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Greg Alton

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There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
for as long as i've been alive, republicans have ran the same playbook: a few weeks before voting begins, they roll out completely fabricated smear campaigns. these things are always coordinated, so the talking points take over the news. the party is never electorally punished for their dishonesty.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My man looks like Edward Norton having a bad reaction to shellfish
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
If you don't know the Hip, & you want to hear/watch an incredible live show, here you go.
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The Tragically Hip - Crack My Spine Like A Whip (Live At Misty Moon)
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
should be instructive for democrats that Magyar is living up to his promise to prosecute Orban officials for corruption and is continuing to poll extremely highly
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kathi Zellweger made ~70+ trips to North Korea over decades, and even lived there for five years. She has a book out now — MISS KATHI — and this CNN segment shares never-before-seen footage she captured off her camcorder over the years. 🔗 bit.ly/cnn-kathi
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What North Korean life is actually like beyond Pyongyang
A Swiss aid worker’s never-before-seen footage reveals decades of life inside North Korea. Kathi Zellweger’s rare access allowed her to capture famine-era hardship, private moments and a side of the country few outsiders have witnessed. 0:00 The secret lives of North Korea 1:02 Who is Kathi Zellweger? 5:01 Former CNN Beijing bureau chief on Kathi Zellweger's unusual access to North Korea 8:32 Inside a Catholic church in North Korea 10:00 Driving in North Korea For more of this, subscribe to stream on the CNN app: https://cnn.it/4zpecHE #NorthKorea #Korea #News
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
How Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital is revolutionizing care. Groundbreaking research and precision health data are helping kids with disabilities across Canada thrive. torontolife.com/city/holland... via @hollandbloorview.ca @sandrahawken.bsky.social
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Revolutionizing care for children with disabilities at Holland Bloorview - Toronto Life
How groundbreaking research and precision health data are helping kids with disabilities across Canada thrive
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Why must we wake every day to wonder what on earth PP is blathering about?
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Canada's entry to the anti-Eurovision alternative contest, World's Worst White Rapper. To be fair he's upped the beat complexity since his first entry, "Verb The Noun"
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Also, invading & kidnapping the leader of another country, & then seizing its material assets, is an egregious violation of the UN Charter &, because we should take the law, Constitution, & our signed, ratified international treaties seriously, should immediately end his presidency.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today's reminder that both threatening our NATO allies with territorial conquest & the war in Iran are egregious violations of the UN Charter &, because we should take the law, Constitution, & our signed, ratified international treaties seriously, should immediately end his presidency.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
He thinks a “deficit” means we send money to other countries for nothing. He thinks “tariffs” are a tax on the target country when they’re actually a tax paid by Americans. Why? Because he’s an idiot. presswatchers.org/2026/09/dona...
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Donald Trump is an idiot, and the mainstream press is covering up for him | Press Watch
He does incredibly stupid things and doesn’t understand basic concepts, for starters
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why, if Iran is about to surrender, is Donald so interested in getting Ukraine to leave my refineries alone?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fox airs graphic depicting skyrocketing diesel prices
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Say what you will about Merz, but again the great thing about parliamentary systems is that you can replace the chief executive w/o just waiting until the next exogenously timed election or depending on toothless extraordinary measures that have never been successfully used in 250 years of politics.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Happy Constitution Day. We should remember that we have one & start enforcing it. Also, good morning to Juan Linz. Presidentialism was a grave mistake.
Wait it’s all in Linz astronaut meme Perils of presidentialism
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2026
Extraordinary reporting: "Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family."
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Ossoff: "18 Americans are dead and hundreds wounded. The president calls this 'small potatoes' ... they drained our stockpiles to achieve nothing"
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Someone this cycle replied to one of these culture war bits of bait with a weary "look, if _______ is the top issue for you, you should just vote for my opponent. But if you care about the price of gas and groceries and violent goons in our street, vote for me."
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know this is not going to fix anything, but how much media coverage and how much groundswell of excitement from the base do you think would happen if one of these dem candidates just said, once in their lives, what the fuck are you talking about you sound like a dumb asshole right now
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Excellent work by @apnews.com. But the wording is too meek. DOJ keeps on losing these cases because ICE agents lied, the juries knew it, and even the prosecutors knew it. 
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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 10/09/2026
You can tell this is a stupid con that they dont even believe themselves because a party that controls all of government would do this prior to an election, never after.
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Brian Whitmore @powervertical.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Websites for Americans to Buy Canadian Goods
Five ways to shop online and support the resistance!
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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!
Fun Fact: If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are just carrying coal, oil and gas.
- Bill McKibben, Climate Activist
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 31/08/2026
Abdul El-Sayed: “Canadians are like the only people in the world who are going to preemptively apologize for something they didn't even do. So if you're starting a trade war with Canada, it's because you're the asshole.”
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada’s aluminum industry is not worried about U.S. tariffs continuing into the new year. While Canadian domestic producers will absorb the loss of U.S. business and find other customers, the U.S. will find it nearly impossible to replace its cheapest supplier www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/202...
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Most of U.S. aluminum comes from Canada. Industry says ‘good luck’ replacing it
Canada’s aluminum industry is not worried about U.S. tariffs continuing into the new year.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Who could have predicted that trying to do 'Venezuela' in Iran might end poorly? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Thanks to Doug Ford and Paul Calandra, 80,000 elementary educators have to order classroom supplies from Staples this year instead of from their school boards. I decided to do a little comparison shopping for school supplies many of us will have to order over the course of a school year. 🧵 #OntEd
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh hell no. U.S. vetos on Canadian trade deals is actually insane. Absolutely justified in walking away.
Tweet saying that US wanted to put in language that would restrict our ability to ha e other trade deals.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 21/08/2026
I'm sorry but it's clearly newsworthy that the President's decisions are being unduly influenced by a mentally unstable obsessive no one voted for who has attached themselves to him in an effort to live out weird fantasies they've had for decades. Something has to be done about Stephen Miller.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Funny how no one asked russia to halt strikes on Ukrainian civilians.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The fact that Trump has only mostly destroyed the entire constitutional order & is ruling as a competitive authoritarian executive after only 6 years in office proves that people warning about authoritarianism in 2016 were overly alarmist. Do you even hear yourself, my man?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation into Eric and Don Jr.’s ties to 15 companies that have received $3.2 BILLION in defense contracts. Here's what you should know about their ongoing grifts.
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David Fickling @davidfickling.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Drivers just want something that handles nicely, fits the kids and shopping, and doesn’t break the bank. But people who have spent 30 years climbing through the hierarchy of an engine-based business have philosophical and emotional attachments to the technology they have spent their careers with.
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Update, July 2026: Trump uses an obscure provision of the actual Smoot Hawley tariff act of 1930 to punish Canada.
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Jonas Nahm @jonasnahm.com · 21/07/2026
1/ Trump signed 50% tariffs on Canada today under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Worth walking through the legal mechanics, the USMCA leverage play behind it, and what it costs.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.
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⚸ Gingersnapped 🐺🌕🎃 @gingerspiced.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ngl kind of disturbing to see them lobby Canadians to stop the response to tariffs rather than lobby DC to stop the tariffs
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Democrats should just run ads that are montages of headlines of all the various Trump family theft of taxpayer money with this clip as the tag
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Leonard Birchall put his life on the line to warn the island of Ceylon of an approaching Japanese attack. As a prisoner of war, he repeatedly stood up for his fellow troops despite repeated beatings by the Japanese. This is the story of The Saviour of Ceylon. 📸 LAC 🧵 1/10
Leonard Birchall sits in the cockpit of an aircraft, wearing a military cap and uniform. The black-and-white photo shows him looking out from the open cockpit with a slight smile, while a painted nose-art figure is visible on the aircraft below him.
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
So say we all
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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I will once again remind folks that a very sizable chunk of what looks like Congress not doing anything to push back against the president is in fact a consequence of the Court disabling/destroying all the ways Congress has tried to push back.
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The term you're looking for is counter-revolution, asshat.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Actually, we *should* be able to expect the president of the United States to be able to restrain himself from personally threatening to kill the negotiators from another country. It's not that unreasonable at all, you pathetic toady.
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Ian Petrie @icpetrie.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Canadian fans already getting motivated for Switzerland
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The Kids in the Hall - Sick of the Swiss
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Greg Alton @iyamgregalton.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm pretty sure the collective noun is a curmudgeon of falcons.
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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 12/06/2026
damn www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQZE...
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CBC News reports from Iran in Canadian exclusive
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