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Jim Gilzean

@jimgilzean.bsky.social
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Proud Ontarian. Proud Torontonian. Proud progressive. He/him. My Medium page - medium.com/@theontarioobserver

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h
I never feel more like a true Angeleno than when this asshole is attacking my beautiful city go to hell, dipshit
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 17h
I miss the days when a President would immediately be removed for suggesting a foreign nuclear power “take out” Los Angeles. Shame on everyone in the US Government allowing this dangerous sham Presidency to continue.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 8h
The people who'll laugh or shrug off the 'nuke Los Angeles & San Diego comment' are the same people who wanted Mamdani to not be at the 9/11 commemoration.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It’s confusing that @theatlantic.com described this man as a “a lifelong Democrat who had voted for Trump for the first time in 2024” who when these are some of his very easily findable FB posts:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h
LET'S MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

REAGAN '80
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h
Can you imagine any other...ah, nevermind. Should be leading news for a week, a month, a day? But, nah, nothing. The President of the United States openly talking about taking out major American cities and the millions that live in them.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 20h
An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 8h
BREAKING: Chris Alexander confirms he’s stepping aside in the race to be Toronto’s next mayor. #ToPoli
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 20h
Quebec - 🔵 CAQ leader, Christine Frechette, has lost her seat of Trois-Rivieres to the PQ ⚜️
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Jim Gilzean @jimgilzean.bsky.social · 20h
At least they didn't get a majority.
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Quebec sovereigntist party will form minority government, CTV News projects. Live results here.
CTV News projects the Parti Québécois will form a minority government in Quebec. The PQ leader has vowed to hold a referendum on Quebec sovereignty. Follow for live updates.
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Quinn Yeargain @yeargain.bsky.social · 23h
this is just so, so deeply cruel, stupid, outrageous, offensive, blood-curdling, idk, from beginning to end. it is a pathology unto itself. it is the disgusting bigotry of a tried-and-true bigot whose brain is increasingly broken by old age. it is, to say the obvious, intolerable in our society.
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Jim Gilzean @jimgilzean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Libs and Greens need to coalesce around the NDP. They are the best bet at beating Ford and getting the province back on track.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The biggest democratic/liberal mistake of the last 50+ years has been operating like the right has anything to offer America. It was the fundamental problem with Bill Clinton to Obama and everyone in between
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The way to deal with the right is simple: out vote them. deprive them of power and influence. do not operate like they have anything to contribute and constantly ridicule their stupidity
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The guy sneering at "your precious liberal arts degree" majored in Philosophy at Harvard
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 05/10/2026
*stokes anger* *pooh-poohs anger^
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, has died at 84. Hastert admitted in federal court to sexually abusing boys he coached as a high school wrestling coach. A federal judge called him a "serial child molester." He was a registered sex offender.
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We’ve been hearing for 20 years plus how we should just sit down and have a meal with people who think black, Latino and LGBTQ people are subhumans who must be killed. No.
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I just want to live in a stable country where everyone is safe and their rights are protected and we all have housing and food and healthcare. I’m really sick and tired of this shit.
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 05/10/2026
feels like at least part of what is happening is that a lot of people want politics to solve the "my life feels empty" problem and the populist right is directly appealing to them
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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Jim Gilzean @jimgilzean.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well, this sucks. I hope Lula prevails in the runoff.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
hard to think of a cartoon that better sums up the mind of a Trump voter than this
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh wow the rapist feels bad for the other rapists? Shock
An article titled "trump expresses sympathy for accused Cornell seven rapists"
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Pissedoffpundit @pissedoffpundant.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Excellent reply😂👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯👏💯
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 04/10/2026
If this were a group of immigrant men accused, Kelly would be calling for the electric chair.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
National Post Crosses Line on Threat Against Lewis charlieangus.substack.com/p/national-p... #cdnpoli
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NATIONAL POST CROSSES LINE ON THREAT AGAINST LEWIS
A recent editorial on New Democratic Party leader Avi Lewis crossed the line into an extremist hate threat. It needs to be called out.
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 04/10/2026
A lot of the long-term Trump lawn signs around here mysteriously disappeared around when the Iran war started because I don't think they felt like being the visible reason when diesel hit $7 a gallon. Nature is taking its course!
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Love this 👇
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Community Notes for the win here, Megyn Kelly. 👌
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Jim Gilzean @jimgilzean.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Notice how Geddy can't cite a single issue he's voting on? Just vague illusions about how he feels things are wrong and that he wants a different leader. Meanwhile, there is actual data proving Mayor Chow is doing a solid job (homelessness down, lower transit costs, longer library hours, etc.)
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Rock the Vote: Geddy Lee endorses Brad Bradford for mayor - Toronto Life
No word yet on which way the dog is leaning
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Elizabeth DeLoria, Pope of Chili-Town @yourdadloves.me · 03/10/2026
A two panel meme of the Simpsons. The top panel has kirk van houten gesturing to a race care bed. The text reads "im an AI guy. How many local models do YOU run?" The bottom panel is homer with a pope hat photoshopped onto his head. The bottom text reads "I run the catholic church."
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gains @gains-skeets.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sure man. Argue with the pope on Twitter
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 03/10/2026
How many local models do you run?

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Pope, would you please shut the fuck up about matters you do not understand? You're not an Ai influencer, no one elected you, and you have absolutely no weight in this debate and you're being used as a mouthpiece to sway public opinion. how many local models do you run?
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The Mouthy Renegade Writer @mouthyrenegade.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Accurate as fuck.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The right will say there's no genocide in Gaza but then say there's a white genocide because they say a brown guy at the grocery store.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Heather MacDonald of the same Manhattan Institute that employes Chris Rufo. When institutions show you who they are, believe them.
Ayfkm Heather Mac Donald?

She’s doing apologia for the Cornell 7
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
just got a text saying my ballot was sent to me and I know we all like to joke about “voting harder” but, sincerely, I am looking forward to voting against these fuckers as hard as I can
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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Things Gavin Newsom has vetoed this week: -A ban on secretly recording people with smart glasses -A ban on ICE agents working for the state government -A ban on websites selling your data -A bill giving native tribes more say over water rights -A bill protecting transgender healthcare providers
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
INBOX: Ontario Liberals say their membership has grown to 55,000 eligible voters in this leadership race — substantially lower than the 2023 race, which claimed over 80,000.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Do you support or oppose the Government of Canada imposing a temporary moratorium on the development of new, more powerful AI systems until adequate safeguards can be developed?" Support: 68% Neutral: 15% Oppose: 14% EKOS / Oct 1, 2026
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING New York Governor Kathy Hochul has exercised her executive authority to appoint Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the case involving men accused of raping a woman at a Cornell University fraternity house.
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Ariel Edwards-Levy @aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a lot of "oh dear" to go around in the results of this very thorough Pew study on the issues with synthetic samples, but this strikes me as particularly "oh dear" www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20...
AI polling results can lean on racial or partisan stereotypes

In many cases, our AI poll took beliefs or attitudes that are reasonably common among a particular subgroup and portrayed them as nearly ubiquitous. For example, our AI poll would indicate that:

    97% of Hispanic adults are at least somewhat likely to follow the World Cup (while the actual share is 43%).
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