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North of Empire

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Post-American, 40 miles from Canadian waters. Reporting from the ragged margin of the USA, imagining the post-regime 21st century in upstate NY and the Northeast.

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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 3h
I’ve never seen such floods of anti-migrants coming out and revealing themselves online, as I have in the wake of the Oswego Roofers Rescue. Border Patrol turning tail really triggers them. 70 citizens on the ground vs. 7 cops plus 700 keyboard warriors doesn’t come out in their favor, who knew.
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Gayton Gomez @gpgomez.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Very few Americans support Trump's attacks on Canada and that includes a goodly chunk of MAGA. I am from Western New York and have MAGA family members, and they are very WTF with the anti-Canada stuff. Not sure why the Trump administration is taking such an incredibly unpopular stance.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 22h
Finally! Can’t wait to start this.
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Mark Mattson @waterkeepermark.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Excellent article on the last and hopefully remaining border crossing by ferry on the Great Lakes from Wolfe Island to Cape Vincent New York. www.thewhig.com/news/across-...
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Across international waters, ferry proponents are working to repair rift
Amid Canada-U.S. trade war, residents on both sides of the border working hard to put iconic international ferry back in service
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I hear NY and New England are looking for dates… 😎
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I was so sure it they were naming it “Skibidi”
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mom! The racist Republican candidates are being racist again! www.srmt-nsn.gov/news/saint-r...
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Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe Issues Statement in Response to Ellis…
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Council is the duly elected and recognized government of the Mohawk people. Both New York State and the United States deal…
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hannasazi.bsky.social @hannasazi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I want to see california and new york start trading directly with canada. No tariffs no barriers. Let trump try and enforce it without state help
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Pat G🇨🇦 🍁🏳️‍🌈🍉 @pguist.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Canada-EU story is getting a lot more concrete. A draft plan says Canada and Europe have deals on critical minerals, digital trade and energy, plus a joint purchase of 50 CANADIAN-built water bombers. Whatever “associate membership” means, this relationship is moving fast. 🇨🇦🇪🇺
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Mateo Kehler, CEO of Jasper Hill Farm, cheese company in northern Vermont, says: “Honestly, if I was a Canadian consumer, I would not be buying anything from the U.S. either. This is a time for resistance, and I applaud Canadians for voting with their dollars.” www.thebulwark.com/p/who-cut-th...
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Who Cut The Cheese? Trump Did.
The dairy industry was supposed to be the one sector that benefited from Trump’s trade war.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yuuuuuuuuuckkkkk dailyorange.com/2026/10/pres...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
175 years almost to the day since the Jerry Rescue, Central New Yorkers did it again. How citizens of Oswego rescued two roofers being threatened by Border Patrol… www.syracuse.com/crime/2026/1...
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How strangers helped two men evade an immigration arrest: ‘Everybody stepped up in Oswego’
On the fly, a crowd hatched a plan to rescue two men stuck on a roof for six hours to avoid the Border Patrol.
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Yonette Joseph @sugarcane99.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Public anger comes for John Roberts The chief justice’s summer retreat in Maine used to be one of boating, potluck dinners, touch football and easy friendships. Locals called him “John.” Now a swirl of anger has been rising at him, transforming his getaways. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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John Roberts Retreated to His Island. Supreme Court Critics Found Him. (Gift Article)
After decades of potlucks and paddle-boarding on Maine’s midcoast, rising anger and protests have left the Supreme Court’s chief justice more isolated than ever.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
70 Oswegonians held off Border Patrol for 7 hours until BP gave up and left the scene. The two men they had driven up onto the roof of a home, apparently escaped after someone came to pick them up. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/09...
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Update: Standoff in Oswego between Border Patrol and two men on roof ends (photos, video)
Protesters yelled at federal agents, police officers and firefighters. After about six hours, the agents left and a bit later the two men got away.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember folks, the Trump regime’s aggression toward #Canada is not just about dominance toward Canada. It’s also about isolating the American people from their best friends, just like any domestic abuser does. www.strath.ac.uk/media/1newwe...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This piece on not being able to “unsee” Trump’s threats to Canada ends by saying “God, that’s dark.” The future, however, belongs to those who admit this has happened, who don’t minimize Canada’s and Europe’s feelings about it, and who resolve to build a new relationship off real, local strengths.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Impromptu street protest happening in Oswego after Border Patrol chased two men onto a roof. www.facebook.com/share/v/1E6Y...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Northeastern states! Everyone’s shackin’ up in the North Atlantic. This could one day be yours
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well, this explains why Trip Advisor has switched to “Lake America”… (see lower right hand corner of companies)
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Continually having to remind the US government of its obligations is just “same shit, different day” at Akwesasne. Welcome to their world, New Yorkers. www.pressreader.com/canada/stand...
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Court upholds Jay Treaty prin­ciples for stu­dents | Standard-Freeholder (Cornwall)
A trio of post-sec­ond­ary stu­dents from Akwesasne who were born in Canada have bested the U.S. Depart­ment of Edu­ca­tion in a legal battle to defend their bor­der-cross­ing rights under the Jay Tre...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Upstate Democrats are ready to embrace downstate Dems like Mamdani and AOC more than any other time I can remember. It helps that Upstate Dems are already represented by the more centrist Hochul in the state house (a Buffalonian with Syracuse connections). Good times.
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Sean Dague @dague.net · 20/09/2026
Super cool. Flew out of Plattsburgh. While this approach is likely never going to solve trans continental, a whole different regional model might work for this.
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Taegan Goddard @politicalwire.com · 28/09/2026
AOC Test-Runs a Senate Bid in Upstate New York politicalwire.com/2026/09/27/aoc-te…
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AOC Test-Runs a Senate Bid in Upstate New York
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Constance Lighthall @clighthall.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DduaXJc... #GreatLakes
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The New York Times on Instagram: "The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed six surveillance drones across the Great Lakes since May to stop the flow of drugs and illegal border crossings from Canada. But the...
19K likes, 666 comments - nytimes on September 25, 2026: "The U.S. Coast Guard has deployed six surveillance drones across the Great Lakes since May to stop the flow of drugs and illegal border crossi...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
For those who want to get a load of the state of Blakeman-backed, pro-Trump propaganda, there’s always “The Watertown Post.” There’s just a certain NYS GOP lackey je ne sais quoi to it all, so uniquely Upstate in its wide eyed enthusiasm and civic concernedness… watertownpost.com
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Watertown News: Local Updates, Events & Commentary from Watertown Post
Stay updated with the latest Watertown news, Fort Drum news, and local events. Join our community today!
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Probably too soon to say Trumpism is dead in northern New York… but then again… cendax.wordpress.com/2026/09/23/s...
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Seeing the signs
I live in one of the redder districts not just in this state, but in the country. Back in 2024, this area went for Trump by 20 points, and our representative, Elise Stefanik, won reelection in larg…
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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How Trump's trade war with Canada is squeezing a farm cidery in Albany
Nine Pin cider's co-founder said that a local business relying on a nearby harvest should be insulated from the trade war. But it isn’t.
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Found Worlds @foundworlds.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
❄️ 💭 🧣 "The Snow Remembered Me Before I Remembered It" Three winters after leaving, Lucy Guo went back to Syracuse to see if the city still knew their name - personal recollections plus history & experience of 'the snowiest city in the USA' ☃️ medium.com/found-worlds... #travel
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The Snow Remembered Me Before I Remembered It
Three winters after I left, I went back to Syracuse to see if the city still knew my name
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently this is to be a medical drone launch pad, located next to my morning bus stop. Considering how everything in the world has been going “pear shaped, with drones”… urk.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 26/09/2026
I haven’t logged on to the New York Times app in a hot minute but the addition of “Canada” to their navigation bar is new, right? Does it only show up *in* Canada? Or is it a trending section, like “Best of TV”?
The top of the New York Times app. Aside from “Today” the first buttons are “Best of TV” “Canada” The Athletic” and “Games”
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I don’t know about any Nor’easter but Syracuse is covered in a weird pea soup fog right now.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The Northeastern tick plague knows no borders.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Buh-bye…
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This Hour Has 22 Minutes @22-minutes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
How does the EU work?! 🤔 www.youtube.com/watch?v=18sU...
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King Charles meets with President Macron and Prime Minister Carney | This Hour Has 22 Minutes
YouTube video by 22 Minutes
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yup, Canada will have New York and New England seized by their cold, teeny, shriveled balls this winter. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-moose-...
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The Moose That Roared
Why Trump will lose his war with Canada
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This affects ALL children in New England (all six New England states).
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
GodAWFUL, but important, story on a survey of 50 of New York’s 600-odd school districts revealing the extreme lack of sex education standards in the state.As bad as the town justice situation (ignorant old geezers running rural town courts like their personal fiefs). www.syracuse.com/schools/2026...
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NY sex ed Lessons include inaccurate claims, report finds
Researchers reviewed sex ed curricula used by 50 school districts across the state in the 2023–24 school year and found that more than one third contained medically inaccurate or misleading informatio...
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This extraordinary account of peace talks in South Sudan reminds me that eastern Canada, the Northeast US and Europe all share a Catholic heritage. You don’t have to be a practicing Catholic to draw on those traditions in finding practical common ground. santaclaramaga.wpengine.com/magazines/sp...
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Belling the Cat - Santa Clara Magazine
BY ALL RIGHTS, by 2019, South Sudan should have been a country on the mend and on the rise. A largely Christian nation comprising many different nomadic tribes of cattle keepers and farmers, South Sudan had won its independence from Arabic, Islamic rule of Sudan eight years earlier, in 2011. As part of that independence, [...]
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Connecticut?!?
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
She’s a totty old broad, but less people are laughing at the notion now (story is from late ‘24). No, I don’t believe Canada would want us, especially not now, but we don’t have to go down with this ship either… www.newsweek.com/four-states-...
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Four states could secede from US and join Canada to avoid Trump—Democrat
A Democratic New York State Senator floated an unlikely proposition that a group of northeastern states simply head further north.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The number of Americans who seem genuinely shocked that Canada flags fly and anthems are played in upstate NY, is… interesting. Will never forget when I visited Mississippi and innocently tried to pay for a candy bar with a mix of American and Canadian coinage-which was normal practice in upstate NY
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dear world: when you think of America, just for a moment instead of the racism, militarism, arrogance and destruction, think of this great lady. She was everything good and true and beautiful that was ever in the American people.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The only good thing about Dolly Parton passing away is that she is reunited with her dear husband now.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Used to watch and adore Indycar, until I got sick of the F1 jockeying and constant silly season and social media girl fights, sad to see Indycar now wrapped up in Trump’s mess. Roger Penske has lived too long.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
July 5, 1853: a flour mill burning in Oswego, New York. This is the oldest known example of a live catastrophe being captured photographically as an aid in reporting. The first “news photo,” if you will.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Describe your musical taste with only 3 artists. No genres allowed The Who Bremer/McCoy Giorgio Zancanaro
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Hasan Piker is one of those people who only get written about behind paywalls.
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
I feel like Americans still believe that there is some sort of “whole country” still existing and that what happens 3000 miles away should be of vital concern just because nominally “we’re all Americans”… hate to say it but fires in WA concern me just as much as fires in France. Concerning, but… 🤷
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Oregon does not even have half the population of upstate New York and yet we hear so much from Oregonians all the time as if they’re some kind of population center #weird
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North of Empire @northofempire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
On AFV last night: a wife asking her husband when America was founded. He doesn’t know and doesn’t care: “It’s not relevant.” He’s wearing a flag T shirt that says “America 1776.”
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