Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Harvard in the news: Trump extortion of $200 million for $500 m to $2 b in 2025. Why not say F off a year ago use $53 endowment and wait him out. What is endowment for but academic independence, not succumbing 110
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 01/02/2026An Ezra Klein perspective to chew on, providing some hope? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Trump Has Overwhelmed Himself 000
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 31/01/2026…the perfidious lust for unbridled power” and “the imposition of cruelty.” Texas Federal Judge today. How many Liams have disappeared over the last year www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...nytimes.comJudge Orders Release of 5-Year-Old, Whose Detention Drew Outrage 010
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 27/01/2026I want to know the name of this incredible brave woman shown filming even after the shootings, inches from the agents. New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Pretti Shooting www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...nytimes.comVideo: New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of PrettiA frame-by-frame assessment of actions by Alex Pretti and the two officers who fired 10 times shows how lethal force came to be used against a man who didn’t pose a threat. 000
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 29/06/2025“Iran is a very sophisticated country in terms of nuclear technology,” Grossi said. “So you cannot disinvent this. You cannot undo the knowledge that you have or the capacities that you have.” @theglobeandmail.com I’d gift the article but have unsuccessfully tried to gift articles 3x, doesn’t work 020
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyHeather M. Collins🗽 @heathersdesk.bsky.social · 14/06/2025Do you know how badly you have to screw up as a Republican to get this kind of turnout in IDAHO? #NOKINGS 311266485862
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyAeide @aeide.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Day 29 of posting this every day until PP leaves his taxpayer-funded home and loses his job, as per his own suggestion #Canada #cdnpoli 14215
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyKen Cannabis @cannakma.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Around the world the point of the far right is not that governments are spending money. It is about governments spending money on poor people or infrastructure. The far right wants all that tax payer funding funneled into their own back pockets. That is their goal. Always and forever. 413544
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyJohn Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Remember when Joe Biden was so senile he let a tweaking apartheid elf go through all your IRS, Social Security, labor & healthcare data for 125 days? 946593
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyHoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/05/2025“Mexico will pay for the wall” Mexico: “Hold my tequila.” “Canada will pay for my Golden Dome.” Canada: “Hold my maple syrup.” 22568851182
Reposted by Lori Winstanleyjamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/05/2025i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet 378273696270
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyCBinVan 🇨🇦 @cbinvan.bsky.social · 15/05/2025Great news! The Bay is Canadian again! www.thestar.com/business/hud...thestar.comHudson’s Bay to sell name, stripes, brands to Canadian Tire for $30 millionThe sale includes the overarching Hudson's Bay brand, its iconic, multi-coloured stripes motif, its coat of arms and other brand trademarks. 1208
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 12/05/2025I read the NYT every day because I trust their journalism but seriously they need to insert just a tad more assumptive language to headlines. We will not think less of you @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...nytimes.comTrump Administration Live Updates: Trump Is Said to Be Getting Qatari 747 for Air Force One 020
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Rat Free? It's illegal to keep rats in Alberta along with 75 years of active rat patrol, until recently that is. Kick out the elected rat, deserter to Canada, denier of First Nations rights. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.ca75 years of Alberta's mission to keep rats at bay | CBC NewsTwice a year, a patrol team scrutinizes barns, straw bales and grain storage bins along a 600-kilometre stretch of the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary. They're looking for rats, continuing a 75-year mis... 010
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Guaranteed Trump is never never never getting gifts like this from US citizens. #nevernevernever51 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caResidents in Mark Carney's N.W.T. hometown send care package of local goods to the new PM | CBC NewsA care package with goods from the prime minister's hometown of Fort Smith, N.W.T., is on its way to Ottawa — and the woman who put it together just hopes it'll make him smile. 110
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Canada votes No big money:$1750 max, individuals only, no corporate or union $ or anonymous PACs. No drama: volunteers and day workers hand count ballots and attest to each one, discussing concerns with pre-determined rules for disputes. (CBC photos) 110
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyEuan Thomson @drugdatadecoded.ca · 27/04/2025VPD needs to explain exactly what they mean when they say the suspect was known to police and has mental health issues, before this narrative gets spun any further. Mental health issues don’t cause murderous rampages. What do Vancouver police mean? 1020135
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 19/04/2025Pollievre and Byrne act in a 2002 TV commercial for Ezra Levant. The far right are the Conservative Party in Canada, having worked together for over 2 decades to bring their act, once again, to the national stage. www.cbc.ca/news/politic... 001
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyDavid Hamer @davidhamer1951.bsky.social · 12/04/2025To a lawyer, this is the most dangerous plank in the piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s platform. If implemented, it would represent the complete Americanization of Canada’s legal system. We don’t appoint judges to be ‘strict’. We appoint them to find the facts and apply the law, including the Charter. 23602320
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 12/04/2025A base Trump cannot compete with? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/b...nytimes.comTrump Showed His Pain Point in His Standoff With China (Gift Article)Xi Jinping, who rules with absolute authority, has shown he is willing to let the Chinese people endure hardship. President Trump revealed he has limits. 021
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025Ok, I admit to reading the G&M everyday, it’s legit, but you also just know they are chomping at the bit to find a way to endorse PP. Without fail, I think, they tip their hat to conservative “business” candidates. I’ll eat my words gladly to be wrong 😉 @theglobeandmail.com 031
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025“We’re conservatives, we don’t believe in that… (programs to help people during Covid)” PP 030
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 10/04/2025youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImEyoutu.beNardwuar vs. Prime Minister Mark CarneyYouTube video by NardwuarServiette 000
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyNiki Sharma @nikisharma.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Today a member of the legislature chose to spread residential school denialism in the house. This is harmful and deplorable. I stood up in the house and made it clear that we stand with survivors, their families, and communities. 49916
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025#WhiskyLeaks Trend this and don’t let up until he’s gone. I’m doing it for Hillary 000
Reposted by Lori Winstanley🇨🇦 Made in Canada 🇨🇦 ELBOWS UP 💪🍁🦫🌈🦋 @canadianpride.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Poilievre took four questions from news outlets they chose. There were two questions from local newspapers and then one question each from CBC, TVA and, as is Poilievre’s official policy, none were allowed a follow-up. THIS is how you avoid accountability try to manipulate the narrative. #neverCPC 42454231
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 22/03/2025According to Huff Post, Trump is on course to direct the federal government to spend at least $150 million a year following him to his for profit businesses. Not a trip to camp David folks, trips he profits off. Not a simple trip home for the weekend folks, trips to play golf at his course. Obscene. 000
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025Credit to @cbinvan.bsky.social for giving me the best laugh in weeks, and the hashtag is spot on here in Canada 🇨🇦 as we go into a critical federal election: #thebankerorthewanker 031
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyCBinVan 🇨🇦 @cbinvan.bsky.social · 20/03/2025I've been saying this for years, #NobodyLikesPierrePoilievre, not even Conservatives. Possibly his own family. #NeverPoilievre #TheBankerOrTheWanker www.thestar.com/politics/pro...thestar.comInsiders say Pierre Poilievre called Doug Ford for help — and the premier turned him downThe premier told him he would be too busy governing Ontario, the Star has learned. 142
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025As the morning’s onslaught hits my Bluesky feed, I conjure up this: Hillary’s Emails. Republicans frothing over the worse controversy ever, peppering speeches, social media posts and television appearances with fiery condemnation! (NYT). Ron Desantis joining the “lock her up” chorus. 😤 #resist 041
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 20/03/2025They’re fuckin with our happiness, that’s it! Bloody hell, we fell to 18th in the world. ok still leading G7 in happiness, followed by Germany (6.75), the UK (6.73), US (6.72), France (6.59), Italy (6.42) and Japan (6.15). But still, come on, smiles turnin into frowns won’t do! 000
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Jackie Robinson, I read today also Colin Powell, how is this happening? #resist 010
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025And the BC mainstream media is saying Bill 7 is an “indefensible power grab” because we aren’t at war. I call it a defensible power gird up to protect us and help us to act in the very dark days ahead. #bcpoli 010
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyJen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I can't even get on their press release list 🤷♀️ I rely on tips from the community about Poilievre appearances in the Vancouver area. And his staff are sometimes surprised to see me! #journalism 312944
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyThe Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 14/03/2025It’s been said many times that the treaties supersede the separatists. Alberta simply can’t leave without support from treaty signatories. And today, Chief Billy-Joe Tuccaro of the Mikisew Cree Nation made it clear. It’s a hard no. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli 461075376
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Here in Canada: today, buy fabulous Canadian wine, next bottle will be a fine French vintage. Splurge will be at least one “real” bottle of Champagne! Repeat. 000
Reposted by Lori WinstanleySharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 12/03/2025next Canadian government should think of boosting research funding up here and trying to grab as many American postdocs and researchers as possible 606165382173
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyFor the People @sadworld.bsky.social · 13/03/2025youtu.be/ao6PRx_rnj0?... Here is a real president driving and burning out vs pretending to drive!!youtu.be'This Sucker's Quick!': Biden Test Drives New Ford Electric TruckYouTube video by NBC News 152
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Ya right, Trump’s trade war with Canada about stopping the scourge of Fentanyl, as direct spending on addiction services gets drastic cuts: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/h...nytimes.comFederal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts (Gift Article)The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent. 130
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 12/03/2025When I think resistance, elbows up, standing strong, I’m not thinking, “oh I wish that person would write a new substack”, just saying. @charlieangus104.bsky.social being the exception!) #resist #elbowsup #standstrongexceptcharlieangus104.bsky.socialBluesky 010
Reposted by Lori WinstanleyCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 12/03/2025And we haven't even mentioned what happens when we put Canadian women on the ice. 871481418
Reposted by Lori Winstanleyfreebroomrides.bsky.social @freebroomrides.bsky.social · 11/03/2025It’s what Jesus would’ve done 👇🏼 24417
Lori Winstanley @loriwin.bsky.social · 11/03/2025A little off topic, but I get riled up at the notion that as seniors we will find forms confusing and difficult! Sheesh 🙄 done with the stereotype 010