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Kathryn

@verityblue.bsky.social
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Figurative artist, designer & mother of five. Mostly here for politics, climate, music, art and social justice. And a bit of humour. Settler. Ally. #decolonize #landback Robinson Huron & Williams Treaty Territory

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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
2/ If that thread 🧵 doesn’t convince you what a MAGA zionist she is, here is a thread of Taylor Swift’s ties to Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu as she pushes up the release of “Encore” to coincide with the release of Ms. Rachel’s new album tomorrow: bsky.app/profile/lale...
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Here is a thread 🧵 breaking down Taylor Swift’s “patient zero” in a historical and geo political context. Fascism often uses popular culture to advance its agenda and what better muse to use than a pretty, straight, Aryan looking pop princess with family ties to Mussolini?
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
As Canada burns, floods, and deals with other impacts of the climate crisis, I keep asking: WHY is Carney doubling down on fossil fuels?? Well, @environmentaldefence.ca just gave us a HUGE clue: the federal government met with fossil fuel lobbyists more than 1300 times in Carney’s first year as PM.
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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
France is on fire.⁠ Spain is on fire.⁠ Norway is on fire.⁠ Sicily is on fire.⁠ Ontario is on fire.⁠ Scotland is on fire.⁠ Bolivia is on fire.⁠ Algeria is on fire.⁠ England is on fire.⁠ Wales is on fire.⁠ Tunisia is on fire.⁠ Our world is 🔥🔥🔥 and we all know why.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
I’ve done the survey, have you #Canada ⬇️
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: union
The Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reminder that one of the very first things Carney did was get rid of the luxury tax on yachts and private jets. ottawa.citynews.ca/2025/11/08/c...
ottawa.citynews.ca
Carney is scrapping the luxury tax. Here’s how people are reacting
The Trudeau-era rule rules previously levied a tax on vehicles and aircraft worth more than $100,000 and boats worth more than $250,000.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Well, this is a mess. Someone wants Ford to wear this. More than one confidential source is talking to Global in a way that casts doubt on Ford's key messages to the public about the scandal. People are trying to protect themselves. #OnPoli
But behind the scenes, it was the government that told its MPPs to make use of the hotel perk when legislative sessions went late.

One email, sent in late 2025 by the Progressive Conservative whip’s office, highlighted the need to be near Queen’s Park for night sittings, pointing to hotels as an option for MPPs who didn’t get funds for a home in Toronto.

“For those Members with no Toronto Accommodation allowance, you may choose to book a hotel room downtown for the two days of night sittings,” the email, obtained by Global News, read.
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
"...Mark Carney posted photos on social media from a visit to the federal Government Operations Centre (GOC). But under the Carney government’s plan to reduce the size of the public service, the centre featured in the post had lost about 50 positions, or nearly half its workforce" #CdnPoli
“The government operations centre (GOC) is responsible for coordinating our national emergency response,” Sharon DeSousa, national president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), said in a written statement.

“Gutting it by almost half puts people across the country at risk, including frontline workers who are battling wildfires, supporting evacuations, and risking their lives.”

The GOC supports emergency preparedness, provides around-the-clock situational awareness and leads the co-ordination of the “integrated federal response to all-hazard events of a national interest.”
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
This is what Mark Carney has chosen. She's a former board member of the right-wing Fraser Institute. "In 2023, the advocacy group Environmental Defence accused Pierce of being a “climate villain painting Big Oil green.” The group claimed: “Pierce is an expert level greenwasher..." #CdnPoli
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh, look! Two countries that commit war crimes don't like being held accountable. Who'd have guessed?
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Triploi★ @triploi.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
According to capitalists... A socialist country that spends its entire budget on infrastructure, hospitals, schools, housing, and food for its people is 'unrealistic' But a capitalist country going $40Trillion into debt to subsidise corporations and fund endless war is 'fiscal responsibility'
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ruthko @ruthmkb.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
"A total of 16 TO-area PC MPPs have dipped into the “special circumstances” allowance in recent years, to the tune of a combined $107,118, according to publicly available expense disclosures." 🤬 #FordsGravyTrain keeps rolling! Choo-choo! #FordIsCorrupt #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/governm...
thetrillium.ca
Toronto-area PC MPPs have billed taxpayers over $100K for Toronto overnight stays
Expenses that ‘did not meet the spirit of the rules will be reimbursed’: premier’s office
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My IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I read of thousands of needless deaths and am full of rage that Mark Carney is walking back Canada's emissions targets.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Being a feminist means having infinite patience for the reality that time is a fucking flat circle and we'll be repeating ourselves until our last breath. Take. Violence. Against. Women. Seriously. And. You. Will. Save. So. Many. Lives.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The people suffering in food supply chains are *farmers,* not grocery giants. Increased market consolidation raises farmer costs with monopoly power over vital inputs, as ever fewer sources control access to (& prices for) things like seeds and fertilizer. 10/ perspectivesjournal.ca/canada-food-...
perspectivesjournal.ca
The Monopoly Problem at the Heart of Canada's Food System | Perspectives Journal
While the ongoing cost-of-living crisis facing Canadians has been provoked by recent global events, the consolidation of the Canadian food system has been a long-running and strenuous process.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"What exactly do you expect Carney to do / not do?" A thread of 50 specific items (with links, and not in any particular order), a large fraction of which are in line with warning signs we pointed out early on and were told to be quiet, wait and see, or trust his 4D chess acumen. 1/??
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Alex Cosh @alex.readthemaple.com · 23/06/2026
NEW: A report from Just Peace Advocates finds the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board increased its investments in companies complicit in Israel’s crimes by more than $23 billion. www.readthemaple.com/cpp-invests-...
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CPP Invests $23 Billion More In Companies Tied To Israel: Report
“It’s more than doubled if we’re looking back over two years.”
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Anonymous @opdeatheaters.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Children were "labelled as fighters even after (age confirmed) - held alongside adults in Israeli military and prison facilities." Subjected to "beatings, prolonged blindfolding, attacks by dogs, electric shocks, forced nudity and sexual assault, including rape and threats of rape." #OpDeathEaters
The report documented the systematic mistreatment of detained Palestinian children. Boys aged 12 and over were separated during mass arrests, labelled as fighters even after identity cards confirmed their age, and held alongside adults in Israeli military and prison facilities.
The Commission recorded beatings, prolonged blindfolding, attacks by dogs, electric shocks, forced nudity and sexual assault, including rape and threats of rape against boys. One 15-year-old described 54 days of repeated interrogation and torture, including being electrocuted through a needle in his shoulder. The Commission concluded the treatment amounted to torture, enforced disappearance and persecution based on age intersecting with nationality and gender.
In the West Bank, more than 1,655 children were detained after October 2023, 600 of them in 2025. As of 31 December 2025, 51 per cent of 351 child detainees were held in administrative detention, imprisoned indefinitely without charge, a record number.
A 17-year-old from Ramallah died in Megiddo prison on 22 March 2025. An autopsy found severe prolonged malnutrition; the Commission found his death amounted to the war crimes of torture and wilful killing. As of 17 February 2025, Israel was withholding the bodies of 40 Palestinian children.
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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋 @carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 22/06/2026
Samaa is trying to provide for her daughters' basic needs amidst harsh circumstances, but resources are limited and their needs are many. Any support, no matter how small, helps provide them with food and essential supplies Thank you to everyone who lends a helping hand chuffed.org/project/1575...
Picture of Julia and Talia
Samaa with baby Talia in the ruins of gazaSamaa With Julia in the ruins of gazaSamaa with Julia and Baby Talia
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/06/2026
NEW: Iran is publicly calling out Donald Trump and JD Vance for LYING, directly contradicting key claims the Trump regime has made about the U.S.-Iran agreement. 1/
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Seeing way too many people saying things like "Wow! That incel shooter proves Canada is MAGA, too!" ... Montreal was shot up by an incel in 1989. Chronically aggrieved misogynist losers predate the MAGA movement.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Canada brought the world Jordan Peterson AND the Proud Boys, ffs! This shit is homegrown.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
So to get it straight, the shooter who shot the Muslim cop was an incel white supremacist from Lethbridge. The Jewish man was a bystander killed by a different police officer. Hope this helps
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Colin Murray @colinmurray.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The cry went up from thousands that "this isn't us" after the race riots, but days later masked men are forcing people out of another estate. And if we shrug and continue to live in a society that lets this happen, well then it's no surprise how the world will view NI: share.google/AE98ss3HdT9t...
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Chantzy @chantzy.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I was recently reminded that the term "global heating" is better to use than global warming - "warming" is too mild a term for what we are witnessing
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Triploi★ @triploi.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The 'deep state' is literally just capitalism
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Triploi★ @triploi.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
The least we can do is bear witness. the absolute least
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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This Wired article is disinformation. Here are nearly half a million peer reviewed journal articles about SARS-CoV-2 and its result, long COVID. Long COVID has more than 200 expressions and is the #1 chronic illness in children, having surpassed asthma. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/cor...
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LitCovid
LitCovid is a curated literature hub for tracking up-to-date scientific information about the 2019 novel Coronavirus.
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appaloosa @appaloosy.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Well now... Enjoyed listening to this testy exchange on #CBC Front Burner between Jayme Poisson and Wab Kinew as WK calls out JP on her journalistic bias.. (@ 14:30 mark) www.cbc.ca/player/play/... I kinda feel Wab Kinew is the voice of unity #Canada needs right now. Bless this man.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.
nbcnews.com
No child deaths definitively linked to Covid shots, FDA says
The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad.
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Seth Polansky @sethpolansky.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Yes. The answer is yes. www.wired.com/story/palant...
wired.com
Palantir Employees Are Starting to Wonder if They’re the Bad Guys
Interviews with current and former Palantir employees, along with internal Slack messages obtained by WIRED, suggest a workforce in turmoil.
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(numunu, quahadis band) - Sky Kwihnai Pihi (name) @anarcho.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
mondoweiss.net/2026/04/when...
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When Israel destroyed Gaza’s courts, legal protections for women vanished
The decimation of Gaza’s judicial system has left hundreds of thousands of women unable to claim inheritance, get a divorce, or retain custody of their children. “That is the reality of women in Gaza....
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 24/03/2026
The Ontario Association of Black Paralegals got sucked into this clandestine stealing machine.
I clicked on a random Zoom call hosted on WebinarTV's site about "Al, Equity & Access to Justice" hosted by the Ontario Association of Black Paralegals.
"This is really odd/unsettling to learn about," Dayna Cornwall, a project manager at the National Self-Represented Litigants Project, who hosted the Zoom call, told me when I asked her if she knew it was recorded and
uploaded to WebinarTV. "We were not aware that our webinar was being recorded by Webinar. TV, and have never heard of it before."
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M-A.Stay’Legit™️🇨🇦 @bagdmilksowhat.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Reminder: The Dismantling of TSA…Is Literally Written In Project 2025. MAGA Voted For This.
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a security guard is standing in front of a computer monitor in an airport .
ALT: a security guard is standing in front of a computer monitor in an airport .
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Phil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Any definition of genocide that does not include both the transatlantic slave trade and the decimation of the native Americans, both in their historically acute phase and in their ongoing manifestations, is not, imo, valid.
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Kathryn @verityblue.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
JeeZus. 😢
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
And as to more oil pipelines? It's the same story for Asia, which will be electrifying even more aggressively than before. Pitching a pipeline that won't come into service for years to address a situation that will a) end in a few months, and b) push buyers in the other direction is...something.
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a cartoon of spongebob wearing a spongebob hat with an anchor on it
ALT: a cartoon of spongebob wearing a spongebob hat with an anchor on it
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Ugh
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Netanyahu to the U.S. Congress, 2002: "If you take out Saddam, Saddam's regime, I guarantee you that it will have enormous positive reverberations on the region."
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Ward 2 Hamilton @ward2hamilton.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I appreciate the Mayor calling this out and the Spec for reporting it. Just because it's not immediately obvious, it doesn't mean it's not white supremacy. White supremacists and far right nationalists are organizing in our city. Silence is not an option. #HamOnt www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...
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White supremacist rally at city hall a ‘blatant act of hate’: Horwath
Involved group has been behind other, similar protests in Hamilton — including one in December
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.
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Nellie Bly ❤️ Lake Ontario @nelliebly666.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Joyce is not mincing words, and is exactly right: “It’s likely there will be an appeal. But that won’t come from Trump’s law firm, formerly known as the Justice Department.”
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
When you dig deeper around mysteriously successful figures you generally find that rather than being incomprehensibly brilliant masters of the universe, they actually just lied a bunch and committed a bunch of crimes that no one wanted to look too hard at
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Nothing describes the soul of the Republican Party more than Pam Bondi citing the stock markets as her excuse for not going after pedophile billionaires.
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 12/02/2026
The only details these people care about in situations like this is the race and gender of the perpetrators The reason they are fixated on those details is because they are bigots
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Kathryn @verityblue.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Seamus Culleton has been held in detention for FIVE MONTHS, following a random sweep. He shares a cell with >70 other men. He has been living in the US for twenty years, has a valid work permit, is married to a US citizen, and runs a successful business. Are they great yet?
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will not allow reporters to attend their annual gathering in Toronto this weekend, a move critics say projects an appearance of "weakness" and breaks from political norms. #Ontario Is anyone surprised by this? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
Ontario PCs bar reporters from policy convention | CBC News
Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives will not allow reporters to attend their annual gathering in Toronto this weekend, a move critics say breaks from democratic norms.
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