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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

Nice recap

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 10h

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

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

Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy

Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 10h

Republicans are allowing health care premiums to double for Americans already struggling to afford coverage — and now they're trying to distract us.

It’s as shameless as it is cruel.

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 10h

Superb letters from highly credible writers on 🇨🇦Canada’s enlightened (but still incomplete) MAID legislation, in today’s @theglobeandmail.com.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 9h

Republicans are 💯 responsible for shielding the pedophiles they once promised to expose.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for stoking civil unrest across the country. They’ve peddled in inflammatory rhetoric for years, outlawed anti-fascism, weaponized the DOJ, ICE and the National Guard.

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 12h

Pierre Poilievre wants to be PM — but still refuses the security clearance needed to access classified intelligence.

You can’t lead a country when you’re not cleared to know what it’s facing.

CBC breaks down why that matters:
🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

Support facts. Support accountability.

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Elyse 🇨🇦 @elyses.bsky.social · 18h

JD Vance stopped at his first visceral reaction - the very definition of someone so lacking in curiosity and self-reflection it’s no wonder that he’s stunted by ignorance. Of course it’s ‘ugly’ - that’s the point.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

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Elyse 🇨🇦 @elyses.bsky.social · 3d

The U.S. President is such a coward that he’s sending in the National Guard to fight his political battles. He can’t stand up to the Blue State governors on his own. What a weakling.

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 5d

There’s a level of “anger” I feel today.
It’s not Poilievre— the fact he’s not someone I’d trust, is just baked in.
It’s not the CPC— the fact they’ve caved to him and GOP nastiness is not new.

It’s what they’re doing to the country every day with rage bait.
I don’t like it.
#cdnpoli

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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 5d

PoiLIEvre undermines Canadians with his antics - the choice was made in April as to whom Canadians want representing them in these talks. Sit down and shut up if you can’t contribute positively to Canada’s forward path. What a pathetic mouthpiece.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 5d

Poilievre launches an attack on the PM on the eve of a high-stakes meeting with a regime that wants to break our nation.
MAGA Pierre claims he will be open to talking with MAGA America.
His only other job experience was working at Dairy Queen (apparently).
Put a sock in it Pierre.

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 5d

And now we know why Ford made speed cameras illegal.

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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Elyse 🇨🇦 @elyses.bsky.social · 5d

Frodo: “I wish it need not have happened in my time."

Gandalf: "So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom "deceived" the Supreme Court + "profoundly misrepresented" LGBTQ+ research, according to scholars cited by ADF.

Quoted experts speak out about ADF's "distortions" + "false evidence" in major case, on deck tomorrow, to revive "conversion therapy"

Christian group ‘deceived’ supreme court about LGBTQ+ research, cited scholars say

Exclusive: Experts say Alliance Defending Freedom, arguing to revive conversion therapy, ‘profoundly misrepresented’ their work in case threatening trans and queer youth

www.theguardian.com

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David JW Bailey @davidjwbailey.bsky.social · 5d

GOP = illegitimate criminals

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 5d

🚨 Rep. Jim McGovern attempted to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Rep Elect AZ-07, but they would NOT recognize him in the House. He has a candid reason as to why he thinks this happened. 1/2

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 5d

Pardon my language but this video is a fuc*ing political abortion.
Poilievre is literally stoking fear and terror for political gain.

This bill he’s talking about runs afoul of the Charter and numerous SCC rulings.

Enough is enough.
I’m sick of crap like this tearing the country apart.
#cdnpoli

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Elyse 🇨🇦 @elyses.bsky.social · 5d

Canada is the only western democracy that funds a residence for the leader of the official opposition? Why do we continue to do this? Let’s be fiscally responsible and eliminate this wasteful
spending.

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Tony Michaels 🎙 @thetonymichaels.bsky.social · 6d

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 7d

PM Mark Carney 🇨🇦 once again kicking Poilievre's ass in the HOC. #cdnpoli

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Elyse 🇨🇦 @elyses.bsky.social · 7d

Exposing their lies is helpful. But we need a stronger plan.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 7d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 7d

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 7d

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10d

Enjoy some truth about the #TrumpShutdown @markwarner.bsky.social

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loves2write.bsky.social @loves2write.bsky.social · 16d

Every journalist in farm states needs to ask EVERY Republican how they feel about giving $20B in foreign aid to Argentina when their farmers are selling soybeans to China & American farmers aren’t because Republican tariffs have destroyed their markets.

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