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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 1d

ROTOR Act would expand surveillance standards, limit military exemptions, and tie into broader FAA initiatives under the Cruz ADS-B proposal.

avweb.com

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lalabote @lalabote.bsky.social · 3d

A day in the life of ICE Air ethnic cleansing operations.
Thursday 16 October 2025
0000-0000 UTC
8pm-8pm EDT
5pm-5pm PDT

* At least 23 planes used.
* (3) Coast Guard C-27s used.

globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=a1ac1a,...

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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 3d

For those keeping track...

"Alberta Strong and Free": United Conservative Party

"Canada Strong and Free Network": New name for what used to be known as the Manning Centre

"Strong and Free": Alberta's new licence plates

"Truly Strong and Free": Republican Party of Alberta

Republican Party of Alberta banner image

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 4d

Fred again.. - Green Room Set (Maka’s Birthday, Rome)
youtu.be/o_N5JQYHJXk

Fred again.. - Green Room Set (Maka’s Birthday, Rome)

YouTube video by Fred again . .

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

Remember when the 🇺🇸 USS Vincennes shot down 🇮🇷 Iran Air Flight 655 on July 3 1988 killing all 290 civilians on board, and the American government tried to say the aircraft's transponder made the A300 look like an Iranian Air Force F-14 coming right at their warship, when it didn't?

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 6d

Great seats!

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 6d

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but Russian Navy KILO class submarines transiting to/from Mediterranean on the surface are routine. NATO of course watches them closely, as in this photo.

Russia does have increasing difficulty maintaining a presence in Med but this in itself isn’t a big deal

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 10d

Here's the explanation for the radioactive shrimp. Makes sense. Not the first time a cesium-137 source has made it into steel production.

@funranium.bsky.social
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
@nuclearkatie.com

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 10d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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CBS News | Breaking news, top stories & today's latest headlines @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy · 13d

CBS News on board as China intercepts Canadian air force mission

China sent fighter jets to intercept a Canadian air force plane tracking North Korean ships breaching U.N. sanctions.

www.cbsnews.com

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 12d

If you enjoy chocolate, you should enjoy Tony’s Chocolonely.
youtu.be/EpEspQxlw8g

Tony's Chocolonely - together, we'll end exploitation in cocoa

YouTube video by Tony's Chocolonely

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 12d

TIL...

Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 13d

🇨🇦⚓️ Royal Canadian Navy Media and Public Awareness Update (Week 40) showing the state of the RCN, and last reported locations of the fleet. Journalists should know at least this much info is publicly available.

(28 Page PDF distributed via Patreon)
www.patreon.com/posts/rcn-me...

map of the world showing where the RCN is deployed

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CHEK News @cheknews.ca · 14d

HMCS Corner Brook arrived at Ogden Point on Sunday to a sea of spectators, waiting to catch a glimpse and take a tour of the 36-year-old long range submarine.

HMCS Cornerbrook submarine surfaces at Ogden Point after months at sea

HMCS Corner Brook arrived at Ogden Point on Sunday to a sea of spectators waiting to catch a glimpse and take a tour of the 36-year-old long range submarine.

cheknews.ca

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 16d

Remember 🇺🇸 #USAF E-3G Sentry 81-0005 #AE11EE buzzed Ottawa on September 16, the one that had an #RCAF pilot according to U.S. Air Combat Command? They were conducting clandestine operations in the Caribbean (near Venezuela 🇻🇪) on Sept 28 as #NORSE01.

Was it the same 🇨🇦 pilot? 🤷‍♂️

Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

Interesting! I hadn't heard that story

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 18d

Vast majority of Canadians no longer consider the United States an ally

The vast majority of Canadians no longer consider the United States to be an ally.

cultmtl.com

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you! 👍

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 17d

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

If you're a computer geek (or know one) with a shoebox (ok, a closet) of old Raspberry Pis / spare parts you might already be able to build a software defined receiver yourself right now and contribute to the network. Or buy it new! Or ask for one!

www.adsbexchange.com/ways-to-join...

Ways To Join The Exchange - ADS-B Exchange

Existing Equipment Already have a receiver and want to start contributing to the ADSB Exchange Network? Build Your Own Technically Savvy? Get detailed instructions on building your own ADSB receiver. ...

www.adsbexchange.com

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

I think normies who know flight tracker sites exist think they're seeing "radar"; those people passively consume the information, thinking they're incapable of improving the network. This is radio, not radar. With 4+ receivers in line of sight of the plane we can track it using multilateration/MLAT.

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

You, your family, your friends, in the Caribbean can help fill in the map. A few more receivers on Aruba, Curacao, and Bonaire would help identify the aircraft flying within hundreds of km of them, in line of sight. Same for Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, or Barbados!

map.adsbexchange.com/mlat-map/

map representing ADSBexchange receivers that collect Mode-S radio transponder transmissions from aircraft near Curacao

map representing ADSBexchange receivers that collect Mode-S radio transponder transmissions from aircraft over T&T

map representing ADSBexchange receivers that collect Mode-S radio transponder transmissions from aircraft over Barbados

map representing ADSBexchange receivers that collect Mode-S radio transponder transmissions from aircraft

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

Likewise, Maduro doesn't want his population and the rest of the world to see he can't intercept American aircraft in international airspace they control (like NORAD intercept RuAF in the Alaskan ADIZ).

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

I assure you USSOUTHCOM doesn't want the public to make their own timeline of their future operations against Venezuela using flight information they can't completely control, they would rather control the message and be the only source of information, but it's not the 1980s anymore, we can do this.

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

It's a long read!

time.com/wp-content/u...

time.com

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Steffan Watkins 🇨🇦 @steffanwatkins.bsky.social · 17d

More importantly, we can see what the 🇺🇸 military are showing Venezuelan air defences while they're operating in the Maiquetía FIR. They're flying in Venezuelan-controlled international airspace every day now. They're not hiding many of their planes, we could see them, Venezuela 🇻🇪 can.

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