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Shanifa Nasser

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Journalist at CBC News interested in the justice system, national security and stories with a heartbeat.📍Toronto Tips/story ideas: ✉️ shanifa.nasser@cbc.ca | 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/auth…

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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Netanyahu, sought by the ICC for alleged war crimes, weighs in on Mark Carney's comments on Israel, saying it is "fighting a just war with just means." After seemingly agreeing with a protester that Israel is committing genocide, Carney said yesterday he didn't hear the word. www.cbc.ca/1.7506027
Prime Minister of Israel 
@IsraeliPM

PM Netanyahu:

Canada has always sided with civilization. So should Mr. Carney. But instead of supporting Israel, a democracy fighting a just war with just means against the barbarians of Hamas, he attacks the only Jewish state.
Mr. Carney, backtrack your irresponsible statement!

2:57 PM - April 10, 2025
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
UPDATE: Canadian legal group cancels upcoming event after uproar over disinviting Syrian Canadian entrepreneur www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian legal group cancels upcoming event after uproar over disinviting Syrian Canadian entrepreneur | CBC News
A Canadian legal association under fire for cancelling a Syrian Canadian entrepreneur's upcoming speech over his stance on Gaza says it will cancel the event altogether.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
UPDATE: The Advocates' Society's treasurer Sheila Gibb has resigned over its cancellation of Syrian Canadian Tareq Hadhad's speech, citing a "chilling effect" on members. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canadian legal group rocked by 2nd high-profile resignation after it cancelled speech by Syrian Canadian | CBC News
The fallout over a Canadian legal organization's decision to cancel a noted Syrian Canadian entrepeneur and peace advocate's speaking invitation is deepening, with another high-profile resignation, th...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
BREAKING: The incoming president of prominent Canadian legal organization The Advocates' Society has resigned, saying the group 'abandoned' its values in cancelling Peace by Chocolate founder Tareq Hadhad's speech over concerns on his views on Gaza. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Cancelled speech by Syrian Canadian entrepreneur sparks resignation by legal group's incoming president | CBC News
The incoming president of one of Canada’s most high-profile legal organizations has resigned amid an “existential crisis” at The Advocates’ Society over its decision to cancel a Syrian Canadian entrep...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Tareq Hadhad came to Canada as a Syrian refugee and founded the socially conscious Peace by Chocolate, making headlines for his inspiring story. Now a prominent legal group, The Advocates' Society, has cancelled his keynote address after concerns about his stance on Gaza. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Legal group draws ire for cancelling humanitarian advocate's speech over his stance on Gaza | CBC News
A prominent legal organization is facing criticism for cancelling a speech by a noted entrepreneur and humanitarian advocate after, it says, some members expressed concerns about his position on Israe...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world, has died at 88. It's almost impossible to grasp the enormity of this moment for the Ismaili community. More to come: www.cbc.ca/news/world/a...
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Aga Khan dead at 88 | CBC News
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims around the world, has died at 88.
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Fatima Syed @fatimabsyed.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
More than 4 years after Ejaz Choudry, a 62-year-old father with schizophrenia, was fatally shot in his Mississauga apartment, CBC found the officer who shot him had previously tipped a paraplegic man from his wheelchair during an arrest. @shanifanasser.bsky.social fought the publication ban and wow
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
No longer 'faceless': Police in Ejaz Choudry death identified - and for one, it wasn't his first fatal encounter It took years to get here and having to testify in court. My latest: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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No longer 'faceless': Police in Ejaz Choudry death identified — and for one, it wasn't his 1st fatal encounter | CBC News
More than four years after Ejaz Choudry was shot and killed by Peel police, CBC News has learned the names of the officers involved that day — and for one of them, this wasn’t his first deadly encount...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
In 2023, an anonymous tipster wrote to CBC News saying they knew the name of the police officer who killed Ejaz Choudry. It was almost impossible to confirm. Now we've learned the names of the five officers involved - and for one, it wasn't his first fatal encounter. 🔗 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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No longer 'faceless': Police in Ejaz Choudry death identified — and for one, it wasn't his 1st fatal encounter | CBC News
More than four years after Ejaz Choudry was shot and killed by Peel police, CBC News has learned the names of the officers involved that day — and for one of them, this wasn’t his first deadly encount...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The alleged German Christmas market attacker was Islamophobic, had posts on X account supportive of anti-Islam and far-right parties, including the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Reuters reports. On X Friday, ElomMusk posted: "Only the AfD can save Germany." www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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Death toll from German Christmas market car-ramming rises to four, Bild reports
Over 60 people were injured, some of them seriously, when a vehicle drove through crowds gathered at the market.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 10/12/2024
Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’
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Benjamin Netanyahu says Golan Heights will remain part of Israel ‘for eternity’
PM’s words follow Israeli takeover of previously demilitarised zone in Syrian-controlled territory * Syria live – latest updates Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the Golan Heights, occupied by Israel for almost 60 years, will remain part of Israel…
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
The scenes from Sednaya prison in Syria are shocking; people wandering into the light after decades in dark detention & torture. I interviewed Omar Alshogre, a former Sednaya child prisoner, about his reaction to history being made in Syria this weekend. Watch/share/subscribe:
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‘We Fought Alone, We Dreamed Alone’: Former Syrian Prisoner on the Historic Fall of Bashar Al Assad
Syrian activist Omar Alshogre, who was tortured at Sednaya prison as a child, talks to Mehdi about this weekend’s astonishing events in Damascus.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
"The very prospect that justice is conceivable, that the arc of the moral universe endures, that there is a light that was always there at the end of the tunnel, if only you squinted amid the enveloping dark? I cannot quite conceive of the words." On the enormity of this moment for Syria:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"For three years, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest for buying crack cocaine."
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Broward Co. to vacate convictions for people who bought crack made by the Sheriff's Office
For three years, the Broward County Sheriff's Office produced its own crack cocaine, so it could sell it to people that deputies would then arrest.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Marc Lépine's birth name, Gamil Gharbi, is fuelling the term "Killed by a Muslim" on X. His mom, French Canadian, was a former nun. He was estranged from his Algerian father and changed his name at 14. Here's a worthwhile piece on the motivation to cast him as "other": rsc-src.ca/fr/voix-de-l...
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Why some gun-control opponents want to ‘other’ one of Canada’s worst mass killers
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau makes remarks in December 2019 as 14 beams of light point skyward during Montréal ceremonies to mark the 30th anniversary of the 1989 École Polytechnique shooting. .THE C...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Quebec Premier François Legault says he wants to ban praying in public and is considering using the notwithstanding clause to do so. "Seeing people praying in the streets, in public parks, is not something we want in Quebec," Legault said. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
In a 2006 Israeli operation, a bulldozer plowed through a wall of the Canadian section of the Gaza War Cemetery. CBC spoke to a groundskeeper who pieced five headstones back together. www.cbc.ca/news/world/a... Who knows if these more recently damaged sections will ever be restored.
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The Verge @theverge.com · 03/12/2024
Millions of people are turning to AI for companionship. They are finding the experience surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and profoundly confusing, leaving them to wonder, ‘Is this real? And does that matter?’
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What do you love when you fall for AI?
Inside the surprisingly meaningful, unexpectedly heartbreaking, and deeply confusing reality of AI relationships.
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Petra Molnar @petramolnar.com · 05/12/2024
The same Anduril, funded by Peter Tiel, that set up autonomous surveillance towers along the Mexico/US border: amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022... Who exactly will such partnerships “benefit”?
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‘Never sleeps, never even blinks’: the hi-tech Anduril towers spreading along the US border | US-Mexico border | The Guardian
Funded by Trump supporter Peter Thiel, the autonomous surveillance towers can detect a human from 2.8km away
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
BREAKING: Amnesty International says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza in new report:
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BREAKING: Amnesty Concludes Israel Is Committing Genocide
“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I have to agree with some of this. Bluesky is absolutely more pleasant, interactive and more intelligent, in my experience. But for media monitoring and breaking news , my X algorithm still performs better - esp. on Gaza. Growing pains maybe, but it's why I haven't been able to fully switch over.
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Chris Brown @cbcchrisbrown.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Huge appreciation to our Gaza videographer Mohamed el Saife for his tremendous work on this. youtu.be/aj5Ge8Xv8fQ?...
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Gaza slips into lawlessness as Hamas's grip on power fades
YouTube video by CBC News: The National
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Brandy Jensen @brandyjensen.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
“No worries if not” -President Yoon Suk Yeol
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 30/11/2024
Former Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Ya’alon says Israel’s government is carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in northern Gaza and has accused PM Netanyahu of leading Israel to “ruin”. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/kcyxvw
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Louisa Loveluck @leloveluck.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Days after ICC announces warrants for Netanyahu, Biden admin moving to approve its largest arms sale to Israel in months. Includes 15,500 JDAM kits + 615 small diameter bombs. Our @washingtonpost.com team has documented extensive civilian harm caused by both. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...
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Live updates: Israel-Hezbollah cease-fire begins; Biden vows ‘another push’ on Gaza deal
The cease-fire deal is set to stop fighting for 60 days between Israel and Hezbollah. Regional neighbors hope it will lead to a wider de-escalation.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Torstar, Postmedia, The Globe and Mail, The Canadian Press, and CBC/Radio-Canada have filed a legal action against OpenAI. torstar.com/canadas-lead...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Anyone who's used ChatGPT for more than a few minutes knows it's prone to wild hallucinations. This study shows how dangerously inaccurate it can be when it comes to searching news content. 👇
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
There is a cost to governmental obfuscation. Misinformation thrives in an information vacuum. Distrust thrives when the gov won't trust you with your own information. This is societally damaging.
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
"Many of you could be where we are—on the street—but for some simple and not uncommon twist of fate...You deny that reality because it is too horrific to contemplate, therefore you must deny us." This piece will shake you. Make the time. www.esquire.com/news-politic...
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My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
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rat king 🐀 👑 @mikeisaac.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
“lazy linking” is such a funny way to think about the internet — a true distaste for the open web in pursuit of endless scrolling of one walled garden slate.com/technology/2...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26/11/2024
The underlying assumption is that a person’s writing style is something to be divined only from what they’ve done in the past, rather than an evolving process that changes as you change as a person who experiences the world.
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Anthropic says Claude AI can match your unique writing style
Or just pick from three style presets to make quick adjustments.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 26/11/2024
Turns out that the cars may have been set on fire due to the Montreal's police aggressive use of tear gas canisters. Quelle surprise. (Bien fait, @hassinhadi.bsky.social)
It's a tweet from Hadi Hassin. French first, English translation below:

"Le SPVM indique qu’une enquête est en cours sur l’ensemble des événements liés à la manifestation de vendredi. Pour l’instant, la police ne peut ni confirmer ni infirmer qu’une grenade lacrymogène lancée par ses agents ait provoqué l’incendie d’un véhicule. Cet élément fait partie des nombreuses enquêtes en cours sur les incidents survenus ce jour-là, m’a précisé une porte-parole."

Translation: "The Montreal police indicate that an investigation is in progress on the events tied to Friday's protests. At the moment, the police are neither confirming nor denying that a lacrymony (tear gas) grenade fired by its officers is what provoked the fire in the vehicle. This event is part of a number of ongoing investigations on the events seen on that day, indicated a spokesperson."
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 26/11/2024
In recent days, there have been breathless reports that "MONTREAL IS BURNING" coming both from Canadian politicians, rage-bait Twitter accounts, and info operations tied to foreign governments. The actual damage, though, has come down to two things: Smashed windows and two cars set on fire. Well...
It's a tweet from Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre, responding to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau writing that "what we saw on the streets of Montreal last night was appalling." Here is Poilievre's tweet in full (I truncated the text in the screenshot to make it fit)

"You act surprised. We are reaping what you sowed.

This is what happens when a Prime Minister spends 9 years pushing toxic woke identity politics, dividing and subdividing people by race, gender, vaccine status, religion, region, age, wealth, etc.

On top of driving people apart, you systematically break what used to bring us together, saying Canada is a “post-national state” with “no core identity.”

You erased our veterans and military, the Famous Five and even Terry Fox from our passport to replace them with meaningless squirrels, snowflakes and a drawing of yourself swimming as a boy. 

You opened the borders to terrorists and lawbreakers and called anyone who questioned it racist.

You send out your MPs to say one thing in a mosque and the opposite in a synagogue, one thing in a mandir and the opposite in a gurdwara.

You have made Canada a playground for foreign interference. You allowed Iran’s IRGC terrorists to legally operate here for four years after they murdered 55 of our citizens in a major unprovoked attack.

You passed laws that release rampant offenders from prison within hours of their 80th arrest.

And what is the result? Assassinations on Canadian soil, firebombings of synagogues, extremist violence against mandirs and gurdwaras, over 100 churches burned or vandalized (with barely any condemnation from you), all for a total 251% more hate crime.

And, while you were dancing, Montreal was burning.

We won’t let you divide us anymore. Call an election now.

We will fire you and reclaim our citizenship, our values, our lives, our freedom and, most of all, our country."New York Post headline: "Justin Trudeau dances at Taylor Swift concert as rioters storm streets of Canada"Tweet from Hillel Neuer:

"The West is falling apart. Trudeau and his ilk do nothing. In Montreal, the mob is smashing windows and burning cars. One threatens Jewish students: “The final solution is coming your way.” When Second Cup found out she was a franchisee, they shut her down right away. Leadership."
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Jonathan Goldsbie @goldsbie.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
The National NewsMedia Council has determined that the National Post "breache[d] the journalistic standard of accuracy" in an op-ed from the head of HonestReporting Canada: www.mediacouncil.ca/decisions/20...
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2024-44: Williams v National Post - National NewsMedia Council
November 14, 2024 – for immediate release The National NewsMedia Council (NNC) has considered and dismissed one portion of a complaint and upheld another portion of a complaint about a June 21, 2024 o...
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 25/11/2024
It’s ironic that the premise of Canada’s Online News Act is that social media platforms are financially benefitting from people sharing news links Meanwhile in reality, these platforms actually manipulate their algorithms to throttle links so as to prevent users from wandering off to external sites
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Richie Assaly @rdassaly.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Haaretz reports that 8,000 Israelis have received temporary Canadian work visas so far this year, 5x more than last year. By contrast, only 733 Palestinians had been approved via Canada's "special Gaza visa program" as of Oct. Only 334 have arrived in the country. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Is Canada better for Israelis than Israel? According to thousands, the answer may be yes
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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
'The readiness to repudiate identity politics & group them under “bad woke” is less about policy and more about the fact that social justice never really found a home amongst liberals, who were happy to capture its energy but not its demands.' The week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik
Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural change, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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midnucas 🇵🇷 @midnucas.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Twitter has deleted the >200k followers of noted Palestinian journalist Younis Tirawi and hit him with one of those mysterious shadow bans that when you click "follow" on his account it doesn't actually stick, when you hit reload you're not following him
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Today in Ontario politics, we have: - Ontario MPP Lisa MacLeod using the term "Canadian race." - Another Ontario MPP, Goldie Ghamari, defending meeting with far-right figure Tommy Robinson.
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David Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
One thing in #cdnpoli that I'm absolutely fascinated by is what's happening with younger Canadians, especially men under 30. Look at this comparison between Poilievre, O’Toole and Scheer as close to similar timing to a likely election as I could get with the data.
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Avishay BSG (Ben-Sasson-Gordis) @avishaybsg.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Hey y'all. Look who finally joined us. Give'em a follow why don't you
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Israel imposes sanctions on Ha'aretz, "mandating any government-funded body to refrain from communicating" with it, including placing ads. x.com/haaretzcom/s...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Pierre Poilievre calls Canada's stance to respect the ICC's decision "woke weirdness." The ICC found reasonable grounds to believe that Netanyahu has committed crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a weapon. x.com/PierrePoilie...
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Awww, my first Bluesky troll. Blockity block! 💕
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/11/2024
NEW: Trump has chosen Russell Vought, a promoter of Christian nationalism, to once again direct the Office of Management and Budget. Vought, closely tied to Project 2025, was floated as a Chief of Staff candidate before Trump distanced himself from the project. religionnews.com/2024/02/21/t...
STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
I am very pleased to nominate Russell Thurlow Vought, from the Great State of Virginia, as the Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). He did an excellent job serving in this role in my First Term - We cut four Regulations for every new Regulation, and it was a Great Success! Russ graduated with a B.A. from Wheaton College, and received his J.D. from the Washington University School of Law. Russ has spent many years working in Public Policy in Washington, D.C., and is an aggressive cost cutter and deregulator who will help us implement our America First Agenda across all Agencies. Russ knows exactly how to dismantle the Deep State and end Weaponized Government, and he will help us return Self Governance to the People. We will restore fiscal sanity to our Nation, and unleash the American People to new levels of Prosperity and Ingenuity. I look forward to working with you again, Russ. Congratulations. Together, we will Make America Great Again!
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Woke up to a ton of new followers today 🚀, so hi all! I'm a reporter at cbcnews.ca writing on the justice system, use of force, and trying to bring nuance to national security coverage. Before that, I was on a PhD track in religion but quit to pursue journalism. Have a tip? My email's in my bio!👋
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Shanifa Nasser @shanifanasser.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Verifying so many journalists here is such a massive and valuable undertaking. Thank you @hunterw.bsky.social for doing this. 👊👊
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Jemele Hill @jemelehill.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This explains why conservative fear-mongering is such an easy play in America. — Ppl believe trans ppl make up 21% of the population (Real number: 1%) — Ppl believe Black ppl make up 41% of the nation (real number 12%) — Ppl believe Jewish ppl make up 30% of the nation (Real number, 2%)
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