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@elijah5155.bsky.social

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Musical, poetical, computer geek 🤓 politically active, critical thinking, witty Canadian 🚒 🔥 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈...History and English degree. We really should learn from our history, so we don't repeat the same mistakes. NO crypto etc. https://m.soundcloud.com/elijah5155

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10h

If we let them do this to young girls in Alberta they will do it to them across the country. I am so angry how Albertan women have not shown up for them.

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Alberta’s new policy is forcing girls—cis and trans—out of school sports | Xtra Magazine

Gender forms mandated by Bill 29 are forcing families into tough decisions around whether to put their daughters in sports

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 22h

Only a government run by billionaires would berate its employees for not wanting to work without pay.

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KD📚🌎🌊🇺🇸 @kdnerak33.bsky.social · 19h

There is no leader of Antifa.
There is no girlfriend of the leader of Antifa.

They are creating imaginary people so they can justify going after real people.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans are 💯 responsible for shielding the pedophiles they once promised to expose.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for stoking civil unrest across the country. They’ve peddled in inflammatory rhetoric for years, outlawed anti-fascism, weaponized the DOJ, ICE and the National Guard.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the price hikes in everything. You can thank Trump tariffs.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the economic uncertainty gripping working class Americans. They’re building an oligarchy and you’re simply an inconvenience that needs to put up and shut up.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 14h

Let’s be clear:

Republicans are 💯 responsible for the government shutdown. They don’t need a single vote from Democrats to reopen.

Republicans are 💯 responsible for firing thousands of federal workers. They don’t need a single layoff to offset the shutdown. It’s their Project 2025 playbook.

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elijah5155.bsky.social @elijah5155.bsky.social · 15h

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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 1d

Fascist regime stuck on stupid.

GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

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GOP busted using South American riot pics to justify Oregon troops: 'We're bad memers'

The Oregon Republican Party is facing backlash after it shared a social media post about a planned military deployment in Portland using a fabricated image composed of photographs from South America.T...

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Fun facts: Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, has won an Emmy, two Grammys, and his production company won an Oscar.

Trump has won 34 felony convictions as well as civil adjudications for rape and financial fraud. He is currently protecting rich and powerful pedophiles in the GOP.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

Sending billions to Argentina while laying off Americans at home.

Letting Qatar build a base on US soil coz they bribed Trump with a plane and are investing billions in his personal business ventures.

Doesn’t seem like “America First”, does it?

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Jennifer Ouellette @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social · 2d

New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People against Severe Disease, Even with Prior Immunity www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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MeidasCanada @meidascanada.ca · 2d

Let's get over the niceties and start using the F word.

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DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve heard plenty of “journalists” ask democrats why they’re not voting to pass the CR and end the shutdown.

Why should democrats sign up to put ACA healthcare premiums beyond the reach of 20+ million Americans?

Btw, many of the folks impacted are MAGA.

Trump’s in charge. It’s his shutdown.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 3d

“The Canadians said that if you threaten to annex them again, they are going to burn the Whitehouse down, again.”

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Essential services are still supposed to get paid.

Trump and the GOP are using this shutdown, by design, to withhold pay, extend furloughs and create more hardship for federal workers.

Their goal is to outsource more services to Trump’s donors in the private sector…for profit.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

📌 Historic fascists with plenary authority:
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Stalin

Plenary authority or plenary powers: Absolute and without limitations.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

ICE isn’t law enforcement.

They’re chaos agents. Trump’s personal goon squad, recruited specifically to stoke fear and unrest in our communities.

They are a catalyst for him to claim absolute power.

Likening them to the Gestapo is accurate…and warranted.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Number of days since Donald Trump and the GOP shut down the government so they can protect the rich and powerful pedophiles within their ranks: 8

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

DEVELOPING: Convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster calls for the imprisonment of Chicago’s mayor and Illinois’ governor because they will not help him turn their home into a war zone.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 3d

Canada vs. America

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Faron Gidge @farongidge.bsky.social · 4d

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I don't recall campaigning on *more cooperation with the U.S.*??

a man wearing a red canada elbows up shirt

ALT: a man wearing a red canada elbows up shirt

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elijah5155.bsky.social @elijah5155.bsky.social · 4d

Facepalm 😏

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