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Ken Fang -- Very Asian @fangsbites.bsky.social · 11h

You want some symmetry? Toronto and Seattle will meet in the ALCS for the first time. And they both entered the American League in 1977.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · 10h

thousands of british columbia baseball fans considering breaking their u.s. boycott next week

a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit is standing in front of a sign that says ' the ' on it

media.tenor.com

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 5h

Healthwatch Canada: 'Starting Tuesday, October 14, 2025, masks will be mandatory in all Health Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) facilities due to rising respiratory illness rates across the Island'. @canadahealthwatch.ca
👉 'To protect both patients and healthcare workers.'
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Mark Elliott @thatmarkelliott.bsky.social · 58m

If only there were people who could go around and find out what the reality is, and then perhaps report on it back to everyone. They could even publish their reporting in print or online, and possibly even make a business out of keeping folk informed about what's happening in the world. If only.

From the New York Times:
"Comparative Calm or 'Hellscape'? In Portland, Depends on the Narrator."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15h

NEWS: "Donald Trump is a pedophile who routinely raped young girls."

MAGA: "So boring."

NEWS: "Donald Trump is allowing Qatar to build an air force base in Idaho.”

MAGA: “This is IMMORAL! What an outrage!!! I will not stand for this wicked behavior!!!”

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 14h

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 14h

The political right has chosen blatant lying as a political strategy.

"..constant lying is not aimed at making the people believe a lie, but at ensuring that no one believes anything anymore.
A people that can no
longer distinguish between truth and lies cannot distinguish between right and wrong...With such a people, you can do whatever you want."

-Hannah Arendt, (Oct, 1906 - Dec, 1975)
German historian and philosopher

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 11h

Ukrainian Air Assault Forces repelled a major Russian assault on the Dobropillia axis. Russians attempted to capture Vodymyrivka and Sofiivka using 6 tanks, ~40 IFVs, 40+ vehicles, and several hundred troops. Ukraine destroyed 3 tanks, 13 IFVs, 41 vehicles, and eliminated around 100 personnel.

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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 11h

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her struggle to achieve a democratic transition in the South American nation, winning recognition as a woman “who keeps the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.” www.thestar.com/news/world/e...

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Machado becomes the 20th woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, of the 112 individuals who have been honored.

www.thestar.com

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Andrii Katriuk 🇺🇦 @andriikatriuk.bsky.social · 1d

How's it going folks? [73]

P.S. "unidentified". And who could that be? Ktulhu? Reptiloids? Siths? Truly a mystery since there is no one who already at war with the EU.
#UkrainianView

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NetworkforDemocracy @simple-truth.bsky.social · 15h

The poster says: "If you hate the Pope because he's too "liberal", you're REALLY going to hate his boss."

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David Didau @didau.bsky.social · 1d

Howard Gardner’s multiple intelligences theory is a comforting myth dressed up as science: conceptually muddled, empirically empty, and educationally useless. We don’t need eight kinds of genius, we just need decent evidence. open.substack.com/pub/daviddid...

The Trouble with Multiple Intelligences

How seductive ideas undermine our understanding of intelligence and invite pseudoscientific thinking

open.substack.com

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

They’re now publicly threatening a military crackdown of the No Kings protest.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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🍁 Christine 🍁 @204queenb0574.bsky.social · 21h

I love the editorials from the Winnipeg Free Press. #canadasky #cdnpoli

Editorial from the October 10, 2025 e-edition of the Winnipeg Free Press. To make the article even larger and easier to read, open it in a new tab of your browser. The text will not distort even with resizing.

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 16h

This is wild. Dozens of nurses and other healthcare workers had their personal information stolen in a data breach from their employer. But the publicly run Interior Health Authority in B.C denied it for 10 years, even as crimes were being committed using their info

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

They were victims of a massive data breach in 2009. Their employer denied it for a decade | CBC News

For a decade, a B.C. government agency denied a data breach that affected 28,000 health-care workers, creating a situation that one privacy expert says opened the door for fraud artists to continue cr...

www.cbc.ca

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 23h

Creators of AI-generated actress unsure if coolest part is the creepiness or the stealing

PALO ALTO, CA - The inventors of Tilly Norwood, a computer generated character built using artificial intelligence, enthusiastically insist their creation is both unsettlingly lifeless and built on ou...

www.thebeaverton.com

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

Canada's economy added 60K jobs in September while unemployment stayed flat #Canada #cdnpoli

Economists were expecting only a modest gain in jobs

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Canada's economy added 60K jobs last month | CBC News

Canada's economy added 60,000 jobs in September, while the unemployment rate remained unchanged, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

www.cbc.ca

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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 21h

In the Fraser Valley, unemployment increased in the #Chilliwack and Abbotsford-Mission regions. Chilliwack’s unemployment rate increased from 5.6% to 6.1% while Abbotsford-Mission edged up from 6.4% to 6.8%. fvcurrent.com/p/unemployme... #bcpoli

Unemployment rises in Chilliwack and Abbotsford-Mission

Canada’s unemployment rate hit 7.1% in August up from 6.9% in July.

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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 21h

Watch out for Antifa!
youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “America First” like letting another country put an Air Force base in Idaho

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 1d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 1d

ANTIFA:

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Ïne Back Ïversen @ineiversen.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ Kyiv tonight 💔
I can’t find the words anymore.
It keeps happening, same horrors, same devastations, same phrases, more pain. 😔 #RussiaisATerroistState

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