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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 1h
I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1
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NPR @npr.org · 23m
Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, says U.S. sanctions disrupted her daily life. She is still hearing cases and challenging the sanctions in court. n.pr/4z9qSld
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What life under U.S. sanctions looks like for one ICC judge
Kimberly Prost, a Canadian judge at the International Criminal Court, says U.S. sanctions disrupted her daily life. She is still hearing cases and challenging the sanctions in court.
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 7h
It’s SELF SABOTAGE. As @fordnation pours $2.1 BILLION into health teams, he SIMULTANEOUSLY diverts taxpayer dollars into PRIVATE clinics that 🩺 Poach Scarce staff ⬆️ Public waits …& Cost WAY more @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Iris Gorfinkel: How Doug Ford’s health plan costs taxpayers billions — and privatization is making it fail
To save universal health care, Ontario must reverse its path. Funding private clinics drains our public system, poaching staff and siphoning taxpayer dollars from front-line care.
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 7h
Great, clear and concise work from Kirsten Hillman 🇨🇦🇺🇸
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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 17h
Are US Military Veterans Training Russians to Fight in Ukraine ? An accused military training company the center of claims, Alfa-Metal of Bulgaria, strongly denies purported ties to the ongoing war. www.military.com/are-us-veter...
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US Veterans Including Former Navy Seals Are Training Russians to Fight in Ukraine: Report
An accused military training company the center of claims, Alfa-Metal of Bulgaria, strongly denies purported ties to the ongoing war.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Four-byline alert: “.. Meta claimed that $4.1 billion of stock options exercised by Mr. Zuckerberg counted as a research expense ..” @nytimes.com $META www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The same columnist who wrote he was scared of Christie Pits in July (and mocked by the Post’s photo editor?) nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: The decline of Toronto's Christie Pits Park is unacceptable
This gem of the city should be a safe place for families to take their kids, not a hotbed for urban disorder
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 30/09/2026
Experimental when it's time to pay taxes.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Google and Apple immediately update their maps.
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ⓘ 𝕆ligarch f*ckery detected @adelpreore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We sure had a lot of fun at Schmitt head's expense, but can we talk for a minute about how proud he seemed to be about obtaining private messages in secrecy? "You didn't know we had all these, did you? I'll give you a minute to process all this so you don't perjure yourself further."
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 29/09/2026
Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
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Nestlé worried AI will destroy world’s water supply before they do
VEVEY, SWITZERLAND - Nestlé executives gathered from around the world to announce their grave concern regarding the impact that artificial intelligence’s water consumption will have on their own abili...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck."
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Dreamliner Ontario @mostlyharmless.northsky.social · 29/09/2026
What Abdul said. Every word.
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I don’t wanna hear SHIT about woke run amok when protesting genocide gets you banned from campus and sexual assault gets you an apology letter.
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Luke Côté @locutusof.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Canadians are famous for being polite and apologizing. And we are sorry. We're sorry you people chose this stupid fucker to be president.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Leaders from across Canada are condemning the white supremacists that were marching in Kamloops, British Columbia over the weekend, just outside of the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. RCMP are asking anyone with more photos or videos to come forward.
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Leaders and RCMP respond to white supremacists marching in British Columbia | APTN News
Leaders from across Canada are condemning the white supremacists that were marching in Kamloops, British Columbia over the weekend, just outside of the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve. RCMP are…
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Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Seems to me if you show up masked to make your unsupported point, you know deep down you’re on the wrong side of history. Also, you’re a coward.
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Curb Your Malthusiasm @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
this is a huge fucking deal
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know what’s more dangerous than a trans athlete? 7 Frat boys at Cornell University.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 28/09/2026
Picking apples is also cool, but apples will not warn you of carbon monoxide. Repeat - apples are not a substitute for working carbon monoxide alarms.
A carbon monoxide alarm growing on an apple tree. The text reads: Get a fresh one! Carbon monoxide alarms have expiration dates. Check the date on your carbon monoxide alarm.
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Unsurprisingly, there are almost no Russian-made components in Russia's new Geran-4 drone. While Chinese parts surprise no one, how a Texas Instruments onboard computer got there is a major question. #cdnpoli
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
💯 Alberta is, however, being overrun by international bots and trolls.
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Photography by Douglas 🍁 @darkwaterphotos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reminds me of that time with Anakin & Padme on the conveyor belt on the machine planet.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#Canada’s former ambassador to the United States is urging Canadian business leaders to prepare for a lasting shift in the country’s economic relationship with its largest trading partner, rather than assuming things will eventually return to the way they were. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
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Businesses should prepare for new Canada-U.S. relationship: former diplomat
Canada’s former ambassador to the United States is urging Canadian business leaders to prepare for a lasting shift in the country’s economic relationship with its largest trading partner, rather than ...
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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“The most virulent form of philosophical technolibertarianism is a kind of scary, psychologically brittle, prepolitical autism... an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society. Technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
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Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
President Trump lambasts court order overturning press ban, saying that Politico was within two week of obtaining nuclear weapons.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Every one of these people view their positions in the government as an opportunity to cash in on multiple grifts while traveling the world and having a great time at our expense.
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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇨🇦 CBC highlights a striking double standard: Washington is extending trade ties with China while criticizing Canada for doing the same on a much smaller scale. U.S. imports from China: $434B. Canada: $90B. The rhetoric says one thing. The trade numbers say another.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 24/09/2026
Le Pen got a $10 million Russian loan, which was instrumental in getting her party to where it is now.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If there is still anyone out there who believes Trump’s bogus claims about Canada, here is a full fact-check and rejection of his latest lie, this one about our immigration. #CanadaStrong www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump says Canada is 'destroying itself' with immigration. Ministers say that's bogus | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Canadian immigration policies on Wednesday, saying the country is "destroying itself" by allowing "millions" of people into the country without proper securit...
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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We don't talk enough about the experience all historians have in front of the classroom where you say the thing you always say, have been saying for years, and all of a sudden, it takes on new meaning
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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
One of the things I learned in writing this piece is that in 1873, a former confederate official asked SCOTUS to weaponize the 14th Amendment against biracial government. The court refused at the time. But in 2026, that's exactly what the Supreme Court did.
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Anni @anni-a.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As an Albertan, I'm shocked &numb. What people don't understand, & I fear Canadians aren't seeing, is it CAN happen here. Not because AB wants it, bc big oil, tech bros, and their money do. Foreign interference, bot algorithm manipulation... Albertans voices won't matter unless we are REAL loud. 🔊
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is fantastic and I learned something new
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Judy Weston @westonjk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“Homeless Jesus” bronze sculpture, 2nd & Stewart, Seattle. (zoom to feet) Canadian artist: Timothy Schmaltz Real Christians adhere to this principle: “For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me." -Matthew 25:35
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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 23/09/2026
need to make tshirts that say “I will try to live as I was and I hope to survive”
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 23/09/2026
He can't raise the retirement age without Congress. Vote.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Had missed this story! Republican House candidate Laurie Buckhout, running in a swing district in NC, pulled a Pete Rose and bet on her own race. And she's now been banned by Kalshi for 3 years & has to pay a fine to them. When Kalshi's calling you out for your lack of ethics...
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Kalshi Suspends Republican House Candidate for Betting on Her Own Race (Gift Article)
The trading platform Kalshi issued a three-year suspension to the candidate, Laurie Buckhout, and fined her nearly $2,600. Ms. Buckhout said she had made a “dumb mistake.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.
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tgage @tgagemurphy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
He's right, look at this priest being attacked by US Border Patrol.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This entire slide deck from @ember-energy.org on "the Age of Power" is fascinating. Every policy maker and politician in Canada should be forced to read it over, and over, and over. #cdnpoli Share your favourite slide in the comments! ember-energy.org/app/uploads/...
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just to be clear, the Trump admin is placing tariffs on Canada in the name of “national security” but is willing to rely on *Belarus* to grow enough food for its people. Americans, are you cool with this??
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I came across a related report recently. Have to admit, I know almost zero about Russia's history (and present). But it's definitely an interesting topic www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-sa...
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Jeffrey Sachs: A Front Row Seat to the Cold War That Never Ended
An inside story of the road not taken
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The eminent Ms Applebaum dissects 🇺🇸Nazi USA’s subversive activities promoting proto-fascism around the world. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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MAGA Is Making the World Safe for Corruption
Far-right ideologues have transformed American foreign policy into a tool of private gain and antidemocratic reaction.
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Mike The Canstralian 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 🇨🇦 @aussieinto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"By 1914, eight railways converged on St. Thomas, bringing more than 100 trains through the southwestern Ontario city every day. Its location made it a major hub for American rail traffic between Detroit and Buffalo and between New York and Chicago." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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In Canada's 'Railway City' the tracks end in the grass. Why a passenger rail revival isn't so simple | CBC News
Canada is spending billions to expand passenger rail after decades of decline, but torn-up tracks, lost corridors and a surviving network built around freight means communities trying to bring trains ...
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wendell Berry and human decency. RIP, Wendell Berry.
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