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Amber Labelle
@amberllab.bsky.social
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Unceded Algonquin territory via the US. She/hers. Veterinary ophthalmologist (yes, it's a real thing). Determined to make it better for everyone. Opinions mine.
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amberllab.bsky.social
Solidarity with all those striking in #Minnesota and #Minneapolis today.

Solidarity forever! #IceOutOfMN
gopher33j.bsky.social Coach Jerry (referee 🔵) @gopher33j.bsky.social · 2h
Minneapolis is closed for business today / not because of the cold

It’s a massive general strike the media isn’t talking about
January 23, 2026 at 2:21 PM
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margaret.bsky.social
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:58 AM
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trungles.com
I can’t go to the grocery store alone right now because ICE is racially profiling and abducting people who aren’t white
markwarner.bsky.social Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 6d
Despite Trump’s promises, grocery prices are still rising fast. Families can’t afford this… when is he going to get serious about lowering costs?
January 19, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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polgreen.bsky.social
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!
josephcox.bsky.social Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 4d
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.

ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate

www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
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erinvachon.bsky.social
“I have a theory about coming out. That you won’t do it unless you fear losing the love of someone else. Everything else is bearable otherwise.”

I always look forward to @alexanderchee.bsky.social’s newsletter, but today’s is absolutely brilliant. If you read one thing today, make it this.
morganfahey.bsky.social Morgan Fahey @morganfahey.bsky.social · 6d
In which @alexanderchee.bsky.social writes beautifully (as always) about the way Heated Rivalry has become a fragment shored against the ruin of almost everyone's mental health, and the artistic and narrative joys of both its universality and its specificity. open.substack.com/pub/querent/...
I Would Start A War In Your Arms
A Heated Rivalry Notebook
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:05 PM
amberllab.bsky.social
Maybe now all levels of Canadian government will stop using the child sexual abuse material app? What do you think @mark-carney.bsky.social? #cdnpoli
January 16, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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rwarnica.bsky.social
I spent the week in Minneapolis. About the only thing I’m sure of now is that more people are going to die. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Richard Warnica: In Minnesota, I witnessed Donald Trump’s American carnage made real
As confrontations between ICE and protestors and activists grow more common, the tension only rises.
www.thestar.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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hilltimes.com
Erica Ifill: Knowing that Grok is a gender-based violence generator, why are institutional experts, organizations, and government officials still using X?

www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...
January 16, 2026 at 12:08 AM
amberllab.bsky.social
The Canadian public does NOT use X as a resource for communicating with the government or each other. While it was a useful resource, that time has passed and now it is a vehicle for disinformation, hate speech, and CSAM. #BanXNow @evansolomon.bsky.social @mark-carney.bsky.social. #cdnpoli
lukelebrun.ca Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 11d
Do Canadian MPs actually connect with the public on X?

I looked at RTs and views for every tweet* sent by Liberal MPs yesterday

Out of 46 tweets, 21 Liberal MPs racked up a combined 475 retweets

34% had zero RTs. Only 17% got more than 10 RTs

3 tweets accounted for over half of all engagement
Name Retweets Views Iqra Khalid 0 88 Maggie Chi 1 33 Hedy Fry 0 246 Maninder Sidhu 8 906 Maninder Sidhu 2 269 Shafqat Ali 1 72 Shafqat Ali 0 53 Rob Oliphant 1 216 Aslam Rana 0 48 Rob Oliphant 3 215 Taleeb Noormohamed 3 645 Rob Oliphant 2 188 Rob Oliphant 0 119 Eleanor Olzewski 3 221 Eleanor Olzewski 1 124 Randeep Sarai 0 167 Randeep Sarai 0 105 Anita Anand 8 2000 Sima Acan 0 120 Anita Anand 5 1400 Ali Ehasassi 13 2000 Ali Ehasassi 33 15000 Anita Anand 21 8200 Anita Anand 3 963 Maninder Sidhu 131 19000 Maninder Sidhu 2 450 Yasir Naqvi 1 233 Sameer Zuberi 0 141 Randeep Sarai 0 141 Randeep Sarai 0 124 Terry Duguid 0 359 Sameer Zuberi 0 124 Marjorie Michel 0 58 Marjorie Michel 3 93 Sima Acan 0 78 John Zerucelli 2 132 Anita Anand 5 1200 Anita Anand 25 2800 Francois-Philippe Champagne 60 6300 Francois-Philippe Champagne 9 1500 Anita Anand 37 4400 Anita Anand 7 2400 Marianne Dandurand 0 25 Anita Anand 78 10000 Anita Anand 5 1800 Ben Carr 2 205
January 12, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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lizrenzetti.bsky.social
I see that @evansolomon.bsky.social has posted on X that Canada "is not considering a ban of X"
There are countless other steps Ottawa could take: regulation, sanctions, getting ministers off X.
Our AI minister has not posted here, but continues to post on the site that degrades women and children
January 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
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hiebzky.bsky.social
“Add blood, more worn out clothes (make sure it expose scar or bruises), forced smile”

Read this article @mark-carney.bsky.social and tell me why you won't ban #X in #Canada 😡

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral
The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
The concept of posting “Canada is not considering a ban of X” as a QUOTE of your post condemning deepfake sexual abuse happening **ON X** of women and kids………….
Evan Solomon posts, quoting his post condemning deepfake sexual abuse, that “Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X.”
January 11, 2026 at 5:51 AM
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vmcntosh.bsky.social
Woke up this morning to Canada’s Ministry of AI issuing either big tech can do what they want, or a high level of government is afraid of a white supremacist pedophile billionaire.

Sorry, but if you won’t take a hard line against CSAM, what’s the point?
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 PM
amberllab.bsky.social
Ban X in Canada right now @mark-carney.bsky.social. You must act to protect children from this predatory, illegal, and unethical technology. It is clear that there is no regulatory oversight in the country X is owned in, so Canada must take action. #BanXNow
lorak.bsky.social Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 12d
I want to highlight this important story by my friends @nbcnews.com - www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne... "The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok Imagine." <-- the AI generated CSAM / NCII immediately escapes containment
Dark web users cite Grok as tool for making 'criminal imagery' of kids, U.K. watchdog says
The Internet Watch Foundation said it found topless images of girls that dark web forum users attributed to xAI’s Grok Imagine.
www.nbcnews.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:23 AM
amberllab.bsky.social
The final page of “A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World” by Tom Phillips offers a reminder that, despite the fact that everything is NOT AWESOME, we can make things better if we stick together.
A color photograph of the final page of the book A Brief History of the End of the F*cking World “And for all the longevity of the apocalypse story, we did not get through the catastrophes of the past by spinning tales where all our problems would go away if only the disaster would get big enough to tilt the world on its axis. We didn't get through it by giving up and cutting social ties, but by strengthening them. We got through it by rebuilding, and rebuilding, and rebuilding, a bit better each time. The cells of our body are a coalition that long ago banded together to stave off doomsday. The same is true of our societies. In the Islamic tradition, there's one particular hadith that addresses the end of the world: 'If the Final Hour comes while you have a shoot of a plant in your hands and it is possible to plant it before the Hour comes, you should plant it! And this, I think, resonates in a way that so much discussion of the apocalypse does not. You should do the things that might make the future a better place, even if you fear it might never arrive. Because even if the world is ending, what is there to lose? We cannot know the future, but we know that the sun never rises on a world that's the same as it was yesterday. That world may be worse, that world may be better, but it will always have changed. We can't always control how the world will have changed - but the only chance we have to shape it is to believe that tomorrow will arrive, and another tomorrow after that. The world is always ending, and the world is always being reborn. Plant the shoot. Bet on tomorrow. Expect the sun to rise once more.”
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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agpasquella.bsky.social
The Toronto Sun's Ottawa bureau chief, Bryan Passifiume, thinks people should be executed in the streets for their political beliefs

Is this also the official position of The Toronto Sun? Ask Editor-In-Chief Adrienne Batra: abatra@postmedia.com

Passifiume needs to be fired ASAP
January 10, 2026 at 12:53 PM
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nkalamb.bsky.social
A deleted tweet by a Toronto Sun national politics reporter.
January 10, 2026 at 12:16 PM
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josie.zone
Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears:

archive.is/ur35j
First, I want to extend my gratitude to all the people who have reached out from across the country and around the world to support our family. This kindness of strangers is the most fitting tribute because if you ever encountered my wife, Renee Nicole Macklin Good, you know that above all else, she was kind, In fact, kindness radiated out of her. Renee sparkled. She literally sparkled. I mean, she didn't wear glitter but I swear she had sparkles coming out of her pores. All the time. You might think it was just my love talking but her family said the same thing. Renee was made of sunshine, Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it Where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow Renee was a Christian who knew that all religions teach the same essential truth: we are here to love each other, care for each other, and keep each other safe and whole. Like people have done across place and time, we moved to make a better life for ourselves. We chose Minnesota to make our home. Our whole extended road trip here, we held hands in the car while our son drew all over the windows to pass the time and the miles, What we found when we got here was a vibrant and welcoming community, we made friends and spread joy: And while any place we were together was home, there was a strong shared sense here in Minneapolis that we were looking out for each other. Here, I had finally found peace and safe harbor. That has been taken from me forever. We were raising our son to believe that no matter where you come from or what you look like, all of us deserve compassion and kindness. Renee lived this belief every day. She is pure love. She is pure joy. She is pure sunshine On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns. Renee leaves behind three extraordinary children; the youngest is just six years old and already lost his father. I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him. That the people who did this had fear and anger in their hearts, and we need to show them a better way. We thank you for the privacy you are granting our family as we grieve. We thank you for ensuring that Renee's legacy is one of kindness and love. We honor her memory by living her values: rejecting hate and choosing compassion, turning away from fear and pursuing peace, refusing division and knowing we must come together to build a world where we all come home safe to the people we love. E
January 9, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social
In 2024, I rose in Senate QP to ask why the Govt of Canada was still using X for official communications. Today, they are still there. What exactly will it take to break the spell?
January 8, 2026 at 2:58 PM
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scottdagostino.ca
Always good of the Toronto Sun to keep us mindful that we have nasty fascist fools in Canada too 😡
Photo of Renee Good’s SUV surrounded by yellow police tape Toronto Sun @TheTorontoSun tweets: From @joe_warmington: Despite sad outcome, ICE not to blame in Minneapolis 7:49 PM • Jan 7, 2026 • 27.6K Views
January 8, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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zeets.bsky.social
This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.
lawrencehurley.bsky.social Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 15d
The shooting is shocking enough but the government's response is off the charts when you consider that this incident is forensically documented on video.
January 8, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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sifill.bsky.social
Make it viral.
January 8, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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esqueer.net
Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.
fancycwabs.bsky.social Fancycwabs @fancycwabs.bsky.social · 16d
I recommend submitting a complaint.
App Store complaint about x/twitter making child pornography.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM