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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 42m

I did not even know that people used spoons for this!

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 49m

ICE arrested a police officer in Hanover Park.

The Village of Hanover Park say Radule Bogojiv is legally eligible to work in the US and passed multiple background checks.

If they can grab him, they can grab anyone.

People need to wake up and realize no one is safe under fascism.

ICE arrests Hanover Park officer who allegedly overstayed visa, but village says cop had valid work permit

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the police officer overstayed a tourism visa. The Hanover Park Police Department said they confirmed he was federally authorized to work in the U...

chicago.suntimes.com

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 54m

It influences (and possibly emboldens the worst instincts of) conservative Catholics in positions of power, e.g. the Catholics on SCOTUS. I have seen it said that Alito is a lay member but I don't know if that is true.

A Deeper Look at Opus Dei, Christofascism, Misogyny & SCOTUS - Daily Meditations with Matthew Fox

Since the far-right wing cult in the Roman Catholic church known as “Opus Dei” has played such a prominent role in Leonard Leo’s life and in the current Supreme Court that he has fashioned, it seems f...

dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1h

Ugh. I am sorry, that does not sound fun. Hope it stops soon.

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Mrs W @bracing.bsky.social · 1h

Oh no, what will the six fundamentalist Catholics on the US Supreme Court do without their orders?

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1h

This post needs to get ratioed.

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11h

Canada’s bail and sentencing laws are about to get a lot tougher.

We’re amending the Criminal Code to help keep violent criminals and repeat offenders off our streets, and we’re introducing stronger sentences for auto-theft, organised crime, and home invasion.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1h

The fact that someone is willing to become a police officer tends to say certain things about how they see the world but police are a surprisingly diverse bunch. And the "dyke cop" stereotype is not a complete fiction and adds to that diversity.

too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1h

Sounds like we are going to be getting more RCMP whether we like it or not. I worked as a trainer with police of all kinds for 12 years and simply by virtue of their life experience, women officers bring wider insight and missing social awareness that are beneficial to these male-dominated services.

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Ravin BOO!dram 👻 🎃 - FREE ŁINK @rvbdrm.com · 2h

What the shit is this hell?

Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 11h

Canada’s bail and sentencing laws are about to get a lot tougher.

We’re amending the Criminal Code to help keep violent criminals and repeat offenders off our streets, and we’re introducing stronger sentences for auto-theft, organised crime, and home invasion.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

I live in Toronto with a housemate who committed murder at 18 after living on the street from 12; he's now 60. Some people are intrinsically evil but most (convict, autocrat or greedy CEO) are a product of their upbringing. You can see on our streets that these are brutal times for too many people.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

I wonder how much time Mr. Carney has spent walking around downtown in a big Canadian city like Toronto. I doubt he knows anyone who has gone to jail for violent crimes. If he had more experience of both he would know that our fraying social safety net is what needs fixing, not our criminal code.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

Oh wow!!!

The cardinals chose well. Leo may outdo his predecessor when it comes to being a "progressive Pope." (As much as there can be such a thing. The institution of the Catholic Church will always create problems no matter who leads it.)

This is huge.

Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV is set to effectively disband Opus Dei in the coming weeks.

This would be the most sweeping internal reform of his pontificate — and a dramatic continuation of Pope Francis’s legacy.

NEW: Pope Leo Set To Break Up Opus Dei

If Pope Leo does indeed approves a plan that effectively dissolves Opus Dei’s structure, it would be the most significant internal action of his short pontificate to date.

open.substack.com

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

One hopes that rising prices enable more people to figure it out eventually, but maybe not...

Dr Luke Steubenstein 👹 @lukesteuber.com · 4h

MAGA increasingly makes me think of foile à deux. Collective delusion, certainly, but also a parasocial sort of one on one shared lie with Trump specifically.

I have no idea if that made any sense.

Folie à deux - Wikipedia

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

Ugh.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 2h

Glad you got your meds.

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Tami @chronictami.bsky.social · 16h

WE DID IT. RENT IS PAID! The relief is overwhelming. Thank you, every single person who threw a shield around my home this month. I can finally take a deep breath and focus on healing. This is what safety feels like.

#MutualAid

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 3h

Wow! Mamdani has a hell of a road ahead of him and I worry a bit for him. "Walk good" is usually a Jamaican farewell, it comes to mind as a blessing as he sets out on what will hopefully be an outstanding and transformative political career.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

🔥ZOHRAN: “What I don't have in experience, I make up for in integrity. And what Andrew Cuomo lacks in integrity, he could never make up for with experience.”

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 4h

What happens when people with this much power see racial equality as an aberration to be corrected and white supremacy as the norm to be protected.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

now the Court is spinning a giant wheel of racist excuses to kill off the Voting Rights Act

idk which one it'll land on, but they all have the same intended result: forcing people of color out of the political process, leaving a government by and for white people
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 21h

I forgot I had switched to this feed last night. Woke up and was looking at my feed and I'm like "why is there all this porn?"

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1d

Growing up in my family, many male adults drank hard liquor and yes, every day -- rum or whiskey. Bordered on and in some cases clearly was alcoholism.

I am from the Caribbean.

It may be cultural but some people just get hooked on alcohol. What I witnessed growing up led me to limit my use.

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1d

He's planning to bailout the farmers, but leave others screwed...

Trump's farmer bailout raises fears about trade war winners and losers

Plans to spend billions of dollars supporting farmers have frustrated many other kinds of businesses that have also been hurt by tariffs.

www.bbc.com

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1d

"Inventory... That's what your content is. That's what you are. That's what the industry discovered in those years between the dot-com bubble and the rise of the new tech giants. They learned that you are their means of production."

Leah Reich @leahreich.com · 1d

This week my newsletter is a response to @davekarpf.bsky.social's "It's Giving Enron," which I think is a helpful narrative but not sufficient to explain the the current state of the industry

www.leahreich.com/you-are-inve...

You Are Inventory

Yesterday I read a newsletter from another writer named Dave Karpf, in which he offered a framework for understanding the current AI bubble. His framework is comprised of the three stories he says we ...

www.leahreich.com

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1d

“The reality is that there is no fiscal crisis. No precipice.”

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 1d

This is a really useful table from the folks at IFSD — especially if we're about to talk a lot about public debt and the cost of carrying that debt.

www.policymagazine.ca/budget-2025-...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 1d

"There are Conservative voters who like Trump, but speaking to those who have concerns about DEI could even go the other way, he argues, and appeal to more middle-of-the-road Liberals who may not love Poilievre but who thought the progressive push under Justin Trudeau went too far."

Alex Boyd @alexboyd.bsky.social · 1d

The DEI debate comes to Canada. www.thestar.com/diversity-eq...

Diversity, equity and inclusion are coming under scrutiny — and Pierre Poilievre is ready to push the conversation

Diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives are in the crosshairs south of the border and now the mantle has been taken up by the federal Conservative party, which has released a

www.thestar.com

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too tired... of this place @davidmordecai.com · 1d

Good night! Wishing you sweet dreams and good, restorative sleep.

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