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Jenn Hoegg

@jhoegg.bsky.social
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Salty recovering journalist, lapsed political philosophy student and Nova Scotian/resident of Mi’kma’ki. “Wild-mannered”.

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Tara-Michelle Ziniuk @tmziniuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hello, it is Monday now so perhaps people are thinking about work. Please consider sharing this job posting with smart Canadians who know about queer and trans issues and culture. Social video experience a must; journalism experience a huge asset. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/44...
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Xtra Magazine hiring Social Video Producer in Canada | LinkedIn
Posted 11:32:14 PM. Do you want to help make the world better for queer and trans folks through social media?Xtra…See this and similar jobs on LinkedIn.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 1h
"It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it."
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David Reevely @davidreevely.bsky.social · 17h
It was AFTER Confederation, took 10 years of stop-and-start planning first, and the 1881-1885 construction phase went HALFWAY across Canada—just Ontario to B.C.—without labour standards or consideration of Indigenous people. This mythologizing of the CPR is in itself a mark of unseriousness.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 3h
DOJ giving more attention right now to the NYT story about a former Scalia clerk and GWB appointee discussing his court overseeing the horrors the Trump administration has inflicted on Minnesota and the threats the judges faced for doing so is certainly a choice. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/u...
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the ghost of tegel airport @adogonabus.bsky.social · 3h
Feels like every manager in the known universe is thinking "AI makes our product worse, but we get to lay people off, so it's worth it"
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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 3h
A federal judge ORDERED the Trump admin to privately show him the memo purporting to justify boat strikes that have killed 234 people in the Caribbean and Pacific. Judge Engelmayer rejected several rationales for withholding the memo from the public and will determine whether to release it.
The Court directs defendants to file the declaration(s), and to arrange for the Memo to be available for in camera review, within two weeks of this decision. See ACLU II, 2016 WL 889739, at *6 (ordering Government, within five days, to produce document at issue and “advise the court who has received [it] (including persons who received it from its original recipients) and for what purpose”); Elec. Frontier Found. v. U.S. Dep’t of Just., 826 F. Supp. 2d 157, 172 (D.D.C. 2011) (directing agency to “provide further explanation regarding whether it shared with non-Executive Branch entities the responsive documents that it withheld from the plaintiff”). Defendants are authorized to make appropriate redactions in the declaration as publicly filed, while filing the unredacted declaration under seal. Upon review of these materials, the Court will determine whether to commission supplemental briefing.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 5h
This is better energy journalism than you'll see in most Canadian newspapers today -- and certainly anything coming out of Postmedia in Alberta. I've yet to see any of the talking heads and industry spokespeople actually confront it. energi.media/markham-on-e...
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LNG Canada Phase 2: The $33-Billion Bet on Asian Demand
LNG Canada Phase 2 is a $33-billion bet on Asian demand, Qatar recovery and a historic wave of new global LNG supply.
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 4h
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Klobuchar on Schmitt: "He's not aware that there's also women's sports ... because they wanted to do this to distract everyone, I would say they got their comeuppance"
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David Kaye @davidakaye.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
it's evidently too much to ask the rw justices to consider the irreparable harm to individuals treated to such inhumanity. they are complicit in this criminality. shame on all six of them. and shame on us for having a system that allows this illegality.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 9h
Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails reut.rs/3VaLvPk
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Viruses run rampant across Havana as water, power fails
Cuban housewife Yuamilka Hechavarria was asleep last Tuesday when water rushed into the cistern of the crumbling tenement where she lives in old Havana.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 6h
“And that’s why we blocked a truck going to FDR’s Canadian cottage today
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 7h
I feel there’s a lot of symbolism to the Roosevelts’ summer home being punished by the breakdown of the postworldwar international order.
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Matthew Kay @mjskay.com · 19h
every 17-year-old boy who reads The Fountainhead will follow one of three paths: Eliezer Yudkowsky, Ron Paul, or growing the fuck up
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Barbie Devyndarbė @katchin05.blacksky.app · 7h
I’ve realized my (current) problem with work as a concept is that if you’re competent you should be expanding your workload or area of responsibility. No! I want to do the job I was hired for! I am not here to grow! I am here to get paid because capitalism is set up like this!
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 9h
She also adjusted her pace to ensure the injured cub could keep up. By 2008, he was observed hunting on his own & at the age of 20 is King of the Fat Bears, holding his own at the crowded Brook Falls. A story of a mother's love, sacrifice & a little cub who became a champion fat bear. 🥹
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How Bear 89 earned the name Backpack
Discover how Bear 89 became Backpack, why his nickname predates his leg injury, and how his mother Holly adjusted to her cub’s needs.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 8h
A corollary to this important point about AI & invisible labor is that, 100% of the time, the dudes most obsessed with onboarding LLMs into classrooms either suck deeply at teaching or are not teachers at all but instead lifelong administrators who think teaching is “generating feedback” & that’s it
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 7h
The survivors’ flag is raised, while a Kanaii honour song is performed. (The wind, however, did not do its job, and set the flag waving.)
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 8h
I'm glad we're not only talking about the horrific harm of sexual assault and rape but also the secondary and massive trauma of institutional betrayal. People need this language and community around this compounding grief and fury. And we can't even begin to solve these issues without tackling it.
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 8h
On Parliament Hill this morning for the flag raising ceremony that will begin a day of solemn remembrance on this Truth and Reconciliation Day. It seems even more important this year, in a moment of rising residential school denialism. #cdnpoli #Canada #yow #Ottawa
An audience, dressed in orange shirts (and rain coats) sit on a foggy, slightly drizzly morning in front of a stage set up in front of the parliamentary visitors centre. In the background, one can see the construction equipment renovating Centre Block.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 8h
Indigenous people, overrepresented in Canada's prisons, are far more overrepresented in a hidden form of solitary meant for suicidal and self-harming prisoners. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
Line chart shows Canada's use of observation cells for Indigenous and white prisoners.
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Jacob Kramer-Duffield @jaykaydee.bsky.social · 9h
Again: AI is a technology but it's also an ideology; that ideology is Bossism; neither bosses nor AI advocates really understand what most people do in their jobs so both assume AI can do it. They're *trying* but if these tools could replace jobs beyond Junior Software Developer, we'd know.
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Dean Jobb - True Crime Writer @deanjobb.bsky.social · 11h
Britain’s Slave Traders by William A Pettigrew review – the inconvenient truth This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s... @theguardian.com
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Britain’s Slave Traders by William A Pettigrew review – the inconvenient truth
This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain
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Nicole Munro @nicolemunro.bsky.social · 19h
With the evolving Cornell University story, I have been reflecting on my fourth and final year at St. Thomas University in 2015 in Fredericton. One of my professors, Jan Wong, wanted some of our class to work on an investigative series on rape on campus.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 18h
I also like this explanation, i.e. they simply forget women’s sports exist when they don’t need them as a cudgel against trans people, because actually “it never occurred to a single one of us that a man would go to a women’s basketball game” is an even more stunning self-own
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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 20h
they DIDN'T REFUND her fucking TUITION?????
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 22h
Sometimes I think about where we would be as a culture today if #MeToo in 2017 had radicalized more straight men into fighting sexual abuse instead of creating a culture of "oh god don't get me CANCELED" and "fake accusations" paranoia and resentment
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Anne Helen Petersen @annehelen.bsky.social · 21h
"As things stand, students who commit infractions like plagiarism — which typically has no real victims — are often punished more harshly than the male students directly responsible for making the campus dangerous for female ones."
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 29/09/2026
Activists unfurled a 24-foot-long quilt protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violence. Made of 11,000 individual patches representing individuals disappeared by ICE in the state, the “Stolen Neighbors” quilt was stitched together by dozens of volunteers.
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Activists Unveil Quilt Honoring Thousands Disappeared by ICE in Minnesota
The Stolen Neighbors Quilt features 11,000 hand-stitched squares in an indictment of violence against immigrants and a “call for political courage.”
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Paul Gowder @gowder.io · 29/09/2026
SCOTUS, I guess: "who cares if immigrants are sent to torture dungeons in Equatorial Guinea? It's not like they're humans with rights."
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Hannah Walser @hkpmw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If “irreparable harm” means anything, it means being sent to a country you’ve never seen, where you may well be imprisoned, tortured, or killed, under a policy that (the cert grant implicitly acknowledges!) may well be illegal
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
We absolutely have the ability to do both and we must! There is no silver bullet to addressing rape culture. We need early interventions with boys, bystander education, *and* effective self-defense. I literally teach all three so I am totally on team "Attack rape culture from every angle"
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no brain, only alison @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As angry as we are about the Cornell Seven, we should also be carrying that anger about all other incidents of rape. Campus rape and all rape. We need to carry this rage through every incident. We need to use that anger to tear down the systems that perpetuate it and allow rapists "second chances"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "History teaches that the rule of law is rarely destroyed all at once. It's often weakened by attacks on the institutions and the public servants sworn to uphold it. Since January 2025, we have witnessed precisely such an effort."
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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a stupid headline. We will pay for it. If it's public we'll pay through taxes, if it's private we'll pay some other way. But make no mistake, we are going to be the ones paying for it, not the private company.
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Fixing or replacing Halifax's MacKay bridge could cost up to $3B. Who’s paying? | CBC News
The MacKay bridge enhancement was one of three projects the province brought to the Canada Investment Summit.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In 2014, I interviewed a Columbia University student who went from class to class carrying the mattress she was raped on—a protest performance piece to remind college administrators what they put on her shoulders. Twelve years later, we still expect women on college campuses to carry that weight.
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Carrying That Weight—Again
I can’t stop thinking about the Cornell rape case
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 29/09/2026
Thinking about the horrific things contractors working behind the scenes on terms of service and moderation encounter on the regular...
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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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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
the horrific cornell gang rape case has me thinking about emma sulkowicz who alleged she was raped as a student at columbia in 2014 and never got any justice. it has me thinking about the physical and mental weight young women are forced to carry while their safety is subsumed by male potential.
Emma Sulkowicz carrying around a mattress on the Columbia campus in 2014 to raise awareness of her alleged rape and the university's inaction.
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It is truly an honour to be this hated by someone this evil. Whatever we're doing, Canada, it's working.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
BREAKING: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison. Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning. Today, at Law Dork:
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Breaking: DOJ asks SCOTUS to erase trans people from the law in case over trans care in prison
Solicitor General John Sauer made the alarming, all-encompassing argument — previously covered at Law Dork — to the Supreme Court on Monday morning.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
One of the biggest media failures (among many) of the past year has been the failure to cover the Venezuela "operation" for what it was--a smash-and-grab mafia state theft by the U.S. that violates international law and the rights of Venezuelans while achieving very damn little for the U.S.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There’s something to be said for how most of the political spectrum can unite around hounding some lesbians over niche drama in their spaces but huge segments of society are silent about pervasive campus rape impacting a huge population of primarily youngwomen
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026
The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.
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Devin Heroux @devinheroux.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PWHL HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA Hockey Night in Canada is returning. But it’ll be Professional Women’s Hockey League games on Saturday nights. Details here: www.cbc.ca/sports/hocke...
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CBC/Radio-Canada announces return of Hockey Night in Canada in PWHL partnership | CBC Sports
CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada is returning for a 90th season this fall after all. But instead of six-plus months of NHL action, the longest-running sports program in the world will air eight prime time...
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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The eight-year (and counting) delay in getting an affordable housing project built in Spryfield Morning File by me
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The eight-year (and counting) delay in getting an affordable housing project built in Spryfield - Halifax Examiner
Habitat for Humanity is one of the oldest and most established non-profits devoted to housing, and it could not make this project work.
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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the best argument for the humanities I've seen in a long time.
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Arienne Childrey @ari4ohio.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pay attention Dems. Gov Beshear won twice, in a deep red state, and never threw trans people under the bus. He led with compassion rather than the fear and cowardice we've seen from some of our Ohio candidates and party leadership.
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Trevor J. Adams @trevorjadams.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Matthew Donahoe, 53, of Bible Hill, N.S., has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference, assault with a weapon, two counts of assault by choking, four counts of assault, and administering a noxious substance."
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N.S. teacher charged with sexually assaulting student at school | CBC News
Matthew Donahoe, 53, faces charges in incidents alleged to have occurred this school year. RCMP have identified other victims and say there may be more.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
From @justinling.ca who sat in on some of the foreign policy focus groups, a similar caution If anything, Canadians want to engage more with the world now. They don’t want to hunker down and focus on ourselves www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Justin Ling: Mark Carney may appeal to vast swathes of the country, but there are some things about Canadians he doesn’t seem to get
Rather than merely address global policymakers and CEOs, the prime minister needs to talk to more everyday voters.
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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I was involved in a foreign policy deliberative democracy exercise this spring, and the report was just released Basically, they take 400 Canadians, an exact demographic cross-section, who spend a weekend discussing foreign policy www.global-canada.org/foreign-poli...
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Foreign Policy by Canadians 2026 — Global Canada
Global Canada is a non-governmental organization committed to enhancing Canada's positive global impact.
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