Netty Bo Betty
@jnetty.bsky.social
Proud Irish immigrant ☘️ raised in the True North strong and free 🇨🇦 proud retired public servant 🥰 🦬 Bills and Blue Jays fan 😊🧢
‼️Rubio announced this yesterday, but it was lost in the media turmoil. The United States is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law. Another page from Project 2025 accomplished.
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 PM
‼️Rubio announced this yesterday, but it was lost in the media turmoil. The United States is withdrawing from 66 international organizations and treaties, most notably everything connected with climate change, democracy and rule of law. Another page from Project 2025 accomplished.
Lovely and thoughtful Christmas message meant to unite not divide us 🇨🇦❤️
December 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Lovely and thoughtful Christmas message meant to unite not divide us 🇨🇦❤️
I get a little older after every game 🤭
December 14, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I get a little older after every game 🤭
Unlikely hero 💪💙
Ukrainian President Zelensky has just posted a video from the outskirts of Kupyansk, a city Putin claimed Russian troops captured three weeks ago.
Just the edge of the city - but still an incredibly brave thing for Zelensky to do, with drones in constant operation over the city...
Just the edge of the city - but still an incredibly brave thing for Zelensky to do, with drones in constant operation over the city...
December 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Unlikely hero 💪💙
Remembrance Day 🇨🇦
November 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Remembrance Day 🇨🇦
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You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map.
Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.
This Saturday. Everywhere.
Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.
This Saturday. Everywhere.
October 13, 2025 at 6:29 PM
You can find a #NoKingsDay event near you at nokings.org/#map.
Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.
This Saturday. Everywhere.
Join your neighbors and friends. Stand up for what actually makes America great.
This Saturday. Everywhere.
We’re about to find out…
“People talk a lot about ‘can you get a deal with Trump?’,” said Gerald Butts. “As someone who spent a lot of time trying to do that … the … question is, ‘Is a deal even possible with a person who does not believe in the dictionary definition of the word deal?’” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/feat...
Can Canada Survive Donald Trump?
Under assault from an increasingly aggressive and authoritarian United States, the country’s future looks less secure than at any time in postwar history.
www.bloomberg.com
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
We’re about to find out…
Lights Up, Let's Go!
That is a massive Canadian 🇨🇦flag at the Jays vs Yankees game tonight at the dome which is packed to the gills! Canadian Forces unfurled it. Right on, Go Jays Go!
October 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Lights Up, Let's Go!
Their only mistake was being born a girl 🥲
"As medical care evaporates, it is moms who die in childbirth. As food disappears and babies cry from hunger, some overwhelmed husbands abandon their wives and children."
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
from @nickkristof.bsky.social, on the damage done by the "pro-life" Americans who elected Trump
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...
Opinion | The Tax on Being a Girl
www.nytimes.com
September 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Their only mistake was being born a girl 🥲
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"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Authoritarianism Feels Surprisingly Normal—Until It Doesn’t
Life in Venezuela was deceptively mundane. Then everything collapsed.
www.theatlantic.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Living through the rise of a dictatorship just means inhabiting a space that is gradually shrinking. There’s no point in resisting, not at first. You just make do with whatever breathing room you still have—until you lose that too."
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Read Gisela Salim-Peyer:
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Love this…in a world of division we should encourage support and solidarity.
September 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Love this…in a world of division we should encourage support and solidarity.
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In a big fuck you to CBS, Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series.
September 15, 2025 at 4:52 AM
In a big fuck you to CBS, Stephen Colbert wins the Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series.
Imagine the shame of being locked in a prison for a week when your core values are maintaining dignity, reputation, and prestige to avoid shame. Build America is a pipe dream 😴
It should be way bigger news that Trump effectively killed any attempt by foreign countries to build new factories in the United States with this idiotic ICE move. Just incalculable long term damage.
Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
Trump just killed his "build America" push www.wsj.com/world/asia/c...
Confusion, Anger, Relief: Korean Engineer Tells of Week in U.S. ICE Detention
More than 300 employees at a Hyundai battery plant returned home after being detained in a Georgia immigration raid.
www.wsj.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Imagine the shame of being locked in a prison for a week when your core values are maintaining dignity, reputation, and prestige to avoid shame. Build America is a pipe dream 😴
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Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
September 12, 2025 at 3:48 AM
Was it worth it? #massshootings #schoolshootings #charliekirk #guncontrol Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons
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This is the Country we live in now.
September 7, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is the Country we live in now.
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Ukraine's air force has warned Poland that Russian drones have entered its air space and Zamosc is under threat, Reuters reports.
September 9, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Ukraine's air force has warned Poland that Russian drones have entered its air space and Zamosc is under threat, Reuters reports.
What say you Donald Trump? Maybe 🤔 three weeks this time..two doesn’t seem to be working out for you!
Morning Bluesky.
The Kremlin issues a very bold statement: “No sanctions will be able to make Russia change its consistent position.”
The Kremlin issues a very bold statement: “No sanctions will be able to make Russia change its consistent position.”
September 8, 2025 at 3:45 PM
What say you Donald Trump? Maybe 🤔 three weeks this time..two doesn’t seem to be working out for you!
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September 8, 2025 at 6:00 AM