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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 1d

FFS! Ford’s using our money to enrich friends and family not just rich donors like in the Greenbelt Scandal - he’s not even hiding it!

More on Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel with @keithleslie.bsky.social and @markcripps.bsky.social

#Onpoli #Cndpoli #CanadaSky 🤬🇨🇦

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Jacob Shamsian @jayshams.bsky.social · 11h

I've been wondering why Dominion Voting Systems suddenly reached settlements with Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and One America News.

Turns out, it's been purchased by a Republican-owned election tech firm that insisted on it, per Axios.

www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Carlos the Canuck @keithcleveland.bsky.social · 19h

Maple MAGAs are "quisling" traitors - I had to look that up.

Keep them #ElbowsUp #Resist

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 19h

MAGA Alberta troll site begs Trump to ban me. Little wonder that MAGA Alberta looks to a foreign adversary for help.
I have been blacklisted by Putin, being banned by Trump would be a source of honour.
And I remain proudly Canadian - true, north, strong, free and never a quisling traitor.

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 2d

beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 23h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 1d

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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MeidasCanada @meidascanada.ca · 18h

Let's get over the niceties and start using the F word.

youtu.be/PTlr4QhN2Mg?...

DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

youtu.be

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

Framing this as if it just happened is just a *touch* irresponsible!

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20d

Feds just fired a tremendous amount of pepper balls at Reverend David Black, a regular protester here. A number of them hit him in the face and head.

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Bad Faith Times @dennycarter.badfaithtimes.com.ap.brid.gy · 20d

Fascist Fun

Regime officials are doing bad things, bragging about it in public, and telling us they can never be held accountable. We'll see.

badfaithtimes.com

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 17h

I would like to get to a place where consigning 14 million people to death isn’t described as “DOGE didn’t do much.”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

Did DOGE save us $2 trillion?

“Not even close. .. Total spending excluding interest rose $220 billion, or 4%, for the entire fiscal year.” 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/tari...

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

I am so fucking proud of the place I lived for ten years. This is the best of the city, this is the heart and the goodness of it and I'm so glad

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 2d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 1d

I have so many thoughts on the Trump Carney meeting, two huge new Ford scandals that just broke and the collapse of America into a violent fascist regime in front of our eyes.

What a week and it’s only Wednesday.

Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel going to be EPIC 🇨🇦

#Cndpoli #Onpoli

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and Miller’s “plenary authority” word vomit mishap, they’ve really given the game away this week

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 1d

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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boba @boba.yogscast.com · 1d

A clip from Big Brother came up on my Tiktok feed of a participant, Caroline Monk, making the most disgusting comments towards fellow participant, Zelah, who is a transman.

this is unacceptable and she should have been IMMEDIATELY removed from the show.

I started a petition -
chng.it/kMb7BJMWpZ

This campaign needs you now

Remove Caroline Monk from Big Brother for her transphobic remarks.

chng.it

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 3d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2d

The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power.

If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 2d

There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups.

Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2d

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.

By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 2d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 2d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 2d

New It Could Happen Here 🎤

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @bishonentype.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2d

The way we are experiencing this is as a genuine "fuck you guys" moment, where the level of "fuck you" increases with your level of transness and POCness

And I'm sure there are folks on the team who don't feel this way about it but this is how the failed comms strategy is working, publicly

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

The MAGA plan to break up our country: secret meetings in Washington, a massive American slush fund and Danielle Smith.
Here is my latest on the MAGA and MAGA MAPLE attack on Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nwi...

THE MAGA SCHEME TO DESTROY CANADA: TRAITORS, FAKE PIPELINE, SLUSH FUND

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 2d

Brain damage from a medically induced coma is the canadian equivalent to worms eating your brain.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 4d

i believe raw meat cures everything and that it's a good idea to quit benzos cold turkey by going into a medically induced coma. why is everyone i love always sick and dying?

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 4d

lets all stay dignified and remember that jordan was doing (canadian) politics the right way

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

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