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Beth L

@subeditrix.bsky.social
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Metarationalist. Optimistic nihilist. Trying to make the world less bad, one step at a time.

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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows: An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...
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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is what scares me. The weapons grade tsunami of #CdnDisinfo & propaganda unleashed against #MarkCarney, from 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸🇮🇳, has been an attack on 🇨🇦’s democracy, without most people even realizing it. Constant talk of MC winning, may make people complacent & think they don’t have to vote. #StopPoilievre
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Amid the election noise I missed this: Rachel posted this a day a go, it hit r/Fauxmoi and since then Jamroz appears to have stepped down from ROM already. We have got to make it unpalatable for anyone to be part of this travesty.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
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Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 15/04/2025
I am once again begging people to realize that the law is words on paper and is not self executing. "That's illegal" is not and has never been synonymous with "that's impossible" or "that can't be done." "That's illegal" means "you might get in trouble for that depending on who you are."
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Stick a fork in the rule of law; she done.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
“.. judging only from price action, we are suddenly witnessing a comprehensive turn away from US assets (stocks, USTs, corporate credit and the dollar). this is the single most important theme to monitor over coming weeks. .. for the moment capital is flowing out of the US.” - GS Desk/Pasquariello
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Arzeena Hamir @arzeena.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
It's simple. The NDP are the only party that can beat Aaron Gunn and the CPC in our riding. Tell your friends. #DroptheGunn #ComoxValley #CampbellRiver #canpoli
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Diane Ademu-John @junkyardmessiah.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Turns out Ireland could single-handedly put a stop to this entire nonsense.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The election just got spicy. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Parliament Hill on lockdown after man 'barricaded' himself inside East Block, police say | CBC News
A lockdown was declared on Parliament Hill after a man "barricaded" himself inside the East Block on Saturday afternoon, Ottawa police say.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Today marks 40 years since Canada's Supreme Court said the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to everyone physically present within Canada - including asylum-seekers. decisions.scc-csc.ca/scc-csc/scc-...
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Singh v. Minister of Employment and Immigration - SCC Cases
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
It sure looks like they’re going all in on the “the executive branch can ignore court orders if it thinks the court lacks jurisdiction” thing
Tweet 1: Seung Min Kim @ @seungminkim •3h
HYATTSVILLE, Md. (AP) — A federal judge orders the US to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to an El Salvador prison.

Tweet 2: Seung Min Kim & @seungminkim
White House response: "We suggest the Judge contact President Bukele because we are unaware of the judge having jurisdiction or authority over the country of El Salvador." - @PressSec
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Jacob Gardenswartz @reporterjacobg.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: Md federal Judge Paula Xinis GRANTS preliminary injunction, rules from the bench that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was apprehended "without legal basis" and removed to El Salvador illegally, "without any legal process." He's to be returned to the U.S. by 11:59 on Monday, 4/7.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
my reflexive need to respond with "i'm doing great, how are you?" when I really don't care to inquire at all is my daily undoing.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Don’t forget bigoted, too.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Yikes. @canadaland.com #PPdroptheGunn www.facebook.com/share/p/1EYA...
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Redirecting...
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
We’re cooked. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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E&E News: Big banks predict catastrophic warming, with profit potential
Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan and an international banking group have quietly concluded that climate change will likely exceed the Paris Agreement's 2 degree goal.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Cory Booker about to explain his favourite Severance season 3 theory any moment now. Or maybe Choreography and Merriment will take to the Senate floor.
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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
People have been talking for years about the 4 chan to mainstream culture pipeline and this is what was always going to be the end state.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I thought he was one of the smart ones. Apparently, nope.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Canada should be rolling out the red carpet for all the scientists and academics who need to flee …
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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 23/03/2025
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order."
Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Your Sunday read. Non paywall link in comments. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State
For most people, the courts will continue to operate as usual—until they don’t.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The author of this piece is an American photo journalist who has been embedded in El Salvador. Reading this piece is frightening and it should be. It's who we are in danger of becoming. time.com/7269604/el-s...
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I miss the days when satire was … satire. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-...
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We Are Free-Speech Absolutionists, Unless You Say Something We Disagree With, In Which Case, You’re a Terrorist
“President Trump’s promised immigration crackdown is here. Over the past two weeks, his administration has pushed against the limits of executive p...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
BREAKING— Trump’s executive order dismantling the US Dept. of Education just dropped. “Closure of the Department of Education would drastically improve program implementation in higher education.”
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Improving Education Outcomes by Empowering Parents, States, and Communities
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to enable parents, teachers, and
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The us travel boycott is really kicking in. Not only is the plaza premium lounge at Gate E not at max capacity, but there are clean, comfy seats available during the mid day lunch rush. 😅
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“I can’t promise that if we all act like this problem is manageable, it will prove so. But I can promise that if we all act as though this problem is not manageable, it will not be.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
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The Situation: The Full-Scale Situation Two Months In
How is it going?
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
That’s a 14% swing - completely unsurprising tho. #elbowsup
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
You don’t know who we just disappeared to El Salvador. Think about that.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity. Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
It’s well past time to ban X in Canada.
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Enrique Bedlam @enriquebedlam.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Working in immigration law is like people finding out the Mad King is feeding his enemies to a secret minotaur hidden under the Palace and you need to explain that, no, you knew about the minotaur and the feeding has happened for years but it used to be decided by lots who got fed to him.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The same people that did their research on vaccines and fluoride are now bringing their intellect to bear on the topic of flavour profiles of non-Kentucky bourbon.
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nuxi @nuxi.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
"My roommate described Republicans as the mass shooter and Democrats as Uvalde cops, and I can't get it out of my head." -jaycatt7
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Pretty sure Thom was singing about perimenopause on Let Down: And one day I am gonna grow wings A chemical reaction (You know where you are) Hysterical and useless #radiohead #peri #meno
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
WTF?!? Elon Musk reposted this on X before quietly deleting it: “Stalin, Mao, and Hitler didn’t murder millions of people. Their public sector employees did.”
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
So far I’m learning weed, cheezies, cheese and maple syrup are Canadian. I think we’re gonna be ok.
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 07/03/2025
"Mejias and Couldry offer a very readable and powerful account of Big Tech companies’ extractive practices and how they build on colonial extraction." @chinmayiarun.bsky.social reviews "Data Grab" by Ulises A. Mejias and Nick Couldry.
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‘Data Colonialism’ and the Political Economy of Big Tech
A review of Mejias and Couldry, “Data Grab: The New Colonialism of Big Tech and How to Fight Back” (University of Chicago Press, 2024).
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Um, no. Not US =/= good. Here’s a radical boycott strategy: go hyper local as much as you can. Embrace the 100 mile diet. Eat seasonal produce. And consume less of everything else as much as possible. Even outside of the Trump-induced end times, it’s the right thing to do.
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Burrow erupted feral from the woods $30/200 @burrow.northsky.social · 06/03/2025
I’ve been laughing all day. To all my Canadian friends 🫡
Two picture meme of Jim from The Office sitting next to a whiteboard. In this he’s wearing a trapper hat in red Buffalo check and white with a Canadian maple leaf on the front. 

The top part is Jim pointing to the words 
Problem: There are no war
crimes in a trade war
And sitting back smugly next to the words 
Solution: Force the UN to establish war crimes in a trade war through example
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Why does this sorta have WMDs in Iraq energy?
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
He's not wrong here. Yet: "the ultimate question here, though, is what happens if and when a court says no to Trump or Musk and they say the court’s order is illegitimate." www.lawdork.com/p/donald-tru...
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Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy
Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Also explains PP supporters and the constantly and noisily aggrieved people in our local fb groups.
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Beth L @subeditrix.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
5-4. Now let’s see how enforcement goes.
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