Norah Bowman
@norahbowman.bsky.social
Feminist & writer & democratic socialist bi cis poet on unceded & traditional Syilx Okanagan territory. I ❤️Rutland, co-operative housing, experimental poetry, dogs, kooky art & nooks. PhD in English & Film studies, community college prof. #transrights
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‘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! 🇨🇦 ❤️
Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️
April 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
‘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! 🇨🇦 ❤️
Let’s go Kelowna! Every single vote counts. Every one. 🗳️ Let’s flip this seat back to the people! 🇨🇦 ❤️
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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.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
April 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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.
Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.
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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.
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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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April 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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.
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love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"
April 2, 2025 at 11:25 PM
love how everybody's like "why would a Russian asset crash the US economy?"
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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
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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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April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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
An audio recording obtained by PressProgress shows CTV cancelled an ‘election misinformation’ segment with journalist Rachel Gilmore after online backlash from conservatives
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.
HELLO NEW BLUESKY USERS!!! ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
I AM RACHEL GILMORE ✨
AND I AM YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE PERSON’S LEAST FAVOURITE JOURNALIST.
I AM RACHEL GILMORE ✨
AND I AM YOUR LEAST FAVOURITE PERSON’S LEAST FAVOURITE JOURNALIST.
April 3, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Canada is built on the violent oppression and harm of Indigenous Peoples. No reconciliation without truth. Residential “schools” were internment camps.
The hidden history of a predatory principal at a Manitoba residential school | CBC News
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission heard very little about Agnes Benn, a teen girl who died near a Manitoba residential school in 1930, and the multiple sex abuse charges faced by the school's pr...
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April 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Canada is built on the violent oppression and harm of Indigenous Peoples. No reconciliation without truth. Residential “schools” were internment camps.
I value and I will protect our trans community members, today and every day. #transdayofvisibility #TDOV
April 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I value and I will protect our trans community members, today and every day. #transdayofvisibility #TDOV
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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.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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.
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“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.”
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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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March 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“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.”
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Congratulations Anna!
Anna Warwick Sears acclaimed as Liberal candidate in Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee #VernonBC
Anna Warwick Sears acclaimed as Liberal candidate in Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee - Vernon News
The longtime executive director of the Okanagan Basin Water Board and a former BC NDP candidate has been acclaimed as the Liberal candidate for the Vernon-Lake Country-Monashee riding in the upcoming
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March 27, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Congratulations Anna!
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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 ⤵️
What Is an Oligarchy, and Why Are People Worried the US Is Becoming One?
We break it down.
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March 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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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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.
March 23, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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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My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
March 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
RFK Jr can go fuck himself.
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Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.
March 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Fuck Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to hell. Goddamn bastards, both of them.
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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.
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.
March 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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.
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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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.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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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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
March 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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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To Poilievre's friends.
Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks.
It's not okay.
Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks.
It's not okay.
March 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
To Poilievre's friends.
Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks.
It's not okay.
Lay off Carney's kid. Stop being a bunch of bullies and jerks.
It's not okay.
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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”
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Blame Canada
Our warmongering, drugged-out conspiracy theory
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March 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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”
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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
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
#FuckTrump
March 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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
#ElbowsUp🇨🇦
#FuckTrump