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Tolkien’s palantir fell under the control of Sauron. Peter Thiel’s Palantir is falling under the control of Trump. How this story ends is up to all of us. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/palantir-the-worst-of-the-corporate

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Exceptional piece from @rtraister.bsky.social on Cuomo. Covers his terrible governance, his selfishness, his lying, his harassment. There is nothing in this man that anyone should want near power. 1/2

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This is a much anticipated volume from @brittlestar.com and so seditiously timely!!(even if you aren't a cat lover)😲 I've just filled out the form suggesting this title to our GVPL.(now if only our wonderful library could get on 🦋 my work will be complete)🤓🤩

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Thanks to CBC Books for including Ellen Gabriel and my’s When the Pine Needles Fall on this list of amazing books to read for National Indigenous Peoples Day.

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the beaverton is cooking www.thebeaverton.com/2025/06/cana...

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Elon Musk is over on Twitter talking about using his AI program to, in his own words, "rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge," and the history student in me is just really curious as to when we all collectively decide enough is enough with this man

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I have obtained new nonpublic data from ICE that shows that 2/3 of the people it had booked into detention facilities this fiscal year had no criminal convictions at all. Less than 7% have violent convictions. Most convictions were for immigration, traffic, and vice offenses.

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The right has wanted preferential treatment for their ideas and progeny at Ivy League universities for a long time but couldn’t achieve it on merit, so they achieved it by force. But they are destroying the very thing they covet: the sense of superiority coming from rising above the best.

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Today is National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada! A day to listen, learn and honour the contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. On célèbre la force, la résilience et la beauté des cultures autochtones d’ici. Merci aux gardiens de la terre et de la mémoire. #IndigenousPeoplesDay

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CATO: “New nonpublic data from ICE indicates the government is primarily detaining individuals with no criminal convictions of any kind… 93% had no violent convictions… 65% no criminal record at all…” @MarshaBlackburn www.cato.org/blog/65-peop...

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Highly recommended read from @charlieangus104.bsky.social Naming the Arsonists open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

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Anyone observing the Israel-Iran conflict via social media should be following @shayan86.bsky.social. He is doing more than anyone else in the world right now to verify facts and dispel misinformation. Essential and outstanding work from the BBC Verify team. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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As I've been saying www.readtpa.com/p/the-grok-w...

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“ICE in just a few weeks has transformed itself into the closest thing that the US has ever had to a ‘secret police,’ with more seemingly culturally in common with the Klan nightriders of Reconstruction than their federal agency brethren like the FBI or ATF.” @garrettgraff.bsky.social

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Empathy isn’t just a moral virtue. It’s a political force. And according to Steve Taylor, it’s one of the most underused tools for transforming society. Here’s why.

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Poll: Large majority of Canadians favour more open car market with better access to affordable Chinese and European EVs cleanenergycanada.org/poll-large-m...

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My latest: Trump coddles Putin, Carney backs Zelenskyy | The Kingston Whig Standard www.thewhig.com/opinion/trum...

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What the actual fuck is this?!

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SCOOP: The funding behind the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been murky. Now, top US officials are "forcing" USAID to approve up to $210 million to it. Israeli forces have killed hundreds of Palestinians near GHF sites. Per docs, GHF anticipates $1 BILLION+ from other unnamed "Government Donors."

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Posting from my own page so Craig gets ALL THE VIEWS! Craig came to @pawspendletonor.bsky.social when someone physically threw him over our shelter fence when he was a puppy. He had amazing fosters who trained him (and dressed him for the holidays!). Craig is now a handsome adult! #dogs

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Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy

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Make no mistake: everything that Republicans are doing, from selling off public lands to gutting Medicaid, is to enrich the wealthy while everyone else pays the price.

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This is THE tweet of all time

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A new tool in the fight against wildfires in #Canada Andrew Johnson gets a behind-the-scenes look of how a state-of-the-art reconnaissance plane is proving pivotal in the wildfire fight in B.C. www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/0...

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Six days ago, Democratic Representative, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark, were brutally assassinated in their home. State Senator John Hoffman, and his wife, Yvette, were also shot at their home. SIX DAYS AGO Have both parties just moved on or…

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After 450 million years of evolutionary history, shark populations are collapsing, and more than a third of shark species and their relatives face extinction. Now scientists are trying to use the lure of “Jaws” to advance shark conservation efforts.

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Enjoy every second you have with them

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"..the next minute this government could choose to stop covering the measles vaccine, or the flu shot. According to Friends of Medicare, Alberta has seen the highest levels of death rates from flu since 2009 and the highest measles infections since 1985." www.change.org/p/stop-the-u...

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Sayed Naser served as a U.S. military interpreter in Afghanistan. Now he’s being deported. The Taliban assassinated his brother and kidnapped his father. All because he helped us. Why are the feds trying to deport him, even though his asylum case is still pending? Not justice, it’s a betrayal.

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🇺🇸 💰 @ramirez.house.gov : “If I had a magic wand to change one thing, it would be to get money out of politics… when colleagues of mine are about to vote they’re making phone calls to whoever bought them to ask for permission.”

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Danielle Smith and her government asked Albertans if they would like to leave the Canada Pension Plan and have their own "APP" pension plan. She hid the survey results for 21 months. Here they are: only 10% were in favour of the APP. #cdnpoli

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Lantanas (2/2) 🌿 #art #illustration

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TLDR: They are gaslighting. — Parsing ICE’s mixed-up, hard-to-believe assault claims wapo.st/4l7a1ch

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We could just have body autonomy, universal basic income, public housing, and high speed rail. We could just have it, instead of all of this bullshit.

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"if Albertans think they pay too many taxes, they might look to the revenue-rich oilpatch to help with the load. Last year, the contribution of Alberta taxpayers to the provincial coffers was $3 billion higher than bitumen royalties." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #ABLeg #ABPoli @ximenaka.bsky.social

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“This combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces”

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Published posthumously in 2023, Pirate Enlightenment is a book by David Graeber. The book combines a lot of David Graeber's research on anthropology, history and ideas around democracy. Recommended to read next to a coffee and maybe a doughnut!

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Local woman wakes up, sends the Alberta UCP into a bureaucratic vortex, never to return, makes oatmeal.

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Harriet Tubman #quilt by my Mom, Vera P. Hall, who makes quilts celebrating Black people who fought for their own freedom. This seems to be the crowd favorite of the “We Didn’t Wait for Freedom” series. Happy #Juneteenth #quilting

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raises hand because consolidated corporate media owners like tax cuts and mindless deregulation and make editorial choices and hiring decisions accordingly? while the ad-based journalism model disincentivizes challenging wealth, power, and partisan norms for fear of harming overall engagement?

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In honor of Brian Wilson, @jamesfolta.com‬ pairs books with Beach Boys songs to keep you company on your next summer excursion.

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