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Xan Cav
@xancav.bsky.social
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Former Twitter user. Unabashedly progressive. 🇨🇦 Canadian. Fan of democracy and not a fan of capitalism. 420 advocate, EV fanboy and environmentalist. I post mostly about fighting fascism and corruption in North America. DM me and you’ll be blocked.
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · Feb 22
It feels as though we're living in a mockumentary. It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.

New Substack post! Enjoy!

open.substack.com/pub/xanderca...
It Feels Like We're Living in a Mockumentary
It would be funny if it wasn't so tragic.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4d
This is an actual quote from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt to HuffPost reporter S.V. Dáte.
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · 4d
Exactly. No one builds a quarter of a billion dollar ballroom who doesn’t plan to use it. #Dictator #Trump
abigalesburner.bsky.social AbigalesBurner 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 @abigalesburner.bsky.social · 4d
If you people think he’s leaving after 4 years, you are delusional.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 4d
Frogs in slowly heating water is a popular allegory for being unaware that you are being destroyed in an incrementally worsening situation.

But I'm drawing hope from the past week that we frogs may be a bit more aware of our situation than those allegorical frogs. #Hop
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 4d
This was a comment to one of my posts on Threads: "Trump is not giving Argentina $40 billion. He's buying a private foreign army to attack us with."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d
Literally
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 16d
Good news: fossil fuels have plateaued and solar is growing by leaps and bounds worldwide

apnews.com/article/clim...
Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says
A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 15d
20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · 18d
“Inappropriate” is what you call a child who is speaking too loudly. Marine Land is literally holding a gun to the heads of thirty animals and saying they’ll kill them if thy don’t get a government handout by tomorrow.

Save the whales!
#Marineland #ONpoli #CdnPoli

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Feds call Marineland euthanasia threat ‘inappropriate’ as deadline nears | Globalnews.ca
Marineland warned that without an immediate financial bailout from the federal government, the company may be forced to declare bankruptcy or euthanize the animals.
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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 19d
www.optimistdaily.com/2025/09/mexi...
Mexico’s jaguar numbers rise: conservation sparks a 30 percent increase | The Optimist Daily
Mexico’s jaguar population has grown by 30 percent in 15 years, thanks to community-led conservation. Here’s how they’re protecting the big cat’s future.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19d
You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 19d
Supreme Court rejects Ghislaine Maxwell’s appeal — now release the Epstein files.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...
Supreme Court Rejects Appeal From Ghislaine Maxwell
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · 20d
As a Canadian this is accurate. #USA #fascism #trump #worldpolitics
A map of the US from the website,“Where I’d Live” with an attached legend ranking living preferences. The entire map is a deep red colour referencing “never” across the entirety of the country.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 23d
Donald Trump shut down the government because he doesn't want you to have healthcare.

But this isn’t just on him. Democrats MUST use their leverage to protect our rights, but it can’t end there.

Schumer and Jeffries can’t just go on TV or write letters, they need clear demands. We need action now.
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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 23d
Again, Trump uses "Radical Left" for anybody to the left of Stephen Miller so when he issues executive orders around declaring the "Radical Left" to be "terrorists" we should not pretend he isn't targeting all political opposition, no matter how many times you throw trans people under the bus.
telliotter.bsky.social Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 23d
SCOOP: Federal workers are being told to blame democrats for the shutdown. At SBA workers got an email suggesting they set out-of-office replies blaming Democrats for the shutdown and at HUD internal systems have a pop-up blaming "the Radical Left."

@wired.com

www.wired.com/story/govern...
Federal Workers Are Being Told to Blame Democrats for the Shutdown
Workers at one agency were given unhinged, partisan language to use when setting out-of-office replies.
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · 23d
Sadly, the world lost a great climate activist, conservationist and primatologist Jane Goodall. She was 91.
A sloppily taken picture of a documentary on YouTube called, Jane Goodall: 91 and thriving.
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27d
Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 21
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Arc @arcbreak.bsky.social · Sep 19
the lesson here is that after January 6th there should have been a massive hunt for right wing domestic terrorism and their funders imprisoned and stripped of power. So if we manage to get through and overcome this; there cannot be “return to normalcy” without consequences being paid for this
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · Sep 19
If our Constitutional Right to Free Speech is lost, it’s over…

“You can call that free speech or not,” Trump said. “He was fired for lack of talent.”

Chairman of FCC had warned ABC of serious consequences, telling network “we can do this the easy or the hard way.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...
Disney Pulled Jimmy Kimmel as Pressure Built on Multiple Fronts
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Sep 11
Poland’s prime minister 👇🏽
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · Sep 12
Facts:
A screenshot of the official "Creed - Higher" music video YouTube page. A screenshot of the comment section underneath the video. Two comments read, "Fun fact: this wasn't in your recommended... you searched for this" and "I'm 38... I'm a welder... I drink too much beer... this is our Taylor Swift."
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · Sep 11
If it has to be said aloud, yes.
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Xan Cav @xancav.bsky.social · Sep 11
A lot has been said about Charlie Kirk. Political violence and assassinations are never the answer. Condolences to his two children.

As for Kirk himself? Now he’s one of the good fascists.

#Trump #USpoli #fascism
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Sep 11
Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory?

Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
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@Boom-WhatsGoingOn.bsky.social @boom-whatsgoingon.bsky.social · Sep 8
Pay the lady, while you’re at it, release Epstein files…

A federal appeals court upheld an $83.3 million jury award against Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. Court rejected Trump’s argument that SCOTUS decision last year affording presidential immunity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/n...
Appeals Court Upholds Carroll’s $83 Million Judgment Against Trump
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