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🇨🇦🍁True Canadian 🍁🇨🇦 @canadian-capt.bsky.social · 9h

🎙️ “And now… a story about a little country that finally found its voice.”

It’s not a story from the past — not yet.
But one day, they’ll look back to the rear 2025 and say this was the moment Canada stood up, dusted itself off, and said —
“ 51st state, my ass .”

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 2h

In Sumy region, a man aged 69 has now died following the attack on a passenger bus in Sumy.

The Russians actually published the drone footage of the incident. 13 others were injured, including two children aged 8 and 15.

Two of those in hospital are critical.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 3h

In his evening address, Zelenskyy admits Russians have entered Pokrovsk.

Ukraine's president says it's only sabotage groups, but "It's there the Russians have concentrated their main strike group - a significant number of their troops. This creates a difficult situation in all neighbouring areas."

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Scott Robertson @sarobertson.bsky.social · 6h

CARNEY: "In fact, we have free trade agreements with 15 jurisdictions around the world, two-thirds of global trade. Now, some of those free trade agreements operate a little more predictably than others. No prize for guessing which ones."

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 21h

A man was killed on a busy Virginia highway this week after running into the road while fleeing ICE agents, officials said.

The police identified the man as Jose Castro-Rivera, a 24-year-old from Honduras.

Man dies in crash on Virginia’s I-264 highway while fleeing ICE agents

A Honduran man was hit by a pickup truck as he tried to cross the highway after being stopped by ICE agents, DHS and Virginia State Police said.

www.washingtonpost.com

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

Go Canada! Go Jays! 🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile on Russian state TV, propagandist Solovyov offers a different perspective, calling to "blow everything the hell out" and threatening "there will be no life" in Kharkiv, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Odesa or Kyiv. Residents must flee or be destroyed, he said.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

These guys get $50k signing bonuses.

Stephen Miller is telling them they have immunity and encouraging them to create chaos.

They get almost no training, many couldn’t pass an open book exam & they’re allowed to hide their faces.

They’re swinging assault rifles around in public.

Abolish ICE

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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 1d

As Russian shelling continues in frontline Ukrainian communities, more residents are being evacuated from their homes. Last weekend, WCK teams delivered hot meals to a bus full of evacuees on the day-long journey from the Pavlohrad Transit Center in Dnipro to shelters in Vinnytsia. #ChefsForUkraine

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 1d

Rev. Jorge Bautista was shot in the face by a pepper ball fired by a federal agent and became the face of a Bay Area protest over a looming federal immigration crackdown.

📸: Stephen Lam/S.F. Chronicle

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🇨🇦MapleHallow 🎃 @maplezero.bsky.social · 1d

Rob Schneider once again demonstrates the absurd reality that the less someone knows the more likely they are to open their mouth.

Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 1d

I was born at the children’s hospital in Washington DC

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2d

A kindergartener

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 3d

Oh wow:

"During the fracas, a federal agent fired a pepper round that struck a (UCC) clergyman, Jorge Bautista, near the chin. The impact caked his face and clothing in orange powder. Bautista said the agent shot him in the face from about 5 feet away."

"'I’m in a lot of pain,'" Bautista texted…"

A man, identified as a UCC minister, squints in pain with his face caked in orange from apparent pepper balls allegedly shot by ICE/DHS agents.

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Democracy, Canadian Style 🇨🇦 Elbows Up! @democracycan.bsky.social · 1d

As @jayinkyiv.bsky.social puts so succinctly and needs to be said every second of every day

"I believe the civilized world should be on their god damned hands and knees thanking the brave men and women of Ukraine for keeping these monsters out of the civilized world"

#SlavaUkraini

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 1d

The ongoing government shutdown continues to disrupt flights at times and put pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay. https://to.pbs.org/47nhi1P

WATCH: Duffy and air traffic controller union head hold briefing on effect of federal shutdown

The ongoing government shutdown continues to disrupt flights at times and put pressure on air traffic controllers who are working without pay.

www.pbs.org

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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 2d

Putin's economy descends into crisis as Ukraine expands deep strikes.

youtu.be/VV9PUnMPAyA

Russia Descends Into Chaos As Ukraine Hits Putin's Economy

YouTube video by Jay in Kyiv

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

‘We’re extremely well positioned’: Maritime ports ready for doubling of non-U.S. exports #NewBrunswick #NovaScotia

www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/art...

‘We’re extremely well positioned’: Maritime ports ready for doubling of non-U.S. exports

Maritime ports are eager to play a big role in the doubling of non-U.S. exports from Canada.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Carney: "We can't control the trade policy of the US. We recognize it has fundamentally changed from the policy in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, & it's a situation where US has tariffs against every trading partner... what we we can control is developing new partnerships, including w/econ giants of Asia"

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 2d

Tit for tat right. 🤣 #Canada #TradeWar

Ottawa cuts number of American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free

Move comes after companies dropped some Canadian production

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Ottawa cuts number of American vehicles Stellantis and GM can import tariff-free | CBC News

The federal government is firing back at Stellantis and General Motors and cutting the number of tariff-free vehicles the automakers can import from the U.S. to sell in Canada.

www.cbc.ca

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

I cannot actually believe that Cuomo put out this insanely racist AI-slop deepfake ad. In a sane society, this alone ought to be a career-ending move.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

Andrew Cuomo’s campaign just posted — and quickly deleted — this AI-generated ad depicting “criminals for Zohran Mamdani.”

Features a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, an abuser, a trespasser, a trafficker, a drug dealer, and a drunk driver all declaring support for Mamdani.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

From the people that pretend to be Christian, they hit a clergyman directly while protesting.

They’ve gone from attacking marginalized communities to attacking the community in general. Now they are openly attacking religious institutions.

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Euronews @euronews.com · 2d

The Trump administration has approved plans to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, rekindling fierce debate between economic interests and environmental protection.

Trump reopens Alaska wildlife refuge to oil and gas drilling

The Trump administration has approved plans to open Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, rekindling fierce debate between economic interests and environmental protection.

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 2d

In Kharkiv, nine people were injured; one man is in serious condition. Russia struck the city with five aerial bombs.

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Mark Gerretsen @markgerretsen.bsky.social · 2d

Does this look like garbage to you?! 😡

A Conservative MP called the National School Food Program "garbage" and claimed not a single child had been fed.

Pictured here are actual meals being prepared to feed school children in my district through supports like Canada’s National School Food Program.

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Democracy, Canadian Style 🇨🇦 Elbows Up! @democracycan.bsky.social · 2d

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This refugee who cleaned Toronto’s long-term-care homes during COVID is still owed thousands: ‘I just needed to survive’

Misclassification and complex subcontracting chains are fuelling wage theft. Over a decade, Ontario workers lost tens of millions of dollars.

www.thestar.com

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