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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 2m

Working, albeit slowly. But towels and test sample are wet finished. I think I’m good to go with finishing the current warp. Just have to re-check pick count and adjust length. Started ms ‘review’. I am SO excited for this book. It has made its go fund me so will publish in 26. 📕

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The Georg @thegeorg.bsky.social · 11h

Nobody wins a peace prize by starting a war within their own country. #AbolishICE.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone actually care about this? Y’all happy with the destruction of environmental protections? Work safety? Safe food? Letting people get sick and die?
#never51
#elbowsUp

Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 10h

I'm beginning to think Musk might not care about the environment after all...

www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Elon Musk’s Boring Co. Accused of Nearly 800 Environmental Violations on Las Vegas Project

Nevada could’ve fined the company more than $3 million, but regulators are seeking a reduced penalty of $242,800, citing an “extraordinary number of violations.”

www.propublica.org

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 9h

Margaret Sanger must be spinning in her grave. (Yes, I know, but without her efforts we would not have had birth control etc.)

The alt right want to remove anyone not male to be baby producers. Back to no basic human rights. No choice. No freedom.

#never51
#elboesUp

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h

The South Carolina GOP is pushing for one of the nation’s strictest abortion bans. If passed, the bill would:
✅Make abortion a felony equivalent to homicide
✅Narrow the legal definition of contraceptives
✅Criminalize sharing information about abortion
https://bit.ly/47ipe5t

New Attack on Free Speech: South Carolina GOP Wants to Criminalize Sharing Abortion Info

Read more here.

bit.ly

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

thinking about how fucked up it is to give kids measles on purpose and then withhold tylenol from them

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 1d

Time to drop some f bombs and talk about the face of gangster fascism.
Gone are the grey uniforms and goose-steps in are the baseball caps and botox.
But the fascist playbook is redefining politics. We need to call it out.
This is my latest.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlr...

DROPPING F BOMBS ON FASCISM

YouTube video by Charlie Angus

www.youtube.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 21h

Jaysus. She wants to be American maga SO bad! Let her move to the US. Please.

#never51
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Canadian Cynic @canadiancynic.bsky.social · 1d

I can't even mock this. Seriously.

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Considering the man has zero shame or embarrassment…

#never51
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Make America Decent Again @disposableheroes.bsky.social · 1d

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

My rep is a con. I have zero doubt my negative opinion will be given any weight whatsoever.

#never51
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Annexation Watch 🇨🇦 Alerte Annexion @annexationwatch.ca · 1d

This is one of the forms annexation can take. Not an invasion, but slow integration and constant acquiescence from our own government that is desperate to "get a deal".

Write your MPs to demand they deny any US requests that arise from this bill. If they don't know we care, they won't care either.

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Hell NO.
#never51
#elbowsUp

BaskingSnark 🇨🇦 @baskingsnark.bsky.social · 1d

Oh fuck no

Elizabeth Thompson @lizt1.bsky.social · 1d

U.S bill calls for negotiations for more integration between Canadian, American border agents and for U.S. law enforcement to be able to operate in Canada. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Gag.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Following MTG's lengthy CNN sitdown interview, Wolf Blitzer tells her:

"You‘re a courageous politician, but more important, a loving mother. Thanks very much for coming in. We hope you‘ll come back here in the Situation Room."

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

I constantly play whack-a-mole trying to select info that is NOT an AI ‘overview’ or ‘summary’.

tru @thetrudz.photo · 1d

“It’s here to stay.”
“It’s not going anywhere.”
“Get used to it.”

Notice the robotic repetitive propaganda that tech billionaires spit into the mouths of proponents like a mother bird feeding babies is never about ethics, always about force, while pretending the force is natural not man made.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Typical. Make up a boogie man, spend buckets of money for next to nothing, blame immigrants, rinse, repeat.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 2d

Alberta launched its border patrol last year to help stop the flow of illegal drugs and migrants across what Premier Smith called the “leaky” U.S. border.

But the Interdiction Patrol Team has so far made only a handful of arrests, according to data released through an access to information request.

Alberta’s Border Patrol Has Made Only a Handful of Arrests | The Tyee

Ten months in, critics are concerned about the $29-million cost and few results from the initiative.

thetyee.ca

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

What is the point that Jack is trying to make? The fascists were the victims? That the US finally entered WW2 and fought against them, so that makes the fascists…whiplash. Getting whiplash.
#never51
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Jens Notroff @jensnotroff.com · 2d

Variation of the goose chase meme, the goose asking: "What happened to the Weimar Republic?" in this version.

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Rachel Grant/R.S. Grant @rachelgrant.bsky.social · 3d

It feels weird doing book promo now, but also with the government shutdown & my husband being furloughed, we need my income.

Worth noting: False Flag goes after #pseudoarchaeology, disinformation & using AI to rewrite history to fuel a white supremacist takeover of government.
#archaeology
#booksky

Cover Reveal Evidence: Under Fire #4

contest.rachel-grant.net

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

My ‘broken’ UHC is providing blood tests for 18 different things today. The 1 day delay was because doc didn’t tell me one required fasting. Cost? ZERO.
#never51
#elbowsUp

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

I have recovered from the funk of earlier. Have a photo.

View from my living room yesterday. Wind took most of the leaves off but the mountain ash still has a magnificent orange red crown. The lights in my window are dragonflies

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Including supposedly ‘Canadian’ msm outlets. Which are owned by US corporations.
#never51
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 2d

I see from CNN that Canada’s economy is in “crisis”.

A word of unsolicited advice to everyone: don’t believe a single word any US media says about Canada. None. They don’t know shit about us and they don’t care.

It’s in the US’ interest to describe us as being in crisis. Not ours.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Please tell me this is satire.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Whiners all.

🇨🇦DeNoPeLLe🇨🇦🇺🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 @denopelle.bsky.social · 2d

In my opinion this is the most important news story in happening in Canada right now
I’ll bet you can guess which Five Premiers want OUR🇨🇦 Federal Gov’t to not stop them from abusing the power to suspend the Charter of Right?
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Oh I hate the Lycra in every damn thing. ☹️

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

The old man can’t get his rocks off so he gets to enjoy a dopamine hit by murdering folk. 🤷‍♀️

#never51
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rand Paul: "I think blowing up speedboats in the Caribbean isn't necessarily the answer."

Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Because we are all supposed to believe what he says? Yeah, no. Nope. Nyet, even.

#never51
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

AP: “.. the administration has only pointed to unclassified video clips of the strikes posted on social media by President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and has yet to produce ‘hard evidence’ that the vessels were carrying drugs.”

@apnews.com
apnews.com/article/trum...

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Diosa Luna @rainsong9.bsky.social · 2d

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