Wiarton Willy

Wiarton Willy

@wiartonwilly.bsky.social

hunting shadows, riding bikes, advocating for pedestrians and cyclists, predicting spring, and fighting fascism.

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n-th Russian asset alert.

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu

A wild story: the CEO of a US energy company whose plans were discussed during the Witkoff-Kushner-Putin negotiations resigns. Why? He learned that his company's main investor is a sanctioned Russian company, not the UAE www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

What a stupid use of technology. You think we have been unable make dogs bigger? We already have. Bigger. Smaller. Fluffier. More yappy. Faster. Stronger bite. They use to be wolves, so we can make them wolves, too. Still hard to control who they attack. Still difficult to make them stay quiet.

Amy Feldman@amyfeldman7.bsky.social

*NEW* Colossal Biosciences’ Ben Lamm and Anduril’s Palmer Luckey team up on a new startup to genetically engineer war dogs for the military. Warhound comes out of stealth at $1.2B valuation For @forbes.com with @iainmartin.bsky.social and @mhunterhart.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/amyfel...

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Brexit was a successful influence operation run by the Russian intelligence services, and it has taken the British political world more than a decade to digest this simple fact. Now it's important to focus on the fact that Nigel Farage was little more than their willing agent in the process.

bylinetimes.comSaying the ‘Unsayable’: Russian InterferenceAndy Burnham has broken a decade of establishment silence over Putin’s plan to get Britain out of the EU. Peter Jukes reports

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this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

Ryan Fonseca@ryan-fonseca.bsky.social

It's a choice (a bad one) to tell readers this driver "passed too close to cyclists" when there's video evidence showing he drove his car into them, made contact and hurt someone. Fellow journalists: we can explore the nuances of punishment for drivers without obfuscating their dangerous behavior.

Excellent arguments by Mark. The “non-partisan” excuse is tired. Trump isn’t just being Republican, and being a Republican isn’t what is wrong with this presidency. Being a criminal enemy of the state is not partisan. Like not treating a train wreck as a disaster because maybe they deserved to die.

Mark Jacob@markjacob.bsky.social

🧵🧵🧵 The NY Times posted a 15-minute video today in which I got to tell NYT what’s wrong with its coverage. They said they saw my critical posts on Bluesky and invited me to do a video with them to air my grievances. Weird, right? I didn’t hold back. I blasted their sanewashing of MAGA extremism.

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We also have a duty, except ours is to save lives not steal them.

Lanrick Bennett@lanrickbennett.bsky.social

✊🏾 @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social @ffsafestreets.bsky.social @cycletoronto.bsky.social @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social @tomflood.bsky.social ❤️ #BikeTO

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Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.comEU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressureThe Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

Supreme Court Justice doesn’t know the difference between freedom and privilege.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social

People too young to remember but the day after Obergefell, the gays invaded our Churches and forced them to close, as they remain today. abcnews.com/Politics/thr...

AI summarizes, AI-written articles, realistic fake images, and fake video already dominate search results. The library of human curated science, technology, history and truth are being lost faster than the Amazon Rainforest.

Jarvis Googoo@jarvisgoogoo.com

Amazing editorial cartoon re artificial intelligence by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

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Replying to @maxberger.bsky.social

Why buy a slave when the work is so cheap? 🤑 The class war is over and we most certainly lost. Surrendered. Handed it to them on a silver platter even. Revolutions have happened elsewhere but we’re just happy to legalize weed. 🌿 #RIPUSA 🇺🇸 😢

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Replying to @mutant21.bsky.social

The answer is right there. Break stuff. Break Donald Trump’s stuff. Break the Nazis, too. America doesn’t have until 2028 election, inauguration in 2029, then appointments, and bureaucracy. This government is the enemy of the people. No time to wait, and assume the constitution still functions.

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Got blocked for replying this but let me make this clear, if you hand it to Stephen Harper for anything you are absolute fucking scum or have the political memory of a golf ball. Here's a recap: > He threatened to ban gay union using notwidthstanding(Cdn bypass to Charter of Rights) 1/

Neovagina Evangelion@gammarae.design

Nonsense, he loves selling off parts of Canada. It's his thing. Well that and trying to help Viktor Orban. One never ever has to hand it to Stephen fucking Harper.

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So weird how not relying on a car is considered a luxury. Cities and States continue to force hostile infrastructure down our throats because.....🤷....no real reason. Just to keep us enslaved to oil and auto companies I guess.

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"likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years' Make no mistake, this is going to be an unprecedented and catastrophic weather/climate event Harvests will be especially badly hit Without wishing to sow concern, stocking-up in advance would be judicious www.theguardian.com/environment/...

theguardian.com‘Supersizing before our eyes’: UN warns of record El Niño approachingEvent is likely to be largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into a world already in a climate crisis

Who is Josef Mengele in this timeline?

St. John Barned-Smith@stjbs.bsky.social

ICE hasn’t paid for detainee medical care since October. Advocates call it the ‘death policy’ — my latest, w/ @kolyncheang.bsky.social. Spend some time with it www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

It’s like Canada is negotiating with a cartoon character. Nothing about it is serious or real.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Lutnick: "If you are gonna mess with the United States of America and its economy and you're right adjacent to our northern border, it was really disrespectful. When you treat Donald Trump disrespectfully, he knows it. And that's what happened. It's just sad the way Canada has treated us."

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Replying to @flickityflarn.bsky.social

Trump makes such a big deal about his signature. But no one challenges him about its value. Sir, why is your signature on the CUSMA agreement worthless?

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Soon the American military will be so starved of facts they will be sent into war zones without maps.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

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Replying to @mollytaft.com

Solar is cheaper, but I guess the AI billionaires and the Big Oil billionaires are in the same Epstein club, and need to support each other.

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Ford is an a$$ and I can say that because unfortunately he is my premier 🥲 he needs to calm the rhetoric down, it accomplishes little other than to let off steam and show how Trumpy he is. Trump thrives on attention, we should deny him the pleasure as we move on.

Ryan Jespersen@ryanjespersen.bsky.social

Ontario's Premier is inviting the President of the United States to kiss his ass. We check in with journalist @stephenmaher.bsky.social as Canada-U.S. tensions rise. What do you think of Doug Ford's strategy? 👀 FULL: rtrj.info/082526Maher 🎧 FULL: rtrj.info/082526 #cdnpoli #onpoli #RealTalkRJ

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Replying to @jimmydp01.bsky.social

CUSMA!! Trump already created a trade crisis, and Canada, the US and Mexico negotiated an agreement *which Trump signed* !!! Just another worthless promise from Trump. He hasn’t even attempted to explain why his signature on the CUSMA agreement is worthless.

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So maybe the U.S. and Canada reach a deal today. Okay. But how many hours until Trump gets annoyed at the way beavers build dams or Canada geese shit in upstate New York before he imposes 125% tariffs on Degrassi High reruns?

I would agree, but, taxes paid by California wine producers are funding fascism. Wineries may disagree with Trump, but they are still funding Trump’s authoritarian regime. Please help Canada to help the USA. Remove Trump. Sorry.

Sen. Adam Schiff@schiff.senate.gov

Canada's boycott of California wine is causing devastating harm to winegrowers. I'm urging the Canadian government to recognize that California doesn’t agree with these tariff wars, to lift these restrictions, and increase consumer options to strengthen both our economies.

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1/ A movement to break Alberta from Canada got caught using a voter app built by the donor circle behind Erik Prince and Betsy DeVos, publicly endorsed by the sitting US ambassador before he was abruptly recalled to Washington. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

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Don’t forget this. “Foreign actors are attempting to undermine Canadian interests by interfering in Alberta's separatist debate…” “Actors from Russia and the US are attempting to promote separatist ideas in what researchers behind the report described as a threat to Canada's democratic integrity.”

bbc.comUS and Russia fuelling separatist debate in Canada, new report saysResearchers warn that foreign actors are meddling in the Alberta separatist movement in ways that threaten Canada’s "democratic integrity".

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Replying to @angrystaffer.bsky.social

Donald J. Trump—a "master negotiator" presiding over endless conflict, a "master builder" undone by peeling paint, and a champion of "fair elections" that are fair only when he wins. He calls it winning; history may call it something else. Population: one oversized ego. Address: The Twilight Zone.