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The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

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Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

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NEW: Voice of America is in upheaval. Journalists are facing HR investigations for comments critical of Trump. One of VOA's highest-profile journalists was put on leave today after a Trump aide called him a traitor. And the White House bureau chief was reassigned. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/b...

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The disgraceful behaviour in the White House is not about Trump or Vance. It is about the complicity of the entire political class of the United States and the American media. It is about the very soul of America. They either stand up for democracy or they stand for tyranny. The world is watching.

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I've said it before and will say it again -- the Trump administration is not acting like one that fears democratic accountability next year or in 2028. Draw your own conclusions.

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WWI: close to 1pc of total Canadian pop killed fighting in Europe WWII: Canada joins within week of Brits declaring war on Germany Britain now: new phone, who dis?

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Brandi Morin in Ecuador part 3: Bullets and beatings support Canadian mines: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...

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I wrote this after the last Ontario election in 2022, and sadly nothing has changed. In fact, everything is much, much worse. Electoral reform should have been at the top of the NDP platform. ricochet.media/politics/onl...

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Brandi Morin in #Ecuador, part 3: Bullets and beatings support Canadian mines. Canada just signed a free trade deal with Ecuador, but human rights protections ring hollow in light of alleged state repression. ricochet.media/indigenous/b... #cdnpoli #mining #Indigenous @brandimorin.bsky.social

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"For the Maikuaints, the real monster wears a suit of corporate legitimacy, arrives with government permits, and speaks the language of progress while preparing to destroy their world." Incredible piece by Brandi Morin.

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SCOOP: contrary to previous statements from Cdn Heritage the name of a Nazi collaborator was engraved on #Ottawa's victims of communism monument Worse: the engravings took place before they had determined who to commemorate Latest @ricochetmedia.bsky.social #cdnpoli ricochet.media/politics/naz...

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For over a year, it's been unclear why a lot of farmland is being assembled in Wilmot. @thenarwhal.ca & Waterloo Region Record have learned it's for a possible Toyota site to keep the automaker here amid Trump’s tariff threat An election eve scoop by me & Terry Pender thenarwhal.ca/ontario-wilm...

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In election’s final days, #Ontario’s Indigenous Affairs Minister is nowhere to be seen — Greg Rickford's opponents wanted the opportunity to debate him on the Ring of Fire mining development. New from @jonthompson.bsky.social: ricochet.media/indigenous/i... #Indigenous #onpoli #ONelxn #Mining

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When are they gonna start facing charges?

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This sounds scary and it's serious, but as a general rule diseases which kill quickly don't spread easily, because, well, they kill quickly. I mean it's possible this is a Station Eleven thing which combines quick-kill with easy airborne transmission but it's not likely. (Knock wood.)

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Fox News White House correspondent Jacqui Heinrich, who is a board member of the WHCA, says that the Trump administration's new press pool rules "does not give the power back to the people - it gives power to the White House"

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This. This, this, this. Elected Dems are throwing us to the wolves.

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Every president of both parties going back generations subscribed to the principle that a president doesn't pick the press corps that is allowed in the room to ask him questions. Trump has just declared that he will.

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The name of a Nazi collaborator was engraved on #Ottawa’s Monument to the Victims of Communism, according to internal emails obtained by Ricochet through Access to Information. Journalist @taylornoakes.bsky.social reports: ricochet.media/politics/naz... #Cdnpoli #Canada

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i feel like the spirit of 'no cops at pride' extends to 'no ICE at motherfucking mardi gras you goddamned ghouls[derogatory]'

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Here’s an entertaining explainer on content moderation -what it actually is, why conservative “censorship” complaints were always self-serving propaganda, & why Meta actually backed away. Years of writing, research & court proceedings synthesized into shareable satire. youtu.be/nf7XHR3EVHo?...

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The public should understand that we're in what I call the Age of Missing Accountability. Politicians at all levels, oversight boards, professional regulators like the Law Society of Alberta, corporations etc. simply refuse to answer questions from the media.

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JUST IN: Judge McFadden has denied the AP’s emergency motion to restore its access to WH press pool events but has ordered expedited consideration of the matter given the weighty issues at the heart of it.

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Anti-Musk sentiments continue to rise worldwide. Tesla’s reputation continues to fall. #EndOligarchy #BoycottTesla

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"When New Scientist asked explicitly if human-caused climate change played any role in the record high temperatures, the NOAA press representative abruptly ended the call, saying, “I’m not seeing any more on-topic questions from the media""

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NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones. + similar in the Department of the Interior

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As most Canadians struggle to make ends meet, the Liberal frontrunner demonizes the ‘far-left’ and plans to cut taxes for the most wealthy. Mark Carney copies Pierre Poilievre’s playbook with a rightward turn. ricochet.media/politics/mar... #CanadaVotes2025 #cdnpoli #Trump

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A call to arms from Jane Fonda, who said, "Have any of you ever watched a documentary of a great social movement, apartheid, civil rights, Stonewall...and asked yourself, would you have been brave?... we are IN our documentary moment, this is it," accepting her lifetime achievement from #SAGAwards.

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In a Namibian town, a Canadian company has left a legacy of 300,000 tons of arsenic waste. Many townsfolk are getting sick. And tests show high levels of arsenic in the soil, in the plants -- and the people. Our report: www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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"This is the US and this is what we are. We're an exploitative people ... stealing people from their land, oceans away and we enslave them and we still enslave th-- John..." Buddy has let other ramble and this is where he cuts off the first guy making sense?

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Next caller: Some Bluesky representation!!! The Transphobia is going to make people flee US and she would be threatened if they annexed us.

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A good day for a reminder that independent media needs your support

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"People can do their fact-checking online after the program" is NOT HOW FACT CHECKING WORKS

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I will not translate what this song says in German.. because I will be banned. But so you know - Germans are using TikTok to tell Musk to .. “go to Mars.”

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Maybe it's because I'm a survivor of domestic violence or maybe it's because I've spent my entire career working with other survivors but if you think Canadians going on the radio & begging Americans to see our humanity & not annex us is going to be effective, then I have a bridge I can sell you.

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So an open threat against a sovereign state. Where are all my “state’s rights” people?

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The Associated Press is suing the White House for the right to do their jobs while also using the words they choose. Good for them. www.ap.org/wp-content/u...

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Never forget.

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