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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A great example of how authoritarianism works. People and organizations censor themselves just because they’re afraid of consequences. The regime doesn’t have to do anything to gain compliance. Powerful and respected groups comply in advance, effectively advancing the authoritarian agenda.

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Douglas Natelson @nanoscaleviews.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

When professional organizations (or universities) are so scared of being the tall blade of grass that they censor themselves and those who speak at their events, authoritarianism wins. Just sad.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Catch me on CBC Manitoba radio Friday at 320-ish if you want to hear me chat about the problems with weight and diet talk at Thanksgiving 🍽️

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

International law is not optional. The Liberal government must stop fast-tracking resource projects without the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples. (3/3)

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is clear: states shall consult and cooperate in good faith with the Indigenous peoples to obtain their free and informed consent prior to the approval of any project affecting their lands or territories and other resources. (2/3)

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Brian and I are too - still worth it

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Erin A. Snider @erinsnider.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

“It’s clear that the government is trying to create facts on the ground that will be very difficult for the next one to reverse,” said Yonatan Mizrachi, from the Israeli rights group Peace Now. “This is their ideology, and they do not hide it.”

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Israelis rush to get new settlements past ‘starting line’ before election

Jewish settlers are expanding into the occupied West Bank in ways that a new government would struggle to reverse

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Next up in my reading queue, the full article. This excerpts thread below says something directly that is immediately powerful to me:

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"Sheeran was primarily criticised... for his failure to stand up for a fellow performer who had been dropped from his tour for taking such a position. It is Macklemore, not Sheeran, who has been barred from performing. Yet somehow the story is about Sheeran’s freedom to be apolitical"

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Alert to Canadian Academics: The parliamentary committee report on criteria for grants (i.e. EDI) is out. It’s not good. So not a time to get too comfortable with how things are going here compared to elsewhere. Need to push back on this. EDI makes for better science. It’s not a tradeoff

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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This AGAIN. How are we here. AGAIN.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

And like in the past, were that to happen, the Liberals will point the blame at the NDP for the outcome. In the previous case, they pointed fingers at the NDP despite their own clear responsibility for the corruption & breaking important promises.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026

I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.

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Adele Perry @adeleperry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What does Canada’s potential “special relationship” with the EU mean for our reckoning with the ongoing colonial process that created & maintains Canada?

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Manitoba has seen the light! No more changing the clocks twice a year. (This gal from SK who lives in Winnipeg is grateful for the insanity to end)

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

#Winnipeg, go see Sap this week! It's brilliant and intimate (40 ppl/night). Theater by the River brings in contemporary plays that you might not otherwise see. (& enjoy being serenaded by a cello as you settle in.) Sell it out for the rest of the run, through Saturday www.theatrebytheriver.com

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This logic doesn't hold. We, the users, already pay user fees for our individual flights: airport improvement fees, and some parking fees. We pay for airlines who pay gate fees. Etc. Right now, those $ go back into the airports. Add a profit margin and we detect funds from airports themselves.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

And if you aren't on board with this specific thing, there's a petition that started back in June against privatizing airports: bsky.app/profile/elca...

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

E.g. why are airports going to become for profit entities? They are currently not for profit. Who benefits - and who pays for their profit?

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I recall friends across ridings voting for local Liberals to get Carney into the PMO. If you, like them, were voting strategically to block the Conservatives but didn't vote for this new wave of privatization, SPEAK UP! There is always more than one way to strengthen Canada.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Why does Carney see airports as appropriate for profit services? Why aren't they seen as public infrastructure?

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Don Bones @donbones.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

"Try this. It's awesome." "No thanks." "No, really. Try it. It's the future." "Nah. I'm good. (Whispering) "It might kill you." "Sorry what?" (Louder) "It might kill us all."

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Winnipeg, I live with a theater snob and he is raving about Theater by the River's production of SAP, on through Sept 19th. Tickets here: www.theatrebytheriver.com

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

*snob in the best possible way, in that he wants theater to be daring (and well produced at the same time)

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

#Winnipeg, I live with a theater snob and he is raving about Theater by the River's production of SAP, on through Sept 19th. Tickets here: www.theatrebytheriver.com

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ha! There's no chance with the syllabus for sure, but we still hold our hope for the content 🤞

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social just read your writing about the Canadian climate emergency report. One correction: Nunavut is a territory, not a province in Canada.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Damage was done & he has not recanted or apologized. Instead, he doubles down, repeating his expansionary vision regularly, most recently in map form, threatening at least 4 countries (maybe more?).

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Trump says he would use ’economic force’ to join Canada with U.S. | RCI

President-elect spoke at news conference in Florida on Tuesday

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I've read the editorial introduction. I admit the work is not closely in my theory world, but I know enough to really enjoy what it's opening up. Congratulations!

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

In FACT someone taking the time to tell you that what you did impacted them or their people is a GIFT because they could have just written you off the invitation to make things right is an invitation into RELATIONSHIP and you can take it as such EVEN IF the invite comes w/hurt / pain / anger. Yep.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

An excellent question! I'm not sure I know official types but this is our focal art piece in our home:

A dark painting with a baby looking out into nothingness

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I clearly missed my scholarly calling. This is fantastic!

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Reminder: today is the last day for the Canadian federal budget consult. I'm going to find a way to mention the need for an oil & gas windfall tax in #Canada, given the high profits are from a war& it's the one major sector untouched by a trade war. forms-formulaires.alpha.canada.ca/en/id/cmqzec...

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2026 Pre-Budget Consultations: Questionnaire

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Romy @romygarrido.ca · 06/09/2026

Meanwhile in Canada, the feds rather quietly released a climate report on Thursday (before a long weekend, classic timing). Main takeaway: Canada is warming twice as fast as the global average, and it will get much worse on the same trajectory in the next half of the century.

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Canadians should prepare for a 5 C hotter future, report warns | CBC News

The federal government's new report summarizing the latest science on climate change warns that under current climate policies, the impact on Canadians will likely be "far from benign."

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Winnipeg this is highly relevant to us as well. My Edmonton family doctor pal who does street medicine shared the findings with me over supper last year. Solutions to homelessness cannot be making life even harder for people who are living it. We need to do better.

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

That’s what I’m doing today, and how I’ll try to honor her memory: by getting a strong, firm grip on a wish. Then, I hope, by making it come true. 💔

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“Get a Grip on a Wish”

Gloria Steinem, 1934 - 2026

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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The last time I saw Gloria Steinem, I got to sing her happy birthday. Before she blew out the candles, she told the room that it wasn’t just her wish—but that we’d all get one. “So get a grip on a wish,” she said.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gloria lived to 92, and I'm so thankful she did. She was a beacon for young white feminists like me. To others who are feeling her death hard, I grieve her with you.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's hard to overstate how important #GloriaSteinem has been to me and my feminism. She refused so many social rules of her era to do the work she knew was important. Solidarity was her foundation, walking a different path than many white feminists with platforms at that time.

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Patty Thille @pattythille.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

"one of the most notorious figures of the war that killed more than 100,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless.... The goal ...was the forcible expulsion of Bosnian Muslims, Croats and other non-Serbs to clear Bosnian land for the creation of a greater Serbia."

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It's given a lot of people permission to be themselves, to not dream it, be it, which is the motto of the movie, really. I would like to be remembered for that." Farewell to Tim Curry (1946-2026) #RIP

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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