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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
This is glorious.
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 3d
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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rebelwithacause2.bsky.social
REGULATIONS = PROTECTIONS FOR AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH

DEREGULATIONS = ALLOWING CORPORATIONS TO HARM AMERICANS, HUMANS, EARTH
February 12, 2026 at 11:32 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
I’m finding it painful to watch CBC platform mostly conservatives to gush praise at former Prime Minister Stephen Harper (they’re releasing his archival collection) with almost zero commentary about the awful things he did while in power & around the world since. The selective amnesia is nauseating.
February 6, 2026 at 11:29 PM
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mollyjongfast.bsky.social
Name them
shame them
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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parismarx.com
legitimately sad hearing about catherine o’hara, a true canadian icon ❤️🍁
January 30, 2026 at 10:07 PM
phoebe58.bsky.social
Carney is so amazing! Imagine if Harper or Pollievre did this? But Carney, our wise, benevolent leader, must have a different agenda. All good!
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows. I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
“If Canada was trying to chart across the future, we could go with the stuff that makes money, instead of losing money, stuff that makes us more independent, instead of dependent, stuff that would create jobs, instead of destroying millions of jobs.”
-Cory Doctorow
www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
‘Anything that can't go on forever eventually stops’: ‘Enshittification’ author issues stark warning to Ottawa over AI policy
Cory Doctorow says he believes AI firms will intentionally degrade their products to recoup large infrastructure expenditures—and it’s up to policymakers to protect Canadians from this.
www.hilltimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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rvbdrm.com
BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!
January 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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jocelynanderson.bsky.social
A Dark-eyed Junco (slate-colored subspecies) doing the splits while dining on dock seeds.
January 11, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
“All the extra money that people are paying at the grocery stores, paying in rent and mortgage interest, that money is going somewhere,” @davidmaccdn.bsky.social said. “One of the places that it’s going is to much higher corporate profits in Canada.” #inequality www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Here’s how long it took Canada’s top CEOs to earn what the average Canadian worker makes all year
By 9:23 a.m. on Jan. 2, 2025, Canada’s 100 highest-paid CEOs had already earned what the average Canadian worker made in an entire year, according to a new report.
www.ctvnews.ca
January 2, 2026 at 3:36 PM
phoebe58.bsky.social
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Grace Blakely explains capitalism in this short take so clearly. Brilliant.
Grace Blakeley (@graceblakeley)
For them to be rich, you have to be poor. @Better Future w/ Michael Mezz
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December 27, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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tryangregory.bsky.social
Carney's Canada.
christyceeck.bsky.social My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · Dec 27
Canada has spent more than $78 million deporting over 18,000 people in the 2024-25 fiscal year, the most since the government of Stephen Harper, according to data obtained by the Star from the Canada Border Services Agency.
Canada spent $78 million deporting 18,000 people in 2024 — the most since Stephen Harper
Most of those deported were asylum seekers whose refugee claims were rejected, according to data obtained by the Star from the CBSA.
www.thestar.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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policyalternatives.ca
The federal government is implementing a fairly conservative agenda of deregulation, public sector downsizing, tax cuts, boosting defence and championing resource megaprojects.
Read more of @marclee.bsky.social take on PM Carney's 2025 year in office.

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
2025 was Canada’s year of Mark Carney: What have we learned about his economic policy agenda? - CCPA
Two liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects in BC Five mining projects across the country A major new transmission line in northern BC (to support LNG and mining) Nuclear power in Ontario Hydro power in ...
www.policyalternatives.ca
December 27, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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parismarx.com
Such a good article in Maisonneuve on how Canada Post is being dismantled, management is rolling out tech to try to emulate Amazon, and what Canadians collectively lose if they’re successful in gutting this public institution.
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December 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
An economy dominated by billionaires and corrupt, powerful politicians is not the same as a free market economy.
December 15, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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greenpeaceca.bsky.social
⚠️CANADA IS GUILTY⚠️ Did you know our country still sends weapons parts & explosives to Israel, even though the govt said they imposed an Arms Embargo??

This is the Loophole enabling Canada to sell parts & explosives to the US WITHOUT OVERSIGHT >> act.gp/48BD6bR

#ArmsEmbargoNow #NoMoreLoopholes
December 14, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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nocarandre.bsky.social
@sorayamartinezf.bsky.social @blnensemble.bsky.social laisseriez-vous VOS enfants marcher sur nos pistes de peinture cyclables?
tomflood.bsky.social Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · Dec 10
Barriers.
a child walking in a bike lane in traffic If youth walked to school our bike lanes, would cities still consider paint a good enough barrier.
December 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
Look out BC! China’s LNG demand drops for 13th month running. Last week, Pakistan cancelled a huge contract to purchase LNG from Qatar (even choosing to pay a penalty) because they no longer need/want it -- the solar revolution is quickly displacing demand for LNG.
financialpost.com/pmn/business...
China's LNG Imports Set to Drop for 13th Month, Kpler Data Show
Seaborne shipments of liquefied natural gas to China in November are set to drop for a 13th straight month on an annual basis, extending a slump in purchases as dom…
financialpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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bill-comeau.bsky.social
Badly needed.
alexboyd.bsky.social Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · Nov 27
I wrote about a novel approach to tackling misinformation currently being discussed in Wales--and which some say Canada should try, too. What if we made a rule so politicians couldn't lie? www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Is it time to make it illegal for politicians to lie to us?
That’s the question currently on the table in Wales, which has just released a draft of the “globally pioneering” sanctions for politicians.
www.thestar.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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ecojusticecanada.bsky.social
BREAKING: Young litigants, @cape-acme.bsky.social, and @greenpeaceca.bsky.social slam the #Ford government over last-minute, short-sighted climate law repeal ahead of the upcoming landmark #Mathur court hearing.

Learn more >> bit.ly/481HRLA

#onpoli #canpoli #genclimateaction
November 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM