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Anne Panke
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Rebel-nerd 2.0 🇨🇦 semi-caffeinated sentient potato 📕 hoarder of books & small joys 🌟 staring into the abyss but making it fashion 👁️ awake-ish, aware-ish, weird on purpose…
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If Canada wants to fulfill its role in the fight against climate change, it must stop supporting new fossil fuel projects while partnering with petro-states.

Let's stop backtracking. Canada must show some climate ambition. #COP30
November 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’

@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Instagram’s former head of safety and well-being Vaishnavi Jayakumar testified the company had a “17x” strike policy for accounts that engaged in the trafficking of humans for sex.

“You could incur 16 violations and upon the 17th violation, your account would be suspended"

time.com/7336204/meta...
7 Allegations Against Meta in Newly Unsealed Filings
Court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.
time.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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How many GenX'rs watched this show.
I was to graduate in 1986

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The Friendly Giant 1986
YouTube video by robatsea2009
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November 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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The person Doug Ford has appointed to the Ontario College of Early Childhood Educators doesn’t know what ECEs do.

You’ll be surprised to learn that Julie O’Driscoll is a Conservative donor and former comms director for MPP Steve Clark, who resigned amid the Greenbelt land swap controversy.
November 22, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Amidst the Putin-Witkoff nonsense on handing Ukraine to Moscow, clear reporting as always from @michaeldweiss.bsky.social
macspaunday.substack.com/p/he-got-thi...
“He Must Have Got This From K.”
How a Russian operative used the American media to force a risible “peace deal” into existence
macspaunday.substack.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I kept thinking, “THIS will be the thing that ends his career!” And I kept being disappointed. It’s clear that the behaviour is just indicative of much deeper and much more systemic misogyny….
Will Trump Finally Pay a Price for his Misogyny?
Accountability, or its absence, sends a powerful message to young men and boys
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November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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“.. The United States is now a nation run by public servants who behave no better than internet trolls ..

“.. Trump’s sexist comments are an attack on women’s dignity — and by making them, he strips the presidency of its dignity too.”

@theatlantic.com
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November 19, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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Time for Ottawa to ready draconian sanctions against Alaberta under the Canada🇨🇦 Health Act.
This isn’t privatization by stealth: it’s all out war on Medicare.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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VIDEO: Don't ask Michelle Obama to run. In a candid talk with Tracee Ellis Ross, the former first lady declared America "ain't ready" for a female president. "You all are lying," she said. Her diagnosis: The electorate, particularly men who can't be led by women, has "growing up to do."
November 16, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Latest for @pressprogress.ca:

One day after @amnesty.org report confirmed what First Nations + doctors have been saying — that living near oil & gas causes all kinds of health harms — 🇨🇦 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social announced more support for LNG infrastructure in BC

pressprogress.ca/fossil-fuel-...
As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down
First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion
pressprogress.ca
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
We need to do this in Canada - let’s be on the cutting edge of human rights and privacy protection, rather than on the front lines of AI environmental degradation…
Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features
Amendment to law will strengthen protection against digital imitations of people’s identities, government says
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“I don’t know of anybody in my time that were in those senior roles that failed polygraphs…” said Bob Anderson, a former FBI executive…. “If somebody would fail those polygraphs in my time, most likely they would be removed out of the classified environment until that could get cleared.”
FBI Director Kash Patel Waived Polygraph Security Screening for Dan Bongino, Two Other Senior Staff
As the FBI’s deputy director, Bongino receives some of the country’s most sensitive secrets, including the President’s Daily Brief. His ascent to that position without passing a standard bureau backgr...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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German court finds Open AI infringed copyright by using song lyrics for LLM training. (This news via @publisherslunch.bsky.social , which notes that this is the first court case to end in an infringement ruling against Open AI) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules
OpenAI ordered to pay undisclosed damages for training its language models on artists’ work without permission
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I know it’s not a surprise. What might be a surprise is how many people really believed this narrative….
“Riots Raging”: The Misleading Story Fox News Told About Portland Before Trump Sent Troops
After reviewing coverage from the network and hours of social media videos that preceded Trump’s decision, ProPublica found that Fox’s portrayal of “Portland rioters” routinely instigating violence wa...
www.propublica.org
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 PM
US friends: Remember the names: Dick Durbin, Catherine Cortez Masto, Jacky Rosen, Maggie Hassan, Jeanne Shaheen, John Fetterman, and Tim Kaine. They promised to stand up for you, but chose to cave instead. Hold them accountable.
November 12, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I honestly had no idea that the Honda dealership near me paid their service department on commission. How is that a good idea? OF COURSE they’re going to tell you that you need more work done!
'You have to upsell them': Marketplace exposes how dealerships push maintenance you don't need | CBC News
Learn how you can stop wasting money on unnecessary car maintenance.
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
This is a powerful visualization of the bias of the hate-filled platform. All social media skews in these directions, despite angry rhetoric about the “left leaning media”
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Did you know? Every year, the Supreme Court’s nine justices fill out a form that discloses their financial connections to companies and people.

Our database allows you to search for organizations and people that have paid them, reimbursed them for travel and given them gifts.
Supreme Connections: Search Supreme Court Disclosures — ProPublica
Search Supreme Court financial disclosures for organizations and people that have paid justices, reimbursed them for travel, given them gifts and more.
projects.propublica.org
November 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting.

now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Have you seen the AI video Fox News thought was real?

@azzacohen.bsky.social explains how discriminatory AI videos target the vulnerable, especially Black women.
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Solid point - this is not reconciliation
Carney government cuts unfairly hit First Nations
Budget cuts to Indigenous services violate equality rights and risk legal, moral, and financial consequences.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
This isn’t a shocker, people - misogyny is alive and well in politics…
Video: Opinion | The Double Standard for Female Candidates
In the New Jersey governor’s race, the Democratic candidate, Mikie Sherrill, is polling well. So why is there so much anxiety? The journalist Molly Jong-Fast visited her campaign and found a major dis...
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM