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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, you guys? Is it a good sign or a bad sign if the prosecution is just getting its hands around the evidence *after* it criminally charged the former FBI director?

Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 9h

At one point during the hearing, the judge asked the prosecution why the case can’t be tried before mid-December.

Lemons replied: We are “just getting our hands around” discovery in the case.

There’s lots of it, he added, and it includes a “significant” amount of classified information.

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Canadian Resistance 🇨🇦 @cdnresistance.bsky.social · 1h

The billionaire-run news media is complicit in the downfall of democracy in the United States. It can happen in Canada if we’re not careful.

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Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) @trecresearch.bsky.social · 3h

Our TREC article on LTC makes the cover!

The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 2d

Mental health policy brief | When women's mental health is ignored; Why AI's quick fix is destroying our emotional intelligence; There's a burnout crisis among LTC workers; Strategies for improving employee mental health; and more.

www.hilltimes.com/policy-brief...

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 1h

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Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "He has defunded our education system. He has defunded our transportation system. He's firing black women across this country. He's defunding our healthcare system. This president is absolutely out of control... Chicago is going to stand firm in protecting humanity."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4h

No one signs up for the National Guard thinking, “One day, I’ll invade Oregon.”

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QUOI Media Group 🇨🇦 @quoimedia.bsky.social · 7h

Product labels should do more to help people ‘Buy Canadian’

'Economic Nutrition' labels are a power tool to support purchase decisions that uplift Canada's local economies

Read our client oped -- from Zita Cobb, CEO at Shorefast:

#cdnpoli #community #placedbased #tariffs #BuyCanadian

Product labels should do more to help people ‘Buy Canadian’ | Corporate Knights

OPINION | Economic Nutrition labels on products can be a powerful tool for buy-local movements to better support communities

www.corporateknights.com

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 3h

What’s standing up to a mad clown king looks like.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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The Hill Times @hilltimes.com · 2d

Mental health policy brief | When women's mental health is ignored; Why AI's quick fix is destroying our emotional intelligence; There's a burnout crisis among LTC workers; Strategies for improving employee mental health; and more.

www.hilltimes.com/policy-brief...

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QUOI Media Group 🇨🇦 @quoimedia.bsky.social · 7h

Jordan’s Principle isn’t a ‘program’—it’s a legal duty

Read our client oped from Irving Gold, CEO Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists:

#cdnpoli #OT #occupationaltherapy #JordansPrinciple #Indigenous #IndigenousKids #childrenshealth #kidshealth #disability #accessibility

Jordan’s Principle isn’t a ‘program’—it’s a legal duty

If the federal government publishes tight service standards, merges duplicative forms, pays on time, and reports honestly, families and front-line clinicians will feel the difference within weeks.

www.hilltimes.com

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 9h

Autumn colours #frost tonight #Ottawa

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The Verge @theverge.com · 1d

Big Tech is ‘donating’ to Trump’s ‘nonprofits’

Those ballrooms aren’t going to pay for themselves.

buff.ly

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Far-right parties in Belgium call for "antifa" bans.

The UK's Reform Party is adopting policy positions that are a “copy and paste” of Trump’s.

The American flag is a symbol for Brazil's far-right.

As Trump tears apart the US, experts worry that other countries may dismantle themselves too.

Is America contagious?

Scholars in political extremism are documenting the global spread of right-wing populism.

www.motherjones.com

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

CBS reports ICE agents have repeatedly made fake 911 calls. Each time, police found no threat. In Illinois, that’s a felony.

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s playlist #nowlistening

#PattiSmith
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Patti Smith - Summer Cannibals

YouTube video by pattismithVEVO

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 1d

There’s no such thing as the perfect gift…oh hang on

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

We are watching a coordinated right-wing takeover of popular media and it won’t stop here. archive.today/bXzZd

Jared Kushner's Firm Is Said to Be Part of $50 Billion Buyout of Electronic Arts Mr. Kushner's private equity firm, Affinity Partners, is said to be in talks with the Saudi sovereign wealth fund and Silver Lake to buy out the video game giant.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 1d

CNN is using a photo from the 1992 Los Angeles riots for an article explaining why Trump wants to deploy national guard troops to Portland:

CNN: “Two National guardsmen stand guard outside a burning donut shop in Los Angeles on April 30, 1992. The National Guard was called in to aid police during the second day of rioting in the city. Mark Elias/AP)”

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The Quantum Mechanic @subdude.bsky.social · 1d

Hey kids!
Tired of getting ziptied...?
Try this cool trick!
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Girl Breaks Zip Tie Using Shoelaces

YouTube video by Fur Family

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Trump’s openly talking about invoking the Insurrection Act with zero insurrection in sight. He’s inventing chaos in Portland and Chicago, and even saying he’d use it if courts or local officials are ‘holding us up’.

Wild how he didn’t bother using it during the actual insurrection on January 6.

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Jen Stewart @jstewgie.bsky.social · 1d

Personally I would've preferred "Over my dead body" but that's why I'm not prime minister #CdnPoli

Steven Chase @stevenchase.bsky.social · 1d

As Mark Carney is praising Donald Trump for his accomplishments during his White House visit, the U.S. President interrupts, adding: "the merger of Canada and the United States."

"That wasn't where I was going," Mr. Carney continues.

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 1d

I think this speaks more to their addiction to the Internet (gaming, etc.) and their insularity as much as it speaks to their love of fast food

www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

Despite Gen Z’s financial hurdles, some spend thousands a year on food delivery

Many see ordering meals from Uber Eats or DoorDash as an affordable luxury – but it adds up for a generation facing high housing costs and an uncertain economy

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Kathleen O'Grady 🇨🇦 @kathleenogradyca.bsky.social · 1d

Hands off Canada

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We're competing for the same business. That's the problem. That's why I keep mentioning one way to solve that problem is a very easy way."

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 1d

Thou shalt put all these war criminals on trial at the Hague.

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