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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump last week touted "one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years, the arrival at the White House of the Highly Respected President of China, Xi Jinping, and his beautiful wife, Madam Peng." The U.S. switched sides.

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“National interest” cannot become a catch-all excuse to override workers’ bargaining power whenever a lawful strike has economic consequences. That pressure is precisely what strikes are meant to create. theconversation.com/canadas-prop... #cdnpoli #canlab

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Canada’s proposed labour reforms could shift power away from workers in major disputes

Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 23/09/2026

See, the problem is we elect fucking morons.

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 23/09/2026

"We heard overwhelming testimony about how EDI is bad." Yes, because you mostly limited your invitations to fucking assholes, dipshits.

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UWO Faculty Association @uwofa1.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What matters to Members, matters at the bargaining table. A YES vote strengthens our position to keep pushing for the priorities we've set together. Bring a colleague and vote today! 🗳️In person: Social Science Kiosk, today until 6pm 💻Can't make it in person? Vote online, Weds 9am to Thurs 6pm

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Imagine a Vice President of the United States getting a fact-check Community Note that the heckler was right and you are lying. These people just can’t stop lying.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

9/11 victim Michael Massaroli’s son: "You do my dad's legacy & the legacy of all victims no honor using this tragedy to spread hate. I've had to spend 25 years seeing people use it to hate on our Muslim brothers & sisters, people who don't look like them."

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Tanya Noel (she/her) @tcnoel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My syllabi have seen many changes over the years, few so dramatic as my stance on GenAI. Initially: "Be careful using GenAI". Now: "GenAI is a scourge to the planet & society, with most uses completely antithetical to my values/goals as an educator & human being 🤮🔥". (Not quite in those words.)

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

C'mon #Manitoba NDP and Premier Kinew, let's cut the BS. We shouldn't be building these climate killers in the first place let alone in conjunction with a Trump loving company from #Amerikkka Shame on you. #mbpoli

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Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.

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Alex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley

(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle...

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 02/09/2026

This is a great letter, but I will be surprised if MLI retracts this study. The MLI has adopted a far-right 'anti-DEI' (and anti-courts, etc.) agenda. This is just who they are now.

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Reason 1,000,064 to never visit the USA again.

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

No one could have predicted this.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

SHOUT-OUT to Political Cartoonist extraordinaire & Member of the Order of Canada Michael de Adder, who routinely does a far better job of holding this administration accountable than the corporate media. Thank you for your attention to his brilliant satirical wit! 🙏 (also: 🤣)

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Momus Jones @boyq.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Google is doing the thing!

From a 1979 IBM presentation 'Reflections on Accountability'

Black old style sans serif text:

"A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION"

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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026

We’re not changing it.

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Tom & Lorenzo @tomandlorenzo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

What horseshit. She embraced gay people at the height of the AIDS crisis, embraced trans people at the height of the war against them, supported Black communities and artists, and wrote the most pro-worker's rights feminist pop song of all time. Neutral my ass

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Oliver Moore @oliver-moore.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Cutting off TP to a country experiencing turbo-diarrhea is the kind of diabolical Canadian idea I am here for

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Oly Backstrom @olybackstrom.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton sings Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykMz...

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Trio - After The Gold Rush (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by Warner Records Nashville

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Time to move past elbows up and pull their jersey over their heads.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

i dunno, man, you could just make time for your kid

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MSVU FA @msvufa.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

MSVUFA and the MSVU administration have reached a tentative agreement (subject to ratification by MSVUFA and MSVU BoG)!! Thank you all for your support!! 🤩 Please do not contact MSVUFA Executive or Bargaining Team - details will be shared through official channels. #withmsvufa #forthemount 🐦‍⬛

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Signed!!!!!! Let’s go! Elbow up for real! ( not Carney’s kind of up)

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Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦 @ogcanada.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

We've crossed 170 000 signatures to have the US Ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, declared persona non grata. The highest ever petition had 387 000. We have two months left. #cdnpoli Sign here: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

8:40 pm August 12, 2026 How you like me now? 🤣💪🏻🇨🇦‼️🍁 87,439 signatures

Petition to remove US Ambassador Hoekstra

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Cathy Conrad Suso @cathyconrad.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... I can totally get behind booting the US Ambassador out of Canada… join me!

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Sign this Petition - Petitions

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Michigan, it’s Election Day. If you haven’t voted yet, the polls are open now until 8PM. Make your voice heard. Find your polling location at abdulforsenate.com/vote!

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"When it comes to social, economic, and environmental policy, [the Carney government] is following through on its promise to “nation-build” with a sweeping program of austerity, deregulation and cuts," writes @lukewsavage.bsky.social. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...

But we should also consider the possibility that Carney’s apparent promise of a new and more independent global posture was never really genuine in the first place. When the prime minister gave his big speech in Davos earlier this year, what many heard was a stirring call for a new progressive internationalism in the age of Donald Trump. But, as I argued at the time, what he was really saying was that middle powers like Canada can no longer afford to ground their actions in the pursuit of idealistic notions like human rights. This, not incidentally, is more or less how the government has sought to justify its own right-leaning domestic agenda as well: its abandonment of climate targets and gutting of environmental regulations; its tax cuts for the wealthy; its slash and burn attitude toward the public sector; and its overzealous embrace of AI.

Both at home and abroad, the Trump threat serves as a pretext for a form of would-be pragmatism that is really just conservatism by any other name. Within its own borders, Canada is increasingly being run less like a country and more like a business. On the world stage, it is barely even pretending to care about concepts like international law and human rights.

This also helps explain the very stark difference between the prime minister’s campaign rhetoric and his incessant pursuit of cosy relations with Washington.

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Tony Bennett @anbenn.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

😆🗑️✔️

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NDP @ndp.ca · 02/08/2026

The NDP stands in solidarity with WestJet workers on strike, fighting to end unpaid work. Join us in calling on the federal government to respect these workers' right to strike!

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Stephen Murphy (smurph) @smurph.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Emmett and I are profs at the same university. We are endlessly bombarded with soulless and solipsistic emails about how great AI is for teaching and that resistance is futile. It is not great and resistance is growing.

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Cam Regier @camregier.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Let's gooooo!!!

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Real question to any Americans. How the fuck is the generic ballot poll for November still 44% republican/Trump?

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Ian McCausland @ianmccausland.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

#winnipeg join Orvie as she launches her campaign to become city councillor in North Kildonan. It's Time for Change

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Yo… @tsnofficial.bsky.social why the fuck use some bullShit AI image and not one from the actual fucking game!!!!!!!!!

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Mark Ruffalo @markruffalo.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

More lawsuits for Kevin!

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

NEW: A group of 70 labour scholars from Canadian universities are sounding the alarm about attacks on workers’ rights. www.readthemaple.com/collective-b...

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Collective Bargaining Rights Are Being Undermined Across Canada

A group of 70 labour scholars from Canadian universities are sounding the alarm about attacks on workers’ rights.

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Get rid of the orange turd and we can talk.

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Michael Shaw @shawmp.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Fuck you…… signed former Laurier Club member. The world is burning and you are kissing ass with the separatist traitors. Resign.

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