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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD

@powerguo.bsky.social
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🇨🇦 CMU + U Waterloo Alum Public Health Researcher Canadian living in the US. Things are uhh complicated

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 3h
Hey man it certainly isn’t helping if you’re saying things like “well, only if they’re one of the good ones”
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 14h
If I went to Switzerland and won a Swiss watch precision contest, I would literally never talk about anything else
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 15h
They don’t vote for these things in the booth though. If they did we’d all be in a different situation bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 16h
This is good but still presents an implementation challenge because Throw polling at 60% is misleading when Take polls at 5%.
A dog asks his human to throw his ball without taking the ball from him.
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h
the thing about stuff like this is that five biggest changes in american politics have all been partisan projects The Constitution, the Jacksonian Revolution, Reconstruction, the New Deal, and Civil Rights were all explicitly partisan projects.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 30/09/2026
like idk most things just end up being what they look like and that’s what this one looks like
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I’m choosing not to believe this for the sole purpose of not having my hopes brutally crushed at 9PM on Nov 3
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
People quoted here makes me wonder how they hold two ideas in their heads. Sure, Israel’s default response all criticism is antisemitism is plainly and cynically in bad faith, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a rise in antisemitism here! Recognizing the latter doesn’t mean the former isn’t true!
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
also, the idea that Jewish New Yorkers -- the vast majority of whom are anti-Netanyahu and moreover have NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT THE STATE OF ISRAEL DOES -- are the equivalent of the ... French military in Algeria? what?
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Jane Coaston @janecoaston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I've seen lefty people on multiple websites sharing stuff by people who use the term "ZOG" seriously, it is endemic and it is very, very bad
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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 30/09/2026
I would not trust these guys to turn a hand crank on an emergency radio bsky.app/profile/dmnd...
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 29/09/2026
Third Way are weathervanes and this is what it feels like to have the wind at your back again
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tired: make promotion / relegation happen for soccer in America Wired: make promotion/ relegation happen for basketball in America
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Making fundamental due process rights a nullity with the emergency docket (again)
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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Lanae Erickson at Third Way said “practice saying ‘I trust parents in my district to make decisions for their kids more than politicians.’ Practice saying, ‘sure, we need rules but politicians aren’t the right ones to make it.’” This is basically how Democrats talk about abortion rights post Dobbs
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 29/09/2026
Damn, if only there were some sort of well-known historical comparison to make for this.
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I yearn for the days that Death of Stalin was still just a political satire
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 28/09/2026
Table stakes for the next Dem President should be tearing up every single 287(g) and throwing them in the trash.
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Dr. Cara Berg Powers @clbergpowers.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It's so frustrating when a lot of my fellow leftists, including some fellow Jews, feel the need to deny the rising antisemitism happening right now. Acknowledging this doesn't undermine any other coexisting truths.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“These aren‘t real people. They’re illegal aliens!” Pretty much the Trump regime worldview. “We can dish out as much brutality and suffering as we want because immigrants aren’t human.”
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oligarchs. The word for very rich businesspeople directly connected to the top of the government and playing a role in high-level government functions is “oligarchs.” Way beyond lobbying, donating, and advisory councils. Trump brought them on his trip to China too. America has oligarchs now.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Grand scheme of things, stuff like this is small ball esp compared to all this gang’s other abuses and atrocities but: I’ll say it again, the broken windows theory of crime is wrong EXCEPT for political and business elites like these. Every failure to crack down hard on the little, hatch act…
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
if you don't know your own address it's because you specifically don't have to know it. people that detached from reality shouldn't be in a position to drive social policy for those of us living in reality
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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The fields director at Starfire Sports, a beloved soccer complex outside Seattle that's hosted many US Open Cup matches over the decades, has been snatched up by ICE. Please consider helping him and his family if you are able.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.
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JP @jpbrammer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
it's important to arrive at sturdy ethical principles that you can't be annoyed out of. people are annoying as shit
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I keep on asking the #CANMNT to stop training so close to the electrical substation but the only responses were “How did you get our number?” and “stop calling us”. Well now who is laughing
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OneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TRAINING UPDATE 🚨 Kristian Jack reports the CanMNT 🇨🇦 have close media availability at training today due to a 'significant injury' to an unspecified player, with the team now awaiting an ambulance 🚑 Further updates to follow
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OneSoccer @onesoccer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
No place like home 🇨🇦 #CanMNT | 📸 Michael Chisholm
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
While we're on the topic: no, the temporary resident boom of the early 2020s was not the result of bleeding-heart open-border lefty policy. It was fly-by-night for-profit "colleges" operating out of strip malls taking inflated tuition from foreigners as a backdoor to Canada. It was naked capitalism
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Boo get better material meme, with carbon tax and PP
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
i do worry that this is part of the right-wing wingnuts talking themselves up into viewing Canada as a security threat on the grounds that "our border is weak"
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Dj @djsoke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So, I desperately want Abbott to lose. And if there were ever a year for it to happen, it’s this one. But I physically cant make myself believe it until it happens
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Micah @rincewind.run · 23/09/2026
kalshi and polymarket should be banned altogether, not allowed to encourage users to start margin trading
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The road to hell is paved with insecure beta male bureaucrats who are scared of what they are too incurious to understand & too dumb to change. Alas. They are adept at administrative abuse. Let's end a bloodless coup by an IRL Dilbert character. Vote! rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/russell-vo...
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Russell Vought Doesn’t Care Who Dies, Including You
If the OMB Director doesn’t destroy science to fund fascism, it won’t be for lack of trying
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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
We really need to do more to raise the salience about the partisan nature of jobs like “car dealer” and “chiropractor” the same way conservatives have done to teachers and scientists. Dem elites need to do more to signal to their base that small business tyrants are their enemies.
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is not an agency that can be “reformed “. It can only be destroyed and the grounds salted so it can never appear again
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The fucking shrill, whiny "how DARE you" tone with which these people respond to any pushback might be worse than the evil itself, WHO'S THE FUCKIN NIHILIST HERE
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
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Emma Yeomans @yeomans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Worrying scenes in the Channel today, for all interested in asylum policy and maritime tactics. A small boat from Normandy spent more than 30 hours at sea. Those on board now on their 2nd rescue vessel as Border Force forced to play cat and mouse with far-right activists who have their own boat.
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George Pearkes @peark.es · 22/09/2026
Remarkable thread, very good explanation by @yeomans.bsky.social I'm left with the question: what on earth are the legal authorities in the UK up to?
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Surreal to start creeping into Bush 08 levels without a true GFC equivalent, like things aren't great but they aren't 10% unemployment either
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Senator Paula Simons 🇨🇦 @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I keep meeting smart informed Albertans who tell me they do not intend to vote, because they don’t want to legitimize the process, or because they know the premier is not bound by the results. But what if making us give up on voting is the whole point? My argument to vote - no matter the absurdity.
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🇨🇦NG 呙徐楠PhD @powerguo.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If the words after “but a catalyst” aren’t “for unnecessary and meaningless suffering for millions around the world”, then we don’t really need to hear what Tyler has to say.
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Glonzo In Exile 🇨🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇬🇱 @glonzo-in-exile.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Seriously vote as soon as you are able to. It makes it easier for campaigns to do GOTV efforts with more marginal voters the more vote they already have in the bank.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this broadly isn't true?
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Treat enemies like enemies. Crypto is an enemy.
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M a r c u s 🏳️‍🌈🇧🇧 @marcusjdl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s funny how no one writes about the genuine concerns of people who live in cities, like concerns about their country turning into a far right hell hole
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