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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
There are a couple of posts making the rounds that purport to be lists of the US demands of Canada. They are unsourced, and I would encourage caution in sharing their contents. We don’t need to be circulating unsourced rage bait. Reality is no doubt bad enough.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
The Trump administration continues to use previously unimaginable rhetoric in relation to the neighbor and former closest ally of the US. It will take a generation to repair the relationship between the US and Canada, if repair is even possible—and the silence from Democratic leaders is noticeable.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I'll be more cautious. There are lots of reporters on the case and I am sure we will learn more details from media and Canadian/US governments in the coming days. This is good advice, thanks. bsky.app/profile/leah...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
PSA: I am sorry I tweeted this without verifying the source last night. I mistakenly assumed that it was sourced from the Saskatchewan premier’s official account. It is an unofficial summary circulating online that has first few items that were cited by PM Carney yesterday,rest are unconfirmed/false
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suslibrarian.bsky.social @suslibrarian.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Verification from linkable news source: globalnews.ca/news/1203145...
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U.S.-Canada trade talks have collapsed. Carney says these 3 issues torpedoed them | Globalnews.ca
Tariffs of 50 per cent on billions of dollars of Canadian goods are now in effect after talks between the United States and Canada collapsed on Friday night.
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fede @hymage.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
2/2 ...aren't supported by mainstream reporting, and one is actually the reverse of what's been reported. I'm leaving the original post/thread up rather than deleting it, for people who already saw it. Sorry 🙏🏼 for the confusion. bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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fede @hymage.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
1/2. Correction: after several pushback and an exchange with Albert I 🔒 the thread. The suspension of trade talks is real, and some of the demands listed are well-documented, but several others (including the infrastructure veto board and the auto tariff claim)... bsky.app/profile/70sb...
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fede @hymage.eurosky.social · 23/08/2026
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Sadder still was how long Carney was willing to bend until things became cartoonishly ridiculous and now is being praised as having stood up to Trump
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
McMahon has a reputation as being a competent manager who thrived under Trump, because she actually ran an organization and managed theatrical and combustible men. She has gutted the Dept of Education because Trump wants her to. She has no meaningful vision about the purpose of govt to help others.
Max Stier, of the Partnership for Public Service, has been struck by McMahon’s metamorphosis. “The Linda McMahon of 2017, at least as I personally heard her, would not have bought into the idea that the way you improve the situation is you destroy your own workforce,” he told me. “Any competent leader would see that as insane.” He credited the flip to Trump’s changing priorities. “In Trump One, they didn’t understand the processes of government,” he said. “In Trump Two, they have disdained and destroyed those processes.” McMahon is one of only a few who have thrived in both Administrations—likely because of her ability to execute on both visions.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Source: McMahon is one of Trump's most competent Cabinet officials, but she has run two federal agencies without articulating why she wants governmental power. Her motivation seems similar to why she led the WWE: to serve a dominant, charismatic and abusive man. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
McMahon co-chaired Trump’s transition team in 2024, and, late in the process, he called her and asked what Cabinet position she might want. “I said, ‘I think I would enjoy Commerce,’ ” she told me, during a conversation at the Department of Education headquarters. Trump wanted her to run Ed. “I said, ‘Mr. President, I don’t have any background in education.’ He said, ‘I’m not looking for an education expert.’ ” What he wanted was to kill the department. McMahon recounted, “He said, ‘The goal is that you’ll be successful when you fire yourself.’ ”

A former W.W.E. executive told me, “Her current role very much mirrors her former role—a big-personality man who believes only his opinion matters and doesn’t care about rules and wants to just steamroll, and has Linda as the implementer.” The open secret in the company was that McMahon’s in-ring marriage bore certain similarities to her real one: Vince was a serial philanderer, and has been accused of assault (which he denies). “I thought, Why is she doing this?” the executive said of McMahon’s involvement in the W.W.E. scenarios. “Isn’t this incredibly demeaning, to have this kernel of truth in your life blown up into a story in which you’re forced to participate?” McMahon likes to remind scolds that wrestling is a morality play. The cheat gets his comeuppance. Her character’s narrative culminated in 2001 at WrestleMania, the annual pay-per-view show. Vince was fighting Shane. He hauled Linda’s catatonic body into the ring, like a sort of Chekhov’s wife, to watch him pummel their child. Just as Vince was about to smash a trash can over Shane’s head, McMahon suddenly came to. The crowd went wild. She stepped forward and kicked her husband in the testicles.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An employe at McMahon's company, WWE was accused of systematically sexually assaulting vulnerable boys who worked at the company. McMahon persuaded them not to sue, and told one she would support his education. When his grades dropped, she stopped paying tuition support. He later killed himself.
In 1992, Cole, then twenty-one years old, and another ring boy told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Phillips had molested them. They said that he groped their feet for hours at a time. (Phillips would lock the kids into wrestling holds.) Sometimes he rubbed their feet on his penis. (Later, other ring boys alleged that Phillips had forced them into oral sex, ejaculated on them, and attempted to have penetrative sex with them; the McMahons have denied knowledge of the actions.) Cole later accused a W.W.E. executive named Pat Patterson of groping his butt, and an executive named Terry Garvin of turning on pornography and asking to perform oral sex on Cole during a work conversation.

When the story broke, the three men left the company. According to one account, the McMahons let Patterson go personally, at the mansion, and both Vince and Linda cried. (Patterson was reinstated soon afterward.) Vince held a series of damage-control phone calls with Phil Mushnick, a sports writer with the New York Post. Mushnick later testified in a deposition that Vince told him, “We had known for some time that Mel had a peculiar and unnatural interest and attachment to children.” Vince said that they’d fired Phillips before, years earlier, but had subsequently rehired him “out of the goodness of our hearts.” He framed this as a joint decision: “We brought him back with the caveat that he steer clear of children.”Cole threatened to sue the company. At a meeting with the McMahons in New York to discuss a settlement, Cole’s attorney left the room several times, leaving him alone with the McMahons. Cole recollected that Linda seemed compassionate. “I thought having her present and a mother’s instincts were invaluable,” the company’s longtime lawyer, Jerry McDevitt, later said. Cole said she told him that she believed him, and that she wanted to help. He remembered her saying, “I consider you in a sense like a son. I want to look at it that way. I want you to come to me with your problems.” Cole opened up. At a later meeting at W.W.E. headquarters, according to Cole, the McMahons sought the names of other potential accusers with whom he, along with his brother Lee, was communicating. At the McMahons’ coaxing, he gave them access to his brother’s answering machine. (Vince denies this.) His lawyer had sought a monetary settlement, but Cole, who’d left the company, said that he just wanted his job back. The McMahons agreed, and also gave him fifty thousand dollars in back pay. Linda McMahon and Cole also made a separate agreement: he’d be paid as an employee but would return to school, as McMahon wanted. “I talked to this young man as I would my son, and told him how supportive of him we would be,” she later recounted. He signed a document that she’d prepared, agreeing that his employment was contingent on his academics.As the journalist David Bixenspan, who has reported on the ring-boy allegations, has detailed, Cole enrolled at a community college. McMahon corresponded with his professors. Cole found that he was still traumatized by the abuse and had a hard time concentrating. He asked McMahon if he could drop out and resume working for the company. She told him to stick with it. Cole stopped attending class. He failed. His transcript was sent to McMahon. “I was very disappointed in your performance,” she wrote to him. “At this point we believe that we have done everything we can. Therefore, this letter is to advise you of your termination with Titan Sports, effective immediately.” She concluded, “The opportunity of a lifetime is a terrible thing to waste.”
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
These are loathsome people. They keep blithely dancing along, leaving shattered lives, chaos, and devastation in their wake, and they are going to find out what happens when the general population's (admittedly vast) capacity for tolerance runs out.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026
i wrote this last year but there is literally no publicly available evidence that donald trump knows what a tariff actually is
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries also had a secret meeting with Natalie Harp. He told her that he and Schumer admire her ability to write strongly worded letters.
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Hakeem Jeffries is being criticized for meeting with Jared Kushner, but as a potential future Speaker of the House he has to show the kind of leadership that ensures everything stays the same and nothing gets better, so cut him some slack.
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Karma's Dad @karmasdad.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
300 people you never want to take a class from, have as a graduate advisor, or buy their book, just outed themselves
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
They're openly proclaiming their support for gutter racism. Call them the "Gutter Racism 300".
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
Wow. There are more names in support of Cofnas here! More than 300 academics defending the conduct of a gutter racist. johnarmstrongmaths.com/openletters/...
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As academics, we are concerned that Ghent University's disciplinary proceedings against Dr Cofnas appear to constitute retaliation, at least in part, for publicizing academic misconduct that occurred in British universities.
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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 22/08/2026
There’s a petition signed by more than one hundred academics (& counting!) in support of Nathan Cofnas—the racist who instigated the pile on that led to J. Arday’s death—because he lost his postdoc. Apparently there’s nothing a white man can do that deserves consequences.
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Discontinued FoOoOods! 👻🎃 @discontinuedfoods.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
As summer winds down, celebrate with a potato salad loaf
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/08/2026
there are now almost 600 signatories to the pro-cofnas letter. of the first 100 i examined, _two_ spoke out against campus crackdowns on pro-palestinian speech. 75 said nothing and 23 spoke out _in support of the crackdowns_!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I once went to Olive Garden soon after Covid subsided and they only had one alcoholic drink, I think it was a Bellini or something, and just the idea of having a drink and as much bread as I wanted was one of the great dining experiences of all time, ain’t nothing wrong with going to the Garden
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I get that there’s something genuinely rewarding about getting super into food and wine and noticing the subtle interplay of tastes and textures but there’s also something genuinely rewarding about getting fucked up at Olive Garden so there’s lots of beauty in the world if you are willing to look
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Hey Dems, please take a page from Ossoff‘s book and offhandedly mention more Trump aides in your speeches. Don’t know how much good it will do you, but it might get the mainstream media off their lazy asses and inspire them to stop being so indifferent to these monsters and start investigating them.
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'" www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...
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'I Saw a Shiny Thing': Cop Explains Why He Used License Plate Reader to Stalk Woman
Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: "We’ve told them over and over again: 'You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.'"
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Stuart Millard @franticplanet.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"That gets 'em all laffin'!" Now available for all, Telly On Wheels returns, with class clowns, gender divides, and brutal kitchen sink dilemmas, to the days when schools programmes sought to raise discussion on 'issues' www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OZK...
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Telly on Wheels II: Schools Programmes Do 'Issues'
YouTube video by Stuart Millard
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Somebody already tried to snitch tag Applebaum into here accusing me of attacking her, and that’s a one way ticket to block town. If “I liked your book but think you need to focus more on one thing” is an unacceptable attack, we’re fucked.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I mostly liked Twilight of Democracy, but there were a few moments where I was struck by Applebaum being like “hey isn’t it weird that when I look back at my dinner party attendees from two decades ago, half are fascists now?”
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is what people like David French tell themselves to avoid confronting why their own preferred ideology (to this day) cultivated such a fertile base for Trump.
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
trade war with Canada is the worst because obviously Canadians are mad about it and obviously they're mad at Americans about it and they're totally right on both those things and also I am an American
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Trump’s whole thing is about causing institutions some pain and dangling a way for them to compromise themselves to stop the pain. But though it stops the immediate pain, it legitimizes the strategy, makes him able to use it more, and increases the asks the next time.
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I don’t think we need to/should rely on Canada to bail us out of our domestic political problems, but our country’s behavior is a domestic problem for Canada too, and at some point standing up to Trump and telling him to fuck himself rather than dealing is what needs to be done.
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CoverDrive @coverdrive12.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
If you want to understand the US-Canada trade deal, this is worth 15 min of your time.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
yep, i will note that the fugitive slave act was used to try to kidnap free blacks and sell them into slavery
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Carolyn Gallaher @cgallaher.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Being edited is sometimes painful, but always worth it. An editor really can save you from yourself.
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Seattle Times Dipshit Quits Because His Editors Were Smart Enough To Spike His Stupid Columns | Defector
People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post and be able to discern exactly how much influence an editor did or did not...
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026
genuinely don't understand the game here, she could one hundred percent have recovered her career and instead she's going to either look like a wrecker if talarico loses or sideline herself if he wins
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026
being the sorest primary loser in the country in this of all years, when folks like haley stevens have gotten right on board with the nominee in their states, is A Choice
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
missouri republicans have a level of contempt for the people of that state that is truly remarkable. but then, why wouldn’t they after successfully insulating themselves from any political accountability?
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404 Media @404media.co · 22/08/2026
A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of your night. www.404media.co/meta-patents...
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Meta Patents AI Glasses to Use Facial Recognition to Identify People, Make Highlight Reels of Your Dinner Party
A new Meta patent published Thursday says a system, like its AI glasses, would use facial recognition to identify people, create a series of video clips, then provide you with a highlight reel of…
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026
“why not me instead” it doesn’t matter why not, the important thing is to be able to look your friend in the face and sincerely congratulate them for their success not only is it good for your relationships it will make you happier about your own successes because you won’t feel they’re inadequate
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Micah @rincewind.run · 22/08/2026
this attitude is, imo, one of the biggest keys to a happy life no matter who you are, there are going to be people in your life who are more successful than you at things you care deeply about, and sometimes that’s skill and sometimes it’s luck, but if you resent them for it you’ll be miserable
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Commander Sterling @commandersterling.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The Sinking City 2 delivered one hell of a sobering gut punch in an incredible way. I’ll describe it in replies. It’s not a story spoiler, but if you’re playing it, you may want to have the moment dawn on you…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In case you care about the technical details of how he repeatedly dodged the draft in Vietnam, Trump received four educational deferments and one medical deferment. I apologize for not accurately describing the way in which he weaseled out of serving and made five other men sacrifice in his place
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Dorie Miller was only allowed to work in a Navy mess due to segregation, but he leapt to work a gun when the attack happened. In sharp contrast, Donnie Trump got five medical deferments to keep from having to fight in Vietnam. The USS Bone Spurs doesn‘t really sing
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/08/2026
saw the odyssey, had some thoughts youtu.be/BLkZk9BN2Q4
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"The Odyssey" or what if Christopher Nolan did "The Dark Knight" in Ancient Greece?
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