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@kathleenbyrne.bsky.social
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Full blown capitalist member of democratic society. Anti-income inequality. First generation Canadian escaped from USA

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
imagine if the mainstream media covered Republicans' number one donor — the biggest political donor in US history! — and his controversial views with as much scrutiny as they covered Hasan Piker's
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
FT has independently corroborated Kimberly Guilfoyle’s statement that the US was behind the collapse of the Romanian government of PM Bolojan over its refusal to buy US gas at above market prices: "We can do that to any country we want. We can do that here too." www.ft.com/content/7af7...
ft.com
Donald Trump’s ambassador to Greece causes stir in Romania
Kimberly Guilfoyle told embassy dinner in Athens ‘we can do that to any country’, in reference to Romanian government’s fall
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Dan Mitchell @danmitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Causes stir”
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🇨🇦 NanaGale in Alberta @nanagale.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Solstice 🇨🇦 @notabot1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Shouldn't they be left to block the streets, blow horns, threatening people and pissing every where for at least three weeks before the cops do anything? WTF man. Not fair.
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Richard J @preachypreach.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
quite something this paragraph.
After meeting with delegates from the two sides in South Florida, Kushner and Witkoff emerged with a peace plan that would have required Ukraine to accept nearly all of Russia’s demands: ceding territory, promising never to join NATO, and drastically shrinking its army. Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s press secretary, hailed the proposal as “a good plan for both Russia and Ukraine.” But, when the plan became public, it collapsed under a wave of outrage. Even Rubio reportedly derided it as “Russia’s wish list.”
Some observers suspect that Russia has effectively offered the Americans business deals in exchange for a favorable peace agreement. “This is the generally held view,” the former U.S. official in the region told me. A classified report produced by a European intelligence agency states that Trump and people around him have discussed several potential contracts in Russia. The report is not dated, but the European official who gave it to me said that the details were first discussed sometime after Trump invited Putin to Anchorage, in August, 2025. Twice that year, Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, was allowed to enter the U.S., where he talked about investment opportunities. “The privatization of American foreign policy is quite far along,” the official who gave me the report said. (A spokesman for Kushner denied that U.S. officials would profit from the deals under discussion.)
The document lists ten potential ventures, which it says appear to “have been originally designed by the Kremlin’s political and business elites.” They include reopening the Nord Stream 2 pipeline under American control, resuming ExxonMobil’s operations in Sakhalin, and drilling for oil in the Sea of Okhotsk. According to the report, there was discussion of unfreezing Russian assets that are held under American sanctions. The document mentions people who might participate, including Trump, Witkoff, and Kushner. It also names Richard Grenell, the former Presidential en…
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don’t know about you, but I could sure use a comedy break. This guy is hilarious! His name is Bransen Gates. @branhattan.bsky.social
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Joe Public 🍁 @joepublic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#TeamCanada
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Iwannano @iwannano.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here, here! This is part of the reason why knowing your history is so important. We've done it before, Canada, let's do it again by supporting each other and showing Trump who has the real strength.
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LaurenSJ @laurenshirleyj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Yes, they are so stupid.... Trump literally opted us out of the F-35 contract. They can’t be built without Canadian parts, so we don’t have to buy them anymore.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Pastor Carl Ruby, of Springfield's Central Christian Church, can state the issue more clearly than 98% of people working in politics today.
"I wish President Trump could hear the mom's wails. The

family wants people to know that this was a suicide and they

want people to know that President Trump, (Stephen) Miller, and Markwayne Mullin's inhumane immigration policies made this happen," Ruby wrote.
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Screamer Jim @screamerjim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jesus
washingtonpost.com
College student steps into traffic, is killed after losing immigration status
Pierre Damas Bel’s family said he took his own life on a busy highway after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants and ICE officers placed him in an ankle mo...
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EllenA + Orcas @eamcur25.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wooooohoooooo!
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Benjamin Sharma 🇨🇦 🇺🇸, 🇪🇺? @benjamin.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Actually a pretty good heuristic
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 31/08/2026
A Toronto judge has agreed to issue an injunction suspending Ontario’s new cash‑bail system, halting the regime just two weeks after it took effect and in the wake of a constitutional challenge.
thestar.com
Judge grants injunction halting Doug Ford’s cash bail system. Legal groups argue law is unconstitutional
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Stirling Marathon, Canadian made appliances in #Ontario #Canada 🍁 Check them out ⤵️
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
More of us should be listening to @vassb.bsky.social talk about digital sovereignty.
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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I was so glad to canvass with Keelin Pringnitz today, our progressive candidate for OCDSB school board trustee. Keelin is a parent and advocate who cares deeply about public education. When you mark your ballot for me on October 26, also remember to check off Keelin Pringnitz.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
/6 Xanadu held the announcement inside a former Campbell's Soup factory in Toronto, where the company plans to set up advanced manufacturing for its fault-tolerant utility-scale photonic quantum computers. The 158,000-square-foot facility is expected to cost $893 million and employ 275 workers.
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Naval News @navalnews.com · 28/08/2026
At a ceremony in Lévis, Québec, Davie Shipbuilding announced that it has secured a historic contract from the Government of Canada to build six Program Icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) 🇨🇦 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
navalnews.com
Davie Wins $11.3 Billion Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker Contract - Naval News
At a ceremony in Lévis, Québec, Davie Shipbuilding announced that it has secured a historic contract from the Government of Canada to build six Program Icebreakers for the Canadian Coast Guard (CCG).
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Jamie Gump (Halloween costume: The Forest Gump of Andy Gumps) @jamiegump.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
May her legacy be a guidepost to us all.
nytimes.com
Dolly Parton, Country Music Superstar Whose Songs Spoke to Millions, Dies at 80 (Gift Article)
Known for her outsize persona, appearance and talent, she rose from rural poverty to become a top-selling singer, songwriter and entrepreneur.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Let’s reinstate the digital services tax and revive the CRTC’s framework for Netflix et al to fund 🇨🇦Canadian content. And reaffirm internet giants’ obligation to compensate 🇨🇦Canadian media for stolen work product. 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
TRUMP ANNOUNCES NEW ECONOMIC POLICY TO IMPOVERISH AMERICANS, STRENGTHEN CHINA
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kathleenbyrne.bsky.social @kathleenbyrne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Canada should absolutely be prepared to walk away from CUSMA. It’s time.
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kathleenbyrne.bsky.social @kathleenbyrne.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
sagecanada.substack.com/p/negotiatin...
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Negotiating CUSMA on a Dog Day Afternoon
Dan Ciuriak is director and principal of Ciuriak Consulting and senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation where he writes on the digital economy.
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
A wonderfully appropriate Banksy
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
What is RFK doing besides making money and posting photos online
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
More important, the bat viruses that the grant paid the lab to study are so genetically distant from SARS-CoV-2 that they could not have produced it, a point that independent virologists have made repeatedly. That disposes of the specific charge that research that Fauci’s agency funded produced the virus. It did not.
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The WNBA Player’s Association issued an excellent (imo) statement yesterday, stressing the league’s values and stating that they won’t be used as political pawns. The league and its individual teams might want to reach out to whoever is doing comms for the WNBPA. Just sayin.
WNBPA
A MESSAGE FROM
WNBPA PLAYER LEADERSHIP
To everyone who loves this game: The WNBPA represents 200+ individual people with different lived experiences, cultures, lifestyles, and opinions.
We embrace justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Those are the values that unite this Union and allow it to protect women's sports while creating transformational change.
Hate, abuse, and demonization of any person or group of people, including transgender people, only fuel fear, division, and harm. We will continue to have hard conversations. But we will not be used as political pawns.
Support the Players. Support the Fans. At games, notify security if you witness hateful, violent, or abusive behavior. Online, report abusive posts and drown out the bots and bad actors. At home, tell your elected officials to strengthen Title IX.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
He dumped water we needed in LA to fight the Palisades wildfires into the Central Valley just to fuck us over and it wasted water they needed for the grow season. No one remembers this either. It's insane.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Update: over 48,300 people have returned from Ceuta to Morocco. About 1,700 people are still in Ceuta.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 29/07/2026
An under-remarked point — not here on the intelligentsia's finest website, but elsewhere in the discourse — is that in the scenario where Dems get to clean up after (*gestures around*), they're going to have no money.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
This ⬇️⬇️ Canadians do not forget, this sleezy POS is one of the worst, do not elect him
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IbanezForever @ibanezforever.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
He's a piece of shit:
thewalrus.ca
Forged KGB Documents Used to Smear Journalist in Parliament | The Walrus
Ex-MP Chris Alexander accused David Pugliese of being a Russian spy. Forensic experts now say the evidence was fabricated
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Ian Smith @iankmsmith.ft.com · 30/07/2026
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
"If believing something suits MAGA’s prejudices and interests, they don’t hesitate: they simply insist that it’s true. They routinely dismiss scientific and statistical evidence, but they don’t stop there. They’re perfectly willing to deny reality even if the truth is staring them in the face."
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Dave Tait @davetait.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It's now 03:10 over there... I can't imagine being there and knowing hell was on its way...
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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Looking for non-US snacks at Costco and OMG these are good! The spiciness with just a touch of sweetness along with the perfect texture and crunch Surprising assortment of 🇰🇷 foods available at our Victoria Costco from frozen shrimp fried rice to kimchi and snacks #Costco #yyj #chips #boycottUSA
Orion Turtle Chips

Korean chicken flavour

Sweet and spicy

Korean EXPORT TO EXPORTATION AU
CANADA
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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 25/07/2026
Last year, Vance Boelter shot and killed a Democratic state rep and her husband. He was sentenced this week to consecutive life sentences. Maybe now’s a good time for some accountability for the Republicans who peddled disgusting conspiracy theories about the slayings?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Here's a thought experiment: How much further out there would Trump have to go for the attendees at the White House Stenographers' Association dinner to object? Is there *anything* more he could plausibly do or say that would cross a line for them? I can't think of anything.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
breachmedia.ca
Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 19/07/2026
this is an incredibly difficult story to read, told well and told true and with the emphases where they need to be.
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Barry McCaffrey @brma64.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Canada's Carney says middle-power countries shouldn't compete for favor with the US apnews.com/article/carn... Trump doing grave economic and security damage to our most trusted partners in Europe and Canada. They view the US acting as a predator nation. Congress watches in total apathy.
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Canada's Carney says middle-power countries shouldn't compete for favor with the US
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney continued his efforts to align with Europe and pivot away from its longstanding ally, the United States, meeting with leader of Ireland and saying middle power coun...
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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 19/07/2026
A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social
nbcnews.com
Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.
The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.
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John Bowker @johnbowker.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Metrolinx won’t say how much it paid the premier’s friend for implausibly-valued air rights he didn’t even own. “Every dollar paid out to the premier’s bestie is money of the people of Ontario, and we deserve answers” said @maritstilesndp.bsky.social www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp... #onpoli
torontotoday.ca
Metrolinx refuses to disclose ‘air rights’ settlement it paid premier’s friend’s company
Agency cited solicitor-client privilege, ‘litigation contemplation’ and need to protect Ontario’s ‘economic and other interests’
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 25-year-old biologist Pilar Ferrer has developed an injectable gel that helps repair damaged heart tissue after a heart attack. www.upsocl.com/en/she-is-25...
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kathleenbyrne.bsky.social @kathleenbyrne.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
When President Biden delivered an address regarding threats to democracy in September 2022, major broadcast networks chose to air entertainment reruns, not the speech. Similarly, when he delivered an address on voting rights, Fox News chose to air its standard evening lineup.
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kathleenbyrne.bsky.social @kathleenbyrne.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Ossoff is finally explicitly connecting the dots between Trumpism and racism. Make. Them. Wear. It.
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