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John D 🇨🇦

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Vancouver BC “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others” Winston Churchill

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · Mar 5

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 4h

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Time To Wake Up: America's Broken Democracy is Canada's Crystal Ball

The non-stop political dumpster fire south of the border isn't just entertainment. It's a flashing red warning light for Canada, revealing exactly how democracies rot from the inside out.

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 5h

Little boy plays soldier.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 7h

I would be 1000x more concerned dealing with an armed drunk than an armed stoner.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 15h

Do it again!

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 23h

It is, check out a MIG 29 then watch the video.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the “jet” was a Russian MIG 29.

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

That would have been spectacular!

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

From a Russian MIG 29 no less.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

#CancelSpotify

They are running ICE ads.

They aren't the only company, but I think we should make an example out of Spotify and do an economic boycott against companies supporting masked, armed agents terrorizing innocent Americans with impunity.

Spread the word.

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Canadian softwood is better quality than American softwood anyway because the colder climate slows growth and makes for denser, more durable wood.

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Jayne4Freedom @jayne4freedom.bsky.social · 1d

No surprise, they posted this last week.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for explaining.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Anybody know why this hasn’t happened yet?

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Time for Five Eyes to poke one out.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

They love to hate.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

“…if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.”
Abraham Lincoln

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

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🚨 NEWS: Colombian President Gustavo Petro accuses U.S. government officials of murder and violating Colombia’s sovereignty and says the Trump-ordered strike of a boat in the Caribbean killed a fisherm...

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

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I.L. Williams (@ilwilliams)

🧸🙈😂

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

The National Post is a MAGAt rag. There was over 2000 people in Montreal, not “dozens”. Fuck the National Post. Stop posting bullshit.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Hate is under arrest.

John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Some good news!

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · 3d

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds

www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @ABCaustralia

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there are 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

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John D 🇨🇦 @johnd62.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Bluesky

The White House is looking for fresh diarrhea samples for the president’s plane. Please send whatever you can to:

Donald Trump
1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Washington, DC
20050

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Daniel Donner @donnermaps.bsky.social · 2d

13/13 Full and complete list of grievances: bsky.app/profile/step...

Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 2d

The Declaration of Independence specifies 27 grievances with King George III and Britain.

Donald Trump and his regime have committed at least 20 of those same offenses highlighted in yellow.
#NoKings

An image of a list of the 27 grievances against King George III in the Declaration of Independence. Donald Trump's regime has committed at least 20 of them in whole or in part, condensed into the list below:
1. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
2. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation …
3. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing … his invasions on the rights of the people.
4. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; … obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners …
5. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice …
6. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices …
7. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
8. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
9. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
10. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution … giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
11. For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
12. For protecting them … from punishment for any Murders which they should commit …
13. For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
14. For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
15. For depriving us … of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
16. For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
17. For … abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
18. He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
19. He has … destroyed the lives of our people.
20. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us …

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