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Murray Abrams

@murrayabrams.bsky.social
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🇨🇦, PhD, Clinical Psychologist, spouse, parent of two grown-ups, cat lover, woodworker, gardener, aspiring boat builder. Worried for the world. Comforted by geological time and the vastness of the universe.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2026
Okay everyone. Here’s the YouTube interview with @jimmykimmel.com and @jamestalarico.bsky.social You know what to do. Watch it. Share it. Donate. Bury them. youtu.be/WLDE9LrGpNk?...
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
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Danyaal Raza @danyaalraza.com · 15/12/2025
What’s the Family Doctor Fix? Teams are a great place to start.
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Paul Dechene @pauldechene.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
In case you missed it… Here's a QCIB blog post on the massive cuts to city transit that council is considering. It ends on a pretty crusty note about the floral conservatory. queencityib.com/blog/2025/12... #yqrcc /1
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Transit Cuts Are Back On Council's Menu — Queen City Improvement Bureau
Council will consider $12,150,000 in transit cuts during next week's budget debate. This is what that will look like. On the chopping block: • accessibility training for drivers • accessibilit...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency.Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything to steer the future away from endless war and grinding down of the poor.Hope gives a future." -Rebecca Solnit
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Radio Free America @radiofreeflorida.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Coffee is made. Torch is lit. Good Morning, America! Let’s see how the levy looks. #RadioFreeAmerica youtu.be/LH0-WXUFY2k?...
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When The Levee Breaks feat. John Paul Jones | Playing For Change | Song Around The World
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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
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Margaret W. Rossiter, 81, Dies; Wrote Women Scientists Into History
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Vanity Fair @vanityfair.com · 17/07/2025
On a Tuesday in March, Rümeysa Öztürk writes, “I was thrust into a nightmare.” For VF, the Fulbright scholar details what she witnessed in the six and a half weeks she spent inside a South Louisiana ICE detention center.
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison
Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
There's nothing that pisses me more than when people are getting ripped off by their employers, by landlords, by banks, by Energy Companies, by Water Companies, by Supermarkets. Then they decide actually the problem is immigrants or Disabled People. How stupid can you be?
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
“Dr. Bonnie Henry describes honour as 'humbling'” She should be more than humbled, she should be ashamed. After making a mess of SARS in Ontario, she gave inane advice from BC about COVID, like belitting masking + cheering ‘protective’ infections. This is failing up! www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C.'s top doctor among British Columbians appointed to Order of Canada | CBC News
"Having my name amongst this group of incredible Canadians is truly humbling," Dr. Bonnie Henry said in a statement. "To be recognized by my country for my life's work in health and public health is a...
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Mary Fernando M.D. 🇨🇦 @maryfernando.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Haven’t read this and won’t because: 1. ‘Soap and water’ do not combat airborne viruses. 2. ‘Common sense’ suggests everyone understands virology so, why bother writing this book if everyone knows anyway? Is common sense all we need to fly an airplane? #deathofexpertise #covidisairborne #WTF
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wrote an article on the theme from the tweets below: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/heat-exhau...
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Heat Exhaustion
A spark of hope in a limbo that feels like hell.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
I explained this in 2017; let’s see if it takes this time…
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
61 years ago today, the Klan murdered three civil rights workers in Mississippi. One of them was a childhood friend. I'd like to share what he meant to me. youtu.be/u-kv3wdqqNo?si=Zc3Uh-CJOcO…
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When the KKK Murdered My Childhood Friend | Robert Reich
As the shortest kid in school, I was an easy target for bullies. When I was about eight, I befriended a kind teenager wh
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
Lisa is a Canadian treasure Entire video: vm.tiktok.com/ZMSPdM8Av/
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Hey @CBC you should stop using ALL lobbyists as panel pundits. They always have self interests that they push. Thinking of this often, but pretty appalled just now by Moe Sihota on the Early Edition. #Vancouver #CBC
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Larry (BOB) Dallas @larrydallas1977.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Naheed Nenshi Donald Trump increased tariffs to 50% on steel and aluminum, affecting Canadian jobs. Danielle Smith's response? Restocking American booze back on Alberta shelves! She can’t do anything that Trump might not like. She’s a terrible negotiator and can’t or won’t stand up for Canada.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Are you a journalist in a national Canadian newsroom who has felt institutional pressure when it comes to covering the genocide in Gaza? I want to talk to you and can protect your identity. Here’s my Signal. Pls include proof of identity so I can avoid the weirdos lol ❤️
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Emily Herring @emilyherring.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Read my biography of Henri Bergson to find out about his philosophy of durée, his secret meeting with President Wilson during WWI, the experiments he and Pierre Curie conducted on an Italian medium, and why he caused the 1st traffic jam on Broadway! Order your copy here: linktr.ee/eherring
Book cover (UK) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring. A portrait of Henri Bergson (middle aged man with a moustache) appears swept away in swirls of abstract colourBook cover (US) for Herald of a Restless World. How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People by Emily Herring.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
There's something surreal about watching this Conservative MP speak in the House about how "words matter" knowing the son he raised (Keean Bexte) called me a filthy whore last week lmao
Image shows David Bexte, Conservative MP for Bow River, Alberta, speaking in the House of Commons today.
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Larry (BOB) Dallas @larrydallas1977.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Darlene Reid @dar6527.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
They are not a political party as we know it. There are a cult, just like the MAGA. If you are not familiar with IDU I suggest YOU educate yourself. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
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Democracy Is Under Siege Globally. Canada Is Being Tested | The Tyee
How the well-honed playbook for whipping up authoritarian populism is being employed here and around the world.
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Imagine CBC covering Trudeau so positively if he had lost his seat. They would be all over him for acting like he was elected, staying at Stornoway, having expensive by-election. PP cosplays. CBC plays along. PP is an unelected loud mouth sucking up the taxpayer dime! www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Poilievre says Conservatives will fight for change in new session of Parliament | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his caucus will be pushing measures to make Canada more affordable, safe, self-reliant and united, as Conservative MPs prepare to return to Parliament without...
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Carl Marxman, buff Ogryn @carlmarxman.northsky.social · 13/05/2025
“Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Canadians Against Trump @canadiansagainstt.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
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Private clinics in Canada are selling personal health data: study
Private clinics in Canada are selling patients’ personal health data without their knowledge, according to a new study.
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government. No one has heard from you in 58 days. As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Very grateful to all who can spread the word on this sale. I'm fresh off a month-long tour and absolutely exhausted and not up for self-promoting, but sales like this don't come around often and it's a good chance to get THEY KNEW for cheap in a bad economy! Thank you
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Larry (BOB) Dallas @larrydallas1977.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
IMO PP should be forced to move to Alberta. If he wins his seat he can then move back to Ottawa at his OWN expense. Why should I pay for this loser to rig an election in Alberta and live off my taxes when PP is worth $25 million dollars. It make no sense. He lost. GTFO. No Chefs, No Nannies.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell. If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...
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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I don’t understand why the Conservatives are interested in keeping Pierre Poilievre as leader. Not only did he personally blow a 20+ point lead in the polls, he couldn’t even win his own, very safe riding. This man is a double loser and is wasting even more tax dollars for a by-election.
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Billy Binion @billybinion.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/04/2025
Op-Ed : “Say what you will about us, at least we never blew a 27 point lead,” by Auston Matthews #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli
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Bruce Fanjoy @brucefanjoy.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
It’s Election Day! Knocking doors with Sachit Mehra to get everyone out to vote for Mark Carney’s Liberals stand up for Canada. #CanadaStrong #FanjoyVsPoilievre
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Trudy Keil, PhD @trudykeil.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Vote Liberal in Regina-Wascana! I know it feels tough for NDP voters and does not truly align with our values, but it's a far better choice than Kram. We need Regina voices represented in government again. Same goes for Regina-Lewvan - vote for @machirdrl.bsky.social! #skpoli #cdnpoli
showing a tightening race in regina-wascana with Cons at 45 and Libs at 44.
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RGBAtlantica 🇨🇦 @ratlantica.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
17.5 hours to go until polls open Monday, April 28, EST at 9:30 a.m. and @PierrePoilievre still does NOT have a Security Clearance. He refused. #NeverPoilievre #NeverCPC #PierrePoilievreIsUnelectable @liberal_party
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Louise in Ontario🇨🇦 @grammalou.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Excellent article by Bruce Anderson comparing Poilievre with Trump. bruce728.substack.com/p/trump-show...
Both rage against central bank independence.

Offer comfort to radical anti-vax conspiracy believers.

Run down the idea of global economic relationships.

Both love to break norms, rules, customs.

Promote their own names, more than their parties.

Pick noisy fights with journalists, and members of their own parties.

Both talk a lot about fake news and radical woke ideology.

Both lead parties that include a lot of people who would like to end a woman’s right to choose.

Both have been looking at ways to work around the constitution when it comes to their law and order agenda.
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jflem2.bsky.social @jflem2.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
This election is not about Trump. It is about standing up for Canada and defying the rage-baiters, conspiracy trolls and those who trash our nation to score points. This election is about you Pierre Poilievre. We reject your hate politics. Canadians do your best. Don't accept the worst.
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Canadians Against Trump @canadiansagainstt.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
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Jeff Walters @jeffwalterssask.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
If you’ve always voted NDP, we get it — it’s a tough choice to make. But in this election, the stakes are too high to risk splitting the vote. Our environment, our healthcare, and our future depend on strong, progressive leadership. Together, we can build the just, sustainable Canada we believe in.
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Mike Harding @churchcat.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
No security clearance? Then no voting clearance from me. Surrounding yourself with our flags doesn't change that. "Among opposition party leaders, Poilievre is alone in refusing to apply for a security clearance." #CanadaStrong #canpoli #cdnpoli thewalrus.ca/poilievres-r...
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Poilievre’s Refusal to Get Security Clearance Raises Questions about His Readiness to Govern | The Walrus
Who seeks to lead a country without knowing the dangers it faces?
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
poilievre realizing in the last days of the election that no one really likes him and switching to a desperate "anti-woke" platform is actually pretty satisfying, like yes, my beady-eyed twerp, your fear is delicious
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Kim-Bo @kim-bo.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Pierre & Ana Poilievre reside in a tax payer funded mansion, with drivers, chefs & nannies. Which makes it even more offensive to listen to Pierre suggest he will throw homeless folks in jails against their will I think it's time Canadians take a stand and throw the Poilievre's out on their asses.
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