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TransParent OK 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @transparentokanagan.ca · 12/04/2025

‘Power and Politics’ on CBC confirms, “if you look at the seat projections, Kelowna is in play again” Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Despite a growing number of Indigenous and other community leaders calling for the removal of Aaron Gunn as a candidate in North Island-Powell River, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre says he'll stay on. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

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Conservative candidate Aaron Gunn to stay in the race in B.C.

Pierre Poilievre to stick with candidate Aaron Gunn despite a growing number of First Nations leaders demanding he take Gunn off the ballot.

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Mary Annaïse Heglar @maryannaise.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"

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PressProgress @pressprogress.ca · 01/04/2025

NEW: CTV cancelled a fact-checking segment in response to political pressure from Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

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CTV Cancelled a Fact-Checking Segment in Response to Political Pressure From Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Audio recording shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives

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Norah Bowman @norahbowman.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Classic anti-democratic move: ridicule, censor, stop journalists. Especially women : fascism demands rigid gender roles & submission to authority. I ❤️ Rachel Gilmore. CTV, you should be ashamed.

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Norah Bowman @norahbowman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I value and I will protect our trans community members, today and every day. #transdayofvisibility #TDOV

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Andrew Simon @simongandrew.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead.
No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience.
Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

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Jacqueline Gelineau @jacquelinegelineau.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

“It is important for those who do not understand biology — specifically differences in sexual development — to recognize that a lack of comprehension does not mean that people who are gender diverse do not exist or are not natural.” www.kelownacapnews.com/local-news/t...

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Kelowna's Trans Day of Visibility counters hate with love, education

The Transgender Day of Visibility event will be held on March 31, at the Laurel Packinghouse

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Teen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 26/03/2025

If the meaning of “oligarchy” feels like a blur from history class, don’t worry — its definition is actually pretty simple. We break it down ⤵️

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What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One?

We break it down.

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Wilbur Turner @queergranddad.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Has Danielle Smith participated in election interference with an enemy of Canada? She asked the US administration to pause the tariffs to help get Poilievre elected.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic. RFK Jr can go fuck himself.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person. I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/03/2025

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

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Jagmeet Singh @jagmeetsingh.ca · 18/03/2025

To Poilievre's friends. Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks. It's not okay.

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Caroline Mandell 🇨🇦 @carolinemandell.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Clear thinking as always from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: ”[C]olonized Canadians are not going to have the right the vote. Their country would be treated as a hostile military zone, to be exploited for its resources” substack.com/home/post/p-...

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Blame Canada

Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory

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Amante2 AmeliaBee7 @amante2ameliabee7.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Only a deranged, deluded FoxNews fed tyrant would actually believe that Canadians would want to give up everything the U.S. wishes it could be to become the 51st state #ElbowsUp🇨🇦 #FuckTrump

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

The eventual fate of the GOP

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

When this piece was made last year, I thought it was, you know, pretty clever. Now, I think it might be one of the most important pieces of the decade.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

ICE stripped a German green card holder naked, drove him from Boston to Vermont to Rhode Island, put him in a cold shower, deprived him of medication, sleep and food until he collapsed. No one knows why he was detained.

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Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained

Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.

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East Bay Booksellers @ebbooksellers.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Bookstores may not be able to rescue us, but the best *are* oases from the financially craven & terminally stupid. Elbows up, as the Canadians say!

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Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 15/03/2025

huh. i wonder why we all want to read the same book all of a sudden.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Americans who are against Trump should take some lessons…

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Maurice J. Casey @mauricejcasey.com · 07/03/2025

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

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Norah Bowman @norahbowman.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

A few books for the times. This novel shows us that nobody is exempt from complicity or resistance. It’s a beautiful and heartbreaking narrative.

Front page of novel Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada.

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Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

With 250,000+ Alberta public sector employees in various stages of negotiation (and job action), and no line item this year specifically for collective agreement changes, I like to comb the budget for clues about the government's position, and page 92 of the fiscal plan is of interest. #AbLeg

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Wab Kinew 🇨🇦 Zelenskyy is a hero. Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! #cdnpoli #peipoli

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)

America hurt itself badly today.

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Doa 🇨🇦 Vive le Canada @doaas.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

The free world could really use Justin Trudeau as a leader right now! His leadership is more important than ever it has been. “Thank you for coming, your visit is very powerful” 🇺🇦🇨🇦

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Paul Vermeersch @paulvermeersch.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Dr. Seuss cartoons about “America First” from 1941.

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 27/02/2025

"We didn’t become the greatest shirtwaist factory in the world by resting on our laurels. That’s why we’ve brought in a new efficiency czar, Noel Skum, whose job is to cut unnecessary spending and roll back overly restrictive safety regulations."

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Thanks to Our New Efficiency Czar, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Is Saving More Money Than Ever

“Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration…. Sources told CNN the ...

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Alexander S. Vindman @avindman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

😳 this dude ran the FSB [KGB]!

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Richard Branson @richardbranson.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

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US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine | CNN Politics

The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

West Virginia Republicans are trying to pass a bill that would make abortion illegal in cases of rape or incest. The worst of the GOP always starts in the states, and we know this is the end game for Trump and MAGA on abortion. Completely disgusting. www.wtap.com/2025/02/24/t...

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‘They are not responsible for the sins of their fathers,’ WV Delegate supports removing rape, incest as abortion exceptions

Delegate Elias Coop-Gonzalez released a statement showing his support for House Bill 2712.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

After 1,000 National Park Service employees were abruptly fired on February 14, staff banded together to signal “dire distress” by draping an upside-down American flag from the 3,000-foot summit of Yosemite’s iconic El Capitan monolith.

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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/02/2025

At this point, I think we are going to need to do an entire Cross Country Check-Up episode next week talking about what was wrong with the premise of this week’s episode

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