Laura S
@pickersnext.bsky.social
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Laura S
@pickersnext.bsky.social
· Dec 5
For all Canadians #cdnpoli
Know your civics & volunteer!
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Know your civics & volunteer!
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On Remembrance Day we remember my husband’s uncle who died in the skies over Europe and his father, who never recovered after losing his twin and the fighter pilots he taught. We remember my husband’s mother who lost many she loved.
Soon there’ll be none left to tell their stories
#LestWeForget
Soon there’ll be none left to tell their stories
#LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 11:49 AM
On Remembrance Day we remember my husband’s uncle who died in the skies over Europe and his father, who never recovered after losing his twin and the fighter pilots he taught. We remember my husband’s mother who lost many she loved.
Soon there’ll be none left to tell their stories
#LestWeForget
Soon there’ll be none left to tell their stories
#LestWeForget
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A Very Canadian 🇨🇦 Moment Today: While on my mail route this afternoon, I had to stop for a couple of minutes and wait while a beaver dragged two saplings across the road to its dam. 🦫
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 AM
A Very Canadian 🇨🇦 Moment Today: While on my mail route this afternoon, I had to stop for a couple of minutes and wait while a beaver dragged two saplings across the road to its dam. 🦫
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
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‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
‼️ Mexico's first woman president, Claudia Sheinbaum, just announced she's pressing charges after being groped in the street:
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
“If they do this to the president, what happens to all the women in our country?”
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Expensive therapist makes higher quality “mmmm” sounds
Expensive therapist makes higher quality “mmmm” sounds
“No matter how dark and personal I got, she’d say ‘mmmm’ in a way that sounded so understanding. Those fifty minutes were worth every penny of the $1750 she charged.”
www.thebeaverton.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Expensive therapist makes higher quality “mmmm” sounds
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It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
Breaking MSNBC:
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida called a division-wide meeting this afternoon, following the resignations of two prosecutors who were asked to take part in a vast "conspiracy" investigation into former intel and law enforcement officials.
U.S. Attorney investigating alleged grand ‘conspiracy’ calls unit-wide meeting after two prosecutors resign
Career prosecutors on “pins and needles” after flurry of subpoenas approved.
www.msnbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:42 PM
It’s important to achieve bipartisanship with Republicans so they can arrest Barack Obama for something they read on the Epoch Times’ Facebook page written by a Chinese cult member in 2019.
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After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.
This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.
This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
November 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
After almost three decades, Canada has lost its measles elimination status.
That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.
This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
That means in 2025, this extremely contagious disease spread consistently in our country for the first time since 1998.
This was preventable, which makes it embarrassing -- in more ways than you might realize:
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Iconic of the folks at CAHN at they, with far fewer resources, identified 18 people who were at this neo-Nazi event in B.C. -- while CBC, with more staff and far more resources, unmasked two.
CAHN really are the GOATs at this work.
CAHN really are the GOATs at this work.
3/ We got photos of all of them and got to work finding their names. CBC verified our identifications and added two. By bringing in the CBC, we were able to reach a much larger audience to talk about the threat of white nationalism in Canada.
Read CBC's reporting here:
Read CBC's reporting here:
MMA gym owners, coaches ID’d at secretive neo-Nazi event in B.C. | CBC News
This summer in Vancouver, dozens of people gathered to attend a conference organized and attended by some of Canada’s most prominent white supremacist organizations. CBC’s visual investigations team l...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Iconic of the folks at CAHN at they, with far fewer resources, identified 18 people who were at this neo-Nazi event in B.C. -- while CBC, with more staff and far more resources, unmasked two.
CAHN really are the GOATs at this work.
CAHN really are the GOATs at this work.
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Incredible work here from the folks at CAHN:
1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.
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Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film
Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...
www.antihate.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Incredible work here from the folks at CAHN:
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Rogers commemorates Blue Jays World Series Run with new statue of Ted Rogers
Rogers commemorates Blue Jays World Series Run with new statue of Ted Rogers
TORONTO - Rogers Communications, proud owner of the only Major League Baseball team in Canada, revealed plans to celebrate their 2025 World Series run with a second statue of company founder Ted Roger...
www.thebeaverton.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Rogers commemorates Blue Jays World Series Run with new statue of Ted Rogers
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today, like every day, is a good day to remember everything Lake Superior has taken from us. the only language the Great Lakes understand is force.
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
today, like every day, is a good day to remember everything Lake Superior has taken from us. the only language the Great Lakes understand is force.
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
RIP to the Eddie Fitz
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The fact him or one of his staffers would post this on *this* platform is yet another sign of how unfit this man is to do anything other than retire.
Democrats have been fighting for months to address America's healthcare crisis
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
For the millions who will lose coverage
For people with cancer who won't get the care they need
For working families who can't afford to pay $25K more a year for healthcare
We will keep fighting
November 10, 2025 at 5:53 AM
The fact him or one of his staffers would post this on *this* platform is yet another sign of how unfit this man is to do anything other than retire.
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Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
November 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Not many people are talking about the children being harmed by #ICELawlessness but it's important to talk about.
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
What's happening to these kids is being paid for by our tax dollars.
We're paying for the torture of children.
I know this is beyond grim, but we must let people know about this!
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This Day in Labor History: November 10, 1933. Workers at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota sat down on the job. The win these workers achieved helped set up the labor militancy of the New Deal era that revolutionized the lives of American labor!!!!
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This Day in Labor History: November 10, 1933. Workers at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota sat down on the job. The win these workers achieved helped set up the labor militancy of the New Deal era that revolutionized the lives of American labor!!!!
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As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:49 PM
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
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When I think of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think of Captain Cooper on the Arthur M Anderson, and the courage it took to turn the Anderson around to go back out and look for the Fitzgerald. His conversation with the Coast Guard still gives shivers
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
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The Fateful Journey - Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society
The Fateful Journey
by Sean Ley, Development Officer
The final voyage of the Edmund Fitzgerald began November 9, 1975 at the Burlington Northern Railroad Dock No.1, Superior, Wisconsin. Captain Ernes...
shipwreckmuseum.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
When I think of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, I think of Captain Cooper on the Arthur M Anderson, and the courage it took to turn the Anderson around to go back out and look for the Fitzgerald. His conversation with the Coast Guard still gives shivers
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
shipwreckmuseum.com/the-fateful-...
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1.4 million people!!!! #climatecrisis
Video shows massive waves rising and crashing along the Catanduanes coastline in the Philippines, as Super Typhoon Fung-wong made landfall, killing at least two people and displacing 1.4 million others.
November 10, 2025 at 10:13 AM
1.4 million people!!!! #climatecrisis
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Such a disappointment that inconvenience for the wealthy and corporate business class is the only thing to move the needle.
The Federal Aviation Administration will limit business jets and other private flights to some of the country’s largest airports to ease strains on air-traffic personnel.
FAA Limits Private Aircraft Flights at Major Airports
The restrictions will affect private jet flights at a dozen airports, including Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver, and Chicago’s O’Hare, according to the National Business Aviation Association trade group.
on.wsj.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Such a disappointment that inconvenience for the wealthy and corporate business class is the only thing to move the needle.
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so if I'm understanding this correctly, the democrats are giving the republican party exactly what it wants in exchange for the political equivalent of lucy and the football?
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
so if I'm understanding this correctly, the democrats are giving the republican party exactly what it wants in exchange for the political equivalent of lucy and the football?
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Trump Can't WAIT For America To Starve Or Go Broke On Healthcare
The shutdown may be ending, but there's no good news for The Groceries
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/trump-cant...
The shutdown may be ending, but there's no good news for The Groceries
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/trump-cant...
Trump Can't WAIT For America To Starve Or Go Broke On Healthcare
The shutdown may be ending, but there's no good news for The Groceries
www.wonkette.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump Can't WAIT For America To Starve Or Go Broke On Healthcare
The shutdown may be ending, but there's no good news for The Groceries
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/trump-cant...
The shutdown may be ending, but there's no good news for The Groceries
By @marciej.bsky.social
www.wonkette.com/p/trump-cant...
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Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About
WASHINGTON—Having thus far caved on eliminating the filibuster, advancing an adequate climate change agenda, and protecting voting rights, congressional Democrats told reporters Wednesday they were si...
theonion.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Democrats Sick Of Being Blamed For Cowardice On Issues They Actually Just Don’t Care About