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Michelle

@mbranco.bsky.social
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Canadian. Still under the covers and not sure I’m ever coming out, but if I do follow for breastfeeding, infant feeding policy and humanitarian response with a bit of public health and comms mixed in.

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MMorden 🇨🇦 @mmorden.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Self regulating” sure thing and good luck with that.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This was the best press conference of either of Trump’s terms. Change my mind.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
How did we end up in this terrible terrible straight to VHS movie?
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am quite enjoying my new Unicorn alter-ego, but let’s see.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The art of understatement is not dead.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Like most things, data centres don’t have to be a scourge that transfer public good to private interests, leaving the profits for billionaires while communities absorb the costs. But that’s the way it’s going to go if they are allowed to continue without oversight and transparency.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Strolled the Ex today, dutifully walking the buildings & midway before our annual steamies with fries. Doesn’t really change much, this loud, tacky tradition. Except this year I did not see a single American flag: not for sale or even being worn. That’s a sign you can take to any bank.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh, this could end poorly!
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
When you claim renewable energies aren’t workable—but you attach solar panels to all your dystopian Flock surveillance cameras.
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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A whistleblower has just confirmed our fears.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Oh sure… what could go wrong with this?
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
All the attention of this government goes to problems that are not actually problems: putting alcohol in grocery stores, building highways to nowhere, destroying the green belt, making online gambling the next scourge to devour our sons…. Who asked for these solutions?
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Premier of the province of Manitoba, Wab Kinew reacts:
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026
The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
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Henning Dekant 📎 @quaxquax.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My desire to learn more French is in no small part motivated by American jingoism. Bilingualism is one of the things that is supposed to set us apart. Even wrote a little free app for this and made sure you can set Québécois as the targeted French language variant. apps.apple.com/us/app/ubifl...
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Canada has a minimum of 3-4X more unionization than the US across all sectors, including manufacturing.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The trade genius Howard Lutnick BELIEVED CANADA DIDN’T HAVE UNIONS. Yes, he actually said that. 🤦🏽‍♂️ And he claimed that's why auto manufacturers "moved" there. (Canada has: ✅always had a huge auto industry, and ✅yes has unions.) THIS is the mental wattage working on Canada-US trade👇
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
A star-studded lineup of 25 Indigenous musicians are coming together on August 29 in Toronto to perform at a forest fire relief fundraiser. To speak more on the upcoming event, Dennis Ward was joined by Adrian Sutherland.
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25 Indigenous musicians come together for fire relief fundraiser concert | APTN News
A star-studded lineup of 25 Indigenous musicians are coming together on August 29 in Toronto to perform at a forest fire relief fundraiser. To speak more on the upcoming event, Dennis Ward was…
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 20/08/2026
Exactly, Rosie. Give credit where credit is due. 💅🏼 #SheShed
Photo of Rosie O’Donnell speaking into a microphone with one finger raised. Large text quotes her saying, “I couldn’t have done it without you, sweetie. You brought me back—just like you did with fascism and the measles.” The graphic notes that O’Donnell was thanking Trump for making her famous again.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I’ve been wondering about the purpose of this targeting - I guess messing with people’s cheap consumer goods is a problem even in mother Russia.
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
The main difference between 2016 and 2024 in terms of cultural response to Trump's victory was *elite* reaction (in 2016, horror; in 2024, delight bc of microwaved brains)
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I was going to object to the characterization, but other than the hairy feet, it does sort of track.
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Bilbo Baggins Says I'm Sorry
Alt: Bilbo Baggins Says I'm Sorry
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TVO Docs @tvodocs.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Putting food security to the test in the far North of Canada - filmmaker Suzanne Crocker, living just 300 km from the Arctic Circle, removes absolutely all grocery store food from her house. Stream "First We Eat" now: youtu.be/eOeOTdxbzEY?...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
If you’ve ever wanted a T-shirt repping a racist Canadian group pushing for mass deportations, your purchase is just a few clicks away — all thanks to Shopify. When I reached out to them, they said "we don’t remove merchants over objections to their worldview.” Wow. My latest for @thetyee.ca:
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Shopify Powers a Racist Group’s Online Store. It’s Not the First Time | The Tyee
The $250 billion Canadian company has repeatedly found itself in controversy over its support of ‘free speech.’
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Nonsense, Dr. Cassidy. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was so obviously a pathologically lying sociopath when he was nominated you couldn't possibly have taken his word intelligently on anything he said. You just looked the other way because you wanted to please Donald Trump. How’d that work out for you?
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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I think, in general, having to hide in a catering truck is a fail.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Ford’s government seems to only deliver on solutions to problems that did not exist, which cause a bunch of other problems… and fill the pockets of his lowlife donors.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Toronto’s newest mayoralty candidate Chris Alexander seeming to lead “lock her up” chant against Premier Rachel Notley in Edmonton. (He denies “leading” - judge for yourself.) 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼 youtu.be/l1ZnpenDaUk?...
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Former MP Chris Alexander @ Rachel Notley "Lock Her Up" Rally | Smiles Does Nada To Discourage Chant
YouTube video by Women In Canadian Politics
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/07/2026
Always a sign of a good and healthy governance and oversight culture when corporate board members display cult-like loyalty to a chief executive officer
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Interesting and informative for shareholders to know that Shopify board member doesn't care about the reputational harm the CEO is doing to the company. 9 Lulu Cheng Meservey ® @lulumeservey • 16h According to the Rosie O'Donnell and Kathy Griffin of Canada, your accomplishments don't count if you engage in wrongthink Sure, Tobi brought jobs, talent, relevance, and revenue to Toronto over multiple decades. But don't be fooled by what he's built - he "hates" that city, Dean Blundella • @ItsDeanBlundell he CEO of Shopity hates Toronto. Hates Canada espite being an immigrant to Canada and thinks Lutke should be rightly condemned for thes lites should decide for everyone else. He's literally on a Twitter tirade that would get all quent pompous directives to governments if his employees fired. se tobi lutke Exactly what just happened in Toronto. Retired, Unemployed, Unemployable, and useful idiots are the only people who go to these town hall sessions. x.com/cremieuxrecuei... 17 PM • 7/26/26 • 312K Views 8:19 PM • Jul 28, 2026 • 295.4K Views

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Board member here. Tobi is the sole seeding reason that there is a Shopify, that it has prospered beyond the wildest shareholder imaginations, and that it has its stellar reputation among merchants and customers alike. Our care and appreciation couldn't be greater! 9 Tyler Meredith ® @tylermeredith • 13h Interesting and informative for shareholders to know that Shopify board member doesn't care about the reputational harm the CEO is doing to the company. x.com/lulumeservey/s... 12:19 AM • Jul 29, 2026 • 215.5K Views • 79 Relevant v

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garjives.bsky.social @garjives.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
There it is, nice a simply stated
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 26/07/2026
i feel like shopify would have a worse reputation if tobi was interfering in US politics instead of canadian politics
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
3/ Bravo was investigating US drone strikes on three fishing boats, the Fiorella, the Negra Francisca Duarte II, and the Don Maca. Thirty six survivors say they were hooded, beaten, and held for eight days. Some came home with vision loss, hearing loss, and perforated arms.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
WRITER FRIENDS: if you distribute books using INGRAM SPARK you *need* to fill out this opt-out form so they don't sell your books to AI corps to rip apart and feed to their machine for training AI.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
One of the only health costs that’s cheaper in the US than Canada are generic drugs…so let’s get rid of that? Ok…
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
And also the US *lost* in Viet Nam.
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Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is the definitive story on how Lindsey Graham degenerated from Trump's strongest critic to Trump's accomplice. Here's the text version, published in 7 chapters by @thebulwark.com. It also has links to a book-length version and an audio version, which you can listen to as a series of podcasts.
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The Corruption of Lindsey Graham
A case study in the rise of authoritarianism. Sen. Lindsey Graham is a central player in the Republican party’s capitulation to Donald Trump. We can watch the GOP's turn to authoritarianism by review...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/07/2026
Income isn’t supposed to play a role in how much housing assistance FEMA gives families. But in some North Carolina counties, the highest-income homeowners received two to three times as much money after Hurricane Helene as those with lower incomes. (Pub. Dec. 2025 w/ @theassemblync.bsky.social)
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Arduous and Unequal: The Fight to Get FEMA Housing Assistance After Helene
An analysis by ProPublica and The Assembly of the more rural counties in North Carolina hardest hit by Helene shows that the households that got the most aid tended to have the highest incomes.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So now can newsrooms call someone, almost anyone, else to discuss food policy. This guy has been sketch from the start.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"The campaign against Bhuiyan is being led by John Mutton, who was mayor of Clarington from 2000 to 2006 and is a municipal planning consultant dubbed “Mr. X” and accused of unethical lobbying in Greenbelt scandal."
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Between this and inviting the leaders of the 2022 Convoy to the July 4th party at his official residence, the Ambassador is not being subtle.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 02/07/2026
🚨 BREAKING: Russian strike destroys Red Cross warehouse in Kyiv. The attack incinerated 320,000 units of critical aid and medical equipment valued at around $2 million during a massive aerial assault on the capital, dealing a severe blow to the humanitarian infrastructure.
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
But wait, I thought Trump was « in charge » of Venezuela? In that case, no worries. Just ask Puerto Rico how helpful he was after Maria.
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The Economist @economist.com · 26/06/2026
This may be Venezuela’s deadliest earthquake on record. America’s leaders, while apparently willing to help, will be reassured that Venezuela’s oil wealth is intact
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Venezuela suffers its worst earthquake in a century
The impoverished country is struggling to cope with the damage from two nearly simultaneous shocks
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Americans are posting about gas being too expensive and looking for sympathy, while their war caused death and suffering in Iran and around the globe, so…
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Michelle @mbranco.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
This is something that we have failed at in Canada and we’re seeing the fallout in Alberta and elsewhere. Accountability for anti-social and especially anti-democratic behaviour has to happen.
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