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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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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 6h
Two-state solution but one state restricts when and where the other can hold elections. bsky.app/profile/rk70...
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Isis Naucratis @isisnaucratis.bsky.social · 5h
"How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide" by Benjamin Moser www.equator.org/articles/we-...
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We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves • EQUATOR
How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 5h
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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 10/10/2026
The UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism says she ‘repeatedly’ heard concerns from Indigenous people that their right to free, prior, and informed consent is not consistently implemented across Canada. www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/09/c...
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Canada has ‘serious problems’ respecting UNDRIP obligations, UN racism envoy says - The Hill Times
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism says she ‘repeatedly’ heard concerns from Indigenous people that their right to free, prior, and informed consent is not…
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 11h
Two-state solution but one state controls the other's roads for some reason.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"From reporting under bombardment to capturing the resilience of ordinary people, Bisan shares her deeply personal account of what life has looked like on the ground, the ongoing humanitarian crisis, and what the world continues to overlook." www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfm...
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Bisan Owda: 3 Years Surviving the Genocide in Gaza
YouTube video by Mondoweiss
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Samira Mohyeddin @smohyeddin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Thousands marched in Toronto protesting against three years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and calling on Canada to impose a two arms embargo.
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fsnaris @fsnaris.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Oh look, the President of Toronto wants to spend $48M ripping out bike lanes in Toronto when that money would probably help communities in Northern Ontario, just so he and his cronies can (seemingly) speed thru the city on their way to do absolutely nothing.
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 10/10/2026
Homelessness in Quebec: The cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of fixing the problem “It costs $95,284 annually to support each homeless person in the province — roughly 16 times higher than the average Quebecer. There are an estimated 12,077 people in Quebec who are visibly unhoused.”
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Homelessness in Quebec: The cost of inaction is far greater than the cost of fixing the problem
A report from the Union of Quebec Municipalities finds that it costs Quebec $1.15-billion per year year to support the homeless population.
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
NGL, I make it a rule not to listen to USian politicians (Mamdani exception applies) but I watched this because you posted it. Amazing!!
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's World Homeless Day, and I'll just say: Homelessness isn't some great unsolvable mystery. People are homeless because they don't have homes. This suffering persists not for lack of solutions, but because enormous wealth and power are invested in maintaining the very structures that produce it.
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Palestine News @palestinenews.smitsky.nl · 09/10/2026
Gaza Ceasefire Exists in Name Only, Say More Than 100 Orgs. #palestine #israelpalestinenews
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Gaza Ceasefire Exists in Name Only, Say More Than 100 Orgs.
Israel has killed more than 1,400 people in Gaza, nearly two million still need shelter, hospitals are ravaged, and 1.4 million face crisis-level hunger.
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Médecins Sans Frontières @msf.org · 10/10/2026
One year ago, a ceasefire was announced in Gaza. Today, Israel continues to: ⚫ Kill Palestinians and destroy civilian infrastructure ⚫ Restrict aid and cut essential services ⚫ Force people into an ever-shrinking space This is not a ceasefire, this is a genocide.
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So happy to see you, Adham! 💜🙏🏽🫂
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
So, so happy to see my dear friend Adham here again. Bluesky should be open and welcoming to all. 💜💜💜
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thanks. It's true what they say: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
10 years ago, after going through chemo, I had a headshot taken and, mustering all the courage I could find - cancer kicked the hell out of my self-esteem - I posted it. Someone promptly commented that the photo wasn't "doing me any favors". I haven't been able to look at pictures of myself since.
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Groups are calling it "antidemocratic" and an "evisceration" of the environmental safety net, but the special committee handling this omnibus legislation is pushing fast ahead and limiting study to a virtual minimum.
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Special committee to steer Carney’s controversial bill C-39 plans to move fast
Environmental, labour and Indigenous groups are calling the prime minister’s proposed legislation “antidemocratic” and an “evisceration of our environmental safety net” as the government kicks off nex...
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 09/10/2026
We won’t stand by while Mark Carney launches the biggest attack on workers’ rights, Indigenous rights, and the environment that we've seen since the Harper era. Join our emergency town hall on October 14th, and let’s build the power to stop Bill C-39 together. RSVP here: www.ndp.ca/stop-bill-c39
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Jeff Gilchrist @jeffgilchrist.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I just received updated info about Nuvaxovid pharmacy ordering in Ontario from Sanofi so I have redone part of this thread and made a document available to download/print (thanks @penelopejmorrow.bsky.social for the idea).
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A reminder that #ICE still has five offices in Canadian cities - Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary, and Vancouver. The presence of ICE, indeed its very existence as a law enforcement agency, makes us all less safe. We shouldn't have to wait for someone to be shot to do something about it.
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Mr Environment is lying to Canadians. Again. No wonder he cancelled anti-greenwashing policies. He would be unable to gaslight us, himself. “Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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+972 Magazine @972mag.com · 09/10/2026
Gaza’s lost generation: The students left behind by three years of war For 700,000 children, tent classrooms are now the closest thing to school. But these cannot restore the education, routine, and community they once had. www.972mag.com/gaza-lost-ge...
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Gaza’s lost generation: The students left behind by three years of war
For 700,000 children, tent classrooms are now the closest thing to school. But these cannot restore the education, routine, and community they once had.
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Haaretz's detailed story on the Israeli gulags, in which nearly 10,000 Palestinians are held, vast majority of them have not been charged or convicted. These are crimes against humanity. archive.ph/LdVXQ
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 09/10/2026
Islamic Relief calls for global action as deadly Israeli attacks in Gaza continue and humanitarian conditions worsen.
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Israel kills or wounds Palestinian every 90 minutes in Gaza since ceasefire
Islamic Relief calls for global action as deadly Israeli attacks in Gaza continue and humanitarian conditions worsen.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Still COVIDing Canada @stillcovidingca.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Are you looking for information about the availability of COVID-19 vaccines in Canada? You can visit our website — it will be updated regularly, as we find more details about vaccination programs. stillcoviding.ca/en/resources... #COVID #vaccines
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COVID-19 vaccines
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Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
FT: Israel’s ‘Scorched-Earth’ Ceasefire in Gaza “They are conducting a scorched-earth policy,” Crisis Group’s [Amjad] Iraqi said. “They are basically erasing entire villages and towns and depopulating as much as possible to make it difficult for people to return.” www.ft.com/content/fca6...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We absolutely should be horrified by reports of planned public executions and see them as an overt re-embrace of spectacle lynchings--while also understanding that the story of the "modern" death penalty in this country is inextricable from that history, rooted in racial violence & white supremacy.
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Alabama’s Lynching Memorial and the Legacy of Racial Terror in the South
At the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, the historical link between lynching and the death penalty is hard to miss.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
The Liberals and Conservatives teamed up again today — funny how that keeps happening — to get Bill C-39 over the hurdle of its first vote. The massive, 243-page bill bulldozes environmental protections, Indigenous rights and attacks the right to strike. Here's what this means:
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Hanna Kienzler @hannakienzler.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
How Israel's relentless killing of over 1000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2025 can be called a "ceasefire" is beyond me- its brainwashing. Aljazeera noted: Israel attacked Gaza on 325 of the past 361 days, leaving only 36 days with no reported attacks, deaths or injuries.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Elbows down. www.readthemaple.com/david-mcguin...
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David McGuinty Announces $4 Billion For F-35 Jet Infrastructure
The Liberal government has committed to purchasing 16 F-35 fighter jets made by American arms company Lockheed Martin.
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The Innocence Project @innocenceproject.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
“We have learned through painful experience that innocent people are wrongfully convicted of murder, wrongfully sentenced to death, and wrongfully executed," said Christina Swarns, executive director of the Innocence Project.
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It’s Time to ‘Stop Tinkering With the Machinery of Death’
Case after case has exposed the continued unreliability of our capital punishment system, writes Innocence Project Executive Director Christina Swarns.
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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Imagine if the Canadian government was as gung ho about Truth and Reconciliation as it was about AI and sucking up to the states
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christoaivalis.bsky.social @christoaivalis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The argument I've seen from MANY liberals is that Carney is building an oil pipeline so that he can fund social programs So why is he simultaneously building a pipeline while cutting national pharmacare? www.hilltimes.com/2026/10/05/n...
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National universal pharmacare 'dead in the water,' says pharmaceutical policy expert - The Hill Times
In 2024, the federal budget set aside $1.5-billion for a national pharmacare program, but under Prime Minister Mark Carney, the top priorities have significantly changed and experts say they don't exp...
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
"But even though many Jews experience Zionism as a core part of their religious or ethnic identity, Zionism is fundamentally a political ideology. All political ideologies – especially ones that are linked to actual state structures, as Zionism is – should be subject to critique. ..." Gift link.
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Anti-Zionism and antisemitism should not be conflated
Zionism is fundamentally a political ideology, and thus should be subject to critique
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Carney has a chance to show us there’s actually still a difference between his government and the one we’d have if Poilievre had won the election. Will he take it? Federal funding to help LGBTQ rights groups survive the attacks on their humanity is about to expire. He can do something about it:
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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 08/10/2026
NEW: Here are the names and profiles of the people who make up the Israel lobby in Canada. www.readthemaple.com/here-are-the...
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Here Are The People Behind The Israel Lobby
These are the lobbyists working for pro-Israel groups in Canada.
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Guy Felicella @guyfelicella.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
More police doesn't reduce addiction. More police doesn't reduce mental illness. More police doesn't reduce homelessness. More police doesn't reduce poverty. More housing,more healthcare,more treatment,more outreach, more resources & more support does. That's how you build healthier communities
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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Idle MRIs at hospitals while Ontario funds private clinics
Ontario Health Coalition says HHS and St. Joseph's could run MRIs longer as the province shifts publicly funded scans to private clinics.
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Susan Kiddie @susankiddie2.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Due respect, but any assumption that the police would deal with allegations more thoroughly or respectfully is a big leap, imo.
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 08/10/2026
Incredible representation of what should be an incomprehensible amount of data and cross-references.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 07/10/2026
“I would call what’s happening now the myth of the ceasefire,” says Walid Batrawi, an award-winning Palestinian journalist. “It wasn’t a peace deal. These terms—ceasefire, peace deal—are only to comfort ourselves that we don’t have to do anything.” thewalrus.ca/one-year-on-gaza...
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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Canada's new "lawful access" bill would force changes that negate "the very purpose of encryption itself," Signal VP says. www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Messaging service Signal says minister’s changes to lawful access bill will not persuade it to stay in Canada
Signal and provider of web-browser Firefox say bill still poses threat to their users’ privacy
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Fighting foreign interference should be a core Canadian national security priority. But if even being at a conference where the United States is named -- accurately -- as a foreign interference actor is a bridge too far for this government, then they've already conceded the game.
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scott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 07/10/2026
Gaza. The West Bank. Jerusalem. The attacks on Palestinians spread ever wider.
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Erin Blondeau ✷ writer & researcher @erinblondeau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
From Cornell to Canadian Hockey: How men learn to dehumanize women Published today in @ricochetmedia.bsky.social ricochet.media/justice/from...
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From Cornell to Canadian Hockey: How men learn to dehumanize women
The Cornell 7 case is not an isolated horror story. Elite fraternities, hockey teams, and other cultures of male entitlement teach men to treat women as objects — while powerful institutions shield th...
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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
*Chooses the below, since U.S. threats apparently don't matter now.* "The U.S. “Cloud Act” gives the American government the authority to obtain data held by U.S.-based tech companies regardless of whether the data is stored in the U.S. or in a foreign country." www.readthemaple.com/national-def...
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer in occupied West Bank
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Israeli settlers beat AFP photographer in occupied West Bank
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old Palestinian photographer, suffered injuries to his head and torso and was taken to the hospital by ambulance, according to the international news agency. The agency's news director, Phil Chetwynd, condemned the incident as a 'serious' and 'unacceptable' attack.
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