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Not new, but every once in a while it hits me that we're living in a toxic stew of social media, income inequality, Trumpism, Putin's bot farms, and postCovid derangement, and the US is turning from Bedford Falls into Potterville before our eyes.

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Toronto’s perfume in June - weed, lilacs, and burgers on the barbee.

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From my column, linked below

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Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

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Uber has a vested interest in poverty.

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Was at an Indigenous music festival yesterday and heard a little girl behind me ask her grandmother why a very large very powerful singer was ‘so big’. Grandmother answered that he was how the Creator made him and I honestly think that pretty much goes for all of us.

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This is horrific.

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Exactly as predicted, now that DOGE has scraped all your personal data from government agencies, it's all being given to Peter Thiel's Palantir. It was always going to be Peter, who has dreamed of dictatorship for decades, patiently built his "political project". 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

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Musk is already being whitewashed as he returns to the private sector. He should always be reviled as the man callously responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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This craven, racist monster is destroying families and communities and doesn't give AF He runs the administration. Noem, Rubio, Bondi - even Trump - all work for him (Not Musk anymore tho)

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PBS, and WNED specifically, have yielded to fascism and censored Art Spiegelman’s criticism of Trump. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/a...

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Naomi Tutu, daughter of the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu (and an Episcopal priest herself) fully addresses the lie at the heart of the claim of that white South Africans are “refugees.” Amplify her voice. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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How not to be authentic.

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Cato has published my comprehensive review of the ~240 Venezuelans the US government renditioned 2 months ago to Salvador’s notorious prison. We identified FIFTY who came legally, never violated any immigration law, but are imprisoned at the US government’s request and at US taxpayer expense.

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One step closer to clean energy.

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"Americans who make less than $51,000 a year would see their after-tax income fall as a result of the Republican proposal beginning in 2026." "Americans making less than $15,000 — the poorest of the poor — will pay 53% more in taxes than they do now www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

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Excellent visualizations in this article illustrating how rich tech dudes have tentacles in all the places that would otherwise be holding them accountable. Here are main figures of you do not have subscription

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Naomi Klein: ‘WHAT THEY WANT IS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING’ Klein breaks down the dark logic of Trump and Musk’s path of destruction — and what the world’s richest people really want www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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The American right sees Alberta as our weak spot and is pressing hard.

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Bill Gates pledged to give an additional $200 billion to charity during the next 20 years- effectively spending down his personal fortune. Of Elon Musk, Gates said “The picture of the world’s richest man killing the world’s poorest children is not a pretty one,”

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lol that pic of trump as pope had the same effect on the conclave as ‘51st state’ had on canada’s election

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I don’t think Carney meant ‘transformational’ as an insult. He was trying to say something nice, like when you tell your friend her Fringe play was ‘remarkable’.

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I think we should stop using the word “billion”. We should just say a thousand million.

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"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere." Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.

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free speech in an oligarchy

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bluesky canada has a whole new subject to become expert in

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looking forward to celebrating canadian screenwriters while biting my nails and sneaking peaks at my phone

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imagine saying this about someone time.com/7280859/cana...

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so grateful for paper ballots and scrutineers and lack of gerrymandering and tough campaign finance laws and all the rules that make out democracy functional for now

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and there it is

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#ElectionsCanada - Federal Election - April 28, 2025 #Canada 🍁 REMINDER By law, everyone who is eligible to vote must have 3 consecutive hours to cast their vote on election day. If your hours of work do not allow for 3 consecutive hours to vote, your employer must give you time off. /1 thread 🧵

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Polls are narrowing thanks to right-wing social and print media blitz! So VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!

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The right-wing American hedge fund that owns PostMedia are splashing the front pages of regional newspapers with full-page disinformation ads for Poilievre. It was Stephen Harper who sold out Canadian media to foreign ownership. This is how it pays off.

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Sally Pitt - I just can't believe this. Front page of PEI Guardian and Cape Breton Post today. A political ad made to look like news. Wrong on so many levels, regardless of which political party is involved. The front page is the face of the paper, to its readers. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. #cdnpoli

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If you are a Canadian and you are boycotting America - Please consider Boycotting these, manipulated, bought and paid for, MAGA funded news sources.

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Less than a third of Americans are satisfied with the way our democracy works, with concerns about the role of large donors among the chief concerns. At the same time, most Canadians are happy with their system. Here’s how we got here:

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Video from a former Rebel news correspondent, now whistleblower, describing how Ezra and others who work at Rebel News would create fake news, manipulate news or create incidents that they could report on as actual news. #cdnpoli

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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I know Mainstreet is an outlier, but just a reminder to VOTE! Nothing is certain until the last ballot is cast. Don't let Poilievre hand our beautiful country over to Trump!

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In case you needed proof that the disastrous Citizens United decision put a for sale sign on our democracy. 👇

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Debates are over and now it’s time to stop the Quisling Poilievre at the pollls!! Take nothing for granted! VOTE!!!

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On this Good Friday, have a thought for Justin Trudeau, that sacrificial lamb tossed into the embers of history to cleanse the land of COVID.

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A good thread on the US speed-of-light descent into autocracy and how to stop it or at least slow it.

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#canpoli #carneyforpm #nevervoteconservative

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