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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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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1h
The self-involvement of Americans never fails to be astonishing.
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Yael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18h
In Montreal? Come to my book launch! On October 23, join me and @rachelgilmore.bsky.social for a conversation about HYPERSCALE, the data centre backlash, and what the tech billionaires are trying to achieve with it all. Get your ticket now: www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...
HYPERSCALE: an evening with author Paris Marx + local AI data centre organizers
Paris Marx in conversation with Rachel Gilmore
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 22h
JOINT STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTERS OF CANADA, DENMARK, GERMANY, FRANCE, ITALY, JAPAN, THE NETHERLANDS, UNITED KINGDOM "As committed supporters of the ICC we regret and strongly disagree with the announcement of sanctions to be imposed upon the Court by the United States."
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 22h
I imagine the credit agencies are making $$$ out of it.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 23h
Another data breach notice in my mail today. Too bad all these “to make it up to you, here’s 2 years of credit monitoring services ” can’t be used consecutively 🙄
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law.”
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Blake Montgomery @montgomery.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
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‘Someone else will do it for less’: refugees in Kenya are powering tech for dwindling pay
Refugee gig workers for tech companies don’t know how much they’ll be paid – if AI hasn’t already taken their jobs
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Say it ain’t so !
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Gordon J Holtslander @pinhman.humanwords.party.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
@chris Little reminder that Musk’s grandfather J. Haldeman, who was active in Saskatchewan politics, left Sk for South Africa, because SK wasn’t racist enough in the 1950’s .. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_N._Hal…
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Joshua N. Haldeman - Wikipedia
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I am hearing that U.S. sanctions agains the International Criminal Court as a whole are incoming. I hope the government in Canada, and indeed all states that care about the rule or law & victims of atrocities, denounce the American regime and its thuggery.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Ha.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Yes, and 👍🏻
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Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ) @cajournalists.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
📅Time’s running out to apply for CAJ’s $3,500 Geoffrey Stevens Fellowship. We’re seeking your ideas for a big story in provincial or local politics. Deadline: October 15 Apply online: caj.ca/geoffrey-stevens-fellowship
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The CTV brief says $10,000 after installation. I’m hoping there are matching grants because that would be rough on a $25000+ job.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
We will have to see what happens when all the details are sorted I guess.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/10/2026
the funny thing about this of course is that "athenian democracy" was a cautionary tale to the framers, who saw it as unstable and prone to demagogues and tyrants like the one rubio works for
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hopefully it is a generous and easy to access program, the provinces do some matching and Efficiency NS can get the comms and administration part right. 🤞🏻
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Didn’t musk overstay his student visa ?
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Hopefully it’s the usual nonsense, but our minds tend to go to the darker scenarios. :(
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At first glance, it sounds similar to the oil to heat pump program the government ended this year. Except with the added requirement of waiting for your oil furnace to be dying ?
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
So nerve wracking. I’m sorry
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I agree. (Also, both comforted that other people are being yelled at by the self-checkouts and discouraged that from small town NS to downtown TO grocery shopping involves security guards)
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
For @thestar.com I wrote about the gross American export Canadians should avoid most of all. Gift link! www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
The newspaper article itself, which shows prepared to Canada with Maple leafs on them. The headline reads What is “Buy Canadian” just makes us more American?
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Chris Power @chrispower.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson, newly minted Nobel Prize in Literature laureate, once published the greatest ever author bio
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Such a universal whine.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And highly skilled.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
When I look at the community building some media orgs are doing, I miss being in “audience management”. Then I read stuff like this (which is not new except for the Palantir level of evil) and remember the other side of it all.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love that the need for this solution was only identified because of a very relatable mothering moment.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"Soliman has been held incommunicado by Equatoguinean authorities since September 11 after speaking to media, including the Prospect, about poor conditions at the hotel where he and dozens of other third-country nationals had been imprisoned for months. " prospect.org/2026/10/07/f...
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Federal Judge Rules DHS Must Bring Back Gay Arizona Man Imprisoned in Africa - The American Prospect
A Trump-apppointed judge ordered Ahmed Soliman must be returned to the United States.
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Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.eurosky.social · 08/10/2026
For anyone who's not caught up, the US government pressured the EU and governments of Lithuania + Canada to disavow a conference on disinfo because of a panel about US disinfo and interference in Europe (whose panellists were all Americans!). Only the French govt left standing. #Disinfo2026
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
No need to invade us when you can call Bill Gates and mention your old pal Jeff.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The Curse of Politics gang talked about how the Canadian government runs on Microsoft and how that’s a digital sovereignty problem this week. I worry about that every day.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
#NovaScotia New child car seat rules coming into effect on Oct. 19 Children required to stay in rear-facing car seat until age 2, and weigh more than 10 kg (22 lbs), remain in harnessed seat until age 4 and weigh more than 18 kg (40 lbs). www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New child car seat rules coming into effect on Oct. 19 | CBC News
As of Oct. 19, children will be required to stay in rear-facing car seats until at least age 2. They must also remain in harnessed car seats until a minimum age of four.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Airlines have been doing this shit for decades- it was in my Econ text books 25 years ago - but now they’re so much better at it AND every other business is joining them.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/10/2026
It’s really remarkable to me that 10 years into this people feel compelled to “clarify” Trump’s homicidal and often genocidal fantasies. It is deranged for the president to daydream about American cities in states he hates getting blown up. Full stop.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Same. Chris and I lived a block apart in Wolfville at the time. But I think we met on Twitter.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
And doing so mostly with tools that already exist.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
oh my GOD
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I know. I’ve spent some time in that area for kid things over the years and I dread running errands or eating there whether on foot or wheels. :(
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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I would contend that lot is also horrible for car drivers. The whole thing is a safety nightmare. :(
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Michelle Cohen @docmcohen.medsky.social · 05/10/2026
Canada finally takes a serious look at Black maternal health, confirming what advocates have been saying for a long time.
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After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications | CBC News
The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than whi...
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I am struck by how Right wing politicians across the world are intent on running campaigns based on the notion that there has been a war on the motorist and this needs to be reversed. Yet, in each of these examples the sustainable policies have worked and been beneficial.”
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The Right’s assault on common sense
There is a worldwide pattern of attacks on sustainable transport.
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 06/10/2026
The truth about a local news website is this Virginia city’s best-kept secret buff.ly/3Pncnhj
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In Winchester, The Truth About A Local News Website Is The City’s Best-Kept Secret
As the hometown newspaper cut staff and TV stations left one small Virginia town, a website appeared touting a new, trusted source of local news. But the who, what, when, where and why of it have…
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