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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸

@echowrites.bsky.social

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A sometimes fiction writer based in the Great White North. Currently in BC with eyes Eastward. 🩷💜💙 🏳️‍🌈 Billionaires are inherently immoral. Even the ones you like. Empathy *is* humanity. Never 51 *PROPORTIONAL RANKED CHOICE VOTING* www.fairvote.ca

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · Jan 19

I have just recently embraced the fact that I have always been (still am?) a swamp witch, and not a prairie witch as I so often declared from the swamp in which I used to live. I aspire to be a mountain witch, so that's where I am now, but I suspect I'll end up a bog witch.

I don't hate it.

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Watch with sound (if you can)

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 9h

Once you get away with an obvious murder, I imagine you feel invincible.

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15h

A reason why we got here is that the media stopped reporting facts and replaced reporting with making everything a reality tv show where contestants fight one another. It turned lying from a liability into an advantage since it would no longer be punished

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Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Nurse RoRo @nurseroro.bsky.social · 2d

Dear WH Press Corp
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Start demanding answers. Portland isn’t on fire. Chicago isn’t at war. Seattle isn’t thanking him.
ANTIFA isn’t assaulting ICE agents
Hold him accountable for the lies.
Refuse to ask anything else until he answers these.
Demand the proof

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 1d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

Failsons all the way down.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week

He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared

They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him

Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility

They kidnapped a disabled child!

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 1d

every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”

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A.J. Lagoe @ajlagoe.bsky.social · 3d

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours

www.kare11.com

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 1d

It's wild that we've reached a point where the President openly admits to firing people for political reasons, and his OMB director tweets about it like it's a victory. This is page one of the authoritarian playbook, happening in plain sight.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 1d

Trump has explicitly stated that he is terminating federal employees based on political affiliation. Data is currently being collected, but layoff notices have already gone out to employees at the Departments of Commerce, Education, Energy,

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

It’s updated to shootings at three homecomings by the time I read this, not two.

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

By the time I read it, it was up to three different homecoming shootings. 😓

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

“Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings ***
Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg” 10/11/25 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Six people dead in shootings during two separate Mississippi homecoming gatherings

Four people were killed and 16 injured in an attack in Leland, while two were killed in a shooting in Heidelberg

www.theguardian.com

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

The words “alt text for image” didn’t fit. 🫣

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Look at this A new crypto account was opened yesterday morning. 30 minutes BEFORE Trump's announcement of 100% tariffs on China, it added a huge multi-million dollar levered Bitcoin short position, per YF. The market dumped. The trader made a profit of $192 million in two hours. Unusual.

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1d

Ty Burns, an Oklahoma politician, plead guilty after attempting to gouge his wife's eyes out and ramming his daughter's car off the road and into a ditch. But not attempted murder. No, "misdemeanor domestic assault."

Must be nice to be a white male Republican.

www.wonkette.com/p/oklahoma-g...

Oklahoma GOPer Resigns After Pleading Guilty To Trying To Gouge Out Wife's Eyes, Kill Daughter

The party of 'family values' and 'law and order,' everyone.

www.wonkette.com

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe he thinks anything he reads on his phone is considered a “phone call“?

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

Aposematism works 😌

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Facebook “marked safe” alert altered to read: “marked safe from being attractive to Kid Rock today”

Echo 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 @echowrites.bsky.social · 1d

W/alt text:

I regret to inform you that you are being affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action. Please find attached a notice memorandum explaining the RIF and next steps. This RIF action does not reflect directly on your service, performance, or conduct. It is being taken solely for the reasons stated in the memorandum. After you receive this notice, you will be placed on administrative leave and will no longer have building access beginning Friday, October 10, unless directed otherwise by your leadership. Additionally, please save this email and its attachments, or forward them to a personal email address, for your records. Leadership at HHS appreciates your service.

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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