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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 2d

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 4d

RED ALERT: Ken Sim Plans to Drop HUGE CUTS on Vancouver's Public Services THIS WEDNESDAY

That could mean cuts to:
❌ Libraries
❌ Community Grants
❌ Road Safety
❌ Homelessness supports
❌ Arts & Culture
❌ Reconciliation
❌ Climate change programs

Write to council now:
www.votecope.ca/stopsim

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Late Night with Seth Meyers @latenightseth.bsky.social · 9d

The government is officially shut down, and Trump is threatening war on American cities. Seth Meyers takes #ACloserLook at what comes next...
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Trump Contradicts Himself on Shutdown Blame, Declares "War" on U.S. Cities: A Closer Look

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10d

“They are literally a captive population. It’s distinguishable from any other conflict, certainly in recent decades and probably in my lifetime.”

Mass slaughter in Gaza stands apart from other genocides, Chris Sidoti says: ‘People cannot escape’

Australian human rights expert who was on UN commission of inquiry labels Israel’s strategy a failure that ‘has not brought peace and has not destroyed Hamas’

www.theguardian.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 13d

Abolish ICE. Now.

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ICE Warden Put Transgender Detainees into Forced Labor Program: Complaint

A federal complaint accuses the warden of creating an ad hoc work program used to demean trans detainees.

www.newsweek.com

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 13d

Musicians with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, members of the Vancouver Musicians’ Association, and Local 145 of the Canadian Federation of Musicians went out on strike this week.

And COPE was there to show solidarity!

#Solidarity #vanpoli #labour

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Brooklyn Fowler-Moros @brooklynyvr.bsky.social · 13d

Just finished Crackdown by @garthmullins.bsky.social

It’s an essential piece of history and good sense policy on the failures of the drug war.

I highly recommend to anyone, especially educators.

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/700597...

Crackdown by Garth Mullins | Penguin Random House Canada

*NATIONAL BESTSELLER*Part memoir, part manifesto, Crackdown is a story of the drug war, told from the frontlines.

www.penguinrandomhouse.ca

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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 14d

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COPE: The Coalition of Progressive Electors @copevancouver.bsky.social · 15d

Just in!

The Union of B.C. Municipalities has passed the motion calling on the provincial govt to legislate Housing as a Human Right.

In June, Vancouver unanimously passed a motion from @seanorr.bsky.social & @ptfry.bsky.social to bring this to UBCM.

#bcpoli #vanpoli #HousingIsAHumanRight

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 15d

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Reform UK’s ex-leader in Wales Nathan Gill pleads guilty to bribery charges

Gill admits to eight counts of bribery relating to pro-Russia statements made in the European parliament and articles

www.theguardian.com

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Jerrad Christian @jerradchristian.bsky.social · 14d

Oversight Democrats Release Third Batch of Documents from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Includes Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Steve Bannon, Prince Andrew Mentions.

oversightdemocrats.house.gov/news/press-r... #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinList #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Resist

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Brooklyn Fowler-Moros @brooklynyvr.bsky.social · 14d

Solidarity with Posties ✊🏼📬💌

PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 14d

The government wants to end mail delivery as we know it. Postal workers hope to stop them.

Why Canada Post workers are back on strike:

pressprogress.ca/why-canada-p...

Why Canada Post Workers Are Back On Strike

Facing spiralling costs, the government wants to end mail delivery as we know it. Postal workers hope to stop them.

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Oz Katerji @ozkaterji.bsky.social · 15d

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 15d

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

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Fernando Medrano @fmed.bsky.social · 17d

Ressa addresses the UN.

Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa's Powerful Speech: “Information Armageddon” Threatens Democracy | AC1G

YouTube video by DRM News

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Brooklyn Fowler-Moros @brooklynyvr.bsky.social · 17d

Priorities, priorities…….

Brooklyn Fowler-Moros @brooklynyvr.bsky.social · 18d

It is beyond fucked, it’s a crisis.

My dad has a life-threatening long-term illness and I finally called his MLA’s office and just cried into the phone to the person who answered about how scared I was that he was going to die and I wouldn’t be able to find a doctor to see him.

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AntifAndrea @antheonly.bsky.social · 18d

I just read that Dr Oz ( I hate to address him that way) owns stock in iHerb which makes the natural form of leucovorin. I bet they didn’t hold this press conference until they all figured out the grift they’re each getting out of this.

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Congresswoman Sarah McBride @mcbride.house.gov · 18d

Shanah Tovah to all who are celebrating across our state of neighbors! May this sweet new year be one of renewal, filled with happiness, community, and hope.

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 18d

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics

The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics

New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 18d

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 18d

How a single measles case became 5,000 – and the lessons not learned, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0fc7a92... via @theglobeandmail.com

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 21d

The Washington Post Fired Karen Attiah, But They Only Elevated Her

The Post fired Karen Attiah, its last Black opinion columnist, because she posted about America's history of coddling white violence. Well, she's got a few things to get off her chest.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-washin...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21d

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

snyder.substack.com

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Brooklyn Fowler-Moros @brooklynyvr.bsky.social · 22d

OMG Avi, please win and please get the NDP back on track!!!

The working class and poor of this country need you. Basic human rights need you 🧡

Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22d

Canada's true crisis is the everyday emergency of just trying to get by in an impossible economy.

I’m running for NDP leader so we can transform a system rigged for the rich—together.

We need a government that serves the many, not the money.

Join in. lewisforleader.ca/

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Why I’m running for NDP leader

YouTube video by Avi Lewis

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