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anne-mi.bsky.social
@anne-mi.bsky.social
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Fighting disinformation and greed. In English et en français.
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raindiercks.bsky.social
Every citizen in the USA should be obliged to read or watch

The Handmaid's Tale.

Now.

Oh. Damn it. It's already banned in parts of the USA.

When a book becomes alive. Too quick.

It seems it's already too late for a rising. But I do hope I am wrong.

#TheHandMaidsTale #USA #Facism
April 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data The IT team met to discuss insider threats - namely, the DOGE engineers, whose activities it had little insight into or control over. "We had no idea what they did," he explained. Those conversations are reflected in his official disclosure. They eventually launched a formal breach investigation, according to the disclosure, and prepared a request for assistance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). However, those efforts were disrupted without an explanation, Berulis said. That was deeply troubling to Berulis, who felt he needed help to try to get to the bottom of what happened and determine what new vulnerabilities might be exploited as a result. In the days after Berulis and his colleagues prepared a request for CISAs help investigating the breach, Berulis found a printed letter in an envelope taped to his door, which included threatening language, sensitive personal information and overhead pictures of him walking his dog, according to the cover letter attached to his official disclosure. It's unclear who sent it, but the letter made specific reference to his decision to report the breach. Law enforcement is investigating the letter. While investigating the data taken from the agency, Berulis tried to determine its ultimate destination. But whoever had exfiltrated it had disguised its destination too, according to the disclosure. DOGE staffers had permission to access the system, but removing data is another matter. Berulis says someone appeared to be doing something called DNS tunneling to prevent the data exfiltration from being detected. He came to that conclusion, outlined in his disclosure, after he saw a traffic spike in DNS requests parallel to the data being exfiltrated, a spike 1,000 times the normal number of requests. When someone uses this kind of technique, they set up a domain name that pings the target system with questions or queries. But they configure the compromised server so that it answers those DNS queries by sending out packets of data, allowing the attacker to steal information that has been broken down into smaller chunks. "We've seen Russian threat actors do things like this on U.S. government systems," said one threat intelligence researcher who requested anonymity because they weren't authorized to speak publicly by their employer. That analyst, who has extensive experience hunting nation-state-sponsored hackers, reviewed the whistleblower's technical claims. Within minutes after DOGE accessed the NLRB's systems, someone with an IP address in Russia started trying to log in, according to Berulis' disclosure. The attempts were "near real-time," according to the disclosure. Those attempts were blocked, but they were especially alarming. Whoever was attempting to log in was using one of the newly created DOGE accounts - and the person had the correct username and password, according to Berulis. While it's possible the user was disguising their location, it's highly unlikely they'd appear to be coming from Russia if they wanted to avoid suspicion, cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR explained. On their own, a few failed login attempts from a Russian IP address aren't a smoking gun, those cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR said. But given the overall picture of activity, it's a concerning sign that foreign adversaries may already be searching for ways into government systems that DOGE engineers may have left exposed. "When you move fast and break stuff, the opportunity to ride the coattails of authorized access is ridiculously easy to achieve," said Handorf. What he means is that if DOGE engineers left access points to the network open, it would be very easy for spies or criminals to break in and steal data behind DOGE. He said he could also see foreign adversaries trying to recruit or pay DOGE team members for access to sensitive data. "It would not surprise me if DOGE is accidentally compromised."
April 16, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
This country is becoming unrecognizable. What we’re seeing is state-funded fear. We’ve warned people: keep filming, go live on social media so these moments are documented and shared. This wasn’t a case involving masked ICE agents—but that’s happening too.
April 15, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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canadian-critic.bsky.social
Dont be fooled. They will remove a womans right to choose.
April 16, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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rickylongthread.bsky.social
No Doubt In My Mind!
Criminal Behavior Continues…
April 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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johnfugelsang.bsky.social
This isn't The Art of the Deal.
It's insider trading with a bad comb-over.

Step 1: Tank the Market, Scare the Non-Millionaires
Step 2: Let the Aristocrats Feast
Step 3: Flip, but say ‘Winning’
Step 4: Pretend None of This Ever Happened & Get Your Media Dregs To Do The Same

Rinse, Enrich, Repeat.
April 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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neelkumar3050.bsky.social
This is for us Canadiens. Wake the hell up. 38% are still supporting this mini me Trump buffoon. He is doing exactly the same thing that Trump did in his campaign. And if he is elected it will be a sorry day for the population of Canada. Four questions with no follow ups??
youtu.be/YA1Q63iJG2A?...
Pierre Poilievre Is Afraid
YouTube video by Steve Boots
youtu.be
April 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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ratlantica.bsky.social
Poilievre is dangerous to Canada's sovereignty

India’s Meddling in the Poilievre Campaign Reflects a Dangerous New Alliance

thewalrus.ca/indias-meddl...
India’s Meddling in the Poilievre Campaign Reflects a Dangerous New Alliance | The Walrus
The world’s authoritarians are networking. That’s bad news for Canada’s sovereignty
thewalrus.ca
April 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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itssamg.bsky.social
Poilievre won’t let journalists travel with him, won’t take questions from certain media, won’t take follow-up questions, won’t get a security clearance

This is not the behaviour of a trustworthy statesman who can be trusted to lead Canada

We need to make sure he doesn’t get the chance
April 10, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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fightforaunion.bsky.social
The problem is sociopathic corporate greed. 🧐
April 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king, the palace becomes a circus. -Turkish proverb
April 8, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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dawnalene.bsky.social
Carney is an imperfect human with an impressive economics CV. I believe his intentions are sincere and he loves Canada. Poilievre is an unoriginal Harper creation that will sell Canada for parts.

The purity political pundits can pound sand.
April 8, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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inglorious.bsky.social
Here's an alt-text version for the visually-impaired #AccessibleSky users. Please #UseAltText.
White text on red background that reads: BEWARE OF FAKE NEWS- LITERALLY. TODAY, A DEEPFAKE VIDEO OF MARK CARNEY STARTED MAKING THE ROUNDS, SHOWING HIM SUPPOSEDLY ANNOUNCING A PLAN TO ALIGN CANADA'S FINANCIAL SYSTEMS WITH CHINA. IT'S COMPLETELY FAKE. THE VOICE, THE CADENCE. THE MESSAGE-ALL AI-GENERATED AND DESIGNED TO CONFUSE, MISLEAD, AND MANIPULATE. AND GUESS WHO'S BEHIND PUSHING THIS GARBAGE? CANADA PROUD. FACT CHECK: • CANADA PROUD IS RUN BY JEFF BALLINGALL, A CONSERVATIVE STRATEGIST WHO CREATED ONTARIO PROUD AND BC PROUD. THESE AREN'T GRASSROOTS MOVEMENTS-THEY'RE WELL- FUNDED PROPAGANDA PIPELINES BUILT TO SMEAR OPPONENTS AND FLOOD YOUR FEED WITH RAGE BAIT AND FALSEHOODS. • THEY'RE PART OF THE SAME OPERATION POILIEVRE'S TEAM HAS BROUGHT ON TO RUN DIGITAL COMMS. • IF THEY HAVE TO DEEPFAKE THEIR WAY > VICTORY, WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU ABOUT THEIR IDEAS? WE NEED TO: ✔REPORT DISINFORMATION ✓ TALK TO OUR NETWORKS ✓ CALL OUT FAKE NARRATIVES WHEN WE HEM
April 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
anne-mi.bsky.social
BEWARE of fake news!!
April 8, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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hankgreen.bsky.social
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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krassenstein.bsky.social
April 6, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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maurar.bsky.social
Keep posting
April 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.
April 5, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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hilarywollis.bsky.social
⬇️ Read about Poilievre’s aggressive staff restricting viewpoints and access for Canadian journalists
⬇️ here ⬇️

And this is when Poilievre and CPC is trying to get people to LIKE HIM!!
Imagine how hostile and obstructionist his govt would be?!
canadianjournalist.ca/poilievre-ca...
Poilievre Stop in Fish Plant Smells | Canadian Journalist
Conservative Party of Canada election campaign stop in a fishing village in Newfoundland turns into a spectacle of party animosity towards media coverage.
canadianjournalist.ca
April 5, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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peipolitical.bsky.social
CBC's Evan Dyer reports on how Pierre Poilievre is treating #cdnmedia on the campaign trail. Poilievre's staffers pushing reporters around. Denying access. Not allowing questions. #cdnpoli
April 5, 2025 at 8:45 AM
anne-mi.bsky.social
Message control by the Poilievre team: this lack of transparency in itself should be seen as a HUGE red flag: www.facebook.com/share/r/1DtC...
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April 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM
anne-mi.bsky.social
The absurdity of all this is staggering.
April 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
anne-mi.bsky.social
It’s happening
March 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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youranona.bsky.social
The best way to prevent Trump’s influence from seeping into Canadian politics is to confront authoritarian rhetoric early, reinforce democratic norms, and reject imported polarization. Complacency is complicity in erosion.
March 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM