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Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Key points and statements from President Zelenskyy's interview to Fox News: ◾️Ukrainians want peace more than anyone. ◾️Ukrainians need peace through strength, with security guarantees, not just a ceasefire that Putin will violate like he already has done with numerous earlier ceasefires.

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no, really. must watch.

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This will probably get the least attention of all Trump's moves, but it is, in the fullness of history, the most monstrous & genocidal.

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The Democratic Party has no idea how angry its base is. Lead, right now, or get out of the way.

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Very pleased to see “No Other Land” win. Moving acceptance speeches. Glad that at least occasionally this Oscars telecast has acknowledged the harsh realities of the world in which we live.

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“I write to request clarity on whether the Department of Justice (DOJ) has yielded to political pressure and attempts to weaponize the agency against elected officials whose speech they disagree with,” @aoc.bsky.social wrote to Bondi. www.politico.com/live-updates...

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Swearing my mouth ragged over creating Eventbrite and FB events for my #mentalhealth book launch. About as user friendly as a rabid porcupine. Anyway, here's the Eventbrite invite for the in person launch, in case you're in Vancouver on March 29. Online in April. www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc...

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my grandfather died of covid in an upstate NY nursing home, alone I miss him desperately. That damn virus should've never got into his living place, the place where he was supposed to be safe

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All the worst people are losing their minds over No Other Land's Oscar win. Good.

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When Mike Myers wore his "Canada Is Not For Sale" t-shirt on SNL, he mouthed a secret code: "elbows up." It's a reference to the great Gordie "Mr. Elbows" Howe who punished those that messed with his team. You heard him Canada: elbows up. If anyone asks why, tell them that Mike Myers sent you.

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This will DEVASTATE #Hamilton and Ford is in Florida #onpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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this actually makes my stomach sink with dread, because it has to be very very very very bad for the grifter to say this

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This is beyond the pale. Education Minister of sorts, that is in favour of oil and gas indoctrination in the young. A climate change denier should not be in that position. Of course climate change/anti vax should not be the position of a government. Looking at you UCP.

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"Public investment" vs "Wasteful Subsidy." The only problem with this clever Singer cartoon is that some people might actually not get that it’s sarcastically illustrating the incorrect perception problem, NOT telling the truth. Just in case it actually needs to be said, the truth is the opposite.

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I feel like if King Charles isn’t willing to speak up for us then we should make Mike Myers the Governor General and have him raise those elbows for us.

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So the Democrats may be playing dead because their long-time strategist James Carville is telling them to. Great plan, Einstein. Ignore the opportunity to organize resistance because it's safe to wait around in case the Trump bandits implode. That's not even politics. nypost.com/2025/02/23/u...

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To fight fascism you have to change your ideology and that is no easy task. It is why leftists are well positioned to fight it because we have rid ourselves of adopting the ruling classes’ narrative that if you just work a little bit harder you too can somehow achieve unearned & inherited wealth.

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It doesn’t make you poor to acknowledge you are not in the ruling class it makes you in the majority.

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Trump’s false denial that he called Zelenskyy a dictator is a classic disinformation tactic. Deny even verifiable facts to cause public cynicism, disgust, and, ultimately, disengagement from politics.

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This is 100% bullshit. There are no algorithms. Musk and his incel clown posse are not forensic accountants and do not know how to audit. Discovering fraud is a labor-intensive project that can never be done by looking at payments alone. This is just a thinly-veiled rationale to gut Social Security.

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Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced new sanctions against key Kremlin allies, including “paramilitary organizations, their leaders, and others.”, who are complicit in helping Russia wage war in Ukraine. “We won’t allow Russia’s enablers to prolong this illegal invasion.”

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Americans may not get Myers’ “elbows up” gesture but Canadians and Gordie Howe fans sure do.

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Would Tim Walz run for President in 2028? If the circumstances are right, and he has the right “skill set” for the moment, “I’ll do it,” Walz told David Remnick.

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If I was given the opportunity to say one thing to @mark-carney.bsky.social I would tell him how many times a day a disabled or recently unemployed person in my comments tells me they can only afford one meal a day in Canada 🇨🇦 with no national food security program or meaningful income assistance.

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Attn: Liberals for Pipelines #cdnpoli

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Now's probably a good time to revisit this, again, Bluesky Because Musk and Trump definitely have their sights on a new financial regime, it couldn't be clearer now

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"If I can win elections by 35 points in Silicon Valley being for taxing the rich, you can win in any district on a platform of taxing the rich to pay for the healthcare, education, childcare of every American." – @rokhanna.bsky.social on @thenation.com podcast bit.ly/4hgdS41

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This is so fucking tragic. Today Europe is completely united behind Ukraine and the cause of freedom. Meanwhile the United States is sitting this one out along with Russia and Iran. Make it make sense.

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Yep. Have long been of the view the climate change is what broke it all. When they started saying you could not believe climate scientists it opened the door to everything

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Exactly 👇 But why was it climate change that led the Republicans to become full-on believers in conspiracy knowledge? Because taking the climate science seriously implies that the Western way of life of extraction and destruction of (natural) resources is over. And with it its power structures.

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It was always a mistake to try to sell CDR by promising it could decarbonize oil. People who want oil don't really care whether it's decarbonized or not. Only a real climate politics — the one that actually phases out fossil fuels — will deliver carbon removal, expensive and challenging as it is.

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Your daily reminder: gas is a fossil fuel. Burning it causes the planet to heat, and dumping it directly into the atmosphere is even worse. robbieandrew.github.io/GCB2024/

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A global realignment in the works for years, something the Right hasn’t even tried to hide, is coming to fruition. Oligarchs are blatantly carrying out a coup. The Democrats make it clear what they see as the problem: the people and an imaginary “left.” See it. Know it. We have to organize. Now.

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Correction: Relevant everyday

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Moments after being shown polling indicating that Trump’s favorable position toward Putin is out of step with American public opinion, Tulsi Gabbard asserts that Trump’s stance is being “celebrated” by the American public

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There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

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Let it all come out. There will be a reckoning. Zelensky is a hero.

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Back in the mid-20th century, the FBI could place an individual under surveillance solely for being LGBTQ. This is what enabled the anti-queer witch hunts of the McCarthy era. Now, DHS permits surveillance of LGBTQ people again. Just being queer makes you a suspect. www.advocate.com/politics/dhs...

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This is so fucking depressing. Ten @nytopinion columnists rate which of Trump's actions have been most consequential so far, and his destruction of climate policy and climate science doesn't even make it on the grid. The world is insane. Clinical levels of denial everywhere.

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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Let's talk about the proposed economic boycott. I wholeheartedly embrace it as we must heal from unrestrained consumption and Neoliberal capitalism. We should participate while also recognizing other collective actions are going to be necessary. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/economic-b...

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Zelensky just provided a clear example of how you handle these pathetic assholes. You don’t allow them to distort the truth, you don’t back down, you don’t capitulate and do what they want. We could use some leaders like that and seeing it only makes that fact painfully more obvious.

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This moment is going in the history books as the moment the US became irrelevant as a global power and ushered in the start of world war 3. Zelenskyy exposed the traitors.

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