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Cult MTL

@cultmtl.com

“Never before has a Canadian politician shared so much disinformation unchecked. Canada’s legacy media still refuses to call out Pierre Poilievre’s lies, or question his ties to Canada Proud, who ran disinformation campaigns targeting our prime minister.”

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May 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

"Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online"
www.spiegel.de/internationa...

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online

Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

www.spiegel.de

March 27, 2025 at 12:01 AM

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Matt Novak

@paleofuture.bsky.social

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.

They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.

From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

March 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

So: Russia flatly rejected one Trump envoy (Kellogg), made the next one (Witkoff) wait for eight hours, rejected the ceasefire, and instructed Trump that his job is to give Russia what it wants. That’s what Trump means by "respect" I guess.

March 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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Rachel Gilmore

@rachelgilmore.bsky.social

Reminder that when he had the same delusion about Twitter and wasted everyone’s time and resources on it, zero “ghost employees” were found

Everything is fucking stupid now, huh

Excerpt from a Rolling Stone article summarizing the wildest revelations from the book Character Limit reads: “Paranoia About Employees That Didn’t Exist

Organizationally, Musk’s Twitter was chaotic from day one. He had demanded the firing of a certain executive before he was even CEO; then the company laid off thousands of employees almost at random, had to hire some back, and in one case couldn’t even explain why an essential worker had been terminated. It also fired a lead engineer on bereavement leave for supposedly approving the budget for a party that had taken place six months before he was hired. Musk was paranoid about the employees who stayed, fearing they would sabotage the site, but strangest of all, Conger and Mac report, he “had convinced himself that not all of Twitter’s employees were real.” He wanted an audit of the staff to identify…”

Excerpt from a Rolling Stone article summarizing the wildest revelations from the book Character Limit continues:

“was paranoid about the employees who stayed, fearing they would sabotage the site, but strangest of all, Conger and Mac report, he “had convinced himself that not all of Twitter’s employees were real.” He wanted an audit of the staff to identify what he called “ghost employees” who might be collecting paychecks without doing work. When the request came up in a meeting, “several executives burst out laughing at the absurdity of the idea.” Ultimately, Twitter’s accounting chief and his team had two days to confirm the identities of 7,000 remaining employees — no “ghosts” were found.”

February 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM

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Garry Kasparov

@garrykasparov.bsky.social

So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.

February 17, 2025 at 2:32 AM

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Cʜʀɪs Sᴛᴇɪɴ

@chrisstein.bsky.social

Me looking at posts on X

February 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM

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Charlie Angus

@charlieangus104.bsky.social

Two fucking bandits.
One of them has unleashed horrific violence against the people of Ukraine.
The other is our next door neighbour threatening our sovereignty.
But we know exactly who this grifter is.
We don't bend.
We don't break.
We remain #strongasfuck
True. North. Strong. Free.