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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦

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Watch Dogs Keep Score History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.

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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That's a rhetorical question, right? You DO know the answer...? (Jesus Christ they genuinely don't know. Hint: It's not Trump. It's what — even now — enables Trump) Next November NOT being a clean sweep by science-abiding, community-minded, anti-corruption politicians is how.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The double standard is because of how low the bar is set: We expect such misdeeds and hypocrisy from the populist right. "Of course the wolves will eat sheep." So then why do you keep voting them in? I'll give you a hint: #META #X #Twitter #FoxNews #CorporateMedia #Disinformation
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The double standard is because of how low the bar is set: We expect such misdeeds and hypocrisy from the populist right. That needs to change. Urgently.
independent.co.uk
GOP held 30 hearings on Benghazi. They haven’t held any specifically on Iran war
More than 200 days into the conflict, congressional Republicans have yet to hold single standalone public hearing
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Humanity's current approach to the climate crisis:
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
It's US economic and military hegemony that has allowed this brain-dead clown to ransack humanity's future. To the surprise of no one, Trump managed to overplay a perfect hand. The man who bankrupted a casino is actually pulling it off: He's going to bankrupt the United States of America.
politico.com
Trump threatens to impose ‘serious tariffs’ on Europe if Canada joins EU as associate member
The president's threat comes as Canada seeks closer ties with Europe amid its deteriorating relationship with Washington.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"Tax burden in the province is Canada's highest — until you factor in the returns"
cbc.ca
ANALYSIS | Is Quebec actually the most taxed jurisdiction in North America? | CBC News
With the rising cost of living front and centre in the Quebec election campaign, a familiar refrain has emerged: Quebec is the most taxed jurisdiction in North America. But is the claim actually true?...
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth.
https://yougov.com/en-us/articles/55478-record-high-38-percent-republicans-canada-unfriendly-enemy-of-the-united-states-august-28-31-2026-economist-yougov-poll
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UN Environment Programme @unep.org · 02/09/2026
Global warming is set to cross 1.5°C, pushing climate risks and impacts to increasingly dangerous heights, a new UNEP report warns.   Predicted impacts include extreme weather and threats to human health and economies.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
“Avoid people with gold teeth who want to play cards.” — George Carlin #AI #LLMs #Bubble #Climate #Oligarchy #Grift
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This parallels my thinking about AI and climate change. In the near term, AI will make climate change worse. In the medium term, AI could make climate change a lot worse. In the long term, AI might help address climate change -- but it will be too late to matter. mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t...
mitsloan.mit.edu
Can AI’s climate benefits outweigh its costs? | MIT Sloan
The rising energy demands of AI and data centers threaten corporate net zero commitments and worsen climate change. But can AI also help develop climate solutions? MIT Sloan researchers investigate.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Saying "I told you so" was never going to be satisfying. The warning signs weren't subtle, they were buried. Disputed by Big Oil, mocked by conservatives. Who's laughing now? Big Oil. Still obstructing, still corrupting, still profiting from our imminent demise. #Climate #Clarkson #Carney
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
That any—unaccountable—private citizen should have this much power over the outcome of an illegal war of aggression is as dystopian as it gets. The fact that it's THIS drug-addled psycho only makes it worse. We either tax & trust-bust the oligarchs into extinction or civilization is cooked.
united24media.com
Elon Musk Refuses Ukrainian Request to Enable Starlink for Deep Strikes Inside Russia
Elon Musk denied Ukraine Starlink access for strikes deep inside Russia. Kyiv sought to expand its strike zone to 500 km amid Patriot shortages.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France… They say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken seriously.” Lack of leadership, and far too much disinformation. #ClimateCrisis
lemonde.fr
Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Jean Jouzel and Christophe Cassou say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken more seriously.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
"Most states have a reckless endangerment offense. These laws criminalize reckless conduct that creates a substantial risk of injuring another person. Recklessness means knowing something is dangerous–eg predicting your pollution would cause “more violent weather”–& engaging in that conduct anyway."
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Don't look away Look FOR a way They exist And they need you To insist #Climate
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Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Mark, you’re announcing oil and gas pipelines like you want the parks to burn down. Pick à lane. You’re in the burn the planet lane at the moment.
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 27/07/2026
PIN Number ATM Machine UPC Code LCD Display We regret to inform you that this phenomenon has a name: RAS Syndrome. Redundant Acronym Syndrome…Syndrome.
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The Old Hack @the-old-hack.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A rational, credible audience wouldn’t have been “awkwardly silent.” A rational, credible audience would have booed, and walked out. Staying silent as Trump attacks female reporters has been one of the biggest failures of a consistently failing American media.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#ButTheEconomy they said. Can't act on climate now, they said. Have to be realistic, they said. The people dreaming in colour weren't the climate activists, but the industrialists who convinced the world that this wouldn't happen. Now it's happening. #Carney #Carbon #Pipelines #CdnPoli
financialpost.com
Posthaste: Brace yourself, we're about to be hit by what could be the mother of all supply shocks
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mister Carney? You seeing this? Investing in a dying (and ecocidal) industry is not just immoral, hypocritical and vile: It is short-sighted, economic suicide. Wake up, Canada: Alberta suffers from Dutch disease and is taking us all down with it. #Pipeline #LNG #Canpoli #climate #oil #ev
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
MAGA: Proof that the education system has a leftist bias. What it has is an objective reality bias—facts don’t change. Climate science, gender studies, epidemiology are not opinion; they are humanity’s search for understanding. The GOP knows: People who don’t know better are the easiest to fool.
academic.oup.com
Americans’ ideological differences have decreased by race, increased by education
Abstract. Racial differences in partisan vote have been studied extensively, with recent work documenting shifts in longstanding differences. Recently, att
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I give you: The alternative to urban densification. To the reviled 15-minute city. Ladies and gentlemen, behold: The American Dream. @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social #Sprawl
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Say Trump is Iosef; The office of POTUS, Viggo; Say anyone who protests, contests, resists is Aurelio… Who might John Wick be? Not one person—not you, not me. No, Baba Yaga is the growing threat of a popular uprising. This entire scene reads like a lesson in revolutionary history:
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
There's a 6th grade bully going around school punching kindergarteners, teachers, the principal, and everyone just takes it, because the bully's dad is a mobster who owns the school district. Trump isn't the mobster—he's the bitch-ass bully. SCOTUS, Congress & the office of POTUS are the dad.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
America's 250th birthday spent talking to a foreign tyrant who has spent his entire career undermining US hegemony. All while America watches and gossips, complacently. How can anyone think this will end well without a general strike? (NO ONE shows up to work until the saboteurs are removed)
cnn.com
Putin and Trump held ‘businesslike’ 90-minute July 4 call, Moscow says | CNN
Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with Donald Trump in a July 4 call lasting nearly 90 minutes in which the US leader again offered to help end the Ukraine war, according to Russia’s foreign mini...
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Nothing to see here everyone. Move along. #Propaganda
theverge.com
White House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams US
It follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Everything you need to know about the American owned media in Canada. The senior editor of the National Post whining that we aren't American.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
"Wait for it…" But sir, we’re driving into a wall "Waaaaait…" 🤨 "Not yet…" ☹️ "Almost there" 😠 WE KNOW! The wall is UPON US! "Be patient! The econom—" 💥🔥☠️🔥 #Carney #CdnPoli #Pipeline #Climate Not only is this environmental madness—the EU & China are transitioning. Canada WILL be left behind.
thebeaverton.com
Mark Carney promises to take climate change seriously once every other problem on Earth is solved
"Things are tough right now. And as the saying goes, ‘when the going gets tough, quit doing the hard stuff and just cling to what kind of worked in the past.'"
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Keep silently watching. Keep making excuses as to why you can't organize a general strike. Keep believing there even will be midterm elections, let alone fair ones.
ms.now
Acting DNI Bill Pulte begins firing dozens of intelligence officials
The latest move comes two weeks after Pulte’s arrival at the agency, under orders from President Donald Trump to downsize.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is not normal. This should not be treated as gossip. America, WTF are you doing right now?
independent.co.uk
DOJ refuses to hand over Epstein files after judge’s order
DOJ declines to turn over redacted information after judge’s order to release documents or explain why they’re being withheld
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Brexit, MAGA, climate inaction all have this in common: Misinformation masquerading as "fair and balanced" news; Behavioral manipulation as "engagement-promoting" algorithms. Confronting reality starts and ends with what information we are fed. We either end media malpractice or we die. #ElbowsUp
YouGov conducted two online surveys, between June 23—25 of 1,110 people and June 24—27 of 1,118 people. The sample was weighted to be representative of American adults by key demographics. The margin of error for the overall sample is approximately +/-4 percentage points.

President Donald Trump topped the list of the worst Americans in history according to the poll, with a total of 34 percent of respondents selecting him. This included 64 percent of Democrats, 34 percent of independents and 4 percent of Republicans.

The list included convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, as well as former Democratic presidents Obama and Joe Biden.

THE PROBLEM ISN'T TRUMP
It's misinformation masquerading as "fair & balanced" news; behavioral manipulation packaged as "engagement-promoting" algorithms. That is what's behind this collective psychosis. 

Getting a grip on reality starts and ends with what information we are fed.
We either end media malpractice or democracy dies. It really is that simple.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“I’ve seen a lot of people complaining that they changed their workflow to maximize AI usage, and now they can run out in 2-3 days, especially when using agents or similar or using the latest Claude model. Lots of angsty messages in Slack like ‘now how do I do my job,’” The other shoe drops.
404media.co
Companies Are Throttling Employees’ AI Use Because It’s Too Expensive
Sources and leaks from Amazon, Adobe, Atlassian, Citi, and more show what is really happening with AI right now: companies are trying to rein in AI use as costs spiral out of control.
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Hugo @nonviolence.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Remember: Always demand "more EVs". Don't demand an end of cars in cities. This paper shows how this never works and why this is a fatal "illusion". www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I call it "delusion" because we want to believe in it. We aren't just stupid per se - we want to be blind.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Land of the free, they (still) call it. People really think this is all just temporary. A blip. In the back of their minds, they're already primed to flaunt American democracy, as soon as they win the midterms. As if their passivity wasn't costing humanity its last hope for a survivable future.
cnn.com
Former Olympic canoeist indicted by a grand jury after arrest at the Reflecting Pool | CNN Politics
David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist, has been indicted by a grand jury in Washington, DC, Superior Court, after being arrested last month when he reached into the Reflecting Pool.
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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#ETTD
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Do not normalize this. Do not act as if it does not matter or does not apply "because we know: he's corrupt". People are rotting in jail for less. So much less. And there are actual victims to this crime. He is not only illegally getting rich — he's doing it at the expense of others. SAY IT.
today.com
Trump Made 327 Stock Trades 1 Day Before Tariff Pause: Filings
President Donald Trump is back in Washington after his inaugural flight on board the controversial new Air Force One that was gifted by the government of Qatar. It comes as an NBC News review of the p...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The more important question is whether organisations deploying AI agents understand the risk well enough to build responsibly, rather than discovering, too late, that they have automated beyond their capacity to verify." They do not.
financialexpress.com
The ceiling problem
Large language models face a fundamental computational limit that causes undetected errors in complex tasks. Hybrid AI systems combining models with verification tools offer a practical solution.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"The industry response has been predictable. Scaling will fix it. Chains of agents checking one another’s work will fix it. Retrieval augmentation will fix it. These interventions are real and often useful. They move the ceiling upward. They do not remove it." Big A.I. is selling us a lie. #LLMs
financialexpress.com
The ceiling problem
Large language models face a fundamental computational limit that causes undetected errors in complex tasks. Hybrid AI systems combining models with verification tools offer a practical solution.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Make it make sense. "Hallucinations aren't a temporary engineering challenge, but a permanent mathematical reality." Big Tech keeps upscaling and forcing a fundamentally flawed technology down our throats. Not for progress: for profit. And because no one in charge is doing their homework, we get:
mashable.com
RAM prices are about to rise nearly 50 percent. And it gets worse.
AI continues to make everything more expensive.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The overturning of a pesticides ban, the condo bailouts, the privatizing of airports, the expanding carbon while China and Europe accelerate their energy transition (and while the world burns) are many a red flag. Happy Canada Day? The jury's still out. #CdnPoli #ElbowsUp
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 01/07/2026
"Climate Shift Index (CSI) levels of 5 — the highest possible — are forecast across the eastern U.S., meaning human-caused climate change made this extreme heat at least 5x more likely. This signals an exceptional climate-influenced event." 🔥 ➡️ Learn more: www.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Graphic showing the Climate Shift Index for July 2, 2026 using data from the 18z GFS model for minimum temperatures. The graphic shows the change in likelihood due to climate change. Many areas are seeing a maximum of temperatures being at least 5x more likely due to climate change. This tool is available at https://csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shift-index.
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Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The Mediterranean Sea #heatwave is so severe, I ran out of colors in my color table. Sea surface temps are peaking at 8C/ 15F above normal! Perhaps more impressive is how expansive the area of +10°F anomalies are (in white). Much of the water is 29-32C/ 84-90F… 1/
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
MAGA's doing US a favour by saying all the quiet parts out loud. Executive overreach Legislative corruption Judicial double-standards Oligarchic influence Media manipulation Moral hypocrisy They were always present, but Americans tolerated them while paying lip service to justice. Now they can't.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Buck v. Bell (1927) ruled that permitting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the intellectually disabled, did not violate the 14th Amendment. SCOTUS has never expressly overturned Buck v. Bell. In all things, MAGA is merely exposing what has always been America's moral hypocrisy.
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
People need to wise up on what LLMs can and can't do. And by people, I mean governments, schools, administrators and businesses. They're being scammed by a speculative pyramid scheme and we're all going to pay the price. A must-read:
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The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦 @thebullypulpit.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
AI's fundamental problem—reliability—can't be fixed with more servers or better guardrails. "…the longer a chat goes on, the more distant memory system prompts [guardrails] become." "…we’ve been misled about the nature of this technology." #Hallucinations #LLM #AI
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact
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