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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 13h
One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation ... rather than accept his defeat in the 2020 election, he engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results and prevent the lawful transfer of power"
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Vanelle 🦋🇨🇦 🎹🎤 & Buy Canadian Warrior @vanellemusic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
By the way, the petition to turf Hoekstra is officially over 274K! Go… sign… www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7531 - Petitions
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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I asked the Health Minister about nurses and health care workers being laid off across Ontario. She didn’t answer. Throughout committee, she blamed the federal government, blamed the previous Liberal government from eight years ago, and avoided answering questions. #onpoli
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 29/09/2026
“Elon Musk is the single greatest counter-argument against capitalism to ever exist. The man has grown his inheritance of apartheid wealth into a business empire sustained by a seemingly infinite supply of failed promises and absurd predictions.” www.liberalcurrents.com/tax-the-weal...
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Tax the Wealthy, Not Wealth
Don’t miss the forest for the tallest trees.
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Laura likes to read a lot @lrrzmdrgl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Here are their names and a wonderful soul created a website to keep track of them. thecornell7.org Also, since we are talking about college rapists Brock Turner now goes by Allen Turner and lives in Ohio
Photo of the Cornell seven rapists: Matthew Ingalls, Diego Sarabia, Winston 
Lee, ScottKertzschmar, Scott Norris, Gillio Lopez, and Jonathan Newwell 
A website to keep track of them: thecornell7.org
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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eddietg51-42.bsky.social @eddietg51-42.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The same idiots who think Trump, who dodged the draft five times, knows how to win a war also think Trump, who declared bankruptcy six times, knows how to run the economy. That's what Trump Derangement Syndrome actually looks like.
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Kimberley Johnson @kimberleyjohnson.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
But I need to smile more.
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 28/09/2026
Fuck, and I cannot stress this enough, yeah
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was explaining this at a political meeting last night. Stephen Miller has smartly decided to fly below the radar after the backlash to Minneapolis, Chicago, and other outrages. But by many measures things have gotten worse.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 28/09/2026
NEW: Food banks across America are being overwhelmed by surging demand. Scott MacFarlane went inside to see the crisis firsthand. Here’s what he found:
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“They don’t understand the scale of the hunger!”- An unfolding crisis at the nation’s food banks
Weeks before the midterm elections, the cost crisis is hammering food pantries in red and blue states
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to think of a more glaring success of the right-wing media capture than Trump completely avoiding having to account for blundering into the Iran War, the most obvious strategic failure of the century, if not US history.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#BritishColumbia New B.C. program gives domestic abuse survivors doorbell cameras Doorway to Safety program will distribute 3,000 doorbell cameras across the province www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New B.C. program gives domestic abuse survivors doorbell cameras | CBC News
An initiative led by the B.C. Society of Transition Houses (BCSTH) in partnership with Tech Safe B.C. will provide 3,000 Ring doorbells to survivors across the province.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
5 weeks before the midterms, American taxpayers are paying to air an ad from the 2024 Trump campaign. You are paying for this political ad. bsky.app/profile/bayl...
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MICHIGANDERS, you know: Straight Dem ticket Cavanagh and Hood for Supreme Court NO on Prop 1 YES on Prop 2
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Rod @roddlyyours.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Canadians should stop drinking at Starbucks and eating at MCDonalds choose Canadian coffee shops and fast food chains instead. A fast food boycott would garner a lot of attention, and we could start with these two companies.
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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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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That a Musk-owned X is incompatible with democracy should really go without saying
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
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New research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancer
Paper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026
Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
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Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolished
In a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Joe Walsh Is Right......
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Oliver @oliver48.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"When faced with skyrocketing pesticide and nitrate levels in its drinking water supply, the city of Munich, Germany bypassed expensive chemical treatment plans and chose a radical path: they tackled the contamination at its very root." via Thefarmacyreal www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Another AI resignation—this one from Google DeepMind: “I definitely want my future work to be unambiguously pro-human.” “The existential risks many people are warning about deserve to be taken seriously…” (robert.ocallahan.org/2026/09/good...)
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I resigned from Google today.
enjoyed my work and loved the people, but my GDM team was working on a new generation of chips to make Al much faster and cheaper, and I think Al is already progressing too fast, so I had to quit.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Bob Rae on fighting for democracy: "I think it's really important for people to understand that this is the battle of our lifetime. And our grandparents and our parents fought that battle in the Second World War. We had it on easy street for quite a while. And now we've got to fight again." #cdnpoli
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think one reason, and a grim one, that energy-limiting diseases get so little attention (aside from Covid denialism) is that it’s hard to capitalize on those of us with them. We are mostly very poor because our working ability is limited, we have little buying power and thus,little lobbying power.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We are not a nation of laws.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Donald Trump hates democracy. He hates free speech & a free press. He hates free & fair elections. He hates an independent judiciary & its duty to justice & the law. Yet he adores murderous dictators, particularly Putin. Who exactly is the enemy of the people? American voters have one more chance.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
50 percent tariffs for our beloved neighbor and historic ally, Canada. A red carpet and a military flyover for Communist China’s leader. Donald Trump is a sick man and a danger to America.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
China's Xi got a B-2 flyover, F-22s, and a full honor guard of military paparazzi. Canada got 50% tariffs. Europe got threatened. NATO allies treated like adversaries. Our biggest adversary treated like royalty. "Tough on China" is doing a lot of heavy lifting these days.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Over 160,000 pounds of meat recalled due to lack of inspection andreceives highest risk level from USDA. Uninspected food may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria, or other contaminants that put consumer health and safety at risk. www.nbcnews.com/health/recal...
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Over 160,000 pounds of meat recalled due to lack of inspection, receives highest risk level from USDA
Uninspected food “may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria, or other contaminants that put consumer health and safety at risk,” the recall announcement said.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Y’all call yourselves allies and then point and laugh at people who have been TRAUMATIZED by society as a whole. Where do you want us to go? We can’t even try to exist together outside the borders of your majority? This is why I say American society is eugenicist.
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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My mask isn’t political to me, it’s accessibility. Imagine walking up to someone with an inhaler and saying “whoa buddy no need to get political.” I have long covid and heart problems. If I keep getting it, I will get more disabled or die. The people making it political are the ones stigmatizing it.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
CNN is about to travel the same dark path of WaPo and CBS News. They will say it's not true. They will ask you to ignore what you see and disbelieve what you hear. Instead, I suggest you support independent media. You can start with Democracy Docket but there are many others. demdock.com/4w6emld
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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Border agents seize guns from Americans at northern Ont. border crossings - Border service agents in northern Ontario seized several guns last month from Americans trying to bring them into the country illegally, along with 17 prohibited weapons and 11 ammunition cartridges.
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Border agents seize guns from Americans at northern Ont. border crossings
Border service agents in northern Ontario seized several guns last month from Americans trying to bring them into the country illegally, along with 17 prohibited weapons and 11 ammunition cartridges.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
30/ bsky.app/profile/jenn...
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lula: "In Cuba, the world watches in horror as collective punishment is imposed on ten million people by an illegal economic and energy embargo." #cdnpoli
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 21/09/2026
US has deported more than 25,000 people under secretive agreements with 35 countries to take migrants with no ties to those nations, according to an investigation published Monday u.afp.com/Sj9Z
Airport staff and officials attend to a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts International Airport in Harbel, some 56 km outside of Liberia's capital of Monrovia, on August 20, 2026
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Art of the Deal is buying fertilizer from a Putin-aligned repressive dictator and paying to ship it 6,000 miles from his landlocked and sanctioned country so you can teach Canada a lesson.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So the US is “working on a deal” to buy Potash from a dictator allied with Putin instead of Canada.
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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wtf are we even doing
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Oregon data centers use almost 25% of the state’s power
And that number is only going up.
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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
“American journalism” is an oxymoron. Cowering in fear, and unwilling to report that the emperor’s new clothes are an illusion, the fourth estate no longer exists in the U.S. We have neither a free press, nor individuals with sufficient integrity to work in one.
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LRSH - Education Podcast @lrshedupodcast.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Physicians who administer Canada’s MAID were interviewed “One person said administering the lethal drugs causes for them ‘an urgent and pressing need for sex.’ Utterly vile and depraved stuff.” No need to worry, your HCWs will gleefully assist in killing you www.donotpanic.news/p/do-max-har...
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Do Max Harm: The Grave Ethics Problem In Healthcare
There have been a million and one US election hot takes so I’m not going to do that, not right now.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just like with the ballroom, another scam by Trump to turn this into a “military complex” to prevent the courts from intervening by using “national security” as his excuse for vanity projects.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian. #cdnpoli www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBaa...
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Sobeys, Loblaws, Metro: All caught by the CBC mislabelling American food as Canadian
YouTube video by Tod Maffin
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... ‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher – CTVNews
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‘Outdated’ health policies surrounding Covid still pose a danger today, says U of C researcher
University of Calgary professor Mark Ungrin has dedicated years of research highlighting what he believes is of significant concern to all Canadians’ health.
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