Luke Côté
@locutusof.bsky.social
Former politico, former teacher, former forecaster, former Gambler, current cannabis professional. Autistic. #toronto
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There's a word for people who try to criminalize antifascists. What could that word be.....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US designates four European anti-fascist groups as terrorist threats
State department claims groups in Germany, Italy and Greece ‘conspiring to undermine foundations of western civilization’
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 AM
There's a word for people who try to criminalize antifascists. What could that word be.....
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Someone at The NY Times chose this picture and they deserve a round of applause.
November 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Someone at The NY Times chose this picture and they deserve a round of applause.
This is essentially exactly what Skippy and the CPC say.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
This is essentially exactly what Skippy and the CPC say.
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Parties or governments are willing to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights and to keep the courts from even weighing in on whether their laws would be constitutional or not.They’re not even trying anymore, writes @journodale.bsky.social.
Provinces’ cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign | Xtra Magazine
There should be a political cost for using the clause; unfortunately, there isn’t
xtramagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Parties or governments are willing to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause to override rights and to keep the courts from even weighing in on whether their laws would be constitutional or not.They’re not even trying anymore, writes @journodale.bsky.social.
Fwiw I have been on 14 straight trips on the Yonge line, some one stop, some union to Lawrence.
Every single trip has had a delay.
By contrast. When I was in Seoul I had one delay. One. Ever.
Every single trip has had a delay.
By contrast. When I was in Seoul I had one delay. One. Ever.
November 13, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fwiw I have been on 14 straight trips on the Yonge line, some one stop, some union to Lawrence.
Every single trip has had a delay.
By contrast. When I was in Seoul I had one delay. One. Ever.
Every single trip has had a delay.
By contrast. When I was in Seoul I had one delay. One. Ever.
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can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
If you have tenure at Texas A&M and aren't maliciously emailing the president a dozen times every day to ask if you can say this or you can say that, then what's the point in having tenure?
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:22 PM
can’t wait to tell my students in the middle of class, “hold on—gotta email the chancellor before I can answer your question“
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yeah I'm still not learning the word for when it's specifically against 14 year olds.
March 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
yeah I'm still not learning the word for when it's specifically against 14 year olds.
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"Donald Trump has advertised himself over and over as this great protector of woman...he had the chance to protect a teenage girl from a rapist and he didn't take it."
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social on the new emails revealing Trump knew what Epstein was doing.
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social on the new emails revealing Trump knew what Epstein was doing.
November 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
"Donald Trump has advertised himself over and over as this great protector of woman...he had the chance to protect a teenage girl from a rapist and he didn't take it."
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social on the new emails revealing Trump knew what Epstein was doing.
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social tells @deanobeidallah.bsky.social on the new emails revealing Trump knew what Epstein was doing.
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
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New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:11 PM
New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
“Big tech has made their choice”
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
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Its telling where the IOC will let claims of scientific rationality be applied as a cover for their bigotry and where it wont. I'm assuming they wont be barring athletes for having the advantage of being too tall or too much lung capacity?
November 13, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Its telling where the IOC will let claims of scientific rationality be applied as a cover for their bigotry and where it wont. I'm assuming they wont be barring athletes for having the advantage of being too tall or too much lung capacity?
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jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away
November 13, 2025 at 4:55 AM
jeffrey epstein won't see your jokes about how poorly written his emails were, but your barely literate friends also won't see them, because they can't read. fire away
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turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 PM
turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT
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As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
Perhaps one of the best testaments to America’s political decline is that if Trump goes down for this, the presidency will move from a child rapist to a couch fucker and that will be a discernible improvement.
Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people):
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
“i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”
November 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Perhaps one of the best testaments to America’s political decline is that if Trump goes down for this, the presidency will move from a child rapist to a couch fucker and that will be a discernible improvement.
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And what was Jeffrey Epstein's profession?
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
Karoline Leavitt claimed today that Trump was always "extremely professional" while hanging out with [checks notes] Jeffrey Epstein
November 12, 2025 at 9:20 PM
And what was Jeffrey Epstein's profession?
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
AND WHAT WAS JEFFREY EPSTEIN'S PROFESSION KAROLINE??
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Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)
November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Todd Blanche would have had these emails before interviewing Maxwell. Why didn’t he question her directly about her exchanges? Why did he not follow up when she said things that were onviously a lie?? This shows that was a performance intended to dupe the public and benefit her (and Trump)
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Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill.
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
November 12, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump is dining with top Wall Street executives at the White House tonight — just months after giving them a huge tax cut in his Big Ugly Bill.
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
Meanwhile, his regime is continuing to withhold SNAP benefits for millions of hungry Americans.
"New Golden Age."
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The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
November 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.
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is it good when a government official declares a religious affiliation to be fake because he doesn't like it
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
is it good when a government official declares a religious affiliation to be fake because he doesn't like it
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Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."
November 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."