Bonnie McMahon
@mcmahonbon.bsky.social
Trying to step up
Fed up with those who punch down
Treaty 6 Alberta Canada
BLM LGBTQIA2S+ Ally In Progress Land Back
Fed up with those who punch down
Treaty 6 Alberta Canada
BLM LGBTQIA2S+ Ally In Progress Land Back
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If you are near Bradford, VT, please visit StarCat Books Starcatbooks.com for a wonderful selection of gently used and new books. They specialize in SF and children's books.
Or order through them online www.bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks
Or order through them online www.bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks
December 1, 2024 at 11:59 AM
If you are near Bradford, VT, please visit StarCat Books Starcatbooks.com for a wonderful selection of gently used and new books. They specialize in SF and children's books.
Or order through them online www.bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks
Or order through them online www.bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks
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Support this indy bookseller. They are experiencing right wing bullying. You know what to do. Https://bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3wcha-WTsXxIK9-jsZoDHc4NS-dVDmqE2J-El3O19VaqVP_jZkSbKVOw8_aem_Avxj2UxjzdtwEImyhA5Ldg
Star Cat Books Bookshop
We are a small indie bookstore in rural northern Vermont specializing in children’s books and science fiction. Here at our Bookshop online you can buy practically all books in print, used books, audio...
bookshop.org
December 12, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Support this indy bookseller. They are experiencing right wing bullying. You know what to do. Https://bookshop.org/shop/Starcatbooks?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3wcha-WTsXxIK9-jsZoDHc4NS-dVDmqE2J-El3O19VaqVP_jZkSbKVOw8_aem_Avxj2UxjzdtwEImyhA5Ldg
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We've already stopped the UCP from closing Safeworks in Calgary twice.
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.1...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
We've already stopped the UCP from closing Safeworks in Calgary twice.
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
You can stop them a third time! 9/
FULL STORY on DORS:
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
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What can people do right now?
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Claims that crime spikes around supervised drug consumption sites unfounded: study | CBC News
As Manitoba mulls a probable location for the province's first supervised consumption site, researchers say similar sites in Toronto were generally not tied to increases in local crime.
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2026 at 5:20 PM
What can people do right now?
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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SCOOP 🧵
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.
The app isn't used 41% of days.
Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.
The app isn't used 41% of days.
Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
Overdose app falters as Alberta government accelerates war on supervised consumption
Launched to government fanfare on sole-source contracts, the Digital Overdose Response System app is barely used most days and has registered just 51 ambulance dispatches over four years –– around 0.1...
drugdatadecoded.ca
January 10, 2026 at 4:57 PM
SCOOP 🧵
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.
The app isn't used 41% of days.
Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
The DORS app was supposed to keep people safe while using drugs at home. But in 4 years, it has activated just 51 ambulances.
The app isn't used 41% of days.
Meanwhile, the AB govt is dismantling the option that works: supervised consumption. 1/
drugdatadecoded.ca/overdose-app...
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@drugdatadecoded.ca FYI - AB govt is now preventing municipalities from accepting *federal funds* for programs they don’t agree with.
chatnewstoday.ca/2026/01/09/s...
chatnewstoday.ca/2026/01/09/s...
SafeLink Alberta’s Medicine Hat daytime drop-in service at risk of closure after funding loss
SafeLink Alberta has stated that due to a loss of funding, its daytime drop-in services in Medicine Hat are at...
chatnewstoday.ca
January 10, 2026 at 4:58 PM
@drugdatadecoded.ca FYI - AB govt is now preventing municipalities from accepting *federal funds* for programs they don’t agree with.
chatnewstoday.ca/2026/01/09/s...
chatnewstoday.ca/2026/01/09/s...
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"In fact, reports of robberies, thefts over $5,000, bicycle thefts, and thefts from motor vehicles all plateaued or declined.
As for auto thefts and assaults, the data showed no consistent association with the sites, the study found."
As for auto thefts and assaults, the data showed no consistent association with the sites, the study found."
What can people do right now?
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Protect the remaining supervised consumption sites in AB: call your municipal reps, organize rallies, do everything people have done since 2019 to protect them!
Spread the word: Science Says SCS Reduce Crime. 8/
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Claims that crime spikes around supervised drug consumption sites unfounded: study | CBC News
As Manitoba mulls a probable location for the province's first supervised consumption site, researchers say similar sites in Toronto were generally not tied to increases in local crime.
www.cbc.ca
January 10, 2026 at 8:10 PM
"In fact, reports of robberies, thefts over $5,000, bicycle thefts, and thefts from motor vehicles all plateaued or declined.
As for auto thefts and assaults, the data showed no consistent association with the sites, the study found."
As for auto thefts and assaults, the data showed no consistent association with the sites, the study found."
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Yep. I live around the Upper Midwest and I've had this sinking feeling about this for awhile.
January 8, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Yep. I live around the Upper Midwest and I've had this sinking feeling about this for awhile.
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It's terrifying that our former allies would think we have to turn over our sovereignty and give them our natural resources.
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 PM
It's terrifying that our former allies would think we have to turn over our sovereignty and give them our natural resources.
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"Whether he would be prepared to use military force against Canada — previously dismissed as wild speculation — is now a subject that's up for debate."
trump doesn't want allies - he wants ownership??
trump doesn't want allies - he wants ownership??
ANALYSIS | With Trump's Venezuela move and Greenland threats, are Canadians vulnerable? | CBC News
U.S. President Donald Trump's increasingly bellicose stance on taking over Greenland, on the heels of capturing Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, have combined to trigger questions about what the W...
www.cbc.ca
January 8, 2026 at 6:23 PM
"Whether he would be prepared to use military force against Canada — previously dismissed as wild speculation — is now a subject that's up for debate."
trump doesn't want allies - he wants ownership??
trump doesn't want allies - he wants ownership??
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“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
January 8, 2026 at 8:37 PM
“Get it all on record now – get the films – get the witnesses – because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed
January 8, 2026 at 5:23 PM
"This was a family that could've been like mine" -- Philip Bump breaks down crying on MS NOW when talking about the stuffed animals in Renee Good's car when she was killed
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This is how we need the media to be right now. Fuck all the neutrality theater. Fuck all the moral deadpan. Be human beings responding to a terrible situation.
January 8, 2026 at 5:34 PM
This is how we need the media to be right now. Fuck all the neutrality theater. Fuck all the moral deadpan. Be human beings responding to a terrible situation.
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The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must be given full access to every bit of evidence the Feds have. Every. Single. Thing.
January 8, 2026 at 9:36 PM
The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension must be given full access to every bit of evidence the Feds have. Every. Single. Thing.
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"Let's be straightforward about this – this is not about safety, this is about terrorizing people."
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
January 8, 2026 at 9:40 PM
"Let's be straightforward about this – this is not about safety, this is about terrorizing people."
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
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"I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney-princess ears."
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
January 8, 2026 at 9:44 PM
"I'm so sorry if I offended their Disney-princess ears."
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
Jacob Frey
Mayor of Minneapolis
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"You better believe that accountability is coming...The masks are coming off. Identification is coming out. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, and Greg Bovino – your asses are going to be in these witness chairs."
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell
January 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"You better believe that accountability is coming...The masks are coming off. Identification is coming out. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, and Greg Bovino – your asses are going to be in these witness chairs."
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell
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Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Everyone should be submitting this to Apple and Google.
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Going looking for these is a criminal offence.
Please just don’t.
Do not hassle this person; what’s done is done.
Just don’t end up on the sex offenders register to dunk on Elon.
Please just don’t.
Do not hassle this person; what’s done is done.
Just don’t end up on the sex offenders register to dunk on Elon.
Grok has put a bikini on one of the dead victims of the recent Swiss fire !
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
It's probably the most appalling thing I've seen... 🤬
January 7, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Going looking for these is a criminal offence.
Please just don’t.
Do not hassle this person; what’s done is done.
Just don’t end up on the sex offenders register to dunk on Elon.
Please just don’t.
Do not hassle this person; what’s done is done.
Just don’t end up on the sex offenders register to dunk on Elon.
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
January 3, 2026 at 8:01 PM
That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
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You can tell how much Trump cares about the wellbeing of Venezuelans by how he arbitrarily and cruelly revoked protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan-American immigrants just a few months ago.
January 3, 2026 at 11:44 PM
You can tell how much Trump cares about the wellbeing of Venezuelans by how he arbitrarily and cruelly revoked protected status for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan-American immigrants just a few months ago.
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If you’ve read this far, I hope all Albertans will help me publicize this story. It should absolutely not be happening. This is putting people’s lives at risk.
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
If you’ve read this far, I hope all Albertans will help me publicize this story. It should absolutely not be happening. This is putting people’s lives at risk.
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He is not the only patient by far to experience such indignities and unsafe conditions. share.google/DzqXuaACwI1w...
‘Inmates get treated better’: Alberta cancer patient on stay in hospital ‘storage room’ | Globalnews.ca
Alberta Health Services has apologized to a Taber woman undergoing cancer treatment, after she was moved to a storage room at Chinook Regional Hospital in Lethbridge.
share.google
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
He is not the only patient by far to experience such indignities and unsafe conditions. share.google/DzqXuaACwI1w...
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The UCP is trying its damnedest to gut Alberta health care—underpaying staff and blocking unions, severely cutting budgets for the system, and authorizing private health care to enrich insurance companies. All so that she can funnel money towards oil companies and boondoggles.
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The UCP is trying its damnedest to gut Alberta health care—underpaying staff and blocking unions, severely cutting budgets for the system, and authorizing private health care to enrich insurance companies. All so that she can funnel money towards oil companies and boondoggles.
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My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵
December 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
My dad, 85 years old, suffering from the effects of a 2 year struggle with cancer, and chief of surgery at the Chinook Regional Hospital for decades, was moved from an already overcrowded space to an “overcapacity room” while he recovers from a stomach bleed and pneumonia. This is the room. 🧵🧵🧵