Reposted by Kathy HMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored 561290617258
Reposted by Kathy HCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 31/03/2025I've been thinking a lot about fear—how it isolates us and how we break through it. Read my reflection on how we are moving from fear to determination and building a better nation. You can read it here: charlieangus.substack.com/p/how-the-li...charlieangus.substack.comHOW THE LIGHT GETS INReflections on the Growing Resistance 441065273
Reposted by Kathy HJoey Only - Cariboo Weather Dude @joeyonly.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I'm back!! Big heat comes to BC this weekend, I can't wait. Meanwhile a deadly severe weather event is shaping up once again far to the east of the mountains. It's a regular spring crazy week with tornadoes and who knows, it's a concerning outlook no matter what. youtu.be/TJOWi-842Cgyoutu.beThe Big Weather Stories This Week & BC Heat End of Week!!YouTube video by Joey Only - Cariboo Weather Dude 1133
Reposted by Kathy HNPR @npr.org · 01/04/2025With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result.npr.orgA midwife says of the aid cuts in Afghanistan: 'No one prioritizes women's lives.'With the abrupt shutdown of USAID funding, many clinics, including those serving women in remote areas, have shuttered. Midwives are reporting that mothers and babies are dying as a result. 1012430981
Reposted by Kathy HGet To Know Nature @gettoknownature.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Looking for something you can do to make this chaotic world a little better? @crytzerfry.bsky.social is trying to save a natural area in Arizona from being mined and needs help with letters! It's an area filled with fascinating wildlife that Melissa captures and documents with her trail cams. 14814
Reposted by Kathy H🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Pierre Poilievre consistently refuses to engage with national media. He ignores independent press questions, raising serious concerns about transparency and accountability. A leader who avoids scrutiny cannot be trusted to uphold the democratic values Canadians deserve in a PM. #NeverCONServative 31403196
Reposted by Kathy HRetired an LOVIN it 🍁 🍁 🍁 @retiredanlovinit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025It'll be great to see you Edmonton!!! 26910
Reposted by Kathy HMelanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025I hope polls are right & Poilievre loses his seat, and the CPC pivots back toward the centre. But I fear an even more radical replacement, someone promoted by the US to destabilize our country. We WILL need to fight information warfare like 🇫🇮 does. www.huoltovarmuuskeskus.fi/en/a/the-nat...huoltovarmuuskeskus.fiThe National Emergency Supply Agency builds the ability to counter hostile information influencing - HuoltovarmuuskeskusThe National Emergency Supply Agency will establish a new knowledge centre on information resilience. It is a pilot project planned until 2024 and funded through the National Emergency Supply Agency’s... 4434
Reposted by Kathy HMelanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025One place to start is to stop calling it ‘disinformation’. It is information warfare. Authoritarian nations are weaponizing information & social media to destabilize democracies and radicalize segments of the population. We are being attacked by an enemy - not neutral ‘disinformation’. 2112
Reposted by Kathy HMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025“the body of one of the dead had been found with his hands tied”theguardian.comIsrael killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UNWorkers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office 16736741743
Reposted by Kathy HA Handmaid @ahandmaid.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This was a great show in Hamilton! If you missed it, they play Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on June 1. 0738
Reposted by Kathy HDr. Samantha Montano @samlmontano.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Oh my fucking god. It looks like Israel murdered eight Palestine Red Crescent Society workers, a UN employee, and five civil defense staff. They crushed up and buried entire ambulances and civil defense vehicles in the fucking mass grave. www.cnn.com/2025/03/31/m...cnn.comBodies of missing aid workers found in Gaza ‘mass grave’ following Israeli attacks | CNNThe bodies of more than a dozen aid workers have been recovered in southern Gaza from what a United Nations agency described as a “mass grave,” a week after they went missing following attacks by Isra... 6828851722
Reposted by Kathy HHelen Shang @helenshang.bsky.social · 31/03/2025Seeing Japan, S. Korea and China's flags standing side by side is WILD to me. 1093441640
Reposted by Kathy H🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Mark Carney is running for Prime Minister of Canada. PoiLIESvre is running for governor of the 51st state. VOTE ACCORDINGLY #Voteliberal #markcarneyforPM #election2025 #never51 #neverCONServative 15566209
Reposted by Kathy HEarthSky @earthskyscience.bsky.social · 01/04/2025A team of scientists from the University of Colorado were studying white-necked jacobin #hummingbirds in Panama when they made a #discovery. The #chicks of this species are born with feathers that resembles the hair that surrounds #caterpillars. Coincidence? Nope! buff.ly/peX7C9l 📸 M. Castaño-Díaz. 0103
Reposted by Kathy HThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025They can’t bring back that father who was legally in the US seeking asylum because he’s a Salvadoran sent to an El Salvador prison. Sue ICE. Sue everyone. 1922379
Reposted by Kathy HBrandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Despite his steady refusal to object to unanimous consent and his continuous confirmation of Trump appointees, Democrats were so desperate for leadership in early 2025 they even temporarily rallied behind a performative Cory Booker act hours before the end-of-quarter Q1 fundraising deadline 1518438
Reposted by Kathy HCharles Smith @profsmithsask.bsky.social · 01/04/2025"But no provincial government, perhaps in Canadian history, has aligned itself more closely to a federal party than Moe’s Saskatchewan Party has with Poilievre’s Conservatives." thestarphoenix.com/opinion/colu...thestarphoenix.comTank: Moe, Smith prove valuable assets ... for Carney and LiberalsThe premiers of Sask. and Alberta support Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, but they're helping the campaign of Mark Carney's Liberals. 2122
Reposted by Kathy HOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Booker should have been blocking the funding bill but Schumer was too busy voting for it 1746
Reposted by Kathy HOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Democrats did this but then didn’t pass any police reform nor did they campaign against Republicans for blocking it, so pardon me if cynical about Booker’s Schumer-approved speech 1319731
Reposted by Kathy HOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 01/04/2025Democrats know their base is pissed at them. They also know their base are suckers for theater kid skits that aren’t backed up by substance. So here we are. 2445776
Reposted by Kathy Hdigby @digby56.bsky.social · 01/04/2025This need to be blown up. The man was escaping the Salvadoran gangs and they threw him into a prison full of them. It's a Kafkaesque nightmare. They can get him back if they want to. 14350141
Reposted by Kathy Hjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/03/2025once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are. 263151903975
Reposted by Kathy Hconsbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025PP's poisonous regime would be even worse than Harper Sears: “Lest we forget,” it will be important to pass those lessons to future generations. How close we came to lasting damage & how important it is to resist the fatal temptation of that poisonous politics when next it slithers into view 053
Reposted by Kathy Hconsbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 27/03/2025Never forget: Pollievre = Harper Ottawa returns to normal after Stephen Harper’s dark decade www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comOttawa returns to normal after Stephen Harper’s dark decadeWe must remember how close we came to lasting damage, and how important it is to resist the temptation of poisonous politics 126132
Reposted by Kathy HJustin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/03/2025Trump's 2am "stop fighting back!!!" post does have an air of desperation to it. 1551339270
Reposted by Kathy HTammy Schirle 🇨🇦 @tammyschirle.bsky.social · 25/03/2025🇨🇦 Because apparently it's not common knowledge: You don't need a voter card, or be registered in advance to vote in a federal election. Find out where your poll is at elections.ca , come with some ID (there's options), and you can vote. It's really that easy.elections.caElections Canada On-line - Élections Canada en ligneElections Canada is the independent, non-partisan agency responsible for conducting federal elections and referendums. 26456
Reposted by Kathy HDaniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 27/03/2025“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...politico.comWhat’s next for Waltz and Hegseth 765142453846
Reposted by Kathy HLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/03/2025I asked Sebastian Skamski, Pierre Poilievre’s spokesperson, multiple times if Poilievre condones this Carney-Epstein rhetoric – astonishingly, they would not respond Here’s more on Canada Proud spending big money flooding Facebook with unhinged Carney-Epstein attack ads:pressprogress.caCanada Proud Launches Attack Ads Linking Mark Carney to ‘Notorious Pedophile’ Jeffrey EpsteinPierre Poilievre’s office won’t say if it condones conservative group’s ads juxtaposing prime minister with a “global child sex trafficking ring” 1412773
Reposted by Kathy HLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 27/03/2025Conservative 3rd party advertisers are pumping big money into this Carney-Epstein smear campaign One person can shut this down nonsense down with the snap of a finger: Pierre Poilievre Poilievre should clarify if he condones this rhetoric or believes Carney visited Epstein Island, or whatever 34402138
Reposted by Kathy HBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 27/03/2025They are just disappearing people off the street. Having a hard time thinking about literally anything else. 1843269928934
Reposted by Kathy HCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 27/03/2025 Here is footage at the US consulate where Toronto police told us we aren't allowed to stand on our own sidewalks because it offends the American state. These are our streets. This is our country. Never 51st. #elbowsup www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Tk...youtube.comCHARLIE ANGUS: RESISTANCE AT AMERICAN CONSULATE TORONTOYouTube video by Charlie Angus 1893072919
Reposted by Kathy HRyan @ryanwright.bsky.social · 26/03/2025🇨🇦 Canadian 1990s Playlist 🇨🇦 Day 34 Weeping Tile This Kingston, Ontario band, fronted by the very talented @sarahharmer.bsky.social put out their debut album in 1995, getting signed after a successful indy cassette. I loved their sound, and Sarah’s vocals. The whole album is worth a listen.m.youtube.comBasement Apt.YouTube video by Weeping Tile - Topic 0214
Reposted by Kathy HAaron Ross Powell @aaronrosspowell.com · 26/03/2025CEOs are freaking out that Trump is doing exactly what he told them he would do if he won. They supported him anyway because, for reasons that look quite stupid in retrospect, they didn't believe him. www.aaronrosspowell.com/p/trump-prom...aaronrosspowell.comTrump Promised Disaster. His Supporters Didn’t Believe Him.Many assumed Trump was all talk, but his return to power proves he meant every word. 1922865
Reposted by Kathy HDave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Nice solidarity here when Greene calls on an American: "I'm an American journalist, and I'd like to hear your answer to what she's asking." 43966751175
Reposted by Kathy HMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I am asking Canadians for a strong, positive mandate to deal with President Trump and build a stronger economy here at home. 1875204860
Reposted by Kathy HLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 20/03/2025Canada Proud’s Jeff Ballingall worked for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership campaign I asked Poilievre's office multiple times if he condones these ads, which are inciting baseless comments calling the prime minister a pedophile or demanding he be jailed / executed – Poilievre's office gave no response 39340171
Reposted by Kathy HJudd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 21/03/2025World’s richest man paying Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition endorsing his political ideologyaxios.comMusk's PAC offers $100 to Wisconsin voters in pitch against "activist judges"The move reflects how Musk is throwing his considerable wealth behind Trump's priorities — including an upcoming election in Wisconsin for a crucial seat on the state's Supreme Court. 1931273540
Reposted by Kathy HJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21/03/2025U.K. tourist Becky Burke finally returned home to Wales on Tuesday after spending 19 days in a U.S. ICE detention facility. Her parents relayed their daughter’s description of her release from ICE, saying how she was taken in “leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs,” which left her “traumatized.”thedailybeast.comU.K. Tourist Returns Home in Chains Like ‘Hannibal Lecter’Becky Burke was released in chains and handcuffs after spending 19 days in an ICE detention facility 885102474793
Reposted by Kathy HDale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Good stuff here from @justinling.ca.bugeyedandshameless.comThe Anatomy of a Transphobic SmearA smear against Mark Carney's kid, and the politics of attacking trans people. 12813
Reposted by Kathy HThe Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Fucking ghouls. Fucking pathetic ghouls. 1711540
Reposted by Kathy HMelanie Wildman 🇨🇦 @melaniewildman.bsky.social · 18/03/2025My husband’s friend was just refused entry to the states. The border agent asked him what he thought of Trump and he said he didn’t think very much of him. For that, he is now banned. If you are thinking about traveling to the US right now, don’t. 2145
Reposted by Kathy HEdward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 17/03/2025It’s difficult to overstate how asinine this is. mRNA vaccines have been the most revolutionary development of vaccinology in this century and are uniquely well suited to address many limitations that other vaccine technologies cannot (e.g., CD8 T cell responses in immunocompromised people).kffhealthnews.orgScientists Say NIH Officials Told Them To Scrub mRNA References on Grants - KFF Health NewsTwo senior scientists say National Institutes of Health officials advised them to remove references to mRNA vaccines in grant applications, and they fear the Trump administration will abandon a promis... 10496186
Reposted by Kathy HAnders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 16/03/2025One of the biggest errors made the last 100 years was to assume the Cold War was over when the USSR was dissolved. The Cold War was never with the USSR, it was always with Russia. The same Russia that has been a threat to peace and prosperity in Europe for 500 years. 21499134