AmericanCanuck

AmericanCanuck

@americoncanuck.bsky.social

Cranky academic, social worker, political junkie, unhinged DIY. she/hers, UBI, human rights, decency, kindness.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

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If still debating whether Donald Trump or Elon Musk willfully crippled Ukraine's missile defense, helping to slay innocent civilians, you are a rube. If the U.S. President had no role, then an oligarch governs national security. If not, the U.S. President serves Russia. Both answers are mortifying.

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Replying to @kalimurray.bsky.social

What we have done since 1980 is remove entry-level access goods in a variety of contexts (housing, education, health care), and then wonder why everybody is so worried about affordability. It is not a puzzle, guys.

JFC. Neither interested in, nor capable of, hiding the psychopathy any more.

Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com

This tells you everything about how Trump sees this country. The destruction, the fear and the innocent people who would pay the actual price are just collateral damage to him.

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Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

FFS

Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social

🤦‍♂️ It’s a fucking aircraft carrier, it’s not supposed to be pretty. I don’t understand why the Navy would even entertain this nonsense. He wants the tower/command center to be closer to the front of the ship. It would cost billions and result in years of delays.

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Max Rose just laid out the next 90 days in three sentences: Oppose the war in Iran. Expose Trump's failures on affordability. And hold this administration accountable for their horrific corruption. That's the mission. Nothing else.

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Ronald Reagan ignored the AIDS crisis—and his “dear friend” from Hollywood, Rock Hudson, who asked for help. Dr. Fauci jumped in and helped. Guess which guy the homophobic ghouls in the Republican Party revere today.

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Replying to @thunderbayed.bsky.social

Did d he say anything worthwhile there? I admit, he bores TF out of me so I usually drift off on the 2nd or 3rd word. I didn’t rear anything about his plans, just more of his usual whine. Harper was PM for nearly 10 years. Sorry, PP, fossil fuels won’t save you! macleans.ca/economy/why-...

macleans.caWhy Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back - Macleans.caI used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won't save the country.

It was the worst of times, it was the dumbest of times. The idiot fringe of bro culture is in running the country. What could possibly go wrong? Forged by the T: Pentagon launches testosterone screening program for troops share.google/fFsLTiw7Qmd7...

share.googleForged by the T: Pentagon launches testosterone screening program for troopsDoD will begin screening and offering TRT for troops with testosterone deficiency to ensure they maintain a “biological foundation" to fight, Hegseth said.

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When you see the story about how the world now has its first trillionaire, and when you see the story about how laboratories in Congo have run out of supplies to test for Ebola, it is important to understand that in many ways these are the same story.

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Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

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Dear Auston Mathews, Were you one of the lugs on TEAM USA who laughed at the Women's Team? We will know if you show up at the White House to kiss Trump's ring. If you do, don't bother coming back to Toronto. We like real sportsmen. Not MAGA Americans. Ask Gretzky for advice.

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Nicole Bedera@nbedera.bsky.social

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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A lot of inside jokes for Canadians 🇨🇦and Danes 🇩🇰 #HansOff #NoMeansNo #Greenland youtu.be/7I_n09nS6aU?...

youtu.beOperation: HANS OFF! Canada, France & Denmark Unite Against Trump (A Musical)YouTube video by Matthew Thomas Gillespie
Prairiesunshine@scottishox2.bsky.social

#TrumpLogic Try to buy Greenlanders with tiny & insulting bribes. Try to buy votes by letting Americans go deeper in debt with temporary changes that end right after election. This will boost spending before the election and cause bankruptcies under the new Democrat-controlled Congress

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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

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Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist who pushed the racist Great Replacement Theory. Kirk was vociferously anti-LGBTQ. Kirk's final words were to besmirch Black people. Stop this revisionism. People who say bad things don't deserve to be murdered, but they also don't deserve to be praised either.

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And FTR, whether or not you believe he “deserved” to get shot (few victims of gun violence “deserve” it), these are his words: "I think it's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.”

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Climate optimism! I did gain some hope in hearing that some of the worst possibilities have already been avoided. I will try to nurture that feeling.

Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social

UN chief António Guterres says the world is on the brink of climate breakthrough. More than nine in 10 renewable power projects commissioned in 2024 were less expensive than their fossil fuel equivalent. Solar was 41% cheaper on average and land wind 53% cheaper. buff.ly/EWOfRu6 #ShareGoodNewsToo