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I work at a Canadian university located less than 100 miles from the US border. I have yet to find a professor colleague who plans to attend a conference in the US this summer.

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My “there is no kill switch” ad has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my ad

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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

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getting handwaved in all the "unbelievable how fast fascism exploded" takes are how the foundation and framework (ICE, etc) were built over time with bipartisan cooperation

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This could be the last year the U.S. ranks as a democracy, says global watchdog Warning comes amid spate of authoritarian moves from Trump www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

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this is supposed to be about FDR but i don't think the Heritage guys realized what else this headline could mean

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There's probably a disconcerting number of the US military who like what Trump is doing, but probably zero who like what Musk is doing. When this fever dream breaks, it's going to break big. Years, months, weeks, days...who knows.

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What what what

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A Vancouver-based lawyer says Canadians should know that American immigration officers' duties are to frustrate, instead of facilitate, entry.

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"It was after the state troopers who had pulled them over receded from view that Cassie said, 'Well that was wild. He asked me ‘which do I prefer, Canada or America?’' Maggie, who’d been taken to a separate cruiser for questioning, had been asked the same thing."

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I'm not generally a "the MSM is the heart of the problem" guy, but it does strike me that a screaming New York Times banner headline reading "TRUMP CLAIMS TO REVOKE BIDEN-ERA PARDONS" would be both appropriate to the moment and entirely consistent with pre-Trump NYT practices.

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I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard. Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

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Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

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Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

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I keep seeing some kind of concerns that a "kill switch" where the US could simply disable the F-35 at the push of a button, and this is why it's a poor choice for Canada. The reality is a lot more tedious and in some ways worse. 🧵

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Shoutout to ABC for giving my parents a surprise lawn makeover—because who needs consent when you have a sign, right?

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May not involve the military, but the explicit goal of annexing Canada through economic coercion attempts to overwhelm our sovereignty as surely as breaching our borders. Here's how the next Government of Canada can build our resilience and defend our interests. Let's fight. Let's win.

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Spoke with @mikehager.bsky.social for this article. It is a real problem if Vancouver's police are, or are perceived to be, politically biased. Kaisers blurred that line as president of the VPU, and is continuing to do so as a candidate for council. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

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Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

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Frightening that this is actually the DoD. An official site. We r in grade B movie territory now. Extraordinary that more former senior military officers are not speaking out.

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Mayor Sim apologized for the unwanted signs at an unrelated news conference Thursday, but, the following day, his campaign director for the by-election said the signs do not violate campaign advertising rules.

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Ken Sim's candidate's contempt for the rules is surpassed only by Ken Sim's contempt for the rules. We need to rein him in. On April 5, I'm asking for your support.

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Lockheed spokesperson on whether the F-35 has a "kill switch" - "As part of our government contracts, we deliver all system infrastructure and data required for all F-35 customers to sustain the aircraft" www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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When ABC and Ken Sim removed the Stanley Park bike lane, the number of speeding drivers increased by 5-fold. We warned that this made the park more dangerous. Now, a young man is dead. Our leaders' actions have consequences. globalnews.ca/news/1108212...

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Vive la France

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I didn't know much about Keir Starmer other than the usual internet scuttlebutt, but now I definitively know he's a worm.

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Columbia announced mass suspensions, expulsions, and degree revocations the same day it received a letter from the Trump administration telling them to do just that if they wanted to keep getting funding

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Feeling stressed? It's important to remember everyone is getting the Trump treatment. Now we can all feel stressed together! www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/nationa...

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Unlike now, where they are using their unelected DOGE to cherry-pick which parts of government to shut down.

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It feels overwhelming sometimes how dumb and dangerous this all is. And every day it gets dumber and more dangerous.

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I know that “woke” has expanded to cover just about everything, but surely this is beyond even the most capacious understanding of the term

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Are the #WhitecapsFC going to pull this off? #ChampionsCup

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“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb

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OH NOES

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Phase One: Don’t Be Hysterical, There Will Be No Fascism Phase Two: Actually Calling This Fascism Is Exaggerated Phase Three: How This Fascism Is The Fault of Liberal Writers Who Don’t Admire Me Phase Four: Refugee Camp Chieftain Vingo Cuckslayer Will Not Be A Fascist

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1/ Kevin Drum, who wrote and blogged for Mother Jones for more than a decade, passed on Friday. We knew it was coming, but it still hit hard. @monikab.bsky.social and I wrote something to honor him: www.motherjones.com/media/2025/0...

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Kamala winning, like Biden before her, would have only delayed this. You can blame individual people if you want but our institutions are rotten, and no amount of kinder, gentler capitalist police state is going to fix them.

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Deep thought: Maybe Danielle Smith doesn't have Canada's or Alberta's best interest at heart?

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It's Tuesday. Take a deep breathe.

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Trump's big innovation was to do the first time as farce and the second as tragedy

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They want Canadians to register with Homeland Security and be fingerprinted starting next month: ABC News: “Those who stay for longer than 30 days will be required to apply for registration with the federal government and be fingerprinted starting on April 11”

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What the what??

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