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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian Premier League final next weekend in Ottawa, gonna be a blast!

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Peter Aidan Byrne @peteraidanbyrne.bsky.social · 2d

In the eyes of the establishment, there’s literally nothing Mamdani can do to prove he’s not an antisemite, and literally nothing the openly fascist trump regime can do to prove they are, up to and including intentionally dressing like literal, historical Nazis

Border Patrol chief Bovino, posing dramatically in his Nazi cosplay trenchcoat for a hospitable interview by CNN

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Jeff Leiper 🛴🚲🚇♻️🚌📊 @jleiper.bsky.social · 2d

The People's Summit at the RA Centre is jam-packed today with residents committed to making change and achieving a better Ottawa! Lots of energy in the room...

Attendees visit exhibitor booths at the Summit / Les participants visitent les stands des exposants au Sommet

Jeff takes a selfie with Jennifer Gautreau, chair of CAFES Ottawa / Jeff prend un selfie avec Jennifer Gautreau, présidente de CAFES Ottawa

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 2d

There are party-adjacent structures that can do the job - Horizon has shifted closer and closer to it, with a public platform vision and an endorsement slate.

Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe we could just get Trump playing The Sims on VR?

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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 3d

One Yankee who was vocal about his anger about Yankees fans' behaviour in that 1993 game?

That's right: Toronto Blue Jays Bench Coach Don Mattingly

O, how rude! Booing anthem angers Mattingly
NEW YORK - Never really popular here since George Bell left Toronto, the Blue Jays were roundly booed by the fans at Yankee Stadium last night before the start of a big four-game series.
Could it be something that the Jays have done lately? Like signing Rickey Hender-
son.
Whatever, opera star Rob- ert Merrill was forced to sing 'O Canada' through a thun- derstorm of catcalls and boos.
"It bothers me," Yankees first baseman Don Mattingly said of the anthem-booing. "I saw it happen in 1985, too.
"I was out there thinking of the Gulf War and how we're allies with Canada. It's such a beautiful country and the peo- ple are so great and have treated us with so much class."
Danny Tartabull said: "I've never seen anything like that. It's a national anthem. It might have a little to do with the Toronto Blue Jays, but to boo a national anthem, geez."

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 3d

Poilievre doesn’t even pronounce Poilievre consistently…

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · Sep 17

Blake Treinen's stats since he wrote Charlie Kirk on his hat:

3.0 IP, 5 Runs, 9.00 ERA, 0 Ks, 1.667 WHIP, and 3 LOSSES

Charlie Kirk written on Dodgers Blake Treinen hat

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 6d

I’d prefer it too, but 3 hours rusty?

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Bohdan &%@#ing Pavuk @bpavuk.neocities.org · Dec 26

if you see this post, your actions are:
- if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this
- if you don't have a spare buck, just repost

your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · Dec 25

I’ve never donated to Wikipedia before but I set up a small monthly donation as a fuck you to the world’s richest psychopath.

Elon Musk takes aim at Wikipedia

Musk has denounced Wikipedia as "Wokepedia" on X and urged people not to donate to the platform.

www.newsweek.com

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 6d

The app feed had two separate hallucinations that were then corrected, a statement dripping with newspeak.

Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 6d

It’s a netherworld mirror image of the best thing the Internet has ever created, and it needs to be destroyed.

www.theverge.com/news/807686/...

Elon Musk’s Grokipedia contains copied Wikipedia pages

Ironic.

www.theverge.com

Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 6d

OK everyone gets to take like a week to find the stupidest/worst things on Grokipedia, but if I see anyone using it earnestly or after that…

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 6d

Fuck that name goes so hard

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6d

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style.

Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Bill Melugin
@BillMelugin_
BREAKING: Per four senior DHS & Trump admin sources, a mass removal of ICE leadership around the country is underway, with up to 12 ICE field office chiefs being removed & reassigned in an effort to increase deportation numbers. I'm told the move is spearheaded by Corey Lewandowski, and a handful of the ICE Chiefs will likely be replaced by Border Patrol & CBP officials, some of whom will be hand-picked by aggressive & controversial Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino. I'm told some of the ICE leadership removed from their positions include the ICE Field Office Directors in:

- Los Angeles
- Phoenix
- Philadelphia
- Denver
- El Paso
- San Diego
- Seattle/Portland
- New Orleans

Border Patrol officials taking over ICE leadership positions would be extremely significant, as Border Patrol and ICE do different things, and I've done numerous ride-alongs/embeds with both.

Generally speaking, ICE typically conducts very targeted operations, largely going after criminal illegal aliens or those with deportation orders, but almost always knowing who they are targeting for arrest, often conducting surveillance to learn their schedules before and waiting hours before arresting them if needed.

Border Patrol, under Trump 2.0, while sometimes doing their own targeted operations, has been extremely aggressive and has been at the forefront of some of the most controversial immigration enforcement operations we've seen so far, carrying out roving patrols in Los Angeles, Chicago, etc, often at Home Depot, car washes, flea markets etc, leading to a handful of federal judges around the country issuing injunctions against them. A majority of the viral videos you see online are Border Patrol agents, including the use of a Trojan horse style Penske moving truck at a Los Angeles Home Depot, an operation organized by Bovino.

ICE often gets blamed for what Border Patrol does, as the media and activists often cannot tell the difference between federal agents, and everyone is called "ICE". I'm told there are growing concerns about the political and PR fallout associated with some of the roving patrols Border Patrol is conducting as lawsuits continue to stack up and mid-terms approach next year.

I'm told there is significant friction within different wings of DHS and the administration, with Border Czar Tom Homan & ICE Director Todd Lyons preferring to prioritize targeting criminal aliens & the "worst of the worst" or those with deportation orders, while DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and BP Commander Bovino prefer to use aggressive tactics to arrest anyone in the US illegally, including but not limited to criminals, to ramp up deportation numbers and achieve President Trump's promises of mass deportations.

I am hearing from both sides of this friction.

One senior DHS official tells me:

"ICE started with the worst of the worst, knowing every target they are hitting, but since Border Patrol started in LA in June, we've (DHS) lost our focus, going too hard, too fast, with limited prioritization. It's getting numbers, but at what cost?".

Border Patrol agents I've talked to defend their tactics, with one telling me:

"What did everyone think mass deportations meant? Only the worst? Tom Homan has said it himself, anyone in the US illegally is on the table."

It's quite a situation, as both sides of this are on the same team, with the same end goals, but different perspectives on how to get there.

Another DHS official confirmed the personnel changes to me on deep background, adding that the moves are based on performance and doing what is needed to achieve the best results.

Official statement to
@FoxNews
via
@TriciaOhio
:

"While we have no personnel changes to announce at this time, the Trump Administration remains laser focused on delivering results and removing violent criminal illegal aliens from this country."
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 9d

can someone explain to me why toronto is even allowed to play in the world series? since when is canada in the world

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Neil Saravanamuttoo @neilsara.bsky.social · 10d

Tewin at full scale would be about 100,000 people -- that's like a whole new Barrhaven East.

Ottawa taxpayers simply can't afford that type of growth.

Ottawa’s bitter fight over the Tewin development | The Narwhal

A housing megaproject by developer Taggart Group and the Algonquins of Ontario has Ottawa councillors and residents divided over claims of reconciliation and sustainability

https://thenarwhal.ca/ottawa-tewin-development-taggart-algonquins/?utm_source=The+Narwhal&utm_campaign=564a9b436e-Oct+23%2C+2025+—+Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f6a05fddb8-564a9b436e-109049142&mc_cid=564a9b436e&mc_eid=69bb4b0f07

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 13d

Did they use James Comer because it sounds like James Comey?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13d

Comer: The evidence we gathered does not implicate President Trump in any way. Public reporting, survivor testimony, and official documents show that Bill Clinton had far closer ties to Epstein

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Alissa Wilkinson @alissawilkinson.bsky.social · 13d

I guess I just feel like it should be a bigger deal that Penske Media owns the Golden Globes and ALSO Rolling Stone, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Indiewire, GoldDerby, and Deadline, plus 20% of Vox Media

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 13d

Scoop: Jay Penske, who owns the Golden Globes, is pitching far-right podcasters with a proposal that they spend upwards of $75,000 to boost their chances of winning this year's inaugural podcasting award.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/golden-glo...

Penske and the Podcasters

Jay Penske’s Golden Globes are debuting a “Best Podcast” award—and documents obtained by Status show he’s trying to sell pricey packages that could boost the chances of right-wing extremists winning t...

www.status.news

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17d

you can't compare protest movements from the past to protest movements today. they were protesting with farmers and milk men back then. today's soros funded black bloc antifa protesters can afford to train year round and not just during the regular season

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 17d

Cuomo’s desperate final act is bankrolled by the very billionaires who brought us Donald Trump and the broken status quo.

New Yorkers are ready for change.

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Norton Ford @nortonford.bsky.social · 19d

Gonna generate a whole new body of work on idolatry in sports

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 23d

there's something here

A normal-versus-normal matchup is what politics used to be — persuasion, messaging, negotiation, compromise. Behaving this way will lose against someone donning body armor while calling you an antifa domestic terrorist MS-13 gang member. And the guy in the body armor will always lose to the guy in the inflatable frog suit.

3x3 grid charting how aura farming, shitposting, and acting normal interact

Aura Farming Shitposting Acting Normal
Aura Farming Stronger aura farmer wins Shitposter wins Aura farmer wins
Shitposting Shitposter wins Society loses Acting normal wins
Acting Normal Aura farmer wins Acting normal wins We live in a society

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 25d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 27d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 27d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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