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Irrelephant

@onewheeldoin200.bsky.social
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Aggressively, zealously centrist. Authoritarianism and disinformation, in all its forms, can get stuffed. #ElbowsUp and #SlavaUkraini 🇨🇦 🇺🇦

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15h
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 13h
An American legal system that permits this abhorrent behaviour without disbarring all lawyers associated with it has structurally failed.
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Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 02/10/2026
Now that I have this travel data I am of course messing around with it further. Here’s all monthly visits Jan 2015-June 2026, smoothed. The size of the Canadian reaction to the Trump administration’s attack on them really is remarkable. Elbows up, Canada. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...
Big drop in Canadian visits to the US. Mexico trending up, everywhere else declining slightly
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 19h
Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser
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Jason Markusoff @markusoff.bsky.social · 18h
Stephen Harper has, as we've long awaited, weighed in against Alberta separatism. But man oh man, do I have to strongly quibble with him claiming sentiment was zero when he was PM. Here's a 2014 poll putting belief in separation at 23%, which is where it sits now. nationalpost.com/opinion/step...
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20h
Behold, a column by the @theglobeandmail.com's Tony Keller that cries out for a debunking. Allow me. 🧵 www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: This was the week Canada stopped shooting its oil patch in the foot
We’re finally witnessing our country act with some sense of its own self-interest
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 18h
They deserve every miserable humiliating L they take
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22h
On the "Pacific Link" pipeline, the ball is now squarely in the oil and gas industry's court. If the project fails, they won't be able to blame Ottawa for their own refusal to fill it. I suspect that was the prime minister's plan all along. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/02/o...
nationalobserver.com
Canada’s pipeline politicking is about to collide with economic reality
The ball for the west coast oil pipeline — sorry, the "Pacific Link" — is now fully in the oil and gas industry's court. One big question remains: are they actually willing to fill it?
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You really can’t make this shit up.
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 01/10/2026
What would Margaret Thatcher think of Danielle Smith? I think we have our answer. 👇
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Does the MAGA admin think the attending NATO members aren't going to call up France, the UK, and the Baltic states and debrief them on everything that happened? The singular thing this behaviour achieves is making "allies" mistrust the USA and band together (against the US).
politico.com
Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Nobody should pretend Carney's Liberals are anything but a right-of-centre small-c conservative party. For some, that's a good thing. For others, it is a horror. Either way it's important to see things as they are, not as we want them to be.
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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Russia has bombed a school basically every single day this week, so for those people who say "if this was happening in Ukraine, it would be on the front pages every day", how many times have you seen that on the front page of even one of your national newspapers this week? Zero.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 01/10/2026
Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
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Trump becomes only object on Earth exempt from Canadian urge to apologize
"Canadians will say they’re sorry, in that particular Canadian pronunciation, to literally anything, but they won’t say it to Donald Trump."
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Looking forward to seeing how Danielle Smith attempts to twist this into "federal abuse" of Albertans.
cbc.ca
West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I could see Trump doing this at Putin's behest, but I think Trump genuinely believes he's doing very smart things. Likely some of the people around him are aware of reality, and they may have interest in causing this destruction.
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Phil Smith @philsmith26.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Everyone assumes Trump wants to boost US manufacturing, lower r and pdot, swing the trade balance, cut immigration and improve the US military, but is failing because of dumb policies. The alternative assumption - he is just doing Putin's bidding - fits the facts better.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every time I hear or listen to the actual "sentences" Trump vomits out, I just picture a brain-shaped pile of jello, melting and sagging.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh look, it's the methed-up American gorilla running around threatening it's "friends" again. Whatever. Release the #EpsteinFiles.
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say
The Trump administration has told Germany and France to draw down emergency ‌diesel inventories to help ease soaring global fuel prices or face a potential US diesel export ban, according to three peo...
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Texas ranchers: "No no no, deport those *other* immigrants, not *our* immigrants that we need for cheap labour so we don't have to pay Americans decent wages."
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Female MAGA farmers: voted overwhelmingly for Trump Trump's admin just rejected ALL OF THEM for seats on the soybean board, replacing them all with men instead. Grabbed 'em right by the soybeans. Are we getting the picture yet? I'll never understand why *any* women ever supported Trump.
reuters.com
Trump’s DEI purge reaches farm country? Women picked for soybean board all replaced by men
The Trump administration rejected all four women farmers chosen by their peers to represent them in an industry group called the United Soybean Board earlier this year, a rare intervention by the U.S....
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I want to believe this, but cult memberships are not easy to renounce and I think most MAGA people won't be able to admit they were wrong. It's too hard to take responsibility for the damage caused.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Trump Dance Ymca
ALT: Trump Dance Ymca
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We are ruining our own institutions, which is sad for us and great for our enemies.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My goodness, what on earth could *possibly* have dissuaded Canadians and Mexicans from visiting the USA?! It'll be a mystery for the ages.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Blah blah blah, release the Epstein Files you pedo fuck
cbc.ca
Trump says 'very bad' Canada is being 'taught a little lesson' as trade action escalates | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's war of words with Canada continued Wednesday as he veered off a prepared script at an event marking Hispanic Heritage Month in the States to chastise Canadian leaders for...
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hell yeah. 🇨🇦🤝🇪🇺
politico.eu
EU and Canada to announce sweeping new partnership pact
From critical raw materials to fighting wildfires, a document obtained by POLITICO reveals a wide-ranging expansion in relations.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/09/2026
University assigns Cornell 7 to get ChatGPT to write their essays
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University assigns Cornell 7 to get ChatGPT to write their essays
ITHICA, NY – As punishment for drugging and gang-raping a young woman for over seven hours in 2024, Cornell University has assigned the seven known perpetrators to generate essays using ChatGPT.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grotesque. And true.
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Tom Schaller @schaller67.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The law and order party, folks
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
1) This almost certainly won't happen. 2) My god if it did....😱🤣
aol.com
Donald Trump on verge of major humiliation as Mark Carney set to snatch Nobel Peace Price - AOL
President Donald Trump has been set up for another Nobel Peace Prize humiliation after it was reported that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is beating the president by 5%
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That's good right? High treasury yield mean "everything's fine", right? Hey Siri, what does "kakistocracy" mean?
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More typical gas lighting, abuse, and threats coming from the nation that *checks notes* is literally funding and supporting the Alberta separation referendum to divide and destroy Canada. This US pedo admin can piss off.
cbc.ca
Trump trade adviser says Canada will 'pay even more dearly' if 'you interfere' in U.S. midterms | CBC News
One of U.S. President Donald Trump's trade advisers is threatening repercussions for Canada if it "interferes" in the upcoming midterm elections — though it's not clear what he anticipates the country...
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump working hard here to boost Carney’s approval rating to a perfect 100%!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It's not even destroyed buildings and rubble it's just dust and ash
Cover of the Scottish national showing the genocide in Gaza (it's just complete annihilation)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
CARTOON OF THE DAY…
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MAGA USA is a hostile and dangerous threat. Most Canadians now understand this; the rest need to get on board and internalize that the US government (and ~100 million Americans) are literal enemies who would see us destroyed and digested.
globalnews.ca
Federal intelligence agency contacted amid U.S. interference allegations in Quebec election | Globalnews.ca
As Quebec's election enters its final stretch, U.S. interference allegations prompted a CSIS contact and calls for from party leaders for transparency.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russia poisons everything it touches
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump's hypocrisy on this makes his deference to Putin undeniably obvious.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today I saw the new 4 hour documentary Musk, directed by Alex Gibney. There were too many times to count that a sold out theater burst out laughing at Elon Musk, something he said or did, even sometimes just how he looked. I believe that is his worst nightmare come to life.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can have values or realism; it is pretty hard to have both, even when we should & can avoid extremes. I think what the Carney government is trying to convey is that we will be making some pretty inconsistent compromises to survive. But it doesn’t sound as tidy. apple.news/AeALbv3ypTU2...
apple.news
Anand tells UN Canada is courting more partners as ‘great powers’ retreat from economic co-operation — The Globe and Mail
Foreign Affairs Minister says Ottawa can no longer afford to depend on a single partner as it renews ties with China and India
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
INDEED
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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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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
He. Is. Going. To. Steal. The. Midterms. Any American who hasn't internalized this reality needs to give their heads a shake. The institutions will not hold on their own.
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Irrelephant @onewheeldoin200.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The #1 thing Canada needs right now is time. Time to make deals with other countries. Time to reinforce and diversify our economy. Time to connect our industries with other markets. CUSMA remains in effect until then, with a few Trump tantrums thrown in periodically. We can live with that.
cbc.ca
Trump's top trade envoy says U.S. 'comfortable' with state of relationship with Canada | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump is "comfortable" with where things stand with Canada — his country's once closest ally — and is in no rush to reach a new trade deal, according to his top trade envoy.
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here’s a video of a dog welcoming its owner home from the front – because we need something to keep us sane.
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