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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 9h

honest question: Are the political/economic leaders just jettisoning our global climate commitments? I don't see how we meet our obligations while having ongoing growth in our oil industry.
Or perhaps I am missing someting? @duanebratt.bsky.social

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 8h

Ubisoft canceled an 'Assassin's Creed' game set after the Civil War

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Would fight the emerging Ku Klux Klan

• Leadership canceled it — concerned with US political climate & Yasuke backlash

(via Game File)

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 8h

You have got to be joking hahaha

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Gary R Simonds @garys79.bsky.social · 8h

CNN = Complicity

Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 10h

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 10h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 10h

i'm not sure how you can claim to cover things fairly and fully when you're using the bootleg name that is officially only a "secondary name" for the department

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 10h

CNN is now using the Trump preferred “Department of War” name in its official statements

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Serena @bibliophile99.bsky.social · 8h

#cdnpoli trump vs carney @joyfulnesstoo.bsky.social @gander22h.bsky.social @lsaclassof2000.bsky.social

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Marten Kok @martenkok.bsky.social · 8h

Britain’s PM Keir Starmer is definately out of reality.

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 8h

You can lock up as many people as you want for chanting or protesting against genocide.

You will never scrub away the truth about that genocide - or your own complicity in it.

You are just ensuring that you will be damned all the more for what you have done.

Government could crack down on pro-Palestinian protest chants, PM says

The government needs to

www.bbc.co.uk

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 9h

you cannot lose elections to people that suggest lee greenwood for the super bowl halftime show over bad bunny

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🄼🄴🄴🄷🄰🅆🄻 ⭕ @meehawl.com · 8h

That Florida Man has really outdone himself this time.

'Rinderknecht allegedly started the fire with an open flame—“likely a lighter”—Rinderknecht allegedly typed a question into ChatGPT: “Are you at fault if a fire is [lit] because of your cigarettes?”'

www.latimes.com/california/s...

Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades
By Richard Winton and Hannah Fry
Oct. 8, 2025 Updated 11:24 AM PT
Authorities have arrested a suspect in the Palisades fire after a nine-month investigation into the blaze that killed 12 people.
The devastating fire that destroyed thousands of homes appears to have been a rekindling of an earlier New Year’s Day fire.
The most destructive inferno in Los Angeles history, which charred a devastating path through Pacific Palisades and Malibu in early January, was a flare-up of a fire that an Uber driver intentionally set days earlier near a popular hiking area, federal prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Authorities announced the arrest of the Uber driver, 29-year-old Jonathan Rinderknecht, who is suspected of setting the initial fire early New Year’s Day that eventually became the Palisades fire. Rinderknecht, of Florida, who was arrested Tuesday, was charged with destruction of property by means of fire and faces a minimum of five years in federal prison.

Among the evidence collected from Rinderknecht’s digital devices was an image he generated on ChatGPT depicting a burning city, said Bill Essayli, acting U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, at a press conference Wednesday.

“While we cannot undo the damage and destruction that was done, we hope his arrest and the charges against him bring some measure of justice to the victims of this horrific tragedy,” Essayli said.
The finding affirms a long-suspected theory among fire experts and comes after a nine month probe into the cause of the Palisades fire, which charred 23,400 acres and leveled more than 6,800 structures, including many homes. Twelve people died in the fire.
The first fire, called the Lachman fire, was reported about 12:17 a.m. on New Year’s Day on a hillside above Pacific Palisades by a resident whose home is about two blocks from the popular Skull Rock trail.

Some residents said they saw fireworks in the a…

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 8h

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Ms Simone 🇨🇦 @kelilahsimone.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah No. It's called statesmanship. You try "negotiations" with an insane MAGAlomaniac in tertiary stage syphilis. I think Mr. Carney is doing just fine.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"You are a transformative president" -- I regret to inform you that Mark Carney is kissing Trump's ass

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Chris 🇨🇦 Standing on Guard @jangofett.bsky.social · 1d

Our PM has the weight of Canada's workers, businesses and economy on his shoulders - he's not kissing trumps ass, he's navigating around a narcissist psychopath with advanced dementia to get what's best for us

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Ms Simone 🇨🇦 @kelilahsimone.bsky.social · 8h

Me tooooo!!

Ms Simone 🇨🇦 @kelilahsimone.bsky.social · 9h

Sign and Send a Message! Trans Rights are Human Rights! #Alberta

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URGENT: Stop Alberta's Premier From Overriding Charter Rights of Trans Youth

Healthcare is a right, protected by evidence, compassion, and core Canadian values.

na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com

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Ms Simone 🇨🇦 @kelilahsimone.bsky.social · 10h

Assolini! That's fabulous 🤩

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22h

Every nonwhite woman is in his head every day

As much as any man who has lived since the 1800s, this one cannot deal with strong women and *particularly* cannot deal with strong women of color existing in public let alone challenging him

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

Man she’s in his head

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 10h

This is the lead every Democrat should follow. 100%.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Pritzker: "This guy is unhinged. He's insecure. He's a wannabe dictator. And there's one thing I really want to say to Donald Trump. If you come for my people, you come through me. So come and get me."

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RNS @rns.org · 12h

OPINION: Unlike Trump, Leo acknowledges the reality of climate change and reaffirmed the church’s commitment to protect God’s creation.
religionnews.com/2025/10/07/p...

Pope Leo embraces Francis’ concerns on global warming and the environment

(RNS) — ‘The challenges identified in Laudato Si’ are in fact even more relevant today than they were ten years ago.’

religionnews.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12h

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

#WarRavagedPortland

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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🇨🇦🦋Cranky Canuck🦋🇨🇦 @jupitess.bsky.social · 13h

Canada has the 9th largest GDP in the world with the 37th largest population. Canada is the only country in the top ten GDPs with a population under 50 million. Canada is the biggest investor in America. If that doesnt show its value as a nation, nothing will. Canada IS an economic powerhouse!

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A Page in your life 🍁📎 @sailorgirl2017.bsky.social · 13h

Good morning!
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🇨🇦🦋Cranky Canuck🦋🇨🇦 @jupitess.bsky.social · 13h

Canada has the 9th largest GDP in the world with the 37th largest population. Canada is the only country in the top ten GDPs with a population under 50 million. Canada is the biggest investor in America. If that doesnt show its value as a nation, nothing will. Canada IS an economic powerhouse!

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Ms Simone 🇨🇦 @kelilahsimone.bsky.social · 12h

He's brilliant and funny 😊

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 1d

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Morning!

Epstein files. 🥱

#Epstein

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