InsidiouslyGrim
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InsidiouslyGrim
@insidiouslygrim.bsky.social
Shy. Weird. Scared of people.
Born on a planet with 4 billion humans and 330ppm CO2. 🇨🇦
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A fun game is to go into the Epstein email docs and search for the names of people who have personally made policy decisions that hurt you or your loved ones.
November 16, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Earlier this year a group of government and CAF officials, plus health care leaders, gathered for only the second war games involving Canada’s health care system since 1939. It was more urgent, and less hypothetical. And it became a question about national resolve. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
Can Canada’s health system survive if we find ourselves at war?
The country at war would be more than just the logistics of hospitals and ambulances and doctors and nurses. It could become something Canada has rarely faced: a true test
www.thestar.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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I spent some in Texas recently, looking at Trump's America a year(ish) after his election last year.
www.thestar.com/opinion/igno...
November 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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“The government is allowed to post real death threats on social media but you’re not allowed to post sarcastic death threats on social media” is actually a pretty apt distillation of power and violence
November 14, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Yesterday Canada lost its measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission. Like measles itself, this was preventable. We need to step up our efforts to make vaccination available to all. I talked to CBC about it live from @astmh.bsky.social:

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
The National | Canada loses measles elimination status
Nov. 10, 2025 | Canada loses its measles elimination status after more than 12 months of sustained transmission. U.S. President Donald Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and other loyal allies. Plus, the rac...
www.cbc.ca
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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In a rare case of Substack notes usefulness, I just learned that Sarah Kendzior (author of They Knew and a brilliant writer) got bounced from Bluesky. What the hell? new @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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globalnews.ca/news/1151735...

Health Canada warns of serious health risks after raid of Kelowna wellness clinic - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca
Health Canada warns of serious health risks after raid of Kelowna wellness clinic - Okanagan | Globalnews.ca
The advisory comes in the wake of a Health Canada raid at Ezra Healing in Kelowna, B.C.
globalnews.ca
November 9, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Cheney: He was the worst for a long time. Then he wasn’t.
November 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Everything Donald Trump is doing to Americans and in America was pioneered by Dick Cheney on foreigners and abroad. He threw the imperial boomerang
Neo-conservativism presaged Trumpian neo-fascism in several respects. It saw violence as a positive policy option not a defensive last resort. It held laws, norms and the lives of non-white people in total contempt. And many, many centrists either cringed in deference to it or actively collaborated.
Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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No notes, Emma Thompson. No notes.
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
October 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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The surveillance-to-algorithmically-enforced-belief-formation pipeline goes brrrrr
Brace for another wave of x refuges
October 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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CARNEY: "In fact, we have free trade agreements with 15 jurisdictions around the world, two-thirds of global trade. Now, some of those free trade agreements operate a little more predictably than others. No prize for guessing which ones."
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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My man, the stated policy of your administration is that Canada should become an American state, but Canadians running an accurate ad is a threat to American sovereignty?
Bessent: "I've read that Ontario is spending up to $75 million on these advertisements and it's propaganda coming across our border to decry the tariffs. The premiere of Ontario seems to have come off the rails a little ... this is interference in US sovereign matters."
October 26, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Legion of Doom to partner with the Sinister Six.
Amazon's Ring to partner with Flock, a network of AI cameras used by ICE, feds, and police | TechCrunch
Agencies that use Flock can request that Ring doorbell users share footage to help with "evidence collection and investigative work."
techcrunch.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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It is legitimately *wild* to me that Poilievre and his Conservatives are so shamelessly committing to being a Trump cover band.

I mean, do they not know that we can see the consequences of this exact rhetoric and ideology playing out in the US right now? And that we find it totally horrific?
October 16, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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democracynow

@miamiherald reports that about two-thirds of the 1,800 immigrants who were held in the ICE jail dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" in July have gone missing from ICE's online database, with their families unable to locate them.
October 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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People are really asking me why the mainstream news is barely reporting the closing of special ed dept at DoEd like all our big media companies aren't owned and run by absolute psychopaths.
October 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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For those not fluent in Catholic: refusing the Monstrance is not denying prisoners the Eucharist, it is refusing Christ himself, since Christ is present in the Monstrance.

If Portland’s blow up animals are the right language for Portland, this is the right language for Chicago.
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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This Is Fascism
October 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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Oh wow, I have never seen politicization of government communications like this
A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.
October 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Whaaaaaat?!
Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”
October 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM