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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦

@franmacp.bsky.social

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Small L liberal. Deeply concerned about the current state of the world. Believe climate change is real and serious work needs to be done so the earth is still inhabitable for our grandkids and their kids.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · Apr 18

“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are…People are never as weak as they think they are.”
- Dr Gene Sharp

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 10h

Ridiculous waste of money!

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16h

Kristi Noem confronts enemy combatants in the Portland war zone today.

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 1d

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 16h

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 1d

The guy who literally incited an insurrection is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to torment Americans who do not support him.

(…because he literally incited an insurrection)

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 13h

Bad news for a real free press…

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👑Maricella Brooks🌊🦅 @fireeyebooks.bsky.social · 13h

👑Thank you for including me in this fabulous starter pack!✊💙🕊️

@arnfinnarnesson.bsky.social

bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Durbin: "What has taken place since January 20, 2025, would make even President Nixon recoil. This is your legacy, AG Bondi."

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 19h

Totally outrageous

Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 21h

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Zico @willownbirch.bsky.social · 1d

My opinion Bondi & GOP questioning feels staged! All theater all for show! She has answered zero Democratic questions. She is just as toxic and contaminated as the Supreme Court. She doesn’t hide her admiration for her King! This is NO impartial Attorney General! Hearing a waste of time!

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Democracy Action Network @democracyactionnet.bsky.social · 1d

One of these pictures shows a violent insurrection.

The other picture is Portland Oregon.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 20h

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 19h

Spread this far & wide until there is no one who hasn’t seen it! #Release_the_EPSTEIN_Files now!!!

Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20h

IN HONOR OF FRIENDSHIP MONTH:

djt: "We have certain things in common, Jeffrey."

Epstein: "Yes we do, come to think of it."

djt: "A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday- and may every day be another wonderful secret."

And by "wonderful secret", he means raping children.

#PedoPrez

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so sick of the casualness of their constant lying.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 19h

If the app stores won’t let you see or download ICEblock we all need to #BoycottApple & #BoycottGoogle
It’s not up to these rich companies to decide how, when or where citizens can take action! This is the worst kind of capitulation!

🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 21h

Critically important…

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 1d

It’s a good day to remember that

🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · Apr 18

“Dictators are never as strong as they tell you they are…People are never as weak as they think they are.”
- Dr Gene Sharp

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therealdwoo.bsky.social 🚣🏻‍♂️🏡 @therealdwoo.bsky.social · Nov 13

This 🙋‍♂️

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Kitty.🇨🇦 @kathleenelizabeth.bsky.social · 4d

You know what I’m tired of. When you’re talking to someone that you’ve known for a long time. And they tell you “I just don’t watch the news” or “I’m not really into politics”

Well, unless we’re reliving 1996 I don’t really have anything to talk to you about then.

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JEFFREY ROBINSON @writingfactory.bsky.social · Aug 5

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 1d

We can only hope.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

From the front lines of the Portland War Zone.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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🇨🇦 Fran Macpherson 🇺🇦 @franmacp.bsky.social · 1d

#Release_the_EPSTEIN_Files now!!!

The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 2d

The Convicted FElon has finally united the people on one thing.
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 2d

all around, all i see are the dumbest, most evil people alive succeeding beyond anyone’s wildest imagination

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