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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · 3d

Carney's Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Carney’s Caught in a Bad Gangster Movie | The Tyee

Wish the PM could win a faster deal with Trump? Don’t forget how mob bosses work.

thetyee.ca

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · 7d

“We are witnessing widespread decline in the health of our planet. But this is not an inevitable outcome. The drop in aerosol pollution and healing of the ozone layer, shows that it is possible to turn the direction of global development. “

Humans Just Pushed Earth across Another 'Planetary Boundary'

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

www.scientificamerican.com

Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · 9d

“there's not necessarily anything specific about the target of gaslighting that makes them particularly vulnerable to it. In essence, it could happen to anyone, so long as they're trusting the wrong person” www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

How gaslighting tricks the brain into questioning reality

Gaslighting, often seen as a form of manipulation, has now been reframed by researchers at McGill University and the University of Toronto as a learning process rooted in how our brains handle predict...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · 12d

X is a hotbed for antisemitism.

New CCDH research used AI-powered tools to analyze over 679K posts containing antisemitism.

The results were shocking.

Check out our new report with @thejcpa.bsky.social to learn more ⤵️

A Home for Hate — Center for Countering Digital Hate | CCDH

CCDH’s new AI-powered research shows that antisemitism is thriving on Musk’s X - despite violating the platform’s hate speech policies.

counterhate.com

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · 20d

“Each year of foot-dragging and each step backwards only multiplies the cost in climate impacts and the effort required later. The atmosphere isn’t waiting for us to get our politics in order.”

Canada's climate delusions are dashed

mailchi.mp

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · 21d

Maybe. But La Niña have happened numerous times over the past 40 years without breaking the pattern suggesting something else may be happening.

Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Aug 14

A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists.

interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factchec...

Factcheck: Trump’s climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading claims

interactive.carbonbrief.org

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Center for Countering Digital Hate @counterhate.com · Jun 18

🚨NEW: We found that YouTube continues to enable & profit from videos featuring Andrew Tate’s extreme misogyny, despite having banned his YouTube account.

We analyzed 100 of the most-viewed videos on YouTube featuring Tate’s misogyny.

Here’s what we found 🧵 www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

YouTube ‘still profits from Andrew Tate misogyny’ after ban

The influencer’s videos have amassed nearly 54 million views and adverts from big brands appearing with his content

www.thetimes.com

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 7

🚨 Carbon dioxide (CO₂) levels set a new monthly *record high* in May 2025 - 430.51 ppm (seasonal maximum)

This is the second largest May-May increase in this dataset (3.6 ppm higher than 2024). This is not good... 🫣

Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/

Red line graph time series of monthly carbon dioxide abundance from January 1959 through May 2025. There is a seasonal cycle and long-term increasing trend. Current levels of CO2 are at 431 ppm. This is the Keeling Curve graph. A line for CO2 10 years ago is also annotated.

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Jun 8

I would like be in the Pacific Northwest. I would not like to be in the Sahel region of West Africa.

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Jun 2

Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the mid-2030s. Now, we’re on the doorstep. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/02/o...

Burning through the guardrails

Only seven years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projected the world wouldn’t heat beyond 1.5 C until the 2040s. Two years ago, the IPCC authors shifted the projection to the...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · May 25

phys.org/news/2025-05...

Sea level rise expected to accelerate even if warming is limited to 1.5C: Study

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy the odds and cap global warming at the ambitious 1.5 degrees Celsius target...

phys.org

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · May 24

“The Bengal Delta is on the frontline of climate change, but it is not alone. The patterns observed here are emerging in many of the world's great coastal regions. What happens next depends on how quickly we respond.” www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

When the sea moves inland: A global climate wake-up call from Bangladesh's Delta

As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and soils adversely affects 500 million people around the ...

www.sciencedaily.com

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · May 15

Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta's Oil Industry via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Busting the Myth That Ottawa Has Hurt Alberta’s Oil Industry | The Tyee

In fact, federal governments have promoted and protected it. Especially the oilsands.

thetyee.ca

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Neil deGrasse Tyson @neildegrassetyson.com · May 5

In space, Venus flanks Earth on the left, with a hellfire greenhouse effect. Mars on the right, which long ago had running water. Today, it's bone dry. Something bad happened on each planet.

Seems like the wrong time to limit the Nation’s capacity to conduct climate research.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · Apr 30

While billed as technical updates to restore faith in elections in Alberta, sweeping changes made by the UCP Tuesday do precisely the opposite. @jaredwesley.ca writes. #abpoli

Smith’s Anti-Democratic Electoral ‘Reforms’ Are Straight from Trump’s Playbook | The Tyee

It’s no accident the changes were announced as attention was focused on the federal election.

thetyee.ca

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🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · Apr 29

Small actions, when multiplied, create powerful change. Let’s stand together and support what’s ours.
We are Canadian. We are strong. And we will rise. 🍁
#buycanadian
#supportcanadianbusiness
#shoplocal
#supportcanadianeconomy
#madeincanada
#canadaunited

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Apr 29

Sure, why not? It is already the most unqualified, idiotic president in the history of the world you might as well make it a double. Better yet, make him both at the same time. Just double down on the stupid. Sorry, but this is really ridiculous guys.

Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Apr 29

They elect only the best people. 😒🙄

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Mark Carney Supporter @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social · Apr 29

Thank you Joe Biden!

I congratulate Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their success in Canada’s election. I’m confident Mark will be a strong leader for the fundamental values and interests Canadians and Americans share.

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Serena @bibliophile99.bsky.social · Apr 29

#cdnpoli

Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · Apr 29

Joe Biden has congratulated Mark Carney. #cdnpoli #elbowsup

Joe Biden / @JoeBiden: “I congratulate Prime Minister Mark Carney and the Liberal Party on their success in Canada's election. I'm confident Mark will be a strong leader for the fundamental values and interests Canadians and Americans share.”

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Coastal Clif 🇨🇦🍁 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 @coastalclif.bsky.social · Apr 29

He could step down and save us all the embarrassment of his toddler like antics at anytime and live quite well on the very generous lifetime pension we the people will pay him. But we all know he is short the character required to do that.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · Apr 29

Alberta shocks nation with same election results they've turned out since 1958 #CanadaVotes #cdnpoli

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Maca Iglesias🇺🇸Thank You, President Biden🇺🇸 @rotterdamvvg.bsky.social · Apr 29

Congratulations to our Canadian brothers and sisters on Mark Carney’s win as your next Prime Minister.

Liberals were headed for a landslide win after Trump’s threats to annex Canada as a 51st state.

Let's do this here in 2026, America, and retake the House and Senate!

Well done, Canada!
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Mark Carney’s Liberals win election upended by Trump, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation projects

Canadians are voting whether to pick new Prime Minister Mark Carney or populist opposition leader Pierre Poilievre.

apnews.com

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Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social · Apr 29

Whatever happens in Carleton, Bruce Fanjoy showed us what to do to break through a Con riding. I hope he wins but even if he doesn't, future candidates need to study his strategy for being so successful. He had a really tough job against a candidate with a much larger budget and constant visibility.

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