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diplobrat.bsky.social
Cross pollinate your information ecosystems, and always remember - safety third!
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5 years ago tonight. Joke was on us, Boomers burnt it down.

submitted 11 hours ago • 28 comments

Welcome to the 21st century Canada, only a quarter century late. But 5 years minimum before u break ground?! Big FAIL. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Have the end days for our identity crisis arrived? Do we have to thank Trump?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Reported tariff assessments and changing trade patterns from 2018 to today tell a striking story of loopholes and weak enforcement in U.S. tariffs on China.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

NEW post: What's behind Turkey's latest unhinged crackdown? + 'Where's my cut of the Turkish TV pie' whined the untalented and uncreative. + intro to the issue of 'cultural hegemony.' open.substack.com/pub/ezgibasa...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

"The problem with military Keynesianism is that, over time, the militarism devours the Keynesianism." That is the story of the Biden administration. @jeetheer.bsky.social has one of the best post-mortems I've seen. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

Really can't say enough about how great pedestrianization has been. The best part is that is that the pedestrian-only streets are scattered throughout the city. This is the one near my hood:

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

police chief: we've brought in a specialist to catch this psycho. she can uniquely get inside the twisted mind of a killer on a deeper level than anyone else me (focusing on crime scene): UHHH IM A GUY WHO SUCKS. UHHH IM A GUY WHO SUCKS. UUHHH IM A GUY WHO SUCKS

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Everyone’s up in arms about the tech oligarchy, but it’s not new, it has just shifted to the right. We were fine with it as long as it bore our vision.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s tariff threats against Canada are just cover for not imposing them on China, like he’d promised.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 44 days ago • 430 comments

How has not one leader, journo or anyone in Canada said you get Canada over our dead bodies? Trump’s language is fighting words, any other country worth their two cents would have started by recalling their ambassador.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

This has had me giggling all afternoon. It was posted by @lisagillmore.bsky.social on X, but unfortunately she is not very active here, and I just have to share it. "Planning Christmas dinner like"

submitted 65 days ago • 18 comments

Canada! Can we all join hands give Trump the finger? Right and left hands please, stop the bickering

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

www.kqed.org/news/1201740...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

The rebels have liberated hundreds of women, toddlers and babies held in Sednaya prison. They've also released hundred of prisoners some of which were tortured to the point of forgetting their own identity, others held for decades for speaking out against the regime. #freeSyria

submitted 77 days ago • 480 comments

I’ll go ahead and say it: assassinating the top execs of US health insurance companies is fine by me. Definitely working

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments