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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 6m

Hey @cnn.com, fixed it for you:

“Trump’s bully tactics and desire to rule supreme as a fascist dictator is hurting innocent bystanders”

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 2d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 1d

Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

This Is Fascism

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 1d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 3d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 2d

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 2d

I’d argue we first need an MoE and Premier whose goal is not to decimate public education. That’s the real threat.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 2d

Canadian Healing Quilt is a new website for people who lost loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic and others who are grieving.

It’s a space to honour someone with a digital quilt square, which can be shared publicly or kept private.

Canadian Healing Quilt website honours lives lost to COVID-19 | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Thou shalt not shoot pastors in the head with smoke bombs. I shouldn’t have to say this.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 3d

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 You can do something to prevent this disaster. Call your Senators - Republican ones as well as the Democrats; we need them - and tell them you only want a Surgeon General who respects & promotes evidence-based medical science, & you need them to vote NO on the confirmation of grifter Casey Means.

J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 3d

Mini essay 🧵: I've posted about this grifter nominee for Surgeon General before, & about *why* this admin. gravitates to such awful people: Means, like Dr. Oz & RFK himself, doesn't just hawk products; she sells both the idea that people are to blame...

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www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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Ms. Opossum graphs COVID data (was @anarchodelphis). @ratnegative.bsky.social · 3d

UPDATED: #Ontario #SARSCoV2 variants.

Of 31 samples from 9/28 - 10/1 (vs. 388, 9/21 - 9/27; 432, 9/14 - 9/20):
NB.1.8.1.* (incl. PQ.*): <4% (⬇️ 9%; ⬇️ 20.6%)
XFG.*: 90.3% (⬆️ 79.6%; ⬆️ 69.9%)
→ XFG.3.* (incl. QK.2): 48.4% (⬆️ 40.2%; ⬆️ 33.3%)

ratnegative.tumblr.com/ONVariants #COVID19

Of the samples collected in Ontario on these weeks, the prevalence of each of these significant variants/lineages are as follows:

- 9/28 - 10/1 -
• NB.1.8.1: <4%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.1, ".3.*): 90.3%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.4.*): 48.4%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1, ".3.4.3): 16.1%
• PY.1.1.1: 0%

- 9/21 - 9/27 -
• NB.1.8.1 (incl. PQ.1, ".2): 9%
• XFG.* (incl. XFG.1.* - ".3.*): 79.6%
→ XFG.3.* (incl. XFG.3.1.*, ".3.3.*, ".3.4.*, QK.2): 40.2%
→ XFG.3.4.* (incl. XFG.3.4.1 - ".3.4.3): 14.2%
• PY.1.1.1: 6.2%

X.X.* in text = X.X & descendants.

X.X.* in graph = all descendants of X.X, except for ones with own segment of week’s bar.

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 4d

app.cyberimpact.com/newsletter-v...

#WomensHistoryMonth2025
#WAGECanada

@mark-carney.bsky.social - Want to show you truly support women? Keep WAGE robust & well represented!

@coopspeak.bsky.social @theresisters.bsky.social

Celebrate Women’s History Month 2025

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 4d

HEY #CANADA‼️❤️ Remember these faces at the polls. They ARE the #Premiers who insist they should have access to the #notwithstandingclause” to do as they see fit.

The law, intended to allow for unforeseen emergency or protections, isn’t intended to be a #powergrab.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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defeline.bsky.social @defeline.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. 👇
I don’t ever want to shame someone for admitting they were wrong (oh so wrong), and helping us to take back America! #ResistFascism #FightForDemocracy

Plant Powered A-ron🌱🌎💙🌊 @plantpowered1971.bsky.social · 4d

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 4d

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Brian O @proudcanadaveteran.bsky.social · 5d

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 5d

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Heather e^-1/x^2 @heathermoandco.bsky.social · 6d

Thank goodness for @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com & the small handful of others who deliver honest analysis.
If you ever needed more evidence of what a self-interested feckless enabler @jaketapper.bsky.social is, look no further than this abomination from @cnn.com.

#DementiaDon #WeekendAtBernie’s

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Andrew Robinson (no, not Garak) @andrewr.bsky.social · 5d

Ontario provincial government policy is confined to two topics: booze and cars.

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Ford says he'll yank Crown Royal from LCBO shelves if Diageo closes Ontario plant | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will pull Crown Royal off the shelves of the province's liquor stores should Diageo, the global company that produces the iconic Canadian whisky, go through with its ...

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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 5d

Piccini, who has final say over who receives money through the $2.5-billion Skills Development Fund (SDF), was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of Michael Rudderham, a lobbyist & longtime friend of the minister, The Trillium can report based on well-placed sources & social media records. #OnPoli

Jack Hauen @jackhauen.bsky.social · 5d

NEW: David Piccini, the minister whose office picks Skills Development Fund recipients, was in Paris this weekend at the wedding of a lobbyist whose clients received millions from that fund.

From me and @charliepinkerton.bsky.social.

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Ontario labour minister attended lobbyist’s wedding after granting his clients millions in training funds

Two clients of lobbyist Michael Rudderham have received more than $8.5 million in Skills Development Fund grants, records show

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Dr. Ali Ibu RPsych 🇨🇦 @indo1908.bsky.social · 5d

Hell No! - do not give these conservative premiers more leeway to deny us our rights. Danielle Smith wants to use it to enact draconian ideological laws oppressing LGBTQ Albertans that are being challenged in court.

PM must give a Hard NO to every one of these assholes @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social

Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 5d

Attention is understandably focused on Washington, but this shouldn't go overlooked.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights and Freed...

www.cbc.ca

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Make America Decent Again @disposableheroes.bsky.social · Aug 25

One more time 👏👏👏

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MJ Nabuurs @mjnabuurs.bsky.social · 6d

Carney knows how to fluff Frump up and use words that aren’t always as complimentary as Frump thinks.

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