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Proud Canadian ❤️‍🔥 horrified by the authoritarian practices and cruelty next door 😡 pro-Ukraine 🇺🇦 and pro-peace ☮️ Oxford comma fan 📖 art enthusiast 🖼️ and hockey mom 🥅 yah, that sums it up. 🇨🇦🪵🏕️⛳️🥌⛸️🥶🥶🥶

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Happy Thanksgiving!

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 9h

Unprecedented grift & corruption, happening daily right in front of us

Daniel A Collier, PhD @dcollier74.bsky.social · 1d

Man what a lucky guess.........

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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 2h

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 1h

My dear grandmother was a geologist, and it would have given her great joy to hear her grandson digging into rare earth minerals, finding out what they do, and why they matter.

But for everyone else, it's a drag — the trade war equivalent of learning about the latest covid variant.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 1h

The 2012 book I wrote with Stephen Case is called “Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman Behind Benedict Arnold’s Plot to Betray America.”

Treacherous Beauty

Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes...

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[email protected] 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 1h

Dancing? He has the rhythm of an arthritic walrus but ok

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 10h

Estonia has closed the Saatse border crossing with Russia due to an unusually large Russian military presence on the other side. The Estonian Police and Border Guard (PPA) noted increased patrols and military movements that were much higher than normal, which were deemed beyond routine activities.

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[email protected] 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 9h

And we don’t usually (never, really) record ourselves donating items or our time.

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[email protected] 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely, AI cannot do most things I need it to do. But it’s great as help with specialized coding, but you’ve to know what you’re doing and verify and correct appropriately. It’s a tool (like a calculator) but can’t replace human creativity or knowledge.

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ALT: a cartoon minion wearing a crown and a king 's robe is speaking into a microphone

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[email protected] 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 14h

Truth.

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Lev Parnas @levparnas.bsky.social · 16h

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BREAKING: Trump’s Tariff Shock EXPOSED — The $1 Billion Crypto Heist They Don’t Want You to See

Minutes before Trump announced 100% tariffs on China, a secret wallet moved over $1 billion into crypto — triggering the biggest market crash in months and revealing how insider corruption and market

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[email protected] 🇨🇦 @lartigue.bsky.social · 17h

… a lot, specially if one also elects one (proven) into the presidency

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 1d

Check out the Kavanaugh Stop. Full description and definition in the video.
Sound up! #KavanaughStop.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 20h

#AlexAlott was charged with allegedly assaulting a federal officer with an umbrella. Yesterday, she was exonerated because VIDEO disproved the accusation. But Daniel, who attended the trial to support her, was detained the same day that the trial finished.

THIS IS FASCISM. FILM EVERYTHING.