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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸

@diogenesvs.bsky.social

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Canadian with Ukrainian DNA. Citizen of the world. Not young enough to know everything, too old to change.

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · Aug 2

@bsky.app I have made a little more than 300 posts but I can't see the first posts I made. The oldest post I can see is 9 months ago.

What gives?

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 21h

This is so disgusting that I thought it was an AI fake video.

Where and when was this recorded? How can Poilievre be so fucking clueless about what he sounds like in this clip? No trace of empathy at all. It's fake right?

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 1d

Didn't read it because it was written by Brett Stephens. It's time that you never get back.

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable. This reported in paragraph 24. #FreePalestine
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 1d

The Israeli government invoking Judaism to pause famine relief and their own commitment to peace might be the most antisemitic declaration I have ever witnessed.

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 3d

It won't. Trump, Netanyahu, Tony Blair, Jared Kushner?

I mean, what could go wrong?

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 5d

So maybe Trump, Netanyahu, Putin or Xi should consider this technology to live even longer, or, as a wise man once said, "the likes of which no one has ever seen before".

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 5d

I'm so old I remember Zionists saying "Where is the Palestinian Ghandi? Where is their Nelson Mandela?"

Barghouti will never be freed for obvious reasons.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d

This is the genius of the Portland protests - they make the claims of lawlessness look not just wrong, but comical

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 7d

Watch this video. The competition’s tough, but Pam “Mean Girl” Bondi might be the shittiest person in government now.

Video: Bondi Sidesteps Democrats’ Questions During Senate Hearing

Attorney General Pam Bondi sidestepped many questions from Democrats during a combative Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday, often instead launching personal attacks on her questioners.

www.nytimes.com

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 7d

There is no army on earth that can defeat this.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 9d

Pierre Poilievre (also known as Skippy) has issued a a Chuck Schumer inspired sternly worded letter.

Yes, folks. Skippy is the leader we all need.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

'No more losing,' Poilievre tells Carney in scathing letter ahead of PM's face-to-face with Trump | CBC News

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has penned a scathing letter to the prime minister ahead of his meeting with the U.S. president on Tuesday, saying Mark Carney has been a disappointment on the tra...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 20d

Kamala Harris, perhaps inadvertently, has written a damning indictment of Joe Biden -- and also the Democratic Party establishment. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The Shortest Presidential Campaign

Kamala Harris’s 107 Days offers a devastating indictment of Joe Biden. It also documents the limits of her own politics.

www.thenation.com

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20d

Tylenol has just released a study connecting Donald Trump with adultery, lying, rape, and pedophilia.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 21d

This week's newsletter makes the case that the AI companies foisting LLMs on us simply can't be trusted not to break our brains. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/hey-grok-i...

Hey @Grok, Is My Brain Melting?

In an era of un-reality, one man's quest to stop his robot from telling the truth

www.bugeyedandshameless.com

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 20d

I'd love to read that but I cancelled WaPo and I now refuse to pay even $15 for the first year. I probably don't need to explain why.

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iAnnet @iannet.bsky.social · 21d

BREAKING

Italy has dispatched a second naval vessel to protect the Global Sumud Flotilla, following Israeli drone strikes on the aid convoy in international waters.

Spain has also deployed a warship, bringing the total number to three as the civilian fleet continues its course toward Gaza.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21d

The richest man on earth owns X.

The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok.

The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.

See the problem here?

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 21d

I love your stories because they are true, or at least imminently plausible based on my own life experiences.

Now I have to look up Martin Nowak.

Should I even ask about Steven Pinker? There was once a picture of Epstein, Pinker, Dershowitz & Larry Summers having a big laugh.

From the Epstein community on Reddit: Famous Epstein photo with Dershowitz and Larry Summers from new angle shows Steven Pinker

Posted by OverallGeologist - 8 votes and 7 comments

www.reddit.com

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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 21d

Fire this asshole. Harvard has a permanent stench of corruption, but this takes the cake.

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Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

Now do the same with Trump pinning the football.

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

We were all delivered to our doorsteps instead of the local train station. It was a nice touch.

The cab driver showed me his DB voucher. It was for 660 euros. He smiled with a nod and said "Good night". /fini

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

Let me rephrase. The stock market is risky but it is regulated. It's a legitimate way to invest capital.

Crypto is not. It's a numbers game. That is all the government needs to say.

"You're on your own, we are not here to protect you. No more capitalizing the profits and socializing the losses."

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

I was in a taxi van with four others. DB calculated the taxi voucher. Three destinations. I was the last drop off.

The trip from Cologne to Den Haag was over 3 hours by taxi. The fare on the meter was 770 euros. I pointed to that and said 'good night?" /7

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

The remaining were transported by *taxi* to their final destination. DB calculated the cab fare for two or three taxi vans to the applicable destination train stations. /7

Jim Sontag 🇨🇦 🇳🇱 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @diogenesvs.bsky.social · 22d

I was enjoined with another dozen in the same situation. We were all expecting to be transported to somewhere in the Netherlands: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Delft, The Hague, whatever. That was a total fail.

By midnite, DB had a solution. We were divided into groups. Some received hotel vouchers. /6