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Neil Before Zod

@waytowichneil.bsky.social

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Yes, I'm that Neil Waytowich. Representing only myself with no affiliations. I curse often and trigger conservatives. Neil Before Zod from Twitter. I help idiots become self-aware.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · Feb 15

“It’s not the Americans fault. It’s our fault. We’re stupid.” ~ Pierre Poilievre.

You cannot claim to be Canada first, when you call Canada stupid.

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · 8h

PM Carney announced that automatic tax filing is coming for people on fixed incomes! I made this video in March 2024, explaining why this is such an important poverty-fighting initiative. So many people are going to keep their housing and be able to feed their families because of this.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 15h

Doug Ford taking over our democratically elected school board trustees is yet another infringement of our democratic rights and very Trump like. Slowly, like waves eroding a beach.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 4d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 4d

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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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 4d

Frankly, the governors of California, Illinois, and Oregon should have state law-enforcement arrest the National Guard soldiers who are deployed to their states if they are there illegally under the constitution.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."

They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

BASH: You mentioned $1.5 trillion. $1 trillion of that is to reverse Medicaid cuts that you put in the big beautiful bill

MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid reforms, not cuts.

BASH: It's less spending. You can call it what you want.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 9d

I never thought that I would be called an extremist for caring for those less fortunate than myself. I never thought that I’d be called radical far left for caring about the future of my children and grandchildren.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 9d

This has to be said again. John Ivison may be the most balanced journalist in Canada - he is equally useless to all Canadians. Seriously, why do we keep giving prominent platforms to such biased, lazy, untalented, and mediocre journalists?

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NPR @npr.org · 9d

Today marks the first day in public media’s history without federal funding. And we’re not going anywhere.

Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 10d

The only way to lower grocery prices in Canada is simple.

Stop the profiteering from the major grocery chains.

And that includes Poilievre’s campaign manager’s client— Loblaws.

#cdnpoli

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 9d

How it started. How it’s going.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 10d

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 9d

Pierre Poilievre up to his usual white nationalist racism. Yes Pierre, Christians are the real victims here…

r.gilmore on Instagram: "I had to call for backup on this one. Thankfully, @pam_palmater answered.View all 429 comments"

I had to call for backup on this one. Thankfully, @pam_palmater answered.

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 10d

Toronto’s Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

#canlab #cdnpoli

Exclusive Tory club hires temporary foreign workers under program Pierre Poilievre vows to kill

Toronto's Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

www.thestar.com

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 10d

Some of y’all really fell for the okie doke of treating “wokeness” as a slur and turning around to tell marginalized communities to STFU because according to you fighting for our rights was “identity politics” and costs votes.
Now look you got the military on the streets like Pinochet

a man with a beard is talking to another man in a room .

Alt: a man with a beard is talking to another with the caption “congratulations you played yourself”

media.tenor.com

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Andy Chalk @andychalk.bsky.social · 11d

Fuck Russell Peters

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 11d

For comedians playing the controversial Riyadh Comedy Festival, punchlines are negotiable

Performers agreed to restrictions on material at festival held in Saudi Arabia, which has dismal human-rights record

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 11d

My Lord the hatred I have for this man

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 12d

HAKEEM JEFFRIES: "We hope and expect that Republicans will do the right thing"

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11d

No, he does not. Only himself and his cronies. x.com/gavinnewsom/...

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Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 13d

This aged well...

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe we shouldn’t be taking medical advice from porn stars.

Jenny McCarthy, give her usual horrible medical advice.

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · Jul 18

Silicon Valley’s alliance with Donald Trump was a mask off moment and showed the world we can’t depend on US tech companies.

For the past few months, I’ve been trying to get off US tech and I put together a guide so you find alternatives too. I hope you find it helpful!

Getting off US tech: a guide

I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.

www.disconnect.blog

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 12d

America’s favorite game show: “Wheel of Regret.”

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Josh Matlow @joshmatlow.bsky.social · 12d

A rare photo of two young girls possibly waiting for the LRT to arrive at Yonge and Eglinton back in 1922. Their great grandkids continue this tradition over a century later.

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