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Art Historian, Black Woman, Slow with ‘Follow Backs’ - sorry I’m not Gen Y, cynical and exhausted human, just screaming into the void with the rest of you 🇨🇦🇹🇹🇺🇸 ✊🏽 💛💙❤️🤎 🖖🏾

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · Aug 12

🫩… 👇🏾This is a snapshot, a sliver of the #FACTS of #Anti-BlackRacism.

So, before getting offended at my calling out non-Black #fauxAllies of #RacialJustice, consider first how insidiously embedded to normalization anti-black racism is, and how you perpetuate it. #NumbersDon’tLie #BLM ✊🏾

Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · Aug 11

Washington DC has 702,000 people, is 45% Black and has 0 senators

Wyoming has 590,000 people, is 86% white and has 2 senators

DC needs a state with proper representation, not a military takeover

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 10m

From Canada watching America since 2017, specifically, is like watching a baby happily playing, completely unaware of the zombie horde on its way, and being unable to help.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 15m

Pretty accurate, but needs more gold.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 28m

#AndJustLikeThat
#policebrutality
#BLM
#Facts

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 31m

🤣🤣🤣 that may upset certain gay men though.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 32m

I got so excited, then I Googled 😞

www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Fact Check: Breaking down claim Nobel Committee 'quietly removed' Trump from Peace Prize nominee list

The Nobel Committee has no process for "removing" a Peace Prize nominee, because no public nominee list exists in the first place.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 35m

Withhold federal taxes.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 36m

💯
#Facts 🤷🏾‍♀️

Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 8h

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Rebecca E ❌👑 @spoutiblegirl.bsky.social · 2h

Hakeem Jeffries came to play today as Lawler tries to confront him: "You’re not going to talk over me because you don’t want to hear what I have to say so why don’t you just keep your mouth shut."

More 👏🏼Of👏🏼This👏🏼

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Aron Ra @aron-ra.bsky.social · 1d

Ironically, being on the Left politically means being on the right side of history and humanity. Meanwhile the Right is just wrong. Like in every way and about everything.

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Facts #Canada. We’ve got to draw a line in the sand and back ourselves.
✊🏾🇨🇦❤️
#ElbowsWayUp
#BoycottUSA

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Ford on Tariffs: But there has to be a point that, if Prime Minister Carney can’t get a deal, we have to start hitting back.

We can’t just keep rolling over to President Trump. As he strengthens his case, we seem to be weakening our case by continuously pulling off tariffs.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Well guys she learned from her pathetic performance as trump’s defence lawyer for his 1st impeachment 🫤

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

We could be living so much happier had 2% more Americans voted for Harris. You broke it, you own it guys.

#irony #Felon47 #insurrectionact
www.cbc.ca/news/world/u...

What is the Insurrection Act? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which has not been utilized by a U.S. president in more than three decades. Here's a look at why that possibility concerns lo...

www.cbc.ca

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

trump is the only person who can make one cheer on the few deplorables who stand against trump’s thuggery.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 3h

Reminder: The case against Comey is sloppy, vague, and could fall apart with just one word.

How one word could make the difference in the troubling case against James Comey

The former FBI director didn't say what the indictment claims he did.

www.motherjones.com

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

Americans must wear the shame and disgrace for the fact of a SECOND trump presidency.

…it’s only month 9, you really think things won’t get worse? Insane.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

I think that’s true. Plus, it’s better than what I call him, “smug little bitch face MAGA knock off”

Not as much of a mouthful as imagined.

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 2h

“Existing Canadian immigration pathways do not always respond quickly or effectively to situations where LGBTQ+ people may face escalating risks, even in countries generally regarded as safe…”

Support the LGBTQ community #Canada they’re fabulous 🇨🇦

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6864 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 3h

Canada must come 'second' to U.S. in auto sector, Howard Lutnick warns behind closed doors - Toronto Star

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 3h

#ElbowsWayUp #Canada Carney was right, US/CAN relationship is OVER.

"You have the ability to bring tech investment and mining and other investments into Canada," Lutnick went on to say, according to the source, adding, "If Canada plays its hand correctly and its adjacency to the U.S., it can win.”

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 4h

Bless @charlieangus104.bsky.social for noting our Canadian “naïveté” about not being as susceptible to America’s democracy decline. Not true!

A must watch to see how Maple MAGA morons are actively engaging with the trump regime to undermining our democracy, unity and sovereignty.
✊🏾🇨🇦 #cdnpoli

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 4h

Charlie Angus discusses the latest meeting between the Trump regime and a small band of MAGA Alberta separatists. In this episode, we also look at how Danielle Smith is trying to pick a fight over a pipeline that won't be built to stoke Alberta rage against Canada.

youtu.be/2NwiLXzFejs?...

THE MAGA SCHEME TO DESTROY CANADA: TRAITORS, FAKE PIPELINE, SLUSH FUND

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

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chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 5h

#Facts!!! NO ONE should be subsidizing a damned thing for these companies ✊🏾

Scott Immordino @scottimmordino.bsky.social · 9h

Bill Gates: $106B | Microsoft: $3.9T
Jeff Bezos: $232.5B | Amazon: $2.3T
Larry Page: $204.2B | Google: $2.84T
Mark Zuckerberg: $243.5B | Meta: $1.8T

Can someone please explain why on earth we’re paying the power & water bills for their data centers?

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

WHO THE 🤬 CARES?!?!??

EVERY Republican backed trump after HE threatened THEIR LIVES on #Jan6th ffs! They gutted #American healthcare to pay billionaires-whose money, makes money!!

If Americans don’t vote for Democrats by LANDSLIDES for the coming 3-4 election cycles, they can GFT. simple!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

“.. I think they are absolutely struggling to figure out how they are going to get out of this.”

@politico.com #Shutdown
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

Yes… but, WHO FUCKING CARES???!!!

They dodged town halls from the people who hired them

Their OWN lives threatened on #Jan6 and ALL REPUBLICANS backed trump?!?!

They just signed at least 500K death warrants gutting YOUR health care for billionaires!!

FIRE ALL OF THE GOP. BACK THE DEMOCRATS

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

About a year ago:

“The Alberta government said it would support venue arrangements, promotion of job opportunities…”

— ca.news.yahoo.com/alberta-seek...

Alberta seeking to recruit foreign workers from United Arab Emirates, emails say

Alberta is looking to lure workers from the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) as part of a 2025 international recruitment mission, according to documents and emails shared with CBC News. It's a move that'...

ca.news.yahoo.com

chocolatefire.bsky.social @chocolatefire.bsky.social · 8h

“People have also screamed, "Go back to where you came from!" at Akram while she has been with her children multiple times this year, she said, and some have been aggressive.” — www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1...

Alberta immigrant support groups seeing recent uptick in anger, rise of racist narratives

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 9h

Welcome to Brussels, President Taye Atske Selassie 🇪🇹

Today, we are expanding our cooperation on digital, energy and health.

As well on migration management, peace and security.

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