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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1h

tapping ye sign: we should tax billionaires

www.liberalcurrents.com/billionaires...

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 5h

AFN has a story today. This is the first that I heard someone died. So many villages devastated. It will take years to recover because it's so expensive to build in these rural villages.

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...?

Woman found dead, dozens rescued and over 1,000 displaced after storm devastates Western Alaska

Winds over 100 mph and record tidal surges pounded the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta on Sunday as the remnants of Typhoon Halong inundated some Bering Sea coast communities.

www.adn.com

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Veterans Against Trump @vetsat.bsky.social · 45m

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 53m

This isn't new, by the way. Trump and his minions wanted an "antifa" Black Bloc to show up and fight with cops on Jan. 6, 2021. If that had happened, he would have then called out the National Guard to a) arrest leftists and b) shut down the Capitol and prevent the election from being certified

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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The Conversation Canada @ca.theconversation.com · 43m

Is the end looming for Canada’s border pre-clearance program with the United States?

No matter how convenient and efficient pre-clearance programs might be, they raise challenging questions about Canadian sovereignty and the rights of Canadian citizens.

theconversation.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Which Republican genius came up with the talking point to label millions of ordinary Americans peacefully protesting their government as paid Marxists who hate America?

That’s really what you are going with?

That we hate the United States of America?

Fuck you.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 58m

Ours knows how to behave himself.

Ted Raymond @tedraymond.bsky.social · 1h

A comic strip titled "Teen Comix" by "Beanson '15"
A boy wearing sunglasses and a t-shirt that says "No Kings" on it is greeted by a friend in the first panel. In the second panel, a closeup of a shirt with a Canadian flag on it can be seen. In the third panel, the boy with the sunglasses's shirt now says "one king."

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Glen 🇨🇦 part owner of Canada* @honestcanadian.bsky.social · 1h

This is huge news!
UBC has developed an enzyme that can convert donor organs to type O, making them universal.
Normally a using organs of the wrong blood type causes the recipient's immune system to attack the organ, leading to failure.
❤️🇨🇦⚕️
news.ubc.ca/2025/10/univ...

UBC enzyme technology clears first human test toward universal donor organs for transplantation - UBC News

UBC-developed enzymes successfully converted a kidney to universal type O for transplant, marking a major step toward faster, more compatible organ donations.

news.ubc.ca

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

New in PN: Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

"Miller’s contention about ICE officers 'having to street battle against antifa every night' is objectively absurd. Courts cannot possibly be required to accept anything Trump says, no matter how disconnected from reality."

Stephen Miller's radically bogus idea of "plenary authority"

This is not how the Constitution works.

www.publicnotice.co

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Marty Fontaine 🇨🇦 @martithrall.bsky.social · 1h

Someone do the math. How many lives would you reckon have been lost due to the direct influence of this White House administration?

Gotta be in the hundreds of thousands, no? Millions?

How many Canadians?

#uspoli #america #cdnpoli

#Canada 🇨🇦

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 11h

This is why I find archival photos of the city from, say, the 1990s or 1980s so fascinating and weird. It's the same city, not "historic" like those from well before, but just different enough to be weird. Dream like. Take the subway to the uncanny valley stop.

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 15h

ACTUALLY, I have a theory that most books enter a cultural "uncanny valley" 20-25 years after release, where the culture has shifted just enough they're not contemporary anymore, so new readers can't directly relate, and they stay in the valley for about 50 years until they're clearly historical

madoccassia @madoccassia.bsky.social · 15h

Is there, like, an interregnum during which a book should be gracefully retired, until such time as it becomes "a classic, an artifact of its times"?

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1h

The print subscriber base for @motherjones.com is 2.5 times as high. 🙀

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Cody @atiredgay.bsky.social · 1h

Every future HP actor should be shown Rowling’s Twitter account on camera, especially the Hitler quotes and holocaust denial, then ask them how comfortable they are being associated with her.

🎃🔮Frosty All Along🔮🎃 @frostytearex.bsky.social · 1h

I’m sorry, girl.

What rock have you been living under?

Article from the rolling stone with a title that says “Keira Knightley was not aware of the Harry Potter boycott prior to joining audiobook cast.”

“In an interview with Decider , the interviewer noted that the actress is voicing Professor Umbridge for Pottermore Publishing and Audible’s Harry Potter audiobooks and asked if she knew that some fans have called for a Harry Potter boycott.”

“I was not aware of that, no, I’m very sorry. Knightley told the outlet. You know, I think we’re all living in a period of time right now where we’re all going to have to figure out how to live together , aren’t we? And we’ve all got very different opinions. I hope that we can all find respect.”

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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 11h

I’m old enough to recall the 2018 Cambridge Analytica scandal. It was global—targeting the U.S. and the UK (2014-2016).

What Farage, Gill, and others did in the dark in the UK also occurred in the U.S.

Carole Cadwalladr and whistleblower Chris Wylie were instrumental in exposing the scandal.

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. I do remember it.

Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

Watching this from @timothysnyder.bsky.social at the moment:

snyder.substack.com/p/the-truth-...

The Truth about Panics

One is being generated right now

snyder.substack.com

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14d

“Miller and the rest abhor the word ‘fascist’ because they know it fairly describes their politics and they worry that, as more Americans come to recognize that, the country might turn against the nationalist project.

As the saying goes: A hit dog will holler.”

thedispatch.com/newsletter/b...

The F-Word

A hit dog will holler.

thedispatch.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 3h

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1h

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules #USA

Outlets say policy threatens to punish routine news gathering protected by the 1st Amendment

www.cbc.ca/news/world/n...

New York Times, AP, Reuters and Newsmax among news organizations fighting new press rules | CBC News

News organizations including the New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defence Department document about its new press r...

www.cbc.ca

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Dwight Williams 🇨🇦 @dewline.bsky.social · 1h

This project should still go ahead.

CNN @cnn.com · 1h

Known as the Esmerelda 7, the collection of seven solar projects in rural Nevada was set to generate up to 6.2 gigawatts of energy when complete, enough to power 2 million homes. https://cnn.it/4qaeLR2

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Jill Lawrence @jilldlawrence.bsky.social · 1h

Good discussion with @gregsargent.bsky.social on No Kings and the right to protest: "They’re trying to turn it into something really evil. But that’s because they’re scared of it, and they know it turns public opinion... I think they should be worried, because nothing they’re doing is popular."

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

If Republicans are going to label you a terrorist for peacefully protesting Trump's failing presidency, abuses of power, and treatment of blue America as an enemy nation, let's turn out in even bigger numbers.

On the pod, @jilldlawrence.bsky.social and me on this:
newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12h

Solidarity is the only way

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Dr Delyth Badder @folklorewales.com · 9d

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet.

After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

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