Just when you thought it was safe to go back in to the water.

Sam Roberts Band@samrobertsband.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Summer ‘26

Free programming idea for CBC. "Talking to Canadians" follows US ambassador Pete Hoekstra as he travels across Canada, meeting and insulting Canadians from Peggy's Cove to Whitehorse. Highlights include the cast of Shoresy in Sudbury having to be restrained by the RCMP from beating him to a pulp.

Dear Capital One, What did ya find? Signed, Everyone wondering the same thing.

Negligent homicide is a defining characteristic of concentration camps.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d ago

ICE has killed another person.

I don’t imagine that a degree in Mathematics is a sure-fire route to riches, but those cerebral weirdos write the schematics of everything from the numbers they imagine in their heads.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I’m hosting CBC’s Front Burner for the next two weeks. They were nice enough to start my fill-in stint on a topic I’m rather familiar with: Alberta separatism. My chat with the great @rwarnica.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/f...

Where's the fight to keep Canada together?

Podcast Episode · Front Burner · August 4 · 32m

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the onion ass headline

Israeli court halts crocodile transfer to Palestinian prison over animal welfare concerns

LONDON: An Israeli court on Sunday temporarily blocked plans by the national security minister to install crocodile-filled moats around Ketziot Prison, following a legal challenge centered on the rept...

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A crucial thing about Bluesky was that the scientific community migrated to it en masse as soon as it opened its doors. There are left wing scientists and right wing scientists and scientists who try to pay no attention to politics. What they all have in common is that they are rationalists.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Left, right, whatever, I just want graduate students posting their papers here

by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu 1/2 “By Sunday, after they learned that they could not, in fact, get to mainland Spain, the vast majority of the migrants had returned to Morocco. Spanish police were escorting the few who remained to the border. Neither Vance nor Farage nor anyone else..

The Far-Right Playbook in Action

It works, every single time

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Here's a fun headline, eh?

Remember when we had the Greatest Canadian contest and Tommy Douglas won? Is it time for the Worst Canadian contest or would that just be a coronation for this guy?

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 2d ago

Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away

It's not a liberal bubble -- it's just the place where everyone who wasn't morally okay with being at the Nazi club settled.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Does Capital One have a book coming out?

I haven't heard Donald Trump bring up the lack of water pressure in showers lately. Did that get solved or something?

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again

UNDOING THE LEFT’S WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make

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Counterpoint: what if betrayal of country is not betrayal of one's own values or principles? See, for example, the White Rose, Germany. Or can an organization like the CIA not contemplate or comprehend that possibility?

EktaShahMD@ektashahmd.bsky.social · 3d ago

The cia has a mnemonic for why people commit sudden betrayal of their own values or principles they claim they uphold to betray their country MICE Money Ideology Coercion Ego

funny name for a politician

Good question. The answer is that not paying Trump buys you a whole lot of trouble. The money you spend on legal representation suddenly goes through the roof. You have to hire lawyers to fend off federal prosecutors. Why do you think the big law firms were the first to fold?

Brian Tyler Cohen@briantylercohen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"I will never understand why these huge corporations refuse to acknowledge objective reality: paying Trump doesn’t buy you anything. All it does is teach him that you’re willing to pay, and next time, he’ll get you to pay more."

There is a full blown propaganda war underway, not only in the US but throughout the West. I wonder to what extent those on the side of rationalism are losing this war because they can't and won't stoop to propaganda.

Stephen Judkins@stephenjudkins.bsky.social · 4d ago

It's pretty infuriating that Trump is denying disaster aid to Oregon for political reasons and I have barely heard anything about it, while Biden was falsely accused of doing the exact same thing to North Carolina and millions of people believed that

The problem here is that the MAGA movement sees themselves as a group of committed citizens intent on changing the world, and they have. Entirely for the worse, but they don’t see it that way.

God@thegodshow.com · 4d ago

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead

🛩️ v 🏖️ People who aren’t used to winning, won. At the same time, people who often win lost for once. The losers are throwing tantrums. Winners should take the win to heart because it truly belongs to them & no one else. My column on this remarkable grassroots mobilization in @thestar.com

Shawn Micallef: The Billy Bishop expansion pause was a real win for the people. But don’t put away those No Jets signs just yet

The federal government’s decision to pause the Billy Bishop expansion means that people who often win lost for once — are taking it badly.

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I've been in Stratford a couple times now for the World in a Weekend festival and it's such a lovely set-up for kids. Mostly free puppet shows and lots of crafting/play stations set up outdoors on banks of the river. Highly recommend for parents of 3-10! www.springworksfestival.ca/_files/ugd/f...

J. Kelly Nestruck@nestruck.bsky.social · 4d ago

Taking in some highbrow theatre in Stratford, Ontario.

Hey everyone, I have some news: I'm creating a new project today called @thewatchdog.ca The Watchdog's editorial mission is to protect the public and defend democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism. Sign up here as it gets ready to launch: www.thewatchdog.ca/p/sign-up

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The Watchdog protects the public and defends democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism.

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I've just updated my starter pack of independent Canadian media outlets. I'm keen to see what @thewatchdog.ca has to offer. go.bsky.app/7ce9PDR

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 5d ago

Hey everyone, I have some news: I'm creating a new project today called @thewatchdog.ca The Watchdog's editorial mission is to protect the public and defend democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism. Sign up here as it gets ready to launch: www.thewatchdog.ca/p/sign-up

You know how the AI companies like to buy up documents, scan them, then shred them? Here's grist for the mill.

Please, no spoilers. Also, we've agreed to let Mexico have that honour.

BUG-EYED CAT@californiahorst.bsky.social · 6d ago

it would be so funny if we exhausted all our weaponry on iran and canada just marched in and took us over

Wait until Justin Trudeau finds out 

What's a "theatre"?

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 6d ago

In the Silicon Valley enclave of Atherton, a six-bedroom, nine-bath mansion featuring a theater, a private rose garden and a spa hit the market earlier this year for nearly $32 million.

I've noticed a new trick they're trying. I was at a Loblaws store recently where they'd removed country origin labels from signage. Is the broccoli from México or California? No idea. At least the apples had Washington state stickers. But most people probably wouldn't look so closely. #cdnpoli

Unapologetic Lee 🇨🇦@ogcanada.bsky.social · last wk.

Tired of Canadian grocery chains mislabelling food products as Canadian? Report it every time you see it. Take photos, inform a manager you intend to report, then visit this site to fill out the complaint. inspection.canada.ca/en/food-safe... #cdnpoli #canada

Tired of Canadian grocery chains mislabelling food products as Canadian? Report it every time you see it. Take photos, inform a manager you intend to report, then visit this site to fill out the complaint. inspection.canada.ca/en/food-safe... #cdnpoli #canada