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@melissamacdougall.bsky.social

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Writer. Mother. Wife. Lover of shoes, handbags and bacon. —— Proud Canadian • Progressive • Feminist • Ally to LGBTQ+ • Believer in equal rights • Jim Henson fan —— BLOCKING all: DMs, Conservatives, MAGA, Crypto, Misogyny, Homophobia + Racism

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · Jan 20

Wake me in four years…

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 4m

I’ve said it before but I’ll say it again:

Yes, we are angry about the tariffs and the relentless bullshit-propaganda being spread about us and our country. But so many of us are boycotting the US because we see how the American government is treating its own.

We stand with you.

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Hawkeye8 @hawkeye8.bsky.social · 4h

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 8h

What’s the chance that the mainstream media will finally refer to this as a Constitutional crisis?

The world is a watching in absolute fucking horror. Please stay safe!!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

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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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 14h

They don’t seem to understand that the reason for our boycott is multifaceted.

Yes, it’s the tariffs and the hateful rhetoric being spread about Canada. But it’s also that we see what’s happening in the US. So many of us can’t, in good conscience, support a nation that is harming its own.

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 14h

It’s bananas that anyone in the wealthiest nation on the planet is currently(!!) paying $600 /month for healthcare. 🤯

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 16h

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

As someone who has been to Oregon several times, I can attest how special that state truly is. Please fight the feelings of hopelessness, it’s the one emotion they’re counting on.

Thinking of all of you!!

Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, exactly this!!

Stop funding the abuse they’re inflicting on you. Shut it all down.

Apparently you can change your exemption status by filing paperwork at any time…? Can anyone confirm this?

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 1d

The shutdown isn’t just about healthcare - it’s also about Congress reining in the president. We’re going to have a fight, so let’s have it now.

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fucking bonkers that the wealthiest country on the planet is also the only G7 country not to have universal healthcare.

I just can’t comprehend it.

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

Like, I can’t even comprehend any of it. 🤯

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

I hate being wrong about anything but as an atheist, I hope I’m wrong about an afterlife just so these fake Christians burn in hell for their relentless inhumanity.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 2d

www.blackenterprise.com/source-trey-...

Kaepernick-Funded Autopsy Reportedly Finds Trey Reed Didn’t Die by Suicide — Family Attorney Ben Crump Hasn’t Confirmed

According to a source who isn't authorized to comment publicly, the autopsy of Trey Reed reveals that his death was not caused by a suicide.

www.blackenterprise.com

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

So… Not no?

Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 1d

I also apparently blocked that person at some point.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2d

ICE abducts people and then immediately moves them around to prevent access to lawyers and habeas corpus petitions. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social has the story on this consistent game being played to frustrate due process.
prospect.org/justice/2025...

How ICE Hides Detainees From Their Lawyers

‘It seems like cruelty is the point,’ one attorney said.

prospect.org

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 2d

Is it possible for blue states to withhold federal taxes?

If so, why isn’t that happening? Because you’re literally paying for this to happen — It’s all so messed up!!

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 2d

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 2d

Seems like an appropriate time to take a page out of 🇫🇷’s playbook and launch a General Strike. You saw what you achieved w/ Kimmel…

Imagine the domino effect of just air traffic controllers walking off the job:
Amazon shipments stall, ICE deportations slow, billionaires can’t fly, even private

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I have receipts that republicans can end the shutdown right now without a single democratic vote, and that the trump administration wants this shutdown and that's why they're not ending it. See the proof! www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

LIVE: Allison Gill - REPUBLICANS DIRTY SHUTDOWN SECRET REVEALED

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Get Out The Mid Term Vote @gotmtv.bsky.social · 2d

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 2d

And, what about next year and every year that follows?

More bailouts?

- China won’t suddenly start buying soybeans

-Canadians won’t end the boycott.

- USAID contracts won’t be reinstated.

- Tariffs won’t be removed so potash will continue to have import taxes applied.

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Mel 🇨🇦 @melissamacdougall.bsky.social · 2d

If civil war isn’t inevitable, how exactly do you see this ending?

He won’t leave. They won’t remove him. And, IF, midterms happen, they will be rigged in some manner.

Yes, there are other ways to halt what’s happening (economic shutdown), but you’re running out of time to organize.