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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 13h

Being a smarmy jerk is a prerequisite for high office under Trump.

Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 13h

In wrestling terms, the United States under Trump has turned heel. They're with the bad guys now. Russia and North Korea are America's new allies.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Trump allying with Russia over the oil crisis he started is certainly confirmation that the United States is no longer a member of the Western alliance.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is indistinguishable from 1930s Nazi rhetoric about Jews.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Canadian policymakers will need to consider if companies owned by Musk can be trusted to operate in this country.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As the votes come in, the PQ's share of the vote inches downwards; the Liberals' inches up, as does the Tories'. Leger, respected pollster that they are, seems like they may have come closest to spotting the collapse of the CAQ and the move towards the federalist parties in the last week.

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Lawrence Herzog 🇨🇦 @lawherz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

PQ support is driven less by enthusiasm for separation than by fatigue with the incumbents, a leader who polls well, and a five-way vote split. They won government with less than 30% of the popular vote. But not a majority, looks like.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yep, Henoud successfully bumps off Boissonneault in Arthabaska-L'Erable. That's one of those ridings that people will point to as a key one in robbing the PQ of a majority. The races in Jean-Talon and some of the areas southeast of Montreal are also toight like a toiger.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It looks like we'll end up with the Quebec Liberals in control of Montreal and the Conservatives dominant in the capital region. The PQ will have "fun" navigating the politics of that. It certainly seems like there was a last-weekend "Stop the PQ" rush towards federalist parties.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Canadians probably can't unclench even if the PQ is held to a minority, but it certainly complicates their hopes of holding a referendum on secession once Trump is gone.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Eyes on Arthabaska-L'Erable, where a Conservative is running eight points up on a PQ incumbent who only just flipped the seat in a 2025 byelection.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

And there's CTV calling a PQ minority. It seems like the Conservatives are reaping the most benefit from the demise of CAQ. There are a lot of tight races taking shape around Quebec City and in central Quebec, and as the votes are counted, the PCQ edge seems to deepen.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As the night goes on, the PQ's share of the popular vote is inching lower. We'll see how much of the vote is still out there, or if their desired majority will prove elusive.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

He just couldn't wait to drop the T slur. What a vile little toad.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still more great investigative reporting from The Globe and Mail, blowing the lid off of the Alberta separatist movement's American ties and the role of US Republicans in the leak of millions of Albertans' personal data to a separatist group. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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The elephant in the room

Alberta separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support – and Republican operatives have provided tactical assistance inside the province

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

That's genuinely disturbing. US states with the death penalty have had numerous cases in recent years in which death penalty drugs have tortured people horribly before killing them, but I've never heard of a case where the recipient just didn't die.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Funny how the number of data breaches seems to have risen starkly after the whole DOGE thing. Hm.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The part of me that remembers being religious likes to think that God doesn't give His grace to people who do evil in His name.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Post a picture of a vampire that isn't Dracula? Sure. I give you the salt vampire from Star Trek.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What's really troubling is that Robson seems to have done the rounds of fringe ideological sheets, legitimate media and foreign policy-oriented think tanks, yet no one spotted the fraud until he tried to pull it in Türkiye. That's a lot of Canadian editors asleep at the switch.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026

A Turkish media outlet is reporting the fake AI journalist “Daniel Robson,” who was published by the Ottawa Citizen, Policy Options, Western Standard and The Hub, was targeting a “critic of the Moroccan ruling elite” The dissident suspects “Daniel Robson” may have links to “Moroccan intelligence”

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Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today

The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It was drilled into me in journalism school that you should not quote Internet people because you have no idea who they are or if they're real. The fact that legitimate outlets were duped by this "person," who has apparently never been seen live, is utterly jaw-dropping.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Genuinely astonishing investigative work from Türkiye Today's Ilker Sezer, exposing how an AI "journalist" infiltrated Canadian media and gained a platform big enough to launch coordinated character attacks on specific Moroccan dissidents in Canada. www.turkiyetoday.com/world/exclus...

turkiyetoday.com

Exclusive—Fake AI columnist dupes Canadian press to target Moroccan dissidents, and a Turkish 'middleman' - Türkiye Today

The phantom writer communicated exclusively via email and rarely phoned Canadian publications, who were oblivious until Türkiye Today unraveled the matter

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Only the Dear Leader can stop the evil bad guys. Don't you love the Dear Leader?

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

We cannot look away from Russia's wanton slaughter of the innocent. Give Ukraine what it needs to make "Never again" now. Send a clear message that the world will not stand idly by while big nations butcher the innocent because they think no one will stop them.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Reading stats on Canadians' mental health and stress levels is remarkable because they don't even need to use the word "Trump" for it to be immensely clear as to why Canadians' stress levels mysteriously jumped from 2024 to 2025.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't pronounce nonsense. Support Ukraine like a fine Fella.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Trump's fawning mannerisms when faced with a dictator never fail to astonish.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I should try marketing my stuff like this. "My clever and thoughtful communications strategies could endanger the entire human race. Please give me more public money so I can control them."

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Same reason I'd rather watch a human speedrun a video game than watch a tool-assisted speedrun, or why people think using cheats in a game is, well, cheating. Sure, everyone does the Simcity money cheat now and then, but part of the fun of playing a game is learning to play it well.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Especially with art, sport and recreation, part of doing it is the feeling you get from doing it. Part of watching it is enjoying what the artists and athletes do in order to excel. An imperfect piece of human art is inherently more interesting than a perfect AI one because the human put in effort.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My guess is that AI actors don't catch on save as a niche. It's like chess. We've had, for years now, chess machines that can annihilate even the best human players. It's been 30 years since Deep Blue beat Kasparov. Yet more humans play chess than ever. Watching robots play robots just isn't fun.

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Jesus doesn’t hear the prayers of those who wage war.” — Pope Leo XIV

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A stunning shot of a Ukrainian F-16 pilot looking back at a jet-powered Shahed he had just shot down over Kyiv with his onboard cannon.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Not the first time Trump has raised the stakes to an absurd degree, tanked American soft power and then done a massive victory lap over essentially the same deal he started with. The political capital spent to achieve minor concessions is simply not commensurate.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know Ossoff is a wonk at heart, but he effectively cuts to the core of why people hate Trump. Whatever your ideological predilections, what people hate about him is his flagrant abuse of power for corrupt and malicious ends.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A functional democracy does not work like this. As written, the President of the United States is not given power by the Constitution to impose taxes or tariffs, nor to make war on their own authority. Congress needs to take those powers back; Trump has exposed how easily they can be abused.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I'm the Democratic brain trust, I'm putting ending the delegation of power to the Presidency at the centre of my agenda. The United States is in this position because Congress has given up too much of its power to the President, especially on tariffs. It's turned the office into that of a king.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My ancestors came from the Ukrainian Carpathians. Someday I'd love to visit.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Ultimately, if you're a candidate, vet the people you're campaigning with. If you're going to have someone turn up at your rally, it's good to know what they stand for and what they've said to their audience. It's also good to remember that the Internet is a bubble, not comprehensive reality.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For the foreseeable future, the upshot of all this is more content for the terminally-online streamer bro culture and more mascotization of said streamer bros to try and damn Democratic candidates by association. We'll see how it plays out.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Republican insurgent movement was more successful than I suspect the Democratic one will be, in large part because big money quickly co-opted the Republican populists. It doesn't appear like American socialists have deep-pocketed backers - indeed it would fly in the face of the principles.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This isn't to make value judgments on either side, but to point out that the illusion of solidarity has been broken and the incompatibility of expectations between the liberal and socialist blocs of the American opposition has been laid out. Same reason why Canada can't get a deal with Trump.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

"Libs aren't left" is a common refrain on the far left for a reason: They consider liberals as inevitably fated to enable and throw in with fascists. In an ideology that envisions a revolutionary remodeling of the economy, incrementalists are roadblocks, not allies. The breakup becomes unavoidable.

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Jeff Bolichowski @jeffbmedia.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

For awhile there, I think the energy that came out of the Sanders campaign made a liberal-socialist alliance seem viable in the US. That energy has faded, in large part because the goals of American socialists are frequently incompatible with those of American liberals.

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