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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1h

It has really helped curb speed in Wolfville and prevents the bad habit some have of passing to the right of cars waiting to turn left in the west end

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LackingPatienceinSpades @patiencespade.bsky.social · 2h

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 2h

Happy birthday @hfxgirl.bsky.social !!!

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 4h

Brb just writing a screenplay about a struggling inflatable costume factory in a wholesome but dying American small town that unexpectedly helps save democracy, and democracy saves it right back.

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Tim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 3h

The kids will save journalism

Purdue student journalists deliver special 'solidarity' newspaper to IU Bloomington campus

The special edition blasted across town features columns from IDS and Exponent editors, alongside QR codes to support both student papers.

www.heraldtimesonline.com

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 9h

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 8h

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

My mother-in-law was nervous about wearing her #NoKings gear to the airport for her flight this morning, but she got *lots* of compliments. Even the TSA agent told her, "I like your shirt."

My mother in-law, wearing a "We the People" shirt at the airport, standing near an American flag.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 3h

I repeat myself: this is a town of 6000 people in Waldo County, Maine

Neal Harkness @nealharkness.bsky.social · 3h

#NoKings #BelfastMaine

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 6h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 8h

One additional thread that I didn't have space to expand on fully: Resistance 2.0 seems to be more focused on acts of community care, like helping neighbors targeted by ICE. That fits into the ongoing conversation about strengthening democracy by creating shared civic spaces...

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 9h

After 2024, pundits brushed off the Resistance as cringe. I submit: Yes, it was. And cringe is good. Cringe, in fact, will save democracy.

Resistance Is Cringe

But it’s also effective.

www.theatlantic.com

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

the irony is that even though trump secured a plurality of the popular vote, the immediate capitulation came from the elites; the public had a much keener sense of what time it was right from the beginning

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah I do think the various attempts to will elite capitulation into being were briefly a successful bit of self-fulfilling prophesying but for various reasons are failing now - huge protests, university's rejecting the compact, the press refusing to go along with Hegseth's new pentagon policy, etc.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

Remember back in January when all these sage politics-knowers were writing about how there had been a vibe shift and now the resistance was over?

lol. lmao.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 2h

This was my favorite sign in Havertown

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 4h

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 11h

I’ve been thinking about the mini-boom in Labrador a few years ago. Wonder how that’s going www.cer-rec.gc.ca/en/data-anal...

CER – Market Snapshot: Data centres show interest in operating in Labrador

Market Snapshot: Data centres show interest in operating in Labrador

www.cer-rec.gc.ca

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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 14h

People are waking up to the enormous environmental impact of data centres the tech bros have been forcing on the world during the environmental crisis

The planet is on fire. We have to stop them!

www.cbc.ca/news/ai-data...

Thirsty AI data centres are coming to Canada, with little scrutiny or oversight | CBC News

Canada is poised to join the data centre boom. But as such projects face greater scrutiny around the world, there is little debate here about what this will mean for the country’s water.

www.cbc.ca

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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 11h

4. I encourage you to see the film.

But let me give you examples drawn from Orwell’s “The Prevention of Literature,” an essay that the documentary quotes frequently.

In this one, it’s like he describing the Republicans under Donald Trump:

“A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.”

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12h

This piece is really moving and informative. Thanks to @anandwrites.bsky.social for sharing it in this morning's newsletter. placesjournal.org/article/bles...

Grief and Empire on the Island of Guam

In a militarized territory like Guam, everything is political, even cancer.

placesjournal.org

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 1d

Readout from the federal-provincial justice ministers' meeting.
I don't see a commitment in here from the provinces to properly fund their court systems (but more money for police!), which means all of these promised Criminal Code reforms are next to useless.
Slow clap, everyone.
FFS

Joint Statement by Ministers Fraser, Anandasangaree, and Secretary of State Sahota following the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Meeting of Ministers of Justice and Public Safety

From: Department of Justice Canada

Statement

Photo: Federal and provincial justice ministers posing in Kananaskis

October 17, 2025 – Kananaskis, Alberta – Department of Justice Canada

The Honourable Sean Fraser, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, the Honourable Gary Anandasangaree, Minister of Public Safety Canada, and Ruby Sahota, the Honourable Secretary of State for Combatting Crime today issued the following statement:

“Making communities safer is a top priority for our government. We promised Canadians we would act decisively, and we are delivering. This requires determined efforts from all governments to ensure the justice system is accessible, responsive and able to address evolving community safety concerns.

“This week, we met with our provincial and territorial counterparts—the Attorneys General and ministers responsible for Justice and Public Safety—to discuss these shared priorities, including plans to strengthen the criminal law’s responses to repeat and violent offending through changes to bail and sentencing reforms.

“We first welcomed a dialogue with representatives from the Assembly of First Nations, Inuit Tapirisat Kanatami, and Métis National Council. Together, we explored Indigenous rights and priorities, including those related to justice and public safety. We also discussed the future of Indigenous policing and the importance of culturally grounded approaches to community safety. We value their perspectives and insights, and look forward to continued conversations on these shared priorities.

“With our provincial and territorial counterparts, we talked about urgent issues that have an impact on every part of the criminal justice system, and the need for a collaborative approach. Top of mind around the FPT table is the need to strengthen our bail and sentencing laws. Our government has committed to taking action to improve community safety and restore balance in our justice system. As Prime Minister Mark Carney has already mentioned, we intend to introduce legislation shortly with proposed measures to make it more difficult to get bail for repeat violent offenders, and those charged with certain serious crimes. We will continue working with provinces and territories to ensure that the justice system protects all people in Canada.

“We also discussed investments in our front lines, because we need to put actions behind our words. We’ve listened to Canadians across the country, and the message is clear: They want more visible law enforcement in their communities, more officers who can take guns off our streets and be there when we call on them. That’s why, today, we are fulfilling our commitment to hire 1,000 new RCMP officers across the country. In the coming days, we will be making further announcements about measures that will put more boots on the ground and keep Canadians safe.

“Finally, we talked about long-term crime prevention, which requires more than reforming our laws and hiring more police officers. We must address systemic issues by investing in areas like mental health supports, addictions treatment, affordable housing (through Build Canada Homes), and programs for youth at risk. By addressing the root causes of crime, we can help break cycles of violence and create safer, healthier communities for all people of Canada.

“We thank our provincial and territorial partners, as well as our Indigenous partners, for meeting with us on these important issues. We will continue to work together on measures that will help us build safer, healthier comm…

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Manuel Müller @manuelmueller.foederalist.eu · 1d

It is so impressive what human intellect and ingenuity can achieve, and so sad how often it is used for destructive goals instead.

Ralph Janik @ralphjanik.com · 1d

As a kid of the 80s/90s, this headline reads surreal.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

First injection to stop HIV approved

The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.

www.bbc.com

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Dr Dean Burnett @garwboy.bsky.social · 2d

The thing is, if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 1d

So for-profit AI companies have trained on the world's largest collaborative volunteer project and a precious free resource, to make money for their for-profit enterprises. They have crushed traffic to the volunteer project, starving it of donors and volunteers

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors

“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

www.404media.co

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Jenn Hoegg @jhoegg.bsky.social · 1d

What a coincidence 🙄

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Steve Schwinghamer🇨🇦 @sschwinghamer.bsky.social · 1d

There are several other positions, of course, including:

- machine learning has great potential, but the models useful in my field are trained on stolen information, and I am an ethical person;

- I do not have legal and ethical access to sufficient data to train a relevant machine learning model;

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 1d

Swearing in isn’t some ceremony. You aren’t a member of Congress until it happens. He knows that.

No phones, no staff, nothing.

I had to escort her into the Capitol on Wed bc Capitol police must treat her as a public visitor until she’s sworn in. And solo visitors aren’t allowed during shutdown!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "Grijalva should be working for her constituents right now. I don't know what she's doing. I keep seeing their political stunt videos. She should be in her office. She should be working or in the district for her constituents" (Grijalva is not in fact a Rep. b/c Johnson refuses to seat her)

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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 2d

Another thing about that group chat? The ‘boys will be boys’ mentality also paved the way for that group chat. Particularly when you consider that only certain ‘boys’ are given that grace.

White boys.

While Black boys are assigned manhood status as teenagers and predator status at all ages.

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