Mary G
@drawlightmary.bsky.social
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Here is their statement. This one is not on X. None of us should be reposting anything from X. None of us should be on X.
January 14, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Here is their statement. This one is not on X. None of us should be reposting anything from X. None of us should be on X.
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Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
January 14, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Folks in the US still like to treat the whole Greenland invasion stuff as sufficiently unserious to engage with, but it is sufficiently serious that NATO allies are actively deploying tripwire forces to deter the US. That is *already* a political and actual cost to them, and to US relationships
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Leadnow supporter Tim's petition calling on the federal government to finally ban Twitter/X in Canada - read more about it here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...
you.leadnow.ca
January 14, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Leadnow supporter Tim's petition calling on the federal government to finally ban Twitter/X in Canada - read more about it here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
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Why is 🇨🇦 PM, Mark Carney with his entire cabinet, still on X ???
It's a disgrace for Canadian officials to be a part of a far right Nazi thug platform!
It's a disgrace for Canadian officials to be a part of a far right Nazi thug platform!
Why is @theonion.com still on X
Get the hell off of X @bencollins.bsky.social
It's "extremely" unethical to be there, and nobody should have to tell you that, your presence there just helped Musk raise another $20 billion, the network effect from you being there keep others there.
Leave, please.
Get the hell off of X @bencollins.bsky.social
It's "extremely" unethical to be there, and nobody should have to tell you that, your presence there just helped Musk raise another $20 billion, the network effect from you being there keep others there.
Leave, please.
January 14, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Why is 🇨🇦 PM, Mark Carney with his entire cabinet, still on X ???
It's a disgrace for Canadian officials to be a part of a far right Nazi thug platform!
It's a disgrace for Canadian officials to be a part of a far right Nazi thug platform!
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Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry
Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry
Governments around the world are clamping down on Grok’s production of nonconsensual sexual images. Why does Canada seem to be missing in action?
theconversation.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Why Canada’s reaction to the Grok scandal is so muted in the midst of a global outcry
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Just in: The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants
The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
n.pr
January 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
Just in: The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.
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Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 AM
Whether it's Barack Obama asking for Dijon mustard or Donald Trump screaming "fuck you" in a Ford plant at someone calling him a "pedophile protector," presidential norms have been challenged in the 21st century
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New from me: the Alberta lawyer leading the charge for separatism had a law society hearing today over his COVID-era correspondence with government and public health officials — some of whom he threatened with prosecution for “crimes against humanity” edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
Alberta separatist lawyer threatened 'war crimes,' 'murder' charges over COVID vaccine, law society claims
Separatist lawyer Jeffrey Rath is challenging claims he breached professional conduct rules by writing to government officials during the COVID-19 pandemic — but admits he used "overly aggressive" lan...
edmontonjournal.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:34 AM
New from me: the Alberta lawyer leading the charge for separatism had a law society hearing today over his COVID-era correspondence with government and public health officials — some of whom he threatened with prosecution for “crimes against humanity” edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
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US products including alcohol is a people driven boycott, not a government boycott. Canadians forced our provincial governments to act.
If Carney needs to remove it for negotiations then let him.
I will not purchase US products. How about you?
#BoycottStands in my home.
#canpoli
#TrumpTariffs
If Carney needs to remove it for negotiations then let him.
I will not purchase US products. How about you?
#BoycottStands in my home.
#canpoli
#TrumpTariffs
Trump leans on Canada to end US booze ban as sales go dry: report
New data shows American distillers are getting hammered by a collapse in sales north of the border.
share.google
January 13, 2026 at 9:32 PM
US products including alcohol is a people driven boycott, not a government boycott. Canadians forced our provincial governments to act.
If Carney needs to remove it for negotiations then let him.
I will not purchase US products. How about you?
#BoycottStands in my home.
#canpoli
#TrumpTariffs
If Carney needs to remove it for negotiations then let him.
I will not purchase US products. How about you?
#BoycottStands in my home.
#canpoli
#TrumpTariffs
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Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
An arsonist hit a Mississippi synagogue Saturday. Seven Torahs were damaged or destroyed in the fire.
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
One Torah, from the Holocaust, was in a glass case and wasn't touched.
The same synagogue was bombed by the KKK in 1967.
mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Set by a 19 year old white suprematist who has been arrested. What an unimaginable & terrifying time we are living through.
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This administration excels at finding different ways to harm our children.
Assaulting and kidnapping them joins a long list -- bringing back deadly diseases like measles, slashing education funding, supporting Twitter's CSAM, and, of course, protecting the president's pedophile sex trafficker pals.
Assaulting and kidnapping them joins a long list -- bringing back deadly diseases like measles, slashing education funding, supporting Twitter's CSAM, and, of course, protecting the president's pedophile sex trafficker pals.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 1:31 AM
This administration excels at finding different ways to harm our children.
Assaulting and kidnapping them joins a long list -- bringing back deadly diseases like measles, slashing education funding, supporting Twitter's CSAM, and, of course, protecting the president's pedophile sex trafficker pals.
Assaulting and kidnapping them joins a long list -- bringing back deadly diseases like measles, slashing education funding, supporting Twitter's CSAM, and, of course, protecting the president's pedophile sex trafficker pals.
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I'm not a lawyer, but can an expert shed some light on Premier Malinauskas comments about
Randa Abdel Fattah in the video below? Seem defamatory.
For all the talk about combating hate speech ... these remarks sound hateful, grossly offensive and damaging .
Randa Abdel Fattah in the video below? Seem defamatory.
For all the talk about combating hate speech ... these remarks sound hateful, grossly offensive and damaging .
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 AM
I'm not a lawyer, but can an expert shed some light on Premier Malinauskas comments about
Randa Abdel Fattah in the video below? Seem defamatory.
For all the talk about combating hate speech ... these remarks sound hateful, grossly offensive and damaging .
Randa Abdel Fattah in the video below? Seem defamatory.
For all the talk about combating hate speech ... these remarks sound hateful, grossly offensive and damaging .
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Good, better late than never
US teachers union says it is leaving X over sexualized AI images of children
The American Federation of Teachers says it is leaving X, citing the social media site's creation and dissemination of "sickening" images of children in various states of undress.
go.stonking.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
Good, better late than never
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After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
April 18, 2025 at 1:33 AM
After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
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NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
January 13, 2026 at 9:10 PM
NEW: Far-right Zionist group Betar US will disband following an investigation by NY State Attorney General Letitia James into the group's "violence against and harassment of Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish activists" and failure to register as a charity in NY despite soliciting donations.
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"[Farage's] presence felt like constant noise. The persona he had adopted was destructive and intolerant of anything non-British. He wasn’t very good at anything – no great orator, charismatic, or engaging. Being vitriolic was the only way he’d get noticed."
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
It’s not ‘fantasy’: I know Nigel Farage abused people for their nationality – because I was one of them | Rickard Berg
I remember him as a racist bully, and his allegation that other ex-Dulwich boys and I are liars tells me he hasn’t changed, says former Dulwich college pupil Rickard Berg
www.theguardian.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:04 PM
"[Farage's] presence felt like constant noise. The persona he had adopted was destructive and intolerant of anything non-British. He wasn’t very good at anything – no great orator, charismatic, or engaging. Being vitriolic was the only way he’d get noticed."
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
So, he was then *exactly* who he is now.
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen told Breaking Points he does not accept AIPAC money & says Dems should be held accountable for failing to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Looking ahead to the 2028 US presidential race, he...
@vanhollen.senate.gov | @ryangrim.bsky.social | X: @krystalball
@vanhollen.senate.gov | @ryangrim.bsky.social | X: @krystalball
January 12, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Sen. Chris Van Hollen told Breaking Points he does not accept AIPAC money & says Dems should be held accountable for failing to challenge U.S. support for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Looking ahead to the 2028 US presidential race, he...
@vanhollen.senate.gov | @ryangrim.bsky.social | X: @krystalball
@vanhollen.senate.gov | @ryangrim.bsky.social | X: @krystalball
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Elon Musk had shed a third of British Twitter's 2022 users by last May: probably 40% now
It could be sport (but esp professional football), the BBC, weather, train info & customer service that drive the decline perhaps with government & politics following, not leading
bsky.app/profile/sund...
It could be sport (but esp professional football), the BBC, weather, train info & customer service that drive the decline perhaps with government & politics following, not leading
bsky.app/profile/sund...
Monthly Twitter UK users since Musk 2022
May22: 26.8m
May23: 24.3m (-2.5m)
May24: 22.1m (-2.2m)
May25: 18.9m (-3.2m)
Loss of 8 million (30%) in 3 years
Daily users on Twiiter after Musk
2022:10.3 m
23: 9.5 (-0.8m)
24: 8.6 (-0.9m)
25: 6.9 (-1.7m)
Loss 3.4 million in 3 years (33%)
Ipsos/ Ofcom
May22: 26.8m
May23: 24.3m (-2.5m)
May24: 22.1m (-2.2m)
May25: 18.9m (-3.2m)
Loss of 8 million (30%) in 3 years
Daily users on Twiiter after Musk
2022:10.3 m
23: 9.5 (-0.8m)
24: 8.6 (-0.9m)
25: 6.9 (-1.7m)
Loss 3.4 million in 3 years (33%)
Ipsos/ Ofcom
January 13, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Elon Musk had shed a third of British Twitter's 2022 users by last May: probably 40% now
It could be sport (but esp professional football), the BBC, weather, train info & customer service that drive the decline perhaps with government & politics following, not leading
bsky.app/profile/sund...
It could be sport (but esp professional football), the BBC, weather, train info & customer service that drive the decline perhaps with government & politics following, not leading
bsky.app/profile/sund...
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A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
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Imagine loving the racism Musk’s X provides & encourages so much that you can’t call out its creation & promotion of child sex abuse images…
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
January 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Imagine loving the racism Musk’s X provides & encourages so much that you can’t call out its creation & promotion of child sex abuse images…
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
I have a horrible feeling that it really is that simple.
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The remarkable thing here isn't the universal revulsion. Its that two large parties - Reform and the Conservatives - are trying to maintain stances favoured by around 0-1% of the public.
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Has there ever been any poll showing the public this united? yougov.co.uk/technology/a...
January 13, 2026 at 1:13 PM
The remarkable thing here isn't the universal revulsion. Its that two large parties - Reform and the Conservatives - are trying to maintain stances favoured by around 0-1% of the public.
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
Polling like this also suggests that whenever Labour does develop enough backbone to act, there's no going back
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exceptional article, I think this gets at the heart of why Minneapolis is such a target for the Trump admin even above & beyond other liberal American cities
January 12, 2026 at 11:09 PM
exceptional article, I think this gets at the heart of why Minneapolis is such a target for the Trump admin even above & beyond other liberal American cities
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The modern GOP is directly descended from the nutcases who worried about big government and black helicopters and WACO and Ruby Ridge, and who bombed OKC, and now that real government overreach is on American streets, those same asshole patriots are cheering it on
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The modern GOP is directly descended from the nutcases who worried about big government and black helicopters and WACO and Ruby Ridge, and who bombed OKC, and now that real government overreach is on American streets, those same asshole patriots are cheering it on