Nathan Smelle

Nathan Smelle

@natesmelle.bsky.social

🇨🇦Beach-dwelling Journalist, Author-‘Twas A Sunny Day: The Life & Art of Anti-Fascist Artist Arne Roosman, Restructured Managing Editor, Democracy is Dying in Darkness, Former Ontario NDP candidate (2018), BLM☮

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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Jesse Ventura: “If Donald Trump would have gone in the military, he would have been the guy that wet his bed, cried for his mom, went hysterical, and would be carted out in the middle of the night. The man’s a coward. He’s a bully. All bullies are cowards. That’s why they’re bullies”

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)
@axidentaliberal.bsky.social

Zuckerberg shut down No Kings on Meta Trump banned news outlets from the White House Now TikTok wants to erase the “Musk” documentary Billionaires wants to control our information, because they believe uninformed masses are compliant-and more profitable for them This will backfire Spectacularly

Alex Gibney@alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

hollywoodreporter.comTikTok “Permanently Suspends” the ‘Musk’ Film Ad Account, Raising Suppression Fears (Exclusive)Move comes just as Alex Gibney doc film expands to nearly 500 screens. Distributor Bleecker Street says it is appealing.

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🇨🇦👠OhHellNoCanada👠🇨🇦
@ohhellnocanada.bsky.social

Waking up or not, these dangerous dictators affect the whole world and not just the idiotic country that elected the dictator in the first place. Selfishness and recklessness from a supposed superpower country affect many other countries. We all suffer at the hands of incompetence by the U.S.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

The good news: More people are waking up to the dishonesty and incompetence of the Trump regime. The bad news: Dictators become more dangerous when people wake up to their dishonesty and incompetence. My Stop the Presses newsletter assesses the outlook 3 weeks from the midterms.

stopthepresses.newsBe optimistic about the midterms, but be unsurprised if Trump pulls a coupIt’s a dangerous time when a dictator feels threatened by rising public outrage

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Ilhan Omar
@ilhanmn.bsky.social

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

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MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com

Federal ICE agents raided Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar’s Washington-area home before dawn this morning. The Trump DOJ confirms agents executed a search warrant as part of a criminal investigation reportedly involving immigration paperwork completed by Omar’s late father when she was a CHILD. 1/

migrantinsider.comICE Raids Ilhan Omar’s HomeHomeland Security Investigations searched the Minnesota Democrat’s Washington-area home under a sealed warrant tied to forms her late father filled out when she was a child. No charge has been filed.

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Christopher Webb
@cwebbonline.com

Trump showed up in Texas looking for cheers. Instead, his rally turned into absolute chaos. Protesters interrupting, Trump supporters getting physical, shouting matches, and security scrambling. So much for that Paxton boost.

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Jack Todd
@jacktodd.bsky.social

Replying to @chrishouston.ca

The editors on every newspaper in Canada are overworked, understaffed and exhausted. For the most part, they are competent, committed people doing heroic work against the web, public indifference and (often) the owners. It's fine to huff and puff and make demands but the resources aren't there.

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James Talarico
@jamestalarico.bsky.social

When Jesus healed the sick, he didn’t ask for a deductible. When he fed the hungry, he didn’t price gouge for a profit. When the Hebrew prophets saw corruption, they spoke truth to power. When I take on this corrupt system, I’m doing it on biblical grounds.

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MeidasTouch
@meidastouch.com

🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the White House to IMMEDIATELY restore the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO reporters after President Trump barred the outlets from the White House. 1/

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.

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Robert Reich
@rbreich.bsky.social

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

Nathan Smelle
@natesmelle.bsky.social

The sun rises over the #WellandCanal and Garden City Skyway in St. Catharines, while a heavy cloud hovers over #Toronto 🇨🇦☮️ #Nature #LakeOntario #Sunrise #Photography #Ontario

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Nick Tsergas
@nicktsergas.ca

Ontario is still writing its rules for datacentres. But Ford's pitchdeck for foreign investors explicitly markets Hamilton’s waterfront for deregulated AI datacentre development, including "sovereign" AI opportunities." Sovereign AI. Built for foreign investors. With no rules. #HamOnt

Nathan Smelle
@natesmelle.bsky.social

#Science is what made America great to start with!🧪 March for Science, Washington, DC, 2017

Stand Up for Science!@standupforscience.net

The Trump admin has decimated American science budgets, taking away life saving opportunities, and the potential for groundbreaking discoveries. This is how you destroy American innovation. apnews.com/article/trum...

apnews.comTrump administration has cut or frozen $177 billion in grants across every state, analysis showsAn analysis finds that the Trump administration has cut or frozen up to $177 billion in federal grants since the president took office for his second term.

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Democracy Now!
@democracynow.org

Ahead of the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly, @oxfaminternational.bsky.social's executive director urges world leaders to take "decisive action" on multiple crises. "The world is torn apart by the inequality emergency, the climate crisis [and] the wars all around."