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junko rei 🇨🇦 🐈‍⬛

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Here for rational, intellectual discussions. We don't have to agree, but lmk why. Facts, evidence, reasoning... kindness. Also, cats.

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junko rei 🇨🇦 🐈‍⬛ @junkv.bsky.social · Feb 10

📌🇨🇦 The line isn't between America-Canada... It is btn people who believe in rights for ALL people NOT based on biology or circumstance. Give everyone a chance to work for a better life; fight for environment because it is our future. Allow differences in opinion but fight for core values together.

Teresa ☘️ @teresaaztopa.bsky.social · Feb 9

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 9h

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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11h

No one is covering the GOP's scheme to rig congressional maps for 2026 as closely as Democracy Docket. It is providing gavel to gavel coverage of the ongoing hearing over whether the Texas gerrymander will be in place for the midterms.

Support its work by subscribing now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

Amazing what happens when you give the guy a plane

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dc2daylight.bsky.social @dc2daylight.bsky.social · 23h

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 14h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 17h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 13h

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

The corruption and self-dealing is staring you in the face. Hello?

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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 4d

Wildfires, floods, storms: Canadians are paying for a warming planet. Greens are demanding climate action to protect our communities, our homes, and our wallets.

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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 17h

Avec l'énergie éolienne et solaire qui dépassent le charbon à l'échelle mondiale, abandonner les combustibles fossiles n'est pas seulement possible, c'est nécessaire. Les Verts sont prêts à montrer la voie. Vous joindrez-vous à nous ?

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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 17h

With wind and solar outpacing coal worldwide, leaving fossil fuels behind isn’t just possible, it’s necessary. The Greens are ready to lead the way. Will you lead with us? #FeelGoodFriday

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The Economist @economist.com · 15h

Together the indictments of Letitia James, New York’s attorney-general, and former FBI director James Comey are turning the Department of Justice into a tool for Donald Trump’s score-settling

Letitia James is the latest target of Donald Trump’s revenge agenda

Federal prosecutors have indicted New York’s attorney-general

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 16h

Trump’s Justice Department indicts Letitia James. Troops deployed to Illinois and Oregon face legal roadblocks. And Pam Bondi’s testimony over Tom Homan’s $50,000 bribe raises new questions about Trump’s DOJ. It's been a big week.

Tish James indicted. Trump's deployments blocked. Pam Bondi goes on the attack.

Letitia James Indicted

thinkbigpicture.substack.com

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Kyla @boysek.bsky.social · 18h

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/10/w...

WGN-TV producer detained during ICE enforcement action in Lincoln Square

A WGN-TV video editor and producer was roughly detained by two Border Patrol agents on Friday morning during a highly visible rush hour enforcement action in Lincoln Square.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 18h

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 1d

Letitia James and James Comey have the best lawyers on earth and will almost certainly be fine. The fact that there’s a zillion stories about them and virtually none about NSPM-7 - which affects countless ordinary people - really says something about who the media writes for

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Nash Is Here for It @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 23h

It’s hard to award the Nobel Peace Prize to a guy that maybe brokered a temporary peace deal after he ordered 500 tons of nutrient rich biscuits destroyed instead of saving the lives of desperate, starving babies.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21h

MIT has rejected Fat Satan’s blackmail, making it the first university not to bend the knee.

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kamimagic @kamimagic.bsky.social · 21h

I found the agitators! They are 2 unicorns, giraffe, canary, panda, mouse, dinosaur, mouse, Stitch, and the frog! And they are right outside of Portland's ICE facility! 🤣🤣🤣

#ProudBlue

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 22h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

THIS!! 👇👇

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Maggie Tokuda-Hall @maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 22h

Today my daughter's preschool is holding a farewell assembly for one of her classmates whose mother has no choice but to self deport. The school is hoping it will be joyful in tone, so we might make this less upsetting for this 3 year old.

There's just no words for the uselessness of this cruelty.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 20h

there's a secret domestic terrorism watchlist if anyone cares
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/senator-wa...

Senator Warns of Trump's Secret Watchlist for Americans

NSPM-7 finally gets Congressional attention

www.kenklippenstein.com

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junko rei 🇨🇦 🐈‍⬛ @junkv.bsky.social · 17h

@mark-carney.bsky.social #values 📚
Pipelines = #strandedAssests

Was that posturing for the green vote? 🔥🌎🤮

🙏Say it ain't so 🥺

#sustainabilty

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 18h

The Great derangement syndrome:
People telling me to stop talking about a burning planet when our Prime Minister has a "nation-building" plan to build oil pipelines, repeal the tanker ban, kill the emissions cap.
Trump is a convenient excuse for the plant burners. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

Carney doesn’t rule out new pipeline to B.C., repealing tanker ban and emissions cap

As the federal government works towards its next batch of major projects, Prime Minister Mark Carney is not ruling out a new pipeline to the B.C. coast or lifting environmental policies like the tanke...