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Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 5h

This gas terminal would be built in Korea and owned by American billionaires. Tell PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for Ksi Lisims LNG. #cdnpoli www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 6h

The Trump administration canceled a $7 billion program intended to help low- and moderate-income families install rooftop solar panels. The cuts are dealing a disproportionate blow to the Republican-led states that propelled him back to office.

Solar for All Program Cuts Hit G.O.P and Democrat Voters Alike

The Trump administration canceled a $7 billion program intended to help low- and moderate-income families install rooftop solar panels.

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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 12h

2.1 million lived in Gaza. The scale of civilian destruction can never be defended.
"Out of every 10 people, one has been killed or injured in an Israeli strike. Out of every 10 buildings that stood in Gaza prewar, eight are either damaged or flattened."
www.npr.org/2025/10/07/g...

These numbers show how 2 years of war have devastated Palestinian lives in Gaza

It's been two years since Hamas-led militants attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking 251 hostages. In response, Israeli leaders promised a punishing offensive. Here are some numbers sho...

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

United States Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff, flanked by Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner, get loudly booed in Tel Aviv, Israel as they praise Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Witkoff tries to praise Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, but has a hard time finishing his thought because of booing

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 11h

The farts of fascism!

Alicia Victoria Lozano @aliciavlozano.bsky.social · 2d

Someone showed up with a cart of inflatables. The protest is now a dance party outside the PDX ICE facility. Federal police have mostly stood back but did unleash a toxin into the air @nbcnews.com

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 10h

And of course no one asks what impact every half a million cars have on worsening peoples asthma.

Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 11h

Oh for fucks sake. AGAIN with asthma inhaler shaming. People NEED asthma inhalers to LIVE. You know what you DON'T need to live? A GODDAMN FUCKING CAR.

Asthma inhalers a significant contributor to pollution: research share.google/g1uG3KoMacOA...

Climate pollution from inhalers has the impact of half a million cars per year, study finds

The people who are most vulnerable to the hard-to-breathe air that comes with climate change may inadvertently be adding to the problem, new research finds.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly.

Portland is being savaged by rioting.
Or it’s not.

CLEARLY, it’s NOT.

You can’t “both sides” a simple fact.

This drives me bonkers.

Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Crooked Media @crooked.com · 13h

AI is giving us more isolated and radicalized information.

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joshua weresch: songs @joshuawereschsongs.bsky.social · 13h

There was a poll on CBC about this and apparently more "Canadians" are now in favour of a strong economy over environmental protections. We are apparently happier burning this place to the ground for money than anything else.

I'm reminded of @wordsandguitar.bsky.social's novel, 'And Then She Fell'.

The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13h

“For all his talk of reconciliation, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s push to accelerate the next wave of nation building has exposed a familiar fault line: when economic ambition collides with Indigenous consent, ambition usually wins,” writes Wendy Kaur. thewalrus.ca/a-subjugation-fi...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16h

Make your plans for #NoKings. October 18th. Free speech is action. Please join in. You'll see me at one of the events.
www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Lisa @blueravefinn.bsky.social · 14h

'...some data centres use up to a billion gallons of water per year to keep cool because they generate so much heat.'

FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 15h

I want to cry. ---- One of the world's biggest AI ...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Why OpenAI wants to help Canada build homegrown artificial intelligence | CBC News

OpenAI wants to help Canada build a sovereign digital infrastructure for artificial intelligence, putting the country in a tough spot as it tries to distance itself from overreliance on U.S. tech comp...

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 15h

All while Ontario's provincial government is laser focused on bike lane and speed camera removal. #HamOnt

Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 1d

Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.

Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...

Line graph time series of 2025's daily 2-m temperature in the Arctic compared to each year from 1958 through 2024. There is a long-term warming trend for every day of the year. There is also large interannual variability and a clear seasonal cycle.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 1d

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

October 10, 2025

All of President Donald J.

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WIRED @wired.com · 18h

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 17h

Please wear a helmet.

“Helmet use should be necessary for everyone,” Lin emphasized. “That’s not negotiable … once you’re using these micromobility vehicles at very high speeds, they start moving away from being a recreational vehicle.”

Lin told the Star that the vast majority of people in emergency rooms as a result of e-bike and e-scooter accidents, were not wearing helmets at the time of collision.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 1d

www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3b92297...

Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario

The premier’s continual interventions in municipal affairs diverts attention from pressing provincial issues

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Sarah Moser @sarahkmoser.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel has also branded Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and critics of artificial intelligence as “legionnaires of the Antichrist”. 11 on the weirdometer

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Greta Thunberg is servant of the ‘Antichrist,’ billionaire Peter Thiel says

Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel has branded Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg and critics of artificial intelligence as “legionnaires of the Antichrist” during a series of private lectures.

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Global News @globalnews.ca · 1d

"This prank dehumanizes the homeless, causes the distressed recipient to panic and wastes police resources," Massachusetts authorities warned.

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Social media prank using AI home invader ‘bluntly stupid,’ police warn - National | Globalnews.ca

Known online as the 'homeless man prank,' the perpetrator convinces the recipient that an unhoused stranger has entered their home.

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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 1d

lol "well now Jesus didn't say *out loud* we can't have our slaves back so how about we just go for it"

Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 2d

Doug Wilson co-authored a (plagiarized) book that defended the institution of slavery *as it was practiced in the antebellum South*. This is how Douthat introduced the subject while providing him with the NYT's platform:

Douthat: So, just to take a related example, one of the controversies of many that you’ve been mixed up in has to do with slavery, and whether slavery is absolutely forbidden by the Bible, absolutely forbidden to Christians, or whether it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: And you think it is critiqued, but allowed for.

Wilson: Right.

Douthat: On this, on a straightforward reading of the New Testament, I would agree with you. I would say, pretty clearly, there is a pretty clear path from the message of the Bible to the abolition of slavery. But there is no moment in the New Testament when Jesus insists on the manumission of slaves.

Wilson: Right.

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Hamilton Naturalists' Club @hamiltonnature.org · 1d

October Invasive Shrub Pull 🍂

Come learn how to remove invasive shrubs by hand-pulling, girdling, or ripping out with a weed wrench! New #volunteers welcome, all equipment is provided. RSVP to Jen at [email protected]

📅 Sat Oct 18, 2025 | 10 AM - 12 PM
📍 Cartwright Nature Sanctuary #HamOnt

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Norm Di Pasquale🇨🇦 @normsworld.bsky.social · 1d

Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario!
“Simply put, the local issues that directly affect city residents should be decided by them and their local representatives.
Local affairs are not improved by having Mr. Ford blunder into them.” www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit... #topoli #onpoli

Globe editorial: Doug Ford is not the mayor of Ontario

The premier’s continual interventions in municipal affairs diverts attention from pressing provincial issues

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 1d

“Those who are using terms like ‘nanny state’, and this is a ‘cash grab’, I hope they look at these numbers and realize this is absolutely not. This is about the safety of our most vulnerable, including little kids to older adults and everybody in between." -Waterloo mayor McCabe

Regional committee discusses speed cameras

Regional committee members discussed how the speed camera enforcement program has progressed in its first six months of operation at a meeting on Tuesday.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

Walked into a Canadian Tire and no longer know what holiday season we’re celebrating anymore

Grim Reaper plays heavy metal guitar next to a display of Christmas trees

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