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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦

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24 | she/her | trans lesbian | radical-liberal I love my girlfriend so fucking much, she’s perfect 🥰 I talk and reskeet a lot about geopolitics, politics, economics and a whole bunch of other things. Oh I love political philosophy btw

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · Jan 3

Pinned thread of important stuff

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Philippe Lagassé @plagasse.bsky.social · 5m

$1 billion over 13 years to attract high profile international research Chairs, I get.

$120 million over 12 years to hire international assistant profs? Bit of a slap across the face of Canadian PhD programs.

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Chris Sardo @mcsardo.bsky.social · 15m

A clear demonstration of the power of framing. If you only saw this headline you probably would have a knee jerk aversion to Prop 50. Context matters. In a world where we know people aren't clicking past the notification we need to find ways to contextualize better.

New York times notification that reads: Election Day What to Know. Californians will decide if congressional districts should be redrawn in Democrat's favor. See when the polls close and more.

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 48m

Okay yeah he voted Cuomo

Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 53m

Q: It's election day in NYC. Did you vote for Mamdani or Cuomo?

Schumer: "Look, I voted, and I look forward to working with the next mayor to help NYC."

Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 49m

I know it probably won't happen, but considering how the rights it cover are needed to exercise/experience the rights it doesn't cover I have a small hope the Supreme Court will find some way to keep our liberal democracy alive.

Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 49m

The notwithstanding clause is the stupidest thing ever. No oversight on its use and it covers so fucking much

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Celeste Trianon @celeste.lgbt · 1h

It's disgusting how much Canadian provincial premiers are frothing because the feds aren't using the notwithstanding clause.

Once you use it — even on something as obviously morally intolerable as child pornography — you open the floodgates for human rights abuses.

www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Justice Minister Sean Fraser dismisses using notwithstanding clause to overturn ruling on child pornography

Justice Minister Sean Fraser has rejected calls to use the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to overturn a Supreme Court of Canada ruling that said one-year mandatory minimum jail sentences for ac...

www.ctvnews.ca

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

[dalek voice] EXCOMMUNICATE EXCOMMUNICATE

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 1h

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.

“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1h

This is framed as a story about the economy, but it's also a story about the staggering financial costs of car dependency in the United States

Car payments are steeper than ever. Many Americans can’t afford it. - The Boston Globe

Delinquencies and repossessions are both at record highs, as steep loan terms make it harder for car owners to keep up with their payments.

www.bostonglobe.com

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 1d

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system.

Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah transparency is what's needed. Have clear rules on what is and isn't accepted and keep them at that. Don't change constantly on the whims of a few bureaucrats who know nothing

Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 2h

YOU DON'T WANT IT AT 0, but people can't comprehend that

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 2h

And also that's the thing people don't understand about vacancy rates, people think it means that x% of houses sit empty, but it's house empty at any given time. So like when a tenant move out, the time it takes before a new one go in.

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 3h

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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 3h

Since Q is a boomer who doesn't understand technology I have done you all the favor of posting this insane footage

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 3h

the tea leaves are not easy to read here, but musk has a better chance of losing these shareholders votes than ever before... fact that the impossible scenario where he is rejected by his own shareholders looks possible is a sign of seismic change

Thomas Hansen @thomashansen.bsky.social · 4h

Norway’s sovereign-wealth fund reject Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s new $1 trillion pay package, becoming first major investor to disclose its decision

Norges Bank Investment Management, the arm of the central bank which manages the $1.9 trillion fund, raised concerns over the size of remuneration:

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Jenny 💚 @jennybutnormal.bsky.social · 3h

Go vote!

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 3h

i think some of this is straight up campaign spend to look more viable

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3h

A thing you're not seeing if you haven't checked Twitter in the last week is all the political betting markets (Polymarket, Kalshi) are actively caping for Cuomo and spreading Zohran conspiracies on there. Usually this would be a cause for some sort of regulatory oversight but that no longer exists.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 5h

one good example of this was pretty recently when Ezra Klein adopted right wing criticism of a key broadband infrastructure program without pretty clearly not doing any original research into what he was complaining about

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

That dislike is mainly social and identity-based, has little or nothing to do with policy, & tracks global political patterns of increased political tension between urban & rural places.

So it's a big thing. But it's worth recalling how very close the 2024 election was despite all the headwinds.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

The actually existing Democratic Party supports popular policies, right down the list. The real story is that it narrowly lost a presidential election in 2024 & faces structural challenges due to the bias in the US electoral system that empowers small rural minorities who increasingly dislike it.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

If Democrats were the party Republicans say they are, then, yeah, that party would really need to take a long look in the mirror. But it's not.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

What's happening is that these commentators adopt Republican talking points about the Democratic agenda. That's it, that's the whole story. Their source of information about Democrats and Democratic priorities is Republicans and Republican-aligned media

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5h

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These candidates actually existed.

The Democratic Party actually had a platform. Ezra Douthglesias could still go read it. They choose not to, or to pretend it didn't exist: www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20....

Just have the courage of your convictions, please: bsky.app/profile/will...

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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 8h

can I say something without anyone getting mad?

I think there is too much of a focus with modern space hardware in making it look cool

Dr Robin George Andrews @squigglyvolcano.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Intuitive Machines, Astrolab, and Lunar Outpost have all built seriously cool, super-futuristic moon rovers. They’re competing to become the official mode of transportation for NASA’s Artemis astronauts.

And for NatGeo, I test drove all three. www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti...

An inside look into NASA's next generation moon rovers

A retro-futuristic space truck. A nimble crustacean on wheels. A space-age dune buggy. One will win a multibillion-dollar prize to deploy on a future NASA Artemis mission. But first, we took a ride on...

www.nationalgeographic.com

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Aricie | 아리시 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇨🇦 @aaricie.bsky.social · 5h

Really, the thing about this like most things is that we need more transparency.

The laws surrounding gun ownership are convoluted and have a bunch of exceptions for no reason at all.

If it were clearer I think people would have less of a problem.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

smart gun regulations basically killed smart guns in their infancy. gun policy in general tends to be knee-jerk like online "safety" policy in Congress

Isaiah Bishop @isaiahbishop.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah i think thats kind of similar to our problems but worse. Here a lot of it is that they have extremely weird definitions, banned a bunch of historic rifles and stuff.

kind of bureaucratic interventions without thinking of how it actually works for owners

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 5h

A more pertinent question: Why might one mayor in one city be a political liability for national Democrats, while the president, VP, various governors, and members of Congress are not for the national Republicans, let alone any GOP mayor?

How did that come to be? Who makes that happen?

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 5h

Good gracious Third Way

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Screenshot of article that reads: “A Mamdani victory is a serious political problem for those in the party who believe, as we do, that our primary focus must be on flipping red and purple seats blue, expanding the map for Democrats, and creating a path back to Congress and the White House,” Matt Bennett, executive vice president of center-left think tank Third Way, told MSNBC. “The [Democratic Socialists of America] platform — which Mamdani has not repudiated — hands a potent set of weapons to Republican ad makers eager to tie Mamdani-style politics to Democrats running in much tougher places than deep blue New York.”

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