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Neil Before Zod

@waytowichneil.bsky.social

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Yes, I'm that Neil Waytowich. Representing only myself with no affiliations. I curse often and trigger conservatives. Neil Before Zod from Twitter. I help idiots become self-aware.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · Feb 15

“It’s not the Americans fault. It’s our fault. We’re stupid.” ~ Pierre Poilievre.

You cannot claim to be Canada first, when you call Canada stupid.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 1d

Pierre Poilievre’s modus operandi is to deny future generations of Canadians the same advantages that he had access to growing up. That also seems to be conservatism in a nutshell.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 1d

I no longer believe that the words illegal/legal, moral/immoral, or ethical/unethical have any meaning in the United States.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 3d

There is no such thing as an innocent bystander who voted for or elected Donald Trump.

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Ariel Troster @arieltroster.com · 5d

PM Carney announced that automatic tax filing is coming for people on fixed incomes! I made this video in March 2024, explaining why this is such an important poverty-fighting initiative. So many people are going to keep their housing and be able to feed their families because of this.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 6d

Doug Ford taking over our democratically elected school board trustees is yet another infringement of our democratic rights and very Trump like. Slowly, like waves eroding a beach.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 9d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Bluesky @bsky.app · 9d

we hit 2 billion posts today! 🥳

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 9d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 10d

Frankly, the governors of California, Illinois, and Oregon should have state law-enforcement arrest the National Guard soldiers who are deployed to their states if they are there illegally under the constitution.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 10d

Just a reminder that authoritarians use the vulnerabilities of liberal democracy against itself, including concepts of "free speech" and the "healthy exchange of ideas."

They do not value these things. They are not sincerely held principles. They're cudgels and they will erase them once in power.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

BASH: You mentioned $1.5 trillion. $1 trillion of that is to reverse Medicaid cuts that you put in the big beautiful bill

MIKE JOHNSON: Medicaid reforms, not cuts.

BASH: It's less spending. You can call it what you want.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 15d

I never thought that I would be called an extremist for caring for those less fortunate than myself. I never thought that I’d be called radical far left for caring about the future of my children and grandchildren.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 15d

This has to be said again. John Ivison may be the most balanced journalist in Canada - he is equally useless to all Canadians. Seriously, why do we keep giving prominent platforms to such biased, lazy, untalented, and mediocre journalists?

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NPR @npr.org · 15d

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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

Stand with us today. Donate at this link: n.pr/46wamAj

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 16d

The only way to lower grocery prices in Canada is simple.

Stop the profiteering from the major grocery chains.

And that includes Poilievre’s campaign manager’s client— Loblaws.

#cdnpoli

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 15d

How it started. How it’s going.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 15d

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

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Neil Before Zod @waytowichneil.bsky.social · 15d

Pierre Poilievre up to his usual white nationalist racism. Yes Pierre, Christians are the real victims here…

r.gilmore on Instagram: "I had to call for backup on this one. Thankfully, @pam_palmater answered.View all 429 comments"

I had to call for backup on this one. Thankfully, @pam_palmater answered.

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Larry Savage @profsavage.bsky.social · 15d

Toronto’s Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

#canlab #cdnpoli

Exclusive Tory club hires temporary foreign workers under program Pierre Poilievre vows to kill

Toronto's Albany Club, a bastion of the conservative establishment, used the temporary foreign worker program to hire staff.

www.thestar.com

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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 15d

Some of y’all really fell for the okie doke of treating “wokeness” as a slur and turning around to tell marginalized communities to STFU because according to you fighting for our rights was “identity politics” and costs votes.
Now look you got the military on the streets like Pinochet