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@teachrprecarity.bsky.social
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PhD | researching teachers w/ precarious labour contracts in a polycrisis. #PublicEducation #PoliticalEconomy #PrecariousWork #FreePalestine. macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/…

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 04/10/2026
Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement
A green background with white text that reads: Joint Statement As Greens, we will always uphold universal human rights. We will never tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment. We will continue to stand in opposition to genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and the illegal occupation. We will continue to call out the heinous crimes of the Netanyahu government. And we will continue to work to ensure that the Green Party is an anti-racist party in every way. We know there is no conflict between supporting the rights of Palestinians and the rights of Jewish people. Signed by: Zack Polanski, Rachel Milward, Mothin Ali, Sian Berry MP, Ellie Chowns MP, Carla Denyer MP, Adrian Ramsay MP, Hannah Spencer MP
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"the association between COVID-19 exposure and the development of allergic conditions over 18 months. The outcomes were atopic dermatitis, asthma, food allergy, rhinoconjunctivitis, medication allergy, and urticaria." #covid #allergies www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/al...
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COVID-19 Linked to Increased Risk of Six Allergic Conditions
COVID-19 was associated with increased allergic disease risk over 18 months, with differing findings in children and service members.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"the association between COVID-19 exposure and the development of allergic conditions over 18 months. The outcomes were atopic dermatitis, asthma, food allergy, rhinoconjunctivitis, medication allergy, and urticaria." #covid #allergies www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/al...
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COVID-19 Linked to Increased Risk of Six Allergic Conditions
COVID-19 was associated with increased allergic disease risk over 18 months, with differing findings in children and service members.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"To see how vacuous this idea is, consider the brains of babies. Thanks to evolution, human neonates, like the newborns of all other mammalian species, enter the world prepared to interact with it effectively." aeon.co/essays/your-...
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"To see how vacuous this idea is, consider the brains of babies. Thanks to evolution, human neonates, like the newborns of all other mammalian species, enter the world prepared to interact with it effectively." aeon.co/essays/your-...
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Your brain does not process information and it is not a computer | Aeon Essays
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories. In short: your brain is not a computer
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SINGAPORE: NTUC grows research network to help workers through AI shifts and workforce transformation www.ntuc.org.sg/pme/news/ntu...
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NTUC grows research network to help workers through AI shifts and workforce transformation
NTUC launches the Associate Researchers Circle to grow its labour research network and help workers navigate AI-driven changes at work.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Covid fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow theconversation.com/covid-fatigu...
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Covid fatigue linked to reduced brain blood flow
Everyday activities can require enormous effort for people living with post-COVID fatigue. This study examines the brain mechanisms that may contribute to fatigue.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Michael Hudson: Iran, Oil, and Global Depression www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6b4...
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Michael Hudson: Iran, Oil, and Global Depression
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Two of the world’s largest pine cones. A heavy Coulter pine (Pinus coulteri, left/taller) and a long sugar pine (Pinus lambertiana, right/shorter. IG: @bigtreehunters www.instagram.com/bigtreehunte...
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reality is going to put @theonion.com out of business.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“The intersection between pre-existing conditions and Long COVID highlights distinct challenges with respect to symptom management, healthcare navigation, and participation in social and work settings.” www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/cov...
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COVID may worsen existing health problems long-term, study suggests
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW ZEALAND: NZCTU welcomes Labour pledge to restore pay equity union.org.nz/nzctu-welcom...
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NZCTU welcomes Labour pledge to restore pay equity NZCTU
The New Zealand Council of Trade Unions Te Kauae Kaimahi welcomes Labour’s commitment to reverse the Government’s gutting of pay equity within its first 100 days in office, and to put care and support...
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This seems bad ... not just for farmers, but for all the people who eat food.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disgusting, desperate behaviour from Bradford here. Please share and support the incredible folks at the National Observer!
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Within a matter of a few years, in all the advanced societies, employers, international officials, high-ranking civil servants, media intellectuals and high-flying journalists have all started to voice a strange Newspeak." www.radicalphilosophy.com/commentary/n...
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Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant · NewLiberalSpeak: Notes on the new planetary vulgate (2001)
Commentary NewLiberalSpeak Notes on the new planetary vulgate Pierre bourdieu and loïc wacquant Within a matter of a few years, in all the advanced societies, employers, international officials, high-r...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yeah, I'm referring to the particularly heinous homecoming this year.
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This Ontario city had the 'worst' problems with homecoming parties, even filling a hospital ER | CBC News
Guelph Mayor Cam Guthrie says this year's off-campus homecoming parties impacted the entire community and were among the worst they've seen in terms of resources needed to respond to it. Other cities ...
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I teach bystander intervention for a living which means every day, I listen to people tell me they don't need to learn those skills because they would obviously do the right thing in the moment. ... and then I read about the frat at Cornell and the shitshow at GuelphU and I bang my head on the wall
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Is this the nerd Reich San Fran model being applied to Toronto elections?
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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 28/09/2026
Despite not backing any candidate, this tech CEO-linked policy shop spent far more on Facebook and Instagram ads about Toronto’s municipal elections than every candidate, third-party advertiser and the city itself, combined. zurl.co/69u5R
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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Tragedy of the Seas (1841) — a colourful compendium of thirty-seven nautical catastrophes that took place in bodies of water around the world between 1803 and 1840: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t…
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Basic income lets people take risks leading to better careers and futures.
Amanda Lang says UBI pilots do not reduce willingness to work and often help people get better jobs.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/09/2026
People like to talk to me about mastodon and I have to tell this story every time, which actually kind of sucks: I am not on mastodon because of the number of times I was called the N word during my first two weeks on it. The worst social media experience of my life.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I've never liked ICE. Even back when they used to call themselves the Klan.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The Youth Want a Future: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2026) thetricontinental.org/newsletteris...
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The Youth Want a Future: The Thirty-Ninth Newsletter (2026)
Behind widespread youth uprisings lies a stark contradiction: an economic system that protects capital while stripping young people of dignified work, community, and the confidence that tomorrow can b...
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mark Carney copies Pierre Poilievre’s playbook with a rightward turn for Canada’s Liberals: ricochet.media/politics/mar...
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Mark Carney copies Pierre Poilievre's playbook with a rightward turn for Canada’s Liberals
As most Canadians struggle, the Liberal frontrunner demonizes the ‘far-left’ and plans to cut taxes for the most wealthy
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is no two state solution. There is only a one state solution, Palestine. The Zionists can go back to Europe, or to jail for War Crimes. All the Jews who love to live in peace, like Ultra Orthodox Jews, many of who hate Israel, will be happier living in Palestine.
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Stereogum @stereogum.com · 20/09/2026
Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist for New Found Glory, is dead at 45 from brain cancer
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New Found Glory's Chad Gilbert Dead At 45
Chad Gilbert, founding guitarist for the punk band New Found Glory, has died. “On the morning of September 20th, Chad Everett Gilbert passed away peacefully in his sleep,” the band announced in a stat...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
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Professor Richard D. Wolff @profwolff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#WolffBites: Canada's Carney fights Trump to look good, but copies Trump in pro-corporate, anti-labor agenda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBJH...
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Carney’s investment summit: “A right-wing corporate agenda wrapped in a maple leaf flag”
YouTube video by The Breach
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CODEPINK @codepink.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wanted war criminal Netanyahu is coming to New York. Join us on Thursday September 24 to march to the gates of the UN to him and the genocidal Zionist project. ⏰ 4pm 📍Bryant Park www.codepink.org/nyc924
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract: theijf.org/brief/canadi...
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Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract
Records from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the government made over a dozen amendments to a contract with Palantir Canada to provide services to an elite unit of the military
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract: theijf.org/brief/canadi...
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Canadian government spent tens of millions on secret Palantir contract
Records from the IJF’s Open By Default database reveal the government made over a dozen amendments to a contract with Palantir Canada to provide services to an elite unit of the military
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Why the refusal to acknowledge pre-2018 underfunding? Why the lack of critical thought and more context? Why the effort to move the Overton window further right? The left is supposed to educate people about political economy, not dumb them down. #OntEd www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Doing more with less: 10 facts about school funding in Ontario | CCPA
The numbers show that schools and educators in Ontario are being asked to do more with less, and students are paying the price
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"The inquest jury found Mr Osborne was segregated unlawfully for the last nine days of his life". The coercive power of the state should never be privatised www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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‘Caged like an animal, it could only end one way’: Prison segregation deaths soar
Exclusive: Matthew Osborne, 39, received just three minutes of human contact in three days and was driven to take his own life after 54 days in isolation, his family says
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/09/2026
Israel's Channel 12 and Maariv newspaper claim the military is facing 'severe shortages' aje.news/tjjzts
Israel's Channel 12 and Maariv newspaper claim the military is facing 'severe shortages'
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Maximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Baltimore! So many incredible events happening this weekend at Baltimore Book Festival / @redemmas.org. Come down for all of it! And don't miss my Sunday (2pm) discussion with @gilduran.com on his new book THE NERD REICH: SILICON VALLEY FASCISM AND THE WAR ON DEMOCRACY. redemmas.org/events/gil-d...
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Gil Durán presents "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy" in conversation w/Maximillian Alvarez
A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the international stage, exploring the wild and dystopian ambi...
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billboard @billboard.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel Will Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Gaza Aid
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Ms. Rachel Will Match Macklemore’s $1 Million Donation to Gaza Aid
Ms. Rachel says she will match Macklemore’s $1 million donation to Palestinian aid organizations and urges other celebrities to do the same.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As gas prices in Michigan hit $5/gallon and diesel hits a record $6.59, it shouldn't be this hard to buy gas, groceries, or afford healthcare. Our economy has been rigged against the very people who make it work. I'm running for Senate to change that.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/09/2026
🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna say they have now secured commitments for all 218 signatures needed to force a House vote on Epstein Files Transparency Act II.
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Massie, Khanna Say They Have Secured 218 Signatures for New Epstein Files Vote
The announcement comes hours after MeidasTouch reported the discharge petition was just two signatures short of the threshold needed to force a House vote.
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UBI Works @ubiworks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed on
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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · 18/09/2026
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. @edgeofsports.bsky.social tells @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social why the right people fear what Zinn has to teach us.
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MAGA wants to ban his books. Who was Howard Zinn?
Long after his death in 2010, the books and speeches of Howard Zinn are frequently targeted by right-wing critics, MAGA book-bans, and even President Trump. Dave Zirin tells us why the right people fe...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 18/09/2026
If you get why it’s bad when people feel *pressured* to attend sex parties and engage in other sexual behavior to advance professionally, then you understand the core problem with the rationalist AI Silicon Valley culture.
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
From over on X, some more context around the CNC parties in the Silicon Valley/Rationalist/AGI set:
"To the journalists contacting me about the AGI consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties—

During my twenties in Silicon Valley, I ran among elite tech/AI circles through the community house scene. I have seen some troubling things around social circles of early OpenAI employees, their friends, and adjacent entrepreneurs, which I have not previously spoken about publicly.

It is not my place to speak as to why Jan Leike and the superalignment team resigned. I have no idea why and cannot make any claims. However, I do believe my cultural observations of the SF AI scene are more broadly relevant to the AI industry.

I don't think events like the consensual non-consensual (cnc) sex parties and heavy LSD use of some elite AI researchers have been good for women. They create a climate that can be very bad for female AI researchers, with broader implications relevant to X-risk and AGI safety. I believe they are somewhat emblematic of broader problems: a coercive climate that normalizes recklessness and crossing boundaries, which we are seeing playing out more broadly in the industry today. Move fast and break things, applied to people.

There is nothing wrong imo with sex parties and heavy LSD use in theory, but combined with the shadow of 100B+ interest groups, leads to some of the most coercive and fucked up social dynamics that I have ever seen. The climate was like a fratty LSD version of 2008 Wall Street bankers, which bodes ill for AI safety.

Women are like canaries in the coal mine. They are often the first to realize that something has gone horribly wrong, and to smell the cultural carbon monoxide in the air. For many women, Silicon Valley can be like Westworld, where violence is pay-to-pay.""I have seen people repeatedly get shut down for pointing out these problems. Once, when trying to point out these problems, I had three OpenAI and Anthropic researchers debate whether I was mentally ill on a Google document. I have no history of mental illness; and this incident stuck with me as an example of blindspots/groupthink.

I am not writing this on the behalf of any interest group. Historically, much of OpenAI-adjacent shenanigans has been blamed on groups with weaker PR teams, like Effective Altruism and rationalists. I actually feel bad for the latter two groups for taking so many undeserved hits. There are good and bad apples in every faction. There are so many brilliant, kind, amazing people at OpenAI, and there are so many brilliant, kind, and amazing people in Anthropic/EA/Google/[insert whatever group]. I’m agnostic. My one loyalty is to the respect and dignity of human life.

I'm not under an NDA. I never worked for OpenAI. I just observed the surrounding AI culture through the community house scene in SF, as a fly-on-the-wall, hearing insider information and backroom deals, befriending dozens of women and allies and well-meaning parties, and watching many them get burned. It’s likely these problems are not really on OpenAI but symptomatic of a much deeper rot in the Valley. I wish I could say more, but probably shouldn’t.

I will not pretend that my time among these circles didn’t do damage. I wish that 55% of my brain was not devoted to strategizing about the survival of me and of my friends. I would like to devote my brain completely and totally to AI research— finding the first principles of visual circuits, and collecting maximally activating images of CLIP SAEs to send to my collaborators for publication."
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not a soul on the mayoral election campaign tail is breathing a word of this. No member of the establishment. No board of trade serious person. Fantasyland.
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Explosive corruption allegations within the Toronto Police Service detailed in newly unsealed court records
A thwarted assassination attempt of a jail official helped break open one of the biggest police corruption scandals in the city’s history.
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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've received a few responses & seen others along the lines of the cops can't be beat, they will attack (they will & have) & Chow wise not to engage. But this is the job. It's a dereliction of leadership not to tackle this. Same with Ontario Liberal leadership candidates silent on it. Dereliction.
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Canada is a country built on slavery howalbertaworks.substack.com/p/canada-is-...
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Canada is a country built on slavery
Unfun fact: Slavery is foundational to Canada’s existence
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andrew @teachrprecarity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research theconversation.com/more-than-2-...
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More than 2 million Indigenous people lived in Australia in 1788: new research
Genetic, archaeological and environmental evidence suggest the Indigenous population fell by more than 90% in the 70 years after the British invaded.
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