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Al Czarnecki

@alczarnecki.bsky.social

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Toronto-based accredited (APR, FCPRS) public relations consultant and writer. Dialogue and good faith make for mutual solutions. Values: #SocialJustice #Democracy #Activism #CivilResistance #CanadaStrong https://www.topstory.ca/crisisteambook.html

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · Feb 9

Nonviolent #CivilResistance works:

• Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder - 12 min.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJSe...

• Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
www.amazon.com/Civil-Resist...

• Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict
www.amazon.com/Why-Civil-Re...

The success of nonviolent civil resistance: Erica Chenoweth at TEDxBoulder

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Graphic Granola @graphicgranola.bsky.social · 1d

ICE. IS. ALWAYS. LYING.

Bodycam footage shows ICE agent taunting Marimar Martinez before shooting her 5x in Chicago’s Brighton Park, contradicting federal claims that she drove toward officers.

The footage blows apart DHS’s fabricated story about the shooting.

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims agent said, 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney alleged...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 2h

ICE recently put five bullets in a woman for doing this.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 3h

Canadian humour is lost on some.

🇨🇦💪🆙The Wicked Free Speech of the North @viridiandragon.bsky.social · 21h

Y'all need to recognize when 🇨🇦 Canada trolls you:

PM Carney: Donald, you're a transformative president.

Americans online: He's kissing Trump's ass!

Canadians: Do you need a dictionary?

Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 3h

Spot on.

Faun Heather Harriman @bcpr.bsky.social · 21h

Professional. It is not about "feelings". He knows what he is doing. He doesn't operate from some emotions which are often unreliable. He is a pragmatic leader. We have forgotten what good leadership is. It is not slogans touchy Feely rants.

🟥‬🍁🟥‬𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮 𝓜𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼 𝓝𝓮𝓽🟥‬🍁🟥‬ @stevemilesnet.bsky.social · 21h

I have to admit here if I was sitting in Mark Carney's @mark-carney.bsky.social chair there would be no way I could hold my temper at that point🤬 People have to realize just how good of a leader we chose this time.
#Canada #Bluesky #Politics #neverthe51ststate #MarkCarney
#𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓜𝓲𝓵𝓮𝓼𝓝𝓮𝓽 #cdnpoli

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 4d

PP's subtle body language

vm.tiktok.com/ZMAuGmgvL/

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 4d

Same energy.
#NeverPoilievre

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 3h

There's nothing as beautiful as Canada's flag, what it stands for.
#CanadaStrong #ElbowsUp #Never51

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 4d

Dean Blundell 🇨🇦 - #cdnpoli @deanblundell.bsky.social
Take a minute. 👇

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 3h

The deluded ex.
#UnrequitedLove

Greg of the North 🇨🇦 @gregrgay.bsky.social · 1d

Carney’s side eye 😂, no words needed. #cdnpoli #USpolitics

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

No one in Canada will ever love you again — they know they’re living right above the madhouse.

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 1d

In a fiery statement, Eby called her out directly stating...
"This is not the Danielle Smith show!" #cdnpoli

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 4h

The carnival barker snakeoil spiel.
#Liar #ConMan #Tyrant

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18h

Still waiting on that health care plan, Donald.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 21h

A plainclothes officer sucker punches and violently arrests a man after he points out that another officer is deliberately stepping on a woman’s shoes while she is carrying her child.

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 4h

#CriticalThinking – worth reading twice. #Democracy lets people think about and choose their leader.

Greg of the North 🇨🇦 @gregrgay.bsky.social · Jan 1

More of this - “Critical thinking has seven critical features: being inquisitive and curious, being open-minded to different sides, being able to think systematically, being analytical, being persistent to truth, being confident about critical thinking itself, and lastly, being mature” #cdnpoli

Critical thinking - Wikipedia

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Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @www.thefinancenewsletter.com · 16h

IRS to furlough 46% of its staff and shut down most operations as part of the government shutdown.

Scammers pose as IRS agents during shutdowns because you can’t call to verify. They’ll threaten arrest and demand gift cards. The real IRS never calls you first or accepts gifts cards as payment.

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 5h

The #EpsteinFiles are #Kompromat and an air-to-air missile locked on Trump. His crazy sh!t is heat flares and aluminum chaf to flood the zone and distract.

Lock onto the Epstein files like a gila monster. A majority of Congress will not abide a man who rapes and face-slaps 12-14 years old girls.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1d

Trump would rather burn down the country than release the Epstein Files.

Over 80% of voters want it released.

Release the Epstein Files.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h

These are the indicative estimates of Russia’s combat losses as of Oct. 9, according to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 6h

“.. Foreclosure rates have surged across the country and are up almost 20% from this time last year.”

www.realtor.com/news/trends/...

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Boldly Go Forward @boldlygoforward.bsky.social · 17h

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 17h

🚨There goes the last of Governor Pritzker’s fucks. 🪦
He took that threat of being arrested to heart… and the people of Chicago are marching in the streets because the Chicago mayor and their governor have their backs. ✊🏼
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

YES! MORE OF THIS! Thank you Brigadier General Alan R. Gronewold from Oregon’s National Guard 🙏

Source: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

#Oregon #Portland #50501Movement

@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

And a photo of the Oregon National Guard General

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 1d

UK: Two hospitals — Royal Shrewsbury and Princess Royal in Telford — are reintroducing compulsory face masks in some areas from Wednesday, as Covid-19 cases rise. The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust said the rule applies to specific parts of both facilities.

Source: archive.md/u5TQw

Hospitals to reintroduce face masks in Covid spike

38 minutes ago

Andy Giddings West Midlands

The face masks must be worn in parts of the hospitals, including cancer wards, children's wards and the emergency department

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

🤞 @ericswalwell.bsky.social

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Al Czarnecki @alczarnecki.bsky.social · 13h

Walk is an investment. Talk is cheap.
Watch the walk.

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 20h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

JPM DESK: “.. the US budget deficit has not shrunk despite the tariff revenue.

“.. if tariffs are not being used to pay down debt or in some cases as a bailout (e.g., soybean farmers ..) at what point does the bond market react negatively?”

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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