Heather Phillips
@blueiris6.bsky.social
She/her, native plant and veggie gardener. Cat lover. Sashiko embroidery, origami, and sewing enthusiast. Garden mottos - "Nothing succeeds like excess." & "Riot of colour." Human rights for ALL.
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“You cannot trust the [United States] federal government.
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.”
This has been clear for quite a while, and should be understood by everyone, especially given that too many in the media are still pretending they don’t understand it.
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.”
This has been clear for quite a while, and should be understood by everyone, especially given that too many in the media are still pretending they don’t understand it.
You cannot trust the federal government
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.
www.publicnotice.co
September 27, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“You cannot trust the [United States] federal government.
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.”
This has been clear for quite a while, and should be understood by everyone, especially given that too many in the media are still pretending they don’t understand it.
Everything they say should be assumed to be a lie.”
This has been clear for quite a while, and should be understood by everyone, especially given that too many in the media are still pretending they don’t understand it.
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Pare down your life and be ready to make dramatic changes
September 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Pare down your life and be ready to make dramatic changes
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Canadian women rock!
Let's cheer the Canadian women dominating world rugby. They had to crowd source to raise the money to even get into the tournament. Nobody took them seriously. They crushed the New Zealand giants. They are going into the finals.
Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team.
So proud.
Come on fellow Canucks - is the real miracle team.
So proud.
September 21, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Canadian women rock!
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"There was a time, perhaps when the murder of a man over his political views would have caused people in a democracy to pause and reflect on the need to dial things back.
"Not anymore."
Stand up for democracy. Nobody said it’d be easy.
"Not anymore."
Stand up for democracy. Nobody said it’d be easy.
We hold our breath as we wait for the next shoe to drop in the spiral of rage rhetoric and violence in the United States. This is my reflection on the dangerous in-between time as democracy teeters in the time of monsters.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-danger...
charlieangus.substack.com/p/the-danger...
The Dangerous In-Between: Assassination, Fascism and the Fragile State of Democracy
I heard the news about Charlie Kirk's assassination as I was deeply engrossed in Timothy Snyder's book The Road to Unfreedom. At the time, I was pondering Snyder's statement that "blood is the ink of ...
charlieangus.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"There was a time, perhaps when the murder of a man over his political views would have caused people in a democracy to pause and reflect on the need to dial things back.
"Not anymore."
Stand up for democracy. Nobody said it’d be easy.
"Not anymore."
Stand up for democracy. Nobody said it’d be easy.
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Education is the enemy of fascism.
September 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Education is the enemy of fascism.
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We’ve crossed a line, most of us without recognizing it: soils growing thinner, summers stretching hotter, oceans growing more acidic with each tide. And now, we find ourselves somewhere unfamiliar: living beyond the planet’s ecological limits.
Living Beyond the Planetary Budget
How modern life crossed the world’s limits
medium.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:04 PM
We’ve crossed a line, most of us without recognizing it: soils growing thinner, summers stretching hotter, oceans growing more acidic with each tide. And now, we find ourselves somewhere unfamiliar: living beyond the planet’s ecological limits.
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Imagine if Canadian taxpayer dollars were spent on improving access to quality healthcare and education services instead of paying for the campaign promises Doug made to guests at his kids’ stag n does.
Premier Doug Ford says he hasn’t given up hope his proposed tunnel under Highway 401 — branded a fantasy by critics — will eventually land on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s list of major infrastructure projects to fast-track in the national interest.
Doug Ford believes his Highway 401 tunnel will make Mark Carney’s list of national projects
The tunnel under the superhighway across the top of Toronto was excluded from the first list released by the prime minister last week
www.thestar.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Imagine if Canadian taxpayer dollars were spent on improving access to quality healthcare and education services instead of paying for the campaign promises Doug made to guests at his kids’ stag n does.
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Its confusing to understand why any party would celebrate the agenda of an extremist who proclaimed hateful content & advocated to take away a select group of people of their liberty.
Charlie Kirk's death was a tragedy.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
But he built his name on provocation and white supremacy.
He said that gun deaths of innocents was "worth it."
On Mark Carney's first day as PM in Parliament Liberals gave Kirk a standing ovation.
Ceding ground to extremism won't make them nicer.
September 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Its confusing to understand why any party would celebrate the agenda of an extremist who proclaimed hateful content & advocated to take away a select group of people of their liberty.
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The temperature anomaly (vs 1991-2020) has risen from +0.21°C on July 4, 2025, to +0.72°C on Sept. 15, 2025, which could indicate that acceleration of the temperature rise is overwhelming the temperature suppression that comes with a move into La Niña. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/09/el-n...
September 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The temperature anomaly (vs 1991-2020) has risen from +0.21°C on July 4, 2025, to +0.72°C on Sept. 15, 2025, which could indicate that acceleration of the temperature rise is overwhelming the temperature suppression that comes with a move into La Niña. arctic-news.blogspot.com/2025/09/el-n...
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Fucking weird choice, Carney. This guy is obviously a straight-up fascist who deserves no time. You can interview him and other fascists about trade policy, I guess, but bloody hell, a Cabinet meeting? Please @mark-carney.bsky.social
If cabinet is hoping the guy who wrote the fascist playbook will give advice on stopping fascism then we are in trouble.
Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it.
There is nothing hidden in their plan.
Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it.
There is nothing hidden in their plan.
September 4, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Fucking weird choice, Carney. This guy is obviously a straight-up fascist who deserves no time. You can interview him and other fascists about trade policy, I guess, but bloody hell, a Cabinet meeting? Please @mark-carney.bsky.social
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IM SORRY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Project 2025 mastermind invited to speak at Carney's cabinet meeting | CBC News
A prominent conservative figure in American politics and the mastermind behind Project 2025 — the infamous policy blueprint that proposed a drastic overhaul of the U.S. government — will speak to Prim...
www.cbc.ca
September 4, 2025 at 2:25 AM
IM SORRY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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To be clear, the focus of the meeting is not stopping fascism. The topic is "establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S."
So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.
So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.
If cabinet is hoping the guy who wrote the fascist playbook will give advice on stopping fascism then we are in trouble.
Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it.
There is nothing hidden in their plan.
Adorno reminds us that clever people were the first to be suckered by the fascist playbook because they thought they could outsmart it.
There is nothing hidden in their plan.
September 4, 2025 at 2:31 AM
To be clear, the focus of the meeting is not stopping fascism. The topic is "establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S."
So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.
So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.
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A Health Secretary who opposes vaccines. A Defense Secretary who doesn’t believe that germs exist.
America’s enemies, who are all aware that germs exist, must think that all their Christmases have come at once.
America’s enemies, who are all aware that germs exist, must think that all their Christmases have come at once.
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A Health Secretary who opposes vaccines. A Defense Secretary who doesn’t believe that germs exist.
America’s enemies, who are all aware that germs exist, must think that all their Christmases have come at once.
America’s enemies, who are all aware that germs exist, must think that all their Christmases have come at once.
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Republicans are destroying the American brand.
Here is a great way to send a message to Ron DeSantis and his alligator prisons:
Florida orange juice sucks.
The Canadian market for American orange juice has tanked. Replace them with regional brands of lemonade, berry juice and anything that is not from Florida.
#elbowsup
Florida orange juice sucks.
The Canadian market for American orange juice has tanked. Replace them with regional brands of lemonade, berry juice and anything that is not from Florida.
#elbowsup
August 21, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Republicans are destroying the American brand.
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If I got kicked out of, say, being the CEO of a major company by the workers holding a collective public vote, my sense of shame would personally not let me force my way back. Anyways totally unrelated I wish Pierre Poilievre well in his return to politics
August 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
If I got kicked out of, say, being the CEO of a major company by the workers holding a collective public vote, my sense of shame would personally not let me force my way back. Anyways totally unrelated I wish Pierre Poilievre well in his return to politics
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The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
August 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The people who are *still* making a massive deal about having to go to the doctor and get a shot think historians made too big a deal out of **slavery**
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Canada's parliament voted to block all arms shipments to Israel.
And then Prime Minister Carney was elected.
This report says Canada's weapons continue to flow to help murder starving people.
Call PM Carney & Anita Anand and ask why they defy Parliament to aid genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
And then Prime Minister Carney was elected.
This report says Canada's weapons continue to flow to help murder starving people.
Call PM Carney & Anita Anand and ask why they defy Parliament to aid genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials | CBC News
The government of Canada is adamant — with certain, shifting caveats — that it has not allowed arms shipments to Israel since January 2024, and yet Israeli import data and publicly available shipping ...
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July 30, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Canada's parliament voted to block all arms shipments to Israel.
And then Prime Minister Carney was elected.
This report says Canada's weapons continue to flow to help murder starving people.
Call PM Carney & Anita Anand and ask why they defy Parliament to aid genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
And then Prime Minister Carney was elected.
This report says Canada's weapons continue to flow to help murder starving people.
Call PM Carney & Anita Anand and ask why they defy Parliament to aid genocide.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Last week, Pierre Poilievre and Conservative MPs attacked the Crown prosecutors in the Tamara Lich / Chris Barber convoy trial
What's maybe more remarkable is Poilievre only did this after far-right influencers called him out and began questioning his leadership
I broke this down for @thestar.com:
What's maybe more remarkable is Poilievre only did this after far-right influencers called him out and began questioning his leadership
I broke this down for @thestar.com:
For Pierre Poilievre, defending Freedom Convoy convicts is a political survival strategy
The Conservative leader needs to keep the far-right elements of his base fired up.
www.thestar.com
July 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Last week, Pierre Poilievre and Conservative MPs attacked the Crown prosecutors in the Tamara Lich / Chris Barber convoy trial
What's maybe more remarkable is Poilievre only did this after far-right influencers called him out and began questioning his leadership
I broke this down for @thestar.com:
What's maybe more remarkable is Poilievre only did this after far-right influencers called him out and began questioning his leadership
I broke this down for @thestar.com:
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As I just said on radio Ford banning political discussion from classrooms is ridiculous. With civic literacy at an all time low and terrible voter turnout rates we should be engaging students in discussions that effect their future, the economy, our democracy and society #Onpoli
July 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
As I just said on radio Ford banning political discussion from classrooms is ridiculous. With civic literacy at an all time low and terrible voter turnout rates we should be engaging students in discussions that effect their future, the economy, our democracy and society #Onpoli