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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This lawyer breaks down why the so-called guardrails Carney includes in this bill just create a cog in a machine built to deny workers their right to strike. Then ministers, in deciding what the “national interest” is in quashing a strike, can consider the “impact on the Canadian economy.”

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

It is literally false that the Jews being hunted by Nazis were citizens, because the first step toward genocide was stripping them of citizenship and making them stateless. As Arendt reminds us, citizenship is a legal category created to facilitate a machinery of exclusion of the out-group.

Tweet from Batya Ungar-Sargon: "Beyond disgusting. Gov. Walz is comparing the innocent Jews that the Gestapo were hunting for extermination—who were citizens—to the illegal migrant murderers, rapists, sex offenders, and child abusers that ICE is seeking to deport because they broke our laws again and again."

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Me my whole life: Nothing is black and white. You have to consider nuance Now: We face a heinous, remorseless evil

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Taken with Trump’s muted reaction (which now makes a lot more sense) to the news, this revelation suggests that Canada has yet to face an actual test of whether it remains an independent country: doing something that the United States doesn’t sign off on.

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Gremliny Nussboo @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

very ugly and barely mammalian. Am I missing an obscure moral system to which he so much as nods? Also are there other
people, living or dead, like him?

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Snitty 🎃 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A reasonable person could read this post as a raised middle finger to Christians celebrating the Christmas holiday and remembering the story of a small family fleeing from one country to another to escape a tyrant's wrath.

Homeland Security V
@DHSgov
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All America wants for Christmas is remigration.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/09/2025

I had some thoughts about people saying that "debate me bro" trolling is somehow the height of democratic discourse.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This was obvious from the beginning but the kirk shooter will turn out to be an ersatz right winger and the the right’s vitriol about the left causing the shooting—literally coming from the president himself—will continue totally unmoored from factual reality

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 05/09/2025

if i was pitching a fast casual dining concept with indian flavors called "Dosa A-Go-Go" and peter thiel specifically came up to me going i'm into Dosa-A-Go-Go, Dosa-A-Go-Go could be huge, im in on Dosa-A-Go-Go i'd kinda wonder if there was a sinister angle to Dosa-A-Go-Go i hadn't considered before

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CUPE SCFP @cupescfp.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

CUPE’s National President Mark Hancock – YYZ – August 16th 2025

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 26/07/2025

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

oh man so glad we cancelled that digital sales tax

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

This dynamic also very clearly describes what’s happening with the Canadian Liberals. They are adopting a values-free policy of appeasement towards the far right. This is visible in Carney’s policy on immigration, extractive industry, public service spending, etc. etc.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 10/07/2025

The Canadian government is going in on AI to make way for cuts to the federal public service. My bet is 18 months from now someone is going to get served by "MechaHitler" at a Service Canada and the the whole thing is going to end up with resignations and a Royal Commission.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

What’s so annoying about this negotiation process is that it’s the thing that won Carney his mandate. He promised to play hardball with Trump and chart an alternate political future and won an election on that promise.

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Y’all. AI is going to fuck us more than any other thing has collectively fucked the west. It will fuck us 👉🏾 accelerates climate change 👉🏾 labour rights will be threatened 👉🏾 surveillance/privacy 👉🏾 policing 👉🏾 increase discrimination at scale 👉🏾 hiring/jobs 👉🏾 threatens our water supply 👉🏾 war games

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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New from me, on the disconnect between Mark Carney’s nationalist rhetoric and what his actual policies will deliver: Deeper Canadian integration with an increasingly authoritarian and fascist US. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

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Opinion: The U.S. is not our friend any more. Has anyone told Mark Carney?

Why is the Prime Minister still trying to negotiate a trade and security agreement with a capricious authoritarian?

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 30/06/2025

Mark Carney’s decision to rescind Canada’s digital services tax is a cowardly move that shows Trump he can be pressured into making trade concessions. It also shows how much Carney is willing to give into corporate demands, and particular those of the tech industry.

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Mark Carney caves to Trump and the tech industry

Canada’s decision to rescind its digital services tax shows it’s “elbows down” in US trade talks

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Carney has folded on every whim from Trump despite constantly shifting goalposts yet we’re supposed to pretend this is the accomplished negotiator at work. We’ve got draconian border policies, new drug enforcement, now scrapping DST.

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Helen @wokesteppenomad.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Shout out to the dozens of old women who manage to hold together all historically progressive social movements in this state

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Thousands of Christians are being rounded up and deported by the U.S. government, but they’re not cottagecore tradmoms or their homeschooled goat milk enthusiasts, so these guys are fine with it. Actually, they’re thrilled.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Trying to imagine the weeks-long, career-ending meltdown if this is how any pro-choice politician had responded to the "killing babies" accusation.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I am reminded of Plato’s discussion in the Euthypro that the democratic politician isn’t necessarily the greatest statesman, but is the greatest hunter. They chase after electoral victory. Once they attain it, can they govern?

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Something to note about the Zuckerberg announcement that meta will stop moderation is his use of the term “mainstream”. He doesn’t want to censor mainstream political discourse. Tacitly admitting that the mainstream media right wingers rail against has been replaced by rw propaganda outlets.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

The post-war settlement in the 20th C is proving to be the aberration in the long history of capitalism. Last vestiges of welfare state policy are being jettisoned in western countries. 21st C like the 19th characterized by war, colonial violence, absolute wealth and destitute poverty.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

“This song is going on my drunk driving playlist”

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I think one thing most dystopian sci-fi gets wrong is that it portrays future cities as dense and walkable.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The liberal left has historically been much more committed to institutional media and its role in democracy. That’s just not a tenable position at this stage and it has left them with some really bad reflexes when it comes to the contemporary media landscape.

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"L'allergie du capitalisme envers l'idée de sa propre mort a pour corollaire (voire pour cause) un incapacité à donner un sense a la vie." Yves Citton, _Renverser L'insoutenable_

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

nobody at the level of power we say we're aiming to contest - who could launch an ICBM, capital strike, or planetary scale disinformation campaign - is worried about the fine details of our lil critiques, or precisely what kind of socialist/anarchist/anti-imperialist is frowning at them. be serious.

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Amaryah Shaye Armstrong @amaryah.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

some of the desire to make ppl's votes for Trump make sense by showing failures to appeal to their material conditions refuse to take up how people's politics (including one's own) are predicated on incoherent and irrational investments that can't simply be addressed by saying "material conditions"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/11/2024

been mulling some passages from Nixon Agonistes since the election

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

Imagining eco brutalism but in natural stone instead of concrete

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 30/09/2024

It pisses me off so much that Microsoft didn't name their AI assistant "Clippy". Like what the fuck are they even doing? Do they have no respect for those who came before them? Nihilism is rampant in corporate America.

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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 19/09/2024

added a thingus so you can share direct links to congregations with your friends

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

Seeing the discussion of this and it is genuinely very sad. A LOT of projection and transference going on wrt to Tim Walz right now and I hope he and the Dems have to capacity to hold that. This political moment is intensely personal, linked to intimate family and mental wellbeing.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 24/07/2024

The attack on the classic canon seems especially misaligned with this historical moment. Elites increasingly have no point of contact with the classical tradition, and are materially attacking the liberal arts.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 12/07/2024

Wild that in my lifetime weed was legalized and made widely commercially available in Canada and now in Ontario booze will be sold at convenience stores.

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 11/06/2024

Neil’s “rock and roll will never die” really became a self fulfilling prophecy. Why was there this obsession with the death of rock and roll at the height of its commercial and cultural success? Who could’ve predicted its dramatic change in fortune some decades later?

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 10/06/2024

anyway i am not a “throw all my devices into the sea and move to the woods with no wifi” person unless i am reading a story about openAI specifically or silicon valley generally and then my inner anarchoprimitivist wants to firebomb every data center in the country

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Andraste Sideyr @andraste.fuckbgp.com · 29/05/2024

fuck you, frank

Girls with time machine: hey what's up
Boys with time machine: hi hello
Me with a time machine: come out Frank there's nowhere you can hide! (2007 Audi HQ)
The first production car with LED headlights was the Audi R8, which debuted in 2008
The LED headlights were designed by Frank Lamberty and used 17 individual LED projectors per headlight

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Kiegan Irish @kieganirish.bsky.social · 29/05/2024

I wonder if Knocked Loose’s rise to fame has been aided by the Y2K revival. They really call back to that 00s era of metalcore. The Poppy feature track video has all the women draped in white and similar imagery. And in live sets they’re dressed like they’re in Zao.

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