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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1m

Almost 200 years ago, my ancestors landed in New York. Intending to join the growing German community in the US mid-west. But, on the dock, they met agents from the German community in Waterloo County, Ontario, and decided to go there instead. I am so thankful they did.

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 14h

But Musk is not a Nazi.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Musk is funding the legal battle of UK Far Right activist Tommy Robinson - real name Stephen Yaxley Lennon - as he faces charges brought by counterterrorism police.

Tommy Robinson claims Elon Musk is funding his legal battle — The Times and The Sunday Times

Tommy Robinson has claimed Elon Musk was paying his legal costs as he went on trial for refusing to comply with a request made by counterterrorism police as he tried to leave Britain last year. Robins...

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 19h

Um, thanks...I guess?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump: "You have Canada. That's so great to have, in fact. The president called and he wanted to know if it's worth -- well he knew exactly what it is. He knew the importance. Where's Canada, by the way? Where are you? He knew the importance of this."

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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 20h

Before SCTV, John Candy was selling paper products and performing for $40 a week. Then he met Dan Aykroyd, Valri Bromfield, Gilda Radner, and Eugene Levy. Writer @pulmyears.bsky.social takes us inside the Toronto scene that birthed a legendary era of comedy: thewalrus.ca/john-candy/

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 20h

The least informed speaker ever. He sees nothing, nothing !

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 23h

I worry about the 27% MAGA types.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

And yet, Carney is still talking.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

Leo may have to kick some MAGA friendly bishops' asses.

linlukey.bsky.social @linlukey.bsky.social · 1d

‘The church cannot be silent,’ Pope Leo XIV tells El Pasoans in Vatican meeting on mass deportation fears
The Pope's eyes grew misty as an El Paso delegation presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States

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Bloody Mary (mirror entity, not cocktail) @marygillis.bsky.social · 1d

The way everyone in a position of power in the government and at Canada Post refuses to entertain any of the proven methods that have saved other post offices and made them profitable is pathological.

How would they be behaving any differently if they were actively trying to make Canada Post fail?

Would you go to Canada Post for your mortgage? Why advocates think postal banking could be a lifeline for the Crown corp.

Amidst the labour dispute between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, a debate concerning the future of post offices across the country has once again taken the stage: Should Canada ...

www.thestar.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect stooge. He knows what he's saying is bullshit and he knows no one believes him, and yet, he can keep a straight face. That kind of sociopathy comes along maybe once in a generation.

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I’m not for everyone… 🇺🇦🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🌎 @formermoderatedem.bsky.social · 1d

Vance saying:

Quit calling me Vladimir Futon

Sounds like Putin but like the couch.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 1d

This is such an embarrassing way to defend an article. “Here’s our new piece. Being mad at it makes it correct! IF YOU DON’T LIKE IT, YOU ARE THE COPS.”

Okay, lady, we get it. You like Bari Weiss. That’s legal in America. Nobody is arresting you.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

Alt: a man in a military uniform says are we the baddies

media.tenor.com

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Mike Vlasic @mikevlasic.bsky.social · 1d

The arrogant Libs say you'd have to be crazy to toss them out. Don't think about our laws that may give away your privacy, and instead dream of our splendid austerity budget & all the layoffs.
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...

It would be ‘idiotic’ for any party to topple government on budget vote only seven months after election, say some Liberal MPs

Interim NDP Leader Don Davies and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May recently met with Prime Minister Mark Carney, but won’t comment on how they'll vote on the budget, saying they will decide after revi...

www.hilltimes.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

One is only amazed if ignorant of Bari Weiss' back story.

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 1d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 1d

Speaker Johnson: "People’s faith in the government is at an all time low"

Republicans control all 3 branches of the government.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

Welcome to 2020, Ben Shapiro.

Mediaite @mediaite.com · 3d

Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media

Ben Shapiro is warning that the Jewish people are being regarded as a "conspiratorial force" by a certain faction of right-wing conservatives. The post Ben Shapiro Warns the ‘Conspiratorial Right’ Is Taking Over Social Media first appeared on Mediaite.

dlvr.it

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 1d

That's the thing, they can be evil AND dumb. And they are.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 2d

But that would be rude, dear boy.

Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 3d

My naive wish is that even one Canadian journalist, one politician, one security analyst, would address the implications of Canada choosing military integration with an authoritarian power that no longer respects the rule of law or international law.
Looks like that’s not going to happen today.

Golden Dome signals change to Canada’s long-time opposition to joining U.S. missile defence

Canada opted to stay on the sidelines in 2005 as the U.S. developed defences against ballistic missiles

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 2d

And that will help the doctor shortage how?

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2d

Remember, though, it will hurt Kristi Noem's feelings if you call them secret police.

Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates

The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 2d

The TFW program is naked exploitation.

Laurie Prange @prangemartin.bsky.social · 2d

I’m very pro-immigration, and so I’m always going to say that if work needs to be done than the worker deserves the right to have a path to citizenship. Thus, I’m 100% against the TFW program. That it also suppresses wages adds to my being against it.

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Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 2d

One of my favorite moments of her career. RIP.

Greg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 2d

Both sides fa

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