Conventional Wisdom
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Wonder at the stars in the firmament. Always forward.
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The more the people who control the Internet talk, the more I think we should destroy the Internet and all go hang out in curling rinks and bowling allies
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta's chatbots will supplement your real friends: "The average American has fewer than 3 friends ... but has demand for ... 15 friends" (h/t x.com/romanhelmetg...)
May 1, 2025 at 2:07 PM
The more the people who control the Internet talk, the more I think we should destroy the Internet and all go hang out in curling rinks and bowling allies
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i was reading more about this guy and here i was thinking he must be influential. no, he is just an random asshole on twitter! some obscure nazi poster who publishes the gutter work of degenerate white nationalists for fun!
May 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
i was reading more about this guy and here i was thinking he must be influential. no, he is just an random asshole on twitter! some obscure nazi poster who publishes the gutter work of degenerate white nationalists for fun!
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Yes. No one should get complacent. VOTE OUT ALL CONS.
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yes. No one should get complacent. VOTE OUT ALL CONS.
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2. This lawyer by the way was involved in the arrest of Pinochet, and has written extensively about Nazi Germany.
I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts Student, Is Detained by ICE
The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated, its president said in a late-night email to students and faculty members.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
2. This lawyer by the way was involved in the arrest of Pinochet, and has written extensively about Nazi Germany.
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Oh my! Jeff's leadership of the CPC was aided and abetted by Narendra Modi????
Thank you CSIS!
(Source: Globe & Mail, 25 Mar 25)
Thank you CSIS!
(Source: Globe & Mail, 25 Mar 25)
March 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Oh my! Jeff's leadership of the CPC was aided and abetted by Narendra Modi????
Thank you CSIS!
(Source: Globe & Mail, 25 Mar 25)
Thank you CSIS!
(Source: Globe & Mail, 25 Mar 25)
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“CSIS did not share this information with Mr. Poilievre, the source said, because he does not have the necessary security clearance to access secret documents and receive classified briefings on foreign-interference activities in Canada.”
March 25, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“CSIS did not share this information with Mr. Poilievre, the source said, because he does not have the necessary security clearance to access secret documents and receive classified briefings on foreign-interference activities in Canada.”
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Old news.
Harper’s buddy Modi PM of India interfered in 🇨🇦elections. Fundraised & put boots on the ground to help elect Poilievre.
How about a story on Harper & Scott Moe’s visits to India? Did they sabotage Federal Liberals on trade?
CPC =
#ConservativePartyOfCruelty
Harper’s buddy Modi PM of India interfered in 🇨🇦elections. Fundraised & put boots on the ground to help elect Poilievre.
How about a story on Harper & Scott Moe’s visits to India? Did they sabotage Federal Liberals on trade?
CPC =
#ConservativePartyOfCruelty
March 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Old news.
Harper’s buddy Modi PM of India interfered in 🇨🇦elections. Fundraised & put boots on the ground to help elect Poilievre.
How about a story on Harper & Scott Moe’s visits to India? Did they sabotage Federal Liberals on trade?
CPC =
#ConservativePartyOfCruelty
Harper’s buddy Modi PM of India interfered in 🇨🇦elections. Fundraised & put boots on the ground to help elect Poilievre.
How about a story on Harper & Scott Moe’s visits to India? Did they sabotage Federal Liberals on trade?
CPC =
#ConservativePartyOfCruelty
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Your routine reminder that Pierre Poilievre courts misogynists globalnews.ca/news/9178531...
Pierre Poilievre’s YouTube channel included hidden misogynistic tag to promote videos - National | Globalnews.ca
Poilievre's office said the misogynistic term has been embedded in his YouTube videos for four and a half years, but was removed when Global News alerted them to its use.
globalnews.ca
March 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Your routine reminder that Pierre Poilievre courts misogynists globalnews.ca/news/9178531...
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Who is behind MAGA? Trump? Vance? Pierre? Dougie? Danielle? Moe?
Certainly Elon, Vlad.
But have you ever heard of Peter Theil? Probably not, but he is Bond villain in a volcano crazy+crazy rich. He wants to tear down democracy. And he’s paying for it. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Certainly Elon, Vlad.
But have you ever heard of Peter Theil? Probably not, but he is Bond villain in a volcano crazy+crazy rich. He wants to tear down democracy. And he’s paying for it. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Peter Thiel, Trump's Man in Silicon Valley
An excerpt from 'Owned: How Tech Billionaires on the Right Bought the Loudest Voices on the Left' traces Thiel’s impact on the GOP and media.
rollingstone.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Who is behind MAGA? Trump? Vance? Pierre? Dougie? Danielle? Moe?
Certainly Elon, Vlad.
But have you ever heard of Peter Theil? Probably not, but he is Bond villain in a volcano crazy+crazy rich. He wants to tear down democracy. And he’s paying for it. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Certainly Elon, Vlad.
But have you ever heard of Peter Theil? Probably not, but he is Bond villain in a volcano crazy+crazy rich. He wants to tear down democracy. And he’s paying for it. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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And as Michelle Cohen points out, Matt Strauss' legal battle with Queen's U was funded by none other than Elon Musk. He did that for several fringe anti-vaccine/anti covid mitigation advocates in Ontario, as I vividly recall.
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Matt Strauss is also financially indebted to Elon Musk, who announced last year that he is funding Strauss's defamation suit against Queen's University.
March 25, 2025 at 4:23 PM
And as Michelle Cohen points out, Matt Strauss' legal battle with Queen's U was funded by none other than Elon Musk. He did that for several fringe anti-vaccine/anti covid mitigation advocates in Ontario, as I vividly recall.
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If you don't believe me when I say the Conservatives have MAGA beliefs when it comes to anti-science, then how did such a candidate get approved, let alone other pandemic fringe candidates like Leslyn Lewis, Roman Baber, and Dean Allison? And that's just in Ontario.
March 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
If you don't believe me when I say the Conservatives have MAGA beliefs when it comes to anti-science, then how did such a candidate get approved, let alone other pandemic fringe candidates like Leslyn Lewis, Roman Baber, and Dean Allison? And that's just in Ontario.
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We now go to live video of Pierre Poilievre launching his new 3-year-old election campaign.
a man in a suit and tie is running down a street
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is running down a street
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March 23, 2025 at 4:39 PM
We now go to live video of Pierre Poilievre launching his new 3-year-old election campaign.
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The federal government should immediately ban Canadian cable companies from carrying FOX News, which is actively pushing disinformation threatening our sovereignty. Why are we contributing to this dogshit organization's revenue?
March 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The federal government should immediately ban Canadian cable companies from carrying FOX News, which is actively pushing disinformation threatening our sovereignty. Why are we contributing to this dogshit organization's revenue?
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Maybe it’s time to profile Dani’s latest on #PNPCBC (and I don’t mean all of her ongoing scandals in Alberta)
@davidwcochrane.bsky.social
Would love to hear what Con boy Fred DeLorey has to say about Dani speaking at event with Ben Shapiro next.
A little alarming under the circumstances, no?!
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Would love to hear what Con boy Fred DeLorey has to say about Dani speaking at event with Ben Shapiro next.
A little alarming under the circumstances, no?!
Danielle Smith asked for foreign interference in Canada's politics from Tucker Carlson, who had, prior to this, called for the US to invade Canada? She asked for his help to get Justin Trudeau fired.
Danielle Smith is a traitor. She is not Team Canada as she now pretends. #cdnpoli
Danielle Smith is a traitor. She is not Team Canada as she now pretends. #cdnpoli
March 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Maybe it’s time to profile Dani’s latest on #PNPCBC (and I don’t mean all of her ongoing scandals in Alberta)
@davidwcochrane.bsky.social
Would love to hear what Con boy Fred DeLorey has to say about Dani speaking at event with Ben Shapiro next.
A little alarming under the circumstances, no?!
@davidwcochrane.bsky.social
Would love to hear what Con boy Fred DeLorey has to say about Dani speaking at event with Ben Shapiro next.
A little alarming under the circumstances, no?!
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The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize.
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
So It Begins: The Disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil and Authoritarian Capture
The Trump Administration kidnapped a legal permanent resident and shuffled him through an authoritarian maze. We're witnessing the beginnings of something terrifying
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
The disappearing of Mahmoud Khalil, a person with permanent legal status in the US, should be a red line that everyone should recognize.
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
They knocked on his door and vanished him into an authoritarian system without a trace.
Your door could be next.
jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/so-it-begi...
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I couldn't be happier that the Canadians are taking a stand for their freedom, their sovereignty and their way of life. But it is sad and shameful that we in the US have, for absolutely no reason, created a situation in which there is so much enmity toward us from our neighbors.
Canada’s next prime minister, Mark Carney, used his leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that the U.S. “president” wants to “destroy our way of life.”
“America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…
“America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…
March 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
I couldn't be happier that the Canadians are taking a stand for their freedom, their sovereignty and their way of life. But it is sad and shameful that we in the US have, for absolutely no reason, created a situation in which there is so much enmity toward us from our neighbors.
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This just in from @davidmoscrop.com. Doug Ford's win is a lousy outcome for Ontario. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/28/o...
Doug Ford's win is Ontario's loss
Because politics is politics, as cynical as predictable, each party and leader will claim victory after last night, but this was an election that everybody lost, not least of whom include the people o...
www.nationalobserver.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This just in from @davidmoscrop.com. Doug Ford's win is a lousy outcome for Ontario. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/28/o...
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It's about time citizens understood that if they don't participate in democracy they will lose it. Democracy is US. Nobody should have to "inspire" people to do their duty to their own country. Our grandparents didn't say "Oh I have to be inspired to vote."
February 28, 2025 at 3:20 PM
It's about time citizens understood that if they don't participate in democracy they will lose it. Democracy is US. Nobody should have to "inspire" people to do their duty to their own country. Our grandparents didn't say "Oh I have to be inspired to vote."
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Was just reading this in @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s ‘They Knew’. As a progressive Missourian I can confirm that our state, though labeled ‘Red’, is “purple, like a bruise”.
February 28, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Was just reading this in @sarahkendzior.bsky.social ‘s ‘They Knew’. As a progressive Missourian I can confirm that our state, though labeled ‘Red’, is “purple, like a bruise”.
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So important to read now.
Reas these excerpts from the memoir of Inge Scholl, who lived thru the Nazi era in Germany: "The conservative Christian parties smoothed Hitler's path to power. Ten years later Germany was a hotbed of robbers and rapists who waged war on all of Europe..."
History repeating...
History repeating...
February 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
So important to read now.
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“U.S. policy is now to wage economic war on Canada, remove Canadian sovereignty and forcibly annex Canada to the US.”— Anne Applebaum
www.thewhig.com/opinion/cana...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/cana...
Canada stands up to the American bully
The United States is a predatory power that threatens Canada’s economy, national sovereignty and independence.
www.thewhig.com
February 23, 2025 at 2:46 AM
“U.S. policy is now to wage economic war on Canada, remove Canadian sovereignty and forcibly annex Canada to the US.”— Anne Applebaum
www.thewhig.com/opinion/cana...
www.thewhig.com/opinion/cana...
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We really need to get Ford out.
Think about more "Kevin O'Leary" types running Ontario.
That should mobilize a few people.
Think about more "Kevin O'Leary" types running Ontario.
That should mobilize a few people.
February 23, 2025 at 11:02 PM
We really need to get Ford out.
Think about more "Kevin O'Leary" types running Ontario.
That should mobilize a few people.
Think about more "Kevin O'Leary" types running Ontario.
That should mobilize a few people.
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It's a grift!
The public is being swindled by the Alberta government and private health care investors
The news out of Alberta just keeps getting worse
For-profits paid upwards of 2x as much for the same procedures performed in Alberta's public hospitals
Public inquiry now.
#abpoli #ableg
The public is being swindled by the Alberta government and private health care investors
The news out of Alberta just keeps getting worse
For-profits paid upwards of 2x as much for the same procedures performed in Alberta's public hospitals
Public inquiry now.
#abpoli #ableg
February 23, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Serious threat, Canadian folks. Thanks for the explainer thread, @jmcrookston.bsky.social
Just a note that the 51st state stuff is not a joke.
This is straight out of the Russian playbook. First they get an idea started. Then they give it a leader. Then the calls for it to be made real start. And then the foreign inavder moves in to protect "its people"
This is straight out of the Russian playbook. First they get an idea started. Then they give it a leader. Then the calls for it to be made real start. And then the foreign inavder moves in to protect "its people"
February 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Serious threat, Canadian folks. Thanks for the explainer thread, @jmcrookston.bsky.social
