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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 1h

Can you say “Snowflake”? I knew you could.

Trump terminates Canada trade talks again after Ontario runs ad featuring Reagan

Trump's announcement came after the Canadian province began running a TV ad that features a speech by Ronald Reagan.

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 4d

Wow! Over 7 million people at the No Kings marches yesterday and none of them stormed the Capital!

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 5d

Some shots from today’s No Kings rally in Taos

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 7d

Now can we send Bibi to The Hague for his genocide trail?

Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 9d

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Supreme Court turns away Alex Jones' attempt to block $1.5B defamation judgment

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 14d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 11d

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History is watching. And this time, it’s our names on the line

By Oliver Kornetzke [ Repost from April 2025] I’m not a historian. I’m not a Kremlinologist or a credentialed scholar on authoritarian regimes. I’m not a behavioral psychologist, and I don’t hold a…

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 13d

ICYMI

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13d

AXIOS: “Dominion Voting Systems — the voting machine behemoth Trump and his allies baselessly attacked after the 2020 election — has been sold to a Missouri-based company run by a former Republican election official…” 🤔 www.axios.com/2025/10/09/d...

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 15d

Disgusting

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Bruce Leonard @bruceleonard.bsky.social · 18d

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18d

"I am not pro-vampire and I am not anti-vampire. I am just trying to have an objective discussion here without using loaded words like 'kill.'"

I Am Just Trying to Have a Civil Online Conversation About Vampires

Whoa there! That’s a pretty extreme claim. Surely you don’t mean to call ALL vampires “blood-sucking ghouls?” Have you ever donated to a blood bank...

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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 27d

TL;dr?

ABC and Disney reminded Sinclair that they can charge Sinclair a preemption fee each time they don't run Kimmel, and can run Kimmel on a different station in that market, and if it's a long-term problem they can cancel affiliations

Super Bowl, ABC, 16 months from now

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · 28d

Sounds like something Great Leader wants to do to the press in the US.

China launches campaign to keep killjoys off the internet

Pessimistic social media posts may now be targets of a fresh crackdown by the Chinese government.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 19

Why does he still have a job while Kimmel gets cancelled?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Sep 19

Anyone else feel like a woman like this should not have the ear of the president?

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · Sep 18

It doesn’t appear they did a very wide advertisement and recruitment effort. Does that make this an EEO hire?

Erika Kirk named CEO of Turning Point USA after her husband's assassination

Erika Kirk had alluded to the possibility, pledging in her first public remarks after Charlie Kirk's death to “make Turning Point USA the biggest thing that this nation has ever seen.”

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · Sep 18

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · Sep 18

With the whole Jimmy Kimmel thing we’ve entered 1984 newspeak era.

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samprout.bsky.social @samprout.bsky.social · Aug 29

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The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins

Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Aug 29

If you want to get protected in this twisted, sick country declare your gender as a gun.

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Pjbarrett 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @pjbarrett.bsky.social · Aug 28

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

President Homelander

Donald Trump believes he can do whatever he wants—and his followers are determined to prove him right.

www.theatlantic.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · Aug 27

Bingo. @jenpsaki.msnbc.com nailed it.

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · Aug 27

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · Aug 24

World War II ended with Russian troops using tanks and rifles to negotiate their way into Berlin, a bullet negotiating its way into Hitler's skull, and an atomic bomb negotiating its way onto Hiroshima. But it did not end with Churchill and FDR negotiating to give Hitler big chunks of Poland.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 24

JD Vance: "This is how wars ultimately get settled. If you go back to World War 2, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

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