Jenny in Ottawa
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US expat. Trying to learn about Canada.
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it's amazing the amount of time and effort Democrats spend painstakingly critiquing their messaging while Trump just fires from the hip while his brain leaks out of his ears and it's good enough for 312 electoral votes and winning control of the entire federal government
July 28, 2025 at 6:05 PM
it's amazing the amount of time and effort Democrats spend painstakingly critiquing their messaging while Trump just fires from the hip while his brain leaks out of his ears and it's good enough for 312 electoral votes and winning control of the entire federal government
Media, could you take a moment away from the Epstein Files to report on Camp Mystic’s successful appeals to remove some of their buildings from floodplain maps?
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FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from their 100-year flood map in Texas in response to appeals
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...
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July 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Media, could you take a moment away from the Epstein Files to report on Camp Mystic’s successful appeals to remove some of their buildings from floodplain maps?
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Some of MAGA don’t care, some of them don’t even know because Fox News doesn’t tell them. @thedemcoalition.bsky.social Can you put this on billboards in red states please?
It was all a lie, MAGA.
Prices have not come down. Your tips and overtime are still taxed. No trade deals have been made. No wars ended. No Epstein list published. Trump lied about everything.
#DonTheCon
Prices have not come down. Your tips and overtime are still taxed. No trade deals have been made. No wars ended. No Epstein list published. Trump lied about everything.
#DonTheCon
July 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Some of MAGA don’t care, some of them don’t even know because Fox News doesn’t tell them. @thedemcoalition.bsky.social Can you put this on billboards in red states please?
And he just built a concentration camp. How is everyone not in the streets? We are sleepwalking into fascism.
ICE just became the highest-funded law enforcement agency in the entire country.
There’s no telling what Trump is planning to unleash now.
There’s no telling what Trump is planning to unleash now.
July 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
And he just built a concentration camp. How is everyone not in the streets? We are sleepwalking into fascism.
Profiting from concentration camps.
"Right now, 90% of people in immigration detention are in a facility operated by a private detention corporation. GEO Group and CoreCivic are the two main corporations, and we’ve heard from their earnings calls that they’re very excited about getting more money & expand detention."
How the GOP Megabill Would Turbocharge Local Immigration Enforcement - Bolts
Congress is poised to pour tens of billions of dollars into more immigration detention, private jails, and border operations, plus new ICE partnerships with local police and sheriffs.
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July 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Profiting from concentration camps.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
So Shines A Good Deed In A Weary World
Dark isn't the opposite of light, it's the absence of light.
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July 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
On my country's 249th birthday, I wrote about the problem of sharing a nation with millions of evil people, and how to live a human life in the face of overwhelming inhumanity.
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
Oh and the Beastie Boys make an appearance.
www.the-reframe.com/so-shines-a-...
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My sense is that bookending a day in which millions peacefully protested w an assassination on one end and a cop riot & failed military parade on the other made No Kings Day much worse for the fascists than it otherwise would have been. They showed us the stakes, then showed us how weak they are
June 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
My sense is that bookending a day in which millions peacefully protested w an assassination on one end and a cop riot & failed military parade on the other made No Kings Day much worse for the fascists than it otherwise would have been. They showed us the stakes, then showed us how weak they are
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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
June 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
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Ukraine is going to save us all from Russia. They are so brave and determined. They are saving themselves, yes, but if they lose, the world loses too.
The world owes them so much gratitude and admiration.
Slava Ukrainii, today and always!
🇺🇦💕🇺🇦💕
The world owes them so much gratitude and admiration.
Slava Ukrainii, today and always!
🇺🇦💕🇺🇦💕
June 1, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Ukraine is going to save us all from Russia. They are so brave and determined. They are saving themselves, yes, but if they lose, the world loses too.
The world owes them so much gratitude and admiration.
Slava Ukrainii, today and always!
🇺🇦💕🇺🇦💕
The world owes them so much gratitude and admiration.
Slava Ukrainii, today and always!
🇺🇦💕🇺🇦💕
Think Congress will object to this? Nah.
May 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Think Congress will object to this? Nah.
Hillbilly Elegy
April 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Hillbilly Elegy
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The degree to which Trump is groveling before Putin begging for his approval while Putin regularly humiliates Trump is the real pee tape, a form of egregious geopolitical spouse abuse and a sad, sick replay of Trump’s dysfunctional childhood.
April 20, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The degree to which Trump is groveling before Putin begging for his approval while Putin regularly humiliates Trump is the real pee tape, a form of egregious geopolitical spouse abuse and a sad, sick replay of Trump’s dysfunctional childhood.
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I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
April 18, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.
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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.
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JFC. WE ARE STILL WORSE OFF. We still have *at least* 10% global tariffs. Businesses can’t make decisions, as they don’t know what tariffs will be 90 days from now
I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo
I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo
April 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
JFC. WE ARE STILL WORSE OFF. We still have *at least* 10% global tariffs. Businesses can’t make decisions, as they don’t know what tariffs will be 90 days from now
I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo
I usually say Trump is great at repackaging the status quo as victory but this is significantly worse than pre-Liberation Day status quo
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I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."
April 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I'm seeing grown-ass adults marvel at how high stocks jumped today - they must think their mom actually vanished when she played "peek-a-boo."
Shame on you @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Any institutions that want federal funding or don’t want to be blackballed are utterly failing their workers and students.
Any institutions that want federal funding or don’t want to be blackballed are utterly failing their workers and students.
Columbia University grad student whose ‘self-deportation’ was celebrated by DHS explains how she was hounded by ICE—despite ‘legal’ status and lack of involvement with encampment—and utterly abandoned to her fate by the university.
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
www.normanfinkelstein.com/letter-from-...
Letter from Columbia student Ranjani Srinivasan after fleeing the United States to Canada
Visit the post for more.
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March 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Shame on you @columbiauniversity.bsky.social
Any institutions that want federal funding or don’t want to be blackballed are utterly failing their workers and students.
Any institutions that want federal funding or don’t want to be blackballed are utterly failing their workers and students.
Media, please cover this.
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The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Democracy dies in decorum.
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Democracy dies in decorum.
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[Elected Dem being led up to the gallows at "Trump Square" in NYC]
"I don't understand. We wore matching colors. WE WORE MATCHING COLORS!"
"I don't understand. We wore matching colors. WE WORE MATCHING COLORS!"
March 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
[Elected Dem being led up to the gallows at "Trump Square" in NYC]
"I don't understand. We wore matching colors. WE WORE MATCHING COLORS!"
"I don't understand. We wore matching colors. WE WORE MATCHING COLORS!"
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“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky”
March 1, 2025 at 4:57 AM
“If Roosevelt had told Churchill to sue for peace on any terms with Adolf Hitler and to fork over Britain’s coal reserves to the United States in exchange for no American security guarantees, it might have approximated what Trump did to Zelensky”
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there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie
February 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie
