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Chris 🍁
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🍁😷🌈 Just a progressive gen x mutt wondering if someone could conjure up an asteroid & put us out of our impending misery (no lists please not a great fan of dms)
warning: there will be cussing
#SlavaUkraine #Accessability #BeKind
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If they don't do a forensic audit of every single tabulation machine in america after the NY case gets proven, the mid terms won't mean shit
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I wonder why they don't send 500 additional troops after there's a school shooting.
November 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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🔥POWERFUL AD ABOUT ICE AGENTS: “What will you say when your kids ask you about your day? A mask can’t hide you from your neighbors, your family, God… you can walk away, but the shame will follow you home.”
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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… out if they are saying things that damage the community or further the global effort to erase & criminalise the community. Like this post. And the reason you don’t do it, is that you hand over propaganda ‘wins’ to the other side. Fight like hell, but in private.
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Stand in solidarity with freedom around the world. Isolationism is an authoritarian's favorite weapon.
November 28 marks one year of Georgia's daily protest and continues resistance.

This is a photographic chronology of the past 12 months, captured by photographers working on the ground.

As of Friday, 28/11/2025, Georgians have been protesting continuously for 365 days.

🇬🇪 #WeAreEurope 🤍♥️🤍
November 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Senator Woo continues to be the adult in the Canadian Senate.
Why was 95-year-old legal scholar Richard Falk detained at Toronto Pearson Airport as a “national security threat”?

We need answers about how and why this decision was made.

#cdnpoli #SenCA
November 28, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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They are still essential heroes in my eyes. Thank you to our healthcare workers!
November 28, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Telescope in Chile captures stunning new picture of a cosmic butterfly
Picture of a cosmic butterfly captured by telescope in Chile
A telescope in Chile has captured a stunning new picture of a grand and graceful cosmic butterfly.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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🇨🇦 once a great friend of the 🇺🇸Always there when a helping hand was needed. We hid them and then smuggled them out of Iran, then stayed back at great risk, 911,again took them into our homes in Newfoundland and then fought and died in Afghanistan
They’ve turned their backs and shoved a knife in ours!
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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1000% accurate description today!
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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This one’s a new one for me - right in downtown Portland. Pretty gorgeous. #Photography #StreetArt #Mural #Portland 📷🐸
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Jamaican bobsleigh team captures historic gold medal at Whistler competition

Victory comes just weeks after country was devastated by Hurricane Melissa

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www.cbc.ca/player/play/...
#TheMoment Jamaica's bobsled team made history in Whistler
Shane Pitter and Junior Harris, members of the four-man Jamaican bobsled team, tell The National about the moment they made history, winning their first international competition at the North American...
www.cbc.ca
November 27, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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Stunning talent. I used to chew the caps
November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Absolutely correct. Detrumpification, trials for the crimes, then reconstruction.
No, we need reconstructionists, not moderates.
If Senator Mark Kelly does not win the Democratic Nomination for President he should be the Senate Minority/Majority Leader. He is what a leader looks, talks and acts like….
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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So thankful to EVERYONE who has donated to FOODBANKS, and Homeless Shelters
Generosity to our fellow man

But also this
This clip for the pure love at the Animal Shelter
Oh Gosh
Please ADOPT DONT SHOP
This is heartwarming
November 27, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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For the young out there: I grew up as a kid in this 1950s system (which was also an outcropping of Rosie the Riveter, after a fight to get women back in the home so men could take their jobs), and women shrivelled. THEY HATED IT. It was stifling, reductive, unfair, cruel.
November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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November 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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I know exactly what you mean about when it gets cold in BC, it’s a real wet cold. In the prairies it’s a dry cold, but we have that damn wind to contend with. Have a good rest of the day Tom!
PS - look what I just found on TikTok.🤭
bsky.app/profile/trix...
@jadetrapgirlts is a transgender woman on Instagram who claims that Charlie Kirk was a frequent customer on her OnlyFans page, and spent over $30,000. Apparently, you can only use your real name when you sign up on OF. She’s got the receipts.🤭
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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The MAGAs who suddenly pretend to care about African Christians being killed in Nigeria are the same ones who openly ridicule Black Christians being murdered by police in America & celebrate Latino Christians being rounded up, tortured, & deported from America

So let's talk Facts on Nigeria:

1/3
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
I saw someone post yesterday that canada was making historic investments in business to boost the economy & that it would translate into a greater economic strength for middle class Canadians

what he fails to understand is that Carney perceives the middle class to be the top 15%
November 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
take note America
November 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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My new favorite cartoonist, Clay Jones, who is recovering from stroke and still managed this!
November 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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The American mind cannot comprehend the enduring popularity of the Beachcombers
November 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM