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It’s about time we got serious about protecting Canadians from the malignant hedge fund billionaires who control the PostMedia empire that is poisoning our #cdnmedia Support @CBC Support independents like @thetyee.ca Demand #ResponsibleJournalism & #NewsWithoutBias

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Illinois has proposed a bill that would require anyone seeking the role of public library trustee be a valid cardholder of the library they wish to serve. This is a positive bill, and it's one in a line of pro-library bills being drafted and championed in the state. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

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Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

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Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight “She heard him mutter, 'Can you take away this grief?' 'I'm sorry,' she replied. 'Everyone asks me. And I would not do so even if I knew how. It belongs to you. Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.’”

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Sometimes when I'm feeling really deep in despair about this moment I give myself permission to daydream without constraints about what kinds of worlds could rise from the embers of this dumpster fire. None of them are particularly likely; all of them are technically possible. I recommend it.

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I know we talk about this constantly but it is truly one of the greatest mindfucks of my lifetime. as an 80s kid a Nazi was the most unambiguously, nonnegotiably evil thing you could even be ADJACENT TO, like morality for kindergarteners, and now we have to relitigate that shit every day???? ffs

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This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

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📢 The Ontario NDP has once again committed to proportional representation in their platform! They promise to replace first-past-the-post with a mixed-member proportional system where every vote counts. Let’s make sure electoral reform stays on the agenda!

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🇨🇦Nightly Timeline Cleanse🇨🇦 You Can Meet Me In The Forest - Nancy L. Moore

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

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Feels relevant.

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This is interesting. Continuing to think about the Temple of the White Rat, Bishop Beartongue (who is sort of my template for a Practical Good Person who can see the big picture) is not at all a centrist, but she might be considered an incrementalist.

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Nice to see iNaturalist here. Give them a follow to see interesting observations posted each day. I love #WildflowerWednesday too!

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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I went to early voting today for the Ontario election and it was PACKED. I don't know what it's going to do for results and it's still the first day but it was the busiest I've ever seen a polling site in Canada.

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Makes sense. Americans have been consuming superhero, vigilante savior media our entire lives. Consciously or unconsciously, people are looking for a "good" strongman to come in and save them from the current bad strongman.

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This is what leadership in a democracy looks like, and I so sorely wish everyone had what we're lucky to have here in Illinois. Frankly amazing, given how Illinois has never had a good leader. But it IS possible.

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This a very clear breakdown of the competing/collaborating/overlapping sects and interest groups fueling the current administration and worth a read even if you already know all this because it's laid out so effectively. I found it helpful to read because I love things explained simply and well.

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Oddly enough all I've wanted in life is to go for walks with needy lambs. 😭

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hey so, the United States has never believed in law. ever. perhaps some individuals within that structure has, but the U.S. as an entity is built on deceit and dishonesty. I'm Native. they have broken every treaty they have ever made. (1/2)

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A useful concept I learned from the military and I think more people should integrate into their own mental health toolkits is the combat preparedness color scale--beloved by open carry whackadoos, but an extremely useful framework to understand mental baselines under different circumstances.

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Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

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Any of them can wane. I need an MMR every five years at minimum to maintain any protection against rubella. Some bodies are just weird, and you'd never know if you don't get checked.

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I could save several hundred thousand dollars by not paying my mortgage, but then I would not have a place to live. It's not savings if you're not considering the consequences, which is a thing people who have to live with finite resources understand better than billionaires.

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Folks, please understand, the U.S. is doing the U.S., not Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany actually borrowed from the U.S. to become the monsters they were. We're going back to manifest destiny, to chattel slavery, to Native genocide. NOT... Nazi Germany.

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My neurodivergent kingdom for an adult Canadian toothpaste with fluoride that comes in a flavour other than mouth-burning mint or cinnamon and doesn't cost $30 a tube. I've tried just using kids' flavours but they're saccharine and usually taste of xylitol which is also gross.

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"It’s confusing to me that someone who wants to be the prime minister of Canada would turn down information about the country’s security, particularly at a time when the country is facing significant terrorism, foreign interference, and other threats." NO KIDDING

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Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

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The odds of our roof surviving this winter without major damage get slimmer with every weather advisory. We've kept it limping along but I think this is probably the end of its run. Home ownership: light $5k on fire every six months.

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The thing you were afraid was going to happen is happening but you're not feeling the terror of it because it doesn't look like the stories said it would.

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