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matttomic.bsky.social
A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-Québec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. “I said, ‘No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. ‘You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. “They’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. “I never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a “dirty” blanket.
July 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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sagan.bsky.social
"Questioning is the way of learning,"

Encourage your children to ask questions, not to accept existing answers.
July 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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clarajeffery.bsky.social
oh my god www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/c...
On July 5, as floodwaters were starting to recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls. That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four companies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the person briefed on the matter. The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answered 846, or roughly 35.8 percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded 16,419 calls and answered 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show.
July 12, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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phillewis.bsky.social
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 ...
apnews.com
July 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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kryton3298.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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colinwoodard.bsky.social
Been wishing there was an official #AmericanNations map for Canada, down to the census subdivision where necessary? Of course you have. And now your dreams have come true:

www.nationhoodlab.org/the-american...
The American Nations in Canada
North America’s regional cultures rarely respect current boundaries, and the ones separating the U.S. and Canadian federations are no exception
www.nationhoodlab.org
July 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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tbooker1.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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trarob1964.bsky.social
To those who have not studied history, or forgot, or don’t believe history repeats, take a look.

If you still don’t get the connection, then you will live the consequences of your actions, or inaction.
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Jun 13
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.

Sound familiar?
June 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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mikeachim.bsky.social
OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
May 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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mark-resists.bsky.social
Gulf of Mexico of course
May 10, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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linlukey.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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pewtergod.bsky.social
Just had to mute @msnbc.com
They have a large section of the orange man speaking, & I'll throw something thru the TV screen if I have to listen to him.
May 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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elizabeth-warren.bsky.social
Trump and Musk want to cut hundreds of grants to Massachusetts’ libraries, museums, and historic sites. This would devastate our cultural institutions and harm people, organizations, and communities. I’m fighting back.
Mass. congressional delegation demands answers from NEH on grant cancellations - The Boston Globe
The lawmakers’ letter to NEH predicts “devastating impacts on our nation’s cultural institutions and scholarship.”
www.bostonglobe.com
May 6, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The administration’s incompetence is endangering lives and wrecking our economy.
May 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
Shameful. Those poor families are being traumatized all over again for purely political reasons.
May 6, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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shryke.bsky.social
Some great advice for #resisters going out on #April5dayofaction.
April 3, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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joshuajfriedman.com
This is so heartbreaking
Full Video of Mahmoud Khalil's unlawful arrest by ICE
YouTube video by ACLU
www.youtube.com
March 14, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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petersagal.bsky.social
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion Grieving a wasted life At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to re-elected in contrast to standing up for the reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades greater good? were devoted to protecting America. Sacri A compromised Supreme Court recently fices were made both by myself and my fam- trotted out a shallow token standards of Ily in military service. The tip of the spear: conduct for themselves. Apparently it's Countless weeks over the years were spent not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people? living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since. way?" The purpose: if required, be airborne Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un- in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly: of interest abound. The rule of law is situ- ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet- ational if adhered to at all. America can no nam provided a brief interlude, but overall, longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of this long line of silent sentinels stood firm power and wealth driven by unquenchable to protect America by deterring external greed has left service above self and Con- threats to our freedoms and way of life stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued Recently the VA said exposure to Agent with a sense of service. Orange is the probable cause of the can- I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than military pilots to have significantly higher founded on mere beli…
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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theblueagenda.bsky.social
March 10, 2025 at 1:27 AM