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Donna Orchard

@donnaorchard.bsky.social
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mother, early childhood music specialist and songwriter, singer. I live in Winnipeg. 🌪️ she/her

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Donna Orchard @donnaorchard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
I miss Catbook; it was definitely the best part about Facebook.
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Maggie Smith @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
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Donna Orchard @donnaorchard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Fascinating how in the US, the UK, and now Canada the ONLY major political party leaders that are Jewish have all been accused of antisemitism.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Please note that the real antisemitism comes from the @theglobeandmail.com that wrote and published this during a time when they know that Lewis is observing shiva for his father’s death and can’t respond. We are being led by cowards
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Humanity is so beautiful when we aren’t trying to fucking kill each other, my god Okay ima cry this out and carry on lol
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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Oracle of Tehran
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
This speech is really good. He stays firmly focused on how we’re all struggling because of the ultra-wealthy hoarding profits and the monopolies on our groceries, cellphone and internet, etc. “This is more than a rigged economy. It’s a war on working people,” Lewis said.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Canada abstained
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Weird how this is a massive problem in every nation it's happening in. Ah well better keep vilifying trans kids and immigrants
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Israel Is Assassinating All the Pragmatists in Iran's Leadership www.commondreams.org/opinion/isra...
commondreams.org
Israel Is Assassinating All the Pragmatists in Iran's Leadership | Common Dreams
By killing moderate voices, the US and Israel are paving the way for the most extreme hardline factions to fill the void.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 09/03/2026
A basic statement of fact no one in the government of Canada is principled or brave enough to make.
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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 05/03/2026
Carney dragging Canada into a war it doesn’t want on the side of the US which Canadians view as a bigger threat to world peace than Russia and China COMBINED would be a death sentence for his government. The fact he’s even considering it is appalling.
politico.com
Look how much Canadians hate the United States now
It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.
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Tim Amor @timamor.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
For the followers of Jesus, wars are never holy.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Amazing that this essay never even mentions public transportation @thewaroncars.bsky.social
washingtonpost.com
Column | How to war-proof your budget before regular gas hits $4 a gallon
As the Iran conflict leads to rising gas prices, these tips can help you save money and maintain some budget predictability.
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Seeing that no press freedom orgs have rushed to defend and help @rachelgilmore.bsky.social makes me ask, for the millionth time, what do CJFE, PEN, etc even do? Why exist at all when you do fuck all to fight censorship and intimidation?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here. I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Reminder that the US military budget is larger than the military spending of the next nine largest countries combined. Over half goes to private defense contractors. This is the military-industrial complex Eisenhower warned of — on steroids.
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Record profits are unpaid wages. In a just society, one 40-hour a week job should pay enough to support a nuclear family — one brief stint as CEO should not pay so much it creates generation wealth and empowers the 1% to buy our elections. #TaxTheBillionaires
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 02/03/2026
Is it really so hard for Mark Carney to say something like this instead of constantly defending US breaches of international law?
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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
The argument that Carney cant demand that international law be upheld, not just in the Middle East but everywhere, makes no sense to me. Canada can do this & say both that the Iranian regime should fall & that aggressive war is illegal. It’s in our direct interests to do so.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Cuba is a Socialist country and one of the poorest in the world suffering under a 60+ year economic blockade by the richest country in the world. Guess which one has better healthcare, life expectancy, literacy, lower infant mortality and every type of crime. It ain't the USA.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 17/02/2026
Today’s the day: Contact your MP and tell them to vote for @jennykwan.bsky.social's No More Loopholes Act to stop the flow of Canadian arms to Israel via the US. Learn more here: armsembargonow.ca/nomoreloopho...
armsembargonow.ca
Arms Embargo Now!
The No More Loopholes Act will go to a vote in Parliament at the end of February. The critical window to act to pressure MPs to vote for it is right now.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Boycotts work. It's why we're told they don't work and that people with a platform "shouldn't be political" yet if enough people are the world can change
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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The only photographs of the 200 resistance fighters executed by the Nazis on Mayday 1944 in Athens are now being auctioned for a handful of dollars on eBay, a platform founded by crypto-fascist techbros. To honour the fallen it is our duty to stop this racket.
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Diamond Yao 🌈 @graceofyul.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
“Children always bear the worst ravages of society’s ills. It is not surprising at all, to see that Canada’s first mass shooting against children would happen at a time of crumbling social conditions and increasing desperation.“
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
There is genuinely so much bad, mis-and disinformation floating around about the tragedy in BC right now online that social media is worse than useless - it is actively harmful.
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 10/02/2026
I think the people’s forum is sending supplies and I’ve also seen this link going around But honestly I think the above thing is the most important. cubavive.org.uk/donate/
cubavive.org.uk
Donate – Cuba Vive
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 04/02/2026
“The fact that we do live next to the largest private health care insurance market in the world, the largest private, for-profit health care provider market in the world, is reason to take these issues very seriously,” @alonghurst.bsky.social said. #cdnpoli reddeeradvocate.com/2026/02/03/a...
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Alberta’s Bill 11 violates Canada’s Public Health Care Act, says new report - Red Deer Advocate
Alberta’s New Democrats launch health care emergency petition
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Donna Orchard @donnaorchard.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🙏🏻 ❤️
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 23/01/2026
María del Rosario Díaz García needs to raise $4,750 to get her son's body back to Nicaragua after he died at ICE's Camp East Montana earlier this month. The Texas Nicaraguan Community has set up a donation link on her behalf at: www.facebook.com/share/p/1DLk...
Maria del Rosario Dias Garcia stands holding a printed poster with a photo of a young man and Spanish text asking for help to repatriate his body to Nicaragua.
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la flaneuse 😷 @laflaneuse.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
As we grieve for Alex Pretti and Renee Good in MN, please do not forget Victor Manuel Diaz, who died in ICE custody after being taken from here. And all others who have died in their custody.
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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
DESPITE A COURT ORDERING HER RELEASE
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Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Paul Robeson died 50 years ago today. Can you imagine being the most famous Black person in the world at one point, only to die in near obscurity? The American government made sure no one would remember one of the greatest Americans to ever live. He was 77
Inside of April 1976 Ebony article:

Paul Robeson
Farewell to a FighterCover of April 1976 Ebony Magazine with headline:

Paul Robeson - Farewell To A Fighter 

on top right cornerVarious works on Paul Robeson, including a biography of his wife Eslanda Robeson and a book by his son Paul Robeson Jr
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
New Oxfam report finds that billionaire wealth increased 3x faster last year than in previous years. A clear reminder that right-wing populism is fake populism. www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...
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Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality | Oxfam International
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 20/01/2026
Fascinating how Rupar left out the beginning, what I would I would say was the most important part: "We knew the international rules based order was false." Carney straight up admits to Western hypocrisy without any semblance of apology for it. Just, "well sucks it doesn't work anymore for us."
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Gaza's children have been abandoned. But you can give them food, shelter, and water. Please donate anything you can to this verified Palestinian charity. chuffed.org/project/1640...
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taber @kvetch.gay · 18/01/2026
hi from Minneapolis. these folks are catastrophically overthinking it; the immediate need when agents hit a block is for people that speak *any* language to know it's not safe to go out. that need is far more pressing than whatever this infantilizing "actually it's racist to make noise" shit is.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
For those that don’t know, Minneapolis unions called for a statewide strike
minneapolisunions.org
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
We collect far less data than most OECD countries and we have no way of measuring a lot of stuff we need to measure. Carney knows that an ignorant population is a docile population. He's ensuring we stay ignorant.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Should be bigger news that the bureau chief of Toronto Sun is celebrating an unarmed woman being executed in the street
Bryan Passifiume "in this case the far left ended up catching a few well deserved bullets for their miscalculation "Bryan Ottawa bureau chief
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Kelly McCullough @kellydmcc.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
If you let them, the horrors will devour you whole. Making space to live and smile is an act of resistance. So is helping others to do the same. If you’re an artist in this time, remember that what you’re doing is part of the emotional support infrastructure. They want you silent. 1/2
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 05/01/2026
Greenland belongs neither to Denmark or the US but to the Inuit who live there and comprise the vast majority of the population. And I refuse to accept any framing of the situation that refuses to acknowledge how this is essentially two European powers fighting over colonies.
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Always fact check the 'fact-check.' A claim continuously cited to justify removing Maduro is that 70% of 2024 votes went to the Venezuelan opposition. ClearPath Strategies (a U.S. company) used data from a pre-election survey collected by... the opposition... www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/...
aljazeera.com
Fact-checking Trump following US ‘capture’ of Venezuela’s Maduro
Republican US president says Washington will 'run' Venezuela after US troops seize the country's leader.
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The US has launched an unprovoked and illegal attack on Venezuela. This is a brazen attempt to secure control over Venezuelan natural resources. It is an act of war that puts the lives of millions of people at risk, and should be condemned by anyone who believes in sovereignty & international law.
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