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GeeRaffa @geeraffa.bsky.social · 15d

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Yvonne🇨🇦 @ymwilson.bsky.social · 22d

I believe their pumpkin is from US. But I’d love to hear differently.

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Yvonne🇨🇦 @ymwilson.bsky.social · 22d

Doesn’t seem that specific. Maybe they’re on their way to Portland, Maine. Makes about as much sense.

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Yvonne🇨🇦 @ymwilson.bsky.social · 22d

I’m going to be buying some pumpkins to bake and freeze this year because I can’t find any non-US canned pumpkin.

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · Sep 18

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?"

Turns out, mom was right.

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime

Feb. 4, 1939

February 4, 1939, Page 1

BERLIN, Feb. 3.—Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels today ended the professional careers of five "Aryan" actors and cabaret announcers by expelling them from the Reich's Chamber of Culture on the grounds that “in their public appearances they displayed a lack of any positive attitude toward National Socialism and therewith caused grave annoyance in public and especially to party comrades.” The five include perhaps the best known German stage comedians who survived previous Chamber of Culture purges and still dared to indulge in political witticisms—namely, Werner Finck, Peter Sachse and “The Three Rulands,” represented by Helmuth Buth, Wilhelm Meissner and Manfred Dlugi. Their expulsion means that they are henceforth forbidden to appear before the public in Germany.

Besides motivating this action in an official communiqué, Dr. Goebbels also publishes a long article in the Voelkischer Beobachter in which he denounces them as “brazen, impertinent, arrogant and tactless" and generally imitators and successors to Jews. Simultaneously he denounces the "society rabble that followed them with thundering applause—parasitic scum, inhabiting our luxury streets, that seems to have only the task of proving with how little brains people can get along and even acquire money and prominence."

As regards the details of the "crimes" of which the five are accused, Dr. Goebbels mentions that they made political witticisms about the colonial problem, the Four-Year Plan and Chancellor Hitler's monumental building program and one of them even raised the question of whether there was any humor left in Germany today.

What amused the public most, however, and presumably roiled the National Socialist authorities most—although Dr. Goebbels does not mention it—is that they deftly, but unmistakably, caricatured some gestures, poses and physical characteristics of Nat…

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · Sep 13

Massive anti hate crowd in the pits. Small Canada first group is on the run.

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PhillFoss @phillfoss.bsky.social · Sep 10

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🌸🌺Cindy Alexander Capaldo🌺 @cyn1422.bsky.social · Sep 11

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 10

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country…

Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year.

And America shrugged and moved on.

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Nell Scovell @nellscovell.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader'

Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

www.pbs.org

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · Aug 13

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · Aug 13

RFK Jr isn’t just one of the most dangerous men in America, he’s doing harm worldwide.

He’s pressuring a medical journal to retract a Danish study which found no harm from aluminum in vaccines.

He wants to restrict vaccine access worldwide to further his “wellness” grift.

Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study

An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines do not increase health risks for children, the journal's editor told Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Aug 13

A Project 2025 author with a Nazi ship on the wall behind him. This ain’t subtle, folks.

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · Aug 11

“Jordan Peterson, Ben Shapiro, Pierre Poilievre — none of these men became household names on merit, they simply cried the loudest. The entire conservative movement is composed of insufferable cry babies aided and abetted by spineless corporate media.” @taylornoakes.com

Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

cultmtl.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Aug 12

There you have it.

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · Aug 9

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · Aug 7

Didn’t Trump, Junior, Eric, Melania, and Barron recently launch crypto businesses? Oh yes, in fact they did.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · Aug 7

‘Full steam ahead’ for $7B St. Thomas VW battery plant as hiring ramps up #London #Ontario #VWBatteryPlant

www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

‘Full steam ahead’ for $7B St. Thomas VW battery plant as hiring ramps up

It is “full steam ahead” for the biggest automotive facility southwestern Ontario, and the nation, has seen for decades.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Brian From 🇨🇦 🍁 @briandubz.bsky.social · Aug 7

Hockey season is coming and lots of kids would normally go to tourneys in the US. I hope those plans are changed and Canadian tournaments are bigger and better than ever this year.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jul 26

Andry Hernández Romero described horrific sexual abuse: “I was sexually abused by the same Salvadoran authorities who guarded us 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We believed we would never see our families again. They took me to solitary confinement and…I was forced to perform oral sex on an officer.”

Gay makeup artist Andry Hernández Romero describes horrific sexual & physical abuse at CECOT in El Salvador

He called it "an encounter with torture and death."

www.advocate.com

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Andrew 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @andrewbarss.bsky.social · Jul 23

So, he’s raising controversy in Charlottetown as well as in Halifax.

This guy is a MAGA “darling;” anti-2SLGBTQ+; anti-abortion; and racist.

This is Canada. There is no “both sides” of this BS.

When do we stop tolerating the intolerance?! 😡

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Yvonne🇨🇦 @ymwilson.bsky.social · Jul 24

@melissalantsman

ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · Jul 24

Good!!!

Now the City of Vaughan and its mayor, Steven Del Duca, need to follow the suit! Tell the MAGA singer he is NOT welcome to their city!!!

#MAGAsAreNotWelcome #cdnpoli www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Quebec City cancels show by U.S. ‘MAGA superstar’ musician

Quebec City officials have cancelled a performance by a U.S.-based Christian musician who has been described as a “MAGA superstar.”

www.ctvnews.ca

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Yvonne🇨🇦 @ymwilson.bsky.social · Jul 20

My hubby had an mri after same thing happened. They just needed to x-ray him first to make sure there was no trace of metal left.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Jul 19

From the DM’s…

This is the perspective of a ground level participant during the Jasper wildfires.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Lisa E 🇨🇦 @lisa1111can.bsky.social · Jul 7

#WhatIsPoilievreHiding

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