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Parker Hardison

@parkerhardison.bsky.social
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Maple-dweller. Pawttorney. 🇨🇦 Pawlisci & Paw Prof @ Kittenshire Unipurrsity. Op-Ed contributor to Cats Against Swasticats News. Occasional vent crawler & coder. 🐾 All views are my own and do not reflect the views of other cats.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICE appears to be using the parking lot of the Roxbury warehouse for processing and brief detention, and at least once appears to have taken people inside. But also, read this inside look from a federal contractor about how everyone knew the warehouse plan was insane but Miller demanded inhumanity.
NPR spoke to an official at a government contractor whose company was approached to convert several of the warehouses into ICE facilities. He spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation from the government.

"No one that we spoke to at DHS was for this idea whatsoever. The deputy director told us point-blank that they had pushed back very hard on it. Everybody knew warehouses are horrible places to put people," he says.

At a meeting with a deputy director at DHS, he says, his company proposed an alternative: FEMA-style camps in Texas that would be more humane.

He says that idea was swiftly shot down. While White House adviser Stephen Miller was not at the meeting, they were told that this was not what Miller wanted.

The contractor says his understanding from that meeting was that "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted."

"Steve Miller certainly seemed to make that point to everyone that he wanted it to be cruel. This was what Miller had stated to the DHS at that time, to the DHS director and deputy director. What surprised me was just how adamant the people were that it was going to happen. Damn the consequences. I would say in 25 years of working with the U.S. government, I've never been in that position before."
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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There it is. Elon Musk now advocating for Alberta separation. That should perhaps be one of the biggest reasons to vote to stay. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The CBC News app is such trash that they developed it to take over your entire screen to force you to watch a full screen video AD while you're trying to read an article. Invasive interruption to concentration and critical thinking time results in immediate deletion as well as this hate post.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 02/10/2026
DISCLAIMER: This post contains graphic photos. Men, women, and families are being abused in lawless, cramped, mold-choked facilities in Florida. A horrific new whistleblower report has pulled back the curtain on the dangerous and lawless practices operating inside two federal facilities in Florida.
Conditions inside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port where more than one hundred detainees are being detained for days and forced to sleep on the ground.Piles of trash have accumulated outside of the Miramar Holding FacilityHuman waste has overflowed onto the ground outside of the portable toilets placed outside of the Miramar Holding Facility sally port.Detainees brushing their teeth using water from a hose attached to a jug outside
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
For VIP Cineplex: Burnaby > Abbotsford Abby is so bad don't even bother. The chairs air out upon sitting and squeak so much. Many of the seats are worn out to the point they're torn apart. No foot rest either. My couch is comfier. By comparison, Burnaby is full stop a more premium experience.
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Andrew Selbst @aselbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I feel like this could be cover art for a book on tech fascism.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You have got to be kidding me.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/09/2026
We call this a concentration camp, your honor.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 24/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Eight US sailors in USS Abraham Lincoln strike group attempted suicide, Navy says
In a letter to Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said the crew had adequate mental health support during the long deployment.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Justin is one of my favourite Canadians right now. If you're looking for some Canadiana, go and give him a follow. He's often informative and look how cool he is. 😎
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We need to do better, Canada.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's not flooding the zone, it's seizing a crisis in order to ram through a slew of rapid fire changes that are a gift to multinational corporations and are the opposite of what we ran on. What do you call that again?
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 22/09/2026
A federal grand jury indicted a Tennessee Bluesky user for allegedly threatening ICE agents. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron
Trump speaking at UN — MS NOW chyron reads: Trump touts being a peacemaker while asking if he should annihilate Iran
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 21/09/2026
“‘Now it will be easy,’ [Joseph Goebbels] wrote…‘to carry on the fight, for we can call on all the resources of the State. Radio and press are at our disposal. We shall stage a masterpiece of propaganda. And this time, naturally, there is no lack of money.’” - Rise & Fall of the Third Reich, 314
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The video shows the agents literally just leaving the guy in the street and driving off.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As noted, it's a doozie. www.idea.int/publications...
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The Global State of Democracy 2026: Democracy in an Age of Conflict
In the face of increasing political and societal fragmentation, the Global State of Democracy 2026 explains the patterns that define the direction of democratization around the world. Drawing on the l...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 18/09/2026
Per Bloomberg, Saudi Arabia will supply no oil to Europe next month due to strikes on its east and west pipeline.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 20/09/2026
All US embassies in the Middle East have issued security alerts for their citizens, including Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Iraq, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman (Sep 19)
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This Greenland stuff looks like a PR stunt to appease the US's imperialist expansionist rapist fascist dictator's desperate need to grip onto all the attention he can as he's slipping in popularity even within his own party's propaganda media circles.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Release the Trump-Epstein Files™ !!
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
When the whole of the country has been sold off, Canadians need only console themselves with the knowledge that Canada is still in Eurovision and that itself is good enough.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The court filing dug up by @kint.bsky.social is the most They Admit It i have ever seen in my life www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have been summoned by the offshore finance Bat Signal! You say POTUS is squirreling away his illegal spoils from pillaging Venezuela in a Qatar account? Perfect time for an Offshore Fun Fact o' the Day: The biggest users of "tax havens" come from countries that don't impose tax on individuals.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I am proud Canada beat the US on the matter of criminalizing marital rape by 10 years. 🇨🇦
Canada explicitly criminalized martial rape in 1983. 10 years before the United States.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Made a few small changes to the AI Crisis Flowchart
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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...
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Maanvi Singh @maanvisingh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
NEW: ICE is arresting and detaining a record number of pregnant women and teens. At the same time, it has lost count of how many had miscarriages, according to a Guardian review of internal ICE documents. w/ @amyqin.bsky.social, @wcraft.bsky.social and Flávio Pessoa
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Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women
ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...
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Rep. Jim McGovern @repmcgovern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Like how Mark Zuckerberg did such a great job protecting our kids on Facebook and Instagram? Please.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Okay so I pitched a cultural piece about the resurgence of gothic incest in pop culture and the attending politics of white power and eugenics. Admittedly, it was too niche. Anyway Musk’s dad apparently has two kids with his stepdaughter and I’m sure it’s all unrelated.
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Daniel C. Blight @danielcblight.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
***URGENT PLEASE SHARE*** University of Brighton management have announced today that they ‘give notice of termination of all collective agreements’. This is a fundamental erasure of workers' rights. Management have announced the termination of all contractual documents, which includes:
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Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 15/09/2026
youtu.be/-ymiurKONUQ?...
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5X for Canada: Stop Separation. Crush the 9 Questions. Defeat Danielle Smith.
YouTube video by 5X for Canada
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ICE and Oklahoma state police are illegally arresting and detaining Ukrainian truck drivers who are here legally via TPS. tulsaworld.com/news/state-r...
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Truck drivers who fled Ukraine war are being jailed by ICE in Oklahoma
Many believed they had proper paperwork but have been ensnared by inconsistent immigration policy and a federal push for deportations. Most remain in custody at Oklahoma prisons.
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Orlagh O’Kelly @orlaghokelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The CBC in Edmonton used to have the best investigative journalists Now it has folks fresh out of J school happy to both side a fascist referendum -#ableg
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Carney decided, on his own, that there should be two Conservative parties at the federal level. While Liberals were never all that progressive, former Liberals are calling him fully right-wing, including a Chretien-era minister. It's arguably an attack on democratic choice.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Keep in mind Jared said this AFTER John Ratcliffe flew to Russia to tell Russia they were losing badly (among other things).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
He defends Russia for helping Iran kill Americans. He defends China for helping Iran kill Americans. He pretends Iran hasn’t killed Americans. And his strategy for the clearly failing war he started is to lie about it. He says Canada is bad, an enemy, while North Korea is good. What can’t he do!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 12/09/2026
Ahmed Soliman has been held by Equatoguinean police for two days now. His US lawyers tell me they still don’t know where he is, but they believe he and another third-country national taken with him are alive, and that they are being denied food and water.
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
NEWS: Ireland launches mass protests against Trump and he is not happy. Censorship backfires as Jimmy Kimmel's interview of James Talarico has more than double the viewers Trump's convention speech had. Houthis make rapid advances stunning America. Subscribe to support my work:
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NEWS: Mass Anti-Trump Protests Erupt in Ireland, Censorship of Kimmel Backfires as Views Surge, Houthis Make Major Advances in War
Good morning.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I miss slow news.
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Parker Hardison @parkerhardison.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is an incredible story.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/09/2026
French prosecutors have found new investigative leads in the Epstein case, and have identified 13 new victims. www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...
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France's Epstein probe identifies 'potential recruiters'
Paris prosecutor Laure Beccuau revealed said that new leads had been identified as part of an investigation into alleged human trafficking.
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Santiago Nesti Arène @nesti-arene.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Like clockwork…reports of Grindr being down:
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/09/2026
Weapon of Mass Corruption: Crypto’s Political Playbook. New Nerd Reich podcast w/ @molly.wiki Please follow Molly and check out her crucial site, Tech Influence Watch, which tracks crypto monster spending in our politics👉 influence.citationneeded.news www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIGN...
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Weapon of Mass Corruption: Crypto’s Political Playbook (ft. Molly White)
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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