AxeDame
@axedame.bsky.social
Feral child inhabiting the rickety body of a GenX recluse
🇨🇦🎶 #Ottawa
🇨🇦🎶 #Ottawa
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Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return.
Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.
www.nature.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Good time to remind everyone that NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, a right-wing economist, has made it a personal goal to make sure lockdowns can never return.
Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Because in his mind, there is nothing that could ever justify shutting down the economy.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Polling Canada Federal Model Update:
🔴 LPC: 198 (+29)
🔵 CPC: 109 (-35)
⚜️ BQ: 27 (+5)
🟠 NDP: 7 (-)
🟢 GPC: 2 (+1)
(Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election)
- February 14, 2026 -
Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
🔴 LPC: 198 (+29)
🔵 CPC: 109 (-35)
⚜️ BQ: 27 (+5)
🟠 NDP: 7 (-)
🟢 GPC: 2 (+1)
(Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election)
- February 14, 2026 -
Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Liberal Dominance Survives the Weekly Noise
The Conservative ceiling keeps slipping as the polls remain strong for the Liberals
open.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Polling Canada Federal Model Update:
🔴 LPC: 198 (+29)
🔵 CPC: 109 (-35)
⚜️ BQ: 27 (+5)
🟠 NDP: 7 (-)
🟢 GPC: 2 (+1)
(Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election)
- February 14, 2026 -
Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
🔴 LPC: 198 (+29)
🔵 CPC: 109 (-35)
⚜️ BQ: 27 (+5)
🟠 NDP: 7 (-)
🟢 GPC: 2 (+1)
(Seat Changes With 2025 Federal Election)
- February 14, 2026 -
Full model article here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
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Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Happy Valentine’s Day ❤️
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My latest: With his new auto sector strategy and a plan to double grid capacity, Mark Carney isn't just talking a good game on diversifying our trade relationships away from America.
He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...
He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...
Mark Carney just picked his lane on climate change
For all the recent talk about pipelines, it's clear that Mark Carney's economic strategy revolves around turning Canada into one of the world's leading electro-states.
www.nationalobserver.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:30 PM
My latest: With his new auto sector strategy and a plan to double grid capacity, Mark Carney isn't just talking a good game on diversifying our trade relationships away from America.
He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...
He's also building a roadmap to Canada's low-carbon future. #cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/o...
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This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
February 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)
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I agree, these teachers should lose their teaching licenses. Do not shuffle them thru the system!!
2 North York teachers on leave after racist social media messages discovered: TCDSB | CBC News share.google/57Y2kNxT95cw...
2 North York teachers on leave after racist social media messages discovered: TCDSB | CBC News share.google/57Y2kNxT95cw...
2 North York teachers on leave after racist social media messages discovered: TCDSB | CBC News
Two teachers have been put on leave from a North York high school, as the Toronto Catholic District School Board investigates an exchange of racist messages on a shared school program's social media a...
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February 15, 2026 at 12:55 AM
I agree, these teachers should lose their teaching licenses. Do not shuffle them thru the system!!
2 North York teachers on leave after racist social media messages discovered: TCDSB | CBC News share.google/57Y2kNxT95cw...
2 North York teachers on leave after racist social media messages discovered: TCDSB | CBC News share.google/57Y2kNxT95cw...
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Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.
Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Trump: ‘There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!’
"I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," wrote Trump, who is not a lawyer.
www.democracydocket.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.
Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Plantation weddings and pre-civil war fashion: the film that critiques the historical fantasy of Natchez
A documentary about Mississippi examines competing forces: the nostalgic celebration of the old south and the refusal to sanitize the brutal history of enslavement
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:00 PM
When I taught at LSU, I got some gasps when I said plantation weddings were like getting married at a Nazi concentration camp, and I got nods from a lot of other students who understood it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Werner Herzog's cameo on Parks & Rec (S07E01). He's great in everything.
February 14, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Werner Herzog's cameo on Parks & Rec (S07E01). He's great in everything.
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If you have to travel to Detroit - take the tunnel. Do not give Trump's oligarch friends any money.
Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge.
Take the tunnel.
Better yet don't travel to the States at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge.
Take the tunnel.
Better yet don't travel to the States at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Take the tunnel, Windsor city councillor says as Ambassador Bridge owners lobby against new bridge | CBC News
A city councilor in Windsor, Ont., is encouraging Canadians who want to buy Canadian to travel from Windsor to Detroit through the Windsor-Detroit tunnel instead of crossing the Ambassador Bridge.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:50 PM
If you have to travel to Detroit - take the tunnel. Do not give Trump's oligarch friends any money.
Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge.
Take the tunnel.
Better yet don't travel to the States at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Refuse to travel on the Ambassador Bridge.
Take the tunnel.
Better yet don't travel to the States at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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CARNEY: "You held each other as you're holding each other right now. This is grace. It's what we do for each other. It's what we receive from each other. Open hearts when the world falls apart. Tumbler Ridge is full of grace this evening."
February 14, 2026 at 3:56 AM
CARNEY: "You held each other as you're holding each other right now. This is grace. It's what we do for each other. It's what we receive from each other. Open hearts when the world falls apart. Tumbler Ridge is full of grace this evening."
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Speaking to CBC's Power and Politics, May told David Cochrane that the prime ministe invited all the party leaders to travel to B.C. in the same plane, a gesture she appreciated.
"There was nothing but shared grieving and shared sense that there's no other place for us to be but together,"
"There was nothing but shared grieving and shared sense that there's no other place for us to be but together,"
Mackenzie Gray reports (with video):
🇨🇦 Prime Minister Carney and other federal party leaders have placed flowers at a memorial in Tumbler Ridge
🇨🇦 Prime Minister Carney and other federal party leaders have placed flowers at a memorial in Tumbler Ridge
February 14, 2026 at 9:18 AM
Speaking to CBC's Power and Politics, May told David Cochrane that the prime ministe invited all the party leaders to travel to B.C. in the same plane, a gesture she appreciated.
"There was nothing but shared grieving and shared sense that there's no other place for us to be but together,"
"There was nothing but shared grieving and shared sense that there's no other place for us to be but together,"
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Cutting 700 nurses in Ottawa?
How is Doug Ford getting away with this???!!!!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How is Doug Ford getting away with this???!!!!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
More than 700 nursing, PSW jobs could be cut in Ottawa, says union | CBC News
Ontario’s largest health-care union is sounding the alarm on impending job cuts and increased wait times if the province fails to increase hospital funding.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Cutting 700 nurses in Ottawa?
How is Doug Ford getting away with this???!!!!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
How is Doug Ford getting away with this???!!!!
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Stephanie Ruhle: This bridge will take toll money away from another bridge that connects Michigan and Canada, and that bridge is owned by a big Trump donor who, on Monday, had a meeting with Howard. Lutnick. Immediately following that meeting, poof, we no longer want this new bridge.
February 14, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Stephanie Ruhle: This bridge will take toll money away from another bridge that connects Michigan and Canada, and that bridge is owned by a big Trump donor who, on Monday, had a meeting with Howard. Lutnick. Immediately following that meeting, poof, we no longer want this new bridge.
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BREAKING: Canada are accusing Sweden of improperly filming the hog line during last night's game in order to "run to the officials" with cheating claims. There's video going around that appears to have been shot from the stands. Swedish team denies any involvement. nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
Canadian curlers accuse Sweden of improper filming in Olympic venue after cheating allegations
Canada fires back after video emerges of alleged hog line violation
nationalpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: Canada are accusing Sweden of improperly filming the hog line during last night's game in order to "run to the officials" with cheating claims. There's video going around that appears to have been shot from the stands. Swedish team denies any involvement. nationalpost.com/sports/olymp...
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Trump says voter id will mean secure elections that we can all trust. Well in the 2020 election, Georgia had the strictest voter id in the country. Yet Trump is still to this day claiming the election was stolen in that state. To Trump and GOP, if they win it was fair, if they lose it was fraud.
February 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Trump says voter id will mean secure elections that we can all trust. Well in the 2020 election, Georgia had the strictest voter id in the country. Yet Trump is still to this day claiming the election was stolen in that state. To Trump and GOP, if they win it was fair, if they lose it was fraud.
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We may never fully reconcile with the horrific, senseless violence that ripped through Tumbler Ridge this past week.
But we can find comfort in each other. We can look after each other. To those families who have lost loved ones: we mourn with you.
But we can find comfort in each other. We can look after each other. To those families who have lost loved ones: we mourn with you.
February 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
We may never fully reconcile with the horrific, senseless violence that ripped through Tumbler Ridge this past week.
But we can find comfort in each other. We can look after each other. To those families who have lost loved ones: we mourn with you.
But we can find comfort in each other. We can look after each other. To those families who have lost loved ones: we mourn with you.
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I had the opportunity to rise during Senate Question Period this week, to ask about the Canadian government's continued commitment to using X for official communications - and about their failure to use sites such as Bluesky and Mastodon. What do you think? #cdnpoli #Canada #Grok #X #Bluesky
It's time to make an X-it: Senator Simons questions the Canadian government's continued use of X
YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons
youtu.be
February 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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#TakeTheTunnel
Stop using the Ambassador Bridge.
Stop using the Ambassador Bridge.
As USA coercion begins AGAIN, against Canada. Now attacking the construction of the #GordieHowe Bridge Canada paid for.
The mayor of Windsor has encouraged Canadians to stop using the Ambassador bridge, and use the #tunnel instead given the #Morounfamily instigated yet more threats to Canadians.
The mayor of Windsor has encouraged Canadians to stop using the Ambassador bridge, and use the #tunnel instead given the #Morounfamily instigated yet more threats to Canadians.
Take the tunnel, Windsor city councillor says as Ambassador Bridge owners lobby against new bridge | CBC News
A city councilor in Windsor, Ont., is encouraging Canadians who want to buy Canadian to travel from Windsor to Detroit through the Windsor-Detroit tunnel instead of crossing the Ambassador Bridge.
www.cbc.ca
February 14, 2026 at 8:35 PM
#TakeTheTunnel
Stop using the Ambassador Bridge.
Stop using the Ambassador Bridge.
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Secretary of State Rubio - child of immigrants from Cuba who came to the US in 1956, says migration disturbed “continuity of our culture and of our people”
February 14, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Secretary of State Rubio - child of immigrants from Cuba who came to the US in 1956, says migration disturbed “continuity of our culture and of our people”
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Rubio speech at MSC—in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a “foolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe “so save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.
February 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Rubio speech at MSC—in short: US sees global trade, diplomacy, migration, immigration, global institutions and global affairs in general as a “foolish post-WWII mistake” and invites Europe “so save itself by each protecting sovereignty, closed borders, and Christianity” alike Trump’s America.
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Senator Mark Kelly at MSC: “A form of PTSD is what we’re getting from our former friends.”
February 14, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Senator Mark Kelly at MSC: “A form of PTSD is what we’re getting from our former friends.”
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When you become disabled, you grieve the life you had before.
You grieve your health.
You grieve relationships.
You grieve your loss of autonomy, of independence and the freedom that comes with being able to count on your body.
Acceptance is not easy.
🧵
You grieve your health.
You grieve relationships.
You grieve your loss of autonomy, of independence and the freedom that comes with being able to count on your body.
Acceptance is not easy.
🧵
February 14, 2026 at 4:47 AM
When you become disabled, you grieve the life you had before.
You grieve your health.
You grieve relationships.
You grieve your loss of autonomy, of independence and the freedom that comes with being able to count on your body.
Acceptance is not easy.
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You grieve your health.
You grieve relationships.
You grieve your loss of autonomy, of independence and the freedom that comes with being able to count on your body.
Acceptance is not easy.
🧵
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I think the PM and the party leaders flying together to Tumbler Ridge is an important, vital gesture of unity and solidarity, but I think it can also speak to seriousness — to not accepting what happened on Tuesday and to realising it's something that demands a response.
February 14, 2026 at 1:55 AM
I think the PM and the party leaders flying together to Tumbler Ridge is an important, vital gesture of unity and solidarity, but I think it can also speak to seriousness — to not accepting what happened on Tuesday and to realising it's something that demands a response.
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In an effort to preserve and prioritize my attention I virtually always block people who are rude to me but I also sometimes block people who are perfectly polite and could very well be lovely individuals because I absolutely cannot be trusted not to waste precious hours of my life debating them 🫠
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 AM
In an effort to preserve and prioritize my attention I virtually always block people who are rude to me but I also sometimes block people who are perfectly polite and could very well be lovely individuals because I absolutely cannot be trusted not to waste precious hours of my life debating them 🫠