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Dumped deadbird 2022, 🚫CRYPTO, Love my Grandkids, Trans Ally, Cat person, Gardener, #NeverVoteConservative , Pro Vaccines, Settler, Happily married 50+years, Atheist(you do you). EMPATHY! Peterborough, Ontario, Nogojiwanong. Save our Planet 🍁 #ptbo 🚫DMS

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Gramshelper 🍁🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦😷 @gramshelper.bsky.social · Nov 16

She covered herself up with her blanket. #CaturdaySaturday

Black and white tuxedo cat in a grey catbed covered with a navy&white plaid blanket.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11h

The Americans starving these children wear crucifixes and call themselves “Christians.”

People are not what they tell you they are; they are how they behave.
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 9h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Blackfoot Niitsítapi 🪶🇨🇦🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️💙🌎🐝 @thoughtsnations.bsky.social · 1d

I loathe him as much as I hate Trump. Both fascists, racists and traitors to democracy. 🪶😡🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸💙

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RobbJMacKay @robbjmackay.bsky.social · 8h

#NeverVoteConservative #onpoli #FightFord #FordIsCorrupt #SaveOntario #FordFailedOntario #OntarioSky

🇨🇦Sandy: No narcissistic leaders!🇨🇦 @sandydz.bsky.social · 9h

I believe that an investigation is warranted to understand why so many of us Ontarians never received the voter card in time to be able to vote early.

#DougFord has been in power long enough to know where and how to manipulate to get what he wants.

He is a true narcissist!

#ElectionsOntario

Barry McLarnon 🇨🇦 @bdmclarnon.bsky.social · 19h

After being handed his third consecutive majority by the clueless voters of Ontario, Teflon Dougie really believes he's untouchable now. He's feeling the wind in his sails and is no longer bothering to hide the corruption. With the opposition in disarray, he's confident he can buy the next election.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 14h

He finally got the election-denying MAGA A.G. he always dreamed of. Bondi was openly partisan, scornful & highly combative, her non-answers dripping with disdain. Very telling when she was asked if she'd seen the photos of her boss "with half-naked young women." PATHETIC
#ProtectingHerPedophilePrez

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Bruce D. Cowherd @brucedc77.bsky.social · 12h

Canada Glorious and Free

#cdnpoli #Canada 🇨🇦 #CanadaSky #TeamCanada #CanadaProud #CanadaStrong
#ElbowsUpCanada 🍁

#BuyCanadian #ViveLeCanada

Grandma G 🍁 Kanadiac @kanadiac.bsky.social · 1d

I am so very thankful to be a Canadian!
Imagine living in a country where your hateful, sick leader says stuff like this...
"We're gonna take care of our people, there are some people that really don't deserve to be taken care of, and we'll take care of them in a different way."

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Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ @savethecbc.bsky.social · 12h

6 Canadians — including a First Nations woman — have been detained by Israel after their aid ship was intercepted in international waters while carrying medical supplies to Gaza.

Canada must demand their immediate release.

🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
#cdnpoli #HumanRights #SaveTheCBC

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Hasmanian @hasmanian.bsky.social · 11h

He's worth $8 billion and they fined him $600. I knew our elections were for sale, but not how cheap. 🤦‍♂️🤬 #bcpoli #cdnpoli
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Billionaire Chip Wilson fined $600 for unauthorized election sign targeting B.C. NDP | CBC News

Elections B.C. says three signs Lululemon founder Chip Wilson put up in front of his Vancouver home during the 2024 provincial election period, including one that called the B.C. NDP "communist," cons...

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Gramshelper 🍁🇨🇦🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦😷 @gramshelper.bsky.social · 13h

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Absolutely Insane Doug Ford Scandals Pile Up While No One Is Paying Attention

YouTube video by The Rational National

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

Johnson: Miss Grijalva has not yet had a scheduled date because she was elected after the house was out of session,

Gallego: You don't want her to be on the Epstein discharge.

Johnson: You guys are experts at red herrings.

Gallego: This is an excuse

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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 21h

Chicago PD: arrest these motherfuckers threatening civilians. Put them in jail. Let the courts sort it out

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Dr. Mike P. Moffatt @mikepmoffatt.bsky.social · 14h

My favourite graph from this week's report, which examines how homes are used. Between 2016 and 2021, the supply of ground-oriented ownership homes in Peel+York+Durham+City of Toronto barely budged, because few were built, and pre-existing homes were converted to rentals.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 18h

It's a little too spot on when the NYT The Daily podcast episode about rising fascism in the streets of Chicago is sponsored by the American Petroleum Institute

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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow on speeding minister vehicles in Ontario —

"By God, no wonder they don’t like speed cameras because they catch them while they’re breaking the law." #OnPoli #TOpoli
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‘No wonder they don’t like speed cameras’: Toronto mayor comments on Ford cabinet vehicles | Globalnews.ca

Documents show vehicles assigned to Ford's cabinet ministers racked up 23 speed camera tickets in the past three years, totalling more than $3,300 in fines.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 18h

NEW: Comey is going to file selective and vindictive prosecution motion to dismiss AND he will challenge the legality of Halligan’s appointment! There’s more, too… so glad @annabower.bsky.social is there to bring us the whole story! Thread below with details:

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 19h

The judge also set an initial schedule for pre-trial motions.

The first set is expected by Oct. 12. Per Comey’s defense counsel, that batch will include motions to dismiss for selective and vindictive prosecution, as well as a motion challenging the legality of Halligan’s appointment as US attorney

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 1d

Two lies from Mike Johnson in less than 10 seconds.

#1 “It has nothing to do with that” when asked if failing to swear in Grijalva was due to the Epstein files discharge petition.

#2 “We’ll schedule it ,I guess, as soon as she wants it”

She wanted it 2 weeks ago when she was elected #ProudBlue

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

🏆 How does a comedy show have the best news research team? @thedailyshow.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 17h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

An enormous resource.
Creating public accountability tools for all journalists to use, is a brilliant way to create accountability by all municipal councils.
BRAVO. And why I subscribe to National Observer. Some examples of its use:
“Canada’s National

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/08/n...

Canada’s National Observer unveils a powerful tool for fighting disinformation

Civic Searchlight brings together municipal meeting transcripts from across Canada into a searchable database for the first time. It has already been used to fight disinformation, report on impact, di...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 14h

"Electricity is weighed in ounces" is roughly the level of intellectual rigour we know to expect from Ontario's dismantler-of-public-goods-in-chief.

Another great way to avoid talking about important issues he's mishandling, though. At that he excels.

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Doug Ford’s ongoing extremism problem

A conservative premier “condemns” the extremists he’s benefitted from for years

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Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 12d

Educational weekend music.
Feel free to share with anyone who craps on PM Carney about the economy or whatever.
#cdnpoli #factsmatter

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