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Rachel Maddow
6 days ago
Gift article. Very much worth your time:
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Formula That Defeated Orban. It Would Defeat Trump, Too.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/opinion/hungary-win-election-viktor-orban.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mlA.DXHi.rDKOxFxxkTF3&smid=bs-share
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Marty Lederman
6 days ago
As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...
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The U.S. Boat Strike Campaign Has Now Killed Over 200 People
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/world/americas/us-boat-strikes-colombia-ecuador.html
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Yadayada baba
13 days ago
Yep! He regrets ghostwriting it as the worst mistake of his life.
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Trump's ghostwriter says writing "The Art of the Deal" is the greatest regret of his life
"I knew this was a bad guy when I did the book," Tony Schwartz said on "The Takeout" podcast
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tony-schwartz-trumps-ghostwriter-says-writing-the-art-of-the-deal-is-the-greatest-regret-of-his-life/
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Harsha Walia
13 days ago
A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract.
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Protesters rally against planned AI data centres in Vancouver | CBC News
Hundreds of people marched through Vancouver on Saturday to protest two planned AI data centres in the city, raising concerns about the amount of water and energy such facilities can use as the region...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/protest-against-ai-data-centres-in-vancouver-9.7210309
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CHEK News
16 days ago
British Columbia researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine and antidepressants to caffeine and flame retardants.
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Cocktail of pills, caffeine and fire retardant put B.C. chinook salmon at risk: study
B.C. researchers found more than 200 contaminants in water and chinook salmon tissue samples collected from five sites in the Lower Fraser River estuary including everything from cocaine and antidepressants to caffeine and flame retardants.
https://cheknews.ca/cocktail-of-pills-caffeine-and-fire-retardant-put-b-c-chinook-salmon-at-risk-study-1325600/
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Mongabay
18 days ago
In 2019, a Persian leopard named Aren was first spotted in Armenia. Later that year, he was seen again, but he was missing a leg. Rangers believe he stepped on a landmine. Aren's story shows how roads, fences, & landmines fragment the habitat of this endangered species. By
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Endangered Persian leopards persist across borders, despite hunters and landmines
Last September, zoologist and conservationist Bejan Lortkipanidze received a video file from a collaborator, Zurab Gurielidze, the head of Georgia’s Tbilisi Zoo. Gurielidze offered no details, but…
https://mongabay.cc/bh6mt3
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ProPublica
19 days ago
NEW: An Oklahoma family was forced to abandon their home after it filled with slick, black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite ample evidence of oil and gas pollution, state regulators say they cannot help.
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Oily Sludge Is Flooding Their Dream Home. Oklahoma Regulators Say They Can’t Help.
The Merediths were forced to abandon their house after it filled with black goo, reaching gas concentrations at explosive levels. Despite evidence of oil and gas pollution, the state “wanted to act li...
https://www.propublica.org/article/oklahoma-oil-regulators-fort-gibson-meredith-family?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Mongabay
19 days ago
An 18-year-old Zambian prodigy has built a new weather model to improve forecasting across sub-Saharan Africa. Shortlisted for the Earth Prize, Prosper Chanda’s peer-reviewed work fills a critical gap left by systems trained only on Western data. Victoria Schneider reports.
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Zambian prodigy draws on theoretical physics to improve weather prediction
Prosper Chanda, 18, does not shy away from big problems. At the age of 3, he dived into algebra, and then as an adolescent he turned his attention toward advanced physics. At a time when most youth…
https://mongabay.cc/PpWkru
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APTN News
23 days ago
An Alberta judge has delivered a major blow to the separatist movement in Alberta after quashing the separatist petition, saying the provincial government breached its duty to consult with First Nations. That is one of our topics for this week's Truth & Politics panel.
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Separatist petition quashed in Alberta – what is means and what comes next | Truth & Politics
YouTube video by APTN News
https://youtu.be/SY47hzB2m28
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The Mamdani effect…
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Women: still denied the right to self-defence.
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🌹WeegieFromWA 🍀
28 days ago
Hawaii's legislature has passed S.B. 2471 with overwhelming bipartisan support. The bill would no longer grant corporations the power to spend money in Hawaiian politics. It will face legal challenges, but stranger things have happened. Full story⬇️⬇️⬇️
www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legis...
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Hawaii Legislature passes first-in-nation bill targeting Citizens United ruling
Supporters of the bill say citizens, rather than corporations, should have more power in elections.
https://www.courthousenews.com/hawaii-legislature-passes-first-in-nation-bill-targeting-citizens-united-ruling/
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West Coast Environmental Law
29 days ago
“These changes amount to a wholesale shredding of Canada’s environmental safety net. This isn’t a transformation, it’s an evisceration."—WCEL Lawyer Anna Johnston. Our full reaction to the latest proposal to weaken enviro & regulatory oversight over major projects:
wcel.org/media-releas...
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Seth Klein
about 1 month ago
Kudos to
@thenarwhal.ca
on the launch of this series. Promises ot be super-informative. The full series page is here:
thenarwhal.ca/series/who-p...
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Pelican Dock Music
about 1 month ago
“There used to be an unwritten rule that women and children were off limits."
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One of the best pieces I’ve read in awhile:
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On the Indigenous Homeland: What Proto-Salish Vocabulary Reveals About Indigenous History in Canada and the US
Plant names, animal words, and the linguistic evidence that points to the coastal origins of the Salish language family
https://open.substack.com/pub/khelsilem/p/on-the-coast-salish-homeland?r=2a25c6
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Raider
about 2 months ago
Thank you for your courage to publicly address abusive language.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani
about 2 months ago
Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Hopeful in AZ
about 2 months ago
The wealthiest and most powerful men on Earth have decided they will happily kill us all, whether with nukes or starvation or disease, to keep from facing the consequences of their lifetimes of crime The Epstein scandal, the warmongering, the worship of money, we're sick of it all Time for change
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The Narwhal
about 2 months ago
Our newsroom published three investigations this week, including one that revealed Canada’s first major LNG export terminal was among the worst-emitting LNG plants in the world in 2025. Catch up in this week’s newsletter:
thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-l...
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LNG Canada: the worst flaring in the world? | The Narwhal
LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned 350 million cubic metres of gas in 2025. That’s more than any other LNG export facility on record in 2024
https://thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-lng-canada-flaring/
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The Tennessee Holler
about 2 months ago
ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”
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Tim Mak
about 2 months ago
Good morning to readers. Oil prices are at $111 per barrel (+47% compared to pre-war). The Strait of Hormuz has turned into a trap at sea. Mohamed receives desperate pleas to repatriate stranded crew caught in the crisis.
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20K seafarers stranded by Hormuz blockade
Following the failure to agree on opening the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. imposed a blockade on the critical chokepoint, making life more dangerous for the sailors trapped by the strait’s closure.
https://open.substack.com/pub/irandispatches/p/20k-seafarers-stranded-by-hormuz?r=6rf4sj&utm_medium=ios
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Eby: Racist industry wolf in NDP sheep’s clothing…
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about 2 months ago
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Governor Newsom Press Office
about 2 months ago
IT HAS BEEN 110 DAYS SINCE TRUMP’S DOJ WAS SUPPOSED TO RELEASE THE FULL EPSTEIN FILES. THEY STILL HAVE NOT. TIME TO HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE, CONGRESS!
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Paul Eric
2 months ago
Japanese diver Hiroyuki Arakawa still visits Yoriko, a fish he saved almost 30 years ago, and they share a rare and beautiful friendship in the ocean 🥹💙😎
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Mongabay
2 months ago
For the first time, researchers have documented sperm whales assisting in a birth—even when they aren't related to the mother. Sperm whales are known for "alloparenting," but this observation suggests their coordinated care begins at the very moment of birth. Story by Bobby Bascomb for
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Family and friends help sperm whale mother and newborn during birth
With the notable exception of humans, most mammals give birth alone. But in July 2023, researchers in the Caribbean witnessed something extraordinary: sperm whales not only attending a birth but…
https://mongabay.cc/Ujd2gq
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑
2 months ago
POV: You made history by joining the LARGEST protest in United States history!
#NoKings
Use the energy’s from today’s historic day to meet your neighbors (if safe) and start a group chat on Signal. The most important resistance work is hyper localized 🤝
#WeSayNoKings
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What the good guys are up to…
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Reuters
3 months ago
UN body investigating fatal strike on Iranian girls school
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UN body investigating fatal strike on Iranian girls school
A U.N. inquiry has started investigating a fatal strike on a primary school on the first day of U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, one of its members told reporters on Tuesday.
https://reut.rs/4716I19
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michaeledward
3 months ago
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Scott Horton
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Canadaland
3 months ago
We take you inside a lab at Environment and Climate Change Canada that could go from 9 scientists to 1, thanks to PM Carney's public service cuts. This lab makes sure our water isn't slick with oil, and our fish aren't infested with plastics.
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Carney Cuts The Scientists Who Test For Toxins
More than 24,000 federal public servants have received notices that their jobs could be at risk. That is on top of the 9800 public service employees who were already let go last year.
https://buff.ly/Zwa02Ms
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Center for International Environmental Law
3 months ago
A North Dakota judge ordered
@greenpeace.org
to pay $345 million in damages to the pipeline company Energy Transfer caused by protest actions in 2016/17. This is a textbook
#SLAPP
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DrDinD.bsky.social
3 months ago
With Rep.
@crow.house.gov
100% - a combat vet with working class roots. Caring for infrastructure, affordability, jobs > foreign adventures by draft dodging elites like Trump to enrich oil companies and advance Israeli and Saudi interests!
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Sage Deviant 🏳️⚧️
3 months ago
Today, US & Israeli forces bombed the Gandhi Children’s Hospital in Iran’s capital of Tehran. Nurses supposedly risked their lives carrying newborns to safety from the rubble. I’m having trouble finding more reporting about this, but here is at least a blurb from Reuters:
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Anonymous
3 months ago
Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Iran: “Remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law.”
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد
3 months ago
I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:
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Canadaland
3 months ago
“Everybody needs to know about this. We need to shut this down. This is aviation. This is training. There are safety issues here.” -Jeff Weeks
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Scoop: AI Slop Training for Aircraft Mechanics
By some estimates Canada will soon be short thousands of trained aircraft mechanics. The people who keep our flights safe. The government came up with $25 million dollars to help.
https://buff.ly/idaQDor
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The Narwhal
3 months ago
Road salt applied to streets and parking lots is washing into Lake Simcoe and other watersheds throughout Ontario, putting biodiversity and drinking water at risk.
@leahbortskuperman.bsky.social
reports on the problem — as well as one potential solution.
thenarwhal.ca/lake-simcoe-...
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Winter road salt threatens Ontario’s Lake Simcoe | The Narwhal
Salt used to remove ice from roadways is spreading across the Lake Simcoe watershed — a source of drinking water for hundreds of thousands
https://thenarwhal.ca/lake-simcoe-road-salt-problem/
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Mongabay
3 months ago
After decades of decline, North America’s birds are vanishing even faster. A new Science study finds populations falling across most regions, with intensive agriculture the strongest driver. Scientists warn the losses threaten ecosystem services that support food systems and human well-being.
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Warming and farming hasten bird losses across North America, study shows
After half a century of steep declines, North America’s birds are disappearing faster than ever. A new study shows that populations are shrinking across most of the continent, with intensive…
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/warming-and-farming-hasten-bird-losses-across-north-america-study-shows/
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Lorraine Montez
3 months ago
Huge mistake. Now Carney looks like he’s a pedophile protector to the people of the United States, trying to oust our current murderous regime
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Philip Gourevitch
4 months ago
notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich
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Oh, no, no, no… Tumbler Ridge! 💔
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Rœ
4 months ago
Why isn’t every politician, leader, prosecutor, and news channels focused on this. The President is accused with significant proof of killing and raping minors.
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Sarah's underWatters
4 months ago
Posting again.
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Jasmine Crockett
4 months ago
Bad Bunny understood the assignment…
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TR Bridge
4 months ago
BC voters need to call this out. Shareholder profit, ecological ruin, taxpayers on the hook. Excellent feature by
@zoeyunker.bsky.social
thetyee.ca/News/2026/02...
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BC Halts Plans to Make Polluters Pay for Cleanup Costs | The Tyee
The province billed its Public Interest Bonding Strategy as a key step to protect the public from massive cleanup bills. Now it’s on hold.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/02/03/BC-Halts-Plans-Make-Polluters-Pay-Cleanup/
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UBCIC
4 months ago
"The Court’s decision recognizes that protecting this corridor is essential to the survival of wild salmon and to the cultures, food systems, and laws of our peoples. This is a critical step forward in the fish farm transition process." Chief Dalton Silver
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Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Discovery Islands Fish Farm Decision: A Victory for Wild Salmon, Indigenous Rights, and the Precautionary Principle
Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights
https://www.ubcic.bc.ca/federal_court_of_appeal_upholds_discovery_islands_fish_farm_decision
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The Narwhal
4 months ago
Carol Linnitt, co-founder and editor-in-chief, provides an update on The Narwhal’s court case against the RCMP. Amber Bracken finished cross-examination late Jan. 28. It took more than 12 hours. To learn more about the trial visit
www.thenarwhal.ca/press-freedom
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