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This image is now absolutely everywhere over European media lmao

submitted 2 days ago • 559 comments

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

submitted 2 days ago • 79 comments

Know someone who’s making a difference in Canadian defence? I’m serving as a selection co-chair for The Icebreaker’s Defence Power List 50. To nominate someone, please visit The Icebreaker here: www.theicebreaker.ca/p/power50?ut...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Five things to remember about war:

submitted 5 days ago • 155 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 5 days ago • 127 comments

Bluesky is dying?! Really? Repost if you're still actively using Bluesky and not posting on X. www.spectator.co.uk/article/blue...

submitted 9 days ago • 107 comments

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

submitted 8 days ago • 878 comments

Sen Mike Lee & the silence from Republicans made it clear: decency is in the rearview mirror. After he mocked a political assassination, Ed Shelleby, a senior staffer to Sen Tina Smith, wrote to Lee’s top staffers. @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com read it on-air, and honestly everyone should hear it.

submitted 10 days ago • 194 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 9 days ago • 738 comments

Because I feel like triggering the trolls today, I want to remind everyone that Canadians have received over ONE HUNDRED MILLION COVID vaccine doses. Only 0.056% resulted in an adverse event report. Four deaths resulted, but ZERO were due to mRNA. health-infobase.canada.ca/covid-19/vac...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Among Democrats - "Do you support Democrats like Sanders and AOC who call for a more aggressive stance towards Trump, or moderate Democrats who are willing to compromise with Trump issues important to their base?" AOC/Bernie: 70% Moderate Dems: 30% Harvard-Harris / June 12, 2025

submitted 10 days ago • 159 comments

The pathos of Donald Trump's epically bad 79th birthday, by the great @rexhuppke.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

This is the first act of violence I have seen today and, it is LAPD against an elderly man.

submitted 12 days ago • 59 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 12 days ago • 677 comments

There are some days when the news can be overwhelming and leave you feeling sad and afraid. Today is one of them. Try to remember that the good in the world has always outnumbered the bad, stroke a cat and enjoy the sunshine x (Pic @imageplotter.bsky.social)

submitted 14 days ago • 62 comments

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

Cop kneeling on a woman's neck while other cops use bikes to shield him from cameras. Philadelphia, PA 6/10/25 #ICEprotests #ACAB

submitted 15 days ago • 896 comments

This entire #military report era in #LTC will be wiped from the public record in less than a month, thanks to the Ford Government. You have 24 days left to give your comments on this repugnant regulation: www.regulatoryregistry.gov.on.ca/proposal/50715

submitted 16 days ago • 10 comments

Share widely, please.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Timeline cleanse.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

A real life American Hero... not hiding behind a mask. I bet soon we will know his name. We salute you brother for your civil courage and the eloquence.

submitted 18 days ago • 214 comments

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 18 days ago • 2535 comments

David Huerta, the local president of SEIU United Service Workers West, was injured and arrested by federal agents in the midst of a fascist and chaotic immigration “enforcement” event on Friday in Los Angeles. Since then, the current admin is “deploying” to provoke unrest in California.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

LAPD when they think nobody is watching

submitted 18 days ago • 1915 comments

“From 1981 to 2015, there were an average of 18 smoke hours per year in the city of Calgary. No year had over 100. Now we see hundreds of smoke hours routinely: 315 in 2017, 450 in 2018, 439 in 2021, 512 in 2023, and 2024 was ‘only’ 200.”

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

In the last 20 or so minutes I’ve seen LAPD officers shove women to the ground without provocation, rip a sign out of a man’s hand and then swing a baton into his leg and raise a less-lethal launcher to aim directly at a protester (which I’m 99% is a major policy violation.)

submitted 18 days ago • 530 comments

The Los Angeles Police Department has stated that demonstrations in the city have remained peaceful. Let that sink in.

submitted 19 days ago • 436 comments

Let’s look at the facts: DHS claimed there were “about 1,000 rioters,” but Reuters couldn’t independently verify that number. Meanwhile, flash-bangs used against peaceful protesters ignited one of the fires captured in widely shared photos.

submitted 18 days ago • 116 comments

Why are the shameful images of ICE thugs WITH THEIR FACES COVERED LIKE SECRET FUCKING POLICE not front-page news every single day? This is outrageous. This is never normal in a democracy that obeys the rule of law. DO NOT ALLOW THIS TO BE NORMALIZED.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

For comparison when Bloomberg published video this week of a Tesla in fraudulent Full Self-Driving Mode blasting full speed into stopped traffic to kill a woman who was wearing a safety vest, it only shaved like 12 bucks off the share price www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

FYI📣: a Special Air Quality Statement has been issued for Ottawa. Please keep an eye on the AQHI and plan your activities accordingly. You can learn more here: www.airqualityontario.com/aqhi/today.p...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

😡😡😡😡

submitted 23 days ago • 591 comments

In the National Post section of today’s Edmonton Journal 1030 words about the smoke from wildfires burning across Canada. Yet no mention of the climate change \ fossil fuel connection! #WhereIsTheWhy? #ClimateCrisis #EndTheSilence

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

65 years of age or older? You are eligible for a spring COVID-19 vaccine dose. This additional dose can help reduce your risk of severe illness & hospitalization. Now is a good time to get vaccinated, before COVID-19 activity increases. Find a pharmacy near you: OttawaPublicHealth.ca/FindPharmacy

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Here's something everybody should be paying attention to: Congressional Republicans are trying to weaken the Affordable Care Act and put millions of people at risk of losing their health care. Call your Senators and tell them we can't let that happen.

submitted 24 days ago • 1054 comments

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submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 27 days ago • 463 comments