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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 2h

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Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens - ABC News

Colombian president says US military struck Colombian boat, killed his citizens

The last boat struck by the U.S. military in the Caribbean Sea was Colombian with Colombian citizens inside, Colombian President Gustavo Petro said on Wednesday.

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ResJudicata22 @resjudicata22.bsky.social · 22h

Cartoonist: Dave Whamond

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 14h

Alberta launched its border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border.

But the Interdiction Patrol Team has so far made only a handful of arrests, according to data released through an access to information request.

Alberta’s Border Patrol Has Made Only a Handful of Arrests | The Tyee

Ten months in, critics are concerned about the $29-million cost and few results from the initiative.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

The nominative determinism of this specific atrocity is off the charts here.

Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 5h

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

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Sam Blum @samblum.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: A company that bills itself as meme-SaaS wants to be the go-to platform for culture warriors and gov agencies like DHS. (Its founder has also been calling me the R word over on X dot com. Great people!)

www.inc.com/sam-blum/mee...

Meet the Gen-Z Founder Building the Canva of Memes

Getting attention online has never been harder. Jason Levin’s Memelord Technologies has an answer: sell memes-as-a-service.

www.inc.com

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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 6h

Your regulare reminder that the Alberta government has manufactured this budget constraint. See previous skeet. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Alberta education minister says striking teachers will need to make ‘trade-offs’ | CBC News

Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides says the Alberta government won’t spend beyond $2.6 billion over four years in new spending to resolve a contract dispute with striking teachers.

www.cbc.ca

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Daniel Ahmad @zhugeex.com · 1d

You can buy China's Unitree G1 Robot from Walmart in the US.

Meanwhile, no American robotics company has a working commercial product.

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 7h

PM Carney announces Charter of Rights to be renamed Charter of Optional Ideas

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney held a press conference today to announce a renaming of the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, the document that enshrined our foundational set of rights in...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "He said he was going after the worst of the worst. It's not going after the worst of the worst when you're just literally stopping children who happen to be brown & asking them for papers as if they're gonna have proof they're a citizen. Pull out your phones and film everything you see"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 13h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 8h

Oh this is not great

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

NN: Dems say you won't swear in Grijalva bc you don't want her vote on Epstein

JOHNSON: No. It's scheduling

NN: But there have been Rs sworn in during pro forma sessions

MJ: Only reason was bc they flew in their family

NN: So if she flies in her family you'd do it?

MJ: Again, it's a distraction

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

“.. the debate inside the administration has shifted recently, from whether it makes sense to invoke the act to more deeply exploring how and when it might be invoked ..”

@nbcnews.com
www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

Waiting on those $1000 tariff rebate checks. 🤡

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 8h

At U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments Wednesday, the justices signaled they’re wary of making it significantly easier to challenge election laws, as a Republican member of Congress and his allies are urging them to do. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SCOTUS Sounds Skeptical of Right-Wing Push for Flood of Election Law Challenges

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Charles Mire 🇨🇦 @charlesmire.bsky.social · 12h

Yes!

"it would be "unimaginable" for a federal government to steer clear of a case affecting Charter rights that will have lasting impacts and suggests the premiers' argument is "untenable.""

www.castanet.net/news/Canada/...

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause - Canada News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser is rebuffing calls from several premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13h

The obvious question here is how you can indict when you're "just getting your hands around" the evidence.

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 14h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13h

wow what happened to the "free state of florida" smh

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

What it means when the techbros build a data center near you: the cost of your electrical power will soar, on average about 270% Your power consumption is just another way in which you are feeding and subsidizing them. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 19h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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