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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 5d

Picked up this book published by @btlbooks.com at the CUPE convention. Support independent publishers. Free Palestine.

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 5d

This sounds like a good ass game.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 6d

I did send this in the morning, but I am here all day

Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 6d

Hanging out early at the @cupescfp.bsky.social convention! Come say hi!

Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 6d

Hanging out early at the @cupescfp.bsky.social convention! Come say hi!

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 8d

Dude, I had three shrimp Tacos, we be livin.

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 9d

One Battle After Another was pretty good. A+

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 10d

I hope Lindsay is just always recording. Maybe she has a server farm somewhere with audio recordings of her entire existence.

Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 10d

Here is the audio recording of Lindsay Shepherd getting fired by the BC Conservative Party

For those keeping track (*leans back in rocking chair whilst reflecting on old memories*) this is now the second time Lindsay Shepherd has recorded her employer and then released the recording publicly

Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 11d

The Yips is def going to be on my end of the year list for albums. With great lines like this

"The world was built for me and I did nothing in it
Maybe it's the privilege that makes it worse"

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 11d

Been really digging his new album, I should go back and check out his older stuff!

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 11d

I tried explaining this to someone years ago with a hockey analogy, fascism is stupid, but if they are given the opportunity to keep taking shots eventually a few goals will go in, that is why we need to prevent them from ever getting to shoot on net.

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 15d

The entire dem strategy and media liberal elite position for the past twenty years has been "I know you want me dead, but very soon we will be friends. Please be my friend."

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15d

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again.

These two gotta go.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 18d

The government is reducing service standards and Canada Post’s biggest advantage: its nationwide network.

This plan is about cutting back the postal service instead of investing to give it new revenue tools through things like postal banking. It’s shameful.

Liberal government frees Canada Post to end home delivery, close some post offices | CBC News

With Canada Post on track to lose $1.5 billion in 2025 and contract discussions between the union and the corporation stalled, the federal government is embarking on a modernization plan it says will ...

www.cbc.ca

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 21d

Jokes on God, I was already dead inside

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 21d

It was indeed a great time!

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 21d

I had an inspiring weekend at the Ontario NDP convention! Was so energized connecting with organizers from across Ontario.

The enthusiasm in those rooms reminded me why we do this work: because together, we can make Canada's governments work better for working people. For the many, not the money.

JP Hornick and Avi Lewis on the convention room floor smiling with their fists up and arms around each other.

A large crowd of people listening to Avi Lewis give a speech via a megaphone. They’re packed into an outdoor restaurant and it’s dark outside.

Avi Lewis, Joel Harden, and others sitting next to each other and smiling on the convention room floor.

Avi Lewis, Fred Hahn, and many others packed together taking a photo. Everyone is smiling.

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slick nik @coleskiiiiii.bsky.social · 22d

shit ain’t over til it’s over

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 24d

I wonder if the elves had an online speech policy

Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 24d

Well, that friendly gesture is not really an argument...

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 24d

You miss me, ADMIT IT!!!

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 24d

He said something about rent and public grocery stores

Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 24d

Avi Lewis said fuck fascism... I agree

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Alex Cosh @alexcosh.bsky.social · 24d

Vince Gasparro, the Parliamentary Secretary for "Combatting Crime," just announced that the Irish band Kneecap are banned from entering Canada, 3 days after he met with Israel lobbyists.

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "On behalf of the Government of Canada I am announcing that on the advice of our officials, we have deemed the group Kneecap ineligible to enter our country.

Our government will not tolerate the advocating of political violence, terrorism or Anti-Semitism and hate more broadly."

Tweet by Gasparro reading: "I joined Prime Minister Mark Carney
& colleagues in a meeting with CIJA and Jewish community federations from across Canada.

The Prime Minister was clear in our key legislative initiatives that will help provide more security for Jewish Canadians."

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 25d

As someone with boomer parents who, like the rest of their demographic, watch a lot of late night shows it makes so much sense to me why this specifically has him agitated.

Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 25d

What Trump said is a fucking outrage.

It’s against democracy.

If Donald Trump has his way on this, our democracy is over.

A headline from USA Today reads: "Trump suggests FCC should consider revoking licenses over negative coverage of him"

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 25d

A conference on refugee healthcare lost sponsors, and a talk for employees at Canada's public health agency was cancelled, after Palestine advocates were labelled "antisemitic."

A look at the campaigns targeting doctors who want to discuss the health crisis in Gaza:
pressprogress.ca/campaigns-ta...

The Campaigns Targeting Canadian Doctors Who Want to Discuss the Health Crisis in Gaza

A conference on refugee healthcare lost sponsors, and a talk for employees at Canada's public health agency was cancelled, after Palestine advocates were branded as

pressprogress.ca

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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · Sep 11

Anyone surprised by Ezra Klein legitimizing blatant White Supremacy as 'doing politics the right way'... should look back at some of his older work

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Jody (With a Showdy) @jodyshowdy.bsky.social · 27d

Ezra Klein wrote a book called Abundance, where the main takeaway was to get rid of regulations. I think it is safe to say at this point that he is a conservative, and not as everyone else has been calling him, 'a centrist'.

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