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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 1h

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DemCastDonGA @donshantajr.bsky.social · 16h

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 14h

This Thanksgiving, we’re grateful for the members of the Canadian Armed Forces serving abroad.

While most Canadians gather with loved ones, they stand on guard — sacrificing time with their families to protect ours. Thank you for your service and dedication.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 13h

"I came up here thinking of how do I even put into words how much Zohran has changed not only the course of my life, but the lives of thousands of other taxi drivers."

Augustine Tang and members of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance share their story of struggle for relief from predatory debt.

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 12h

Exactement

Pénombre Goyette @penombregoyette.bsky.social · 17h

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Pénombre Goyette @penombregoyette.bsky.social · 17h

Still hurting less innocent bystanders than guns.

So fuck off.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 12h

Exactement

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow embodied what a journalist should be: someone who holds power to account instead of capitulating to it.

Over 70 years later, his segment denouncing Joe McCarthy’s congressional witch hunts rings truer than ever.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18h

The fact that top Republicans are already fearmongering about, lying about, the No Kings rallies this Saturday, across the US, tells you how worried they are about public pressure and protest against their reactionary, autocratic, anti-American agenda.

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 14h

C’est ça ⬇️⬇️

Hal Dol, MD @haldol.bsky.social · 16h

Amen

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 14h

Bonne écoute ⬇️⬇️

Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 14h

Obama: the greatest Republican president of my lifetime? We break down the ACA, Iraq/Afghanistan wars, DACA, and financial crisis—with liberal, conservative, and progressive takes.

🎧 Listen to the latest episode of #UNFTR: Barack Obama: The Greatest Republican President of My Lifetime.

Barack Obama.

Barack Obama was the greatest Republican president of my lifetime—a statement sure to fire up establishment liberals and conservatives alike. But for progressives in the United States, this is what th...

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23h

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 14h

Russia has to be crushed. Russia has been at war with everyone for the past 💯 years. Enough is enough.

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Sophie Nercessian @bettyparciparla.bsky.social · 22h

Cette pub de Barbie a 10 ans mais est toujours aussi géniale! Sourire assurée! 🥰

Elles sont à croquer, ces petites filles! (Et en passant, ma Barbie exposait au Louvre, construisait des igloos, aidait les enfants en difficulté et avait le pouvoir de voler!) 😊

Imagine The Possibilities | @Barbie

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Marie-Sol St-Onge @marie-sol.bsky.social · 20h

🦃L’Action de grâce, c’est aussi faire preuve de reconnaissance : merci la vie pour les 13 ans de plus, merci mon amoureux de me faire rouler au verger et merci la science pour la main de robot qui me permet de croquer dans une pomme et savourer ma journée!

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 2d

Le scandale de l’aide à l’Argentine expliqué.

www.threads.com/@11thhourmsn...

The 11th Hour (@11thhourmsnbc) on Threads

@stephruhle explains how the U.S. bailout of Argentina is just a windfall for Treasury Secy. Scott Bessent's investor friends.

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Godzillou 🇨🇦 @godzillou.bsky.social · 3d

Exactement ce que je pense de l’IA 😏

Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 3d

stop thinking right now

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 2d

À tous les journalistes.

Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

Here is a reporter who deserves to be remembered.
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Ukrainian journalist Roshchyna posthumously named Press Freedom Hero

The IPI said Roshchyna's death on Sept. 19, 2024 "exposed the brutal treatment suffered by the dozens of Ukrainian journalists unjustly held by Russian authorities, and brought new urgency to the need...

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 2d

Simple: GOP’s actions are now touching her personally. It has nothing to do with right or wrong.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2d

Stand strong and stay safe, Portland. 💙🐸
#FuckICE

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 2d

Il faut toujours rire des fascistes. Bravo Portland.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3d

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 2d

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Canadian Returnee (@canadianreturnee)

Nut & Seed butter handmade in Burlington, Ontario https://nuttyhero.com/

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Max from UNFTR @unftr.com · 3d

Deep dive for @meidastouch.com on 1929 and 2009 differences and parallels. Wall Street had built a moat to insulate itself from its own reckless behavior and Trump is driving the economy into the ground.

Trump’s FATAL DECISION today is Identical TO GREAT DEPRESSION

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Lawrence 📷 ✍️ @ldero.bsky.social · 2d

L’église dans les couleurs d’octobre…#Photographie

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Marie Stéphane Rivard ⚜️🇨🇦 🏊‍♀️ 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini @mariestephane16.bsky.social · 3d

Le mien aussi. Et c’est un scandale qu’il n’y ait pas un film ou une mini série sur lui, et qu’il soit inconnu de la majorité des Québécois.

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