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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 17m

I understand your anger. We knew they’d try this. PLEASE look to the historians who study fascism & how it’s overturned. The ONLY thing that works is massive, sustained, non-violent resistance. Never violence.

Listen to Ruth Ben Ghiat, Parkrose Permaculture, Tim Snyder, Heather Cox Richardson…

Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 22m

“The professor, nicknamed “Dr Antifa” by … students, had said he was moving to Europe after receiving death threats. Turning Point USA… have claimed he is a “financier” for the leftwing movement.”

Fact check: No prof has the $ to be a financier for anything.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com

Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 12h

@jenluv.bsky.social As a welcome to Vancouver Island… youtu.be/9k7OUowPPMQ

I Am the Very Model of a Modern-Day Canadian

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 17h

Dolly Parton for president is one of the few things that might unite 🇺🇸 .

There have been much worse ideas. One of them is in office now.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 18h

The phone number for the U.S. Capitol switchboard is (202) 224-3121. #epstein

Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 2d

My constituents want me to get to work but House Republicans are more concerned about protecting the Epstein files.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/u...

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

www.nytimes.com

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 18h

Ha! As if people don’t buy houses just because they didn’t think of it. 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 18h

Roof

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 18h

Water

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 19h

There's no such thing as a democracy Roomba. We're going to have to clean all this shit up ourselves. Find an event at the link, and come join millions of your neighbors on October 18 for No Kings Day. www.nokings.org

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 19h

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All my sympathy is with Mark Carney as he looks around for anyone sane in the room.

As usual, the 🤡 didn’t answer the question.

US tourism industry: Canadians are not coming back. Some want 🤡 gone 1st, some will never go back.

Trump asked about Canadians who are refusing to come to the U.S.

U.S. President Donald Trump, sitting alongside Prime Minister Mark Carney, was asked about a decline in Canadian travel south of the border and said that ‘Americans don’t want to buy cars that are mad...

www.cbc.ca

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 20h

I think Trump would rather Congress never vote to reopen the government than let Adelrita Grijalva trigger the Epstein Files discharge. And I bet he doesn’t have a plan other than the Insurrection Act.

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 23h

I love it. Non-violent creativity works every time. Effective resistance is often (not exclusively) psychological and based on optics.

Mark 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦 @miestro78.bsky.social · 1d

I'd say ice is floundering 😹

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

If anyone’s struggled to keep up with my threads on why the genAI bubble
Is a bubble, here’s a simplified pictorial explanation, the plug is OpenAI and the sockets are Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Nvidia, and AMD

A power strip with the plug end plugged in to one of the sockets

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 1d

Sigh… holds up. It holds up. Night night.

Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 1d

25 years later (!!!) Kid A still stands up. In case you were wondering.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

We covered this on today's @dailybeanspod.com. Extremely dangerous and these ICE agents should be charged with felonies.

Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 2d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 1d

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity

Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

www.bbc.com

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 2d

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 3d

THAT is the threshold every neighbourhood must push them over. Every. Single. Time.

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 5d

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

2 million rally in Italy for Gaza as general strike halts key services

Over 2 million people across Italy have rallied in more than 100 cities for a one-day general strike.

bit.ly

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 5d

Yup. Studies have shown this for over 20 years, at least.

Half a Goon and Half a God 🇨🇦 @halfgoonhalfgod.bsky.social · 5d

Long past time for society and government to realize that we all are paying one way or another.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 5d

Jason Miles’ addiction cost $260,000 in ER, shelter and jail stays. A Toronto hospital’s radical solution: just give him a home. Dunn House backers say the supportive housing project saved the health system millions.
www.thestar.com/news/gta/jas... via @thestar.com

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Bon Hanson @bonhanson.bsky.social · 6d

75% of the billions of dollars that Canada has been spending on military equipment have gone to suppliers in the USA. That's about to change.

www.ctvnews.ca/video/2025/1...

CTV National News: Ottawa announces plans to make big defence purchases

Judy Trinh discusses the goal set by Ottawa’s new Defence Investment Agency and what this move could mean in terms of the Canada-U.S. trade war.

www.ctvnews.ca

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 5d

Yes. Yes it was.

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 5d

youtu.be/6mvLKY0FQrI

Americans:

You probably know this, but just in case… Heather Cox Richardson is one of your national treasures. She’s wise, strategic, deeply grounded in your history, and always looking at the big picture.

This Week in Politics | Explainer

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

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Not the Mary Conquest you’re looking for. @maryconquest.bsky.social · 7d

A beautiful spirit with an important legacy. A life well lived, a feminist icon… These are the phrases that come to mind when I think of Dr Goodall.
❤️❤️❤️

Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 7d

"If we lose hope, we're doomed."

We must continue Dr. Jane Goodall's mission and all fight for the future of the planet.

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