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Amanda 🇨🇦
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Proud Canadian. Dog mom. Reflector Project & Rector’s Cupboard Podcast. Grateful for those who hold faith and those who don’t. #exvangelical #canadian #elbowsup 🇨🇦
There’s so much to follow, to parse, to remember, to learn right now. May we have eyes to see and ears to hear moments of beauty and meaning in the middle of it all.

#exvangelical #evangelicallydeparted
It's Hard to Hear All of This
But I need to hear something hopeful
open.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Fantastic protest sign: “So awful even introverts are here”.

Hats off to all of the #handsoff protesters this weekend.

#resist #uspoli #goodtrouble
Anti-Trump Protests Get Underway Across the Country
Demonstrators packed the streets in cities and towns to rail against government cutbacks, financial turmoil and what they viewed as attacks on democracy.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
“The Canadians are coming in elbows up and sticks high”

Keep fighting back. ✊🏼

#buycanadian #never51 #resist
Canada Drops the Gloves in Tariff Spat, Makes Its Case on U.S. Billboards
The tariffs-are-a-tax messages are targeting residents in places like Pittsburgh that count on Canadian trade.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“Blessed be the protesters. The loudmouths. The organizers. The sign-holders. The sidewalk saints. Blessed be the kids who showed up with better one-liners than entire PR teams. Blessed be the elders still marching after all these years.”

Huge crowds across America ✊🏼
#handsoff #uspoli #resist
April 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
“just like my face with out glasses, we’ll force this to work” 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks for the laugh @22-minutes.bsky.social!
April 2, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I’ll pop some popcorn 👀
It’s well known that I was on The Apprentice. We were all covered by NDAs at the time, but mine has now expired. And do I ever have some tea to spill. I’ll post it later today after consulting once again with my attorneys.
April 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Well done, Wisconsin. ✊🏼

#resist #uspoli
The results are in: the people of Wisconsin cannot be bought.
April 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
“What’s the point of Christianity if believers actively oppose immigrants…..and promote humans beings arrested, and sent back to impoverished and violent conditions?”

This was written in 2016 and is only more relevant today. #ChristianNationalsim is not Christian.

#exvangelical
Have We Forgotten the Point of Christianity?
The Bible shows us that Jesus is the best example of who to follow, so why aren’t Christians doing so?
sojo.net
March 29, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Listen to that crowd!

#TeslaTakedown
✊🏼
NEW: The #TeslaTakedown protest is getting BIG in New York right now.

The main showroom in Manhattan is surrounded on all sides.

One of 500 anti-oligarchy & anti-Musk protests happening at Tesla sites globally. 👏

(🎥 TPUSA)
March 29, 2025 at 6:43 PM
“the campaign has a "weird fixation" with relatively minor issues, like how the media is reporting Poilievre's rally crowd sizes.”

Doesn’t that sound familiar…

#Canada doesn’t need a Trump-like figure.

#resist #canpoli
Conservatives fear 'dysfunctional' campaign and 'civil war' in the party: sources | CBC News
As Conservative infighting over how the campaign is handling Donald Trump’s tariff threats spills into the open, sources within the party are describing a “dysfunctional” campaign with too much centra...
www.cbc.ca
March 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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The Liberals continue to creep up into serious majority territory. There is no doubt they are in the lead. The big question is, can they keep it?

#canada #polling #politics #aggragate #prediction #election2025
March 28, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The “refuse to buy American” movement is spreading.

"If they are American, they do not go in the shopping basket."

🇨🇦🇬🇱🇩🇰

#canada #greenland #denmark red and white side by side. #never51
No more Netflix or California wine: Why thousands of Danes are refusing to buy American | CBC News
A movement in Denmark to boycott American goods reflects the current mood of the population of nearly six million, which feels alienated and even threatened by the messaging coming from the U.S.
www.cbc.ca
March 28, 2025 at 4:11 PM
President Trump’s tariffs will hurt, but they will not break us. 

We will get through this crisis together, because in Kitchener-Waterloo — and right across the country — we are #CanadaStrong.
March 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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God is on our side.
Egg and gas prices are still high.
March 27, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Maybe if we could get added to the group chat we could remind them that we didn’t ask for protection nor do we want to be them.
Stay out of Greenland. Stay out of Canada.

#notthe51ststate #canpoli #uspoli
VP Vance just released a video announcing an (uninvited) visit to Greenland. In the video he explains that Greenland is important to security of Canada. The administration that has threatened to annex Canada now says that the protection of Canada is a reason to invade Greenland.
March 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Good question. How will he fully understand what the US and other foreign actors are actually doing? Follow along with the rest of us via the news? Or just check socials?

#pierrepoilievre is simply a terrible choice for our country. 🇨🇦

#cdnpoli
Why won't Pierre Poilievre get his security clearance?
March 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amateur hour over at the Trump administration.

#uspoli #nationalsecurity
American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6
March 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This feels painfully true.

#notthe51ststate #resist #canpoli
Canada is resource rich and strategically located.
Putin is so keen to get control of our country, he's put his loudest goon on the case.
March 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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The leaders of all of the federal parties in Canada accidentally added me to their group chat
March 24, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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Three days ago Trump took away my non-existent security clearance…. At the same time his cabinet was texting top secret plans with a member of the media on board.

Copy that
March 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Welcome to #bluesky, President Obama. 🎉
Figured I’d hop on here today for the 15th anniversary of the Affordable Care Act.

With everything going on right now, it’s easy to feel like regular folks can’t make a difference – but the ACA is a reminder that change is possible when we fight for progress.
March 24, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I didn’t know this book existed until I learned through the many, many news reports how hard Zuck and Meta worked to keep us from knowing this book existed. Well done, Meta! 👏

Enjoying #carelesspeople immensely.

@carelesspeople.bsky.social
#booksky
March 24, 2025 at 5:36 AM
34,000 in Colorado. 23,000 in Tucson. Keep it going @aoc.bsky.social and @sanders.senate.gov!

Again though, where are the other democrats?
#resist #uspoli
Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.
March 24, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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March 22, 2025 at 3:04 AM