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On our election day, Trump is telling Canadians to elect.....Trump. Fucking pathetic, dude.

Raak!

Oh fuck off. It's bad enough AI is sucking the soul out of art, putting millions out of work, and super-charging misinformation. Now you're asking us to rip away that last veneer of human politeness, however performative? Fuck right off. Please and thank you.

“Crowd size is the new phallic symbol. The red-pilling of Canadian politics is complete”

"I would say to every Canadian who is listening to this: You should be looking up the voting records of whoever you're voting for in the upcoming election and see how they have voted on bills related to reproductive rights." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is why you never capitulate. This would be the end of Columbia university. It would be a testing ground for the direct fascist takeover of private universities by a dictator. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

According to the email containing this survey I received it because I'm a verify Conservative supporter which comes as news to me. Could only submit is if I checked how I'd support the Conservatives leading up to the election. I selected share social media posts - so sharing this nonsense survey,

Not only is Pierre Poilievre and his team using slogans constantly in an attempt to get votes they are adding emojis to them in emails to show how serious they are. Next up they will be using gifs.

Just got a phone call inviting me to the next Pierre Poilievre rally with a robo call voiced by none other than J. D. Vance's BFF Jamil Jivani. The number of worn out PP slogans used in the call tripled it in length. No, I will not be going.

Yesterday, Poilievre was posting about how the Canadian Pacific Railway might not even be able to be built today. Um, there’s a pretty good reason for that: the abuse and deaths of Chinese workers who built the railroad.

Academics in the US & Canada: reflect on leadership at your institutions. Has management been kowtowing to political and corporate demands? Does your Board of Directors hide its work? Have hires in admin outpaced hires in faculty & staff? Then you have a problem. #ElbowsUp #Gleichschaltung

This, so much this. People mean well, but the pressure to be well, or at least on the improve, is huge.

Danielle Smith is on the Quisling 2025 tour with Ben Shapiro. He calls us a "silly little country that can be annexed like Puerto Rico." He says Canadians would welcome Trump like a "liberator." She is doing a fantastic job of sinking Poilievre's campaign. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...

To those who feel this way, you might not know if you are “vulnerable”. Many illnesses that could leave you more open to long term consequences can sneak by undetected UNTIL something pushes them over the edge and then BOOM!! Ask me how I know!

“Create a ruckus” = co-write a (not even particularly strident) op-ed for a student newspaper. Americans, you need to fight like hell, because they’re coming for everyone who dissents.

Just a reminder that the higher ed system in Canada is in total crisis and part of pur productivity problem comes from there. And that this approach isn't actually fixing anything. It needa to be accompanied by massive public investments.

Matt Strauss, one of the worst quacks of the pandemic. Now running as one pf Poilievre's Conservative candidates in Kitchener Ontario. Canada, we can do better than this. "He previously said on social media he'd sooner give his children COVID-19 over a Happy Meal" #canpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Every time

Why did I put off something for 3 months that painlessly took me 20 minutes to do?

Talking to someone and they mentioned possibly moving to Alberta to be with family. I responded with "might be a good idea to wait and see what happens" They responded with "I hope they separate. I'm serious they need to protect their oil." Me:

We threw our own children under the bus.

Remember how much shit we all took for daring to suggest Israel would bomb a hospital? How many hospital bombings ago was that?

#nevervoteconservative

In one week we have this & we have another Conservative/Shopify-adjacent org attacking the PM because his child is trans. This stuff has been present for the last years but the election will be a test for Canada. Will it backfire? 1/2

Is everyone going to ignore the ongoing $95 billion lawsuit by 10 Ontario first nations against the jurisdiction of provincial and federal governments over Crown lands in the Ring of Fire?

"The more we learn about the dangers of repeated COVID infections, it seems that without better protections, workers’ rights to safe work and students’ rights to safe learning spaces are being ignored to maintain the status quo." Ty @teachrprecarity.bsky.social! www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...

Compare and Contrast This liberal government instituted: -Canada Child Benefit -school lunch program -child care program -pharmacare -dental care for low income Canadians A CPC government under Pierre Poilievre: -will get rid of all these things

It's so hard to grasp just how utterly evil these people are

Good news!

Hopefully the majority of Canadians have a long memory. Too much is at stake otherwise

Hi youth of Canada. We won't build you housing and we've squeezed public services and education to the breaking point. As compensation, you will be forced to join the military.

This new work from @blakemurdoch.bsky.social is spot on. Denial of airborne transmission was the great crime (yes, crime) of the pandemic. It changed, and broke, everything healthydebate.ca/2025/03/topi...

Make no mistake, "you do you" Covid policies helped pave the way for Trump's victory They emboldened him to be more aggressive and openly fascist this time around You can't throw away entire groups of people & not see very real consequences The Spanish Flu pandemic helped pave the way for Hitler

It's amazing how much he wants a country that supposedly has nothing the US wants or needs.

Why Is Everyone Sick All The Time? And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid. And Don’t Say It’s Because We Caught Covid A Whole Bunch Of Times.

They are out to destroy everything that actually does some good.

This is a good read and points out things that I think some Canadians are really not aware of. #elbowsup and remember #neverpoilievre #nevervoteconservative