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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️

@karensiwak.bsky.social
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Canadian with lots of opinions on global politics ~ Humanist, 🏳️‍🌈 ally Career Coach ~ Masters of Counselling Psychology in progress

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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
History will remember the collaborators and the do-nothings
Albert Einstein quote the world will not be destroyed by those who do evil but by those who watch them and do nothing Republicans are mass shooters and Democrats are Uvalde police
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
A tectonic shift away from investing in US markets is underway "the U.S. is no longer as reliable as a trade partner, we have to take care of our own needs on defence," said Tim Graf, head of macro strategy for EMEA at State Street Global Markets. www.reuters.com/markets/glob...
reuters.com
Investors spy the dawn of a tectonic shift away from US markets
A historic global trade war, a proposed $1.2 trillion European fiscal bazooka and the emergence of China as tech race leader are upending global flows of money, marking a potential turning point for investor capital away from the United States.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
🇨🇦 We are seeing the geopolitical equivalent of the Ewing Paradox. EU and Commonwealth countries are playing a stronger game now that USA has benched itself. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
theguardian.com
‘Free world needs a new leader’, says EU foreign chief after Trump Zelenskyy row
The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said ‘the free world needs a new leader’ and that it was up to Europeans to take this challenge
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
🇨🇦 When you buy groceries, you aren’t subsidizing the grocer. When you buy a house, you aren’t subsidizing the builder. Trump got rich by not paying his bills, he thinks paying bills is for losers. This is why he’s mad at Canada, the US has to pay what they owe, and it makes him feel like a loser
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Announcing your intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza the same week you are gutting both the CIA and the FBI seems like the perfect set up for a terrorist incident in the USA, creating the national emergency circumstances he’s been looking for to declare martial law
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
🇨🇦 Quite aside from the damage to goodwill, which is already incalculable, the US is no longer a safe supplier of unprocessed food, because it’s no longer tracking outbreaks of infections. No sane purchaser will buy produce that might contain E. coli, dairy that might contain listeria,
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
When everybody in the C-suite looks the same, sounds the same, thinks the same and has the same lived experience, they have the same blind spots. Techbros’ “conformity hire” business practices made them vulnerable to getting blindsided by shit they did not know to watch for. Chinese AI, for example
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
What we can expect from a PP vs Carney debate. Carrney has Pete Buttigieg energy, smart, reasoned, and on point. PP is a gotcha weasel, with nothing but slogans. youtu.be/SPY_SxyNB5M
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Pierre Poilievre vs Mark Carney: A heated exchange on pipelines
YouTube video by Financial Post
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This would be a good day for 🇨🇦 to shut off the electricity, no?
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I think this interview is the reason Christie Clarke has withdrawn from the leadership race. I suspect she’s not the only conservative who was feeling shaken this morning
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Inside you are 2000 light years from home
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
People who never thought they’d be homeless are homeless today. People who believed in rugged individualism are relying on the kindness of strangers. We are one disaster away from the kinds of desperation that compel refugees to travel through danger in search of safe harbour. It could be any of us.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
A country that elects a serially bankrupt rapist felon for president can’t be trusted to be sheriff of Tinytown, never mind the world. The US will be iced out of strategic intelligence sharing by former allies and opportunists like Putin will gleefully manipulate Trump thru misinformation
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
The state of social media is such that I have to come onto BlueSky to find out if Meta is messing with me personally or if it’s down for everyone. It is down for everyone, turns out. And I’m taking it personally.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
“Please don’t shoot me” policy reversal from Anthem Blue Shield Blue Cross
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Martial law declared in South Korea. I expect Trump will follow suit in January. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
cbc.ca
South Korean president declares emergency martial law | CBC News
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol declared "emergency martial law" on Tuesday, accusing the country's opposition of controlling the parliament, sympathizing with North Korea and paralyzing the government with anti-state activities.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Free Leonard Peltier
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Good.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Je pense que la France se moque de Trump et essaie de décider s'il est plus drôle de laisser cet idiot être l'ambassadeur américain ou de dire non. Aucun Européen ne va partager des renseignements stratégiques avec un criminel condamné, qu'il ait été gracié ou non.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Trump should steer clear of windows in tall buildings, sounds like
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Petition to save journalism at the Guardian and Observer
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
During Trump’s last term, the UN considered relocating to Geneva. Now that Trump has made it clear that the US will no longer be a world leader, and he intends to create a hostile environment for foreigners, I wonder if the UN will reopen the relocation discussion press.un.org/en/2019/gadi...
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First Committee Votes to Reject Draft Decision on Relocating Overseas, Unanimously Approving 2020 Work Programme as Session Concludes | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Concluding its programme of work, the First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) today rejected a draft decision that would have potentially seen it convene in Geneva or Vienna in 2020 d...
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Many Washington Post and New York Times subscribers switched to The Guardian in protest, due to the relentless sanewashing of a serially bankrupt rapist felon by the NYT and WP. Now journalism at the Guardian is also under threat
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Tariffs can’t be inflationary if they are recessionary ~ the subtext Nothing but idiots all the way down
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Note to self ~ check that any book I look to read has not been published by Spine
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
DOGE: Department of Oligarchs Get Everything Musk is stripping the federal government for parts
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
“You must consent to be gaslit by right wing ideologues or what’s the point of journalism” ~ the subtext
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I’m not typically fond of “I left Twitter” posts, but this one cracked me up
This was Austrian Airline’s final post on Twitter: 
We took a moment to locate our nearest X-it
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Leak the report. Pass it on
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“They dirty them up” is what happens when your cognitive decline has gotten so bad that you can’t recall the phrase “dig up the dirt”
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Mr. “One in thirty kids could die and that’s okay” has been tasked with destroying Medicaid
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Every fcuking exploitative bastard gets a grift opportunity in Trump’s government
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Woman who kisses the ass of a rapist lacks credibility to speak about the rights of sexual assault victims to have a penis-free environment
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For every journalist involved in investigating and reporting the news, there are ten people being paid to manipulate the narrative and gaslight the public.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Missing the ring of the crime boss so that you don’t get executed ~ American politics and journalism have sunk to this and world history tells there will be no walk back without significant violence
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
The National Emergency will never be lifted, martial law will remain in place until he’s overthrown by the military ~ people who refuse to learn from history end up learning from painful experience
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
“We’re going to give infectious disease a break” Infectious diseases are thrilled by this announcement #VirusesRuleHumansDrool
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Trump’s supervillain <delete> cabinet is nearly assembled
Comic supervillain images
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I hate that I was right
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
<Medusa holding a severed male head in one hand and a sword in the other> “Your body, my ch…”
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Time for pragmatism. Also, if there’s fresh fruit or veggies on sale, buy it and freeze it, the food supply is going to be disrupted by a shortage of agricultural workers next year
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
From @asuiterclarke: Stop worrying about whether Black women know you're a safe white woman to be around, and start making sure white women know you're not a safe person to be racist around.
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
The senior editor of New York Times is engaging in election interference by suppressing stories about how unhinged Trump is becoming. If Trump wins, a class action lawsuit might be in order
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
How fragile is Trump’s ego? So fragile that he did a photo op working at McDonald’s because Harris got public attention for working at McDonald’s. As much as I adore Walz, I think we missed an opportunity with Mark Kelly, we could be sending Trump to the moon right now
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
media.tenor.com
a pink pony wearing headphones says i 'm gonna keep on dancin ' at the pink pony club ..
ALT: a pink pony wearing headphones says i 'm gonna keep on dancin ' at the pink pony club ..
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Techbros who worship technological advancement are making the same mistake
CS Lewis observed that almost all crimes in Christian history have come about when religion is confused with politics. Politics allures us to trade away grace for power, a temptation the church has often been unable to resist
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Karen Siwak 🇨🇦🌎🧐🤦‍♀️ @karensiwak.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
Twitter and threads refugee, ready to give this platform a try. There’s too much at stake not to stay in touch with what’s happening around the world
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