TravelsWithJean (she/her)
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Travel professional based in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador. Left af.
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So Trump is raging, repeating annexation threats, giving fantastical and bizarre reasons for the tariffs, hasn't made a concrete ask to Canada's government, and this is your approach? How strange.
April 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
So Trump is raging, repeating annexation threats, giving fantastical and bizarre reasons for the tariffs, hasn't made a concrete ask to Canada's government, and this is your approach? How strange.
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Me the people
by @deAdder
Substack:
xhttps://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/me-the-people?r=4bddp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
by @deAdder
Substack:
xhttps://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/me-the-people?r=4bddp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
March 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Me the people
by @deAdder
Substack:
xhttps://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/me-the-people?r=4bddp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
by @deAdder
Substack:
xhttps://open.substack.com/pub/deadder/p/me-the-people?r=4bddp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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And as Prime Minister, I will defend Canada's economic sovereignty from US tariffs by implementing a Canada-wide system for coming up with catchy three-word slogans.
March 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
And as Prime Minister, I will defend Canada's economic sovereignty from US tariffs by implementing a Canada-wide system for coming up with catchy three-word slogans.
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Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News
Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”
insideclimatenews.org
March 22, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...
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We need to grab the wheel.
March 15, 2025 at 10:48 PM
We need to grab the wheel.
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Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America:
1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI
2) kill universities
3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub
4) empty the cities
5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen
1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI
2) kill universities
3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub
4) empty the cities
5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen
March 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Trump and Musk are basically trying to deskill America:
1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI
2) kill universities
3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub
4) empty the cities
5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen
1) kill all white-collar jobs and replace them with AI
2) kill universities
3) use tariffs to turn the U.S. into an economic island manufacturing, oil and ag hub
4) empty the cities
5) push men into manual labor & women back into the kitchen
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Prime Minister Carney to strengthen ties with France and the United Kingdom and reaffirm Canada’s sovereignty #Canada 🍁
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
Prime Minister Carney to strengthen ties with France and the United Kingdom and reaffirm Canada’s sovereignty
To that end, the Prime Minister announced today that he will travel to Paris, France, London, United Kingdom, and Iqaluit, Nunavut, from March 16 to 18, 2025, to strengthen two of our closest and long...
www.pm.gc.ca
March 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Prime Minister Carney to strengthen ties with France and the United Kingdom and reaffirm Canada’s sovereignty #Canada 🍁
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news...
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“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
Hundreds of Thousands Will Die
The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. administrator Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.
www.newyorker.com
March 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“It’s just the beginning of the playbook. This was the soft target.” Atul Gawande, a former senior leader at U.S.A.I.D., talks about watching Donald Trump and Elon Musk make the agency a guinea pig for the government-wide purge now under way.
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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
March 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.”
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
WOW. Planes in air must turn around.
A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.
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The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
I found a ‘dead’ person collecting Social Security in Seattle
“Dead” Ned Johnson turns out to be very much alive. It took him weeks to convince the system he was breathing and to start clawing his benefits back.
www.seattletimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The richest man in the world took over $5K out of this guy's bank account, claiming he was dead. The richest man in the world said he was saving money.
He was not dead.
He was not dead.
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Wow, this is a great article. It walks through the steps trump has already taken, leading to a full racism takeover. Americans need to wake up.
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March 14, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Wow, this is a great article. It walks through the steps trump has already taken, leading to a full racism takeover. Americans need to wake up.
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2 Hayes clips 👇🏽
SCHUMER: “the alternative would be worse” as he caves to avoid a shutdown, as Trump’s budget guy says the CR will be ripped up and Trump/musk will decide all
BERNIE: Dems helping pass a CR they had no input on so Musk and Trump can keep hurting people is “not how democracy works”
SCHUMER: “the alternative would be worse” as he caves to avoid a shutdown, as Trump’s budget guy says the CR will be ripped up and Trump/musk will decide all
BERNIE: Dems helping pass a CR they had no input on so Musk and Trump can keep hurting people is “not how democracy works”
March 14, 2025 at 2:23 AM
2 Hayes clips 👇🏽
SCHUMER: “the alternative would be worse” as he caves to avoid a shutdown, as Trump’s budget guy says the CR will be ripped up and Trump/musk will decide all
BERNIE: Dems helping pass a CR they had no input on so Musk and Trump can keep hurting people is “not how democracy works”
SCHUMER: “the alternative would be worse” as he caves to avoid a shutdown, as Trump’s budget guy says the CR will be ripped up and Trump/musk will decide all
BERNIE: Dems helping pass a CR they had no input on so Musk and Trump can keep hurting people is “not how democracy works”
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Education Department’s workforce. Additionally, the order requires agencies to offer reinstatement to recently laid-off probationary employees and expands its scope to 18 agencies, up from the six mentioned in the earlier case.
March 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Education Department’s workforce. Additionally, the order requires agencies to offer reinstatement to recently laid-off probationary employees and expands its scope to 18 agencies, up from the six mentioned in the earlier case.
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A federal judge in Maryland issued an even more sweeping restraining order on Thursday, surpassing an earlier one from the same day. The order broadly prohibits the Trump administration from implementing any future “reductions in force,” such as this week’s directive to terminate half of the
March 14, 2025 at 2:26 AM
A federal judge in Maryland issued an even more sweeping restraining order on Thursday, surpassing an earlier one from the same day. The order broadly prohibits the Trump administration from implementing any future “reductions in force,” such as this week’s directive to terminate half of the
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A must read- by David Brooks
It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
Opinion | It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
What happens when a superpower goes rogue.
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
A must read- by David Brooks
It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
It Isn’t Just Trump. America’s Whole Reputation Is Shot.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
What will it take to tip the balance? An actual invasion of the Canal Zone, Greenland or Canada? Or will you still just sit and watch?
March 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
What will it take to tip the balance? An actual invasion of the Canal Zone, Greenland or Canada? Or will you still just sit and watch?
What about the consequences of allowing this madness to continue?
SCHUMER just now: "While the CR bill is very bad, the potential for a shutdown has consequences for America that are much, much worse."
March 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM
What about the consequences of allowing this madness to continue?
The White House is a car lot, the Conspirator-in-Chief is making enemies of allies, and people are watching Netflix. What will it take for Americans to care?
Nothing says “party of the everyman” quite like two born-to-riches nepo baby billionaires selling $80,000+ cars on the White House lawn.
March 13, 2025 at 12:21 PM
The White House is a car lot, the Conspirator-in-Chief is making enemies of allies, and people are watching Netflix. What will it take for Americans to care?
“The Complete Absence of Medical Ethics Defense Act” wasn’t catchy enough.
Tennessee Republicans are close to passing a bill that would give medical professionals the right to refuse care to patients based on personal beliefs.
Ironically they are calling it the “Medical Ethics Defense Act”
fox17.com/news/local/b...
Ironically they are calling it the “Medical Ethics Defense Act”
fox17.com/news/local/b...
March 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
“The Complete Absence of Medical Ethics Defense Act” wasn’t catchy enough.
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Deja vu. Originally published April 29, 2016.
March 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Deja vu. Originally published April 29, 2016.
The United States of America is undergoing Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly from within and people aren’t rioting in the streets. WTAF.
March 13, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The United States of America is undergoing Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly from within and people aren’t rioting in the streets. WTAF.
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March 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Eliminating phone services would force more people to visit SSA offices, leading to overcrowding and longer wait times, especially for those with mobility or transportation challenges. This change would impact vulnerable seniors, making it difficult for them to access the support they depend on.
March 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Eliminating phone services would force more people to visit SSA offices, leading to overcrowding and longer wait times, especially for those with mobility or transportation challenges. This change would impact vulnerable seniors, making it difficult for them to access the support they depend on.