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Chris de Leon

@christinedeleon.bsky.social
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Jazz nerd and persistent writer. Proud Canadian 🇨🇦 Proud daughter of immigrants 🇵🇭 Proud Londoner 🌉

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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
For those who believe ICE tactics would never be deployed in the UK, think again. This was classic Theresa May.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 30/01/2026
Catherine O’Hara, actor known for Schitt’s Creek, Home Alone and Best in Show, has died at the age of 71 after a brief illness. bit.ly/3LM2vqO
Catherine O'Hara
1954-2026
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Queen Nigella!
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Dear UK Government, Just tax UK billionaires and tech oligarchs already
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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
This was what America voted for. If Donald Trump was right here now, he'd say 'I told you I was going to do that and people told me that's what they wanted.' @maitlis.bsky.social Read Emily's report from Minnesota ▶️
thenewworld.co.uk
Emily Maitlis exclusive: Fear and loathing in Minnesota
In a remarkable report for The New World, the award-winning podcaster and broadcaster joins a deportation plane-spotter to watch Trump’s shock troops kick ordinary people out of the US
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Bermondsey arches.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A reminder that despite recent gentrification, Bermondsey was always a white working class London borough with strong links to the National Front.
A Union Jack flag hanging from the balcony of a housing estate.
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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 24/01/2026
Our celestial neighbour, right now, from my backyard. SeestarS50 capture. Monochrome. That prominent central crater is Theophilus. It’s about 4km deep and 100km wide. In its centre is a triple peak mountain that gets to about 2km high. Mountains on another world, formed by an impactor. 🌙🔭
Monochrome photo of a crescent moon.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
It all started when the world said it was OK for Trump to detain Mexican children in cages.
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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 23/01/2026
Leeswood (Flintshire) Council By-Election Result: ➡️ RFM: 22.3% (New) 🙋 Ind: 19.2% (-5.6) 🙋 Ind: 18.8% (+4.3) 🌹 LAB: 12.1% (-48.5) 🏘️ FPV: 11.0% (New) 🔶 LDM: 9.5% (New) 🌳 CON: 4.7% (New) 🙋 Ind: 2.4% (New) Reform GAIN from Labour. Changes w/ 2022.
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NPR @npr.org · 22/01/2026
In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more. n.pr/4sVW5pu
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Jazz centennials: Eight legends born in 1926
In 1926, a generation of artists was born that reshaped jazz for decades. This episode celebrates eight centennials, including Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Lou Donaldson, Tony Bennett and more.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The old neighbourhood 🩷
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Pat McCutcheon @pmccut.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
If truth is important to you than take 17 minutes out of your day to watch the interview below between @carolecadwalla.bsky.social and Robert Kagan. The world has changed and there is no going back
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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 21/01/2026
Greenland's Cooperation Party: Tillie Martinussen says the people of Greenland flat out say NO to MAGA's bribery & propaganda. Turns out, it doesn't work on people whose government invested in educating their own citizens. 🙌🏻💪🏼 (Which is exactly why Republicans don't do it) / Pt1
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Limehouse, London.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
I listened back to Carney’s speech again this morning. It’s really very good and probably the tone UK’s Starmer would’ve liked to have struck everyday since Trump took power. He simply can’t though because the UK is broke since leaving the EU. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in provocative speech at Davos | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a frank assessment of how he views the world in a provocative speech in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, where he said the longstanding U.S.-led, rules-based intern...
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This speech really was a rhetorical masterpiece. Kudos to whoever wrote it. And it's nice to have a leader who can pronounce Thucydides.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A certain line has just been crossed
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
A letter from the great Jeanette Winterson. 🩷 jeanettewinterson.substack.com/p/friends?ut...
jeanettewinterson.substack.com
FRIENDS
A few words about what makes life worth it.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
At what point do immigrants begin to wear a patch on their clothes to distinguish them from US citizens? ICE really are the modern day gestapo. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
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Florida Museum of Natural History @floridamuseum.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Scientist Spotted 🦏 Advait Jukar, Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology here at the Museum, quoted in a National Geographic article about woolly rhino tissue recovered from the stomachs of mummified wolf puppies in northeastern Siberia: www.nationalgeographic.com/science/arti... 🐺🐺
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Researchers recover a woolly rhino genome from inside a frozen wolf's stomach
The work marks the first time an Ice Age animal’s complete genome has been recovered from tissue preserved inside another ancient animal.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Trump accepting Machado's Nobel Peace Prize is a great insult to the FIFA Peace Prize committee
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
View of those white cliffs from the Calais-Dover ferry. It’s a nice slow way to travel. Less stressful than a flight and less like commuting on the Eurostar. Feels like a real voyage.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
If only there was an eye-roll-and-cringe emoji to use right now because I don’t have words to describe this particular flavour level of ‘omfg are you kidding me?’.
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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 15/01/2026
Germany, Sweden, France and Norway have all since confirmed they are sending military personnel to Greenland this week for a joint exercise with Danish troops. Canada and France have also said they plan to open consulates in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital, in the coming weeks. www.cnn.com/2026/01/15/w...
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European nations to send troops to Greenland as US annexation threats escalate | CNN
Several NATO countries are deploying small numbers of military personnel to Greenland to participate in joint exercises with Denmark as US President Donald Trump ramps up his threats to forcibly annex...
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Careerist Tories defecting to Reform are like flies to poo.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I spotted Invader in Dijon!
Street sign for Rue Du Chapeau Rouge. Below it a red hat made from mosaic tiles and the word “Sup”.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The beautiful windows and ceilings of the Lady Chapel in The Old Church (Oude Kerk), Amsterdam. Window on the right dates back to 1555 (pre-Reformation). Vaulted wooden ceilings date back to 1390.
Oude Kerk, Amsterdam. Stained glass windows telling Mary’s story that survived Reformation
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is so different in tone … it’s not a chant, it’s not a slogan. It’s our humanity calling out for decency and fairness.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia. Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.” Really listen to it.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
NEW: The Palantirisation of the UK military is a national security disaster. Peter Thiel is now the third wheel in the US-UK ‘special relationship’. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Alexis @alexisx-au.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
"'We're destroying words ... It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words ... Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?'" -- George Orwell, "1984" #booksky
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Federal Government's Growing Banned Words List Is Chilling Act of Censorship
Banned words list 2025: The federal government is banning a growing number of words to comply with executive orders from President Trump.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
If you're around Zurich this week, I'll be giving a keynote presentation at the Z-Forum on Sustainability and Innovation. I'll be talking about how to make the new migration work to benefit cities, and how to make cities successful for migrants. Arrival City meets the suburbanization of immigration
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
People of France, please ignore Quebequois Mathieu Bock-Côté. His ideas of intolerance are deeply Xenophobic. France is better for its diversity.
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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PJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Tonight's Waning Gibbous Moon (January 7th) at 95% illumination, 385,830km from Earth. Galway, Ireland. #Moon #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #MoonShot #Luna #SkyAtNight #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography
Waning Gibbous Moon at 95% illumination, 385,830km from Earth. Galway, Ireland.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
That poor woman in Minneapolis- it’s all over the news and unless you’ve been under a rock for two days you will have heard about it. ICE (paramilitaries, gestapo,etc) look and behave like schoolyard bullies who grew into fully grown psychotic men with tiny penis syndrome.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
It’s US colonial imperialism all over again and nobody is doing anything to stop it.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
I spoke with María Corina Machado today. I affirmed Canada’s support for a peaceful, Venezuelan-led transition of power — one that respects the democratic will of the Venezuelan people.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Oil brings us climate change and illegal invasions of sovereign nations.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
One sure change in Venezuela. It has not been one of those countries polarized between a far right and a Marxist left. Since 1958, it mainly had a democratic left which after 2002 gave way to a revolutionary (and then authoritarian) left. Its right was moderate centrist Christian Democrats. Not now
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-threat...
broligarchy.substack.com
The Threat from America
America is not our enemy, but it's a danger to itself and the world
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PJ 🇮🇪☘️ @knotweed-ireland.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Christmas Eve, Waxing Crescent Moon at 20% illumination. Galway, Ireland (December 24th). 389,709km from Earth. #Moon #Ireland #Scape #Landscape #Sky #Clouds #SkyScape #Photography
Waxing Crescent Moon illuminated by 20% over Galway, Ireland at 6:30pm (December 24th), 389,709km from Earth.
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Cosy.
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Fiona Robertson @stonelands.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Inside the mother of all Neolithic tombs ... Newgrange in Ireland. This photo, from excavator Michael O'Kelly's book, shows the chamber (with spiral carving) that is illuminated via the famous roofbox opening at winter solstice. A 5,200-yr-old celebration of the return of the sun. #TombTuesday
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Timelapse of Orion, Sirius, Mars, and the Pleiades over West Oahu, Hawaii. #NightSky #Space 🌟 #MondayVibes
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Chris de Leon @christinedeleon.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We can rejoin the EU, we just have to wait for more racist, ignorant old people to die.
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Mark MacKinnon @markmackinnon.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Sirens in Kyiv…
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago. Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence — and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.
Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique Montréal massacre.
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Glen Dunlap @glendunlap.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
#Moon at roughly 88% full tonight from the backyard in #SantaBarbara. #MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography #SantaBarbara Camera settings: Canon T5i Sigma 150mm x 600mm Focal length: 600mm F-stop: f/10 Exposure time: 1/1250 ISO: 800 Moon Phase: Waxing 88%
Close up photo of the Moon at about 88% full
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