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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 12h

Correction: It makes sense of the moment. Facts are facts regardless of ideological bent. Even today

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 16h

Hey, @nolore.bsky.social , just finished Corporate Control. As with The Social Safety Net, it should be required reading. Thanks

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 19h

I hope all is well

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 5d

Great. Now, about that genocide and our selling arms to Israel…

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 5d

@mark-carney.bsky.social Just in case no one has mentioned this, we need you to be more than a neo-liberal banker. We need to build a community as well as an evonomy

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 6d

Close to 65k watching the livefeed from the Global Sumud Flotilla off the coast of Gaza.

Israel seems to be intercepting right now.

All eyes needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEN2...

24/7 LIVESTREAM OF GLOBAL SUMUD FLOTILLA

YouTube video by Global Sumud Flotilla

www.youtube.com

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 7d

I always look forward to Sandy and Nora day: you two never disappoint. Thanks for what you do. Oh, I’ve also just started Corporate Control

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 7d

@mark-carney.bsky.social Speaking of nation building, the changes owners are making to the CFL are obviously their preparation to be absorbed by the NFL. The CFL is small potatoes, but are a part of our identity

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 7d

@mark-carney.bsky.social How can you talk about nation building while dismantling Canada Post? It is a national service, not a business. Are creative solutions too much to ask?

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 8d

Why isn’t our gov’t buying it all? Keep some and return the rest to their owners

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 14d

Someone who is discovering his viagra is still working

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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 22d

The fortitude — no the *courage* — of these kids in this political climate is very moving.

apnews.com/article/yout...

Young activists won a landmark state climate trial. Now they're challenging Trump's orders

Young climate activists and their attorneys who won a landmark global warming trial against the state of Montana are challenging President Donald Trump's energy agenda.

apnews.com

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 22d

The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...

The Dangerous Targeting of a Canadian Journalist | The Tyee

After the murder of Charlie Kirk, conservatives piled on Rachel Gilmore for expressing a well-founded fear. Then came violent threats.

thetyee.ca

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 22d

That’s a low bar

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 24d

Elon Musk has gone completely out of his mind.

He's ranting and raving violently by the hour now.

I believe this is what is called stochastic terrorism. It is a direct attempt to incite mass violence. He even reposted a *hit list*.

As dangerous a man as America has ever seen.

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 26d

I think, maybe, we are Trump’s Ukraine. We have no deal because he doesn’t want one.

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Joseph Fasano @josephfasano.bsky.social · 28d

Telling the Twenty-First Century
What Children Are

They laugh the way the rain
laughs, not knowing it is music.
They dance the way a foal moves
in the morning light, not knowing
their bodies will ever betray them.
They sleep deeply and waken
when the sun does, leaping
on their parents in the autumn air.
They are not yet different from themselves.

Listen. You will sit here
and see them. They are tender; they are wild
in their silences. They rise
like the moon in the spruce trees
and they call to each other in the shadows.
And their bodies are tired
from hiding. And the rain
falls in the gardens. And it would take
two hundred forty five thousand hours
to say the names of the ones that you have killed.

—Joseph Fasano

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · 29d

Hey, @mark-carney.bsky.social , why isn’t our gov’t buying HBC’s archives and repatriating artefacts? A great reconciliation opportunity

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · Sep 3

Why are we selling weapons to genocidal Israel?

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · Aug 30

Enjoy the rain. We’ve a drought over here

standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · Aug 30

And again after that

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · Aug 30

And replace him with whom? Shady Vance may be worse

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standingroomonly.bsky.social @standingroomonly.bsky.social · Aug 28

She’s got dead eyes, like a doll’s eyes

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · Aug 28

I still think many Americans have no idea how bad this is going to get. I saw President Obama reposting a tepid, mealy-mouthed analysis by Ezra Klein—who's never seen a phenomenon he couldn't be 5 years late in incompetently circumscribing—and I felt like we don't have what it takes to survive this.

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