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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 1d

CPC Policy = GOP Policy six months ago.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

This is why immigrants should never vote for CONS, they do not care about you, if they had their way, there would be very little immigration--using republican talking points #Canada

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Conservatives want to end birthright citizenship for children of temporary residents

The Conservatives want to restrict birthright citizenship in Canada, a measure they say would mirror the rules in peer countries.

www.ctvnews.ca

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 2d

CPC = Trump

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 4d

Frankly, everything pre-Trump in my mind has a warm nostalgic halo around it, even stuff which in retrospect is darkly foreshadowing.

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 5d

www.newsweek.com/california-i...

California independence support hits "record high"

A new survey finds 80 percent of Californians want the state to control borders with other states "like a country."

www.newsweek.com

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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 6d

The recent rise of “shadow federalism” — groups of states replacing federal agencies abdicated or destroyed by Trump — combined with the president’s military targeting of those states makes an American schism a medium-term possibility for which we should plan

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Opinion: United States may split into warring federal entities. Let’s side with the better one

Recent developments contain the seeds of a United States divided into two competing federalisms – and even a potential civil war

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Shawn @shawnhils.bsky.social · 7d

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 8d

ourworldindata.org/grapher/fore...

Foreign aid given as a share of national income

Official development assistance (ODA) divided by gross national income. From 2018, the official reporting method switched from net to grant-equivalent amounts.

ourworldindata.org

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 10d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 10d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 10d

Over 40% of Americans approve of a President threatening civil war over his fantasy version of his opponents. As a journalist I still feel some obligation to try to understand. As a human I want to stay as far away as possible, and don't know if I'll ever bring my family across the border again.

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Robert Jago @rjjago.bsky.social · 10d

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Residential schools still exist in our world today. This is the lesson Canadians can draw from that disturbing truth

Canadians think about residential schools as if they were a creature of the past, an ancient moral failing from which we have since evolved. But around the world new residential

www.thestar.com

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 11d

Hell yeah

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 11d

Prayer groups, book clubs, scavenger hunts, pub nights, debating clubs, knitting circles, park hangs, roller disco nights, bike trips, hiking groups, run clubs, etc.

There is absolutely no reason why politicians and civil society leaders can't be organizing these events.

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 16d

This Tylenol thing is so stupid and evil — untreated fever during pregnancy is actually dangerous!

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 17d

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?

ME: Slay the Spire.

CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?

ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.

CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?

ME: Now hold on a second,

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Law & Technology Institute @cdntechlaw.bsky.social · 21d

Join us for an urgent conversation on Canada’s proposed Bill C-2, the Strong Borders Act, and what you can do to prevent its far-reaching implications for refugee rights, civil liberties, and Canada’s international obligations.

More information or Register Now: www.eventbrite.ca/e/refugees-d...

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thiagobuchert.bsky.social @thiagobuchert.bsky.social · 18d

So what do I do with my vaccine vat?

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 18d

One thing I wish Americans would appreciate more is just how many apartments are being built in Canada

Construction has doubled since 2018, and Canada now spends 2x as much on new multifamily housing as single-family housing. (ratio is 3:1 in the opposite direction for the US)

A graph of Canadian Real Construction Investment

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 19d

The next few years are going to be littered with millions of untold stories like this. Mothers watching their babies die of starvation because Musk took a woodchopper to USAID www.cnn.com/2025/09/21/a...

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN

Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...

www.cnn.com

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 20d

kristol is haranguing chuck schumer about his failure to endorse mamdani. ezra klein is waxing philosophical about how we must make concessions to MAGA. ty cobb is comparing trump to the nazis for forcing america to grieve charlie kirk. hakeem jeffries whipped in favor of a resolution praising him.

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Matt Stickland @landofsticks.bsky.social · 20d

Reminds me of one of my absolute favorite reddit posts.

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Parker @jeffparker.bsky.social · 21d

ah hell yeah, Free Shoes Day

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21d

TikTok served me a video from someone who earnestly seems to believe the biblical rapture is happening on Tuesday, Sept. 23.

Checking hashtags, she’s not the only one. This shit always freaks me out. You never know what people will do when they think it’s the end.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 21d

Michael Eisner, who served as CEO of Disney for 21 years and acquired ABC while he was in charge, slams his successor Bob Iger for bending the knee.

Michael Eisner
@Michael Eisner
X.com
Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment? The
"suspending indefinitely" of Jimmy Kimmel immediately after the Chairman of the FCC's aggressive yet hollow threatening of the Disney Company is yet another example of out-of-control intimidation. Maybe the Constitution should have said, "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, except in one's political or financial self-interest." By-the-way, for the record, this ex-CEO finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny.
10:17 AM • 9/19/25 • 208K Views

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23d

One takeaway for Canadians watching what’s happening in the United States right now is that we need to put more pressure on governments / parties to strengthen democratic institutions and the fourth estate

You can also defend democracy by supporting the work of journalists and civil society groups

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