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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21h
In Chrysta Freeland's new book she states that Howard Lutnick threatened to invade Canada "by sundown" over Doug Ford's electricity surcharge. The fact that US trade negotiators put military threat on the table must be taken with the upmost seriousness. charlieangus.substack.com/p/they-threa...
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They Threatened to Invade by Sundown
Lutnick and his crowd cannot abide a proud democratic nation on the border.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Maybe more than a whiff of treason. Alberta separatists are flat-out traitors to the nation. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Reece Martin @rmtransit.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
A useful time to share this I guess. . . thetransitbrief.substack.com/p/an-obvious...
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 22/09/2026
my love and respect for Larry David grows all the time pagesix.com/2026/09/22/h...
After the dressing down — which ended up having the crowd in tears, of laughter and joy, the agent writes — Emanuel recalls, “Seating Larry at the same table as Elon Musk: Not my best decision.” 
As soon as the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star sees the Tesla mogul,”he starts cursing, yelling, saying things many people would like to say to Elon” about the SpaceX’s leader’s politics. 
David was “right up in Elon’s face, before the dinner starts,” and, guests had to separate them.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Banned: Macklemore's powerful statement deserves reading. www.instagram.com/p/DdRdsy0m2H...
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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Very forceful statement by Terry Tao about AI and math. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a... Note, he is not claiming the models aren't real and powerful. He's talking about how that power should be used. This, I believe, is what all AI discussions should center.
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Quinn 🇨🇦🇫🇮🏳️‍🌈 @cdnhousehippo.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hydro One’s outage map has it listed as Lake America
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Utterly incoherent message from the UAW here, saying the American autoworkers don't support escalation against Canada except they DO support... auto and heavy truck tariffs. uaw.org/uaw-presiden...
The UAW rejects any escalation on Canada, a country with strong unions and labor standards. If we’re going to increase tariffs anywhere, it should be on countries where automakers continue to offshore jobs because they can pay workers $3 an hour, force them to work in unsafe conditions, and crack down on independent unions.

Here at the UAW, we are fighting to end the free trade disaster. Free trade pits workers against each other across borders and is fueled by corporate greed. That’s why we will always support strategic tariffs, including the 232 tariffs on auto and heavy truck. Tariffs work, but only if they are deployed intentionally to protect workers and grow our manufacturing communities.

It’s time to permanently end offshoring and the race to the bottom. We need well-designed tariffs, and a comprehensive rewrite of the USMCA and other bad trade deals.
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 03/08/2026
It’s great we have some weekend trains now but we should have the Kitchener line double tracked so these trains can go back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto all day long every hour including weekends and holidays
GO trains parked in central Kitchener
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It's Jamie @sjamieit.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
To appease wealthy residents, The City of Ottawa is spending millions of dollars trying to block the redevelopment of this golf course in Kanata. Compared even to one of the lowest income parts of the city, Kanata Lakes pays very little in property taxes. The city can't afford this.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
sometimes I think about how Germany could have one of the cleanest electricity mixes in the world if they simply didn’t shut down all their nuclear plants
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24/07/2026
Here’s the thing - if you’re the kind of person who believes that Mao killed 50 million people and Stalin killed 35 million, then you have to apply the same accounting to Musk. That’s the only way to be consistent.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Not a single word about how these tariffs violate both our WTO & USCMA obligations. Every time Trump does this, the NYT & other outlets simply write as if we live in an international vacuum, where the US has no obligations under signed, ratified international treaties. It's journalistic malpractice.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/07/2026
WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"
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Johnny “Euro Hoser” Renton @johnnyrenton.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I mean…the guy had a Nazi tattoo and that wasn’t immediately disqualifying or suspect? Also, maybe don’t endorse American politicians? Like it or not you are now a *Canadian* public, political figure. And when you fuck up it reflects badly on the NDP. You don’t need to get involved in US politics…
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/07/2026
neither canadian leaders nor the canadian people will ever trust the united states again and they absolutely shouldn’t
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
French Resistance fighter and historian Marc Bloch, murdered by the Gestapo in 1944, is inducted into Panthéon in Paris.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/06/2026
We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.
Jeff Bezos told Trump the Washington Post was his worst investment before slashing staff: 'People there are terrible'
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
My goodness, Ed Luce is furious giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
i think that if you are trying to make a point about overpopulation you probably shouldn't base it on the claims of the woman personally responsible for bringing Sri Lanka to the brink of famine in 2022 www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2k9...
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Sri Lanka's organic farming revolution - Dr. Vandana Shiva
YouTube video by Wonder Of Asia Sri lanka
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...
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Lament for the MIT Libraries - MIT Faculty Newsletter
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
No, no, keep telling me "uhhh, 2.7C is still really bad." If you read my post closely, you won't find anything that contradicts that in the slightest, but let's face it: Your 👏 Anxiety 👏 Ain't 👏 Gonna 👏 Project 👏 Itself
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh
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Elon Musk Is Playing God
The tech billionaire wants to shape humanity’s future. Not everyone has a place there.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I think people are allowed to draw conclusions about the American people based on their decision to put this man in office bsky.app/profile/pear...
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
it's worth noting that the quote they went out of their way to make look stupid was expressing a reasonable point — a restatement of the long-standing official US policy in fact! — and the quote they clean up and sanitize is expressing a deranged threat of war crimes in an illegal conflict
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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as: “Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”
NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post.

Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6.

If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians.

“Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement.

“Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
People don’t wanna put two and two together with what he did to usaid and him putting up those maps of global birthrates and saying white people are being replaced
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Chris Vannini @chrisvannini.com · 01/04/2026
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Emily Lakdawalla 🏳️‍⚧️ Uranus Expert @elakdawalla.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Um, I don’t know what warjuice is, but Curiosity is, in fact, powered by the decay of radioactive plutonium. They didn’t install the power supply until the spacecraft was already on top of the rocket for launch because otherwise it would poison all the people working on it and also set it on fire
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
see? here's the thing. A lot of people are like, the earth is fucked, it's beyond salvation, it's hit the tipping point, but time and time again we see that if we just fucking fixed the problem, it rebounds so incredibly fast. Imagine what could be done if people actually cared
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
A little thread on Canada-US electricity trade, looking at the 4 largest electricity trading partners: BC, MB, ON, QC A rare (first time?) occurrence: 🚨 In 2025 all 3 big hydro provinces (BC, MB, QC) were *net importers* 🚨 Ontario continues to massively export power. [1/n]
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Baudrillard: totally exonerated, no wrong doing
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
The Pakistani ISI:
We're all trying to find the guy who did this
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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Hirō Isono’s famous Mana Tree artwork for Secret of Mana (SNES) ❤️
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WePlanet @weplanetint.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
MAJOR WIN FOR CLIMATE ACTION! We've halted the demolition of Tihange's cooling towers! Why it matters: ✅ Prevents irreversible destruction of billions in clean energy infrastructure ✅ Keeps the door open for restarting Tihange 1 & 2 ✅ Protects Belgium's energy security & climate goals
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David Eby @davidebybc.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
There is an old word to describe going to a foreign power and asking for their assistance in breaking up a sovereign country — it’s treason. Canadians are standing together in defence of this beautiful land. 🇨🇦
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
This is courage. Looking a masked, government fascist dead in the eye, face to face, knowing full well that your life is on the line. If elected officials had 1/10th of Alex Pretti's resolve, we would have far fewer troubles.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Carney: "In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Had to sleep, but reading the full text over breakfast, this may be the most consequential speech in Canadian history, one way or another.
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“Principled and pragmatic: Canada’s path” Prime Minister Carney addresses the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting
Thank you, Larry.It’s a pleasure – and a duty – to be with you at this turning point for Canada and for the world.Today, I’ll talk about the rupture in the world order, the end of a nice story, and th...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.
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Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
‘You have ten minutes to cry,” came the officer’s curt command to the couple as he revealed the corpse of their twentysomething daughter, gunned down in the historic streets of Isfahan. After searchin...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
They're not just doing tyranny, they're doing the *exact* things listed in the Declaration of Independence that the colonists accused the king of. It's surreal
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Military Unintelligence Expert 🇨🇦 @voltageanddoltage.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
One thing I am increasingly sure of is that we must fight the US on any military encroachment on Greenland. It isn't even a fight we can dream of winning, but the US doesn't want a fight, period. Showing the willingness to bare teeth there also deters meddling in our domestic affairs.
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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Why do I have to read an Irish paper for a feature about this?
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‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
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