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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦

@jamiemackinnon.bsky.social
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Let's reduce economic inequality & build a just, environmentally sustainable society. Joys include ale, good conversation, travel, literature & theatre. Interests include design, green engineering & international development.

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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 16h
www.cp24.com/news/world/2... Mr Trump has indeed taught Canadians a little lesson, and Americans a few big lessons. We have learned from ours. Here's to hoping that Americans have learned from theirs. We'll see on 3 November. #politics #ethics
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‘They were very bad’: Trump says Canada is being ‘taught a little lesson’ as trade war continues
Donald Trump continued to rant about Canada during a White House event on Wednesday, where he accused the country of taking advantage of "stupid leadership for many, many years."
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Diana Yoon @dianayoon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We need politicians across the country who believe we can end chronic homelessness. That’s what I’m committed to work towards — learning from places like Manitoba.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w... Men who fear women cause havoc . . .
nytimes.com
Eiffel Tower Chief Resigns After Female Staff Moved for Hindu Group’s Visit
Patrick Branco Ruivo, who ran the tower’s operating company, will step down after an internal inquiry cited “problems and shortcomings” over the moving of female employees.
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chezer59.bsky.social @chezer59.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If Conservatives don’t outright cut funding for healthcare & education, they will freeze spending & let inflation do the work. It’s what they always do. #cdnpoli #cdnmedia
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Since Doug Ford came to power: - hallway medicine has more than doubled - the number of Ontarians without a doctor has almost doubled - ERs have been closed for the first time in history - residents in LTC have died of "dehydration" and "neglect" #ONpoli #nurses #cdnpoli
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Wait times for most priority surgeries in Ontario have increased since 2017, study says | CBC News
Wait times for most of the province’s publicly funded priority surgeries and procedures have increased between 2017 and 2025, according to a study released Monday.
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 30/09/2026
NDP MP Gazan: The most important project of ‘national interest’ is upholding First Nations’ human right to clean water www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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The most important project of ‘national interest’ is upholding First Nations’ human right to clean water - The Hill Times
When generations of colonial violence and rights violations have created an infrastructure gap of roughly $376.1-billion, building a ‘Canada Strong’ would start by building adequate infrastructure…
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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#Amazon uses “Atlas” an AI-driven prediction model to process & interpret info on workers — their thoughts, behaviors, the workplace envi to attack union organizing🤬 “used by the billionaire owners of one of the richest companies in history to head off rebellion among its low-wage workforce”
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Amazon Is Deploying AI to Spy on Its Workers and Bust Unions Before They Form
Internal company documents obtained by a Canadian labor board show how Amazon is tracking workers’ every move.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Westons are buying another huge pharmacy chain? Is this an extension of the "future of pharmacy" strategy? Loblaw’s reach into health care has grown, investing in telemedicine, medical record-keeping, physiotherapy clinics & a just launched AI-powered medical chatbot. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Peter Navarro, who was sentenced to 4 months in prison for contempt of Congress & refusing to produce subpoenaed documents says "You just can't trust" Canadians. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Trump has just imposed stiff tariffs on Canadian tequila (which doesn't exist) and REMOVED tariffs on Canadian toilet paper (the U.S. leads the world in per capita toilet paper consumption at 141 rolls per person per year). So there's that. #USApoli #cdnpoli
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Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada
Paper products among hardest-hit sectors after trade negotiations broke down, with 25-50% tariffs estimated
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Loblaws often promotes Driscoll's even when Canadian berries are in season. #food #cdnpoli
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Whistleblower alleges millions of Driscoll’s berries sent to Canada with excess chemical levels | CBC News
A whistleblower lawsuit in California is alleging millions of pounds of Driscoll's fruit containing non-compliant levels of pesticides and chemicals crossed the border into Canada, and the company tri...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.irishtimes.com/world/middle... #Palestine
irishtimes.com
Israeli settlers attack West Bank village and prevent Palestinian family returning home
Israeli troops attempted to escort the Tubasi family back to their homes, weeks after their two houses were seized by settlers
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doug Ford today: "The cost of defending Canada’s sovereignty isn’t something that shows up on the private sector’s balance sheet." Daft gibberish from a muddled con man. #ONpoli
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Russia-Ukraine Daily News @rvps2001.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🇪🇪 Based on ISS intelligence, there are grounds to state with full confidence that the arson attack on the Milrem building in Tallinn on August 15 was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian special services, the government said in a press release. news.err.ee/1610151220/e... #Estonia #Russia
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Estonia: Russia responsible for arson attack on defense contractor Milrem
Based on ISS intelligence, there are grounds to state with full confidence that the arson attack on the Milrem building in Tallinn on August 15 was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian special s...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Seventy years ago, Columbia Masterworks released Gould’s debut recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations—then rarely performed." "When Gould played the Goldbergs at Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow...the audience of fifteen hundred applauded him for half an hour." #Bach hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...
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Hearing Gould
Was Glenn Gould eccentric, or did he realize how his mannerisms looked to others? Both are true.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.economist.com/europe/2026/... #Ireland
economist.com
Ireland is helping supply Russia’s war machine
The EU considers putting an Irish alumina refiner on its sanctions list
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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"These facilities were ripe for outbreaks because of crowding, low temperatures that helped the virus survive longer, insufficient ventilation and socioeconomic vulnerabilities in the work force." Alberta's COVID response was a “catastrophic failure”: report www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Alberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report says
More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community
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404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images.
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Human contractors hired to improve Microsoft’s Copilot AI chatbot are constantly bombarded with lewd or sexually explicit photo editing requests and images." Microsoft is deeply embedded in Canadian govts: federal, provincial & municipal. #cdnpoli #IT #privacy www.404media.co/humans-readi...
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Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI...
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russians hit the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. There are dead and wounded. Russians are losing no the battlefield, so they kill civilians.
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 28/09/2026
How much pressure can Russia withstand as the war increasingly reaches its own territory? Irish journalist Caolan Robertson Jason Smart unpack the impact of Ukrainian long-range strikes, mounting fuel and labor problems, and the strain on Russia’s social contract. youtu.be/_gTxfGvlWEA?...
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Russia Is Breaking in Ways Moscow Can’t Hide Anymore
YouTube video by Kyiv Post
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... The "U.S.-based Defense Analyses and Research Corporation...called for Americans to destabilize the Canadian federation... [and] urged Americans to support the election of sovereigntists in Canada & to "weaponize" reconciliation between Canada & First Nations." #cdnpoli
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Federal intelligence agency contacted as U.S. interference claims swirl in Quebec election | CBC News
Quebec's incumbent premier says she is "very concerned" about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/kyiv... Ukraine's attacks on Russian refineries & storage depots are hitting home. The question is: why is the American president scraping and bowing to the war criminal Putin?
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"This fall, ninth-grade students across the country are being required to read the novel in full, according to Chinese state media. One report in an official newspaper held it up as an anti-materialistic love story that young people could learn from." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/w... /2
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Why China Is Requiring Ninth Graders to Read ‘Jane Eyre’
The Victorian heroine has long been celebrated in China for her independence and insistence on equality.
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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You take our bike lanes, we take the road. Toronto showed up Friday night. 📸 @geoffreybercarich via Instagram
Cyclists taking the lane stretching kms of a city street
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"Doesn't care, I suppose. Doesn't know what he's talking about.” #USApoli www.rawstory.com/trump-diplom...
rawstory.com
'Oh my God': White House insiders reveal Trump's dangerous high-stakes habit
President Donald Trump heads into high-stakes meetings with world leaders carrying a risky habit, White House insiders told his biographer.In a Saturday episode of "Inside Trump's Head," Michael Wolff...
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Faisal Hassan @faisalhassan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
8 years of waste and scandal under Ford, and now Bethlenfalvy & Surma say we need to tighten our belts?  They spent it. Now they want to cut your healthcare, your schools, and your services. #ONpoli #YSW
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
While Europe is increasingly moving to decentralized #electricity generation & citizen/municipal controls, Ontario continues to centralize control & enfeeble local authorities. Decentralized electricity production increases overall resilience. #ONpoli #energy www.counterpunch.org/2026/09/07/c...
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Can Decentralized Energy Prevent the Next Crisis?
After International Energy Agency executive director Fatih Birol labeled the ongoing global energy turmoil the “biggest energy security threat in history”
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Barchart @barchart.com · 25/09/2026
BREAKING 🚨: Argentina Argentina's Peso has fallen to an all-time low against the U.S. Dollar and has now collapsed 99.8% since 2009 🤯 👀
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Conservative politicians like to talk about the importance of having "skin in the game"– having something tangible at stake. Ford cabinet ministers should show they have real skin in the game by cycling 5 to 10 km a day in central Toronto. #ONpoli #cycling toronto.citynews.ca/2026/08/28/c...
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'Bike lanes save lives': Cyclists rally against the removal of downtown bike lanes
Dozens of cycling advocates filled the streets of downtown Toronto as part of a ride organized in response to a recent court ruling allowing the Ford government to rip out 19 km of protected bike lane...
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Fourth fire this year at the same Russian refinery. Drones hit Lukoil-Permnefteorgsintez in Perm overnight — the AVT-5 unit, 1,500 km from the front. Already knocked offline in April, May, and August. 13M+ tons of crude a year. Distance stopped meaning safe a long time ago.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Alberta separatists assume - no debt (other provinces will pick up the tab for Alberta's share of the national debt) - no benefits to seniors or low-income people - no military spending - no obligations to aboriginals It's magic! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABpoli
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Alberta separation group releases report touting affordable transition to independence | CBC News
An independence organization is the latest group to try to price out what it might cost should Alberta decide to become a sovereign nation, although critics say the new report omits major expenses suc...
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 25/09/2026
The Trump administration said it had identified 185 noncitizens on Nevada's voter rolls — but Nevada checked the names and says every one of them is a U.S. citizen.
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Trump admin's voter fraud claim hits embarrassing snag after state fact-checks names
The Trump administration said it had identified 185 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter rolls — but Nevada checked the names and says every one of them is a U.S. citizen. “Our records indicate that they were citizens,” Nevada Deputy Attorney General said in a letter obtained by The New York Times. “You ha...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The most misleading financial advice you'll ever hear: "buying a house is the best investment you'll ever make." House prices have "plummeted an average of $176,600 across Canada since the 2022 peak." A house is a box to live in – not an investment. #economics #housing
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“The FAO estimates that real provincial operating funding will decrease to $15,074 per student in 2026-27, $14,850 per student in 2027‑28 and $14,775 per student in 2028-29” www.thestar.com/politics/ont... #onpoli #onted
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Ontario’s education funding per student is decreasing after inflation, watchdog finds
The government says Financial Accountability Office of Ontario’s figures don’t provide the full picture.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Removing Toronto's key bike lanes will result in more cyclist deaths. That much is certain. It will also cost $48 Million for removal & $27 Million in "sunk" costs (losing the initial taxpayer investment) plus further "unaccounted costs." #ONpoli #cycling #cars globalnews.ca/news/1085115...
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Toronto’s bike lanes cost millions to install. How much will it be to remove them? | Globalnews.ca
The province has confirmed plans to remove bike lanes from Bloor Street, University Avenue and Yonge Street as part of new legislation.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OC Transpo, while Sutcliffe has been in office: According to the AG, only 4% of less-frequent routes met the 85% punctuality standard. None of the 73 school routes met the target. Scheduling and shortages of buses contributed significantly to the problems. Sutcliffe should actually TAKE transit.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"We ran the same shopping queries through both Google AI Mode and traditional search on the same day at the same moment. When the exact same product showed up on both, the price in AI Mode was 21.6% higher on average." #technology #AI #consumers productrise.app/blog/google-...
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Google AI Mode shows the same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search [Data Study] | Productrise
A US and UK data study: when the same product ranks in both Google AI Mode and traditional search, the AI Mode price is about 21.6% higher.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/e... "He (Putin) is patient zero. The one from whom this idea of war keeps spreading further... Patient zero must be stopped."
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Zelensky tells world leaders that Putin is ‘patient zero’ - but Ukraine has a cure
In his address to the UN the Ukrainian president warned Nato allies Putin is spreading the ‘infection’ of war throughout the world and implored them to crackdown on the Russian leader before the conta...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Britain has administered the Falklands for ~200 years. In a 2013 referendum, 99.8% of voters chose to retain their status as a British Overseas Territory. But Milei, like Galtieri, wants to distract from his own dismal record. #UN
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Milei threatens at UN that Argentina will take ‘matters into our own hands’ on Falklands
Argentinian president accuses United Nations of being filled with ‘parasites’ in bellicose general assembly speech
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/ctvn... Amazing what Sutcliffe promises to do next term that he could've done this term! #Ottawa
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In 1969 a funeral was held for the Don River to "highlight the decay of the river and valley as a result of industrial development." Today, Biidaasige Park, at the mouth of the Don, shows that a river can be revived. Despite Doug Ford, who wanted a mall & a Ferris wheel. #Toronto #environment
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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Boycotts, solidarity with oppressed peoples, domino effect…lots of good in this three-minute story. #Apartheid #Ireland
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Rockford @somethingimpish.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Fucking amazing. Norway you rule. Love, Canada
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The "300th fleet": Ukraine's drone forces commander plays on the army code for a wounded man after disabling 300 Russian ships The Azov is at a standstill, Kerch is blocked, MSC quit Novorossiysk—all in 11 weeks of Operation MoLoChKa. 🔗 euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/22/3...
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ukraine targets Moscow with hundreds of drones on final day of Russian election www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... “Sobyanin accused Ukraine of attempting to interfere with a tightly controlled three-day election in Russia.” “Tightly controlled” indeed. Putin opponents tend to disappear. #Ukraine
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Ukraine targets Moscow with hundreds of drones on final day of Russian election
At least three killed and oil refinery damaged in attack as doubts cast over initial reports of ballistic missile use
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Timothy Snyder: “The people who hold the most political power in the United States choose not to see Ukraine. The president has never visited. The secretary of defense has never visited.” In another era, the American media would have offset this wilful nescience. Not now. #media #Ukraine
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Corporate bankruptcies in USA at a 16-year high. According to the Labor Dept, the U.S. Misery Index (which combines unemployment with inflation) is "up a whopping 4.17% from one year ago." And according to the Fed, construction spending has fallen off a cliff. The fruit of Trumpenomics. #USApoli
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
"A nation long perceived, not least by its own nationals, as resilient and courageous — war heroes, nerveless astronauts, brave civil rights activists — is now forced to contemplate ... themselves [as] cowardly and unprincipled and made of the wrong stuff." #USApoli www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/b...
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Why Did These Powerful People Kowtow to Donald Trump?
In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.
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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis... Documentation. Committees. "Wayfinding." But NO useful signs. Took 5 minutes to ask 3 employees & 2 bystanders how to get from the Eglinton crosstown Yonge stop to the Yonge subway. Metrolinx refused to adopt TTC's signage system for "branding purposes." #ONpoli
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