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Ham Roids 🎃 @anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Dude talking like he doesn't miss solid food at all
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yep
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/03/2025
Also important to note we’re also witnessing the long shadow of Reagan’s efforts to crush higher education to stop student movements from gaining power in the US. theintercept.com/2022/08/25/s...
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The Origin of Student Debt: Reagan Adviser Warned Free College Would Create a Dangerous "Educated Proletariat”
In 1970, Roger Freeman, who also worked for Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
“There is no reason why they’re being held,” U.S. District Leonie M. Brinkema said. Then, addressing a government lawyer: “If this was a criminal case … I’d throw you out of my chambers” Salvador Rizzo and @teoarmus.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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Judge releases detained Venezuelan couple with temporary protected status
The judge said the detention of the couple was baseless and unlawful.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 13/03/2025
Breaking News: Johns Hopkins University, a leader in scientific research, said it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.
nytimes.com
Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers
The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
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Mindfield @mindfield.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Canadian MP @charlieangus104.bsky.social posted a good piece on Canada's response to American aggression, and how we need to approach it with level-heads, not balaclava-clad ones.
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THE ART OF THE DEAL MEETS THE ART OF WAR
How Serious is the Trump Invasion Threat?
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
Indeed, a White House official told The Free Press that the basis for targeting Khalil is being used as a blueprint for investigations against other students.

Khalil is a "threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States," said the official, noting that this calculation was the driving force behind the arrest. "The allegation here is not that he was breaking the law," said the official.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/03/2025
NEW: The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching and deadly,” an advocate for Black veterans said. By @vernalcoleman.bsky.social
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The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”
The closure effectively hobbles the VA’s efforts to investigate and eliminate long-standing racial inequities that the department itself has acknowledged. “The consequences will be dire, wide-reaching...
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
JD Vance says Canada should spare him our "sob story" about being good allies. We sent so many young Canadians into Afghanistan to help the United States in THEIR war. A war THEY lost. We paid a huge price and will never forget the sacrifice. J. D. can go lie on his couch. Canada is #elbowsup
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump has ordered massive swathes of US national forests to be cut down. Hundreds of millions of acres of trees will be razed and endangered species will not be protected.
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Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
On today’s front page: @fenitn.bsky.social went to rural West Texas, epicenter of a worsening measles outbreak that has already claimed the life of an unvaccinated child. He found that some people are doubling down on their resistance to vaccines.
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Jada D @thordora.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Canada is no longer in 2023 or 2024; it is now 2025, and the world has become a radically more dangerous place. What happens to Ukraine will set the stage for what could happen to us. If ever there was an all-hands-on-deck moment for Canada, it is now."
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Fascism depends on lies, and it depends on people going along with those lies. Fascism wants us to believe that bigotry is common sense, that medicine makes you sick, and that surrendering to invasion and slaughter counts as "peace". Peace comes by destroying Fascism. Not by rolling over for it.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/03/2025
"The key insight is this: The tech sector operates as a winner-take-all economy. But our political economy is based on perpetual competition."
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Winner Take All
Why the tech bros want authoritarian government.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Not to mention: if you are appalled at how untouchable Vance and Trump must feel to behave in such an indefensible manner in public just because they're rich and powerful we all might consider reflecting a bit about what gave them that impression
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I guess it's good to know that there is a line for elite conduct somewhere but it is depressing how it's more commonly drawn in response to breaches of etiquette rather than, say, dropping of bombs or withdrawals of food aid
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
"Indulging the Tate brothers to own the libs is an act of pure nihilism. The Tate brothers are a uniquely malevolent force on the viral internet. Denouncing them should be the easiest test of moral seriousness imaginable." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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When You’re MAGA, They Let You Do It
Why Trumpworld is just fine with Andrew Tate’s violent misogyny.
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Scott Stossel @stossel.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"America’s alliances are now in danger, and should be: Trump is openly, and gleefully, betraying everything America has tried to defend since the defeat of the Axis 80 years ago." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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It Was an Ambush
Today marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
You are making a big difference in standing up to tyranny. Your decision to cancel the family trip to the United States is freaking them out. As Donald insults our nation, businesses are watching our tourism dollars dry up. Boycott all trips to the United States. www.thetravel.com/us-travel-as...
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U.S. Travel Association Warns of Economic Tourism Disaster After Thousands of Canadian Tourists Cancel Trips in Protest
While Proposed Tariffs Against Canada Are Now Paused, Canadian Travel Agencies Already Witnessing Retaliation in Form of Canceled Trips
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
At the NATO meeting a loud US republican saw my CDN flag pin on my lapel and reached for it saying, "Hey Canada." I stopped him. "Don't touch the Canadian flag." "Just joking," he said. "You'll die before you touch our flag," I said, "not joking." He scrambled out of there. #notfuckingaround
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grimm 🎃 @mugrimm.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Air travel in a post DEI world
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a blonde woman singing jesus take the wheel in a vevo video
ALT: a blonde woman singing jesus take the wheel in a vevo video
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Grant Tosterud @granttosterud.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Posted at the Piedra Lisa South Trailhead in Albuquerque.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 01/03/2025
The Trump administration is requesting data from all federal agencies about government resources devoted to union matters, potentially setting the stage for a showdown between the White House and federal unions.
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Judge blocks Trump’s orders to curb youth gender transition care
A federal judge in Washington state called the executive orders discriminatory and a breach of the separation of powers between Congress and the president.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Such a small and tawdry world. Alex Ovechkin who is Vladimir Putin's top cheerleader is trying to rally people for MAGA Wayne Gretzky. They should head off to Mar-a-Lago or Moscow to play shinny. Let's have Hayley Wickenheiser as the real TEAM Canada captain.
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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
For my latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the enormous economic and societal risks that come along with this week’s news that the richest 10% of Americans now do fully half of the country’s consumer spending. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Rich People Are Firing a Cash Cannon at the US Economy—But at What Cost?
Industries get recalibrated, economic signals get crossed and the social fabric begins to fray.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Ontario's election by the numbers: 45.4% of registered voters bothered to vote 42.9% of those voters voted for Doug Ford's team They won 80 of 124 seats. 📣19.5% of Ontario's eligible voters gave Doug Ford 65% of the voice of Ontario's people.📣 www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Doug Ford wins third majority after gambling on winter election
Doug Ford defied the odds in the Ontario election to become the first premier to win three consecutive majority governments since Leslie Frost in 1959.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
A big shout out to Derek from Ottawa Police. He was my "liaison" when OPS heard I was supporting the Ukraine protesters. When the convoy crew showed up to confront me Derek said "Oh these are local journalists. You won't need me here anymore." And he tiptoed away. Classic Ottawa police.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services is
"watching" the outbreak, which he described as
"not unusual" during a Wednesday meeting of President Donald Trump's cabinet members.
The health secretary did not provide specifics on how or if the federal agency is assisting on the ground.CDC chart of measles cases, showing a profound drop off after the vaccine was introduced in 1963 and an elimination declared in 2000.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Patriotic Divide: while 90% of Canadians may still believe that we're a sovereign country, the elites and their mouthpieces know better. That divide is why the "51st state" discussion is so weird. My latest.
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The positives and negatives of US annexation
Or, how Canada's elites sold out Canada's sovereignty over four decades of neoliberal economic policies.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 25/02/2025
A #publichealth professor looks at how the CDC protects Americans’ life and how it’s likely to be affected by the Trump administration’s actions, including laying off thousands of its staff. By Jordan Miller, Arizona State University #COVID19 #BirdFlu #Ebola 🧪 🩺 #EpiSky
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CDC layoffs strike deeply at its ability to respond to the current flu, norovirus and measles outbreaks and other public health emergencies
The CDC was instrumental in eradicating smallpox, identifying the causes of HIV and encouraging Americans to get the COVID-19 shot.
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Markwayne Carney ☭ @barrhavenist.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
“[O’Leary’s] idiocy is absolutely consistent with the direction of our current economic order. Horrified to hear it? The elites have been there for years” YUP
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...
axios.com
U.S. votes against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine invasion
The Trump administration has found itself increasingly isolated on the world stage.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I wrote back in 2022 that if Trump is reelected, democracy will not fail all at once, but in red-state pockets, one step at at a time. Like, say, this place in Idaho. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
“a little scrape on the knee or whatever" Moscrop just described what that was perfectly: "Ontario premier Doug Ford tends to, let’s say, riff. In those moments, he shows his true self: ignorant, small-minded, and hopeless, but ignorant above all." Every so often, you see the real Doug.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Check this out: meidastouch.bsky.social is the No. 1 media show in Canada. I have been honoured to be a regular on the show providing regular updates of the Canadian resistance.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 24/02/2025
See: www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/374364...
penguinrandomhouse.ca
In Search Of A New Left by James Laxer | Penguin Random House Canada
In recent years, the Canadian political scene has transformed into a neo-conservative playground where the truly leftist ideals once held dearly by Canadians are nowhere to be seen.
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Matthew Hay Brown @matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
BREAKING/EXCLUSIVE Trump has rescinded Biden regulation aimed at ensuring allies didn’t violate international law with U.S. weapons @megkelly31.bsky.social Missy Ryan and @alexhorton.bsky.social report www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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Trump repeals Biden directive linking U.S. arms to human rights
Rescission of the order, imposed by President Joe Biden as he struggled with the civilian toll caused by Israel’s war in Gaza, comes as Trump puts his mark on U.S. foreign policy.
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Craig Silverman @craigsilverman.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of...
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John Muller @mrjohnmuller.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
In addition to the economic boycott, there should be a worldwide cultural boycott of America under it's current fascist regime. If you're an artist or entertainer, please do not tour or perform in America.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.
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UPDATE on town hall chaos: Woman who was dragged out speaks, police chief condemns security, name of security firm confirmed
A legislative town hall organized by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee devolved into chaos Saturday when unidentified, plainclothes security personnel dragged a Post Falls woman from th...
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NightMairCreative 🇨🇦 @nightmaircreative.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This is HUGE!! #canadastrong
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
On this third anniversary of the horrific invasion of Ukraine my message to Donald Trump is simple: You are a Kremlin stooge. President Zelenskyy is a genuine hero of resistance. www.huffpost.com/entry/canadi...
huffpost.com
'Put A Sock In It': Canadian Lawmaker Tears Apart Trump Over His Zelenskyy Attacks
Charlie Angus, a member of Canada's Parliament, predicted that the world "will be forced" to treat America "the way we treat Putin" due to Trump.
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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳
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BWJones @bwjones.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.
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upandatthem @atholmountain.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 24/02/2025
Mayor Brandon Johnson’s new task force focused on digging into extremism among employees was met with fierce demands for fast, decisive action at a Sunday town hall after months of pressure from the city’s watchdog and progressives.
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City touts mission to target employee ties to hate groups; community demands police be the priority
Officials say goal is to recommend policies to deal with all city of Chicago workers linked to hate groups.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
JD Vance's intervention for AfD not looking all that brilliant right now
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.
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