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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦

@watsonkaren.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Writer Artist Volunteer #ViveLeCanada #ElbowsUp #CanadaStrong #UnCanadaFort #SlavaUkraïni - swimmer, cloud watcher, retired Canadian Gov mktg/comms, Advocate for Universal Basic Income (UBI) #DefendCanada #IStandWithCARNEY #BuyCanadian #Canadasky

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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · Nov 20

Dear new followers, Thank you for following me. If you have no bio, have made no posts or replies, I will not follow back for now. And I am taking my time to get to know who people are. This is the brave new positive world and I like it the moderating and vetting, but most of all the energy.

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🐝 Mrs Boooooo-b 👻🧙☠️👹🐝 @mrsbobhere.bsky.social · 1d

For anyone that needs it… #sea #vitaminsea

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 10h

Do you know what you are doing on Saturday, October 18?

If the answer is no, you are deserving of nonlethal, but firm slap. #NoKings

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BlueCrew community 💙💙 @libertyovergov.bsky.social · 9h

Diplomats from the Mexican Consulate have arrived at the Chicago ICE facility, they initially hesitated to grant them access.

#BlueCrew #ImmigrationJustice #HumanRights #Chicago

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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 9h

Love it! youtube.com/shorts/9kSU8...

Demo Triangular Prism Dispersion

YouTube video by Ken Sadowsky

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adeadmanwalking.bsky.social @adeadmanwalking.bsky.social · 18h

Please Help. Repost every NO KINGS POST that you see. Keep the visibility SUPER HIGH. The fascists are scared of this one.

Eileen @eileenmclaughlin.bsky.social · 22h

#NoKingsDay

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apparitionandme.bsky.social @apparitionandme.bsky.social · 18h

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'Where are the doctors?!' 'Nuts' Trump post raises fresh concerns that 'his brain is mush'

"Where are the doctors?!" yelled an exasperated MSNBC host after Donald Trump made a confusing and false claim on social media.Conservative George Conway appeared Sunday on MSNBC with host Jonathan Ca...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.

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Conor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 1d

The fight against oligarchy is foremost a communications battle and to win a communications battle one needs to stay psychologically oriented towards winning: within every crisis there are opportunities, but only by staying 'clear-eyed' can one see them. And yes, they want you to give up.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 18h

Canada - caught between a rock and a hard place - China tariffs, EVs, canola, hope of better U.S. trade deal re cars... good article. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Chinese EV tariffs created '2-front trade war' hurting Prairie canola, pork producers: Kinew | CBC News

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is asking the prime minister to scrap Canada's 100 per cent tariff on Chinese electric vehicles in return for China lifting its tariffs on Canadian canola and pork.

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 19h

Who was President that day, Pumpkin?????

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Kraig Peck @kraigpeck.bsky.social · 2d

There is a major Antifa cell here at Arlington Cemetery: tens of thousands of Antifa members in full view, who gave their lives fighting fascism.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

I recently sat down with three leaders who are part of the @obamafoundation.bsky.social's alumni network to hear more about their work to strengthen democracy in Hungary and Poland. They’re an example for us all. Take a look:

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

One week from right now, millions of Americans will gather in every state for the biggest day of peaceful protest in American history. Join your local No Kings Day event to make it clear that We The People won’t cower in response to Trump’s authoritarian takeover: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

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charliesurfs.bsky.social @charliesurfs.bsky.social · 1d

“Mainstream news outlets appear uncomfortable wrestling with the degree to which pro-Trump media figures practice propaganda undertaken in bad faith toward expressly instrumental ends. We need them to get past that.”

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

This week, MAGA figures claimed Kristi Noem "stared down" violent antifa protesters in Portland. Turns out they were talking mostly about a guy in a chicken suit.

This episode opens a window into how MAGA propaganda works and MSM failure to handle it. 1/

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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit

A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.

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StacesCases2 🇨🇦 📎 @stacescases2.bsky.social · 2d

Oh well if COURSE they are!

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Judge Perry issued an opinion explaining why she blocked the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago.

She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution. 🧵

OPINION AND ORDER
Since this country was founded, Americans have disagreed about the appropriate division
of power between the federal government and the fifty states that make up our Union. This
tension is a natural result of the system of federalism adopted by our Founders. And yet, not even
the Founding Father most ardently in favor of a strong federal government believed that one
state's militia could be sent to another state for the purposes of political retribution, calling such
a suggestion "inflammatory," and stating "it is impossible to believe that [a President] would employ such preposterous means to accomplish their designs." But Plaintiffs contend that such
an event has come to pass, and argue that National Guard troops from both Illinois and Texas
have been deployed to Illinois because the President of the United States wants to punish state elected officials whose policies are different from his own.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 2d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

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David Smilde @dsmilde.bsky.social · 1d

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Dana Goldberg @dgcomedy.bsky.social · 2d

Release the Epstein Files.

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Karen J Watson 🇨🇦 @watsonkaren.bsky.social · 1d

I know my loyalties #BuyCanadian Happy to #CanadianStaycation Ready with #ElbowsUp 🇨🇦 et #ViveLeCanada and buy #AnywhereButUS

FJ 🇨🇦 @fjrgrant.bsky.social · 2d

Do they need us or not? Can't seem to make up their minds. I know where I'm not spending my money anytime soon #supportcanadian #northofnorth #Canadafirst #boycottus