VJM4democracy
@vjm4democracy.bsky.social
Naturalized Canadian. Sometimes grumpy.
Living, playing and working as a grateful settler in the unceded territory of the shíshálh people.🇨🇦
Living, playing and working as a grateful settler in the unceded territory of the shíshálh people.🇨🇦
"Donors include Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Booz Allen Hamilton, Union Pacific Railroad, Palantir Technologies, the Lutnick family and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss."
Avoid those you can.
Avoid those you can.
BREAKING: The CEO of JP Morgan announces they REFUSE to fund Donald Trump's ballroom, due to how they will be "perceived" by "the next Department of Justice. 👏 He's afraid of going to prison. He should be.
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com/business/559...
thehill.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:23 PM
"Donors include Amazon, Apple, Google, HP, Microsoft, T-Mobile, Booz Allen Hamilton, Union Pacific Railroad, Palantir Technologies, the Lutnick family and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss."
Avoid those you can.
Avoid those you can.
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If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
"What the Founders feared as an existential threat to the republic is now unfolding in plain sight. The anxiety they enshrined in the Constitution is being flouted with barely any disguise."
On the eve of the 250th Anniversary, it's all but over.
#Democracy
On the eve of the 250th Anniversary, it's all but over.
#Democracy
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
“The timing of Trump’s deals with the Saudis tells a disturbing story. Before he became president, he never managed to break into the kingdom’s real-estate market”
“The timing of Trump’s deals with the Saudis tells a disturbing story. Before he became president, he never managed to break into the kingdom’s real-estate market”
Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts
Until now, no president had yielded to royal temptations from abroad.
www.theatlantic.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"What the Founders feared as an existential threat to the republic is now unfolding in plain sight. The anxiety they enshrined in the Constitution is being flouted with barely any disguise."
On the eve of the 250th Anniversary, it's all but over.
#Democracy
On the eve of the 250th Anniversary, it's all but over.
#Democracy
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This right here! 👏👏❤️❤️😭😭
This right here! 👏👏❤️❤️😭😭
F*CK YOU - A Message To ICE From This Indigenous Elder
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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November 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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This right here! 👏👏❤️❤️😭😭
This right here! 👏👏❤️❤️😭😭
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Canadian TV show mocks Donald Trump.
November 30, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Canadian TV show mocks Donald Trump.
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"resistance is not only about what we reject but also what we value and will continue to protect."
Thank you Boston.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Thank you Boston.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
The Boston Christmas Tree
A Tradition of Friendship in a Time of Resistance
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
"resistance is not only about what we reject but also what we value and will continue to protect."
Thank you Boston.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Thank you Boston.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
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The rise of the car in cities like Amsterdam and The Hague led to the founding of the Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union) 50 years ago. We celebrated that yesterday!
November 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
The rise of the car in cities like Amsterdam and The Hague led to the founding of the Fietsersbond (Cyclists' Union) 50 years ago. We celebrated that yesterday!
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GOP Rep SLAMS his own party "crooked as a dog's leg"
November 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
GOP Rep SLAMS his own party "crooked as a dog's leg"
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How did this guy and a drug kingpin buy their pardons from Trump? This is our-in-the-open corruption, and Republicans are accepting it.
President Trump has set free a private equity executive who had served less than two weeks of a seven-year sentence for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of victims.
Trump Frees Fraudster Just Days Into Seven-Year Prison Sentence
David Gentile had been found guilty for his role in what prosecutors described as a $1.6 billion scheme that defrauded thousands of investors.
nyti.ms
November 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
How did this guy and a drug kingpin buy their pardons from Trump? This is our-in-the-open corruption, and Republicans are accepting it.
Just too much scary news today. Time for a break.....
November 30, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Just too much scary news today. Time for a break.....
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🚨Damn.🚨NY showed up!🚨
Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2
Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 9:56 PM
🚨Damn.🚨NY showed up!🚨
Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2
Posted 15 minutes ago. 1/2
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President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
November 29, 2025 at 6:51 PM
President Obama served food at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
The orange felon shares staged propaganda photos of himself with troops from 2019 on Thanksgiving because he’s a 5-time draft dodging traitor lying criminal.
How far we’ve fallen.
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I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
Seven Voting Laws Every Blue State Should Enact Right Now
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
I am often asked what laws I would recommend blue states adopt. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach, there are seven changes every state could adopt right now, for virtually no cost or administrative burden. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/seve...
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“Leave no survivors” is an illegal order
Under the Geneva Conventions, you cannot order the killing of:
Surrendering combatants
Shipwrecked sailors
Wounded or incapacitated troops
Anyone who is hors de combat (“out of the fight”)
Under the Geneva Conventions, you cannot order the killing of:
Surrendering combatants
Shipwrecked sailors
Wounded or incapacitated troops
Anyone who is hors de combat (“out of the fight”)
November 29, 2025 at 2:01 AM
“Leave no survivors” is an illegal order
Under the Geneva Conventions, you cannot order the killing of:
Surrendering combatants
Shipwrecked sailors
Wounded or incapacitated troops
Anyone who is hors de combat (“out of the fight”)
Under the Geneva Conventions, you cannot order the killing of:
Surrendering combatants
Shipwrecked sailors
Wounded or incapacitated troops
Anyone who is hors de combat (“out of the fight”)
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Sorry to put it so bluntly, but Hegseth gets a hardon from doing this. He's a third rate individual who now gets to point at a screen, and, with a word, make people die. He's drunk on this shit.
November 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Sorry to put it so bluntly, but Hegseth gets a hardon from doing this. He's a third rate individual who now gets to point at a screen, and, with a word, make people die. He's drunk on this shit.
A disaster all the way around. IMO this puts the next budget vote at serious risk, and rightfully so.
I don't want a winter election.
But I REALLY don't want a pipeline and the other concessions to the Alberta dinosaurs.
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
I don't want a winter election.
But I REALLY don't want a pipeline and the other concessions to the Alberta dinosaurs.
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
Althia Raj: Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened
The inside story of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet over Ottawa's energy deal with Alberta.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
A disaster all the way around. IMO this puts the next budget vote at serious risk, and rightfully so.
I don't want a winter election.
But I REALLY don't want a pipeline and the other concessions to the Alberta dinosaurs.
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
I don't want a winter election.
But I REALLY don't want a pipeline and the other concessions to the Alberta dinosaurs.
www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
"Symptoms of listeria infections depend on the person, but can include:
Fever
Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue
Headache
Stiff neck
Confusion
Loss of balance
Seizures"
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Fever
Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue
Headache
Stiff neck
Confusion
Loss of balance
Seizures"
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Boar's Head, Locatelli brand cheese items recalled over listeria risk
The recalled Boar's Head and Locatelli-branded cheese items were sold at some grocery stores around the country. See affected products.
www.usatoday.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:32 PM
"Symptoms of listeria infections depend on the person, but can include:
Fever
Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue
Headache
Stiff neck
Confusion
Loss of balance
Seizures"
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
Fever
Flu-like symptoms, such as muscle aches and fatigue
Headache
Stiff neck
Confusion
Loss of balance
Seizures"
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
"lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. ... it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan. The realities of blowback – the violence America experiences as the unintended consequences of the violence of US foreign policy"
November 29, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"lakanwal’s shooting spree is not the result of importing Afghan culture to America. ... it looks more like the result of importing American culture to Afghanistan. The realities of blowback – the violence America experiences as the unintended consequences of the violence of US foreign policy"
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