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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 16h

Blue Jay
Patrick Hunter ~ Anishinaabe
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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 21h

"The Big Lie, always delivered in a prolonged scream, was a winning Hitlerian tactic, usefully adapted by all kinds of governments since." ~Martha #Gellhorn

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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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PinkTweets @pinktweets.bsky.social · 1d

Three more days until he doesn't win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 21h

If I ever sat down one morning and wrote "some great Shakespearean scene / where a ghost and a prince meet / and everyone ends in mincemeat," I'd like to think I'd take the rest of the day off.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 21h

"The Big Lie, always delivered in a prolonged scream, was a winning Hitlerian tactic, usefully adapted by all kinds of governments since." ~Martha #Gellhorn

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

Stormy days mean waves.
#PuckAndMartha approve.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 1d

#Follett is a #1 bestseller worldwide & in many languages. CIRCLE OF DAYS may boost him to 200M copies in print.

🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke with the witty & warmhearted internationally bestselling novelist #KenFollett about his 38th, CIRCLE OF DAYS, & so much more for @thestar.com. #OnWriting #writing #authors
#HistFict #HistoricalFiction #Stonehenge

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Ken Follett, ‘Circle of Days’ author, builds a novel from the construction of Stonehenge

www.thestar.com

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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 1d

Probably the best way to keep a fascist liar from lying on your news program is to not invite a fascist liar to appear on your news program.

Problem solved. You’re welcome America.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I'm sorry, but what's wrong with giving health care to immigrants? Republicans don't even want to give health care to citizens, but I don't understand the argument against keeping people who contribute billions of dollars to the economy healthy. It's also less expensive in the long run.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

I spoke with the witty & warmhearted internationally bestselling novelist #KenFollett about his 38th, CIRCLE OF DAYS, & so much more for @thestar.com. #OnWriting #writing #authors
#HistFict #HistoricalFiction #Stonehenge

www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Ken Follett, ‘Circle of Days’ author, builds a novel from the construction of Stonehenge

www.thestar.com

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 3d

TL cleanse with #PuckAndMartha this morning. #dogsky #dogs #Toronto

yellow lab and black lab bound side by side in shallow lake water, kicking up wake as they race toward a tossed ball

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Jennifer @princessjennifer.bsky.social · 3d

America what have you done?

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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 3d

Just wild sown 200 hundred acorns

Picked up in local paths where there was no chance of a future, & placed in areas where they have every chance

Within every acorn there is a potential forest

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JC in Rothesay 🇨🇦 @jc-in-rothesay.bsky.social · 3d

6-1 #BlueJays
Skydome is popping

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 3d

Spending my Saturday afternoon with this beautiful little lady.

My dog Nyx, a black and white mutt, sits in the grass, chilling out.

Even more Nyx, this time pensive about a nearby dog bark.

Nyx watching another dog walk past, hoping for a play.

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Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 3d

Since I’ve spent the last couple of days in airports and hotels, I’ve gotta say… it’s staggering to not just see all the ICE recruitment commercials but also the frequency with which they’re being run. It’s even more intense than political ads during election season.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

I had a delightful, engaging conversation with the great
Ken Follett about his new novel CIRCLE OF DAYS & much more for @thestar.com.

#Stonehenge #HistFict #OnWriting

Find it in today's print edition or online Sunday. #books

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 3d

Blue Jay Study
Robert Bateman
2016

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Shawn Micallef @shawnmicallef.bsky.social · 3d

SkyDome is OPEN

The Yankees are in town.

It’s the playoffs.

And we’re going to the beach.

Peak Toronto the Good.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

I had a delightful, engaging conversation with the great
Ken Follett about his new novel CIRCLE OF DAYS & much more for @thestar.com.

#Stonehenge #HistFict #OnWriting

Find it in today's print edition or online Sunday. #books

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

“If a writer has any guts he should write all the time, and the lousier the world the harder a writer should work." ~Martha #Gellhorn, 1941 letter

True then.
True now, as fascism has risen up yet again.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

This event should be a lark or two.

Looking forward to what is sure to be a wild conversation with @linwoodbarclay.bsky.social & @joe-hill.bsky.social on Nov 12.

See some of you there, I hope! @harpercollinsca.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 4d

Every time Goebbels Barbie opens her maw, she lies.

NPR @npr.org · 4d

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has to look at ways to "save money in a responsible way that respects the American taxpayer's money" during shutdown.

Karoline Leavitt says White House must cut spending due to shutdown

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has to look at ways to "save money in a responsible way that respects the American taxpayer's money" during shutdown.

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Sharon Somerville #IAmAntifa @arcticlass.bsky.social · 4d

Impressive!👇

Lee Zimmerman @zim2918.bsky.social · 4d

The moon and Lake Superior

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