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Kristen Radtke @kristenradtke.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

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I grew up with Alex Pretti

The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

NEW: this is how the US press would report on this if it was happening in a ‘shithole country’. It’s an execution. But it also reveals how weak Trump really is open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

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Death Squads Execute Second Dissident

Or what the US press would say if this was happening on the streets of a "shithole" country overseas

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

1/ Eleven Dutch parties across the political spectrum from socialist to conservative have issued a joint appeal to a provincial government to build a memorial to Black American soldiers who died in World War II, to replace one removed from the Netherlands American Cemetery. ⬇️

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

This is fucking amazing

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 27/10/2025

🎵Things Might Get Better🎵

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Corrinna 🍁🇨🇦 #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian @corrinna-mp.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

The new one is so much better, using "we" instead of "I", has no icky ref (we shouldn't mock Indigenous food) & is 100% Canadian-produced content 💪 youtu.be/_OzbmriDgQc?... Oh, Lunenburg 💜 Plz, thank Jeff for his reboot for us!

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We Are Canadian

YouTube video by Jeff Douglas

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 06/10/2025

Netflix recorded an interview with Dr. #JaneGoodall in March, set to air only after her death. In it, she says she wishes Trump and Elon Musk could be blasted into space. Her final message: “Don’t lose hope.” youtube.com/shorts/kIej4...

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#JaneGoodall final message: “Don’t lose hope.”

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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Good by Sweden's Minister of Finance, who battle propaganda about Russian economy. Main points: * RU inflation about 20% * Liquid part of RU welfare fund not enough for deficit * Intl inst (IMF et al) and media should not use data from RU * All RU data likely false. www.dn.se/debatt/vara-...

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DN Debatt. ”Våra underrättelser visar sanningen bakom Putins siffror”

DN Debatt. Finansministern: Internationella finansiella institutioner hjälper Ryssland att sprida propaganda.

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

Great #tutorial for all #Canadians to see how a #MemberofParliament(MP) #voted in the #HouseofCommons. This example uses #PierrePoilievre • his anti-Canadian •anti-crime • anti-affordability. You get the theme ~ AGAINST is his brand. He hasn’t produced anything to help Canadians in 20 yrs

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Luca Migo @victinibcn.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Road rage: “Never come back to the US again!” US customs and border protection agent chases and harasses a Canadian driver.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 24/09/2025

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

This will not play well with American critics of the Canadian public healthcare system. "SickKids named world's best pediatric hospital" www.cp24.com/local/toront...

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SickKids named world’s best pediatric hospital in new ranking

The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto has topped a new list ranking the world’s top pediatric hospitals.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 05/09/2025

Premium newsletter: A 8500 word analysis of how everybody is losing money on gen AI, with some startups spending 100%+ of their revenue on compute. Even GPU providers are struggling, with years-long time horizons to break even, if profit is even possible. www.wheresyoured.at/why-everybod...

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Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI

Hello and welcome to another premium newsletter. Thanks as ever for subscribing, and please email me at ez@betteroffline.com to say hello. As I've written again and again, the costs of running genera...

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X Solitude ∞ 🍁🇨🇦 EH! @solitudex.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁 PURE CANADIAN GOLD 🇨🇦👍MUST WATCH💪🇨🇦 "Dear Canada..." with 🎶 "A Case of You' song by k.d. lang 🎶 🇨🇦 vimeo.com/1056619122 🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁

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Dear Canada...

Dear Canada... I felt compelled to do something, to make something for my country. To stick up for, and to honour it. To show our strength, beauty, genius, empathy,…

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This week, I’m hosting The Daily Show Tuesday through Thursday. It’s my first time hosting anything on TV. Ever. I’ve spent years writing behind the scenes, learning from truly great and talented people. Now, for three nights, I get to sit at the desk and do it myself.

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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 30/06/2025

Everyone’s mad that we backed down on the tech tax. But here’s why this might be the smartest move we’ve made.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 05/04/2025

100,000+ people marched at the #HandsOff rally in New York!

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm a graduate of Punk Rock U with a solid minor playing the country bars of North Ontario. My band @grievousangels104.bsky.social did a great matinee show in the steel city recently in a great working class bar. Check out our take on Trump/Vance/Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oa-G...

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GRIEVOUS ANGELS - I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE (ELBOWS UP)

YouTube video by Grievous Angels

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

NEW: Today in Instanbul, Turkey. A people fighting for democracy & against authoritarianism. This is how you do it! Chairman of Republican People’s Party, Özgür Özel: “Today, 2.2 million of our citizens overflowed Maltepe Square. This is just the beginning. This nation will not remain silent.” 🇹🇷

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Tim Querengesser @timquerengesser.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

I joked a while back that, Canada being Canada, we might face the evolving, immediate, existential threat the U.S. is creating by considering a Royal Commission. I was on to something. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

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Open letter to the next prime minister: We need a royal commission on Canada’s future

Canada thrived within a U.S.-led liberal international order after the Second World War, but that era is over. Our economic and security policies must evolve to meet modern threats.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Elbows up, Canada.

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Mark Boyd @markboyd.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Exciting to see European governments starting to build new open source tools that would make it easier to get out from microsoft and google’s grip: docs.numerique.gouv.fr/login/ This is part of the EuroStack we need, can we get a spreadsheet tool and then im mostly sorted!

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Docs

Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Apropos of nothing; ❤️ @bsky.app 📈 but it's incredibly US centric still, see Top 500 list: vqv.app A few European starter packs: European Union Politics: go.bsky.app/Bg7sPSp European Think tanks: go.bsky.app/8Ra8RjU EU/UK tech policy: go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce Digital democracy: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Top 500 Bluesky Users

Explore the top 500 most followed users on Bluesky

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Jennifer Hlusko 🇨🇦 @jenniferhlusko.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Former spy chiefs say a campaign 2 destabilize Canada would rely less on cloak-and-dagger tactics and more on social media platforms like X. The most vulnerable to propaganda disinformation are young Canadians who r economically disadvantaged. We need 2 monitor money flow. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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ANALYSIS | The U.S. has covertly destabilized nations. With Canada, it's being done in public | CBC News

Former senior Canadian intelligence officials say Canada needs to be on the lookout for campaigns aimed at destabilizing the country amid U.S. President Donald Trump's escalating 51st state threats. T...

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X Solitude ∞ 🍁🇨🇦 EH! @solitudex.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

OK, THAT WAS ONE FOR THE HISTORY BOOKS 🇨🇦 Absolutely moving speeches. Not a single word wasted! If you have ever wondered what Liberal Canadians (The backbone of CANADA) are all about, then please watch! Canada United! Canada Strong! TRULY INSPIRED 🍁(PLEASE SEE BELOW FOR ALL 3 SPEECHES IN FULL)🇨🇦

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🇨🇦 Justin Trudeau shares one of his last videos as Prime Minister. Justin Trudeau thank you so much for everything, standing with Ukraine. I wish you all the best.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I am rarely at a loss for words and then someone sent me this song. I have written lots of songs about people. I never imagined that someone would write one about me. But it's not me that is worthy of celebration - it is the spirit of Canada that is rising. #elbowsup www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uk6...

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Northern Knight

YouTube video by Pete Seagram

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Brad365 @brad365.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

🤣Canada having way to much fun ripping on🍊💩 youtu.be/oXnP_YIG7Ww?...

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Whitenoiz CA - American Idiot Cover (Canadian Version)

YouTube video by Whitenoiz CA

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

It all comes down to this. It’s time to vote, and it’s time to build. Don’t forget to cast your ballot for the next Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, before 3:00PM today: vote.liberal.ca

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Terri @terriclarke.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

You can watch Christiane Amanpour realize in real time on CNN just how seriously Canadians are taking the annexation threats.

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'My jaw is dropped': Canadian official's interview stuns Amanpour

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

If you do not know the meaning of "Elbows Up", in Canada we use that term when we are ready for a fight and someone is going to bleed. #ElbowsUp #Canada #BuyCanadian #BuyLocal #cdnpoli

image of Canada red and white flag with Elbows Up, Canada writing.

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RGBAtlantica 🇨🇦 @ratlantica.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Prime Minister Trudeau's speech on Trump's tariffs, please spread to the USA, and all over. #CanadaStrongAndFree #ElbowsUp #Canada

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau: "Today, the United States launched a trade war against Canada - their closest partner and ally, their closest friend. At the same time, they're talking about working positively with Russia, appeasing Vladimir Putin - a lying murderous dictator. Make that makes sense."

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Social Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 04/03/2025

"According to the Polity Project, an organization that ranks and categorizes governments worldwide, the U.S. government is classified as a “non-democracy” as of February 2025, a downgrade from its previous status as a democracy." ash.harvard.edu/articles/fro...

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From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing – Ash Center

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Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Boston Globe reports antics of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at Vermont/Quebec library that sits on Canada-U.S. border. She repeatedly stepped over taped boundary marker in middle of the library, referring to Canada as the "51st State" every time she stood in Canada.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

We know for certain Ukraine will fight Russian invaders, defend Europe and fulfill the mandate of NATO because it has doing precisely that for 11 years. We now know the United States will not make good on the promises it gave by ratifying the North Atlantic Treaty.

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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 26/02/2025

2025 is the year Canada found out what many Americans really think about us: rather then an unforgivable affront to an ally and a violation of international law, annexing Canada is funny, or cool, or whimsical, or a strategy for the midterms. foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/25/c...

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Canada Would Like a Word About Trump’s Threats

Americans should stop treating attacks on their neighbor as a joke.

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Peter M Boehm @senboehm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

My interview today in Munich with Deutsche Welle on Trump, EU, tariffs, defence spending & fraught nature of the 🌎 . In German. youtu.be/vzarKnW4AUA

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Was will Kanada gegen Trumps Drohungen unternehmen? | DW Nachrichten

YouTube video by DW Deutsch

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

⚡️🇫🇷 France convenes second urgent meeting of EU leaders in three days to discuss Ukraine and security in Europe, — Reuters The summit is expected on February 19. Among the invited countries: Norway, Canada, the Baltic states, the Czech Republic, Greece, Finland, Romania, Sweden and Belgium.

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Wifflepoof @wifflepoof.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸 We could use everyone’s help to introduce @mark-carney.bsky.social on Bluesky & YT as he campaigns to take the reins from PM Trudeau then in the election to defeat MAPLE MAGA Pierre Poilivre. PP regurgitates Trump’s talking points with all the charm & charisma of Ted Cruz. markcarney.ca

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