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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 7h

If it were 5 years ago I would never ask this - but is that cat for real?
It’s not AI?

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 9d

Yes he does.

I follow her on on Instagram & she’s pretty amazing. I think her mother is Canadian.

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 10d

I’ve subscribed to @netflix.com since 2007.

If you remove, or ban, or stop producing content that has queer or trans characters - I will make sure myself & everyone I know cancels their subscription.

If you want to watch your stock plummet, you will cave to the demands of fascist oligarchs.

Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 10d

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters.

If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire.

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Elon Musk Leads Campaign To Force Netflix To Remove Shows With Trans Characters

Musk's posts have been seen by tens of millions of users, and many conservatives are now attempting to force Netflix into a removal of LGBTQ+ content.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 12d

300 people die weekly in America from COVID-19.

Multiple studies show that death rates from COVID-19 are significantly higher for unvaccinated people compared to vaccinated individuals.

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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 12d

Trump is an imbecile. How humiliating for American service members to have to call this moron “Commander-in-Chief.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12d

Trump: "I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. We have a Secretary of Navy who came to me, 'cause I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships, the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. And I look at those ships... "

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Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · 13d

Welp, RFK Jr just dropped the “vaccines never actually worked” video he’s been waiting for this whole time. Get ready folks, your least favorite 19th century diseases are chomping on the bit.

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 15d

Trump, Tylenol & Medical Misogyny

Great interview with @sabivm.bsky.social who speaks the truth. 👏🙏

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Trump, Tylenol and medical misogyny

Podcast Episode · The Big Story · 2025-09-26 · 22m

podcasts.apple.com

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Andrew Young 🇨🇦 @young.me · 23d

It's me again with another update 😜

#Ontario #wastewater graph updated with September 7 data
- Kingston, London, Toronto updated: wwater.ca/Ontario
- Also updated: BC, MB, NB, NS, QC, SK, YT

wwater.ca

Source: health-infobase.canada.ca/wastewater/

Wastewater Virus Signals graph for Ontario

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 21d

Gavin McInnes thanks Ezra Levant for helping get his Twitter account back.

Shayan Sardarizadeh @shayan86.bsky.social · 21d

X has restored the account of Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys group.

McInnes's account was banned by Twitter in August 2018 ahead of the "Unite the Right 2" rally in Washington DC for "violating" its policies on violent extremism.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 21d

Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals.
Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team.
So proud.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 21d

Man alive. I have studied Right Wing authoritarianism for years and have watched some truly fucked up shit and today’s memorial service is maybe the most concentrated example of how messed up and disturbing that sector truly is.

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Frank Figliuzzi @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social · 21d

Nada. Zip. Nothing. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

'No evidence' found yet of ties between Charlie Kirk's shooting and left-wing groups, officials say

Three people familiar with the federal probe into Kirk’s assassination told NBC News that investigators have yet to find a link between the alleged shooter and left-wing groups.

www.nbcnews.com

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 26d

@patriciaorpat.bsky.social @young.me
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Leslieville Dentistry was a close 2nd choice but Dr. Kinga is closer to me.

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · Sep 12

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class.

This is Kirk's legacy.

You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · 29d

This was excellent @derekberes.bsky.social !!

👏👏👏👏👏👏

Derek Beres @derekberes.bsky.social · Sep 9

How does someone become an anti-vaxxer or come to believe that chemotherapy is more dangerous than cancer?

I’ve spent all year working with Alexander Stockton and The NY Times trying to answer that question. Here’s our findings.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

Opinion | You Might Have Already Fallen for MAHA’s Conspiracy Theories

www.nytimes.com

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · Sep 9

I am fucking disgusted. I used to work in this newsroom.

This is by far one of the most disgusting things they’ll have done to date.

Giving Ben Mulroney, a virulent Zionist and blatant pro-Poilievre conservative, the helm of one of the largest political shows in Canada….my god.

The Hill Times’ Stuart Benson tweets: “I have had it confirmed by multiple sources with knowledge within Global News that the current plan is to have @BenMulroney take over from @MercedesGlobal as interim host of @TheWestBlock while Stephenson is on maternity leave rather than the usual fill-in host, Global's Ottawa Bureau Chief @davidakin.”

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 7

A cartoon of a child in a bed in a hospital hooked up to an IV. His parents are standing over him, they are wearing red MAGA type baseball caps. The mother is saying to her son.” we’re sorry you have measles but eggs were a bit pricey and we really hate pronouns”

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 7

I'd guess both.
As of mid-July, about 55 Canadians are in ICE detention & this most definitely is what keeps me from crossing the border.

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Sean Mullen, Ph.D. @drseanmullen.bsky.social · Sep 6

The real conspiracy? Pretending brain damage and immune collapse are “mild.”

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Wow!! Thanks. I did not know these existed - with no wires that stick to your face!?! I made my own version of this. And looked freakish but I didn’t care.

Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

The intake was terrible. He saw me double masked (wired N95 I removed right before MRI) underneath was ear loop, wire removed, with mask taped to my face. The actual MRI was fine. Hospitals are still unsafe w/ staff who question my choice to wear a mask.
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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

If you remove the wire (I did) then use surgical tape to literally tape the entirety of the mask to your face, it can work. Because once you remove the wire, it becomes a very leaky mask.

I have done this 3 times now and the technician doing the MRI has never asked me to remove them.

Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Yes I did! I called the hospital & said it was nice to see signage upon my entry saying that they respected my choice to wear a mask.

And then get berated by an intake technician who told me I don’t need to wear a mask because Covid is over.

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Metals can burn you. If this strapless mask has wires over the nose bridge, they’ll make you remove the mask.

While my experience was bad with an awful intake tech there is a way around it.

While I was berated for wearing a mask, I still wore one for the MRI. I’ve learned how it can be done.

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Angela Rooth 🇨🇦 @angelarooth.bsky.social · Sep 6

Have you already had the MRI?
I can tell you how I did it safely - even though I had a bad experience.

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