Shelley Smith
@shell-belle.bsky.social
Political nerd, lover of music, art & history. Recovering Albertan, splitting my time between Placencia Belize and Collingwood Canada.
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Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
October 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”
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i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
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October 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
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Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
September 2, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Concern over low birth rates was what the theocracy in Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale used to come to power.
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For decades, researchers have been collecting samples from hundreds of thousands of women and tracking their health. The work has deepened our basic understanding of human health, but now the entire project is in danger.
These women dedicated almost 50 years to science. Their efforts may soon be trashed | CNN
Nurses in the US provided biological samples for decades to help study women’s health. Here’s what they think of President Trump’s actions that may end its funding.
www.cnn.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:45 PM
For decades, researchers have been collecting samples from hundreds of thousands of women and tracking their health. The work has deepened our basic understanding of human health, but now the entire project is in danger.
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"While the story draws loosely from Macbeth, it has been completely rewritten to elevate Cree perspectives and language."
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Cree reimagining of Macbeth makes Manitoba debut in Brandon | CBC News
A reimagining of Macbeth — set in a time before colonization and rooted in the Cree worldview, language and tradition — is set to be performed on Treaty 2 territory for the first time this weekend.
www.cbc.ca
June 23, 2025 at 4:47 AM
"While the story draws loosely from Macbeth, it has been completely rewritten to elevate Cree perspectives and language."
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Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
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Jay Gatsby:
“I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."
“I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."
If Some of Literature’s Most Complicated Male Characters Were Just Reasonable People Instead
Holden Caulfield (The Catcher In the Rye) “I really don’t feel like I fit in at this prep school, but Mom and Dad have been trying so hard to find...
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May 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Jay Gatsby:
“I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."
“I’m still really hung up on my ex, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bother her about it. The fact that I’m no longer with her has no effect on my respect for her feelings."
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In the 2000s, the Scottish city of Glasgow established a small violence reduction unit and organized community outreach to young men most involved in a violent lifestyle. The results were a 50 per cent reduction within three years.
If tougher prison sentences and more cops reduced violent crime, then U.S. cities would be the safest in the world — they are not.
#cdnpoli #canada
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#cdnpoli #canada
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How Carney Can Actually Reduce Violent Crime | The Tyee
Instead of overreliance on policing and incarceration, Canada’s new PM should lead with these proven and effective actions.
thetyee.ca
May 25, 2025 at 5:28 AM
In the 2000s, the Scottish city of Glasgow established a small violence reduction unit and organized community outreach to young men most involved in a violent lifestyle. The results were a 50 per cent reduction within three years.
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Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon
Jim Stanford: Let’s drop the phoney Alberta versus Canada nonsense. The province has met the enemy — and it is them
During the so-called decade of federal 'attacks on oil,' Alberta oil giants set records for production and profits, writes Jim Stanford. So why is the average Albertan not getting their
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May 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Albertans have good reason to be angry: their real wages are down 10%, their minimum wage is frozen, their inflation is worst in Canada, their health care's at risk. None of that was caused by the rest of Canada. My take in today's @TorontoStar: www.thestar.com/business/opi.... #cdnecon
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Greece offers Trump fancy wooden horse.
May 12, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Greece offers Trump fancy wooden horse.
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Seeing reports that Liberals have flipped the seat in Terrbonne, Quebec by ONE vote. 😮🗳️
May 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Seeing reports that Liberals have flipped the seat in Terrbonne, Quebec by ONE vote. 😮🗳️
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dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them
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May 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
dunno man it's small but in his 1st homily, Leo XIV seems to be coming for American white evangelicals and American Catholics' cozying up to them
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
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Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability.
Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.
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May 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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If *this* isn't a 4th wall break, I don't know what is. 😂
May 7, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If *this* isn't a 4th wall break, I don't know what is. 😂
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Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
May 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Linda McMahon wrote Harvard a letter to which they responded by noting areas that are in need of corrections and then posted it on social media.
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
Great job Harvard!👏👏👏
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Alberta’s provincial election will be held by mid-2026.
The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go.
That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.
The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go.
That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.
May 5, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Alberta’s provincial election will be held by mid-2026.
The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go.
That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.
The UCP will manufacture disagreements with Ottawa and off they’ll go.
That’s what I just heard from Danielle Smith. This wasn’t a Premier’s Televised Address so much as it was a starting gun for @albertaNDP and @nenshi.
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"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
May 1, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"If you or any other Canadians are not happy living on Treaty lands, they are free to apply for citizenship elsewhere."
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation issues a scathing rebuke of Danielle Smith's talks on a national unity crisis.
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#ontario really disappointed #Canada tonight. After being fucked over by Ford for 6 years, seeing people #vote for an even bigger asshole in Poilievre is inexcusable and frankly mind blowingly nuclear stupid. Thanks for screwing a #Liberal majority we really needed you idiots 😡🖕
April 29, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Carney: You should vote for me because I'm experienced and can handle a crisis.
Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.
Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.
April 24, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Carney: You should vote for me because I'm experienced and can handle a crisis.
Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.
Poilievre: If you don't vote for me, it will usher in a new dark age. Roiling clouds of pestilence will blot out the sun. Pets will lie dead in the street. Jackbooted thugs will seize your car. Smiling will be illegal.
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I mean…I guess if the United States health department no longer agrees with germ theory, it no longer believes in germs? Yet another reason - if you still needed one - to eat Canadian chicken - and support the work of the CFIA.
"The Agriculture Department will not require poultry companies to limit salmonella bacteria in their products, halting a Biden Administration effort to prevent food poisoning from contaminated meat."
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...
USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry
The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.
www.seattletimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:38 AM
I mean…I guess if the United States health department no longer agrees with germ theory, it no longer believes in germs? Yet another reason - if you still needed one - to eat Canadian chicken - and support the work of the CFIA.
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Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
April 22, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Gary Lineker: "This is the mistake the BBC makes. The BBC tries to appease the people that hate the BBC, rather than worrying about the people that love the BBC."
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The Supreme Court says we can and MUST
"We cannot give everyone a trial," says the president of these United States.
April 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The Supreme Court says we can and MUST