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king's co-op bookstore @kingsbookstore.bsky.social · 19h

"THE TIME IS HERE. FORGET AMAZON.
WE ALL HAVE TO GIVE UP SOMETHING TO SAVE AMERIGA FROM THE CORPORATE CONTROL AGE IT IS ENTERING. THEY NEED YOU TO BUY FROM THEM. DON'T." Neil Young on Amazon

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vaudree.bsky.social @vaudree.bsky.social · 1d

"We can shake our heads at d delusion of these MAGA nutters just as we laugh at d US Congressmen who wrote a letter 2 Canada this summer telling us 2 keep d smoke from a burning planet on our side of d border. However, when it comes 2 d state of the planet, there is plenty of delusion 2 go around."

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

The great derangement syndrome. As the world blows past the 1.5 degree red line Trump and Carney talk about reviving Keystone XL.
It won't lower tariffs on wood, furniture, steel, auto.
But it will be a massive carbon bomb to a struggling planet.
My latest.

substack.com/home/post/p-...

The Great Derangement: Carney, Trump and the Return of Keystone XL

Well, that was unexpected.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

A restraining order was issued YESTERDAY by a federal judge barring detention of journalists in this district unless they refuse to reposition themselves and are given adequate time to do so, or there’s probable cause they’ve committed a crime.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 1d

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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sassycpa.bsky.social @sassycpa.bsky.social · 1d

Today I learned that the collective noun for frogs is "army." Huh.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 21h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 20h

If anyone makes a amphibian Gadsden flag, I will be first in line to buy it

Liselle Baker @elles-bells.bsky.social · 22h

Courtesy of Ryan Cordell and Queer Media

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 2d

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

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Lekkerdog 🇨🇦 @lekkerdog.bsky.social · 2d

Congrats! That's a gorgeous cover!

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 2d

6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza.

Canada must demand their immediate release.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 2d

Alors que le monde se tourne vers les énergies renouvelables, @carobrouillette.bsky.social réitère que des politiques climatiques ambitieuses sont essentielles pour assurer la compétitivité du Canada.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 3d

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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

The artificial intelligence and robotics being developed by multi-billionaires will allow corporate America to wipe out tens of millions of decent-paying jobs, cut labor costs and boost profits.

What happens to working class people who can’t find jobs because they don’t exist?

AI Could Wipe Out the Working Class | Sen. Bernie Sanders

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 4d

Regime Collapse 🧵: Let's talk about how boyish methods of bullying & intimidation work to an extent & then you need other methods of control.

They're trying the same tactic over & over & it's beginning not to work on us.

Once you get dominoes falling, silly bluster won't put us back in our place 🧵

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 3d

"Eat the Rich (and nachos)"
Seen in Liverpool, UK

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Tyler Watt @tylerwatt.bsky.social · 3d

This just keeps getting worse. The Ford government gave $2 million to a dental brokerage run by a PC donor connected to the minister’s family.

Doug Ford’s Skills Development Fund keeps looking more like a friends-and-family plan.💰 #onpoli

www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Millions from Ontario training funding went to dentists’ brokerage with ties to then-labour minister’s wife

Dentacloud received more than $2 million through the Ford government’s Skills Development Fund

www.thetrillium.ca

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 5d

He's totally going to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell by the way.

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Lekkerdog 🇨🇦 @lekkerdog.bsky.social · 4d

"I fear that we will succumb one day to the erosion of our rights, bit by bit, until they are gone, until we reach a moment where there is no one left to defend our rights," Fraser said.

Blackfoot Niitsítapi 🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🐝 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 4d

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Chief justice says rule of law, judicial independence protect Canada from autocracy | CBC News

While Canada is not a superpower in the traditional sense of the word, it's "certainly a democratic superpower," Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Monday at a ceremony to open the Supreme Court's judi...

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 4d

The event was part of the four-day series, Standing for the Land: Taking on Bill 5, organized by Kingston residents with support from Treaty 9 leaders in northern Ontario.

Treaty 9 members bring Bill 5 resistance movement on the road

Members of Treaty 9 in northern Ontario brought their message about the dangers of Ontario's Bill 5 to Kingston to gather more supporters.

www.aptnnews.ca

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

ICE is firing pepper bullets and deploying smoke grenades in Portland, even though protesters are remaining in their designated area and peacefully dancing.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @leximcmenamin.com · 5d

Greta Thunberg, deported to Greece, says the targeting of the Sumud Flotilla is "not the story" @teenvogue.com — instead, she says:

"Israel once again violated international humanitarian law by preventing aid from getting into Gaza while people are being starved.”

Greta Thunberg On Her Detention: I'm "Not The Story" — It's Israel Violating International Humanitarian Law

“I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story.”

www.teenvogue.com

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The Pearson Project @projectpearson.bsky.social · 6d

This video we did a while back of Pierre mimicking Trump, and also saying he'll decide what rights you have hits even harder now that Trump is rolling out the military against his own citizens

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 6d

If you watch closely, you'll see they're doing this opposite an actual funeral procession.

Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 6d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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