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The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...

None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.

It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Every single member of this administration sees themselves, first and foremost, as a Content Creator™ It's like they staffed an administration with homeschooled aliens who learned about humanity through mainlining TikTok accounts. Just unbelievable levels of sweaty dorkiness.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026

Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h...

One of the things that is going to change is that we’re never ever again going to be able to be dominated by public officials who tell us, ‘Trust the experts,’” Mr. Kennedy said during the Tuesday session.

“If somebody tells you, ‘Masks work, trust the experts,’ A.I. may tell you otherwise,” he added. “If somebody tells you, ‘Social distancing works, trust the experts,’ A.I. may correct that. And if somebody tells you that a vaccine will prevent transmission and infection, or you need to take it to protect your grandmother, A.I. may say it actually doesn’t do that.”

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026

Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵

Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.

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Michan Connor @michanconnor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It would be nice if we could be confident they’d face more consequences than a student who protested the bombing of children in Gaza

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I got my first online mob attack in '11. In '15, the CBC asked me if I could leave the country before a story broke because they feared for my safety. In '20, the police told me to leave the country for my safety. Nobody has ever been arrested, let alone charged, for the threats against me.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Normalizing threats against politicians is bad for democracy. *However* every time a story like this comes up, it seems like a good time to remind people that there are many of us who receive messages like this *by the hour* & those same police forces tell us they're powerless to do anything.

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I feel like the Habs fanbase is being baited by that Top-50 NHLer list at Sportsnet when they rank Schaefer ahead of Hutson. Yeah he *might* be better than Hutson in a couple years, but by that measure rank Demidov in the Top-15 right now because he COULD be that guy one day.

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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The Liberal government is attacking workers' rights and protecting employers when they break labour laws. Do you believe this answer? I don't! @psac-afpc.bsky.social

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

SUI says officer who gave a cyclist a beating won't be charged. Little surprise there from SIU, but we will all pay for the civil $ + this cop will continue to be paid.

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Toronto Police officer won't be charged in cyclist arrest that led to head injury: SIU

Videos of the arrest were shared widely in June, leading to some claims of “excessive use of force.”

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NDP @ndp.ca · 22/09/2026

Today @avilewis.ca, MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social and labour leaders came together to send a clear message to Mark Carney: Canada's airports are not for sale. If you agree, sign the petition at: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Emily @emilydawn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I understand that we all hate phone in the theatre people, but if I went to a movie, got pepper sprayed because someone ELSE was on their phone, and then had to listen to everyone online praising the person who pepper sprayed me I’d become the Joker

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

There are convoy clowns outside of Parliament Hill every single day with deeply offensive signs, awful flags, bigoted sidewalk chalk, and giant megaphones, screaming conspiracy theories at people walking by. And the police don't touch them. MEANWHILE, look who is getting arrested today.

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

When the convoy came to town, a lot of people said Ottawa was a city of wimps. "In XYZ city, we'd never let people get away with that!" But Ottawa residents *value* freedom of assembly & we also know how biased people are when it comes to who they will & won't arrest.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026

Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

How on earth is he a professor of food distribution that doesn't understand the logistics of getting potash from Belarus to US?

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Finished Cyberpunk 2077 last night, it was a good time but am going to wait for the next Steam sale before grabbing the Phantom Liberty DLC. In the meantime, going to revisit Deus Ex Human Revolution/Mankind Divided and lament there was no proper finale to that set of games.

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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

By the time this merger ruins HBO, destroys WB, gets 5,000 people fired, moves production overseas, and guts the quality of the movies the new studio makes, most people will have forgotten how fast the AGs caved and how little they got in this deal. Writers will not.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026

It is so funny to me that the fossil fuel industry's big lie is denying an apocalypse that science confirmed as a real risk while the tech industry's big lie is insisting on the threat of an apocalypse for which there's no scientific evidence for at all

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Jay Forster @jakobforster.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

this might be a hot take but if you think the only thing standing between you and a roster spot is beating up another ahler then probably you weren’t gonna make the team anyway

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

@grosmatchcesoir.com being proven 100% right that the AHLers don't belong in the preseason. 2 fights in the 1st by 4 guys who are not NHL players.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

giving $10 to a rich asshole to receive $1 in return is trickle down economics summed up in one 2 minute video

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kay (nick suzuki enjoyer) @linecomposition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

oh also I am currently based in Hamilton Ontario :)

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kay (nick suzuki enjoyer) @linecomposition.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

hi once again wanna put out feelers and let people know I'm searching for work right now! i'm in the marketing field and have experience in design as well!! remote is good ofc but I am also willing to move for work within Ontario :) full time is ideal but i can do part time too!

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Really hard to overstate just how central AI video slop is to the broader authoritarian project. It allows people to visualize fantasies without having to pay the social costs of such actions, while desensitizing people about the act itself. It's 4chan on steroids w a veneer of respectability.

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sometimes my feed is just: [amazing art] looking for work [goated resume] looking for work [great writing] looking for work [banger music] looking for work Dave Slutbutt, CEO of Game Dev, has laid off 9000 people to buy a 4th house in Bora Bora. [industry veteran] looking for work

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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 14/09/2026

btw Kanye did a song Heil Hitler and no one stepped in to oppose his tour(s), which is ongoing. In fact, Kanye is scheduled to perform at one of the stadiums Macklemore has been stopped from being at.

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Andrew Berkshire @berkshire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Being apolitical is a political stance. Defending the status quo is a political stance. Refusing to take a side IS TAKING A SIDE. Every time you refuse to take a side, the oppressor wins.

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 14/09/2026

Oh, just wait until the right wing free speech brigade hears about this!

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How is ANYONE supposed to see a Habs game in person anymore? Tried to secure one game in November and before I could barely blink, everything's being resold for 80% or more above face value on the single-game sales. Any QC parties want to get populist and borrow ON's ban on 50% above face?

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Next book on my nightstand is @richardswanauthor.bsky.social's Steel Gods, Book 2 in the Great Silence series which definitely has surprised me a couple times. - This series is a sequel to the world built in the Empire of The Wolf Trilogy, but does NOT require reading the original to follow along.

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Stayed up LATE finishing @jeremyszal.bsky.social's Wolfskin last night/this morning. The Common trilogy is a great dive if you've been wistful about a Space Opera like Mass Effect and/or really identify with introverted MCs who must rely on friends/family to drag them into living life.

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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who is the audience for a show where every hour is just a guy logging in to track his ex via flock cameras

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 13/09/2026

So they realized they're in the gutter, no revenue in sight, operating at a tremendous loss, and suddenly decided to slow down "to save the humanity."

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Mathematically speaking, Kreider owes MTL at minimum a run to the ECF. Adding inflation, he needs to score the series-winning goal to take MTL to the SCF and score the winner there as well.

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Has a man ever been booed by the Habs faithful in his first game for the team? Let's find out.

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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 10/09/2026

The fact we have an executive class that doesn't know what to do with the Looney Tunes or The Muppets really sums up what a joyless, barren world they inhabit.

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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"GE warns its toaster may grow human arms and shoot you with a gun" Ok that sounds like their fault. They should do something about that

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Patrick Howell O’Neill @patrickhowelloneill.com · 10/09/2026

thinking about extreme credulity about AI causing the imminent extinction of humanity vs skepticism on climate change a month after 35k+ people died in European heat waves in the hottest summer in recorded history

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · 09/09/2026

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Nobody likes Ticketmaster prices, but nobody wants to be killed by aliens invading from Alpha Centauri. That's what's at stake here.

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Andy Famiglietti @afamiglietti.org · 09/09/2026

Anthropic: Oooooooh look out! There could be a superintelligence! What if it's not aligned! Spooky! Scary! Also Anthropic: please pay no attention to this boring ol' mass surveillance system. Nothing to see here.

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Robert Rice @robertbrice.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Starting my latest stack of reading, starting with my highly-anticipated wait for @jeremyszal.bsky.social's Wolfskin. Also have offerings from @richardswanauthor.bsky.social, James SA Corey and @fondalee.bsky.social to follow up on.

The books Wolfskin by Jeremy Szal, Steel Gods by Richard Swan, The Faith of Beasts by James SA Corey, Last Contract of Isako by Fonda Lee and the nonfiction Science Under Siege.

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