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Pam Downe

@pamdowne.bsky.social
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Medical Anthropologist, Grandmother, Dog lover, Riders fan, Sparks fan, Lakers fan, New Orleans Saints fan

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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Yes!! This!!! “Girls sports” don’t need saving. They need support. They need people who can speak knowledgably about the games!
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WNBA @wnba.com · 28/09/2026
UNANIMOUS 🏆 Olivia Miles stepped onto the WNBA stage and delivered one of the most prolific rookie seasons in league history. Her record-breaking rookie season ends with 2026 WNBA Kia Rookie of the Year honors! #KiaROY | #WNBASeason30
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Susan Collins needs to shut the fuck up. The woman is insufferably stupid. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Republican senator warns Carney: Closer ties to EU hurts chance of trade deal with U.S. | CBC News
A long-serving Republican senator from a border state is warning Prime Minister Mark Carney against strengthening Canada's economic and political ties to the European Union.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
There *absolutely* is such a thing as a stupid question, and this is one of the stupidest! OF COURSE he is out of his depth. He is out of his depth in a wading pool. (Link to full article in comments.)
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This was a speech for the moment. It was gracious, strong, and pointed. It makes me so proud to be Canadian. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw-C...
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Former PM Jean Chrétien's speech at 9/11 commemoration ceremony in Gander, N.L. – September 11, 2026
YouTube video by cpac
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Desperate Donnie's panicky plan to bribe voters is not only highly illegal, it's also incredibly expensive (1.3 trillion w/ a "T") & really, REALLY dumb (w/ a "B"). He knows accountability is coming on 11/3/26! #TickTickTick shorturl.at/xXsgXhttps:/...
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Facing Electoral Disaster, Trump Offers $5,000 Voter Bribe If Republicans Win Midterms
The president doesn’t have the authority to just send everyone checks.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump promised $5,000 stimulus checks from DOGE cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $2,000 stimulus checks from tariffs. You got 0. Trump promised $1,000 checks from Obamacare cuts. You got 0. Trump promised $1.98 gas. You got $4+. Trump now has more promises for you.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
One unleashes the *hounds* of Hell, not the gates of Hell, you illiterate moron.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Republican members of Congress are now suggesting federal investigations because Caitlin Clark gets fouled. Seriously? I rarely make multi-part posts because I doubt anybody reads anything I post, but I am fuming over this. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j... 1/4
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Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks
Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from ‘multiple attacks’ on court
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
My little Mindy certainly lets me know how annoying she finds it when I interrupt our walk to try to take pictures. 😜 There is no restraining the Morkie attitude! #DogsofBlueSky
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Required Reading for all academic administrators!
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Sarah Primate @langurlover.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
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Year in wildlife – in pictures
We look back over the year’s wildlife photographs, and hand out some much-deserved gongs to brilliant and beautiful creatures around the world
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Las Vegas Aces @lvaces.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
𝐓𝐇𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐎𝐅 𝐀 𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐃 🏆🏆🏆 The Las Vegas Aces are the 2025 WNBA Champions!
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Stunning.
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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Herons Eddy Cobiness ~ Ojibwe 1993
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Thank you to Stacy for sharing her story - and for doing what any parent would do to make sure their daughter has the care she needs to live at home. As this bill on GOP Medicaid cuts goes back to the House, it’s not too late to remind Washington politicians just how much is at stake.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Woot! Woot!!! 💚
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Canada is on fire. The national media is focused on building pipelines for national unity. Oil production is at record levels. We are back of the pack in the G7 for failing all our environmental goals. My latest on Canada's oil obsession. charlieangus.substack.com/p/burn-the-p...
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Save the County by Burning the Planet
Canada's False National "Unity" Debate
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
The NDP voting against the throne speech will be incorrigible. Sabotaging a government months after an election isn’t strategy; it’s stupidity. If they hand Poilievre the keys out of spite, they’ll own every disaster that follows. Grow up or get out of the way.
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Rev Barb @revbarb.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Paulson: Likely effects the new federal government will have on housing in Saskatchewan
We can expect to see the GST come off new homes up to $1 million, which would be most of them in these parts.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Mark Carney meeting Donald Trump today feels like Canada's valedictorian being forced to do a group project with the class clown. Still, proud to have a PM who shows up with brains, composure, and a full set of facts. 🇨🇦
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
BREAKING: Scientists discover that licking Poilievre’s boots is now a formal requirement for CPC membership. Spine donations no longer accepted. cultmtl.com/2025/05/cons...
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The Sore Loser Party of Canada
Post-election accusations and actions (or lack thereof) on the part of the Conservatives makes them look like the Sore Loser Party of Canada.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
This is abhorrent. The “wrong property” ruse is how the gestapo foments such fear and terror in citizens that no one dares to risk resistance. It’s a police state, protecting a dictatorship.
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Emily St. John Mandel @emilymandel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
NYT headline: “Kennedy Advises New Parents to ‘Do Your Own Research’ on Vaccines” 
Subheader:
“In an interview with Dr. Phil, the health secretary offered false information about vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals.”
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Pritzker: Time to stop wondering if you can trust the nuclear codes to people who don’t know how to organize a group chat. It’s time to stop ignoring the hypocrisy in wearing a big gold cross while announcing the defunding of children’s cancer research…
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Canada!!! Vote!! Vote for stable, strong, intelligent leadership. Vote!!
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Mark Carney: steered Canada and the UK through financial storms, PhD from Oxford, actual economist. Poilievre’s out here cosplaying competence while Carney’s outclassing him in his sleep. Canada’s most qualified PM—let’s make sure he keeps the job.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Craig Proulx @flexosaurus2323.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Little PP about liberal bias in CBC is bull: breachmedia.ca/pierre-poili...
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Pierre Poilievre is wrong—CBC’s real bias benefits Conservatives ⋆ The Breach
A previous study shows CBC News gave more airtime and favourable coverage to the Conservatives than other media outlets
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
PP’s politics aren’t conservative, they’re Trumpian. - Anti-media rhetoric? Yes - Obsessed with “freedom” framed as deregulation? Check - Attacks on public institutions (universities, courts)? Check - Economic populism masking elite-serving policies? Yep If it walks like Trump and talks like Trump…
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Despite PP's fearmongering, crime in Canada has not surged over the past decade & it has decreased since the '80s & '90s. In the past decade, the crime rate has remained relatively stable. The Crime Severity Index shows no dramatic rise, certainly nothing justifying the panic the CPC is stoking.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is probably the last fire of the season as warm(er) weather will finally be coming to Saskatoon. Cheers, BlueSky Friends.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Poilievre’s supporters include Matt Gaetz, who plead guilty to charges of sex trafficking, stalking, & bribing a federal official; and Alex Jones, who claimed that the Sandy Hook School shooting was fake & he then defamed the grieving parents. These are the sort of people who claim PP as their guy!
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
The CPC's proposal to weaken the Human Rights Commission is a dangerous attack on the foundation of equality and justice in Canada. Undermining this institution demonstrates that PP and his conga-line of like-minded MP candidates hold a deep disregard for human -rights, -dignity, and -equality.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
On the very week that the remains of over 200 Indigenous children were found on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Pierre Poilievre voted AGAINST Bill C-15, An Act respecting the UN's Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples. PP has no moral integrity whatsoever.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Sask Party MLA Racquel Hilbert’s racist comments about NDP leader Jagmeet Singh are despicable. Her disingenuous apology is equally appalling. If the Sask Party had any moral integrity (which they do not), they would strongly call for hateful Hilberg to step down. www.ctvnews.ca/regina/artic...
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Sask. Party MLA apologizes for calling federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh ‘a terrorist’
A Saskatchewan Party MLA has issued an apology after she called federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh “a terrorist” during a speech on the floor of the legislature more than two weeks ago.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Happy National Pet Day from the incomparable Mindy Mae!
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Stephen Hayes @stephenaytch.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
At a recent campaign event, Poilievre stated that he plans to respond to Trump’s tariffs by developing a short term plan & a long term plan & he plans to get started on those plans ASAP. I hope that Canadians are smart enough to recognize vacuousness. Let’s not fall for PP’s plan to plan.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you are worried about disinformation and media manipulation in this election give a pass to @ctvnews-rss.bsky.social They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social. She is a truth teller. pressprogress.ca/ctv-cancelle...
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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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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
If you are worried about disinformation and media manipulation in this election give a pass to @ctvyourmorning.bsky.social They caved to pressure from Pierre Poiievre's online posse in their continual harassment of @rachelgilmore.bsky.social She is a truth teller. CTV is not.
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
I can barely finish a one hour lecture without having to pee. Twenty hours? Full respect to Senator @corybooker.com for his courage, his convictions, his commitment to upholding what is right, as well as his bladder control!
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Remember when MAGA was mad that President Zelensky didn’t wear a suit? 🙄
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Pam Downe @pamdowne.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
In his Dec. 21st interview with Jordan Peterson, Poilievre claimed he has not changed his political convictions in decades. 1999: “There should be no career politicians.” 2025: PP is a career politician, serving in parliament for over 20 years. So much for those consistent political convictions!
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