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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/09/2026

This rock in Leipzig marks the spot where the General German Workers' Association — the world’s first labour party — was founded 163 years ago in 1863 It was the world’s first party organized to build political power for working-class people Happy Labour Day, Canada

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🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @jenscharlevoix.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Perfection ❤️🎶❤️

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

More people like this in baseball please

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Sounds good. Except the government spending $310 million on non-market housing and $2.4 billion on market housing is the opposite of what those numbers should be. Why is the government using billions in public money to prop up a for-profit housing market that can't make a profit anymore?

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Derrick O'Keefe 🌹 @derrickokeefe.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In BC rich people already get extra votes in local elections. Believe it or not, non-resident property owners are allowed to vote in Vancouver's municipal election this October. BC should ban this undemocratic practice immediately.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

"While it can feel depressing to confront ourselves with how right-wing our politics have become, it’s also essential that Canadians acknowledge reality 'as it is — not as we wish it to be,' to quote our current prime minister." Grateful to @thetyee.ca for sharing my piece with a broader audience!

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Tom Goldsmith @tomgoldsmith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

I think @readtheorchard.org nails it with this. To use the heuristic "The purpose of a system is what it does," the purpose of Carney's government is quite clearly to advance a nakedly corporate agenda at the expense of Canadians (and the environment). open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

"While it’s easy to write off Carney’s unrequited policy concessions as a failed negotiating tactic, I suggest it’s more helpful to understand them as part of a broader corporate authoritarian consensus that Carney is willfully facilitating, acting less as a head of state and more as the CEO of Canada Inc., maximizing value for shareholders."

Jeremy Appel
Mark Carney, CEO of Canada Inc.

www.readtheorchard.org

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

If you haven’t read this in full it’s a gutwrenching account of both the sickening serial rape allegations against them and how many friends they have in the Trump administration: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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Andrew Tate’s Empire of Abuse

How the defining figure of the manosphere built a fortune—and became a political force—by systematically exploiting women.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

While Canadians giggle with schadenfreude about explosive diarrhea in the U.S., recall that Budget 2025 includes ongoing expenditure cuts of $211M, $89M & $81M to Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada & the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, respectively. budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

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Annex 3: Comprehensive expenditure review: Planned reductions by organisation | Budget 2025

Annex 3: Comprehensive expenditure review: Planned reductions by organisation — Part of Budget 2025.

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Jon of The North @krauza.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept Al slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them.

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Shane Gates 🇨🇦 @shanegates.ca · 02/06/2026

For an assignment, I spent 1.5 hours at a stop sign by U of T. Out of 228 vehicles, 208 did not stop. 59 when pedestrians were waiting or actively crossing. I saw 20/228 (9%) lawful interactions w/ that stop sign. If police showed any force to even one of those 208 drivers, there would be riots.

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Michelle Gamage @michellegamage.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Isn’t Sim currently being sued by city councillor Sean Orr after Sim claimed Orr was dealing drugs because AI told him so? Maybe I’m mixed up, but this seems like a bold statement while going through a defamation suit.

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Sarah Slack @sarahjslack.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

What’s not to love about a caring city with power to the people?!

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spooky murwolf the wereduck 〓〓🏳️‍🌈𓅄✊🐺🪄🎡 @murduck.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

A great choice for mayor of Vancouver for the COPE party, voted in last night. She gave a FANTASTIC speech. Thrilled to work for her in the coming months!

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 10/05/2026

Abolitionist John Brown was born May 9, 1800.

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

This should put an end to these stories about the drunkard running the FBI

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Hard to read major publications when the only article genres are like: - "Is this criminal thing that harms the world bad? We asked the guy doing it" - "Bigotry is warranted if I'm upset about life" - "Stop being poor so loud" and - "What Does It Mean: Debating horrible thing he said very clearly"

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Listen to @mattgalloway.bsky.social 's long interview w former Toronto police det Idsinga on force's racism, anti-semitism & corruption + terrible leadership. This kind of honesty from a cop is rare & we need more of it. Police brass are accusing him of harming trust, but he says they already did.

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Lina Mounzer @warghetti.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

They didn’t just double tap. They hunted her like an animal. First they sent her death threats. They struck her, then followed her to where she tried to take shelter & struck her there. They struck the rescue workers who came for her & only after hours, after she died, did they allow retrieval

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Israel’s sexual torture of Palestinians it’s holding captive is an “organized state policy,” a new report from Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has revealed. Israeli soldiers are raping Palestinians and recording it with zero accountability.

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‘I wished for death’: Sexual violence in Israel’s prisons is an ‘organised state policy’

Palestinian testimonies reveal how sexual violence, including rape using objects and dogs, is approved by 'highest levels' of Israeli leadership

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Someone Has to Be Happy. Why Not Lauren Sánchez Bezos?
As half of an unfathomably powerful couple, Mrs. Sánchez Bezos seems to have influenced the uber-rich to stop apologizing, and start enjoying themselves.

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

AI slop is bad All propaganda is bad That said... That hook tho

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

NYT: US Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low

The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers

There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s figure, setting another record low for the group. Since 2007, the rate for teenagers is down by 72 percent, and since 1991, when teenage fertility rates were at a high, the rate is down by 81 percent.

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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It’s also never a bad time to highlight that young Iranians have some of the most effortlessly cool fashion vibes on the planet

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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The US AID destruction is one of the sickest things anyone has ever done in human history. No one got anything out of it besides the gleeful thrill of mass black death. It’s truly bone chilling to even contemplate what this really was.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

By A Horse

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food.

I am thinking I would like to try cake.

Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape.

Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy.

Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much.

I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on."

Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Please don't forget this story. They deliberately dropped off Nurul Amin Shah, a blind refugee, in freezing weather miles away from home. Less than a week later, he was dead. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

nbcnews.com

Death of refugee found after being released by Border Patrol determined to be homicide

Erie County, New York, officials said the cause of death was “complications of a perforated ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration.”

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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Thinking about how everyone in the eighties sprung into action when backwards messages on metal albums were supposedly driving kids to commit suicide

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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

The media doesn't pay attention to left protests unless someone gets hurt. Peaceful protests against the right wing bore them. Right protests, on the other hand, are homespun, grassroots demonstrations of America's finest traditions & deserve blanket coverage

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This speech is really good. He stays firmly focused on how we’re all struggling because of the ultra-wealthy hoarding profits and the monopolies on our groceries, cellphone and internet, etc. “This is more than a rigged economy. It’s a war on working people,” Lewis said.

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 29/03/2026

A remarkable photo from #NoKings in DTLA from Connor Sheets of @latimes.com www.latimes.com/california/l...

LAPD officers arrest a protester dressed as the Statue of Liberty outside a federal building during a ‘Kings Day’ protest. (Connor Sheets/Los Angeles Times)

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I don’t know if there’s many people better at their particular thing than Ryan Gosling

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL AKA PRESIDENT FOOTBALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Cause Project Hail Mary is 90% just him interacting with shit that isn’t there and he’s fuckin incredible

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

None of this is funny. Just a total embarrassment. It feels like every day he's the president the stakes become more existential. That no Republican will even talk about impeachment or the 25th Amendment is a damning indictment and proof that none of them are fit for office.

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

"The sites that will no longer have supervision include Spanish West, Spanish East, Sunset, Third and Trout Lake.” All so Chip Wilson and other billionaire real estate speculators can get a massive tax break. evictkensim.ca

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

NYT on Feb. 13, 2026:

The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises.

Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response.

“I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.

NYT on March 16, 2026:

On Monday, Mr. Trump claimed that “numerous countries have told me they’re on the way,” noting that President Emmanuel Macron of France would most likely help in the Strait of Hormuz and was an eight out of 10. “Not perfect, but it’s France,” he said.

Others are not demonstrating sufficient enthusiasm for his demands, he said.

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 12/03/2026

Oh. @leahnylen.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc.
executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is
"robbing them blind" and that "these people are so stupid" that "I almost feel bad taking advantage of them."
In a series of chats from 2022, Ben Baker and Jeff Weinhold, two regional directors of ticketing for Live Nation amphitheaters, boasted about their ability to raise so-called "ancillary fees" - like parking, lawn chair rentals and VIP access - and still get concertgoers to pay for them. In one exchange, Weinhold gloated about raising VIP parking costs at a Virginia concert venue to $250.
"These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," Baker wrote, adding later, "I gouge them on ancil prices."

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

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nicky woolf @nickywoolf.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

how is "mayor chooses his words carefully" a NYT story but "president chooses his words like a haunted magic 8 ball on meth" not

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Unbearable. Wtf are we doing.

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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

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Josh Blacker @joshblacker.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This is also my experience/preference as a reader. Let me chew on some stuff and digest it.

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GroovyShelly @groovyshelly.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Or jobs. Or childcare. Or infrastructure. Or countless other things. $1 BILLION per day, this is costing. And the GOP just voted against reining in his reign when it comes to War Powers.

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