Christianne Smith
@christianne67.bsky.social
Expat 🇨🇦 writer & poet who loves her husband, three kids, & their husky. Passionate about books, botany, photography, & coffee.
🦄 Progressive, Liberal Democrat Contented Atheist & Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
🦄 Progressive, Liberal Democrat Contented Atheist & Ally 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
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I check #SpotTheScammer & #SpotTheBot daily and I will NOT follow any account whose followers are littered with scam accounts and AI Bots mining followers.
No "auto" follows from me, ever. I check. If your account looks sketchy, I'll report & block it.
#SorryNotSorry
No "auto" follows from me, ever. I check. If your account looks sketchy, I'll report & block it.
#SorryNotSorry
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As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone.
The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.
The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.
World must jointly tackle issues of climate change, pollution, UN says
The United Nations says the world needs a new way of thinking about environmental crises threatening the health of people and the planet
abcnews.go.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:36 PM
As I say here, this is not about saving the planet. The planet will be orbiting the sun long after we’re gone.
The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.
The question is, will there be a healthy, thriving human society on that planet? The answer to that question is very much up for grabs at this point.
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A new study of LAIR-1–expressing macrophages could inform future immunotherapeutic strategies, scientists trace how pathways connecting dopamine receptors and calcium channels support spatial working memory in mice, and more this week in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/48JTYfc
December 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A new study of LAIR-1–expressing macrophages could inform future immunotherapeutic strategies, scientists trace how pathways connecting dopamine receptors and calcium channels support spatial working memory in mice, and more this week in #ScienceSignaling. https://scim.ag/48JTYfc
"There's no time like the present to embrace who you are and take a step toward where you wish to be." -CA67-
#Writing #Quote
This is Hutch wishing me to step closer to the front door because she was ready for her walk. At -13⁰ and still dark out, I was not 🤣
#DogsOfBluesky
#SiberianHusky
#Writing #Quote
This is Hutch wishing me to step closer to the front door because she was ready for her walk. At -13⁰ and still dark out, I was not 🤣
#DogsOfBluesky
#SiberianHusky
December 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
"There's no time like the present to embrace who you are and take a step toward where you wish to be." -CA67-
#Writing #Quote
This is Hutch wishing me to step closer to the front door because she was ready for her walk. At -13⁰ and still dark out, I was not 🤣
#DogsOfBluesky
#SiberianHusky
#Writing #Quote
This is Hutch wishing me to step closer to the front door because she was ready for her walk. At -13⁰ and still dark out, I was not 🤣
#DogsOfBluesky
#SiberianHusky
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"Having someone beside me changed everything. It was a means to ensure accountability." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4rFa7LM
December 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
"Having someone beside me changed everything. It was a means to ensure accountability." #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4rFa7LM
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This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
December 7, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
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Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
December 8, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Health insurers are jacking up premiums while raking in billions in profits.
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
Expiring ACA subsidies will saddle millions of Americans with massive monthly premium increases.
Is it any wonder that 63% of Americans now support Medicare for All?
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If SCOTUS tears down the 14th Amendment, there can be no moderate position for ANY Democrat. If they tear it down the Constitution of the United States, SCOTUS should be deemed lawless and the Democrats must go to war with lawlessness.
The fact that SCOTUS is going to tell us who's an American and who's not is THE REASON why the Democrats must stop playing around. It's time to defend immigration as a universal good and in terms of liberty and justice for all.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
Accepting rightwing lies as if they're true is how we got here.
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 PM
If SCOTUS tears down the 14th Amendment, there can be no moderate position for ANY Democrat. If they tear it down the Constitution of the United States, SCOTUS should be deemed lawless and the Democrats must go to war with lawlessness.
Holding strong to my New Year's resolution of reading more books 📚 I'm ready to begin books 74 & 75 of 2025
💙📚 #Booksky
#ReadMore2025
#Fiction #NonFiction
#HomeLibrary
#Education
#ReadBannedBooks
Bonne après-midi 🍸
💙📚 #Booksky
#ReadMore2025
#Fiction #NonFiction
#HomeLibrary
#Education
#ReadBannedBooks
Bonne après-midi 🍸
December 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Holding strong to my New Year's resolution of reading more books 📚 I'm ready to begin books 74 & 75 of 2025
💙📚 #Booksky
#ReadMore2025
#Fiction #NonFiction
#HomeLibrary
#Education
#ReadBannedBooks
Bonne après-midi 🍸
💙📚 #Booksky
#ReadMore2025
#Fiction #NonFiction
#HomeLibrary
#Education
#ReadBannedBooks
Bonne après-midi 🍸
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I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
December 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I am not live posting the whole argument here because I want to listen closely to Trump v. Slaughter. But the solicitor general for Trump just said the point here in killing the independence of agencies like the FTC is that executive branch officers must “fear and obey” the president. Wow. #SCOTUS
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Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
December 8, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump says Lisa Cook is unfit to be a Fed governor because she claimed two different properties as her primary residence on her mortgage applications. (Cook denies this.)
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
Trump did the exact same thing on mortgage applications submitted a mere 7 weeks apart.
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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This was my favorite part — it supposedly shows NYPD officers cuffing an ICE agent (ha!) but the station sign is gibberish and an NYPD patch appears on the ICE agent?
December 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
This was my favorite part — it supposedly shows NYPD officers cuffing an ICE agent (ha!) but the station sign is gibberish and an NYPD patch appears on the ICE agent?
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Another account spewing AI videos and “following” tens of thousands of people.
Block these clowns on site.
Block these clowns on site.
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Another account spewing AI videos and “following” tens of thousands of people.
Block these clowns on site.
Block these clowns on site.
More #HolidayBaking ready to be boxed & shipped to our sons in Montreal 🎁
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#LemonCherryBread
🍊 #OrangeCreamsicleBread
#Homemade
#KitchenChemistry
Bon Dimanche à tous 🍸
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#LemonCherryBread
🍊 #OrangeCreamsicleBread
#Homemade
#KitchenChemistry
Bon Dimanche à tous 🍸
December 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
More #HolidayBaking ready to be boxed & shipped to our sons in Montreal 🎁
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#LemonCherryBread
🍊 #OrangeCreamsicleBread
#Homemade
#KitchenChemistry
Bon Dimanche à tous 🍸
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#LemonCherryBread
🍊 #OrangeCreamsicleBread
#Homemade
#KitchenChemistry
Bon Dimanche à tous 🍸
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Trump's pardon of Honduras' drug trafficker president is raising awareness of Prospera, the weird tech-ruled city he helped to create.
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
1. Tech Billionaires vs. Democracy: Elon Musk and the Rise of "Network States"
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
www.youtube.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Trump's pardon of Honduras' drug trafficker president is raising awareness of Prospera, the weird tech-ruled city he helped to create.
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
Prospera is #NetworkState, a scary cult of tech billionaires who plan to replace nation-states with privatized dystopias.
More:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iHl...
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This week Trump pardoned a private equity fraudster, the drug-trafficking ex-president of Honduras, and a Congressman who allegedly took bribes.
Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies.
An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0
Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies.
An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0
Trump’s Pay-to-Pardon Scheme
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This week Trump pardoned a private equity fraudster, the drug-trafficking ex-president of Honduras, and a Congressman who allegedly took bribes.
Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies.
An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0
Meanwhile, he's weaponizing government to go after his enemies.
An utter mockery of the rule of law. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NflcWXdV-B0
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And Donald Trump is still calling affordability a “scam.”
December 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
And Donald Trump is still calling affordability a “scam.”
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The way I've looked at it is, there has never been, and never will be, a bottom with Trump and his ilk.
There is a temptation is to describe what happened yesterday as somehow a “new low.”
But it’s not a new low. It’s the same old low. A scene we’ve seen repeated so often there is a kind of numbness to it.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
But it’s not a new low. It’s the same old low. A scene we’ve seen repeated so often there is a kind of numbness to it.
open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
"A sickening moral slum of an administration"
George Will's verdict.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The way I've looked at it is, there has never been, and never will be, a bottom with Trump and his ilk.
"Le bonheur n'est pas un destin, mais si la vie est vécue avec passion, non seulement c'est le voyage mais également la destination final; une vie vécu à son plein." -CA67-
#Writing #Quote
As Hutch and I wait for sunrise to take our walk 🐾 there's #reading and #coffee.
Bon matin à tous ☕️
#Writing #Quote
As Hutch and I wait for sunrise to take our walk 🐾 there's #reading and #coffee.
Bon matin à tous ☕️
December 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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In French this time, because it sounds better in French...
And Antoine said it first.
And Antoine said it first.
December 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
In French this time, because it sounds better in French...
And Antoine said it first.
And Antoine said it first.
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Day one of #HoldayBaking is complete 🎄
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#Homemade
🎃 #PumpkinBread
#KitchenChemistry
The breads are wrapped, bagged, & ready to be boxed and shipped to our sons in Montreal 🇨🇦
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#Homemade
🎃 #PumpkinBread
#KitchenChemistry
The breads are wrapped, bagged, & ready to be boxed and shipped to our sons in Montreal 🇨🇦
December 6, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Day one of #HoldayBaking is complete 🎄
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#Homemade
🎃 #PumpkinBread
#KitchenChemistry
The breads are wrapped, bagged, & ready to be boxed and shipped to our sons in Montreal 🇨🇦
🍽 #WhatsCooking
#Homemade
🎃 #PumpkinBread
#KitchenChemistry
The breads are wrapped, bagged, & ready to be boxed and shipped to our sons in Montreal 🇨🇦
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-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 PM
-Bust up monopolies
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
-Boost unions
-$20/hr fed minimum wage
-Ban Wall Street from buying homes
-Pass M4A
-Universal childcare
-Get rid of Trump’s tariffs
-Enact UBI
-Tax the rich
These are crucial steps to making America affordable again. Every Democrat must fight for this.
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The same week the Donald Trump and his regime scrambled to justify deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean, he accepted the so-called “FIFA Peace Prize.” You cannot make this up.
December 6, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The same week the Donald Trump and his regime scrambled to justify deadly air strikes on fishing boats in the Caribbean, he accepted the so-called “FIFA Peace Prize.” You cannot make this up.