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Ron Deibert @rondeibert.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
NEW @citizenlab.ca report We uncovered an Israeli firm using online ads to run vast spy operation This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. 45 devices at @aljazeera.com confirmed infected citizenlab.ca/research/how...
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Exposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen Lab
This is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
⚠️ What Do Health & Wellness Influencers Post About? www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/20... via @pewresearch.org ⚠️ 38% of posts "promote a product, service or subscription" ⚠️ The [likely BUNK] promoted: - 66% supplements - 56% looks - 52% "longevity" - 52% nutrition Most common topic? #Cancer.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The highest office in the land of Ontario & he’s still doing the same thing he did w his brother in 2012 on Jarvis. It’s an incredibly small & determined legacy.
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: All Canadians should be eligible for a free shingles vaccine
Canada may not have a national health care system, but we should still have coherent national policies on essential issues like vaccination
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hungarians managed to bring down Orban after 16 years by showing that he had been actively enabling and pardoning real acts of sexual abuse of children after spreading hysteria about imaginary harm to children from “gender.” Surely the Americans could learn from this
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I know this is obvious to most, but in Canada academics don’t personally get funds from grants. The money held by institution. Resources used to fund work, pay trainees, etc. These cranks try to create perception that we have been paid off when they know that is a lie. They are shameless…
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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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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 31/08/2026
another example of "just because trump does it doesn't mean people support it." a good thing to remind your republican representatives
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's the G20 FINANCE meeting, and the Trump Administration isn't allowing some reporters from WSJ, Bloomberg and NYT ... because you don't want to deal with too many journalists who might post tough questions www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/b...
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Treasury Bars Some Reporters From G20 Finance Meeting (Gift Article)
Specific reporters from The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg were not granted credentials to cover the meeting of financial leaders next week in Asheville, N.C.
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John Michael McGrath @jm-mcgrath.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Most of the good stuff we can get out of the EU is stuff we don't need European permission for (ie adopting their standards, lowering our trade barriers.)
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Americans hear "51st state" as Trump trolling. Canadians hear it as an existential threat to their sovereignty. That gap in perception is why Carney can't afford to look conciliatory, even if the economics of retaliation don't add up. This isn't just a trade war anymore.
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David Fisman. @dfisman.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Increased risk of pulmonary embolism following SARS-CoV-2 activity in Ontario, Canada”, out today in Public Health with Clara Eunyoung Lee and Natalie J Wilson. COVID-19 raises pulmonary embolism risk — here’s the Ontario data: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 25/08/2026
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Canadians are fighting for their sovereignty. Americans don’t even realize they’re in a war
What are they fighting for? More expensive cans of Coke? Higher grocery bills?
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New LGBTQ monument a reminder to keep standing up to wrongs. The Thunderhead commemorates Canadians who suffered oppression for who they loved, sometimes at the hands of their own government, by @johnibbitson.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com
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Opinion: New LGBTQ monument a reminder to keep standing up to wrongs
The Thunderhead commemorates Canadians who suffered oppression for who they loved, sometimes at the hands of their own government
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Decimation of US science is a feature, not a bug, of this administration.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
That said, still no awareness that the herd culls were because of climate-driven droughts. Here in Canada, the beef lobby wants increased ability to export (with low herds) and restrictions on imports from Mercosur, guaranteeing higher domestic retail prices.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 21/08/2026
Republican town halls in 2026: 39 Democratic town halls in 2026: 451 Which one is listening to you and which one is hiding from you? www.alternet.org/republican-midterm…
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Why Republicans are hiding from their own voters
The numbers make it clear: Republicans have almost completely stopped holding town hall meetings in which they’re forced to confront their own constituents.
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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Auschwitz I & Auschwitz II-Birkenau sites: • the crematoria furnace at Auschwitz I • uniforms of prisoners • the gate into the BI sector of Auschwitz II-Birkenau • the main guard tower of Auschwitz II-Birkenau • the crematorium furnace at Auschwitz Is.charalambides/
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Scaling back the exercise is, of course, an insane decision, which does nothing but hurt an ally, and tempt an adversary to think—correctly—that American leadership is feckless." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Trump Will Make South Korea Pay For His Iran Humiliation
His rage is driving him to make irrational policy choices.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
He has a very specific admiration for, and desire to support, left-wing dictators -- in Venezuela, North Korea, Belarus, often in China -- against their democratic neighbours and opposition movements. He may well end up sustaining the autocracy in Cuba, too www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/w...
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Trump’s Overture to North Korea Strains Alliance With the South
President Trump wants to curtail military exercises with South Korea, saying they were hostile to North Korea. But under Mr. Kim, the North has become increasingly belligerent toward the South.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"If you look at this type of character throughout history—the malignant narcissist, the narcissistic sociopath ... Those those kind of people when they start feeling the walls close in on them, when it becomes too difficult to resist reality ... they become much, much more dangerous. ...
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
As Sean points out later Kinsella worked for Chow in 2014 then dumped her noisily, as his is fashion - but the smear was already well known then & debunked. Incredible contempt for the truth & the public here.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wouldn't it be easier & far less time consuming to just report when he actually tells the truth?
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 04/08/2026
The GOP's official party-wide slogan marching into the midterms: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet”
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This is what the Heritage Foundation, which now reportedly spends its time debating “who the bad guys were” in WWII and other antisemitic stuff, asked for — and got. A systematic war on poor toddlers
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 30/07/2026
Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
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Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders
TORONTO – In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can pu...
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
So much upsetting about the Fauci attacks. But it also demonstrates the COMPLETE absorption & normalization of hardcore lies and conspiracy theories by the political right (alas, same here in Alberta). Reality irrelevant. Rage & grievance dominate.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Global consensus: U.S. now viewed as the EVIL entity. MAGA destroyed what was left of U.S. reputation. Only 33% of Canadians, 27% of Germans, 25% of Dutch, 24% of Australians, and 19% of Swedes have a positive view. See: www.pewresearch.org/global/2026/... via @pewresearch.org
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Straight of Gordie Hormuz Bridge
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Trump has lost control of this war and his flailing in Ankara shows just how completely adrift he really is. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Iran, Not Trump, Is in Control of This War
The cease-fire was always just a Trump fantasy.
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Trudeau treated Alberta like so much garbage that he bought and finished a pipeline to tidewater for them, kept approving oil sands projects (that didn't get built because the world price of oil crashed), and he said repeatedly that it didn't make sense to leave those resources in the ground.
“Let me cut to the chase here. The previous federal government — not this one, the previous federal government — treated Alberta like garbage, like terrible. I’ve never seen anything as bad as that,” said Ford, referring to former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s view of the oilpatch.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Health #misinformation does incredible harm. 26% believe autism / vaccine lie ‼️ 24% believe COVID vaccine changes DNA ‼️ 27% believe COVID vaccine killed more than COVID ‼️ These are Flat Earth level misbeliefs. Lies that kill. #VaccinesWork
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
14th Amendment (1868): “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” It couldn't be more clear. Alarming that this ruling was so close.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Radio Rwanda
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hey hey. Rarely do you see such a valuable delivery to a political base. Well done, Ontario killers.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Trump's reversals on Iran are so extreme, the outcomes so ludicrous, that if it were a TV show, no sensible screenwriter would attempt to sell any of this as a coherent story. But it's a lot more dangerous than fiction. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Trump’s Shameless Iran Reversals
America’s foreign policy is about one man and little else.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 03/06/2026
"Pelley was not uncivil. He didn’t threaten anyone. He didn’t curse or scream. He was professionally disagreeable. Which is basically the job description for journalists. It’s the job description that Weiss herself wrote. She just didn’t mean it."
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Cancel Culture at CBS News
Also: Some words of caution about Graham Platner.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Of all of Poilievre's questionable verbal forays today, this was the one that made me guffaw
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
⚠️ Warming: The antivaxx MAHA fearmongering machine is powering up with more lies...👇 An unreleased Lyme disease vaccine is already sparking false conspiracy theories www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Reality: "mysterious forces" are NOT distributing ticks to make a market for a vaccine. Sigh.
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An unreleased Lyme disease vaccine is already sparking false conspiracy theories
Unfounded rumors about manufactured tick infestations could doom yet another promising drug.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Talarico campaign is 100% focused on the kill shot here. And nice work, whoever made the ad -- there's one creepy courtroom clip of Hoffman replayed multiple times to good effect, while every shot of Paxton looks like he was just caught trying to fuck a poodle at a PetsMart.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
I think it was @glynbowerman.bsky.social who said it first but all BlogTO posts should have the tagline "The site that hates Toronto" when posting their bait.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
He's right; this is live ammo
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Another thing that gets missed is that between Nixon and Trump, every major party candidate released his tax returns when running for office *and* every sitting president and vice president had their taxes audited by the IRS with the results released. I wrote about this nearly a decade ago:
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Donald Trump and the History of Presidential Tax Returns
As you file your taxes this week—and as the president talks up tax reform—get riled up all over again about his refusal to release his returns with a brief history of this now-discarded presidential t...
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.
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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
The idea that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans is catastrophically false, verging on delusional. This is what people on this site mean when we talk about populism killing the future. People just believe shit which is not remotely true, because it makes them feel better?
someone saying that Americans pay more taxes than Europeans, which is laughably false.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Riding on Mother Owl Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 1996
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Sad but true. Makary’s statements about COVID and vaccines were *anything* but “measured.” Before that, in 2016, he published an abysmal “study” that falsely concluded that medical errors are the 3rd leading cause of death. He’s long spread disinformation. sciencebasedmedicine.org/are-medical-...
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Are medical errors really the third most common cause of death in the U.S.?
A regurgitation of existing data suggested that medical error is the third leading cause of death in America. Is it true? Spoiler alert!No. No it's not. While medical error can and should be
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