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Dave Infante @dinfontay.com · 9h

"Weiss is a shameless opportunist and troll whose 'expertise' [...] has largely involved trolling everyone left of center for engagement clicks with culture war dogshit and dangerously shoddy reporting, then crying like a full-diapered toddler when people criticize her for being generally terrible."

Paramount Formally Hires Bari Weiss To Turn What’s Left Of CBS News Into A Soggy Right Wing Propaganda And Troll Farm

It’s super curious how the folks most vocal about being cancelled or having their “Conservative viewpoints silenced” now own or control most major U.S. media companies. Almost as …

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 9h

At Umani Springs, this perfect world unfolds daily. Four babies – Mwana, Lenny, Sulwe, and Zigi – are being raised by their orphan mothers in the wild, but they also enjoy the presence of the same supportive human family that once raised their mothers as orphans.

#WildBornBabies

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 7h

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · Jun 26

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Convoy supporters falsely claim the Freedom Convoy was a “peaceful protest."

The @ottpeoplescomm's final report, based on testimony from over 200 people, shines a light widespread violence, harassment and hate crimes in the streets of Ottawa.

'It Was Violent': People's Commission Report Shines Light on Violence, Harassment and Hate C...

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Former Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says convoy occupiers 'attacked' people in the streets of Ottawa.

Sloly told the Emergencies Act Inquiry local residents, city workers, police and Algonquin elders were targets of violent attacks.

@regina_bateson

More than **400** hate incidents have been reported during the occupation of #Ottawa. 400!! Think about that 400!! And that's just what's documented. The authorities have utterly failed the people of Ottawa. --

Group of protesters targeting Ottawa International Airport | CBC News

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Sloly says convoy occupiers were physically assaulting people in residential neighbourhoods outside of the red zone, they were “tearing masks off peoples' faces."

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 7h

Adorable. 🙄
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Adrien Sala on X: "We had a visit from a supporter of the so-called Freedom Convoy this afternoon who was threatening to myself and staff. The language and behaviour on display was wrong on every level. Our team is shaken but ok, grateful to onlookers and the WPS for helping to deescalate. https://t.co/psJ1YXOQN2" / X

We had a visit from a supporter of the so-called Freedom Convoy this afternoon who was threatening to myself and staff. The language and behaviour on display was wrong on every level. Our team is shaken but ok, grateful to onlookers and the WPS for helping to deescalate. https://t.co/psJ1YXOQN2

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 9h

Today in I CANNOT BELIEVE I did not know about this word until now:

I learned about snarge.

Snarge: What is...er...left...when a bird and a plane collide. The bird bits, specifically.

Obviously I knew about birdstrikes but SNARGE?!

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fea...

Feathers And Snarge: Identifying What’s Left After Birds And Planes Collide

There’s a CSI lab for birds that strike airplanes. The species that hits most often? Not the one you’d guess.

www.sciencefriday.com

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 9h

Carol thought a sun hat might help. It didn’t.

Fluffy, reclining, light beige dog, wearing white rimmed sunglasses, a yellow and green crotched hat, and a world-weary expression.

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Beema 🇨🇦 @cindyouellette-57.bsky.social · 9h

#NeverPoiLIEvre

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 7h

It's malignant ~ stirring rage on an issue, *knowing* that your party has no plans to do anything to FIX the problem you're performatively banging the desk about.

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Harold Pliszka @hpliszka.bsky.social · 9h

Right-wing premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause.
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5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 10h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 12h

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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Ted Raymond @tedraymond.bsky.social · 22h

"Her house arrest sentence shows that in Canada blocking roads is only a crime if you have the wrong politics"

THE CONVOY TOOK OVER DOWNTOWN FOR THREE WEEKS.

THEY TOOK THE WHEELS OFF THEIR TRUCKS TO MAKE THEM HARDER TO MOVE.

PRO-PALESTINE PEOPLE GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY.

IT'S DIFFERENT.

Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 22h

Top story on the National Post.
FFS

Just chasing grievance clicks (and $$$) with absolutely no conscience at all.

Amy Hamm: Canada needs Tamara Lich
Her house arrest sentence shows that in Canada blocking roads is only a crime if you have the wrong politics

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 18h

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · Sep 3

On that note, here's a great thread by @emmettmacfarlane.com on PM Trudeau and vax mandates...

Here's my problem with the 'mandates are divisive' frame, and why I've grown increasingly frustrated by the sort of takes I see at places like The Hub or The Line. 1/n

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Emmett Macfarlane @EmmMacfarl... 6h

Replying to @EmmMacfarlane

Governments are confronted with a once-in-a-century pandemic. Wave after wave. Even bumbling incompetent governments like Doug Ford's enact at least some of the policies necessary to mitigate carnage - going so far as to close schools to protect hospitals. 2/n

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Among the most objectively effective, moral, science-based measures we have are mask and vaccine mandates. Let's be clear, the only arguments against these particular measures amount to 'freedom to expose others to harm' for one's personal convenience. 3/n

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As with almost any policy, some segment, as high as a third of people, disagree. We're told by some commentators that governments have been 'divisive', or harmed social cohesion, by adopting pandemic measures. 4/n

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But there's only one implication to draw from the framing of these pandemic policies as 'divisive': being divisive is bad, and so by bringing in these measures, governments have done something wrong. 5/n

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But of course, vaccine mandates are not wrong. Not morally, not scientifically, not legally, not even on any coherent cost-benefit basis. 6/n

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Emmett Macfarlane

@EmmMacfarl... 6h

2 Now, we haven't even gotten to the 'convoy' movement, and that any scrutiny reveals that "this" particular movement isn't really about mandates. It's covered not just in far-right populist racist messaging, but anti-democratic 'overthrow the Liberal government' lunacy. 7/n

Emmett Macfarlane @EmmMacfarl... 6h

After weeks of unenf…

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 19h

🎯 We all need to take this ⬇️ attitude towards MAGAs/fascists

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Dr. Jen Irwin @drjenirwin.bsky.social · 1d

“COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years”

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years - npj Dementia

npj Dementia - COVID-19 infection associated with increased risk of new-onset vascular dementia in adults ≥50 years

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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gibbyretired.bsky.social @gibbyretired.bsky.social · 20h

I have stopped watching and listening to this career civil servant. He has not made any positive contributions to Canada. He is just a mouthpiece who thinks that holding the government accountable means trashing the PM and his cabinet. Every day. All day. Canadians do not like him never will. Never.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza flotilla arrest reut.rs/4nE1CxU

Greta Thunberg alleges torture in Israeli detention after Gaza flotilla arrest

Thunberg declined to elaborate on the alleged torture, adding when pressed that she didn't get clean water and that other detainees were deprived of critical medication.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 2d

It seems clear—I think to everyone, now—that a false and illegal invocation of the Insurrection Act is coming before the end of the year. Media outlets should be telling us how they will prepare for this potential Treason. State governments should be telling us. Activists should be developing plans.

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Whoa 🤯 in Slow-Mo @0lsi.bsky.social · 21h

A Canadian🇨🇦 company called #Voltai just raised about USD 1.3 million to scale up its “top-like” #wave energy converters that can be attached to ships or offshore structures to turn ocean motion into clean power. 🌊

Top-like ocean wave energy tech gets USD 1.3 million funding push

A Canadian company has secured major funding for its top-like ocean wave system designed to power vessels with renewable energy.

interestingengineering.com

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 19h

Paging Doug Ford 😒
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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · Jan 22

Time to take OUR public money out of these Catholic schools. They can discriminate on their own dime.

Polls for decades show that a majority of Ontarians want this. We just need a politician with some guts to do it.

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 22h

People incapable of feeling shame are usually the nerviest.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

Well, there's a jarring sequence of words to read.

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 22h

On that note...

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Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 1d

Gift Link// Whether the US's ongoing act of political suicide evolves as a murder-suicide is of more than passing interest to the US’s northern domestic partner. Canada is extremely -- uniquely -- vulnerable. I spoke to executives, defense analysts, others. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...

Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?

Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.

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