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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 15h

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15h

Time to drop some f bombs and talk about the face of gangster fascism.
Gone are the grey uniforms and goose-steps in are the baseball caps and botox.
But the fascist playbook is redefining politics. We need to call it out.
This is my latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlr...

DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 9h

Jaysus. She wants to be American maga SO bad! Let her move to the US. Please.

#never51
#elbowsUp

Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 14h

I can't even mock this. Seriously.

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 15h

Considering the man has zero shame or embarrassment…

#never51
#elbowsUp

Make America Decent Again @disposableheroes.bsky.social · 17h

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 15h

My rep is a con. I have zero doubt my negative opinion will be given any weight whatsoever.

#never51
#elbowsUp

Annexation Watch 🇨🇦 Alerte Annexion @annexationwatch.ca · 19h

This is one of the forms annexation can take. Not an invasion, but slow integration and constant acquiescence from our own government that is desperate to "get a deal".

Write your MPs to demand they deny any US requests that arise from this bill. If they don't know we care, they won't care either.

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 17h

Hell NO.
#never51
#elbowsUp

BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 18h

Oh fuck no

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 22h

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 17h

Gag.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 17h

I constantly play whack-a-mole trying to select info that is NOT an AI ‘overview’ or ‘summary’.

tru @thetrudz.photo · 18h

“It’s here to stay.”
“It’s not going anywhere.”
“Get used to it.”

Notice the robotic repetitive propaganda that tech billionaires spit into the mouths of proponents like a mother bird feeding babies is never about ethics, always about force, while pretending the force is natural not man made.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 17h

Typical. Make up a boogie man, spend buckets of money for next to nothing, blame immigrants, rinse, repeat.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 1d

Alberta launched its border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border.

But the Interdiction Patrol Team has so far made only a handful of arrests, according to data released through an access to information request.

Alberta’s Border Patrol Has Made Only a Handful of Arrests | The Tyee

Ten months in, critics are concerned about the $29-million cost and few results from the initiative.

thetyee.ca

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 19h

What is the point that Jack is trying to make? The fascists were the victims? That the US finally entered WW2 and fought against them, so that makes the fascists…whiplash. Getting whiplash.
#never51
#elbowsUp

Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 1d

Variation of the goose chase meme, the goose asking: "What happened to the Weimar Republic?" in this version.

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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 3d

It feels weird doing book promo now, but also with the government shutdown & my husband being furloughed, we need my income.

Worth noting: False Flag goes after #pseudoarchaeology, disinformation & using AI to rewrite history to fuel a white supremacist takeover of government.
#archaeology
#booksky

Cover Reveal Evidence: Under Fire #4

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 19h

My ‘broken’ UHC is providing blood tests for 18 different things today. The 1 day delay was because doc didn’t tell me one required fasting. Cost? ZERO.
#never51
#elbowsUp

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

I have recovered from the funk of earlier. Have a photo.

View from my living room yesterday. Wind took most of the leaves off but the mountain ash still has a magnificent orange red crown. The lights in my window are dragonflies

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Including supposedly ‘Canadian’ msm outlets. Which are owned by US corporations.
#never51
#elbowsUp

Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 2d

I see from CNN that Canada’s economy is in “crisis”.

A word of unsolicited advice to everyone: don’t believe a single word any US media says about Canada. None. They don’t know shit about us and they don’t care.

It’s in the US’ interest to describe us as being in crisis. Not ours.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Please tell me this is satire.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Whiners all.

🇨🇦DeNoPeLLe🇨🇦🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 @denopelle.bsky.social · 1d

In my opinion this is the most important news story in happening in Canada right now
I’ll bet you can guess which Five Premiers want OUR🇨🇦 Federal Gov’t to not stop them from abusing the power to suspend the Charter of Right?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I hate the Lycra in every damn thing. ☹️

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

The old man can’t get his rocks off so he gets to enjoy a dopamine hit by murdering folk. 🤷‍♀️

#never51
#elbowsUp

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Rand Paul: "I think blowing up speedboats in the Caribbean isn't necessarily the answer."

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Because we are all supposed to believe what he says? Yeah, no. Nope. Nyet, even.

#never51
#elbowsUp

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/trum...

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Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah. Weird, that. But a maga has something bad happen and we hear about it for weeks. And the antifa are blamed, labelled a terrorist organization and threatened with destruction.

Very, very weird. 🤯🤬

Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

How is this not illegal? I will not ever understand the mind set that says ‘oh goodie, let’s poison folk as well as harass, harm and beat up anyone within sight and those who we cannot even see. Don’t care if I’m poisoning myself just so long as I’m hurting others, too. ‘ 🤯🤬

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Federal officers are firing so much tear gas at protesters outside an ICE facility in Broadview, Illinois, that some nearby community members who aren’t even protesting are struggling to breathe when they leave their homes to run errands.

ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions

Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.

www.motherjones.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Today was…disappointing. Not horrible. Just exasperating and draining. Sometimes you fall through the cracks. And sometimes you just gotta roll with it. But now I’m done with this day. Glad I have leftovers to cobble together for dinner. I’m grateful for a sunny day. Love and light to y’all.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 1d

Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem

halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/08/i...

Women in Mexico step up to protect ancient Aztec farms and save a vanishing ecosystem

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Jasmín Ordóñez looks out from a wooden boat at the water as she crosses a narrow channel that connects a labyrinth of chinampas, island farms that were built by the Aztecs thousands...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Unless you are fascists.

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 1d

"The US, which has positioned itself as a major fossil fuel exporter, sold $80B in oil and gas abroad through July, the last month with data available. China exported $120B in green technology over the same period."

Like the man said, you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. 🌬️

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