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ruthko

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A suffering progressive Canadian in a conservative province. Do NOT judge me by my spelling (or grammar). I do have other talents, I just have to remember what they are... #ElbowsUp #WomenAgainstPoilievre #StandWithUkraine 🌻 💉10x 😷🖖

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 4h

😢💔 #RIP #DianeKeaton

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Madonna Lennon @madonnalennon.bsky.social · 13h

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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Bev Miles @bevmiles.bsky.social · 12h

KEEP up the BOYCOTT, Canada - it's for our own good health now!!

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 17h

More campaigning on the taxpayers' dime

Who paid for her flight to get to Toronto where the festival was?

Who paid for her flight to get back to Ottawa?

vm.tiktok.com/ZMAQScHuL/

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 16h

Today's #Wordle - This could be a gazillion options, but sometimes just going through the keyboard helps. 😁 Wordle 1,576 4/6

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 16h

#GoJaysGo #WANTITALL

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Lara @meowomon.bsky.social · 21h

#BoycottUSA

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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Govans Gal @bmnzgrl1.bsky.social · 1d

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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jackiefromtexas @jackiefromtexas.bsky.social · 1d

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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🌿Fern🌿 @itmustbebunnies.bsky.social · 1d

Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s I remember every US Thanksgiving seeing turkey recall after turkey recall

It really made me distrust US food especially meat and now it can only be worse 💀

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hiebzky @hiebzky.bsky.social · 1d

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Whoever this author is, he/she is not wrong.

#uspoli #cdnpoli 👇

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Frank @nickabbott.bsky.social · 1d

So sad.

Jane Goodall.
Jilly Cooper
Diane Keaton

All in one week.

God, now balance the books:
Trump
Putin
Netanyahu

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Diane Keaton, Oscar-Winning ‘Annie Hall’ Star, Dies at 79

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#RIPDianeKeaton

www.ctvnews.ca/entertainmen...

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton dead at 79: report

Actress Diane Keaton, known for her Oscar-winning performance in 1977’s 'Annie Hall' and her role in 'The Godfather' films, has died at age 79, People magazine reported Saturday.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 2d

🧪I’m just gonna put this right here.

Also circumcision isn’t linked to autism.

Via Nisha Patel on IG

Nisha Patel, MD MS, Dipl of ABOM...
@DrPlantel
Tell me you don't understand science, pregnancy, or literally anything about women's health... without telling me.
RFK Jr: "A fetus is inside the placenta."
Sir, the placenta is an organ that supports the fetus, not a freaking Airbnb that it lives inside of. Someone please take away his microphone before he starts explaining where babies come from

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TopKat_GlassDragon @topkatglassdragon.bsky.social · 1d

How correct they were

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aheadbyacentury.bsky.social @aheadbyacentury.bsky.social · 1d

Magats, do as I say, not as I do.

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm... 🤔 What does Robert Kennedy Jr. have to say about these vaccinations???

#uspoli

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Today's #Wordle - Wordle 1,575 3/6

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K a s s i e D e e @kassiedee.bsky.social · Jun 28

One of the greatest moments in television. #Newsroom #JeffDaniels

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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 1d

Hmmm... 🤔 What does Robert Kennedy Jr. have to say about these vaccinations???

#uspoli

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Joan Crawford @lesueurlucille.bsky.social · 2d

She’s a horrible person in her own right. Not quite sure how she won this. I think it kind of sully’s the whole spirit of the prize. And it’s even more disgusting that she dedicated it to the shitstain.

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THE HONESTY PROJECT @mobilityeleven.bsky.social · 2d

Buildin a ballroom with nobel peace prize money while thousand essential workers gettin furloughed without pay indefinitely doesn't adds up , sounds awfully strange lol

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 2d

Hey 🍊💩! You loser!!! Sorry, not sorry that you didn't get what you want! 🤣

#NobelPeacePrize

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado wins Nobel Peace Prize 2025

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

Page One in Boston.

@bostonglobe.com

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Matt-Man69 @matt-man69.bsky.social · 2d

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