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Canadian 🇨🇦 writer feminist founding member of the clergy project, author of from Apostle to Apostate. Working on a new book…also Pilates. I ❤️Pilates.

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@Catherinethinks @catherinethinks.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
@mcuban.bsky.social bringing the cost down on prescription medication is the right thing to do. Healthcare including access to pharma-care are necessary if you want to ensure all humans are treated with dignity.
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@Catherinethinks @catherinethinks.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wrote a little something catherinethinks.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
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The Age of Malice
sad little man break everything
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
From now on, Canadians will refer to the United States as Epstein Island.
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Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 10/08/2026
A huge success for inclusive education. After a decade of tireless work from our education and campaigns teams, humanist representatives now sit on 153 out of 173 local bodies that decide the RE curriculum in schools across England and Wales. 🧵 humanists.uk/2026/08/03/h...
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Huge growth in humanist representation on local religious education councils
The number of humanist representatives serving on local religious education councils has seen significant growth over the last five years, embedding a more inclusive education about religion and world...
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New Humanist @newhumanist.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Stay smart in a changing world. Join New Humanist today: newhumanist.org.uk/subscribe
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I’m in standing room at @torontobluejays.bsky.social , behind accessible seating, where a kid/teen in a wheelchair is distraught because he can’t see anything with everyone standing up. If anyone happens to be in a box or something with extra seats, this is your chance to do a good deed.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
New hat just dropped.
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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 16/07/2025
Let’s Talk About Epstein
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BC Federation of Labour @bcfed.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Big news: the BC Human Rights Tribunal has "affirmed that immunodeficiency is a physical disability," with employers having a duty to address barriers and find solutions. #BCLab
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Some of what we use today was made for people with disabilities first
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Imagine being a teenager, figuring out who you are, only to have your very existence denied because of what your parents believe. That's the reality for many LGBT young people in religious families, not helped by RSE guidance allowing opt-outs.
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New Relationships and Sex Education guidance keeps religious opt-outs
New statutory guidance for the teaching of Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) in schools in England has been published by the Department for Education (DfE). Humanists UK has welcomed many aspects ...
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Bette Reynolds @thatsbette.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Notorious O.A.P. - Oot Noo! Wherever you get yer choons ThatsBette.com
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Publish it again. Every journalist who has published Epstein stuff before should just publish it again.
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@Catherinethinks @catherinethinks.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I tell myself I’m not just checking the news everyday to see if t7u#p is dead
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kermit the frog from the muppet show is holding his hand to his chin .
ALT: kermit the frog from the muppet show is holding his hand to his chin .
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Wonderful news for @humanists.bsky.social – delighted to see Maggie Ardiente step into the role of President. Looking forward to all she will achieve! humanists.uk/2025/07/11/m...
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New era for Humanists International
Humanist delegates from 80 organisations across 50 countries convened in Luxembourg over the weekend for the general assembly of Humanists International. The weekend saw Humanists UK Chief Executive A...
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Andrew Copson @andrewcopson.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
AI as a means to enhance lives, foster understanding & contribute to human flourishing, without ever compromising fundamental values or creating new inequalities. Much needed humanist framework drafted by @humanists.uk w/input from AI experts & ‪Humanists International humanists.uk/2025/07/10/h...
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Humanists pass global declaration on AI and human values
Representatives of the global humanist community collectively resolved to pass The Luxembourg Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Human Values at the 2025 general assembly of Humanists Internat...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
A government ban on Hungary’s Pride parade backfired Saturday as over 100,000 people marched through Budapest, far more than usual PM Viktor Orban warned people to stay away, threatening “clear legal consequences.” But the warnings only turned a modest event into a mass rally against his government
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Shirley Blair 🇨🇦🍉 @himalayanchildren.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
All Postmedia publications should be banned
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
"The Man from Moscow" - President Trump on the cover of French magazine Le Point.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Wasn’t it just a week ago that we were supposed to get a 30-day pause? And now, suddenly, he’s focused on steel and aluminum imports? No one in Canada is surprised. Did anyone actually believe this guy? That his word meant anything? He’s a criminal.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The way Americans are joking about taking over Gaza, Greenland and Canada goes way beyond what normal people deem acceptable or the normal level of idiocy we all endure to get along. It is offensive. Stop it.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Dems should propose a law that immediately requires every fed agency to post on @bsky.app account, every outlay with a detailed description, $, and a link to existing gov sites with in depth details Rather than trying to keep Elon out, pre-empt him so he cant miss characterize spending.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.
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@Catherinethinks @catherinethinks.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
SMART!
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
The use of the boycott has a long and powerful tradition of taking on tyranny. The grassroots Canadian boycott against Trump is having a serious effect. And we've only just begun.. Please read on how we can use our dollars to resist the gangster in Washington. substack.com/@charlieangu...
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THE POWER OF THE BOYCOTT
Canadians Tell Trump To Stuff It
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Will Americans stand up for us? Probably not.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In Germany over 200,000 protestors in Munich gathered against the Musk backed far-right / neo-Nazi AfD ahead of the German election. Thousands chanted "Save Democracy" and "Oppose Nazis" #3E
200,000 protestors 200,000 protestors 200,000 protestors
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🔥 AMAZING. Today, the Baltic states disconnected their power grids from that of Russia. It’s taken years of prep. What a moment.
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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🇨🇦WAKE THE FUCK UP, CANADA🇨🇦 The Trump administration has it out for Liberals. They will do whatever they can to help PP win. Entire video: vm.tiktok.com/ZMksypqJM/
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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million
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Louisiana coerced unhoused people into an unheated warehouse – and paid $17.5m for it
Dozens of New Orleanians were bused to a site with insufficient heating and blankets days before the city is to host the Super Bowl
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Leeta 🇨🇦 @micropainter.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Danielle Smith must step down. We need a fully independent investigation into alleged corruption. NOW. #ResignDanielle #Canada #CanadaSky #cdnpoli #Alberta #ableg #abpoli #yyc #yeg
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Susan Glasser: "We've been subjected to, I think, almost an Orwellian picture this week." Fact.
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Tom Whittaker @tpwhittaker.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Doug Ford's campaign for his snap election. No debates, no costed platform, no mandate letters, limited media questions, no interviews. Same person who is subject of a criminal investigation for political corruption. I hope voters are not ok with this.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 08/02/2025
A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.
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Bill Comeau 🇨🇦 @bill-comeau.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Joe Rogan and some likeminded Americans now say Canada isn't free and that we are a "communist sh*thole". I checked the 2024 CATO Inst. ratings on freedom. Canada ranks 11th, the US ranks 17th. Hey down there - stop making stuff up eh, come visit and see for yourself. www.cato.org/human-freedo...
World freedom score map, Cato Institute.
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ava1971.bsky.social @ava1971.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material - The Washington Post We need to find a freaking attorney to do a class action lawsuit involving every person in the United States who wants to sue Elon Musk over what he did
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DCapTO @dcapto.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
If you still need convincing that Doug Ford is NOT protecting Ontario or Ontarians, this list is long and staggeringly thorough! #VoteFordOUT #ONpoli
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Mindfield @mindfield.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
DOGE is a figment of the GOP’s diseased imagination. Everybody working in it who isn’t an elected official is a private citizen, and everything all of them are doing is blatantly illegal. But none of the GOP will enforce the damn laws because they’re spineless cowards.
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Robert Benzie @robertbenzie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
NEW: ⁦‪@abacusdataca‬⁩ poll for the ⁦‪@TorontoStar‬⁩: ⁦‪@OntarioPCParty‬⁩ 46% ⁦‪@OntLiberal‬⁩ 24% ⁦‪@OntarioNDP‬⁩ 21% ⁦‪@OntarioGreens‬⁩ 5% #onpoli www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ontario election: ‘Hot mic’ gaffe carries risks but Doug Ford’s Tories still lead, poll suggests
An Abacus Data poll for the Star found Ford's Tories with 46 per cent support, well ahead of Bonnie Crombie's Liberals at 24 per cent, Marit Stiles's New Democrats at
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Russell Vought has been confirmed to lead OMB, over strenuous protest from Democrats. This is the man who said he wanted to put federal workers “in trauma” and to make them “villains.” We live in dangerous times.
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Senate Democrats Hold the Floor in Overnight Protest of Trump Nominee
Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled an all-nighter to show their opposition.
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Fasten your seat belts... @lesjfrie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Poilievre conservatives are spreading a lie about Global Affairs.
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