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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 17d

Attn Black people, stop scrolling.

This is not a drill: Chicago

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · 20d

They'll even put trees on the roof so you can feel like you're in the forest while still in the block... or something.

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · 27d

I'd prefer a chatelaine, it leaves hands free. 🙂 But I suppose some things aren't that easy to hang.

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · Sep 4

Sharing this on a day when breathing hurts....

Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts.

Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...

Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts

Canadian wildfire has quadrupled since the 1990s. That’s releasing billions of tonnes of CO2. The climate beast is waking up. When will we?

www.nationalobserver.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Aug 30

Talk to Putin, then fire your Russia expert.
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Trump, Gabbard fired top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit

Days after the Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump ordered the security clearance revocation of a top CIA official and Russia expert.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Aug 17

1/2. The phrase "land swap" is being used to mean "Ukraine concedes land illegally occupied by Russia and also concedes territory that is not even occupied." That is not a swap.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Aug 17

As Ukrainian and European leaders travel to Washington for discussions in the White House this Monday about ending Russia’s illegal war of aggression, Americans would do well to remember ten principles of negotiation.
snyder.substack.com/p/common-sen...

Common Sense about Negotiations

For Americans about Ukraine

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · Aug 16

It wasn't a new Molotov Ribbentrop pact. But that's a low bar

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Adrian Monck @amonck.bsky.social · Aug 16

🧵 THREAD: What the leaked Alaska summit documents really reveal (excellent scoop by @NPR) 1/

NPR just broke some big news: US government documents were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Anchorage, revealing the actual plan for the Trump-Putin summit. They show exactly what Trump intended.

NPR @npr.org · Aug 16

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

Government papers found in an Alaskan hotel reveal new details of Trump-Putin summit

Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · Aug 11

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · Aug 11

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · Aug 10

I'm visiting my childhood home after two years. The house is on top of that hill.

A countryside scenery, with harvest ready fields in front and a forested hill in the distance. The sky is cloudy above.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Aug 10

want to be in a throuple. not for love, just the homes i want to buy require 3x my income

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · Jul 22

Senior economist @1alexhemingway.bsky.social recently addressed a legislature committee on strengthening democratic engagement in BC.

Alex recommended more use of citizens’ panels that select participants by lottery for a more representative cross-section of the public.
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BC Society for Policy SolutionsDemocratic and electoral reform– presentation to legislative committee

by Alex Hemingway, senior economist and public finance analyst at BC Policy Solutions On July 17th, senior economist Alex Hemingway provided recommendations to the provincial legislature’s Spe…

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Justin McElroy 🇨🇦 @jmcelroy.bsky.social · Jul 19

reasonably sure this is the first time a regional government agency has launched a new service with an elaborate broadway musical parody

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was my great honour to interview the one and only Francesca Albanese yesterday. Watch here, and find out why Trump and Rubio are so determined to stop her vital work:
zeteo.com/p/israels-te...

Israel's Tech Boom & the Economy of Genocide

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur, joins Naomi to discuss calls for her removal and her latest report documenting the 'corporate machinery sustaining Israel’s settler-colonial project.’

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · Jul 9

Canada says it's a refuge. It has dangled only false hopes to Palestinians seeking to study here after Israel bombed their universities, or who have applied to be reunited with family.

I co-wrote this piece with Deborah Cowen, Kyo Maclear and Madeleine Thien www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7a8fbe1...

Canada needs to follow through on its promise to help people in Gaza

Ottawa’s ‘special measures’ visa program for Gaza has so far proved to be little more than a cruel taunt

www.theglobeandmail.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Jun 22

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · Jun 23

For a Canadian take on this, I recommend A Good War by Seth Klein. An excellent read, already five years old, so the situation is even more urgent now...

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · Jun 22

Five things to remember about war:

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JoyousJoyfulJoyness @joyousjoyness.com · Jun 18

Now that's a military parade I'd want to watch!

#nokings #puppies

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · May 23

You do now. Sorry, I don't make the rules. The cat distribution system has spoken.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · May 21

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Trump ambushes South African president in Oval Office with video | CNN

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa sat in awkward silence as he listened to a video US President Donald Trump played in the Oval Office. CNN’s Larry Madowo reports that Trump was pushing debunked...

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Elina @esingh28.bsky.social · May 21

"...the climate resilience our society needs to build relies upon the skills and systems of pacing that disabled and chronically ill people have built to manage both their own symptoms and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic..."

A Chronically Ill Earth: COVID Organizing as a Model Climate Response in Los Angeles

BY VIOLET AFFLECK I spent the January fires in Los Angeles arguing with my mother in a hotel room. She was shell-shocked, astonished at the scale of destruction in the neighborhood where she raised…

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The Athletic @theathletic.com · May 15

When Nashville SC defeated Charlotte FC on Saturday, the supporters section lacked its usual verve and had visible gaps throughout the risers.

The reason was explained in a pair of large white banners.

No estamos todos aquí.

We are not all here.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/634...

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