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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · Dec 5

Most UN member states recognize Palestine as a state, it’s time for Canada to do the same.
Green MP Mike Morrice has launched a petition urging Canada to act. Sign now and make your voice heard: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

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noah @crimesnewroman.bsky.social · 1d

isreal violated the very real and valid ceasefire already wowzers who on earth could have seen that coming

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Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like I am losing it listening to politicians at all three levels of gov't offering tax cuts *and* spending increases. It's meat-and-potatoes for low-info suburban taxes-and-potholes voters, but it's a doomed approach to governing. #nspoli #cdnpoli

Jake Berman @lostsubways.com · 1d

the basic problem of suburban municipal finance, in a nutshell:

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Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social · 1d

Nice to see the CIA doing regime change at home for a change

Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 1d

As a former federal agent and the daughter of a career law enforcement officer, nothing is more important to me than Virginians’ safety.

That’s why I’m proud to have earned the endorsement of the Virginia Police Benevolent Association.

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Jen @envirojen.bsky.social · 1d

#BikeHfx. I stopped to chat with staff at the Lord Nelson this morning, after getting soaked in the South Park bike lane. They are fully aware that they:

1. Aren’t following the water conservation rules; &
2. Are soaking cyclists in the bike lane.

They have no plans to change either of these.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 1d

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 1d

This weekend, three men in Evanston hugged their families goodbye to look for work at Home Depot but were attacked by ICE before they could return home.

Two were abducted, one is petrified of leaving the home.

If you’re able, please help us support our neighbors: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with...

Donate to Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid, organized by Michele Hays

If you are on social media and live near Evanston, IL, you ma… Michele Hays needs your support for Stand With the Families Left Behind After Evanston ICE Raid

www.gofundme.com

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Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss launched her own path to stardom with the argument "it is oppression to dislike me for being bad" and now we will get to see what an entire media ecosystem built with that philosophy looks like

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

"At that point, a group of 5-8 civilian-dressed men walked into the garage and just stared at me. No identification on any of them."

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Green Party of Nova Scotia @novascotiagreens.bsky.social · 5d

www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/...

The Green Party of Nova Scotia rejects the government overreach and commodification of our universities which are proposed in Bill 12.

Nova Scotia universities required to justify each program for continued funding as international student enrollment drops

N.S. academia is facing a potential shakeup as the provincial government demands universities review and justify each of their programs.

www.saltwire.com

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karen ward @kwardvancouver.bsky.social · 3d

the National Police Federation (the RCMP 'union') spends a LOT on advertising how important and necessary the police are

this is for the past week. check out the dashboard.
app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...

ad spending stats for National Police Federation

233 total advertisement
$123.3K - $164.2k total spend
15.29M impressions

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 3d

Who is María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize? Historian Greg Grandin calls her a "shocking choice" who is "completely aligned with the most militarist and darkest face of U.S. imperialism."

2025 Nobel Peace Prize for Anti-Maduro Leader María Corina Machado “Opposite of Peace”: Greg Grandin

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has awarded the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, a leading Venezuelan opposition figure. Machado was set to run for president last year, but she was disqua...

www.democracynow.org

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 3d

Not gonna link the troll but Bari Weiss clearly represents “thought police” more than 100,000 Bluesky leftists scolding you for writing a defense of Weiss ever will, and ignoring that reality is clearly designed to curry the favor of thought police. You’re not a free thinker, you’re the boot licker.

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

“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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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Gallifreyan Jedi @jediofgallifrey.bsky.social · 3d

i wonder if it will pop off when normies realize police were never actually accountable to elected officials or if everyone will just shrug all the way to extinction

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Sean MacGillivray @macg1llivray.bsky.social · 3d

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d

Why would you fuck with this guy

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

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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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

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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j-salvo.bsky.social @j-salvo.bsky.social · 3d

Word to the wise: do not fly internationally into Logan. All of the major public detainments of Legal Residents and Citizens at airports have been out of Logan.

Kat Stuart @luckykatstuart.bsky.social · 3d

Anyone in Boston an immigration lawyer or know one who can help this woman? Her husband is detained at Logan over a dismissed misdemeanor from 2017. He’s a legal resident of the US. She just asked for help an hour ago.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 3d

Mamdani is winning a plurality of the NYC Jewish vote, so the Jews going to hear him speak inside this synagogue are more representative of NYC Jews than the ones protesting outside.

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 3d

Zohran is speaking at my synagogue. These folks are outside.

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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 3d

This is my family’s cemetery. Generations of us are here. DHS thugs attacked the workers who laid my father to rest and tend to his gravesite. i dont know whether to cry or yell. I hope these DHS thugs find no peace in this life and the next.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

ICE attacks cemetery workers trying to help a man in the Des Plaines river www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMUmUjPs/

Caught on camera… ICE agents clash with suburban cemetery workers trying to help man in Des Plaines River… #wgn9 #ice #operationmidwayblitz #immigration

TikTok video by WGN9Chicago

www.tiktok.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

Support the resistance.

Boycott Israel.

Liberate Palestine.

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