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Yihla Moja/Yihla Moja/The man is dead/The man is dead🍉Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated🍉he/him #CallToAction47
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Only Ontario could have produced Doug Ford, who (especially now that Poilievre's downfall looks ever more likely) is likely to be the figurehead of full-blown Canadian mask-off fascism once he cruises into power on the highway paved for him by Carney
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Chuck Schumer ended our hope scrolling
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Anyone who has loved Shawn’s flaneur threads in Toronto will enjoy this - he’s doing it in Montreal!
My favourite hotel on earth (at least in Montreal). It is really a brutalist low rise motor hotel high a top of a concrete plinth. It remains gorgeous & perfect 60 years later. Heaven.
November 10, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Evergreen
with all due respect, senator. shut your Excuse Hole
Many feel betrayal and frustration, and the feelings are hot right now.

I get it. I have my own feelings.

🧵
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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If the turncoat 8 are what happens when you have a big tent, time to get a smaller tent
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Wait until the Democrats find some way to help block the Epstein file release.
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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ok so now I understand why Shaheen and gang were so desperate to end the shutdown
November 10, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.
The caucus meeting was just to orchestrate who would fall on the sword but not be up for a vote in 2026.
so currently defectors are:

Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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you can see why fascism is so popular when the other option is The Loser Party That Loves Losing
November 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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Seven years ago
November 10, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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"Yet in court, Hillel pivoted to the opposite posture, arguing that the stickers were protected political satire, important commentary, the kind of expression anti-SLAPP law shields. Given this, and the fact Hillel never condemned the speech, it seems they supported and defended Dobrer’s actions."
November 10, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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"Let's face it, they've moved over closer to the Progressive Conservatives of the past."

Is this really who progressives thought they were voting for?

#CdnPoli #BaitAndSwitch
JOHNS: “I don't think it was a far stretch for Chris d'Entremont to cross over and join the Liberal Party of today, ’cause Carney's running on...a Progressive Conservative agenda. And the Conservative Party has certainly pivoted back to more the Reform Party of the past and a MAGA-type party.”
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.
Hochul a 'no' on Mamdani's free bus plan; 'yes' on statewide universal childcare
The price tag to expand a universal childcare program statewide is $15B.
ny1.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
But what if we use his incompetence for *good* this time
me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider

today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted

should have known better
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Really great interview, should be watched. The known benefits for bike lanes on main streets are being espoused by those retailers who work on those streets. Excellent.
WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.
Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes
Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...
toronto.citynews.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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The Mamdani political sign generator is kinda fun https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/for.html
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already

www.mta.info/article/f-m-...
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free
October 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Look I get publishing a broad spectrum of opinions but I already fed them this morning
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Hon hon hon
November 7, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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@algreen.house.gov please don't do this. It's kind of a dick move and it's time to build the Democratic bench.
November 6, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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With the Major Projects Office wiping out environmental protections, with a spending freeze, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is what kicked off Idle-No-More, no? This isn't Trudeau light, it's Harper plus.
November 5, 2025 at 12:07 AM