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Retired paralegal. Thankful Canadian. Key: Protect PUBLIC education to protect our democracies. “They can/will do anything you can’t stop them from doing.” Pay attention. "Canada has the potential to become its own best customer." PM Carney, 2025-07-16

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re protecting existing affordable rental housing, to make sure Canadians can stay in the communities they call home.
Screenshot of an article from the Toronto Star. The headline reads: Federal government launches $1.5-billion program to preserve affordable rental housing.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
In support of vaccines: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... "These findings are yet another reason for more vaccine research, not less. People with misgivings about shots should consider the accumulating evidence that benefits extend well beyond preventing infections." 1/4
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Opinion | Yet another reason to get the shingles vaccine
A new study finds compelling evidence that the shingles vaccine has cardiovascular benefits.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
"Impunity breeds...cynicism, and cynicism undergrads autocracy." "The first blow against autocracy is the refusal of cynical complacency." (No paywall. Support The Guardian.) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Trump’s corruption leaves us cynical – and complacent | Judith Levine
Impunity breeds popular cynicism, and cynicism undergirds autocracy
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Sai On Blue Sky @saifiles.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Listen. Watch. Share. I like this resolve. Not just talk, he says, it must be put into real action too. WE nations together are now the leaders of the free world. The torch has passed. 👇
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 20/05/2026
The people trying to bring us down say "your one purchase won't matter." They say it's cheaper and easier to give up and buy American. NO. We choose Canada. 🇨🇦 ✅ THIS WEEK: Buy something Canadian you've never tried before, and if you love it, tell us about it in the comments ⬇️ #BuyCanadian
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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I love this interview. Where is Barbara Walter’s when you need her?
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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Communities have been terrorized. The men who killed Alex Pretti and Renee Good have seen no accountability. Yet Republicans in Congress want even more billions for ICE at the cost of SNAP and Medicaid. Tell them no. act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo...
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Tell Your Republican Members of Congress: Not One Penny More for ICE Brutality
Email your Republican Members of Congress and urge them to vote NO on any budget reconciliation bill that will shovel more taxpayer dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The vice president of the United States is just standing up here saying people should feel sorry for domestic terrorists who were given free and fair trials and were then convicted in a court of law. Absolutely despicable.
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Sai On Blue Sky @saifiles.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Spy boss says Alberta referendum vulnerable to foreign interference | CBC News
The head of Canada's intelligence agency says Alberta's potential secession vote is susceptible to disinformation and foreign interference from players like Russia.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
All together now! ... "But Nige did take five million quid, and Nige would take five million more!" 💥💥💥 #RefUKkers
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Pure joy!
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John Orquiola @backofthehead.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Relevant 22 years later
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Trump fires all 24 members of the U.S. National Science Foundation’s governing body Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Trump fires NSF's oversight board
Dismissal of the National Science Board is widely seen as latest move to erase NSF’s independence
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Those of us in the pro-democracy movement can and should hold both of these positions. 1. We unequivocally reject violence. 2. We will unequivocally oppose efforts by this administration to use last night as an excuse to try to suppress criticism and criminalize dissent.
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clnzjay 🌱 🐶 🇨🇦 @clnz.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
🇨🇦 Alberta separatism is still a minority view—but when it’s amplified from outside Canada, it distorts reality and fuels division. It turns a fringe issue into something bigger than it is, and that’s a problem. How do we fix this? #CanadaUnited www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of views | CBC News
A number of accounts creating misleading YouTube videos about Alberta separatism with millions of views appear to have their origins in a Dutch digital marketing course, a CBC/Radio-Canada investigati...
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David Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
You know how piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s 🍁MAGA band of KuKluxKonvoyers, anti-vaxxers, gun cultists, anti-abortionists and Alberta separatists keep saying 🇨🇦Canada under PM Carney isn’t taken seriously anymore? Well, just watch Lawrence O’Donnell on 🇺🇸US network television: youtu.be/7gamzMLB8rw?...
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O'Donnell credits Canada & Carney for fighting back against Trump
YouTube video by FactPointVideo
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Our plan is creating more certainty, more security, and more prosperity for all Canadians.
Screenshot of an article from Bloomberg. The headline reads: IMF Sees Canada's Fiscal Position as Strongest in Group of Seven.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
44 years ago today, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was signed into law. It laid the foundation for a stronger, more just Canada. It is up to us all to protect the values of freedom and equality enshrined in the Charter — to keep building a better Canada, for all.
Graphic with the text: 44th ANNIVERSARY OF THE CANADIAN CHARTER OF RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2026
Trump is reportedly being sidelined by his own military leaders amid escalating tensions with Iran. As he renews war crime threats against Iranian civilian infrastructure and claims of a “deal” fall apart, Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz and says, as of now, they plan to skip any talks.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
This is the reason the stock market is completely disconnected from the real economy.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Traders placed over $1bn in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?
Suspicious wagers on the US-Israel war in Iran are creating huge windfalls and raising concerns among lawmakers
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Why we get our lumber from Canada and SHOULDN’T be plundering our National Forests
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United. No Supreme Court ruling or constitutional amendment needed. Here's how it works. youtu.be/p1fPbGHe3xE?si=QZRQImV8KYD…
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29K likes, 2.2K comments. "Could This Actually End Citizens United?"
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
WATCH THIS: This is still possibly the most comprehensive interview I’ve done on smart urban transportation for better cities. Filmed in Vienna for a planned Paris-based documentary that never got finished, but he put it on-line for me. Watch it, quote it, and please help spread it around. Thanks!
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Brent Toderian on sustainable mobility
YouTube video by opascaud
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Pleased to see our Prime Minister standing with international law against the proposed war crimes being planned by Donald Trump and his gangster regime. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/04/07/c...
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Carney reiterates call to respect international law as Trump…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
"Responsibility". How's that for a stated priority of gov't? Astonishingly awesome, IMO. PM Carney leadership: We 🇨🇦 have a great responsibility - protecting, being the caretakers of what we inherited. 'This is the responsibility that gov't is acting on with focus and unwavering determination.'
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John Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Was this insider trading?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
No Kings. Find your event for this Saturday, March 28th. www.nokings.org #NoKings
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/03/2026
"Not paying taxes is a scary thing to do. Nevertheless, many war tax resisters never face consequences," writes @claravondrich.bsky.social.
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I am not paying American war taxes this year. Will you join me? | Clara Vondrich
War tax resistance has a venerable tradition dating back to days before the US was even born. It’s time to revive this tradition
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Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 23/03/2026
If you work in healthcare directly with patients, and have been thinking about 🇨🇦 Canada, keep reading. Then visit healthcareinfusion.org and nanaimoinfusion.ca Canada believes in evidence-based care and treating patients like humans, not line items. Come to Canada. You already have friends here.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The insidious globalization of Project 2025 has been seen in 1000 news items over the last few years. It is certainly creeping into Canada (via Poilievre). Beware.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
OMG. Read this concise description of demented rambling. Explains why I cannot tolerate listening to you-know-who.
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Andy Scollick @andyscollick.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
The members of the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap have joined an international aid convoy to Cuba. The musicians are part of a group of public figures and aid organisations descending on the island by air and sea this week with medicine, water, food, solar panels and other supplies. (RTÉ News)
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Rap group Kneecap says crisis-hit Cuba being 'strangled'
The members of the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap said that they joined an international aid convoy to Cuba because they could not stay silent while the island - gripped by crisis under a US fuel blo...
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
PM Carney getting the real work done. ♥️🇨🇦
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Dr. Hello Bonjour @hellobonjour.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Link tto the details of the bill, voted on in 2012 : openparliament.ca/bills/41-1/C...
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Bill C-306 (Historical) | openparliament.ca
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"The chain of events -- the disabling of counter-terror; the war on Iran; the terror attack; the attempt to cancel elections -- might not be completed. The last piece that has to fall into place is ... Our reaction." "Let me cite lesson 18 of On Tyranny: 18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives...."
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
oh my god? i mean i know fox crossed the rubicon a long time ago but…oh my god? youre supposed to be a “news” network and oh my god?
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
"The only ones who need to be worried right now is the Iranians who think they're gonna live" -Pete Hegseth, Very Normal Guy
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 05/03/2026
In a phone interview with Israel’s Channel 12, Trump demanded President Herzog to give Netanyahu a pardon “today,” saying he doesn’t want Netanyahu distracted by anything other than the war with Iran. He called Herzog “a disgrace”, who “promised me 5 times”, adding: “Tell him I’m exposing him.”
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Wise words by Spanish PM.
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 01/03/2026
🧵 Providing some context on the current situation: This past Friday, February 27, 2026, Oman’s Foreign Minister joined Face the Nation to share a critical update on the ongoing negotiations at that time. ⬇️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
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RyMcK @rymckmaneuver.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
ICE recruits should be the first ones shipped off for “war.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today.
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Deborah C @debcombs14.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Americans voted for him. How does one vote for a 34 convicted felon and put him in the White House. Please explain.
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Dr. Michael MacKay @michaelmackay.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Marco Rubio, parroting Putin puppet Trump, puts invader Russia and defender Ukraine on the same moral level. The monsters in the Trump regime would argue that a rapist and a rape victim should "come to an understanding" and "end the violence" while the assault was underway.
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givemesanity.bsky.social @givemesanity.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I like it too. Hillary Knight and her teammates have a very important quality: self-respect. And I respect them for that.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Watch now: youtu.be/9MIxaGc7d4I
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How we’re bringing down costs
YouTube video by Mark Carney
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Yes, weep for what we have lost. But don’t just weep. Turn these losses into a new beginning — based on what’s good in America and what has gone wrong. Some thoughts for your Sunday... robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-t…
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Sunday thought: Cry, the Beloved Country
But please don’t just cry for what we’ve lost.
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