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Erika McCallion

@erkmcc.bsky.social

Toronto / Mississauga, Canada | she/her | politicizes everything and generally leftist | Political Organizer | Dyslexic, ADHD | obsessed with Podcasts | only child still learning to share

1,448 Followers  |  5,588 Following  |  143 Posts  |  Joined: 08.07.2023  |  2.142

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The CBS takeover by Larry Ellison and Bari Weiss is the most foreboding move in a while, and Iโ€™m not saying that lightly.

It will have an effect on the 2026 elections: CBS will now lie to people and normies will believe it.

07.10.2025 12:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2008    ๐Ÿ” 581    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73    ๐Ÿ“Œ 34

This is the playbook, folks.

If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away.

Do not be quiet in this moment.

18.09.2025 16:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 48298    ๐Ÿ” 15355    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1301    ๐Ÿ“Œ 637

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

17.09.2025 23:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 22791    ๐Ÿ” 6308    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 278    ๐Ÿ“Œ 147
Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

Mark Zuckerberg presenting his Pervert Glasses for perverts

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

18.09.2025 15:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7798    ๐Ÿ” 1634    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 70    ๐Ÿ“Œ 92

Having proper ventilation and filtration of all indoor air spaces would mitigate symptom-free spread. So many good reasons for the govt to have a national grant/subsidy program to clean indoor air in every home, office, commercial, industrial building. What a missed nation-building opportunity!

17.09.2025 17:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Ontario public servant unions rallying against Fordโ€™s return-to-office mandates | Globalnews.ca Unions representingย Ontario public sector workers are holding a rally Thursday outside of Queen's Park to protest the province's return-to-office mandate.

Unions representing Ontario public sector workers are holding a rally Thursday outside of Queenโ€™s Park to protest the provinceโ€™s return-to-office mandate. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1143465...

18.09.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Ford government declines to say if temporary foreign worker program should end | Globalnews.ca Premier Doug Ford's office declined to take a position on whether or not the temporary foreign worker program should come to an end amidst growing unemployment in his province.

Young Ontarians are disillusioned by sky high cost-of-living, housing insecurity and rampant unemployment.

Doug Fordโ€™s message to them?

Youโ€™re not looking โ€œhard enoughโ€.

For someone with so much contempt for education, he sure lectures a lot.

#onpoli

globalnews.ca/news/1140573...

10.09.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
From Finance to City Council: How Joe Horneck Found His Purpose | EP.183
YouTube video by Kormans LLP From Finance to City Council: How Joe Horneck Found His Purpose | EP.183

From Finance to City Council: How Joe Horneck Found His Purpose.
This week on Chosen Life Podcast Mississauga Ward 6 Councillor @JoeHorneck! Giving an eye-opening conversation about local government, urban growth, and the future of cities.

youtu.be/5JPL7s9Y8lQ?...

01.07.2025 03:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mississauga is Always Evolving
YouTube video by Kormans LLP Mississauga is Always Evolving

Cities are constantly evolving.
#urbanism #Mississauga

youtube.com/shorts/wJTaR...

04.07.2025 22:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Milk Act to Bike Month: How Liberals are trying to slow Bill 5 with 4,000 amendments | Globalnews.ca Bill 5 is the government's mining legislation,ย which has sparked protests from First Nations leaders over a plan for special economic zones, where laws can be bypassed.

NEW: The Ontario Liberals have tabled more than 4,000 amendments to the provinceโ€™s controversial Bill 5 in a last-gasp attempt to slow its progress during the final day of committee and force the government to delay passing it into law. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/1121078...

03.06.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Ontario Liberal MPP Ted Hsu has filed over 4000 amendments to stop Bill 5 - one of the Ford governmentโ€™s most dangerous & anti-democratic bills.

This is about your clean water, air, and community. We will keep fighting until this government kills Bill 5 & gets it right. #onpoli

03.06.2025 20:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 78    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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New document reinforce that Science Centre closure was not supported by engineers The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roo...

The Ontario Science Centre was shuttered on June 21, 2024, with the Ontario government claiming that a structural roof issue made it unsafe. New documents suggest that the engineers inspecting the roof didn't agree. #OntarioScienceCentre #ONpoli #Ontario

16.05.2025 19:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 13
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Milton still doesnโ€™t have all-day, two-way GO train service. Whatโ€™s the hold up? โ€œA complex challenge,โ€ says Metrolinx.

A bit of a small explosive allegation here. The federal government was prepared to give the province $1 billion for 2-way all-day service to Milton. But while Doug Ford said he was โ€œ1,000 per cent committedโ€ to making it happen, Metrolinx has pointed the finger at CPKC. #onpoli

20.05.2025 16:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a โ€˜summer readsโ€™ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

20.05.2025 11:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13007    ๐Ÿ” 3840    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 776    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1889

During the vote, top bill backer Kirsten Gillibrand and chief opponent Elizabeth Warren got into a heated argument. Warren strongly believes this will pave the way for corruption, risk the stability of the financial system and allow more criming. Gillibrand argues this bill will protect consumers.

20.05.2025 01:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1751    ๐Ÿ” 222    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 86    ๐Ÿ“Œ 158

I canโ€™t recommend this enough.

UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses.

Itโ€™s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. Itโ€™s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

19.05.2025 22:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 571    ๐Ÿ” 221    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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One might imagine that algorithms like these could improve their answers to medical questions if they restricted themselves to citing the academic literature, rather than potentially partisan blogsโ€”that is, sticking to the โ€œscience.โ€ However, pseudoscientific disinformation campaigns are often laundered through the scientific literature itself, creating additional challenges for algorithmic systems hoping to do scientific boundary work. Prior reporting has documented how SEGM pays for open-access fees for authors publishing research congenial to their anti-transgender stances, so that their work will be freely accessible to the public instead of hidden behind paywalls. This also means, however, that the text of these articles is available to algorithmically generated search summaries like Google Search, which often cites their claims via publicly accessible text.[13] Two out of the three peer-reviewed scientific articles cited in the above summary on detransition had their open-access fees paid for by SEGM, of these, one suggests that existing research on detransition rates is flawed, and the other suggests it is higher than is widely reported. One of the articles was authored by someone whose only listed affiliation was SEGM itself.

Screenshotted text. One might imagine that algorithms like these could improve their answers to medical questions if they restricted themselves to citing the academic literature, rather than potentially partisan blogsโ€”that is, sticking to the โ€œscience.โ€ However, pseudoscientific disinformation campaigns are often laundered through the scientific literature itself, creating additional challenges for algorithmic systems hoping to do scientific boundary work. Prior reporting has documented how SEGM pays for open-access fees for authors publishing research congenial to their anti-transgender stances, so that their work will be freely accessible to the public instead of hidden behind paywalls. This also means, however, that the text of these articles is available to algorithmically generated search summaries like Google Search, which often cites their claims via publicly accessible text.[13] Two out of the three peer-reviewed scientific articles cited in the above summary on detransition had their open-access fees paid for by SEGM, of these, one suggests that existing research on detransition rates is flawed, and the other suggests it is higher than is widely reported. One of the articles was authored by someone whose only listed affiliation was SEGM itself.

As reported by the @splcenter.org, anti-trans pseudoscience groups often pay the open-access fees for researchers with friendly viewpoints.

It needs to be studied further, but this strategy seems to work for AI search. Many cited articles had their open access fees paid by an anti-trans group.

19.05.2025 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 124    ๐Ÿ” 34    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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My statement on the charges filed against me:

20.05.2025 00:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 33081    ๐Ÿ” 8939    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1150    ๐Ÿ“Œ 571
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State Department Designates WNBA As Terrorist Organization WASHINGTONโ€”Promising to stamp out the extremist movement as well as its sympathizers, the U.S. State Department announced Thursday that the WNBA had been designated as a terrorist organization. According to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the organization has as many as 156 terrorists spread across 13 known cells in the United States, and several of [โ€ฆ]

โ€œTheir radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,โ€ said Secretary of State Marco Rubio
theonion.com/state-d...

20.05.2025 00:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3481    ๐Ÿ” 492    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 94    ๐Ÿ“Œ 43
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Fordโ€™s Budget Delivers for Corporations, Fails Working Ontarians Againย  | The Ontario Federation of Labour Toronto (May 15, 2025) โ€“ Ontario Budget 2025, the first budget tabled by Doug Fordโ€™s...

๐ŸšจBREAKING: Fordโ€™s Budget Delivers for Corporations, Fails Working Ontarians Again
"Year after year, this government tables budgets that offer no real solutions for Ontario workers and their communities.โ€ -
@waltonmom
Full release: ofl.ca/fords-budget...
#OnLab #OnPoli

15.05.2025 21:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

The big โ€œwhy do you hate AI?โ€ Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but hereโ€™s the main reason I hate AI:

Itโ€™s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the worldโ€™s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

18.05.2025 03:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4586    ๐Ÿ” 1570    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 51
Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! โ€œWe can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!โ€

15.05.2025 20:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 31934    ๐Ÿ” 6676    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 290    ๐Ÿ“Œ 346
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Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been conditionally accepted in @cpsjournal.bsky.social!

Drawing on membership surveys of the League ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น and the Sweden Democrats ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ช, I show that women members are *more active* than men because they are more embedded in party networks.

12.05.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 30    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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I grew up believing that we had learned the lessons of the German poem and Martin Luther King Jr's speeches. We would all speak out if we saw democracy threatened and the rule of law under attack.

I will always speak out against wrong. I will always stand up for democracy. I will not back down.

06.05.2025 01:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25242    ๐Ÿ” 5959    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 645    ๐Ÿ“Œ 303

Iโ€™m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. ๐Ÿชถ

04.05.2025 13:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19890    ๐Ÿ” 1454    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 814    ๐Ÿ“Œ 150
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338 Sunday Update: Week Two Goes to the Liberals As we enter week three (of five) of this federal campaign, the Liberals continue to lead in the vote and seat projections.

๐Ÿ“ŠAs we enter week three (of five) of this federal campaign, the Liberals continue to lead in the vote and seat projections.

๐Ÿ—ณ๏ธ338 Sunday Update: Week Two Goes to the Liberals โ†“ www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...

06.04.2025 11:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 66    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The next Canadian Prime Minister should appoint Trudeau as Ambassador to the United States.

07.03.2025 00:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18802    ๐Ÿ” 2619    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 672    ๐Ÿ“Œ 283
Screenshotted reddit post: Can a clitoris be trained to read braille?

The average clitoris has around 10,000 nerve endings while the average finger has 3,000. So, one clitoris should be able to read braille better than three fingers or three times faster than one finger?

Screenshotted reddit post: Can a clitoris be trained to read braille? The average clitoris has around 10,000 nerve endings while the average finger has 3,000. So, one clitoris should be able to read braille better than three fingers or three times faster than one finger?

We've been receiving a lot of requests for us to answer this crucial question, and we are delighted to attempt to provide you with the information you need as to whether you can read braille with your clit.

06.03.2025 11:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3182    ๐Ÿ” 1106    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 60    ๐Ÿ“Œ 457

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