Greg Bester π¨π¦
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Retired Librarian and Blogger. Cranky socialist. Mr. Sinister lives. Vive le Canada.
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This is the music the world needs right now. Angine de Poitrine.
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Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP)
YouTube video by KEXP
https://youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?si=tmugtO3_nli6rI7j
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As is their wont.
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about 6 hours ago
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More war crime talk.
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about 6 hours ago
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Like a sphincter.
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about 6 hours ago
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By bombing the shit out of one part and ethnic cleansing another.
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about 6 hours ago
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Elbows pointing South.
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about 7 hours ago
This is sociopathic behaviour on the part of
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Erica Ifill
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βThe collective crash-out of the Canadian political and news media establishment over Avi Lewisβ March 29 win in the NDP leadership race is giving me life.β
www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/01/e...
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Establishment enmity could be a good omen for the NDPβs Lewis - The Hill Times
The mocking responses of the Establishment to Avi Lewisβ win belie their divorce from the realities of Canadians not in their socioeconomic class.
https://www.hilltimes.com/2026/04/01/establishment-enmity-could-be-a-good-omen-for-the-ndps-lewis/497880/
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One more time. This is the guy Mark Carney wants to sign a trade deal with.
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about 7 hours ago
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jamelle
about 8 hours ago
the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit
morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...
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BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service
The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.
https://morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-trump-administration-orders?utm_medium=ios
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It means Doug stays out of jail, mostly.
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about 7 hours ago
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That's just fucking stupid.
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about 8 hours ago
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This is what keeps me awake at night.
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about 8 hours ago
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Oh shit, no.
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I am a bit mixed about Artemis. Great achievement. Shame they are paving the way for the oligarchs to put data centres on the moon.
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T. Ryan Gregory π¨π¦
about 9 hours ago
As we get excited about a mission around the moon that includes a Canadian astronaut, a quick reminder that Carney is cutting funding for the Canadian Space Agency by 33%.
globalnews.ca/news/1173746...
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To chop spending, Ottawa will cut science, tourism, foreign aid programs - National | Globalnews.ca
While 40 departments will collectively spend $23 billion more next year, another 85 departments will spend $31 billion less in 2026-27.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/
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Glad Stellantis isn't completely stupid.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Stellantis in Talks to Make Chinese EVs at Idled Canadian Plant
Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how qu...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/stellantis-in-talks-to-make-chinese-evs-at-idled-canadian-plant?srnd=undefined&embedded-checkout=true
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 13 hours ago
Mainstream media: Avi Lewis is a radical extremist who will try to implement his father's communist horror dystopia and destroy the nation. *24 hours later* Mainstream media: Stephen Lewis was a bold visionary who showed everyone the best of what Canada could be through social democracy.
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Left wing party elects left wing leader. Meltdown ensues.
www.lukewsavage.com/p/so-it-begins
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So it begins
Left wing party elects left wing leader. Meltdown ensues.
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/so-it-begins
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Michael C. Dorf
about 16 hours ago
Don't get me wrong: I'm relieved that this case is shaping up as either 8-1 or 7-2 against the Trump executive order. But the case is a gift to the Supreme Court. By rejecting an outlandish position, it will earn credibility as apolitical, even as the Overton window moves far to the right.
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As much as I dislike Italian football, I do feel for the Italians.
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about 16 hours ago
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Honestly, proportional representation is the only way we are ever going to advance as a country.
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I remember when it looked as if Stephen Lewis could be elected premier. I remember the Conservatives set up cameras outside a gathering of the BC Social Credit Party, to get "ordinary people's " opinion of the BC NDP government. Of course Ontarians fell for it and Lewis never was premier.
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He, of course, does not have the authority to do this .
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Brenda Peters RN(NP), PhD π¨π¦
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"Buy American" & "America First" are OK, but "Buy Canadian" is an irritant. Amidst all the scattered actions/thinking the one consistency is always the rape culture mindset - "I have the right to force you to do what I want, you can't fight back."
bsky.app/profile/atru...
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I'm thinking snake handler. The Lutherans are too level headed for Vance.
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Michael Nabert
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Health organizations beg Mark Carney to defend the Canada Health Act in the face of obvious and extreme violations. Canada's PM says nothing on the topic for months, being far more interested in appeasing and rewarding the culprits with policies they want.
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Is there anything he is for, other than tax cuts for Galen Weston and White Pride?
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Did they run out of schools and hospitals?
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April Fools Day is appropriate.
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There is nothing our political class loves more than a dead socialist. Live ones raise too many uncomfortable questions.
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Trial baloon away!
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Wasn't his health plan going to be made public in 2 weeks, 10 years ago?
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Sasha Fury
1 day ago
Canadian Liberals get Big Madβ’οΈ when someone actually has the nerve to fight for the things Liberals only pretend to believe in, like healthcare, democracy, equality, and justice.
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It is essentially nonexistent on CBC. Their political panels are frozen in time circa 2011.
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Avi Lewis makes an immediate impact.
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And fir what? A few seats in Alberta.
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Canada facing the same choice, making the same mistakes, as Carney abandons the fight against carbon emissions.
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Mylee Joseph
3 days ago
Why the library is an author's friend and how Public Lending Rights (PLR) Programs take that relationship to whole new level
#libraries
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The Library Is Not The Enemy But The Equalizer
Why the library is an author's friend and how Public Lending Rights (PLR) Programs take that relationship to whole new level
https://starkreflections.substack.com/p/the-library-is-not-the-enemy-but
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By JD Vance. Also, why aliens are demons.
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Surrender to neoliberalism has been the reason for the demise of socialist parties all over the Western world.
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Alex Cosh
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NEW: Global Affairs Canada may have simply scrubbed the word "Israel" from an artillery propellant contract with the USA without receiving any assurance that the goods would not end up in Israel. Don't ask, don't tell? Latest from Emma Paling.
www.readthemaple.com/did-global-a...
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Did Global Affairs Try To Scrub Record Of Israel Arms Transfer?
βI think that the changes they are making now is actually just pushing for less transparency.β
https://www.readthemaple.com/did-global-affairs-try-to-scrub-record-of-israel-arms-transfer/
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The greatest premier Ontario never had. RIP. Stephen Lewis was always a delight on Morningside. I miss those days.
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Tea Pain
2 days ago
I can safely say nowhere in the NATO charter is their language that stipulates they must support a war to hide one manβs crimes against underage girls.
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Fuck off.
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It's not a fossil fuel so....
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There's no reason Lewis can't raise NDP numbers to the high teens, in short order.
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It's a victim's philosophy.
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Stewart Prest
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If only there were a comprehensive plan of action about Iran's nuclear status, that everyone jointly agreed to...
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Whiskey Pete is drunk.
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