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Amélie Mel

@melimalisss.bsky.social
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Free Palestine. Anti-fascist. Hockey. Experimental music. Birds. Sci-fi & Fantasy. Vancouver. actartmgt.ca

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Programming note for today: we'll have a live special for today's snap election call, starting at noon. I'll be in our Vancouver studio, while @katiederosa.bsky.social will be at Government House in Victoria. Our live page is already up, and we'll be adding to it all day.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Macklemore: Palestinian children are people. Robert Kraft *actively getting a handjob from a strip mall prostitute he refuses to tip*: We must ban this hate speech from every stadium in America. Let me call up my friends, the Epstein client list. Ed Sheeran: Good point, sir. Both sides, sir.
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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · 15/09/2026
Fundamentally though, this is really just a "solution" in search of a problem. Of ALL THE THINGS going wrong in the world, why - why the fuck - are we talking about this. Fix climate change. Address affordability. Build some damn homes. Give the provinces money to hire doctors and teachers.
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Daily Faceoff Vancouver @dfovancouver.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It’s important to temper expectations from what we saw at the Canucks prospects showcase this weekend.
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
En dissolvant la distinction entre coupables et victimes dans un "nous" collectif qui protège les premiers, les doomers feraient oublier que des entreprises précises, dirigées par des hommes précis, prennent des décisions précises, pendant que d'autres, plus nombreux, en subissent les conséquences.
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sur la menace que ferait peser l’IA sur une « humanité » indistincte, il faut absolument lire ou relire Le temps de la fin de Günther Anders (1960), « apocalypticien pour avoir tort ». Ce temps « contient deux sortes d’hommes : celle des coupables et celle des victimes ».
l'apocalypse. Nous ne sommes apocalypticiens à nouveau de la chance d'être là, ridicules mais que pour avoir fort. Que pour jouir chaque jour toujours debour. Personne n'a encore jamais cu cet objectif dans l'histoire de l'eschatologie : sur l'arrière-plan des attitudes apocalyptiques connues de l'histoire des religions, cet objectif est probable ment absurde. Mais il n'est tel qu'en tant que réa-tion à une chose elle-même absurde.
Nous avons dit : « Ce que nous pouvons faire, nous pouvons également, si nécessaire, nous abstenir de le faire. » Cette thèse qui sonne d'abord de façon très réjouissante comporte cependant un hic. Car que signifie, si nous nous référons à notre situation atomique, le petit mot « nous » qui semble si innocent? Je crains que ce petit mot ne soit pas du tout innocent: il en a seulement l'air.
Le « nous » qui a été capable de produire les instruments de la catastrophe les a produits et les utilise maintenant comme menace, et le « nous » qui est menacé par les instruments sont-ils véritablement le même? Le petit mot ne signific-t-il pas ici deux choses différentes? Ne désigne-t-il pas dans le premier cas les savants, la technique, la production et la politique, c'est-à-dire le nombre infinite-simalement petit d'hommes qui peuvent décier
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de la production et de l'éventuel emploi de ces instruments? Er, dans le second cas, les millions d'habicants du globe non impliqués, impuissants et non informés, c'est-à-dire nous, les future victimes ? Quand nous parlons de « suicide », n'avons-nous pas devant les yeux un modèle décidément inadapté à notre cas ? Le modèle d'un être qui, bien que « deux âmes, hélas, se partagent son sein », est pourtant toujours un et a la chance fabuleuse, s'il combat, de toujours seulement combattre en lui et de ne combattre que lui-même ? N'est-ce pas s'en tirer par une pirouette que de regrouper deux humanités complètement différentes, l'humanité A et l'humanité B, sous une méme dénomination, c'est-à-dire sous le singu…
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Heureusement qu’il y a @timnitgebru.blacksky.app pour donner l’heure aux doomers de l’IA qui gardent les yeux rivés sur l’horloge de l’apocalypse. Leurs relais médiatiques ensorcelés feraient bien de lire cette interview. www.wired.com/story/one-of...
In my book I write, "Can a bridge decide to collapse?" The whole "Oh no, our models went rogue" thing ... When a bridge collapses, you don't analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy? There are permits you have to acquire. There are supposed to be tests. When you ask about the bridge collapsing itself, you've lost the thread.
Meanwhile, what's really existential is AI powering autonomous weapons, killing machines, that are actually being used in warfare. The climate catastrophe is a real thing that could be exacerbated by what these tech companies are building. Bosses are using Al as an excuse to get rid of their pesky workers. This machine-god narrative is, in my opinion, meant to distract us from these. The industry has become a mix of cults, a mix of people who are true believers, just like a preacher who says the end times is coming. The singularity has been coming for decades now.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Post Mo Thóin (Dave) @davebrowne.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There are few bigger OH FUCK moments in TV than when Andrew Scott looks where she looks.
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Der Taüfer @bapt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bon et si on nommait un personnage de fiction qui succomberait IMMÉDIATEMENT au pouvoir de l’Anneau maintenant ?
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Gaius Baltar's Angry Keyboard Slam
Alt: Gaius Baltar's Angry Keyboard Slam
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
same energy
screencap of a Wikipedia post which reads “The passengers (excluding the hijackers) and crew on board Flight 93 were nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal on September 19, 2001.”

tweeted by @ratlimit who adds “I think this was ultimately the right move.”
screencap from a news article with a picture of a large male lion. text below says “CNN reports that, according to@senior park official, Cecil the lion's brother Jericho, who is also a lion, was killed on Saturday in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.” the screencap has been tweeted by @BmoreLikeNita, somewhat incredulously repeating “Who is also a lion"
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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The people’s primary was a success. Massive shout out to @wazaroff.bsky.social here. Like @stephanieformayor.bsky.social’s decision, this could not have been easy. Now we focus on the work ahead to Evict Ken Sim and ABC.
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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ok, Azaroff has withdrawn and we can now all vote for Pete Fry and turf Sim.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
ICYMI
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SEAN ORR @seanorr.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
So very well said
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The "constant roaring"... "It's like you're in the middle of the airport where the planes are taking off, but they never take off," she said. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...
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Elon Musk's data centers are pushing out a family that's owned land since "before people of color were allowed to"
A plant in Southaven, Mississippi, that powers Elon Musk's SpaceXAI data centers in the area has sparked backlash from residents concerned about noise and air pollution.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 28/08/2026
The Nepal disaster is unsettlingly similar to the scenario that researchers warned @natashabulowski.bsky.social and I about for Resolute Bay, Nunavut: permafrost giving way, creating a landslide and a deadly wave.
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A looming disaster threatens to drown one of Canada's northernmost communities
A team of coastal flooding experts are studying the risk presented by impulse waves and how communities could respond.
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Dan Baldassarre @evornithology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Loading up on 🍇 jelly before migration 💪
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
What a cool fascist tweet from DHS
The Department of Homeland Security X account with a photo of Donald Trump and the text: Did you remain loyal?
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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5-4 Podcast @fivefourpod.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This week’s episode is West Virginia v. BPJ, where six members of the highest court in our nation joined forces to make sure one little girl can’t play sports.
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West Virginia v. B.P.J.
Podcast Episode · 5-4 · July 21 · 1h 2m
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✧𝔰𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔪𝔲𝔡 𝔰𝔠𝔞𝔪𝔭✧ @altaudge.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
please be patient with me, i wasn’t listening
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Patrick Johnston 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @risingaction.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What is Canada to be? The answer shouldn’t be left to Bay Street and certainly shouldn’t be left to Silicon Valley. theprovince.com/sports/sport...
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Sportsnet 650's demise reminds us that lack of competition is bad for Canadians
Patrick Johnston: Where is the Competition Bureau? Who thought sports ownership consolidation would be good for the rest of us?
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Daily Faceoff Vancouver @dfovancouver.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Rogers shutters Vancouver’s Sportsnet 650 in mass radio station closures
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Rogers shutters Vancouver’s Sportsnet 650 in mass radio station closures
It’s a sad day for Vancouver Canucks fans and radio listeners all around Canada.   On Tuesday morning, Rogers Sports and Media shut down Vancouver’s Sportsnet 650, effective immediately. Along with Sportsnet 650, 1130 NewsRadio will also be coming off the airwaves in Vancouver. Vancouver was not the only market affected by the mass closures….
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Daniel Wagner @passittobulis.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The assassination of 650 by that coward, Rogers Sportsnet.
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Klaire fait Grr @klaire.fr · 22/06/2026
Oh no si seulement il avait été ministre de l’éducation nationale ou premier ministre ou les deux
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Canicule: "Ce qu'il se passe aujourd'hui dans nos écoles montre qu'il y a un retard sur l'isolation thermique", déclare Gabriel Attal, candidat à l'élection présidentielle et ancien Premier ministre
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Dave Palmer @davepalmerusask.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Here’s a brief taste of the demanding chicka-tween doing his little “I’m just a baby” wing-flutter #birds
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Hosting the FIFA World Cup will cost Canadian taxpayers $1B: watchdog report. Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates cost across all levels of government at $82M per game. With almost no lasting city-building legacy or benefit.
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Hosting the World Cup will cost taxpayers $1B: watchdog report | CBC News
Hosting the 2026 World Cup will cost governments across Canada more than a billion dollars, putting the cost per game at $82 million, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer.
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Edwy Plenel @edwyplenel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
La Une de Mediapart, lundi soir 1er juin 2026
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Olivier Tesquet @oliviertesquet.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Métapolitique par le vêtement : et maintenant, les technofascistes de Palantir s’approprient le workwear français. Ou comment braconner une esthétique du travail populaire pour en faire le signal d’appartenance à un projet réactionnaire. www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/arti...
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Techno-fascist fashion: Why Silicon Valley is moving into menswear
Palantir’s new ‘chore coat’ merch is just another way for the spy tech firm to worm its way inside our brains – but why is the tech industry now so obsessed with ‘taste’?
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.
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Amélie Mel @melimalisss.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says
Experts say attacks, also carried out by settlers, are leading girls to quit school and enter early marriages
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Timothy Chalmette @little-eff.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
In the past 24 hours I have learned that my wife and I have each entirely forgotten in whole or in part Netflix stuff that we both watched that probably cost a small fortune to create. But this? This will stick with me for the rest of my life. This is peak drama.
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
A few days after the incident in which Amalia lost consciousness, Marcano brought her back to the clinic at Dilley. A staffer measured Amalia’s blood-oxygen saturation—which, in a healthy individual, is between ninety-five and a hundred per cent—and found that it was in the low fifties. “Such a low amount of oxygen going to the brain can, if it’s long enough, kill off parts of the brain—it’s really, really high-stakes,” Prantik Saha, a pediatrician who reviewed Amalia’s medical records, told me. “It’s shocking that this level of callousness and omission of care could occur.” Amalia was taken to a local hospital, where it became clear that she needed care beyond what the facility could provide. She was transferred to a larger hospital in San Antonio, where she was given five diagnoses: Covid-19, RSV, bronchitis, pneumonia, and an ear infection. She received supplemental oxygen and intensive care.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
"You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."
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SURJ Vancouver @surjvancouver.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🤹‍♀️ NO [April] FOOLING, it’s time to beef up our anti-oppressive dialogue skills & engage more YT folks in this work! ✊🏻 Join us over 2 Sun afternoons in Apr to practice radical but productive communicating, and take into the world! FREE workshop! Optional RSVP w/ QR code. #surjvancouver #antiracismyvr
Poster/ad for free workshop. Title  “Practicing anti-racism:  Approaching Difficult Conversations with Friends & Family”. Hosted over two Sunday afternoons, from 1-4pm PST, April 12th and 18th. Location address is 2283 10th Ave east, Vancouver V5N 1Y3.

Two parts! No requisite! Part 1 “lecture & discussion”; Part 2 “review & small group practice”

Optional registration QR code included.

Questions? Visit www.surjvancouver.ca

Skills building for White Anyi-racism! “How to talk to your unaligned network”. Going beyond anti-oppression 101. SURJ logo
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 06/03/2026
Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds. To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.
Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.
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L'Oie de Cravan @oiedecravan.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
& solo #myriamgendrom #newsong
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Amélie Mel @melimalisss.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
This weekend <3
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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Au-delà de la violence de l'échange, l'intervenant qui la pose ne sait tout simplement pas parler français. Ni poser une question. Qu'est-ce qu'il fait sur un plateau à balancer des "stipule" avec sa syntaxe interminable complètement claquée ?
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Padre Pio @padrepio.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Que ce discours soit désormais celui des médias Bolloré, de la droite, de l'extrême-droite et au-delà, c'est une chose. Que ça vienne d'un "expert" d'institut de sondage qui n'est pas censé exprimer une préférence politique sur l'air du "il est plus que probable que", c'est ahurissant.
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Vancouver Sun @vancouversun.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Unwritten Weekend festival returns to Vancouver: What you need to know about the event vancouversun.com/entertainmen...
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The Province @theprovince.com · 13/03/2026
Unwritten Weekend festival returns to Vancouver: What you need to know about the event theprovince.com/entertainmen...
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Amélie Mel @melimalisss.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
This is crazy
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/03/2026
Jason Stanley isn’t afraid to use the F-word when talking about President Donald Trump. The author of How Fascism Works is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.
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I study fascism. I’ve already fled America.
On this week’s “More To The Story,” former Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley explains his recent move to Canada and calls the Trump administration’s takeover of the US government a “coup.”
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L'Oie de Cravan @oiedecravan.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Vancouver! Myriam Gendron Francis Baptiste March 27th Alliance Française www.alliancefrancaise.ca/event-rsvp/c...
Vancouver!
Myriam Gendron
Francis Baptiste 
March 27th
Alliance Française
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