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Canadian living in Chile, yeah baby!! 🇨🇦 🍁 🇨🇦 Cycling, yoga and human rights enthusiast, and also trilingual accordion player. Wish I could do more to unite people in kindness, fight fascism and save the planet. I love you so come and visit

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 1h
Louisiana farmer burns through $1,000 worth of diesel every day: The price of diesel has pretty much doubled from last year. It's a hard pill to swallow.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 1h
The Pentagon is notifying millions of current and former U.S. military servicemembers and staff that hackers stole their *unencrypted* personal information during a months-long data breach. The agency that had the breach also handles ID and login/credential access to U.S. military systems and bases.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
IMPORTANT: There are 15 states that require in-person registration 28–30 days before an election, meaning this maybe your last week to register. Check your registration at Vote.gov.
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Register to vote in your state | Vote.gov
Find the information you need to make registration and voting easy. Official voter registration website of the United States government.
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope can’t resist his pizza.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the Second Sons, white nationalist group in Kamloops, BC where they gathered near the former Kamloops Indian residential school at Tk’emlúps te Secwepemc Nation. This comes three days before Canada’s National Day of Truth & Reconciliation. #cdnpoli
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Homemade pipe organ by Japanese sound artist and creator, Kajii. IG: @kajii_japan www.instagram.com/kajii_japan?...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Did you know that a Farage Reform govt intends to scrap the NHS? The private health care system he wants to introduce would cost you £10,000s, like the US, where getting ill can bankrupt you. #ReformUK #Labour #GreenParty #Newcastle #SAFC� #NUFC
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Mercedes Lenz @yeguablancaa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I gotta say I like this Adam Rifkin guy
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
“Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.” @slack2thefuture.bsky.social
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Crockett: Let me ask each of the mayors… Have any of you been made aware of any immigrant that has had 34 felony convictions that has still been able to roam in your cities? I know that my Republican colleagues would never want anybody with 34 felony convictions roaming around
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
“I will now engage in the time-honored American tradition of peaceful civil disobedience… Remember — peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.” Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social @calltoactivism.bsky.social
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George Lakoff @george-lakoff.com · 01/01/2025
6. Remember: This is a regime. Trump is not acting alone. He is a puppet of powerful would-be oligarchs who want a government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires. Expose them. Please read the full list at FrameLab: www.theframelab.org/how-to-thriv...
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2025: Keep democracy alive. FrameLab New Year's resolutions
Advice for defeating the authoritarian threat
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
The Nerd Reich in 5 minutes:
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🔥 Elon Musk & Silicon Valley’s Plan to Dismantle Democracy | The Shocking Truth
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
In authoritarian states, “law” upholds lawlessness, and its first duty is to keep the leader safe from domestic or outside accountability processes. Judicial capture is the means, and the conversion of the law into what the leader and his enablers need it to be is the end.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
In summary: The broligarchs' agenda, supported by Trump, means an end to US democratic traditions & global econ/political leadership. Broligarchs want to create this power vacuum so they can step into it themselves, the better to rule the rest of us. For more, see @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
C. Broligarchy is a global political project (cont.). All the broligarchs are pushing Trump to create a strategic Bitcoin reserve, which would make them much richer & more powerful, but weaken the US dollar: the world's reserve currency. This would undermine, if not destroy, US econ & pol power.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
C. Broligarchy is a global political project (cont.). This is the significance of Musk sitting in on the President-elect’s calls with at least 3 heads of foreign states since last week--Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic & Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan--plus mtg w/Iran ystdy.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
B. Women out of the workforce and civic life (cont.). Broligarchs aren't for meritocracy, but for the opposite. That's what it means to eliminate 50% of competition for jobs & public office by demoting women to reproductive & domestic servitude. For more, see the work of @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
B. Women out of the workforce and civic life (cont.). Thiel funds a women's magazine (Evie) that does for birth control what RFKJr does for vaccines: sows conspiracy theories to persuade people to stop using them. Like Musk, he's obsessed with getting (mostly white) women to have more babies.
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We're Concerned: Billionaire Peter Thiel Backs Controversial Magazine's Cycle-Tracking App
Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
B. Women out of the workforce and civic life. No previous US oligarchy has tried to force the majority population back into the private sphere, w/out civil or human rights. But the broligarchs are going for it. Thiel has said votes for women was a mistake.Musk endorses rule by "high status males."
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A. Representation without taxation (cont.) Crypto is the financial engine of this effort to transcend the nation-state system & create new transnational empires, ruled by the broligarchs, in which we are (largely unaware) the colonized. For more on this, see the work of @molly.wiki
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A. Representation without taxation (cont.). Broligarchs fund efforts to create tax-free libertarian utopias where they rule without courts, police or even the window dressing of democracy. Thiel & Andreesen are major backers of such projects globally. For more, see the work of @gilduran.bsky.social
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
A. Representation without taxation. They expect--& are getting from Trump--authority to shape the US government & its policies, both foreign & domestic, without paying their fair share. Broligarchs routinely pay no tax, or effective tax rates of ~1-3%. americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/u...
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
4. What's new? Unlike the oligarchs of old, broligarchs aren't just looking for tax cuts and lighter regulations; they largely solved those problems. Broligarchs have a global political vision, and it’s set on a collision course with American democracy and American leadership on the world stage.
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
“I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.” Lily Tomlin #DoSomething bsky.app/profile/leah... bsky.app/profile/ezra... @indivisible.org
Lily Tomlin quote meme: “I said, ‘Somebody should do something about that.’ Then I realized I am somebody.” Be somebody now. Do something today.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
1 Do not obey in advance. 2 Defend institutions. … 15 Contribute to good causes. 16 Learn from peers in other countries. 17 Listen for dangerous words. 18 Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. 19 Be a patriot. 20 Be as courageous as you can. @timothysnyder.bsky.social #OnTyranny #DoNotObeyInAdvance
ON TYRANNY
TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
BY TIMOTHY SNYDER quote
1. Do not obey in advance
2. Defend institutions.
3. Beware the one party state
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world
5. Remember professional ethics.
6. Be wary of paramilitaries.
7. Be reflective if you must be armed.
8. Stand out.
9. Be kind to our language.
10. Believe in truth.
11 . Investigate.
12. Make eye contact and small talk.
13. Practice corporeal politics.
14. Establish a private life,
15. Contribute to good causes.
16. Learn from peers in other countries.
17. Listen for dangerous words.
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.
19. Be a patriot.
20. Be as courageous as you can.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
“Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation and disinformation enabling the abuse of power… Social media is giving up on fact-checking. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. We must hold the social platforms accountable.” President Biden farewell address
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/09/2026
Just want to say there’s more great textile art than the Bayeux Tapestry. The Textile Museum of Canada here in T.O. has some works by Utkuhiksalingmiut Inuk artist Jesse Oonark like this one.
A very large circular tapestry hanging about a young girl on a blue background with stylized heads of her family members embroidered in tones of red and beige . Here’s the provenance info: Jessie Oonark Untitled (Young Woman, Ulus, Birds and Figures) (c. 1973) Wool stroud, felt and embroidery floss 189 x 190.5 cm
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The folk protest music scene is back
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
“[Trump] is not simply political disagreement. It is the normalization of moral collapse… They are inhuman destroyers of the civic order, architects of decay, and they carry their cruelty the way arsonists carry matches: casually, eagerly, without conscience or remorse.” @notjustadrummer.bsky.social
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A Moral Collapse
What we are witnessing in our country is more than a political disagreement.
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Mercedes Lenz @yeguablancaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Canada has already joined #Eurovision. There's a job posting about it on Indeed #Canada 🇨🇦 and #Europe 🇪🇺 sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G
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Say The Thing Tee @saythethingtee.com · 26/09/2026
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The Washington Sun @washingtonsun.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ranchers from Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas are criticizing ICE raids that are shutting down or slowing critical meat-processing facilities. www.washingtonsun.com/policy/ranche…
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Ranchers Criticize ICE Raids for Disrupting Livestock Operations
“These types of disruptions will lead to higher beef prices for consumers,” groups from three states say.
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Mercedes Lenz @yeguablancaa.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
One of my favourite authors, if not my favourite
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
What did Trump’s lawyer Todd Blanche offer Ghislaine Maxwell in their private meetings? #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Lawrence: What did Trump's DOJ lawyer offer Ghislaine Maxwell to answer his questions today?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
RELEASE ALL THE EPSTEIN FILES
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/09/2026
We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar
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We all know a lack of exercise is bad for our bodies. So what is relying on AI doing to our brains? | Devi Sridhar
Most of my students use AI, and I worry about its corrosive effects. We must not entrust tech companies with our long-term health, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So, Banksy bought a used yacht, repaired it and retrofitted it to serve as a rescue boat to save migrants in the central Mediterranean. The whole project cost the artist $860,000. Since 2020, the boat has saved more than 3,800 people. londondaily.com/banksy-funds...
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Banksy funds refugee rescue boat operating in Mediterranean - London Daily
Exclusive: UK artist finances bright pink motor yacht that set sail in secrecy to avoid being intercepted by authorities
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M31🍁 @m31author.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Franco Ontarian Day!
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026
Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
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Better Pensions BC 🇨🇦🇺🇦 - now with 50% more anti-fascism! @betterpensionsbc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
As if interference by fascist Russia and MAGA minions in Alberta wasn’t enough (see above posts), now come serious allegations👇that the Trump regime is working to boost separatists in Quebec. Quelle surprise. For anyone still in doubt: the 🇺🇸 is an enemy of 🇨🇦 and other liberal democracies!
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Allegations of U.S. interference rock Quebec election campaign
Report says Ottawa warned about possibility of interference "aimed at favouring the election of a pro-sovereignty government."
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
“Why did Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell make Trump’s club one of the spots where they hunted for victims? Even the club knew what Epstein was doing. A Mar-a-Lago source in 2007 told the New York Post that Epstein ‘would use the spa to try to procure girls.’” @meidastouch.com #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
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Trump's Mar-a-Lago Spa Was Tailor-Made for Epstein
The Trump Spa sought "young, attractive" college students to wear mini-skirts and "skin-tight" tops
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The Crump Organization @thecrumporg.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
IT’S FUCKING ████████! #trump #epsteinfiles
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Hypothetically if someone was accused of having sex with goats by over 30 different people… but also… his name was in the classified Goat Fucker Chronicles 5000 times and he wished other goat fuckers well in prison, what do you think the odds are that person is also a goat fucker?” Ragnar Blackwolf
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