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Mike 🍁

@thewarrenisempty.bsky.social

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Trade unionist & troublemaker Queer, AuDHD & CPTSD Perpetually exhausted Educate. Agitate. Organize.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · May 5

Let's talk about the elephant in the room regarding the current fascist US regime and Alberta seperatism: Christian Nationalism.

Long🧵 ahead

#canpoli #cdnpoli #ableg #abpoli #bcpoli #Alberta #BritishColumbia #Canada #turtleisland #Indigenous #mbpoli #skpoli #DanielleSmith

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 9h

Balkanization of the US is a legitimate possibility that more people need to start thinking about.

Cannonball Adderall @leupp.bsky.social · 10h

@leupp.bsky.social
The secession talk is problematic but if this trend accelerates, at some point it will become a situation of taxation without representation and he fascist looting/repression of wealthy blue states will hit a tipping point
January 13, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 9h

UCP = funneling public money to private interests

Everything they do makes sense viewed through this lens

Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 9h

Can the AI bubble please be the catalyst that ends the idea of corporate personhood and brings back personal liability for business decisions?

It would sure be great if any tech CEOs faced any kind of real consequences for their actions.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness @tangledwilderness.bsky.social · 23h

Like many of you, I've been struggling with the feeling of going absolutely insane when I see any image or video, trying to spot signs that it is or isn't AI slop.

I now have a perfect, 100% technique to ensure what you're seeing is real:

Put your phone down and go outside. It's hard but it works.

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 6d

Table For One Please.

Happy to hear this billboard is still up in Vancouver, was a pleasure to work with @visionzerovancouver.ca.

side of a building with a billboard that says smoking tables next to non-smoking tables used to be normal too and picture of child biking beside a truck on painted bike lane

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 16h

Don't forget Newsmax. Funneling Canadian tax dollars to fascist media organizations is insane, but that's Doug Ford for you.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Things to do in the future:

1. Putting them all on trial for crimes against humanity at the Hague

2. Totally reforming entire government to root out corruption and abuse of power so this bullshit never happens again

3. At some point you’d imagine, brunch

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 1d

To renew democracy, we have to organize fearlessly in the face of a repressive state, despite all the reasons we have for being afraid. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

We Who Believe in Democracy Must Fight to Make It Real

We wake daily to new spectacles of violence and humiliation: kidnappings in broad daylight, attacks on unions, LGBTQ people, women, and immigrants, the erosion of long-cherished rights. It’s no longer...

labornotes.org

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 2d

We are going to Win

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 2d

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Important

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 1d

That stupid fucking arm pull he does to knock people off balance drives me crazy.

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 1d

Resistance built this country. Organization & rebellion will save it.

Part II of The Bold Tradition of American Resistance follows the fire—from labor and civil rights to the women of the Jane Collective—and calls us to carry it forward.

Please read& share!
🔥 open.substack.com/pub/demcastu...

The Bold Tradition of American Resistance, Part II: The Rebellion Lives

From the streets to the ballot box, from whispers to marches—our legacy of resistance is alive. Read, remember, and take your place in it.

open.substack.com

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 1d

"You've (not me) got to put your bodies (also not mine) upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've (still not me) got to make it stop!"

CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 1d

What I don't get is if hardcore tankies really think raiding detention facilities is the best path forward, if you're not just engaged in performative bullshit, then why do I, the shitlib, have to do it?

Like, shouldn't YOU be doing it?

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 1d

I love bluesky

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 1d

The Trans Mountain Expansion Project cost $34B, and it used the existing right-of-way. A pipeline to the northwest coast would require trailblazing through some of the most difficult terrain in North America.

There is quite literally zero chance it can be done cheaper than the TMEP.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 1d

The BC Ferries story has been a big one lately, with lots of disinfo and spin thrown around.

Can you outline what a path towards expanding our domestic shipbuilding industry might look like?

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 1d

In other words, don’t watch/read/consume content from CBS.
It has now become a msm misinformation centre

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 1d

Yes please!

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d

No matter what happens next, this did not happen in nazi germany.

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 2d

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 2d

Privatization erodes accountability. Once public services become businesses, decisions serve investors before communities, and the people those systems were built for lose any real voice in how they’re managed. It’s democracy hollowed out through contracts.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

People get so weird about blocking, as though it's punishment for something. And I understand. But also:

People have the right to curate their spaces. If someone needs to NOT have me in THEIR space for their peace, good for them! I don't have the right to be in someone else's space.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

Also check your local laws, but there's a good chance your employer is responsible for providing the PPE required to do your job.

Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

Full-face respirator + side impact rated hardhat with chinstrap.

I wouldn't attend any protest where there's a chance of violence without them.

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Mike 🍁 @thewarrenisempty.bsky.social · 2d

"I need a partner who lacks the real world experience necessary to clock how shitty I am" vibes

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