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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 10h

I have so many thoughts on the Trump Carney meeting, two huge new Ford scandals that just broke and the collapse of America into a violent fascist regime in front of our eyes.

What a week and it’s only Wednesday.

Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel going to be EPIC 🇨🇦

#Cndpoli #Onpoli

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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 9h

Between this and Miller’s “plenary authority” word vomit mishap, they’ve really given the game away this week

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 16h

Cops used 83,000 cameras to track a single abortion patient — on her abuser’s tip.

Cops Used 83K Cameras to Track an Abortion Patient—on Her Abuser’s Tip

Turns out the cop was also an abuser

jessica.substack.com

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boba @boba.yogscast.com · 22h

A clip from Big Brother came up on my Tiktok feed of a participant, Caroline Monk, making the most disgusting comments towards fellow participant, Zelah, who is a transman.

this is unacceptable and she should have been IMMEDIATELY removed from the show.

I started a petition -
chng.it/kMb7BJMWpZ

This campaign needs you now

Remove Caroline Monk from Big Brother for her transphobic remarks.

chng.it

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

The entire debate over whether or not protestors should use violence comes down to the fact that the definition of “violence” is applied unevenly to different groups on the basis of power.

If you’re attempting to upend the status quo, someone will always call something you did violent.

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 1d

There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups.

Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.

Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

One of the fundamental truths we need to acknowledge in this moment is that domestic violence is where fascists learned how to get away with their violence.

“What did you do to provoke him?” is exactly what victims hear when they try to seek help in an abusive relationship.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Y'all who keep lecturing protesters to "not give them an excuse" need to pause for a minute. Imagine yourself telling a DV victim, "Be sure not to mouth off or make any mistakes so he won't hit you. Don't give him an excuse! It's what he wants!" That's what you fools sound like.

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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things that brings me the greatest despair in authoritarianism is watching people react to state violence the way they react to domestic violence.

By justifying anything and everything the perpetrators does through blaming a victim for failing to be submissive enough.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

this is literally stuff King Charles did, like not only did the American colonists have a revolution to not have this happen, but they did so in the wake of the English revolution, which was about not having stuff like this happen

George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Well that's not how appropriations work at all

*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 1d

New It Could Happen Here 🎤

Robert, James, Mia, and Gare talk about the comedians who sold their soul to perform stand up for the royal family in Saudi Arabia.

@iwriteok.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social @miawong.bsky.social @bishonentype.bsky.social

www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The way we are experiencing this is as a genuine "fuck you guys" moment, where the level of "fuck you" increases with your level of transness and POCness

And I'm sure there are folks on the team who don't feel this way about it but this is how the failed comms strategy is working, publicly

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

The MAGA plan to break up our country: secret meetings in Washington, a massive American slush fund and Danielle Smith.
Here is my latest on the MAGA and MAGA MAPLE attack on Canada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nwi...

THE MAGA SCHEME TO DESTROY CANADA: TRAITORS, FAKE PIPELINE, SLUSH FUND

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 1d

Brain damage from a medically induced coma is the canadian equivalent to worms eating your brain.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 3d

i believe raw meat cures everything and that it's a good idea to quit benzos cold turkey by going into a medically induced coma. why is everyone i love always sick and dying?

jeff computers @helldude.bsky.social · 3d

lets all stay dignified and remember that jordan was doing (canadian) politics the right way

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 2d

as the person who kicked off a lot of the modern "civil war 2" discourse i don't think we're past the point where that can be avoided. i do think we are already in a state of mass civil conflict. but many nations (see: Italy) have been through similar upheavals without war.

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1d

When you're getting lined up in front of the fascist firing squads just remember this is the world you wanted, you just though it'd be the trannies and not a bunch of posh journalists who went to all the right schools with all the right connections

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1d

The one thing about the rise of fascism is that even if we lose it's going to be so fucking funny watching all of the liberal dogs like the Guardian get consumed by the fascist beast they created

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 1d

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Guardian - Concern over cross-sex hormones available online for £11 a month

Guardian - Apology for student therapist (James Esses) expelled for his gender views

Guardian 'On shaky foundations' How good is evidence for treatment (trans kids)

Guardian - No single explanation - Why are so many girls questioning their gender?

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 2d

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca

Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

globalnews.ca

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ghoill.bsky.social @ghoill.bsky.social · 2d

"Tyrants" seems like a particularly timeless word.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 2d

I’m down for this.

The image is an X post by RB (@rbisrb
) from 1 day ago, with the caption "Absolutely..." The post includes a meme featuring a photo of several men in suits, with text overlay stating: "Instead of 'billionaires' can we go back to calling them 'robber barons'?" The individuals in the photo appear to be prominent figures, though they are not specifically identified.

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 2d

For years we had a problem where the right would say "X is happening!" and we'd have to be like "ok no that's not quite right, Y is happening but not Z and you really have to understand the history of A..."

Now we can simply say "no that is a fuckin lie" and move on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Stephen Miller claims that in Portland "ICE officers have to street battles against antifa, hand to hand combat every night, to come and go from their building"

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

@unraveledpress.com & other press have been threatened, shot with less-lethals and arrested while reporting on federal immigration activities in Chicagoland and on the resulting protests at Broadview.

I'm now at a hearing asking the federal court to rein ICE & co in. I'll let you know how it goes.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2d

Well, yeah, we're suing ICE.

This wasn't really a hard decision. As little faith as we have in institutions, we recognize the value of drawing visible lines in the sand. We drew ours personally a while ago, but better late than never.

May every protester be freed and may this occupation end.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

HOLY SH*T.

There it is.

Trump says he will speak to the DOJ about giving Ghislaine Maxwell a pardon.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.