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Susan Kiddie

@susankiddie2.bsky.social
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Let's try this again. Social justice, disability rights, history, Pro-humanity, anti-genocide. Loather of AI. Keep your mental health stigma off my feed. Dystopian living is not as much fun as people led me to believe.

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 1h
#Toronto - Toronto Public Health is offering appointment-only COVID-19 vaccination clinics for children six months to four years old: tphbookings.ca Slots available between 12:30pm - 5:30pm on Thu Oct 8 and 15 at North York Civic Centre (Members Lounge). 5100 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON, M2N 5V7
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Amanda Hu @amandalhu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There’s also the experience of enduring the unsafe space and then the perpetrators are so angry that they haven’t broken you that they find a way to rob you of the opportunities, experiences, promotions as punishment.
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 20h
“It gives me a lot of hope that we can rally behind a solution that is more humane and cost-effective,” Dr. Andrew Boozary, the executive director of the Gattuso Centre for Social Medicine at UHN, said in an interview." Toronto is so fortunate to have Dr. Boozary
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Toronto hospital to greatly expand permanent housing program that reduces ER visits
A Toronto hospital network is set to greatly expand its unique permanent housing program that largely serves homeless people who visit hospital emergency departments an inordinate amount of time. The ...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
You can see the genocide from space. Yet still it is widely denied.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 01/10/2026
Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members. Second Sons Canada incorporated as business, requires members to sign confidentiality contract cbc.ca/news/canada/... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Former soldier exposes how Canadian white supremacist group recruits members | CBC News
Second Sons Canada describes itself as a "men's nationalist club" dedicated to fitness and preserving Canada's heritage, but a former military member who attempted to join the group says he only learn...
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“On paper, the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has been in effect for almost a year. In reality, Israel has entrenched and expanded its control in the Palestinian territory — and its leaders say they have little intention of withdrawing any time soon.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Israel Keeps Expanding Into Gaza Despite Cease-Fire, Satellite Images Show (Gift Article)
The Israeli military has built new outposts and slowly encroached beyond the withdrawal line in Gaza. These are signs its troops may be preparing to stay for the time being.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is the same place in November 2023.
Satellite image of an intact neighborhood in eastern Rafah on 24 November 2023
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Iris Gorfinkel, M.D. @drgorfinkel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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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Investigative Journalism Bureau @ijbstories.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Behind the Reporting: @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social reflects on why it’s essential to tell prisoners’ stories ijb.utoronto.ca/ijb-updates/...
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Behind the Reporting: Why it’s essential to tell prisoners’ stories - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prisoners are not popular. There is a tendency to assume that the people who wind up behind bars are bad guys who’ve done bad things and deserve bad things.  Fallacies behind this assumption aside, wh...
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 01/10/2026
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these women now represent 1 in 4 households in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2026/09/in-g...
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Inside Gaza’s ‘widows camp,’ where women now support their families alone
Women in Gaza who lost their husbands in the genocide are caught between the need to work and the pain of leaving their children alone, susceptible to Israeli violence. According to the UN, these…
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The euphemisms. "he is, as just about everyone told me, “a tough boss” “There are very few people around who can manage his —” here my source paused “— complex personality” It speaks to a cold decisiveness & lack of empathy. Canadians must keep an eye on what — & who — he'll sacrifice. #CdnPoli
But his demands, and the tone in which he makes them, occasionally crosses into being “counterproductive,” one Liberal told me. (I heard some colourful adjectives in the course of my reporting.) In meetings, staffers have been “blown away” by the sharp tone he takes with senior advisers and certain cabinet ministers, as one told me.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This reads like corporate insider bingo. How many Goldman Sachs squares can you dab? "The PMO is now run, at least culturally, like a business." If you want good insights into Mark Carney & how his govt works, read this @justinling.ca piece. #GiftLink 🎁 #CdnPoli www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?...
Most Liberals I spoke to number Carney’s inner circle in the single digits, and nobody seems entirely sure who’s on the full list of his confidants. His personal Rolodex includes a lot of very rich and powerful people, one Liberal noted, including billionaire Michael Bloomberg.
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Donate A Mask Canada @donatemask.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stay safe this Thanksgiving! 🍂 🦃 Planning to gather with family and friends? 👫 Consider keeping COVID-19 rapid tests on hand to help for safer gatherings. 🧪 Support our fundraising store and shop rapid tests at a great price! 🛒 buymask.ca
"Safer Thanksgiving - buymask.ca"
Image of a box of Artron Covid-19 Antigen Home Tests. The background is Thanksgiving themed. Fall colours with illustrations of leaves, an acorn, a pumpkin and a gourd.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark Carney is setting reconciliation & indigenous rights back by decades with consistent attacks on indigenous rights & racially targeted budget cuts that violate Canadian law. He offers empty lip service in press statements but contempt for first nations in his policy. bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't believe in the death penalty, but I also don't believe in our legal system, and if women can't even be angry on the internet that a woman was raped for 7 hours, then just admit you also want women to be meek and quiet.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you are the sort of dude who has misgivings about these discussions surrounding sexual assault or feels the need to say “not all men”, I implore you to develop some platonic female relationships. You’ll find out REAL QUICK how carefully curated a bubble you’re in and how often this shit happens.
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I genuinely do not understand how we haven't already.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Hospital cuts: -Hamilton HS: 413 positions, 143 nurses -Ottawa Hospital: 400 positions, 200 nurses -London Health Sciences: 212 nurses -Queensway Carleton: 160 positions -Sunnybrook: 100 nurses -Quinte Health: 59 positions -Bruyere Health: 55 positions -St. Joe's Hamilton: 24 positions #OnPoli
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/09/2026
As youth unemployment rises, it is hard to find a decent job—unless you want to enlist. Gabriela Calugay-Casuga explores how the Carney government is making military jobs more attractive while it cuts the public sector and abandons a pledge to fund youth climate jobs breachmedia.ca/no-youth-job...
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No youth jobs? Mark Carney says join the military ⋆ The Breach
The Carney government is making military careers more attractive even as public-sector jobs disappear and a promised youth climate jobs program remains unfunded
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 30/09/2026
‘I’d rather die than go back’: A Palestinian teen’s 10-month nightmare in Israeli jail At 15, Zaid was separated from his parents, beaten, and starved. He is just one of hundreds of Palestinian children detained amid a post-Oct. 7 surge. By Jared Hillel www.972mag.com/palestinian-...
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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 30/09/2026
Journalist and researcher Connie Walker told The Tyee many people don’t seem to know about the ability to save their records related to experiences at residential schools — nor about their looming destruction. thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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‘There’s Still So Much Truth We Have Yet to Uncover’ | The Tyee
Inside the race against the clock to save testimony about residential school crimes.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people across Canada are gathering in remembrance and renewed determination to ensure ours is a country where every child matters.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So this month the Toronto Sun published a piece about the Allison Inquiry that called vaccines "a crime against humanity at worst" and demanded arrests, and the National Post published a piece deeming Avi Lewis not just an enemy but a danger to Jewish people, with a thinly coded appeal to violence.
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WIRED @wired.com · 30/09/2026
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it. www.wired.com/story/how-is...
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How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
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🇨🇦 Kari Raymer Bishop @kariraymerbishop.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ways you can participate in the work of truth and reconciliation all year long. There are some great ideas here! What else are you doing?
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Now that you know the truth, what do you do about reconciliation? | CBC Radio
Fear of making a misstep can leave people unsure how to participate in reconciliation, but both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people say there are countless ways to contribute.
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Lina Bee @linabee.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
@mark-carney.bsky.social it will be a black mark on Canada as a nation if this goes forward. I beg you. You MUST stop this immediately. Please. For the survivors whose stories are so important to remembrance of the facts. thenarwhal.ca/trc-resident...
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies. These women think survivors should have a choice
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. Journalist Connie Walker and lawyer Kimberly Murray say losing it would mean losing history — both painful and illuminating
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Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 15/04/2026
an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Journalist plans to create new archive of residential school survivor stories — before it's too late | CBC News
A new project from award-winning journalist Connie Walker aims to create an archive of testimonies of abuse at residential schools before the accounts are destroyed in September 2027.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 30/09/2026
Where does Canada actually stand on truth and reconciliation? Former special interlocutor Kimberly Murray speaks with Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair about government funding shifts, systemic delays, and the rising tide of denialism: ow.ly/Pzby50ZSWJk
On the left: Photo of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Ontario, displaying an orange overlay which reads Every Child Matters. On the right: text that reads “Under Carney, Canada is cooling on reconciliation. Three experts on the need to keep challenging denialism.”
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scott dagostino @scottdagostino.ca · 30/09/2026
We have white supremacists marching in Kamloops. On this National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, please consider giving to this excellent organization supporting those attacked since childhood 🧡
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Donate Now — IRSSS | Indian Residential School Survivors Society
Your generosity helps provide barrier-free support to IRS Survivors and their families. As a registered Canadian charity (#864829536RR0001), IRSSS relies on donors like you to continue this vital work...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The US-owned National Post is urging Canadian Jews to take matters into their own hands to punish Avi Lewis for speaking up against the genocide in Gaza. They reference the Bible to bury alive and consume by fire. This is extremist hate. It needs to get called out. nationalpost.com/opinion/yoni...
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Yoni Goldstein: Jewish law tells us how to deal with Avi Lewis
His Yom Kippur message was indefensible
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 30/09/2026
Every year I talk about the village of Teiaiagon on a strategic cliff on what is now Baby Point in Toronto’s west end. And how a village of 4500 Haudenosaunee people was destroyed through targetted trade with settlers who provided infected items. Every year no one gives a shit.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Canada's mass incarceration of Indigenous people is worsening and an insidious driver is the stickiness of Canada's carceral system - when people should get a shot at freedom, but often don't. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Despite Trudeau promises, more Indigenous people being jailed in Canada
Like a growing number of formerly incarcerated Indigenous people, Marvin Starblanket's life is still governed by Correctional Service Canada rules.
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Julie (unprofessional) @juliebalt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a day of memorial to recognize the atrocities and multi-generational effects of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
When we say every child matters, that includes the children who survived, not just the ones who died. The ones who came back damaged, and whose damage flowed down to their children and grandchildren. The ones who society forgets, or looks at in disgust or pity.

Those children matter too.

Illustration by Carey Newman

On an orange background, the outline of a feather is constructed from many other feathers in rainbow colours. Underneath are the words every child
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Me: Carney is Harper 2.0. Carney fans: That's absurd! How could you possibly suggest that?!! Harper: Carney is me 2.0. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/28/h...
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Harper sees Carney as his ideological heir - The Hill Times
Pierre Poilievre’s real problem isn’t that he is facing discontent from within his caucus; it’s that he’s losing support from important Conservatives from without.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 30/09/2026
The National Post is using language that seems wildly irresponsible and dangerous here Citing ancient “Jewish law,” it labels Avi Lewis as a “rodef” The ultranationalist extremist who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin rationalized his killing on the same basis: www.theguardian.com/world/2020/o...
None of this applies, however, when a Jewish person presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish community. When that happens, Jewish thought is much more forceful: you must prevent the perpetrator from
causing harm.

Jewish law developed two character sketches to describe such scenarios. The first is known as a "mosar" — a Jewish person who informs to oppressive
authorities, potentially leading to the imprisonment, torture or death of community members. The second, called a "rodef," refers to a Jew who is actively pursuing another with the intent to harm or kill them. In both scenarios, the law is clear that a Jew is duty-bound to step in. Protecting the community and its members is the most important thing.It was around then that Yigal Amir, an earnest law student, made up his mind to kill the prime minister. Later he would insist he was not swayed by extremist rabbis; he had reached his own decision that Rabin - through his willingness to cede territory and to allow the creation of a Palestinian Authority, with its own armed police force - was a rodef and therefore a legitimate target. He got a weapon easily enough. With his brother, Amir was working on the creation of an anti-Palestinian militia. Nor was access difficult; on at least three occasions before the rally, Amir attended public events where Rabin was present. He was waiting for the right moment: he didn't want to shoot and miss.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Indigenous people, overrepresented in Canada's prisons, are far more overrepresented in a hidden form of solitary meant for suicidal and self-harming prisoners. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/hidden-...
Line chart shows Canada's use of observation cells for Indigenous and white prisoners.
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If we're going to talk about truth and reconciliation we should talk about Canada fighting First Nations in court. ijb.utoronto.ca/news/liberal...
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Liberals are playing legal hardball with First Nations over drinking water - Investigative Journalism Bureau
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal government is playing legal hardball with First Nations fighting for clean drinking water — and First Nations are fighting back. Interviews and hundreds of pages o...
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Lyndon @iamlyndon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Want to say I’m surprised, but I’m not. During my time in the shelter system, met so many seniors and disabled people. Sadly the problem is only getting worse, with the rising costs of everything. Lack of any real support to keep or get people housing. ☹️
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 30/09/2026
Denise Boucher was one of the many children in Canada’s residential school system who did not live to see adulthood. Pat Kane‬ tells the story of her family’s eight-decade-long search to find her remains and bring them home: ow.ly/aztx50ZSWK1
On the left: Photo of a small, white church building surrounded by grass against a cloudy blue sky. On the right: text that reads “She died in a residential school and was buried in secret. It took eighty-three years to bring Denise Boucher home.”
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If we are serious about dismantling patriarchy and rape culture, we would stop calling it Cornell 7. It's the Cornell 57. Passive bystanders are a pillar of misogyny. Men must actively intervene in shifting social norms & refuse to participate in rape *culture* Its the Cornell 57, not Cornell 7.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 29/09/2026
Under a court order, Mohammad Tubasi and his family returned to their homes in Jalud, which settlers had vandalized. Minutes later, over 150 Israeli settlers attacked. The family was forced to flee for their lives. Soon after, settlers set their homes on fire. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social
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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
CBC NEWS: Grave of boy who vanished at residential school found decades later, First Nation looks for others like him “…many children enrolled at St. Francis Xavier died from tuberculosis and malnutrition.” apple.news/AUR1Yj5jESOi...
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Grave of boy who vanished at residential school found decades later, First Nation looks for others like him — CBC News
The family of 11-year-old Johnny Kiyawasew, who never came home from St. Francis Xavier residential school, spent decades searching for answers. Now, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the University of Al...
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Given recent events, @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I worked with Canadian Dimension to publish an excerpt of Truth Before Reconciliation’s conclusion - to help meet the moment and keep us focused on putting truth before reconciliation 👇
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Thomas Piggott MD PhD @twpiggott.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When I hear about the Cornell 7, I had just had an experience at the playground with my daughter. It serves to remind us of the patriarchal structures that allowed such an apparently disgusting rape and complicity to have occurred.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
100% endorse this thread. I teach consent, violence prevention & bystander intervention for a living - It is my area of expertise. There is *no* evidence of the existence of an "Oops, my bad!" rapist. "Sexual assault is a miscommunication" is a myth without any evidence. It is an intentional act.
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 29/09/2026
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Team Fossil Fuels (Ford, Smith, Carney) hard at work using taxpayer money to enrich oil companies while ruining the planet. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/29/n...
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Doug Ford says he'll spend public money on east-west oil pipeline
Ontario’s premier sees no reason why it should take more than four years to build a 3,300 kilometre pipeline between Alberta and his province. “We just believe that it can get done,” he said.
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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