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Scott Piatkowski
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WRDSB Trustee (2018-2026). Board Chair (2021-2022). Affordable housing champion. Opinions are my own. He/Him.
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Thanks to @thewalrus.ca for agreeing to publish my thoughts on the proposed elimination of school trustees in Ontario.

#OntEd

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I’m a School Trustee, and Doug Ford Wants to Eliminate My Job | The Walrus
What parents will lose: no one to answer their emails, fight for safe crosswalks, hold the system to account
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Child detained by ICE: Since I got to the center, all you will feel is sadness and depression. All kids are being damaged mentally. They don't have schools or doctors. Serious situations happen, and there are no consequences.
February 13, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Politics is now driving the dollar ft.trib.al/hcdVOOF | opinion
Politics is now driving the dollar
The normal order of what influences the world’s most important reserve currency is breaking down
ft.trib.al
February 13, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Antonin Scalia’s death 10 years ago today gave the conservative legal movement the chance it had spent decades preparing for. Republicans were ready. Democrats weren’t.
The Conservative Legal Movement Was Ready For Antonin Scalia’s Death
The sequence of events kicked off by Scalia’s death a decade ago might feel improbable. But the right was waiting for its chance to capture the Court, and didn’t let it go to waste.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
Letter 1 of 2: WRDSB to the Ontario Ombudsman.

"On behalf of the WRDSB, I am writing to formally request that your office review the process being used to remove English Public School Board Trustees as well as the potential impacts of their removal."

#OntEd

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February 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Has RFK Jr. kept the promises he made in order to get his job at HHS?

www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
www.npr.org
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.

Will DHS retract the prior claims?
February 13, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Supreme Court of Canada annuls single-vote win in Terrebonne riding, vacating seat montrealgazette.com/news/canada_...
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Yes, you read that right. trib.al/0PgkIAC

Noem and her expired-special-employee chief adviser (and rumored beau) Corey Lewandowski are no strangers to a toxic work environment—the duo are known for berating their senior-level staff and demanding polygraph tests as exhibitions of loyalty.
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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‘Solely performative and in bad faith’: Federal union won’t participate in consultations on new 4-day office mandate
‘Solely performative and in bad faith’: Federal union won’t participate in consultations on new 4-day office mandate
A federal union is rejecting the federal government’s consultation on the new return-to-office mandate for public servants, saying it would be “solely performative and in bad faith.”
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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Build housing, not concentration camps
February 13, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Mobilize the NIMBYs of war
for better or worse, this will probably be the most successful and compelling argument by communities against ICE concentration camps being built:

(from this piece: archive.is/eGsQf)
February 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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incredible
February 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Fresh off a visit to the White House, Conservative MP Jamil Jivani is positioning himself as a key player in Canada–U.S. relations

“This is the beginning of something…not a one-off”

In our interview, I asked: does he have bigger political ambitions? 👇🏻

www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 13, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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NEW: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem joined election deniers in Arizona to rally support for a suppressive bill that would disenfranchise millions.

Noem also encouraged state election officials to use the department’s citizenship verification program, despite it incorrectly flagging dozens of citizens.
Noem joins Arizona election deniers to rally for SAVE America Act
“Your state has been an absolute disaster on elections,” Noem said
www.democracydocket.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
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"Trump praises veterans" - NYT
"Helicopter pilots were wounded pretty badly in the legs landing on the couple of machine gunners seemed to have make it through a thicket of bombs. But they were taken out rapidly by our snipers who stationed on platforms. Hellu-- actually unbelievable, helicopter platforms all the way the line"
February 13, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Narrator: "He lost the popular vote in 2016 by about 2.9 million votes."
Trump speaking at Fort Bragg: "The first time, I won but they say I didn't win the popular vote. You know I did. I won it by a lot."
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
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RFK Jr. Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schools https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/health/rfk-school-vaccine-mandates.html
canadahealthwatch.ca/featured 🍁
February 13, 2026 at 7:09 PM
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Dude regularly works for Disney, DreamWorks, Netflix and CN so speculate away. But this sucks no matter which studio is doing it, and gross to think some major movie this year is running with a plagiarized image from ChatGPT.
February 13, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Don't have a gift link, but hoo boy... somma these tech guys have brain rot as bad as RFK JR.

Mark Benioff made jokes about ICE in his company-wide speech, and they did not go over very well. This after he urged Trump to send troops to San Francisco.

www.businessinsider.com/marc-benioff...
CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes stir outrage in a pivotal time for Salesforce
CEO Marc Benioff's ICE jokes at a Salesforce event stirred employee backlash, adding to company challenges like stock decline.
www.businessinsider.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit"

(note the total silence from the crowd)
February 13, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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Behind all this is a deeper argument among Dems over how persuasion really works: The consultant class theory versus those who argue that the consultants are not seriously reckoning with the scale of today's information challenges.

I try to lay this out here. 4/

newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 13, 2026 at 4:16 PM