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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 12h

Seems like some version of this runs every day

Like many of her neighbors, Ms. Vuittonet had been worried about the streams of new immigrants coming across the Rio Grande during the Biden administration and had trusted that Mr. Trump would stop them. Although some Trump supporters held signs calling for "mass deportations now" during the 2024 campaign, Ms. Vuittonet never thought such deportations would include people she knew who had lived in the United States for decades.
"I knew that he was going to start deporting people, but that he was going to go after bad criminals, like true hardcore criminals, rapists, killers," Ms. Vuittonet said, sitting in the small coffee shop she runs from the back of an antique store.
She thought of her six children, who range from ages 6 to 12. "Of course I want the streets safe."
But when her brother was taken to an immigration detention center earlier this year, just days after a scheduled check-in with an immigration official, she said it felt like a punch to the gut.

Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As you skim the announcement of the $30B expansion of LNG in BC today, consider this thread: “What we need is a massive clampdown on the influence of money over politics, including lobbying transparency, campaign finance reform, an end to the revolving door between politics and lobbying.”

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Music brings me so much joy. Last night saw these goofballs at Massey Hall and today a friend sent a link to a new double-length album from The Drin: open.spotify.com/album/7hX3zk...

Angine de Poitrine performing at Massey Hall in Toronto, September 22, 2026

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Standard regulatory capture playbook: Step one: Major fear mongering campaign. AI must be regulated! Step two: Who besides us massively overleveraged AI companies could possibly write the regulations??? Step three: Regulations shut out new entrants and open-source competitors.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The moment the AI company is asking you for your bank account data, that’s what we call a “clue.” That’s the ore they’re mining from you. That will become the basis for surveillance-pricing you on everything you buy in the future. Including those groceries

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Finally found a product category Wirecutter doesn’t have any reviews on.

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wow. I hadn’t realised how much LLMs had killed StackOverflow (the site where coders traditionally go to ask questions when they’re stuck): “Just before the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, there were more than 100,000 monthly questions asked on the site; last month, there were fewer than 1,500.”

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Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The White House Press Corps should've walked out as soon as the Trump regime banned the Associated Press for calling the Gulf of Mexico the "Gulf of Mexico." That was Feb 15, 2025. The first month of Trump Term II. Not surprising that abandoning principles for weak acquiescence led to more abuse.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Senior CNBC econ reporter @steveliesman.bsky.social: “Insanity is not a strategy”

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/09/2026

When you use framing / communications tactics to re-frame presentation away from your true intentions, that re-framing starts to creep into your soul and your mind; backwards-infecting your ideology. So: renewable deployment *actually* stops being about climate. Fossil phase-out stops mattering.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

There is no “AI exemption”.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Ossoff: "While the world burns & you pay more for everything, your tax dollars become royal family's wealth. Bc it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook. Half a billion from the Emirati spy chief... the Mar-a-Lago mafia really has taken corruption to new heights"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

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matt | infovoy @infovoy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Exactly. "Sandbox" my arse. It's only the public and media's ignorance about how all things computer actually work that prevents the AI industry's mix of incompetence, Machiavellian profiteering, and techbro fanboy fantasy-think being obvious.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

As usual, @doctorow.pluralistic.net provides a rational, oddly reassuring counterpoint to the broadly irrational coverage of this “incident”. Also the point that OpenAI quietly feeding the Skynet narrative helps them raise more investment is such a sign of the deeply weird times we are living in.

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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

✅ A prescription for food and housing w/ Jeff Yoo MD and Andrew Boozary MD h/t @uhn.ca #FridayFlex

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Flavio Volpe, C.M. @flaviovolpe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We’ve been over this before: Every Global 7500 that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 GE engines built in Indiana, 🇺🇸. Every Challenger that Bombardier builds in 🇨🇦 has 2 Honeywell engines built in Arizona. 🇺🇸. Bombardier employs 3,000+ 🇺🇸s & has 2,800 🇺🇸 suppliers. Not so smart.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Struggle to think of political writing in 2026 that can outdo this epic piece by Jan Gerson open.substack.com/pub/theline/...

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Jen the Feisty Librarian @feistywaters.com · 01/09/2026

Olivia Rodrigo: -planned successful all women music festival -raised 10 million for women’s charities -pro Palestine, anti ICE -is 23 years old Young woman pop stars can use their voices and platforms for change, if they want to.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

@jimbostanford.bsky.social Wrote a short thread here inspired by your CBC radio appearance a few weeks back. Includes Australia’s foray into LNG exports. which I’m sure you’re well aware of. bsky.app/profile/rswi...

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/08/2026

This attempt to demonize Piker & then hang him around the neck of every Dem could not conceivably be more transparent. It's very, very obvious what they're doing. And yet everyone is just dutifully playing their role. The cycle unfolds the same way it has dozens & dozens of times before.

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 31/07/2026

Quiet energy revolutions are happening every day with new, post-fossil technologies gaining huge popularity & uptake far faster than our pokey governments can hinder them. Plug-In or Balcony Solar makes it easier for ANYBODY to harness the power of the sun. www.podcastics.com/episode/4282...

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Plug-in Solar for the People

The Energy Revolution On Your Balcony

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Craig 🌎 🛩️ 💙🇨🇦 @bigdaddykreativ.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada's largest ice cream company used to source its fruits and nuts from U.S. suppliers — some for over 30 YEARS. Then, Trump imposed a 25% tariff on Canadian products. So, what did Chapman's do? They called Italy. They called Spain. They signed multi-year contracts with European suppliers.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Every time a right winger points and laughs at a socialist who was born rich, it should be understood as a desperate attempt to justify their own moral failure to themselves. If you grew up rich and are now a leftist and someone points that out, the proper response is: “Yes I am. Why aren’t you?”

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Carney: US’s narrow merchandise trade deficit only exists because US buys so much of its energy from Canada Can fuels US growth, supplying 99% of their natural gas imports, 85% of their electricity imports,60% of their crude oil imports I don’t think they want us to stop sending any of that energy

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Astra Taylor and I wrote this book together because facing the monsters alone is just too scary. When we face them with friends, however, we don’t just get scared–we get mad, we get motivated, and we get organized.

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Christopher Owen @oysta.au · 20/08/2026

found another new type of guy

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

My favourite new band of 2026 with a love letter to their hometown, one of the greatest cities in the world. youtu.be/SsDSj7KDkAc @twistedteens.bsky.social @subpop.bsky.social

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twisted teens - swamp

YouTube video by TwistedTeens

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Torontonians stood up against the island airport expansion that no one wanted. We can stand up to ripping out bike lanes too.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Everyone involved in this decision knows exactly what it is. They know where this is going and went along with it anyway. The moral rot here is staggering.

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The Spirit of Lorenzo the Cat @lorenzothecat.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Best eclipse photo ever.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Not sure if everyone appreciates the difference. Rooftop solar hardwires into your main panel via a dedicated breaker, so it requires a permit, an installer, an electrician, and a utility agreement. Balcony solar just plugs into a wall outlet, sharing an existing circuit with no permits or rewiring.

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A new deal on balcony solar just dropped in the US

Plug-in panels can lower your bills. To boost the American market for the tech, nonprofit Bright Saver is selling kits with no markup, starting at around…

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John Lloyd @boyonabike62.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Cars have a geometry problem. They’re incredibly spatially inefficient.

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Canada is a net exporter of petroleum. The fact that Canadians are subject to global gasoline price fluctuations is a *policy choice* made in 1985 under PM Brian Mulroney, as economist @jimstanford.bsky.social explains here: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 29/07/2026

Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.

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The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Is there hope for breaking up giant monopolies? Cory Doctorow @doctorow.pluralistic.net, author of “The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI,” thinks we’re well positioned to take on these companies. New podcast out now!

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Richard Switzer @rswitz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Photo of Getty’s John Abernathy throwing his camera to fellow photographer Peter Lavie as he’s taken down by ICE in front of the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, January 2026.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This is equally true for city planners and our plans and city-building ideas. You have to persuasively SELL those ideas to the public — a public that’s inundated with disinformation. And even once you get an idea or plan passed, you have to KEEP selling it, to “election proof” it.

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Alex Bozikovic @alexbozikovic.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Irritating to see the Toronto island airport battle framed as NIMBYism. This was a project with zero business case that would have destroyed economic value and soft power – and stopped homebuilding! It was a terrible project that deserved to die. When people say no, sometimes they are correct.

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Art Of Coop @artofcoop.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

This is a GREAT record

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