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“Lapdog vice-president.” A seething op-ed from JD Vance’s hometown paper, the Ohio Capital Journal, is not impressed by his first few weeks in a “nondescript role as an appendage in the Trump-Musk administration."

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This is how the British public is reacting! London today. Same in Dublin. 💛 Thank you for standing with Ukraine! #cdnpoli #peipoli

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an ambigram (reads in two ways) for someone who likes certain ideologies and salutes accordingly.

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force of victim blaming strong with republicans.

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this, exactly. #slavaukraini

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best description of three of the worst psychopaths in history: Space Caligula, Fat Grandpa Simpson, and the brain worm guy via @patricjreynolds.bsky.social

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since #CPC is on a hunting expedition in south america to find some dirt on Carney, who will bring up the fact that Pierre the populist's favourite economist, Milton Friedman, was a supporter and advisor to brutal dictator Pinochet and helped destroy countless Chilean lives? #cdnpoli

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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 38 is out! The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

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required viewing (also available on insta) ACIP meetings cancelled. there may not be an updated flu vaccine next year. tens of thousands of flu deaths next year will be on #RFKJr hands. where is the arc of moral universe when our lives need it? vm.tiktok.com/ZMkKcnXMy/

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I've known @jeffjarvis.bsky.social for almost 25 years and the reason I've always respected him is that it is a genuine risk to his career and status for him to plainly say the truth on this kind of platform. And it has impact that he does so.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

Just going to leave this here should it become useful to anyone…

submitted 8 days ago • 614 comments

when WaPo was stopped from endorsing Harris, there was a journo [forgot her name] imploring people on twitter NOT to cancel their subscriptions, because obviously a lot of good journos are/were still working for the newspaper. how is she feeling about the paper now? is she still employed there?

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“I also believe these viewpoints are underserved in the current market of ideas.” bs. that’s the opposite of what’s happened ever since sociopath neoliberals like Friedman were given a bullhorn. see also: “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market”

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Via Graham Thomson. 'CorruptCare Scandal': Smith Thumped in Legislature via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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“all human beings are projects of mutual creation. most of the work we do is on each other.” — david graeber #quoth

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There are 28 centrists in America and all of them work 16 hours a day churning out bullshit opinion pieces.

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“there should be books written about how Justin Trudeau broke the Conservative party.” — the kid #cdnpoli

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we knew Drumpf was a Putin puppet but we never understood the extent of it. someday, we will be shocked again with the real depths of his treachery.

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"No shells? We’ll take up rifles. No rifles? We’ll grab shovels.” apnews.com/article/ukra...

submitted 8 days ago • 584 comments

“soft” is such a kind word, they have been /terrible/ about fact checking, and living up to their journalistic principles.

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I am deeply ashamed that the U.S. is not among these defenders of Ukraine but deeply grateful to the other nations of the world who have stood up to fill the void we have left.

submitted 8 days ago • 217 comments

quiet snow - parting wild horse’s mane. [oz/2017] #haiku #micropoetry

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I wish more people knew about the 1920s Klan because they—perhaps more than European fascists—are the model for Trumpism. This is a good summary and a nice reminder that they do a lot of damage, but in the end, fascists always lose.

submitted 9 days ago • 96 comments

I tried to explain to my department of 20 people. 20 VERY SMART PEOPLE…5 years ago? Maybe more? That the ‘free speech’ thing is a divide and conquer strategy, a way of attacking academia from the side, and it’s actually science that is the prime target. Not a single person understood the point.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

one year older - full winter moon carving my path [oz/2018] #haiku #micropoetry

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stream cleanse: an image from my “contented cats” series [h/t Nabuo Honda] #catsofbluesky

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so, how are the fact checkers doing these days? can we catalogue trump's insane hurricane of lies? is that humanly possible?

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The US is the sick man of the western democracies. #USPolitics

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fear and loathing in the #CPC ranks, and the liar-in-chief in complete projection mode. after two years of nothing but bs and sloganeering, he now accuses Mark Carney of sloganeering. mind boggles at the magnitude of shameless gaslighting. #cdnpoli #PierrePoilievreIsLyingToYou

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“talking about villains …” — david tennant [bafta awards]

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let’s stop vote splitting. #cdnpoli smartvoting.ca

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does anyone know where steven pinker is hiding? can we take a look at “better angels” of our nature again and laugh together?

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there is no doubt now that Trumpiacs are a clear and present danger to democracies, indeed civilization around the world. their cousins, the #CPC in Canada, are working hard to bring us into that malevolent fold. Pierre the populist is just a timbit-strongman in waiting. #cdnpoli

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we're a 'oops we canceled a treasury payment that backends the entire system' snafu away from a shitshow

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As EU braces for a future without the US as a reliable ally, Europe’s strength must come from within. Electing leaders dedicated to democracy & defending the European interest independently is more crucial than ever. Rejecting AfD is not just a national imperative but a European one. #NoAfD #BanX 🇩🇪🇪🇺

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reforcons cannot help themselves. they shamelessly adopted Trump's fascist "america first" slogan as "canada first" in the hopes of clawing back some resemblance of relevance again. [note dr seuss on "america first"] #cdnpoli

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You know, it seems that whenever anyone resigns from Linux kernel work in total frustration, and cites a few of the things that were the final straws, it's always the same person whose caustic manner is at the root -- and it isn't Linus. marcan.st/2025/02/resi...

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

from A. R. Moxon’s essay “Fighting in the Dark” @juliusgoat.bsky.social #cdnpoli #uspolitics www.the-reframe.com/fighting-in-...

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RFK Jr. — “We should not be giving black people the same vaccine schedule that's given to whites because their immune system is better than ours." MORE DANGEROUS RFK Jr. MISINFORMATION. The man confirmed as our nation’s next health secretary has a painfully long history of undermining trust in…

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