Tracey
@traceykinney.bsky.social
Historian & cat lady. Recently retired 30+ years as a teaching professor: History of the Holocaust, Modern Germany, Pandemic Disease, Food, & Textiles. History doesn’t repeat, but the fuck the echoes are getting louder. Expat Manc. City, never the other.
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
Please take good care of my adopted country today 🇨🇦🗳️
April 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Please take good care of my adopted country today 🇨🇦🗳️
Leaving for the homeland in a few hours. If y’all could make sure my adoptive home chooses a sane government that values experience over facile slogans while I’m gone, that would be awesome possum …
a small opossum is standing on a wooden floor
Alt: a small opossum is standing on a wooden floor. An awesome possum
media.tenor.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Leaving for the homeland in a few hours. If y’all could make sure my adoptive home chooses a sane government that values experience over facile slogans while I’m gone, that would be awesome possum …
Hmmm. Liz Truss visits QE2, QE2 dies two days later; Vance visits the Pope, Pope dies one day later … coincidence? /s
April 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Hmmm. Liz Truss visits QE2, QE2 dies two days later; Vance visits the Pope, Pope dies one day later … coincidence? /s
Your end of the week reminder that blissful ignorance is the key to a stress-free life #CatsOfBluesky #RagdollCats
April 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Your end of the week reminder that blissful ignorance is the key to a stress-free life #CatsOfBluesky #RagdollCats
From the women who couldn’t outlast a lettuce 😂🥬😂🥬
April 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
From the women who couldn’t outlast a lettuce 😂🥬😂🥬
Well so far this morning I’ve been called a mindless idiot, uneducated, and a ‘wokester’ (admittedly this one is funny) by three different Poilievre supporters. And how’s your day going?
April 3, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Well so far this morning I’ve been called a mindless idiot, uneducated, and a ‘wokester’ (admittedly this one is funny) by three different Poilievre supporters. And how’s your day going?
Here’s a picture of the cat waiting for his breakfast, because fuck it’s been a day …
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Here’s a picture of the cat waiting for his breakfast, because fuck it’s been a day …
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Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
April 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
The Heard and McDonald Islands are uninhabited.
So Canada not on the reciprocal list?
The White House just posted a full version of this list.
April 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
So Canada not on the reciprocal list?
This is just a demented old man rambling … how deep in the cult do have to be to hear anything coherent here?
April 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
This is just a demented old man rambling … how deep in the cult do have to be to hear anything coherent here?
War crimes within a genocide: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Israel killed 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers one by one, says UN
Workers on a mission to help colleagues were buried in mass grave in southern Gaza, says humanitarian office
www.theguardian.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
War crimes within a genocide: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
“Trump and his second-term team are alienating Canada, eroding US capabilities without saving any real money, fumbling their negotiations with Russia due to breathtaking naiveté, & degrading US national security by adding a reporter to their illegal group chat coordinating airstrikes on the Houthis”
March 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“Trump and his second-term team are alienating Canada, eroding US capabilities without saving any real money, fumbling their negotiations with Russia due to breathtaking naiveté, & degrading US national security by adding a reporter to their illegal group chat coordinating airstrikes on the Houthis”
No human with a conscience could continue to defend the Israeli government aje.io/nxul40
‘No Other Land’ co-director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested
The film is an Oscar-winning documentary collaboration by Israeli and Palestinian filmmakers.
aje.io
March 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
No human with a conscience could continue to defend the Israeli government aje.io/nxul40
That day when you bring Locke and Bentham to a FB argument …
March 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
That day when you bring Locke and Bentham to a FB argument …
Canada338 shows only 36% Con support in my riding, but the remainder is almost evenly split between Liberal, NDP, and Green. We cannot keep splitting the progressive vote in an FPTP system
March 24, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Canada338 shows only 36% Con support in my riding, but the remainder is almost evenly split between Liberal, NDP, and Green. We cannot keep splitting the progressive vote in an FPTP system
More relevant today than ever … #GetYourHammersOut
March 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
More relevant today than ever … #GetYourHammersOut
Living for this epic trolling …
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew 🇨🇦 -
"A wonderful, beautiful order pulling American booze off the shelves in Manitoba Liquor Marts." #cdnpoli
"A wonderful, beautiful order pulling American booze off the shelves in Manitoba Liquor Marts." #cdnpoli
March 5, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Living for this epic trolling …
Louder for the people with their hands over their ears: it’s genocide.
Deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction in whole or in part of a group is an act of genocide.
Read HRW's recent report on Israeli authorities' ongoing crime of extermination and acts of genocide in Gaza.
Read HRW's recent report on Israeli authorities' ongoing crime of extermination and acts of genocide in Gaza.
Extermination and Acts of Genocide
In the 179-page report, “Extermination and Acts of Genocide: Israel Deliberately Depriving Palestinians in Gaza of Water,” Human Rights Watch found that Israeli authorities have intentionally deprived...
www.hrw.org
March 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Louder for the people with their hands over their ears: it’s genocide.
FDP has officially entered the FO phase #GermanElection So background: www.dw.com/en/germany-f...
Germany: FDP hatched plan to quit ruling coalition — reports – DW – 11/16/2024
One of three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition discussed plans to pull out two months before the government fell, German media have reported. Germany now faces a snap election in...
www.dw.com
February 23, 2025 at 10:47 PM
FDP has officially entered the FO phase #GermanElection So background: www.dw.com/en/germany-f...
If everyone holds firm to the agreement not to bring the AfD into government, the only alternative is a grand coalition and cooperation on a scale not seen since 2005-2009 #GermanElections
February 23, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If everyone holds firm to the agreement not to bring the AfD into government, the only alternative is a grand coalition and cooperation on a scale not seen since 2005-2009 #GermanElections
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The growth of fascistic political cultures looks like gradual acclimation by ordinary people who think of themselves as "good people" who come to accept ever more violent & oppressive actions by vigilantes and political figures "on our side" enacted upon disfavored categories of "internal enemies."
February 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
The growth of fascistic political cultures looks like gradual acclimation by ordinary people who think of themselves as "good people" who come to accept ever more violent & oppressive actions by vigilantes and political figures "on our side" enacted upon disfavored categories of "internal enemies."
Elbows up … and fuck the Trump-lovers on the ‘Murican team #NeverThe51st #NeverPoilievre
February 21, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Elbows up … and fuck the Trump-lovers on the ‘Murican team #NeverThe51st #NeverPoilievre