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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃

@maplezero.bsky.social

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(Mapleservo at the other place) Designer, artist,educator, creative, progressive. Based in YYC. He/Him

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · May 27

Danielle Smith want you to believe LGBTQ+ people are a threat, but I can’t remember the last time a LGBTQ person:
-lied to people about vaccine safely
-privatized health care to make it unaffordable
-defunded education
-removed safety regulations
-celebrated Nazis
-attacked the news media

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

This morning I ran the NYC Gaza 5K in Prospect Park for the third time, alongside the Harlem Run Club, to raise money for @unrwausa.bsky.social, which delivers critical humanitarian aid and services to Palestinians in Gaza.

I hope you'll join me in donating: unrwausa.org

Zohran jogging alongside a member of the Harlem Run Club in Prospect Park.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13h

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 14h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13h

California Governor Gavin Newsom "vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water usage of data centers, which regularly require millions of gallons of fresh water to cool their computers."

Gavin Newsom blocks effort to make CA data centers disclose water use. Why?

Data-center water usage can vary from 110 million gallons to 1.8 billion gallons per year.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15h

It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:

— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "I'm willing to pay more for quality products if they are made in America, by Americans, who are paid a decent income." The tweet shows Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting, which is often used to show the tweeter is expressing a brave opinion.

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "MINIMUM WAGE JOBS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE A CAREER. Why does no one understand this? Entry level jobs are STEPPING STONES to better jobs. No one wants to work towards that though."

HardPass4 on Twitter tweets: "Buy $5 gloves instead of $50 ones. Trust me." The tweet shows a box of "Gorilla Grip" gloves.

The label on Gorilla Grip gloves show they're made in China.

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 13h

Reminder that parents outliving their kids was total thing in the pre-vaccine, pre-antibiotics era, making headstones like these common as dirt. Here are three—out of hundreds and hundreds—in my local cemetery…🧵

Six-year-old Edith:

Headstone of a husband and wife and six year old child, early 20th C.

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 13h

Trump is going to make sure the Thanksgiving turkeys die like dogs this year, isn’t he? Saving the pardons for the real meatheads.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 13h

Send every ICE employee to the fucking Hague.

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 15h

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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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 13h

I wonder what peaceful protestor gear will be popular with the kids this Halloween.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

As I got to know them, they gave me a $400m plane.

@acyn.bsky.social

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17h

Do you see where this is headed?

Tweet from Jordan Weissmann: “Asked for an example of a group that had funded a violent protest, Trump named ActBlue and Indivisible, which I think pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the goals here.”
Below is a screenshot of an article excerpt detailing that neither George Soros nor Open Society Foundations fund protests, and noting that the White House named liberal groups like ActBlue and Indivisible in relation to violent incidents.

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 17h

Hilary Clinton said Trump could be baited with a tweet. He’s got severe dementia and he’s always been laser-focused on his own self-interests, to his and everyone else’s detriment. This will at least occupy space in his mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

FOX: Do you think President Trump should be nominated for the Nobel Prize next year?

ZELENSKYY: We will be very happy to nominate President Trump next year if he will pressure and stop Putin

🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 17h

If you hate the arena deal, and tax increases for the benefit of billionaires, you should not be voting for Sonya Sharp.

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Hon. Thomas A. Lukaszuk @lukaszukab.bsky.social · 18h

The bad news is that it snowed in NE Calgary.

The good news is that #ForeverCanadian volunteers couldn’t care less. They are braving the elements and are set up near Nandos restaurant, collecting signatures.

This Forever Canadian movement is something else…

#ableg #cdnpoli #Yyc

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 17h

Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster.
newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...

MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

newrepublic.substack.com

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18h

I’m horrified to hear that two people were kidnapped by ICE in Evanston this morning.

There’s a protest at Home Depot shortly. We’ll be delivering water and supplies to protesters — I hope you’ll join us in standing with our community.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 17h

When I say that the Atlantic is the official magazine of the donor class this is what I’m talking about.

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

Hi Sally. When Weiss published a supposed expose on the death of George Floyd, a veteran criminal justice reporter showed in deep detail that the piece was not just wrong but filled with falsehoods and misrepresentations. Weiss did not retract the piece. What do you think of that?

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 20h

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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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 21h

It was our fuck up but not our fault? Vance is such a slippery character

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

BRENNAN: CBS confirmed the Trump administration rescinded the layoffs of CDC scientists. Some were involved with the federal measles response. How does a mistake like this happen?

VANCE: The govt shutdown inevitably leads to some chaos. It happened because of Schumer

B: But this was a WH decision

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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling @rubenbolling.bsky.social · 21h

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 21h

And when you are done reading the article on the arena deal from the Sprawl, ask yourselves why we dont get this kind of coverage from the mainstream press.

🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 21h

Please listen/read this article on the Calgary arena deal and then get out and vote. We can’t afford another misstep. We couldn’t afford this one.

Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social · 1d

Calgary mayoral candidates are bickering about which arena deal was best—and who got fleeced. And an outgoing city councillor now says progressive councillors voted yes to the deal in 2023 "at great political cost." Here's how the deal got done. (Listen and/or read!) #yyccc

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Vincenzo @vincenzodon.bsky.social · 1d

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Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 1d

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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