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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋

@canadacheryl.bsky.social

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#Woke #Liberal, #pro-democracy, #pro-choice, #feminist, formerly lived and worked in USA, #anti-fascism, anti-MAGAt, political junkie, #cancersurvivor, #worldtraveller, Nana to 5 precious little ones, #VancouverIsland, #BC, #Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · Nov 17

I used to live and work in USA. We loved life in Greenville DE and Chadds Ford PA. Leaving was sad, but thankfully our move back to Canada was:
- prior to my cancer diagnosis (8 yrs of treatments haven’t cost us a dime… yay free healthcare!)
- prior to retiring
- prior to the insane Trump shitstorm

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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 18h

It’s #BannedBooksWeek! Author Nikkolas Smith reminds us that when they ban books about justice and equality, they reveal their fear—not our failure.
The more they push back, the more creators will rise.
Art is resistance.
Stories are power.
Keep the fight alive.

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · 12h

A grand jury in Virginia indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday. James was charged with one count of bank fraud and one count of making false statements to a financial institution.

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 20h

Any day now he will invoke the Insurrection Act. It’s alarmingly imminent. 🚨‼️

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

"The president has already announced that if a judge does rule against him, he will invoke the Insurrection Act and then continue the military deployments. This is where we’ve been headed since January 6, 2021.”

Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

We aren’t at the worst-case scenario yet. But if you squint, you can see it looming out there, just over the horizon.

www.thebulwark.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21h

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

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20h

In addition to gifting Trump a jet, Qatar is building a $5.5 billion Trump golf resort in Qatar, are major investors in two Trump developments in Saudi and Oman, among other things.

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Bridget McGrath 🇨🇦 @o-tawdry.bsky.social · 23h

We can't "integrate" with a country that violates human rights & international laws.

Stay in your fascist lane,🇺🇸. Keep out of Canada!

Canadians need to call their local MP as well as Carney to voice their concerns over this proposed 🇺🇸 foothold into 🇨🇦.
#uspoli #cdnpoli

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

U.S. bill calls for more integration between Canadian, American border agents | CBC News

The U.S. Congress is being asked to adopt legislation that could lead to Canada and the United States further integrating their enforcement of the border — including allowing U.S. officers to more fre...

www.cbc.ca

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 23h

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

BREAKING: Trump Admin 'Seriously' Considering Using the Insurrection Act, Reports NBC

President Trump is "seriously" considering invoking the Insurrection Act in order to more easily deploy National Guard troops to major cities as part of crime crackdown, NBC reported on Wednesday

www.mediaite.com

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 21h

Yesterday: Trump bragged, "We took the freedom of speech away."

Today: New reporting on Trump's plans to go after opposition groups.

In 9 days: We mount the largest peaceful protest in modern history to say, loud and clear, that America has no king.

nokings.org

USA Today: 'We took the freedom of speech away:' Trump on flag burning protection, First Amendment

Reuters: Trump's war on the left: inside the plan to investigate liberal groups

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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 1d

Indigenous woman from Canada Mskwaasin Agnew is among 6 Canadians abducted by Israel while on a legal humanitarian aid mission @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @canadaboatgaza.bsky.social

This is in violation of International law.

We call on Canada to ACT NOW @mark-carney.bsky.social

#BreakTheSiege

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David Whitehouse @drubbing.bsky.social · 1d

Reich tells it: The 4-pt. plan to invoke the Insurrection Act and take over the midterms. Peace to all. Remain peaceful throughout this sickening period. Thank you.
youtube.com/shorts/31X8v...

The Real Reason Trump Wants To Invade Chicago and Portland

YouTube video by Robert Reich

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 1d

This was never about deporting criminals. It’s about Stephen Miller’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.

Tweet from Alex Tabarrok reads:
“Sergio Garcia, celebrated Chef who came to the US before ICE even existed. Deported after 36 years.
The picture tells you a lot about the decline of the Republican party.”
Attached photo shows Sergio Garcia standing with Laura and George W. Bush outdoors. The photo is signed: “To Sergio Garcia, With best wishes – George & Laura Bush.”

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 1d

There is reading @jackjenkins.me's article where he describes a minister being hit in the head with pepper balls by agents on a roof while praying, and you hope that this is an exaggeration. But seeing it verifies that it is exactly as described.

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Cat meow 📎 @granma11.bsky.social · 1d

Hello WH …. ANTIFA means anti facists…. WE ARE ALL ANTIFA …. So go do your freaking jobs you were elected for !!!!!

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 1d

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ScubaSuzyQ💙🦋 @susanmcgraw88.bsky.social · 1d

This is Reverend David Black, minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Chicago. He was shot seven times in the head with chemical pellets by ICE agents as he was pleading and praying at a protest.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1 #DV1 #Pinks

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Am I reading this right? Did Trump say he took freedom of speech away?

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 1d

Flagging Trump this afternoon:

"We took the freedom of speech away. Because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech — but what has happened is, when they burn a flag it, agitates and irritates crowds."

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1d

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Richard Power @wyrdsofpower.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein’s girls. Here’s what’s in them - @michaelwolffnyc.bsky.social

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💫⭐️N. Jules⭐️💫 @northjules.bsky.social · 3d

Never thought this would be happening in America!

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 3d

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

www.alternet.org

The Supreme Court is headed toward a radically new vision of unlimited presidential power

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MLS1 @mls1.bsky.social · 2d

"Putin's likely successor, Nikolai Patrushev, made unprecedented admission: Trump "relied on certain forces" to win and has "obligations" to fulfill. Coming from Putin's closest advisor, this was a public call to account. Message: comply with Putin's wishes…"

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BOMBSHELL CLAIM: TRUMP DID NOT WIN 2024, ELECTION MANIPULATED

YouTube video by David Pakman Show

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 2d

There it is. “Trump told reporters on Monday that he would consider utilizing the Insurrection Act…to sidestep any court rulings restricting his orders to send Guard troops into cities over the objections of local and state officials.” 10/7/25 … 1/ www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 2d

Trump loves this kind of indignant rebuttal, which is why we see so much of it, especially from the women in his administration.

They evade the question and attack the questioner. The WH press secretary uses this tactic all the time.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 2d

Benjamin Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians on American television, under the name "Ben Netay" - in the 1970s.

Netanyahu called for the extermination of all Palestinians at massive racist rallies

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Laura76574 @laura76574.bsky.social · 2d

www.alternet.org/trump-insurr...

Trump’s wet dream.

Inside Trump's plan to have red attack blue states — using a 200-year-old law

The direction we’re going is either martial law or civil war. Americans from so-called “red” states, with the backing of their Republican governors and legislatures, are on the brink of using lethal f...

www.alternet.org

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