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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 5h

"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.

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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News

Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.

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keep your electric eye on me @ubisurv.net · 07/10/2026

@globalaffairs.canada.ca - can you tell us why you pulled support from this important academic #disinformation conference at the last minute? Despite high profile gestures of solidarity with the #EU, it seem pressure from the #USA still scares you.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe no one is more hated than women who resist rape. I’ve come to believe that women who have been, as I was, “public survivors” have a responsibility not to flinch in these face of this hate. I have a lot of rage about that time, but I don’t have any shame.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If you’re interested in gender violence at universities, my favorite book on it is A Survivor’s Education by Joy Neumeyer, which looks at the Title IX process both as a system of political repression and as a way of revoking women’s epistemic authority. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joy-n...

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A Survivor’s Education

A Kirkus Best Book of 2024 An "impeccably researched book" (Michelle Bowdler) about intimate abuse, campus politics, and the narratives we choose to belie...

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What if—hear me out—these provincial ministers actually funded their own mental health care, addictions and home care programmes? They're not helpless! Provinces can raise their own revenues! That's why they got the tax points in the seventies.

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Health ministers say Ottawa needs to renew mental health, home care funding

OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 25/09/2026

Imagine if instead of regulating drone risks the normal way (which we did), we instead paid weird bloggers lots of money to worry about superintelligent dogs sprouting thumbs and using drones to kill us. This is pretty much how the US is approaching AI risks and regulations. My latest:

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Why We Can't Let Enormous Weirdos Regulate AI

Imagine if instead of regulating drones via the standard lengthy, boring, and bureaucratic process - which we did - we instead decided, in the name of fostering all-important American drone innovation...

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Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

At this point, everyone sees his bigotry... Every single person in this room that said nothing are complicit

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 24/09/2026

Attention Canadian researchers: #ICYMI Canada's new Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act (FITAA) and its associated regulations are now in force. lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-2...

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Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act

Federal laws of Canada

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

My personal rule is, always vote. Pick the least worst candidate. Pick the best referendum answer. The worst people don’t want you to vote. Vote

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 19/09/2026

Innocent civilians are being murdered with dirt-cheap and essentially impossible to ban tiny flying robots at shocking numbers globally (read our piece below). We have REAL, CURRENT cyberpunk horrors to deal with right now, and we don’t need to waste our time on hypothetical AI basilisks.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The fact that Jeff Bezos ruined the Washington Post for nothing is just peak 2026

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

We already have an AI kill switch: cut power to servers. Really want to talk existential threat? Fine. We humans have many ways to blow things up. Like data centers. Panicky discourse assumes the first priority is protect tech company investments and expand their businesses. But why should it be?

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Trump banning media outlets from the WH over their coverage is unlikely to affect their reporting much, but it is yet another example of how the right wing definition of “free speech” is that they can say what they want and you can say what they want. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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Speak at Your Own Risk

Donald Trump’s attacks on the First Amendment

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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 18/09/2026

This is the far more likely pathway for how AI will end us all, btw. Not via some superintelligent swarm of paperclip maximizers, but by a cascading sequence of dumb fuckups driven by human beings who have arranged things to be fast-moving and catastrophically fragile while also being really lazy.

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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 18/09/2026

Just need to point out that pretty much every IR person on this website came to similar conclusions within a five-minute window of one another.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is part of the point of the separatists forcing a referendum—to cement their place in the political landscape, and so long as Danielle Smith and others refuse to clean house within the UCP, it will remain a de facto separatist party.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The cool thing about complicity is that it goes away if you just tell people you don’t have it

Ed Sheeran breaks silence on Macklemore's tour exit: I am not complicit'

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 15/09/2026

I think holding a fire sale for foreign investors, including Americans, and selling off Canada’s critical infrastructure is a bad idea and inconsistent with shoring up our sovereignty. Just one man’s opinion!

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Democrats keep trying to guilt-trip Canadians into backing down. Fuck off. Deal with your own mess. This is your problem to solve, not ours. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Gallego, the Arizona senator, said the two sides need to figure out how to mutually step down from the current trade tensions, adding that it appeared both Trump and Prime Minister Mark Carney were playing politics when trade talks fell apart last month.
"I'm not asking Mr. Carney to just bend at the knee and give in, but this is the role of diplomacy," Gallego said. "You figure out how to actually start bringing the heat down little by little to a point where you can get to the negotiation table."
Likewise, Maine's governor, Mills, said there need to be "serious negotiations on both sides," and she hopes a third party can sit down with the two countries and make it clear a tariff fight damages both of them.
"The retaliatory tariffs, I can understand why that's happening," Mills said. "I can't say it's not damaging our economy, though."

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 12/09/2026

Let’s make sure we frame AI companies and their leaders as culprits. They’re active agents creating the conditions for AI risks. They’re not helpless. They’re lighting matches for the arsonists because they want rich people to get richer.

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 12/09/2026

I really wish people would make the connection between this sort of thing and men like Larry Nassar. Society just seems to want to make girl’s sports a site of mass sexual abuse because they’re afraid of a handful of trans women. It’s horrific.

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John Levin @anterotesis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An "update" to JSTOR’s free reading program: they're downgrading access from 100 free articles/month to just 10. Access to academic writing is being whittled down, bit by bit. about.jstor.org/blog/an-upda...

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An update to JSTOR’s free reading program

Beginning September 1, 2026, JSTOR’s free reading program will provide registered readers with access to 10 articles every 30 days.

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Roland Pierik @roleo.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026

The number of cases of cervical cancer reported in Scotland among women given the HPV vaccine at 12-13 years of age is now zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. Zero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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No cervical cancer cases in fully HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

A study published by Public Health Scotland finds that the HPV vaccine is "highly effective".

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 09/09/2026

The frustrating thing about Merz is he says all the right things, but then he and his party dither around doing little to counter the AfD or to use the constitutional tools available to shut them down.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Let's keep organizing against data centres. Let's make AI political suicide. Only then will politicians act. "If it’s better to be defiant, it’s better still to do it in a group. The way forward is to find purchase with others, to connect, & to mobilize locally, nationally, or internationally"

Perhaps it’s not satisfying when you’re in dread-mode, but I think the answer is when encountering the sort of devastating news that’s increasingly common of late, you need to take a beat, feel what you’re feeling, talk it through if need be (which is what I’m doing here, I guess), regroup, and move on — ideally in some capacity that’s useful to the human species you’re ostensibly so concerned about.

It’s okay if purpose is downstream of dread. But you’ve got to ensure to make it back to the purpose bit. I’ve written before that despair, checking out, or pre-surrendering is nihilistic and privileged; it’s better to be defiant, to double-down on doing better in the face of wretched headlines, malevolent corporate oligarchies, and the political class who produce and enable each. If there is indeed a 10 percent chance AI destroys us, there’s a 90 percent chance it doesn’t. What are we going to do with those odds?

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

So frustrating. Here's WA GOP leader Jim Walsh claiming mail-in voting doesn't work because the USPS isn't postmarking mail fast enough. And WHY IS THAT, Jim? Because the Trump administration CHANGED how the USPS postmarks mail in ways that delay that date.

Screenshot of a Facebook post by Jim Walsh commenting on a reposted tweet from the Lynnwood Times. The Lynnwood Times post includes a photo of three people at a press conference podium, with two women flanking a man speaking at a lectern bearing a "United States" seal, in front of American and Washington State flags.

Word-for-word transcript:

Jim Walsh's post (top):

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There was a sharp rise in the number of disqualified ballots in the recent WA primary election.
Mostly because they were postmarked late.
This is part of the reason that voter turnout was so low.
It's also a major flaw in WA's mailing voting system.
Simply absurd to call this system "100% accurate." It's not.
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WA Sec State Steve Hobbs and Sen. Maria Cantwell discussing how increases in Late Postmarking disenfranchise WA Voters, particularly heavy Republican rural counties.

🎬 Presser on September 2, 2026.

1:23 PM · 02 Sep 26 · 12.9K Views

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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I think it was Alex Falcone who says "anytime someone tells you 'scientists don't want you to know—' just stop, scientists want you to know, they want nothing more than for people to be interested in their work, they're desperate"

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Many think of WWII as Churchill’s “fight them on the beeches,” FDR’s “day that will live in infamy,” and D-Day. The heroes coming to the rescue! Much of the 1930s forgotten, as significant portions reacted to fascism with “tapping into genuine concerns” sympathy or “not my problem” heads-in-sand.

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Once again, Ontario's establishment, conservative or otherwise, does not care.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"If democratic parties do not develop inspiring manifestos for what they want to achieve in government, liberal democrats will refuse to come out to vote and the far right will win a majority of votes – even if they represent only a minority of the population" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The AfD’s win in Germany is a dark day for Europe. Time is running out to stop the far right | Cas Mudde

This party is among the most extreme in Europe. To protect our democracies, liberal parties must urgently change their tactics, says Cas Mudde, author of The Far Right Today

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

This is SUCH an important story. It explains why NYT framed the influencer story the way they did. It explains why influencers are important if you want credit for fixing govt. It shows the stories that NYT refuses to cover, bc it doesn't fit NYT's narrative conventions.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The neo-Nazi party made huge gains in the German elections thanks to the backing of the world‘s biggest billionaire and most prominent publicizer of white nationalist conspiracies on the planet. Good thing there’s no comparable relationship in the US for our media to explore.

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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I have to imagine it may also come as a surprise to the Department of War (Defence) to learn that the HADES project cannot go ahead since it is based on the Bombardier Global 6500: thedefensepost.com/2026/05/02/h....

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

👇 is very important to keep in mind in re: today's 🇩🇪 election. And yes, there are uniquely terrible things about Trump & the GOP & America's collapse into competitive authoritarianism. But also, it's part of much broader cross-national trends.

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Miss Havisham @misshavisham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Reminder: protestors advocating for Gazans are arrested in the UK, for merely sitting.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This will come as no surprise to anyone following along here, but it’s a good (free) read. “We have arrived in a new age of disorder. We must prepare ourselves, beginning with being honest about the seriousness of the moment we’re in.” It seems like the NYT has finally got it.

nytimes.com

Opinion | A New World Order Is Coming. We Aren’t Ready.

We must be honest about the seriousness of the situation we’re in.

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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It is remarkable that so many in the Canadian commentariat are all clutching pearls like "oooh we can't even discuss cutting off exports even for a day because it may make them sad and it is mean and dare we eat a peach!" Meanwhile......

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's well known that the Trump administration wants to crush the Canadian economy to force us into a U.S. dominated-customs union. It's helpful to remind those who think there is some kind of "deal" to be had when the President shouts it from the rooftops.

Trump post saying that Carney is making the US "the enemy" "until their economy collapses, then it will prove to be very bad for Politics - worse than anything that has ever happened to a Canadian Politician. Just watch!"

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 02/09/2026

Literally no one cares about the precious fears of a trillion dollar company regretfully moving in lockstep with its openly fascist peers.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 02/09/2026

I am a scientist – and the answer is climate change. Yes, there is nuance. Yes, it could take a long time to identify the precise mechanisms. But there is no question why ice and snow-related disasters are on the rise. Our planet is warming at an unprecedented rate, and humans are responsible.

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

amazing stuff

"This government hates us and wants us dead," Kathleen Hanna remarked during Bikini
Kill's set. "They don't give a shit about anybody's healthcare. They don't care if we're dying in parking lots of curable illnesses.
They don't give a shit. They don't care if our rights are taken away. They're ripping people off the streets. I'm not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard for me in my body sometimes to have a good time. 'Cause it's hard to turn it off. And I was thinking that on the way here. I was like,
'What a gift.' What a gift we have to be able to play for you. What a gift Olivia has given all of us to do this festival.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

It's not just Trump. Red state legislatures have been passing gag orders and hollowing out faculty governance. If you say you hate cancel culture, you should be pretty mad that red state politicians gave conservative students a "fire my professor" button. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...

An Indiana University instructor was fired after a Republican Senator contacted the campus because she had used a graphic in class that a student alleged connected “Make America Great Again” to white supremacy (the instructor disagreed). She was investigated and removed under a law that claimed to expand “intellectual diversity” while also preventing students from experiencing political views unrelated to their course. The course? “Diversity, Human Rights and Social Justice” a graduate level course in the field of social work.

An English college instructor in Florida was fired after assigning an award-winning short story she had used for more than a decade featuring a fictional teacher who engages in bad behavior. A student expressed “mild discomfort.” God forbid adults going to university should experience mild discomfort.

At Texas A&M a student secretly recorded an instructor, objecting to content about gender in her class on children’s literature, then met with the President of the university to complain, and recorded those meetings, and released the recordings to friendly politicians, who then forced the firing first of the instructor, the removal of two administrators, and next the resignation of the President. The controversy led to a system-wide review of courses and fueled new restrictions on how they can teach race, gender and sexuality. Faculty cannot engage in advocacy, without any guidance as to what “advocacy” means.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

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