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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 1d

F🇨🇦ck Chris Barber and Tamara Lich.

Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 8d

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The finest live performance I’ve seen in years. In honour of our dearly departed poet Mark Lanegan. ❤️

Josh Homme & Dave Gahan - One Hundred Days (Roundhouse, London - December 5, 2024)

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 8d

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Calexico - Unsatisfied

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 10d

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Arlene Dickinson 🇨🇦🐉 @arlenedickinson.bsky.social · 12d

This is your daily reminder that climate change is real, Tylenol is safe, God doesn’t love Christian Americans more than anyone else and science deals in facts not falsehoods. ✌🏻

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 14d

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 20d

Jimmy Kimmel is a symptom of a huge problem: a concentrated media ecosystem beholden to corporate whims.

Canadian media struggles with this too.

Consider Global News' management making Ben Mulroney a top political host.

It's a worryingly partisan decision, especially given what I just uncovered:

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 20d

The anonymous liars who created this website falsely accused @rachelgilmore.bsky.social of “supporting political violence,” when she was actually warning about right-wing retaliation for Charlie Kirk’s murder

It sounds like the anonymous liars behind the site could be facing lots of legal problems

performative male @milesklee.bsky.social · 20d

Civil rights attorneys say that people listed on the “Charlie’s Murderers” website—who were subject to death threats and in some cases lost their jobs—may have a case for defamation

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"Many of the people listed on the
'Charlie's murderers' website may have viable defamation claims,"
Barrientos tells Rolling Stone, noting that "many of the posts contained statements that could not be reasonably interpreted as supporting political violence" while others "only quoted Kirk's own words." He adds that the site, by collating personal data, "may have also violated anti-doxing laws that some states began enacting in recent years."

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 21d

Hey America, speech is only free if it’s comfortable for the powerful apparently. That’s not free speech, it’s managed speech. It’s nothing new to you. You’ve never been a fair or just society. On a lighter note, at least you’re not pretending anymore. Yes, that’s what us Canucks refer to as snark.🇨🇦

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21d

Brainworm says what now?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 21d

I stand with Jimmy Kimmel.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 21d

Trump now calls for the firing of Jimmy Fallon and Seth Myers.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated.

Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms.

Collective boycott.

Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · 21d

Jimmy Kimmel suspended for opening his mouth? That’s your ‘land of the free and home of the brave’? What a load of shit. It’s a goddamn theme park slogan. MAGAts don’t want freedom, they want obedience. I’m proud to stand on the side of reality with folks like Jimmy! Canada is with you. 🇨🇦💪🇨🇦

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Havoc @havoc147.bsky.social · 25d

1988 George Carlin is still relevant in 2025.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26d

One thing that kinda blows my mind:

I spoke to national French-language media all morning about this. I did three separate interviews before 10am.

I was interviewed for the U.S. publication WIRED about it.

But English-language Canadian media? Crickets.

It’s just so odd!

Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 26d

Hi. I’m Rachel.

My name is first on the website the North American far-right is using to target people they say “celebrated” Charlie Kirk’s death.

There’s just one problem: I never did that.

But the people sending me threats don’t seem to care.

Let me tell you, in my own words, what happened:

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David Cavlovic🇨🇦🍁 @davidcavlovic.bsky.social · Sep 7

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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · Sep 7

Neofascist Vice President JD Vance’s old Yale Law School buddy Jamil Jivani droning on with the old 🇨🇦Canada is broken refrain.
Not selling, bucko.
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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · Sep 2

He was the very best of us.

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · Sep 2

A Poem In Honour Of Graham Greene:

Born of the Oneida,
voice carved from earth and drum.
He carried the old stories,
gave fire to new ones.
Canada weeps,
but his spirit walks on,
smoke rising,
His song never done.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · Sep 1

😞 RIP Graham Greene ♥️

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Erika Buenaflor Curandera, Decolonize & Resist Fascism @erika-buenaflor.bsky.social · Aug 27

2025 has been a year of extreme duality. The larger world continuously stunning me. Witnessing the insanity of the orange turd, while grateful for so many standing up to him

On a microlevel, grateful for my little family & our slow & peaceful lives & the beautiful people I work with, teach & mentor

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Adora Borealis 🇨🇦 @adoraborealis.bsky.social · Aug 30

Does this matter to a dictator in the making?

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capitanpuffpuff.bsky.social @capitanpuffpuff.bsky.social · Aug 29

The Traitorous Bitch Needs To Go!!!

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Aug 28

As the Smith, Nicolaides and the rest of the UCP inevitably attempt to distance themselves from these sweeping book bans, keep in mind one thing...

They wrote the order.

So this was either deliberate or they are incompetent.

Those are the only two choices.

#abpoli #cdnpoli

The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Aug 28

From the DM's...

This is allegedly the book ban list that has been compiled by the EPSB in order to comply with the ministerial order...

The UCP has banned The Great Gatsby, Atlas Shrugged, A Dance WIth Dragons, It, & over a 100 more books from schools.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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