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I left Xitter ( X is pronounced SH in Portuguese ) for Bluesky s and green fields
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Share this with Doug Ford and the fiscal hawks on Toronto City Council. #TOPoli #ONPoli
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…

* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M

So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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Robert Reich
December 17, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
December 11, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Last night, 8-month-old Rahaf died of exposure after her family’s tent in Gaza was flooded.

No parent should have to bury their child, yet this horror is the reality for countless Palestinians displaced by Israel’s genocide.

Canada’s complicity must end. Sanction Israel now.

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Baby dies of exposure after storm Byron floods Gaza tents, medics say | CBC News
Torrential rain swept across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, flooding hundreds of tents sheltering families displaced by two years of war and leading to the death of a baby girl due to exposure, local hea...
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December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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November 22, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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Missouri’s GOP AG just sicked ICE on citizens collecting signatures to overturn an illegal gerrymander. No evidence. No crime. Just raw intimidation. Authoritarians don’t “win the debate.” They criminalize participation.
November 21, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Zombie Epstein has risen from the dead and is coming to suck out the last three functioning brain cells from drowsy demented
Don

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November 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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@avilewis.ca How do the three Canadian monopolistic grocery chains overcharge Canadians for groceries ?
#CBCMarketplace #crosscountrycheckup
Inflation is on the rise — particularly at the grocery store.

One big reason why?

Minimal competition opens the door to maximal price-gouging — and the opportunity to pull shady tricks like this. https://youtu.be/ad5GfgrPkYo?si=iDRiVN9_TsjGsD9k
Is Your Grocery Store Ripping You Off?
Robert Reich
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November 10, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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How can the NDP reconnect with voters?

Scrap the focus-tested messaging. Communicate directly with passion and substance. And start advocating for solutions as big as the crises we face in ways people can understand.

#cdnpoli
October 31, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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The Toronto Board of Trade, which has carried so much water for Ford, endorsing his billionsdollar impossible 401 tunnel to this. They used to push good policy. They’re hosting an event for the Min of Transpo & his/Ford’s highways obsession.
October 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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This is a pay off to institutional investors like hedge funds to buy up ALL the rental housing in Ontario and raise rents higher by greater percentages than they have in the past.
Watch Toronto shrivel and die.
#topoli @graphicmatt.com
Say goodbye to rent control, indefinite leases if Ontario passes housing proposal: advocates | CBC News
Ontario's planned new housing legislation could open the door to ending rent control and indefinite leases across the province, advocates warn after a recent proposal by Premier Doug Ford's government...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Last weekend saw a lot of road closures in Toronto. Great to see ambulances using bike lanes to get people in distress where they need to go quickly.

The trope touted by Ford and his like that bike lanes delay EMS response times has been proven false time and time again.

#bikelanessavelives
October 22, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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October 17, 2025 at 8:33 PM
To my US companeros have a safe and strong NO KINGS DAY.
Most of you have had an Antifa Fighter in your family.
I had this T- Shirt made of my father in his RCAF uniform in October 1939 after he volunteered to fight the Facist takeover of Europe and possibly the world.
Stand Up For Democracy
October 18, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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October 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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ICE forcibly remove woman in wheelchair—pick up & blind man and throw him down on the concrete.

"Agents picked me up and threw me to the ground," he wrote. "They did the same thing to another person in a wheelchair."

The incident occurred outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. #DemsUnited
October 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM