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Paul DeCampo
@pauldecampo.bsky.social
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ecological gardening, regenerative agriculture, community health, food sovereignty, & good times (he/him) Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada Avatar alt text: The body of Woodie Guthrie's acoustic guitar, on which is written "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS
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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · Nov 7
Collective action to strengthen resilient communities is more important than ever.

In Toronto, we can take action to sustain a healthy, inclusive and ecological food system via:

karmacoop.org
Karma Co-op
A healthier food system is just around the corner ;)
karmacoop.org
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
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Mike Sacks @mikesacks.bsky.social · 1d
We must be relentless in our resistance, merciless in our mockery, and eternal in our hope.
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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 1d
Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”
An Interview With the Portland Chicken
Rachel Saslow
www.wweek.com
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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 4h
If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.
www.pbs.org
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Jacek Debiec, MD, PhD, DPhil 🌎 🧠 @drjacekdebiec.bsky.social · 20d
A recent report, "Cradle to Grave," outlines health hazards of #fossilfuels, from extraction to combustion, including raising infant mortality to 31 per 1000 births and lowering life expectancy to 50 near extraction sites.

via @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social
healthpolicy-watch.news/ban-fossil-f...
An image showing the damaging effects of fossil fuels, from extraction to use, on human body organs and systems.
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Eric Blair @protecttruth.bsky.social · 4h
Members of Congress should be on the streets of DC—where many of them live! —putting their bodies between these law-abiding citizens and ICE. Congress should be demanding names, and promising ICE will be prosecuted when US democracy is re-established.

But they are not—b/c they think it polls badly.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 16h
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 6h
A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 9h
In no uncertain terms, Ms Proudfoot in today’s @theglobeandmail.com justly calls out petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre for the lies he tells about who’s at fault for the challenges 🇨🇦Canada faces.
👏🏻🙏🏻👏🏻
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 7h
“Thanks to the solidity of bearded vulture nest structures and their locations in the western Mediterranean… they have acted as [ #archivists], conserving historical material in good condition."

A shoe made from twigs and grass is 675 y.o. while a basket in the nest was woven about 150 years ago!!
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 3d
Bill Burr clearly DOES "give a fuck".
Hope he enjoyed that gig Bonesaw gave him.
He's going to have a hard time getting work here or anywhere else in the world now. He's a dictator's jester now.
www.thedailybeast.com/bill-burr-go...
Bill Burr Goes Nuclear on Critics of His Saudi Performance
The comedian hit back at “sanctimonious c**ts” who are calling him out for performing at the Riyadh Comedy Festival.
www.thedailybeast.com
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 7h
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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Paul DeCampo @pauldecampo.bsky.social · 19h
Credit to Carney for this progressive decision.

I'm generous with my criticism on his environmental backsliding, but a national school food program is long overdue and can make a real difference in our communities.
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 1d
PM Carney on the National School Food Program:

"No child should go to school hungry or sit in a classroom all day wondering where their next meal will come from... Until today, this program was a pilot..so, we're announcing we'll move forward with the funding and legislation to make it permanent."
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Dr. Elizabeth Sawin @bethsawin.bsky.social · 7h
A system designed around growth will keep looking for ways to accelerate.

A system rooted in the biosphere and human well-being will look for ways to develop while staying in balance.

You can decide which this is...
Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."
www.404media.co
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N C Irving @ncirving2.bsky.social · 16h
Someone once described the libertarian as like a house cat: wholly convinced of her own fierce independence while being entirely dependent on a system she neither understands nor appreciates.
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James Kennedy ✊️ @jameskennedy.bsky.social · 7h
I agree, Stop The Boats

Bloody oligarchs coming over 'ere on their mega yachts, stealing our public assets, influencing our government, exploiting our work force, dumping their waste into our rivers & expecting the tax payer to foot the bill for their billion pound government contracts & bail outs
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 8h
American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News
American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...
www.cbc.ca
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h
Cars. Ruin. Everything.
‘Car Brain’ Is Making the US Unhealthy and Dangerous. EVs Won’t Fix It.
A trio of new books argue that we need to confront the full range of costs that car-based living has imposed on our cities, our health and our society.
www.bloomberg.com
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 8h
Marvellous Minoan clay vessels made by creative potters on the island of Crete during the Aegean Bronze Age around 3,500 years ago! 🤩

Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me

#Archaeology
From the Aegean Bronze Age, Minoan clay vessels with black handpainted decoration.on a pale biscuity-coloured slip Top left - clay flask decorated in Minoan ‘Marine Style’’ with an octopus with tentacles writhing around the body of the vase. Additional motifs such as seaweed and rocks represent the seabed. From Palaikastro, 1500-1450 BC Top right - clay rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head. A rhyton is a type of pouring vessel used for filling cups or making liquid offerings. There is a pouring hole at the bull’s mouth. From Knossos Little Palace, 1450-1375 BC Bottom left - Nautilus vessel - clay rhyton depicting the seabed with nautili, corals and seaweed. From Phaistos Palace, 1500-1450 BC Bottom right - Basket shaped rhyton decorated with double-axe motif. There is a small pouring hole in one of the bottom corners. From Pseira, 1500-1450 BC
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Edge O. Erin @edgeoerin.com · 8h
"Tech billionaire Thiel calls activist Greta Thunberg servant of ‘Antichrist’."
That the Axis of Oligarchy is, after targeting immigrants and the LGBTQIA+ Community, coming after Environmentalists, should not come as a surprise to anyone.
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Citizen.Coping @propcazhpm.bsky.social · 2d
In 1857, Thomas Howland became Providence, RI's first Black elected official.

Later that year, he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wife & daughter after the Dred Scott case denied Black people protections of U.S. citizenship. He was denied a passport.

Thomas Howland, 1856
John Blanchard
Portrait of a distringuished Black man from the 19th centrure wearing fine clothes, including high collar and tie of the day. Museum Text: Thomas Howland, the subject of this unusually expressive portrait, was a dock worker in Providence, Rhode lsland, In 1857 he became the city's first Black elected oficial when he was amed warden of its Third Ward. However, that same year he decided to emigrate to Liberia with his wite and daughter, perhaps in response to the recent Supreme Court decision in the Dred Scott case that denied African Americans the protections of U.S. citizenship. Because of this decision, Howland's application for a passport was denied, despite his status as a free man with the right to vote in his home state (he did eventually make it to Liberia). Howland's confident posture echoes that of the earlier Portrait of a Gentleman shown nearby, the fashionable attire of both sitters serving to reinforce thelir self-possession.
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Karen Graubart @kbgraubart.bsky.social · 8h
Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.
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John Warner @biblioracle.bsky.social · 1d
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 8h
Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h
“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 1d
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 8h
I want to know WHY this far right monster and architect of Project 2025- Russel Vought - was invited to Canada to speak by the Liberals!

This is what the Cons had planned for us!
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 16h
Russel Vought—the same Project 2025 architect—once said he wanted federal workers to feel traumatized.

Tonight, it appears that mission is being accomplished.
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