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Sandra L Lester

@sandrallester.bsky.social

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Tech-enabled Certified Passive House Designer and building scientist 👩‍🔬 #SclerodermaWarrior 🇨🇦 Anti-colonial socialist democrat questioning broken systems, elevating sustainability, and human dignity. 🍉🏳️‍🌈🪶 https://coff.ee/sandrallester

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

I choose to remain Canadian with protected privacy. Donated to Greenpeace Canada’s campaign to squash this POS draft legislation. Will you sign and donate too? Or don’t you care about Canada?
#cdnpoli
#elbowsup

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Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!

Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy

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Peter Morley ♿️ @petermorley.bsky.social · 1h

If you don't walk (or wheel) a mile in shoes of someone with chronic illness OR their caregivers, you can't fully understand the struggles we face. We fight SO hard to keep up w/forms & paperwork & granted FORTUNATE access to healthcare to LIVE.

To dangle healthcare & RIP it from us is MERCILESS! 🤬

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 37m

They are planning to make people dependent on it, let their brain cells atrophy, then jack up the prices by 500%, just like the health insurance in the States.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 44m

The AI valuation bubble is now getting silly | Nils Pratley

The broad parallels are genuinely close to the madness of the late-1990s dotcom bubble

www.theguardian.com

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Heather Campbell @thatheatherc.bsky.social · 42m

Calgary, please, just vote. Early voting is open now. Election day is Monday, October 20th. /end

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 46m

This is sick. Sick. Sick. Sick. And unsafe.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 47m

If it would kill AI to ask for permission and pay for licenses then let’s kill AI. Period.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 48m

It’s designed to pull the rug out from under the lower, middle and upper class so that the oligarchic thugs can swoop in and buy it all up went it crashes. They are doing it on purpose.

This is not Christian. This is the opposite of the Golden Rule.
#USPoli

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 9h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 1d

Worried about a phone seizure if you travelled to the States? Well, it’s going to happen here, except worse—way worse!
#cdnpoli
#KillBillC2

Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 2d

If you think ICE raids are impossible here, it may be time to think again…

Bill C-2 is about to import militarized control, racial profiling & mass surveillance right out of Trump’s playbook and into our backyard.

#StopBillC2 #RejectMapleMAGA #DontTrumpCanada #Cdnpoli

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 2h

Because we’re not stupid
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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 1d

Majority of Canadians oppose Canada joining Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ missile defence system

“Just 23% of Canadians — almost all of whom vote Conservative — say they support the idea.”

Majority of Canadians oppose Canada joining Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defence system

A majority of Canadians oppose Canada joining Trump's 'Golden Dome' missile defence system as part of any trade agreement.

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 2h

What’s the rescheduled date and time?

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 2h

Sounds like something an old pedophile would suggest.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 2h

No, we are just selling off our future by harvesting all of our natural resources.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 3h

No, to a gilded prison called the Golden Dome. No, to oil pipelines.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 3h

Seriously?

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 10h

Thanks! The “not religious” was for your context not theirs, but I get the idea and I like it.

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 10h

@patrickcanning.bsky.social - along the same lines as your previous question but a different perspective.

Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 10h

Not religious. I find the actions of the Republican regime to be incongruent with the teaching of Jesus. Amplify that?

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 10h

Warrants are a necessary judicial process in a democratic society, and without them we have autocracy.
Are you okay with ALL of your online data being shared with Palantire and the autocratic Republican regime that is a transnational crime syndicate?

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 13h

This is what’s coming here in Canada if we don’t squash Bill C-2. Think I am exaggerating? Read the draft legislation yourself.
#CdnPoli

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16h

"There just isn’t enough time. There’s only what we manage to make of it—what we build, what we protect, what we remember to carry to the car. The gas mask. The snacks. The question we forgot to ask. The name of the person taken." My latest.

The Emergency Is the Atmosphere

“It’s meant to exhaust us. It’s meant to destroy us."

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 13h

Seems to be fine for me, Sarah.

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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 14h

The conclusion that Doug Ford and everyone around him are lawless pricks who don't give a rat's as whether you, your family and friends or your community live or die is unavoidable.
#onpoli #FordFailedOntario
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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 1d

This is insane! Ford’s ministers speeding in school zones?? This corrupt PC government is drunk on power and dangerously out of control!! #Onpoli

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 14h

What the hell? There are no elbows in view at all here, and this is not what we voted for at all. Not one bit. Carney needs to go.
#CdnPoli

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 15h

As Canada blows way past its international GHG commitments, Carney offers up a massive new pipeline for the tar sands to Trump.
This is the - Let's not fight, we can burn the planet together approach to international relations.
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Carney raised Keystone XL pipeline revival in meeting with Trump | CBC News

Relief for Canada from U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum may come thanks to renewed interest in a pipeline project first proposed more than 15 years ago.

www.cbc.ca

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Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @laura-babcock.bsky.social · 1d

FFS!!!! While Ford is talking tough about protecting Ontario from Trump he took 100M of our hard earned tax dollars and give them to his close friends’ lobbying firms. This is more than corruption it’s Trump level grifting. More on Friday’s OShow Scandal Panel 🤬🤬🤬

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Sandra L Lester @sandrallester.bsky.social · 14h

Why are they exempt from license suspension?