LoriB
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LoriB
@loribeth1961.bsky.social
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"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"
Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Cuts 30% of Staff, Laying Off More Than 300 Employees Including Amazon Beat Reporter
The Washington Post, owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is enacting layoffs that will eliminate "hundreds" of jobs.
variety.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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"The Washington Post deserves a better owner than this."

Former global opinion editor @karenattiah.bsky.social slams billionaire Jeff Bezos for gutting the storied newspaper.
February 6, 2026 at 1:52 PM
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"There’s no talk about a mutually beneficial relationship; Canada, Trump says, is not even a vassal state. Its very existence is dependent on the US, which means it is dependent on him personally. 'Canada lives because of the US,' he says, like a domestic abuser sneering." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Trump blames Canada
And tears our closest international relationship apart.
www.publicnotice.co
January 31, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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My piece on our break with our closest neighbor and ally:
"There’s no talk about a mutually beneficial relationship; Canada, Trump says, is not even a vassal state. Its very existence is dependent on the US, which means it is dependent on him personally. 'Canada lives because of the US,' he says, like a domestic abuser sneering." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Trump blames Canada
And tears our closest international relationship apart.
www.publicnotice.co
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 PM
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pretty incredible story in here about how you can go from sitting on your couch to radicalized and in the streets in record time:

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 26, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Danish and Greenland ministers just left the White House. It did not go well.
I have a long discussion here of Trump's attempt to get Greenland and why it could lead to World War III.

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www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump’s Most Dangerous Gambit
His irrational obsession with Greenland could lead to global conflict.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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1/About 1,500 active-duty soldiers, two infantry battalions of the Army's 11th Airborne Division, are under prepare-to-deploy orders for possible action in Minnesota. This means Donald Trump is actively contemplating invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 19, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Why is this currently on the front page of nytimes.com? (For me, at least. Placement might be different for you...)
December 27, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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January 6 was like a much dumber version of Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch and yet a plurality of American voters were like, Yeah, let’s give that guy the nuke codes again. An absolutely world historical debacle of societal ignorance. I’ll never understand it.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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The United States has entered a very dangerous phase. Here’s how Canada must act

#Opinion from @stephenmarche.bsky.social
Stephen Marche: The United States has entered a very dangerous phase. Here’s how Canada must act
The American World Order Donald Trump tried to build is over. Canada needs to play the long game
www.thestar.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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Its time to stop taking the misogyny for granted and do something about it. Please read: joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-on-w...
Trump on Women
The new Mayor of Miami, Florida, is a Democrat.
joycevance.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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This Liberal MP survived the Montreal massacre. She says the slow pace of the government’s gun-control agenda hasn’t left her rattled
This Liberal MP survived the Montreal massacre. She says the slow pace of the government’s gun-control agenda hasn’t left her rattled
Nathalie Provost concedes progress hasn’t moved as quickly as she’d hoped, but that hasn't rattled her.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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The World Cup draw had looked favourable for Canada. Then Gretzky showed up, and everything changed #Analysis
The World Cup draw had looked favourable for Canada. Then Gretzky showed up, and everything changed
A potential opening match with four-time World Cup champion Italy could taint what had looked to be a favourable draw for Canada with Switzerland and Qatar in Group B.
www.thestar.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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The World Cup draw was what happens when you have a fantastic sports event, too much money, too little taste, a nose for corruption, and giant stupid man-baby to give a nightmarish gold trophy of the damned to, in the hopes that he likes it. www.thestar.com/sports/socce...
Bruce Arthur: The World Cup draw is a mix of too much money, not enough taste and Donald Trump. Just what you’d expect from the beautiful game
But the result next year will be football, and all the glories it can bring.
www.thestar.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I will not be quiet Mr. President
November 19, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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7/Portland has reclaimed the frog as a symbol of its resistance to Trump’s efforts to militarize the city. Perhaps women should claim the glamorous, sassy Muppet Miss Piggy, a known diva with a fierce karate chop, as their own symbol
November 19, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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I keep coming back to the Joseph McCarthy moment where the red-baiting senator was finally asked, “Have you no decency,” and his cult of personality burst. “Quiet, Piggy.” We shouldn’t forget that the president of the United States uttered those words in this moment.
November 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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1/Catherine Lucey, the White House correspondent for Bloomberg, asked Donald Trump about releasing the Epstein files on Air Force One over the weekend. In response, Trump leaned forward, slashing an accusatory finger her direction and barked, “Quiet! Quiet Piggy,” at her.
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year.
www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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"Things really are as bad as they seem in the United States. But they are not hopeless." Incredible reporting and writing from @rwarnica.bsky.social in Texas, where there's hope amid the cruelty and despair www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
www.thestar.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#Opinion Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Richard Warnica: Ignorance. Cruelty. Disease: I travelled to the epicentre of Trump’s new America. This is what I found
Trump has radically changed the U.S. But everywhere, there are signs of resistance.
www.thestar.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.
November 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM