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Don Hoskins 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁
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Canadian, Proud to be one of the Owners, retired IT, world traveler, photographer, US politics junkie since 1968 BABA - Buy Anything But American GABA - Go Anywhere But America True North Strong and Free... 😎🍁✊ 🍁 Not for Sale! - The Owners 🍁
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Don Hoskins 🍁 True North Strong & Free!🍁 @djbhoskins.bsky.social · Feb 14
Well, Canada, did you stand tall for our wonderful True North Strong & Free today? Bypass that bourbon? Forgo Florida fruit? Ask if the restaurant buys Canadian?

It’s a battle for our country & we’re all soldiers… Our wallets are our weapons & our $$ are our bullets…

True North Strong & Free!

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 5h
We are going to leave you tonight with a simple reminder that it’s okay to punch (full grown) Nazis.

No debating. No listening. Punching.
Can I Punch Nazis?
A quick helper to determine if you can punch a nazi.
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rhodewarrior.bsky.social @rhodewarrior.bsky.social · 8h
Mane sure every kid gets a copy this year.
#sick #batshit #crazy #loon
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 8h
Call the demo company and let them know what you think. They are on LinkedIn and Yelp, too. Taking this job was a choice.
capitolhunters.bsky.social capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 9h
Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 11h
"ICE has also purchased spyware in recent weeks that enables it to remotely hack into smartphones and extract data, even if the phones are locked or communication is over encrypted apps."
ICE amps up its surveillance powers, targeting immigrants and antifa
Iris scanners, facial recognition apps, phone-hacking software and cellphone location data are among the agency’s recent technological purchases.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 11h
Poilievre is spiralling out because Carney uses too many big words for him to convert to a three word anti-slogan.

Maybe he needs to spend some of that $9M in office expenses he blew on an Oxford Dictionary.
#cdnpoli
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orlandovonvegas.bsky.social @orlandovonvegas.bsky.social · 5h
An insider detailed how Trump’s unpopularity makes him lash out even more: "Trump is doing incredible harm to the country & breaking things that are going to be difficult, if not impossible, to repair. He's also in physical, cognitive & political decline."

www.alternet.org/trump-no-kin...
'Failing strongman': Insider details how Trump’s unpopularity makes him lash out even more
President Donald Trump continues to claim that he won the 2024 election by a "landslide" when, in fact, he won the popular vote by roughly 1.5 percent. And Trump is claiming that the No Kings Day prot...
www.alternet.org
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h
Trump Is Literally Destroying The White House and America

Progressive commentator and host Kyle Kulinski joins The Left Hook to urge Americans, & the Democratic Party, to wake up and play hardball against a Trump Administration aiming for permanent power.

thelefthook.substack.com/p/trump-is-l...
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 7h
This is actually a perfect meme.

Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!
By the way - everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know. 32m
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🇨🇦Skeeters - Proud Canadian🍁 @skeeters2025.bsky.social · 6h
Hopefully America's future. 👍
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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 10h
It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 6h
Raskin: I heard speaker Mike Johnson refer to a hate America rally, but that one already happened on January 6th, 2021
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 7h
Today former President Joe Biden got to ring the bell on this phase of his cancer treatment.
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Blanche Devereaux @gingerkap23.bsky.social · 5h
Why would ICE need guided missile warheads 🤔
leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9h
Almost $72 MILLION spent by ICE in nine months in the “small arms category” alone:
New spending in the small arms category from January 20, 2025, the day Trump was inaugurated, through October 18, totaled $71,515,762. Most of the spending was on guns and armor, but there have also been significant purchases of chemical weapons and “guided missile warheads and explosive components.”
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Sammy Hamburger @sammyhamburger.bsky.social · 5h
Kudos today to Steve MacKinnon (L), Elizabeth May (G) and Don Davies (ND) for calling out PP on his remarks about the RCMP. That's what Team Canada looks like!! ❤️🇨🇦
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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 7h
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Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández @fernandez.house.gov · 6h
It’s been 31 days since Republicans showed up to work. Speaker Johnson, call us back into session—now.
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Lizzy For Democracy @lizzy2016.bsky.social · 6h
Flood the Zone with Truth and Facts...
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Daniel @danfrompasco.bsky.social · 16h
This is so desperately needed.

I could scream about how politics has become some data driven that we’ve abandoned places and states that Dems core values should resonate.

Politics are personal. Politics are local. Invest down ballot.
amandalitman.bsky.social Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 18h
New from @runforsomething.net: Too many Dems are trying to win the next election w/ the same old playbook. We're gonna win the next 10 with a plan to lift the bench in AZ, NC, GA, & OH; build the bench in UT, NE, & IA, & build battlegrounds in TX, FL, ID, LA & MS.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Progressive candidate recruitment org urges Dems to invest beyond Blue Wall
Run For Something is pitching major donors on its $50 million, five-year effort.
www.politico.com
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God @thegodpodcast.com · 8h
Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 6h
You could literally speed walk this test.

The sit-ups and pushups take you a minute, at most.

The rest is a 6mph pace.
adamweinstein.bsky.social Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 8h
Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
More than a third have failed so far, four officials told me, impeding the agency’s plan to hire, train, and deploy 10,000 deportation officers by January. To pass, recruits must do 15 push-ups and 32 sit-ups, and run 1.5 miles in 14 minutes. “It’s pathetic,” one career ICE official told me, adding that before now, a typical class of 40 recruits had only a couple of candidates fail, because the screening process was more rigorous.
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🌮The Unapologetic Liberal🌮 @cheferic1970.bsky.social · 6h
I applaud the universities that have refused to sign his form to allow more MAGA control.
I hope Columbia and the others that have feel ashamed. When you make a deal with the devil, you end up shooting yourselves in the foot! For the highly educated, you sure are dumb
a cartoon mouse is sitting on a blue stool and smiling
ALT: a cartoon mouse is sitting on a blue stool and smiling
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h
Exclusive: Secretary of State Marco Rubio promised to betray MS-13 informants in exchange for access to El Salvador’s most notorious prison.

Justice Department officials say Rubio threatened to undercut years of work to secure the cooperation of high-ranking gang members. wapo.st/4qk3Hkn
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h
So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 6h
The scene at Mar-a-Lago is as gross and creepy as you imagined, with these old pervs chasing their surgically enhanced prey with Trump acting as sick Degenerate-in-Chief. bsky.app/profile/mehd...
mehdirhasan.bsky.social Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13h
So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 6h
Can’t wait to share my exclusive interview with the incredible @kim.senate.gov and @petebuttigieg.bsky.social!

Check out the Katie Phang News channel on YouTube tomorrow, October 21st at 1:30 pm ET, for this amazing conversation:

youtube.com/@katiephangn...
kim.senate.gov Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 6h
Today, I caught up with my friend @petebuttigieg.bsky.social. Turns out, we’ve both had it with Trump’s mob boss politics. Full conversation with @katiephang.bsky.social dropping on YouTube tomorrow at 1:30pm.
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