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Michael Boo-jack 🎃 🇨🇦 @michael.burjack.com · Nov 10

“I'm very concerned that our society is much more interested in information, than wonder. And noise, rather than silence. … How do we encourage reflection? … Oh my, this is a noisy world.”
— Mr. (Fred) Rogers

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

James Michael Johnson, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, is fanatically devoted to Donald Trump and expresses his adoration by endeavoring to give Trump everything he wants, despite never having heard a word Trump has written or said or any specific account of anything Trump has done.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 3h

It’s simply beyond their imagination.

3 panel “Aye . . . I could do that.” meme format.

Top: image of Portland frog protesting ICE.

"Never thought l'd die fighting side-by-side with a Monstrance."

Middle: image of Monstrance.

"What about side-by-side with a friend?"

Bottom: image of Portland frog protesting ICE.

"Aye... I could do that."

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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 2h

LM appeals to a lot of well meaning (?) white folks. I think I followed him at one point years ago on Twitter. But following a wide range of Indigenous folks quickly shows you how he's thought of.

If you follow him you should read the article.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3h

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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

Credit to @daveyandsky

#Shelburne #NovaScotia

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 1d

depressing morning reading about all the pretzel logic and out and out lies going into supporting expansion of Canada's oil and gas industry.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Montana Skeptic @montanaskeptic.bsky.social · 2h

It's all one enterprise. Musk, Inc. As Tesla shareholders will discover as soon as Elon can get his hands on Tesla's cash to shovel into the xAI cash incinerator.

electrek.co/2025/10/13/e...

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks

Hundreds of Tesla Cybertrucks have been spotted being delivered Elon Musk’s private companies, SpaceX and xAI, as Tesla is having...

electrek.co

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 1d

Did you know the first thanksgiving celebrated by Europeans in North America happened in Canada?
Or that the Indigenous celebrated autumn harvests long before Europeans arrived?
Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving a month earlier than the United States?
This is the story.

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A festive Thanksgiving dinner table featuring a roasted turkey as the centerpiece, surrounded by an array of dishes including green beans, stuffing, sliced ham, and a pumpkin pie. The table is decorated with pumpkins, sunflowers, candles, and autumnal flowers, with wine glasses and plates set for a meal.

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MythicalDragoness 🇨🇦 @mythicaldragoness.bsky.social · 17h

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.”
Bertrand Russell

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

"If they could snap their fingers and eliminate the ACA marketplaces altogether, they would. And they haven’t arrived at a consensus on what the insurance system would look like in their preferred world, beyond a bunch of vacuous bromides about 'choice' and 'patient-centered care.'"

Republicans are completely full of it on healthcare

And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.

www.publicnotice.co

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

Truly hope this guy isn’t a Fetterman because man, he’s speaking the right language

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 16h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Ashley Lynch ✂️🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 17h

This is why the costumes are honestly brilliant. Ngo, who has never said a truthful thing in his entire life (remember the concrete milkshake?) now has to convince people inflatable Sesame Street and animal costumes are violent terrorists.

Sometimes you just need an image too silly to demonize.

Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 18h

“They are highly organized … [they] have purchased their own animal costumes”

Andy ngo mad about muppets again — this time in Chicago

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1d

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 19h

"Conversion therapy" is a polite name for something that isn’t conversion and isn’t therapy. It’s abuse.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 14h

Rolled my own crypto.

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14h

What kind of cop is ok with a criminal mayor but will quit over a social democrat mayor?

Ya, I know the answer too.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

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svart flagg @svartflagg.bsky.social · 15h

Today in Portland, a fed shooting pepper balls from the roof of the ICE facility was so eager to aim for people’s heads, that after shooting one photographer in the head and another in the upper arm, they accidentally shot a DHS agent in the head. This photo shows the moment of impact;

Riot cops standing a street with less-lethal weapons, and one in a gas mask has a cloud of pepper dust around his helmet.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14h

How do I make Justice Kavanaugh watch this?

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents to US citizen: Turn around or you're getting the dog.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 14h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 20h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 19h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 12h

www.forourkids.ca/methane-webi...

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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 12h

"Alberta, and Canada, should be well ahead in the geothermal race," she said. "We have the technology and the talent. We just need to get drilling."
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/09/a...

Can new tech finally wake Canada’s sleeping geothermal giant?

Canada’s geothermal resources could meet the nation’s power demand “one million times over”, but not a single commercial well has been drilled. That’s about to change as new technologies bolster the b...

www.nationalobserver.com

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