Rachel Barney
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Complaints about fascism and the Toronto subway. Wondering where it all went wrong. Elbows up!
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As ever, the way to make billions is just assume that tail end risks are somebody else’s problem
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Catherine
19 days ago
Teeny orange
#toadlet
found in
#Brazil
. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized
#amphibian
.
#frog
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty:
www.popsci.com/environment/...
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David Roberts
22 days ago
In terms of US politics, Bush v. Gore is the defining event of the century. It set the template: a ruthless right that instinctively seeks power & doesn't give a shit about rule of law...and a bunch of hapless, feckless octogenarian Dems worried about the good opinion of centrist opinion columnists.
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Vote Trump, vote Bronze Age
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28 days ago
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Not win win
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30 days ago
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Benjamin Dreyer
about 1 month ago
AI is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
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Drawing the same conclusions as everyone else here as to the rigor standards and urgency of executive work
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Dana Fried
about 1 month ago
This is an insightful but deeply upsetting article about why everyone in the US feels poor, and why the current political situation emerges as a direct result.
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
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Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-life-is-a-lie
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Sanho Tree
about 1 month ago
That’s a hell of a punchline.😂
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Tim Dickinson
about 1 month ago
Imagine if tech companies had made a wild capex bet on chasing clean energy, instead of inventing a plagiarism machine powered by **checks notes** extending the life of coal plants
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Climate Action Network Canada
about 2 months ago
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at
#COP30
as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.” Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
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Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025: Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour. Foss...
https://shorturl.at/hSGvm
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This had better not be Canadian govt workers using some Canary Mission/ADL/Likud enemies list
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about 2 months ago
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Elad Nehorai
about 2 months ago
Reinstate Sarah Kendzior
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Speaking as a Canadian, not wanting to talk to Kevin O’Leary does not distinguish Zohran from tens of millions
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about 2 months ago
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Luke Stark
about 2 months ago
Instead of investing in wind and solar to bring down energy prices, Doug Ford is paying for his hatred of renewables with our taxes.
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Ontario nearly doubles household electricity rebates to cover surging hydro prices
While the net result on residential hydro bills is minimal, the increase in the rebate will cost taxpayers an estimated $2 billion more per year — meaning power subsidies will
https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/ontario-nearly-doubles-household-electricity-rebates-to-cover-surging-hydro-prices/article_cb06bbed-fc94-438f-ad72-292a58622b66.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link&utm_campaign=user-share
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I want a way to get folks who claim to believe that ZM is a raging antisemitic jihadist to bet real money of their own on some factual claims about what will happen over the next few years. Separate the bullshitting bullies from the genuinely deranged, & get rich.
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about 2 months ago
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Ugh
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Art by Emily K
2 months ago
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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Bill Kristol
2 months ago
An embarrassingly obvious point, but... This. Is. Illegal. If anything like the rule of law were in force, Trump couldn't arbitrarily increase a tariff because he is annoyed. In important and increasing ways, the rule of law in the US no longer exists.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/b...
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Trump says he’s increasing tariffs on Canada by 10% after Ontario’s Reagan ad | CNN Business
President Donald Trump said Saturday he is increasing the tariff on Canada by 10% over current levels, further escalating trade tensions over what he called a “fake” ad that featured parts of an anti-...
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/25/business/trump-tariffs-canada-reagan
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elcanaco.bsky.social
3 months ago
This seems important.
#ClimateCrisis
#drought
#cdnpoli
#bcpoli
#abpoli
#saskpoli
#mbpoli
#onpoli
#nbpoli
#nspoli
#nfld
#nwt
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As usual, Pritzker saying the thing that needs saying
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3 months ago
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Pay the middle price now
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4 months ago
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Well, it’s probably true that the crowd was exceptionally dense
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schleiermocker
4 months ago
if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities
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Doug Ford only identifies with three kinds of voter: developers, people who can’t stand to sober up, and people who insist on their right to speed and refuse to pay their tickets
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The more rightwing candidates the better imho
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depths of wikipedia
8 months ago
on this day in 1947, Canadian chocolate bar companies raised the price from 5 to 8 cents and kids across the nation launched a massive strike, blocked traffic with protests, and even stormed a government building. the movement fizzled due to accusations of communist ties
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I think he must think Poilievre would be a quisling for him (which, in fairness, he’s so far shown no signs of being), but also can’t remember his name?
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8 months ago
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Thudding my head against my desk at the eternal, invincible, heroic refusal of Canadians to grasp what actual strategic voting would be. /thud
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8 months ago
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People keep saying this but see
@auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social
. ‘Deportation’ is the standard term for the Nazis’ sending innocent Jewish citizens of Germany, France etc. to concentration camps in nominally distinct jurisdictions. Not a totally irrelevant parallel to El Salvador.
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I want the Ontario Cons and the PCP to end up so committed to destroying each other that the whole party ends up like the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, a decades long no-go zone where nature can heal
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8 months ago
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Like what the Saudis did with Khashoggi
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9 months ago
In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead.
#BOTD
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This is because Trump hasn’t raved about annexation for a few weeks now. And because people are idiots.
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9 months ago
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Charlie Angus
9 months ago
My deeply Catholic mother said to me today, "On Easter our dear lord died beside two criminals. The Pope had to sit with J. D. Vance in his final hours." Burn.
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Excruciating but cheering to watch the Dems, Harvard etc figure out how to deal with bullies in real time, like watching the computer in WarGames cycle through all the simulations with ten seconds to go “The only way to win is not to play!”
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YVR Resident
9 months ago
ALERT
#Liberals
in Elizabeth May’s riding need to vote for her She is in a close race with a
#conservative
. Liberal candidate is trailing.
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Come on. Journalists can be impassioned and advocate, nobody minds. That’s not what Rebel is — they’re a partisan pressure group, *legally registered* as such. You might as well give a question to whoever runs the LPC website.
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NY Times Pitchbot
9 months ago
Our administration will stand for two things: Fighting antisemitism and stopping the Soros-funded, Hollywood-controlling, migration-orchestrating, well-poisoning, global banking cabal of rootless cosmopolitans from destroying our Christian way of life. by J.D. Vance
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I wonder if at some point Harvard and Yale Law will reconsider their longstanding DEI admissions for rightwing hacks and grifters
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Victor Caston
9 months ago
At last!
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The Cons hate Canadian democracy, part bazillion
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9 months ago
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The ‘Fuck You and Fuck Any Attempt to Fix Anything Party’, with made up statistics as usual, all in on betting the ordinary voter is a resentful selfish moron. I’m not a Carney fan, but nothing is more important this election than kicking this guy and his pals to the curb.
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Poilievre promises to end ban on single-use plastic straws, other items
MONTREAL — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected.
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/poilievre-promises-end-ban-single-141346189.html
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Politicians like Ford benefit from a kind of duck-rabbit effect: in any given decision it’s hard to tell whether he’s being corrupt or a cretin, so people feel underconfident about applying either label when both are clearly correct
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The Beaverton
9 months ago
Ford insists dubious Therme Spa project met all the necessary bribes
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Ford insists dubious Therme Spa project met all the necessary bribes
QUEEN'S PARK - Responding to a New York Times exposé claiming that European firm Therme grossly overstated its business experience to land a suspiciously lucrative Ontario Place re-development deal, P...
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/04/ford-insists-dubious-therme-spa-project-met-all-the-necessary-bribes/
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Take some Canadians too plz
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State-enforced DEI quota hiring for rightwingers, across every discipline. Thank god they are so greedy and so very very stupid, a subtler approach would probably have worked.
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Dreaming of a Canadian economy built around Ferrero Rocher
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He’s keeping his trap shut til the Canadian election is over, unfortunately. It would be very interesting to know who the grownup is who persuaded him to do it.
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