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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... ‘Calling any of these “guardrails” is doublespeak in the strict sense: a word chosen because it means the opposite of what the clause does.’

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Mark Carney says he’s protecting Canadian workers. It’s Orwellian doublespeak

Subject to ministerial review, the right to strike is likely to be much weakened by Bill C-39.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 4h

“Alberta government and the federally owned Trans Mountain Corporation would each own 45% of the pipeline, with … Pembina Pipeline Corporation owning a 10% stake through the construction phase.” Mark Carney said a new pipeline had to be privately financed, but now taxpayers are on the hook again.

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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News

The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 6h

The oil industry is unwilling to pay for this pipeline because even they know the world is moving away from fossil fuels. This project leaves Canadians bearing all the risks of a bad investment without any of the rewards.

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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 6h

Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.

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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 10h

Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20h

Using Indigenous people as scapegoats to push through climate destroying projects sounds too evil to be true but it's the world we live in

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Molly Crabapple @mollycrabapple.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This article is attempting to incite violence against @avilewis.ca . I am not being hyperbolic. Back during Covid, this “mosar“ rhetoric led to the mob beating of a Chassidic journalist. it was the rhetoric that incited the assasination of Rabin nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...

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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis

His Yom Kippur message was indefensible

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

they are stealing billions from us in order to build data centers in our backyards in order to run machines designed to take our jobs and ultimately enslave us

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...

But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Huge news! Charges against Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, founders of the Drug User Liberation Front, have been stayed. Judge found parts of Canada's drug laws are unconstitutional and that the compassion club reduced the harms associated with the toxic drug crisis. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge | CBC News

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 28/09/2026

The lie that privatization will reduce wait times is already being exposed, but that won’t stop political leaders from continuing to try to destroy our public healthcare system.

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

What I need for men to understand is that the weird guy is TERRIFIED of other men and desperate to belong. And if you show him that his behavior is unacceptable, he WILL stop it. (Exceptions made for those who need medical intervention, of course.)

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

You know when public attention can reverse a prosecutorial decision like this you almost get the sense that the decision to shrug it off in the first place was not based on an assessment of the quality of the evidence so much as an assessment of the seriousness of the crime.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The conservatives made repealing the rights of Indigenous people the core of their campaign and now are acting shocked it's emboldening nazis

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Elizabeth Bear @matociquala.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov Saves The World day to all who celebrate.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026

An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.

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The media has the AI threat all wrong

Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

some genocide and war crimes are ok as long as you’re part of the International Community

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...

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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals

OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD 🍄 @hilaryagro.com · 24/09/2026

These people are absolutely 100% disconnected from the material reality that their tech-obsessed lifestyle is destroying the ecosystem we depend on for food. Food doesn't grow in the ground for them, it appears on their plate. Capitalism is a brain disease and a death cult

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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Carney and the frictionless flow of capital and investor ease. Resistance might be low because of consumer training. #PoliteFascism, #MarkCarney, #Frictionless, #BillC39, #AntifascistDad

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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Last week, more than 1500 Black Canadians gathered in Winnipeg to discuss all facets of Black life in Canada -- and it seemed that only the Liberals took it seriously. Take a listen to this week's Sandy and Nora episode. sandyandnora.com/episode-393-...

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Episode 393 – The 1500-person summit you didn’t hear about

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NDP Leader Avi Lewis says Carney’s government is “flooding the zone.” “We are in a crisis moment. We’re under economic attack from the United States and we need a crisis response,” Lewis said. 1/2

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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026

ended up talking to the 4th grader this morning about fascists, which can be hard to explain simply. i said fascists get mad the world isn't how they want, so they make up a story: things used to be good, but certain people ruined it, and if we just get rid of them everything will be good again

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.

nytimes.com

A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees

Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a pragmatic centrist, I read the Niemöller poem differently. After each group mentioned I pencil in what percentage of the population they are, and if it’s a small number I cross off their names as disposable. Poetry is fine but math wins elections!!

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 19/09/2026

Right-wing politics is laden with contradictions, but "We're the movement of authentic, traditional masculinity who have to ask for help sounding tough from the calculator" is one of the funnier ones.

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Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · 19/09/2026

The RNLI is the closest you will ever get to actual Batman. When rescue is visibly, viscerally, obviously impossible; when the water is a smothering, thundering black wall and the wind is screaming straight from Hell; when you are absolutely going to die: someone’s hand pulls you out and you don’t.

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becimay @becimay.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

One of my students brought this heartbreaking poem to class today

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This is a really important story. You know how over reliance on AI makes you lazy and stupid? This shows how that’s happening within the military — a military, it cannot be pointed out often enough, that’s growing ever more reliant on AI. The children of Shajarah Tayyebah Elementary paid the price

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/09/2026

Called it. The father was charged with punching the child while the mother did witness intimidation to cover it up. www.wbur.org/news/2026/09...

The case was reported to the state in early 2025. Both parents were charged in connection with an incident at the family’s Southborough home in late January of that year, according to court documents. WBUR is not identifying the teenager, who is a minor.

Joseph Kutzko was accused of punching and threatening his then-15-year-old child at the family home on Jan. 28, 2025, records from Westborough District Court show. A Southborough police detective wrote that Kutzko punched the victim in the shoulder and pulled them by their hair. Kutzko later allegedly threatened to kill the victim “for not singing in tune during a birthday celebration,” according to court records.

Kutzko was arrested the next day and pleaded not guilty. In setting bail, the judge referred to three prior restraining orders against Kutzko, one of which is permanent. She did not say whether any are tied to this case.

The child’s mother, Arlene Kutzko, was charged with witness intimidation after allegedly pressuring the child to “tell the school that she was exaggerating and being stupid.”

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 16/09/2026

The way media has completely bought the AI industry’s contention that AI superintelligence is on the horizon and could be a threat to humanity has been frustrating to watch. Check out my first piece for @zeteo.com where I explain how this is a big distraction and the real threats presented by AI.

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 15/09/2026

The reason Kanye is allowed to continue to work & Macklemore isn’t is because the people making these decisions don’t care about preventing antisemitism they care about protecting settler colonialism.

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Saskboy from Saskatchewan @saskboy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The chemical attack generated by the collapse of buildings in NYC on Sept 11, 2001 ended up killing more Americans than the initial attack that day. The EPA knew the air was dangerous, and failed to warn emergency workers on the Pile, and other New Yorkers and people in Manhattan.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 15/09/2026

Every time one of these stories comes out, it's shown that the parents were actually abusive. There is an asymmetry where the parents are given a platform by Christian nationalist orgs and Fox News while the state cannot discuss any details due to privacy. So the narrative is set by the parents.

Screenshot of a Fox News post on X reporting on a Massachusetts family whose daughter was placed in state custody over gender transition disputes, with an embedded Fox News broadcast segment titled "Gender Treatment Lawsuit."

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

It’s time — past time — to respect Ansar Allah’s military prowess, regardless of how you feel about the group. Read the headline in French Montana’s voice if you don’t get it.

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Fanute The Houthi Coup

One decade. Three adversaries. Total domination. It's time to respect Ansar Allah

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 14/09/2026

"why won't you vote for the left candidate who just doesn't support trans folk?" because a person who doesn't support trans folk isn't on the left. next question

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I urge everyone to listen to the episode with @margaret.bsky.social and @jamesstout.bsky.social for an overview of how the Trumpist attack on autistici/inventati is destroying one of the few remnants of the free internet pca.st/episode/e482...

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Sanctions, Terror, and the Internet

Margaret joins James to discuss a new round of sanctions against, among others, Autistici/Inventati and the internet infrastructure services they…

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

the lesson from the right is not that their obsessions with trans volleyball, anti Haitian blood libel, or reversing the change in teen pregnancy rate are actually the well framed kitchen table issues of the volk but simply that political discourse becomes about things people say often and loudly

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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The resistance in Myanmar successfully killed a junta aircraft yesterday with an fpv strike on hangars. This is a huge moment for the revolution, those aircraft have rained terror on innocent people for years.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire [& supposed] tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you’ve lost the thread"

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

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Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

One of the most haunting 9/11 stories I know of involved Prof. Eqbal Ahmad, my Hampshire College mentor in the 80s. He met bin Laden in Afghanistan in 1986 and tried to warn us in this 1998 talk (at the 1:23 mark). Tragically, Eqbal died during surgery a few months later, but HE WARNED US in 1998!!🤯

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Eqbal Ahmad Terrorism Ours vs. Theirs 12, 1998

YouTube video by Mona Ringel

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Imani Gandy @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 11/09/2026

"I think Black people should be able to use the same drinking fountain that white people do as long as it's safe and fair."

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The wealthy countries seem to have a core of 15-30% of their voting populations who *just fucking hate foreigners*. This section of the electorate are for various reasons disproportionately well represented among the ultra-wealthy and thus are able to secure some favourable media coverage.

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