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Jen L. 🇨🇦

@jennifer295.bsky.social
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Gen X 🙋‍♀️ Here for personal interests: Digital rights. Tax billionaires. Social safety nets. Right to read 📚 Less war, more dialogue. Electoral reform. Live simply. Follow / RP ≠ agree 🍃 Opinions mine alone. ~All beings want to be happy.

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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
substack.com/@damiani/not...
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Jesse Damiani (@damiani)
“Conventional economics is a form of brain damage.” —David Suzuki Infinite growth on a finite planet is a death sentence for life on Earth. Period. This is an astonishingly simple fact, and yet econo...
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
substack.com/@damiani/not... So true.
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Jesse Damiani (@damiani)
This is the simplest action you can take as a form of resistance. And it really, really matters.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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Leo’s Chicago “Trifecta”: Cupich Protégé Tapped to Lead New York
Pope Leo XIV is set to appoint Bishop Ronald A. Hicks — a protégé of Chicago’s progressive Cardinal Blase Cupich — as the 11th Archbishop of New York, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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Democratic Wins Media (@demwinsmedia)
BREAKING: In an incredible moment, James Talarico just delivered a perfect response showing us how to win young voters. This is a must watch.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
When I speak up against the military industrial complex (and those profit) and against billionaires (whose surplus leaves millions fighting for survival) I am Speaking up for Jews, arabs, immigrants, working class, poor, imprisoned, POC, disabled.
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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Implications for language teaching: 🔁 Learners rely on what they see early and often. 📘 Early exposure to emotionally charged or simpler verbs boosts acquisition. 👩‍🏫 Carefully sequencing complex structures in the curriculum could better support long-term learning.
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Pascual Pérez-Paredes @perez-paredes.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
This chapter reviews research that focuses on potential and actual uses of corpora, and in particular data-driven learning, in the learning and teaching of written and spoken #French and #Spanish. #corpuslinguistics
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
#onpoli Doug Ford and developer friends ⬇️
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Posted by the Tax Foundation — the world's leading nonpartisan tax policy nonprofit organization.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
shamsiahassani.net Wow!!
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Shamsia Hassani - Official Website
This is the official website of Afghanistan's first graffiti artist, Shamsia Hassani. Shamsia's works have been exhibited in USA, Afghanistan, India, Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Turkey, and ...
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Steve @tnsteve.com · 14/12/2025
Corrected for accuracy: 🤷‍♂️ "Every lockdown drill is a confession of Republican policy failure. Every barricaded classroom is an indictment of Republicans. Every child taught to hide is proof that the Republicans in charge have surrendered."
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Mixed member proportional representation? Let’s have a National Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform and see what the possibilities are beyond First Past The Post. @fairvote.ca
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
🎯 CIVIL RIGHTS LAWYER @oliverma2026.bsky.social: “The detention centers are run by private prison companies (like @CoreCivic) — they make millions PER PERSON… that’s why they’re looking for anybody brown, so they can keep stealing from taxpayers.” *THIS IS NOT TALKED ABOUT ENOUGH*
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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 12/12/2025
Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday was forced to face a combat veteran whose Irish wife has remained in prison for four months and is facing deportation over two bad checks she wrote 10 years ago — and the internet didn't hold back.
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'Astonishing scene': Shockwaves as Kristi Noem confronted by veteran on Capitol Hill
Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday was forced to face a combat veteran whose Irish wife has remained in prison for four months and is facing deportation over two bad checks she wrote 10 years ago — and the internet didn't hold back. Noem, who is rumored to be on the chopping blo...
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1 Angry Grandpa @yubet.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
I just knew the Republicans would let the PEOPLE down. They are incompetent & cruel, this shouldn't surprise anyone.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/12/2025
ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: propub.li/3MTlm33
Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
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Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
"I write it all down: names, times, places — traces that belong to us, not to them. A file cannot be final when the people inside it keep authoring themselves." —Mohammed R. Mhawish
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Watched, Tracked, and Targeted in Gaza
Life under Israel’s all-encompassing surveillance regime.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is why I’m cautiously optimistic — in the long run.
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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
youtube.com/watch?v=j_9W... We so desperately need more than two parties: God help us.
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Top climate adviser resigns, says Canada doing worse than almost any other nation | Power & Politics
YouTube video by CBC News
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
But women can’t lead in the 1.4 billion member Roman Catholic Church 🤨
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
www.hrlc.org.au/news/high-co... Migrants in Australia sent to be deported to Nauru on 30 year visas they didn’t apply for.
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High Court challenge to Albanese Government’s Nauru deportation powers begins today - Human Rights Law Centre
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 07/12/2025
this is why I'm not interested in working towards "fixes" but in surfacing problems the industry is choosing not to address
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
"Region imported 438,000 tons of pesticides and herbicides in 2020, two-thirds more than in 2018. More than half of such chemicals used in Nigeria are highly hazardous, at least 40% of those can’t be sold in Europe" #Pesticide colonialism www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Europe’s Banned Pesticides Are Poisoning Nigeria
Chemicals barred by the EU are widely available across Africa, threatening food and water supplies.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
One more account of horror from Sudan. But world must not look away: so many more are in danger news.sky.com/story/63-chi...
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63 children killed in attacks on Sudan kindergarten and hospital, WHO says
Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) also said today it had taken control of the strategic Heglig oilfield.
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Shell @risu.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I truly think the future in education will be books and in person tutoring- but the poor will be on Chromebooks, with ai marking and virtual tutors
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Lila Byock @lbyock.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Parents & teachers should know that I-Ready lessons are NOT mandated, no matter what your principal may be telling you. And there is NO independent research to support the educational value of this app.
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Adam Ellis @adamtots.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Children and teachers kidnapped in #Nigeria. Prayers, letters, phone calls to officials, corporate in Nigeria and your home nation needed as witness, and to encourage a peaceful outcome. It has been two weeks. Praying for an end to poverty, military industrial economy, injustice.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Eh. I think it’s just people dooming about everything all the time. A lot of people do have skills but have gotten so demoralized it’s like what’s the point
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Those survivors, who supposedly failed to "cease all combat activities" by trying to radio for help while clinging to flaming wreckage after their boat suddenly exploded for reasons completely unknown to them, died having no idea they were ever in "combat" with the US Navy at all.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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researchdoom @bananaintherama.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
At this stage this is just an excuse for a bunch of men to manhandle women. I’m sorry but this is a sexual pervert’s wet dream and I bet this demographic will be signing up in droves just to get off legally.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
ha yeah
Cartoon of a person stumbling out of a time machine and saying to another person:
"I went back to warn them, but they already knew and didn't seem to care.”
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Pope Leo: “The Middle East needs new approaches, in order to reject the mindset of revenge and violence, to overcome political, social and religious divisions, and to open new chapters in the name of reconciliation and peace.”
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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Pope Leo and Bartholomew I together 'Pater Noster' #shorts
YouTube video by ROME REPORTS in English
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Agonizing for Ukrainians to process their aspirations were exploited by NATO. (I’m antiwar, deplore what Putin has done, pro-democracy and self-determination.) Politicians switch loyalties e.g. Carney-Smith energy deal is “focusing on we can control” What happened to commitments to reduce carbon?
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RiotGrlErin @riotgrlerin.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
the muppets do deviled eggs: thread
Elmo looking evil as fuck in a tiny dark room with maybe a dangly lightbulb only or something. Devilish looking red eyeball themed deviled eggs I’m hoping.
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DrAnnD @drannd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Who could’ve have predicted? Anyone. Anyone paying attention.
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Jes Battis @jesbattis.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
My letter in today's Financial Times #DisabilityRights #Discrimination #Equalities @disabledgreens.bsky.social
Letter: ‘Irresistible’ rise of eugenics: something we must all fight
From Natalie Bennett, Green Peer, House of Lords, London SW1, UK
The other side of Quinn Slobodian’s op-ed, which online ran as “The irresistible rise of libertarian eugenics” (November 15), is an explosion in the use by many of the prominent would-be eugenicists, and their allies, of abusive terms for the learning-disabled and others they label inferior.
These are terms that seemed to be consigned to history, but are being proudly brandished in America, by everyone from Elon Musk to Joe Rogan, who described the return of the word “retarded” as “one of the great culture victories”. 
Acknowledging that every human being has strengths and capacities, has the right to equal respect and dignified treatment, and the right to be supported to develop to their and the right to be supported to develop to their full potential, was one sign of progress in the late 20th century.
We cannot allow the return of eugenicist thinking.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
The RCC sells belonging. That's a kind of intellectual property theft and appropriation of what is rightly a gift of the Holy Spirit. Exclusion is used to protect their bottom line/control the spiritually hungry. I believe course correcting this is what Jesus, V2, the Synod spirit is doing now.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
When I say Catholic is akin to WWII Nazis, I'm specifically talking about deference to totalitarian power, bystander syndrome in the face of atrocities & abuses of power by their own leadership, homophobia, tribalism, scapegoating and violence towards out-groups, cleansing out of "undesirables".
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
I searched for one quote on peace & justice and was rewarded with several. Sharing in case anyone else understands that clothing your🔥❤️‍🔥spirit in the lexicon of non-violence helps you live to fight another day in this age of censorship/thought crime.
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes. We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFU1... (I've been following Tristan Harris / Centre for Humane Tech for a long time. Grateful & inspired that he left Google to apply his education to the greater good.) #AI
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AI Expert: We Have 2 Years Before Everything Changes! We Need To Start Protesting! - Tristan Harris
YouTube video by The Diary Of A CEO
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Jen L. 🇨🇦 @jennifer295.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZmv... One thing I like about the Chinese is that when people in positions of responsibility fail, they are immediately held accountable. Japanese, too. Makes me wonder if collectivist societies do accountability better.
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More arrests made in Hong Kong, as fire's death toll rises to 128
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 27/11/2025
Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
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Experts warn of ‘global crisis’ as number of women in prison nears one million
Number of women incarcerated around the world rising at nearly three times the rate of men, with female prisoners often subjected to sexual violence and forced labour
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