/actualites/j...
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Une Tesla incendiée à Longueuil
Une Tesla a été la proie des flammes, dans la nuit de dimanche à lundi, sur le boulevard Saint-Charles Ouest, à Longueuil.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 31/03/2025
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand reut.rs/4laaGKf
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France's Le Pen barred from running for office for five years after graft conviction
French far-right leader Marine Le Pen was convicted of embezzlement on Monday and handed an immediate five-year ban from public office, a sentence that will bar her from running in the 2027 presidential race unless she successfully appeals beforehand.
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Denise Dewald, MD @denisedewald.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We live in the dumbest timeline, one in which medical advances become a partisan issue.
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a woman says guys i 'm thinking this might be like a cult while holding a bottle of water
ALT: a woman says guys i 'm thinking this might be like a cult while holding a bottle of water
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Carolyn Brost Strom @carolynbroststrom.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
“If only homelessness and overdose deaths represented the same level of urgency as the carbon tax.” #SkPoli
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Catherine @accomplishedseer.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
DOGE is an espionage unit. Elon Musk is conducting cyber espionage. The intelligence gathering of all of our government's records is called Target Exploitation. Who is he gathering intelligence for? Read more about social engineering through espionage. www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/cybers...
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What is Cyber Espionage? | CrowdStrike
Cyber espionage is a cyberattack that attempts to access sensitive data for economic gain, competitive advantage or political reasons.
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Stable. About 600 cases of a disease that was previously eradicated. Nice touch to blame it on the Amish. 🙄 Like there isn't anti-vax sentiment everywhere now. We're two weeks post March break, and the exposures I've seen posted are airports, ERs, walk-in clinics, fast food outlets, malls...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/03/2025
No matter what side of the aisle you are on, you should be appalled that a billionaire thinks he has the right to buy elections like this.
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Natasha Kaminsky @natashakaminsky.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Relatedly, our friends at @spiegel.de found Trump officials personal information publicly available online: www.spiegel.de/internationa...
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Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 25/03/2025
Tesla Lives Matter
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Radical Livre @rlivre.cc · 24/03/2025
o Internet Archives, mais uma ilha de informação grátis que deve ser preservada www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...
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As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them
The Trump administration's erasure of federal data has put the Internet Archive in the spotlight. The organization, with its small but mighty team, is working to help save the world's digital history.
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 17/03/2025
📄 NEW: "Forget The Budget Battle – The Debt Ceiling Is the One to Watch" Democrats face a significant hurdle with the upcoming debt ceiling standoff, coming as soon as May. And they have an important opportunity to shape the outcome. My latest. america2.news/forget-the-b...
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Forget The Budget Battle – The Debt Ceiling Is the One to Watch
Democrats face a significant hurdle with the upcoming debt ceiling standoff. And they have an important opportunity to shape the outcome.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre is so fond of JD Vance’s best Yale Law pal Jamil Jivani that he parachuted him into Erin O’Toole’s old riding, told him not to attend any local debates and got him elected. Could Jivani be the back door through which the piffleswipe is coordinating with Trump? 🍁🤷🏼🍁
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
"Russia and China are ecstatic over President Donald Trump’s cuts to United States-funded media including Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia." www.politico.eu/article/mosc...
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Moscow and Beijing rejoice at looming death of Radio Free Europe, VOA
“We couldn’t shut them down, unfortunately, but America did so itself,” editor-in-chief of Russia’s state broadcaster said.
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“The fact that our other allies in the international community seem to be hiding in a corner, almost whispering that they support us, has no effect. And if they don’t speak out loudly against how the USA treats Greenland, the situation will escalate day by day,” he said.
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Elliot @instructobot5000.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Anarcho-capitalism, the sweaty asscrack of #anarchism.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We are sending people for indefinite detention without trial at a foreign gulag because they have tattoos about soccer teams and about loving their mothers.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/03/2025
Elon Musk is attempting to artificially shift public opinion by circulating a petition against “activist” judges—offering $100 in return for signatures—and collecting troves of voter data in the final days before the crucial Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
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Elon Musk Is Openly Trying to Buy Votes in Crucial Supreme Court Race
Elon Musk is once again interfering in a pivotal election.
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Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
We threw our own children under the bus.
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Clash Montréal @clashmtl.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
80. 🤭 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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80 Teslas damaged at Hamilton dealership, largest car vandalism reported in Canada against the U.S. company | CBC News
Upwards of 80 Teslas were damaged at a dealership on the Hamilton Mountain, police said. It's believed to be the largest vehicle vandalism reported in Canada against the U.S. company, which has been t...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 21/03/2025
Six Hungarian lawmakers have been banned from entering parliament for two months after they disrupted the session Tuesday following the passing of an amendment making LGBTQ+ Pride marches illegal in Hungary.
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Orbán’s ally bans liberal lawmakers from parliament after protest against Pride ban
They set off smoke bombs in Budapest’s chamber — and have now been hit with record fines.
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