Canadian Artist, You Tube creator. Gobsmacked watching the US turn into a dictatorship. Married to my love since 1977. Avowed leftist disgusted by racism, inequality and war. No DMs unless I know you.
What's happening in the US is making this Canadian nauseous.
Watching videos of masked thugs violently ripping children from their families.
A mentally deranged "leader", designating anyone against him a terrorist.
This is not an administration, it's a criminal cabal looting the nation.
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“You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down”
Toni Morrison
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Not just more of the same speech we've all heard Bernie give for years. The first part is just that, but skip to a little way in and listen to the question and answer section. 85, and sharp as a tack, Bernie listens to and engages people in a way few politicians can.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lVo...
When this woman's gets past this unjust ordeal, she could could emigrate to Canada. We need more nurses, and someone this compassionate would greatly benefit our healthcare system.
Well, now that the #FDAchemicals are making US food even more toxic, will that finally convince the 50% of Canadians who aren't participating in the #boycott of US products finally join the rest of us?
The death penalty makes the state just as guilty of murder as the perpetrator. It is the first sign that a nation has descended into barbarism. Live streaming an execution for entertainment is the final act of a nation that has reached the irredeemable depths of barbarism.
The botched execution of Ms.Pike is a reflection of a profoundly sick society. What she did was undoubtedly horrific, but what gives the state a right to commit murder to punish a murderer?
Capital punishment is barbaric and has no place in a civilized society. This isn't justice, it's murder.
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🌊 Ocean acidification has now joined the list of exceeded planetary boundaries.
That makes 7 of 9.
These are interconnected Earth-system pressures, collectively eroding resilience and shrinking humanity’s safe operating space.
www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...
Stop calling it a climate problem.
Call it what it is: organized greed.
The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit.
The killers have names. And boardrooms.
#ClimateJustice#StopEcocide
A Thread About the tRump Years.
These are dark and terrible times.
The irony of war being fought over the very substance that is destroying our planet is just one of the endless disasters caused by the criminal regime running (cont.)
Chances are, anyone here on Bluesky reading this is already well aware of all these facts. They just scratch the surface.
I'm writing this thread merely as therapy to prevent my head from exploding. Never in my rather lengthy life could I have imagined things would get this bad so fast.
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As a Canadian who has many US friends, I worry about what's coming in the midterms. Every poll is predicting a massive landslide for Dems. In spite of that, what scares me is that the Nazis in power will refuse to accept a loss no matter how lopsided. I pray there isn't mass state violence.
A Thread About the tRump Years.
These are dark and terrible times.
The irony of war being fought over the very substance that is destroying our planet is just one of the endless disasters caused by the criminal regime running (cont.)
From mob enabled crooked NY real estate deals through to rape, tax evasion, fraud and murdering hundreds in fishing boats.
Any of these crimes, like pardons for Jan.6 felons or his masked thugs executing a protester is more than enough to bring down the government of any civilized nation. (cont.)
Any slim chance that we had to mitigate climate disaster was long ago sacrificed on the altar of greed and corruption. Humans cannot thrive on a planet that is burning and flooding. Yet this mad king spent billions of your tax dollars buying out wind farm contracts on behalf of big oil.
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A Thread About the tRump Years.
These are dark and terrible times.
The irony of war being fought over the very substance that is destroying our planet is just one of the endless disasters caused by the criminal regime running (cont.)
Unelected goons posing as diplomats are demanding Ukraine surrender to Putin who murdered thousands of civilians.
The imbecile masquerading as US president builds monuments to himself while mocking the US constitution. Starts a pointless war, throwing the global economy into chaos. (cont.)
He has alienated every ally and regularly cozies up to totalitarian butchers. The doge scam run by the world's wealthiest welfare bum Elon Musk, decimated every govt. dept. Musk recently bragged "Don't worry about the Dems winning the midterms, I have a plan".
The list of crimes is endless. (cont)
A Thread About the tRump Years.
These are dark and terrible times.
The irony of war being fought over the very substance that is destroying our planet is just one of the endless disasters caused by the criminal regime running (cont.)
We here in the west, thought that our lives would never change. We felt comfortable. Dictatorships were something that happened far away. We felt confident that we could continue to ravage the environment without consequence. Years and decades passed while most continued in their apathy. ( cont.)
Suddenly, all the decades of indifference and mindless consumerism are biting us on the ass. Extreme weather events are occurring daily, The US is now ruled by a lawless cabal owned by ruthless oligarchs. tRump's gestapo continue violently assaulting, kidnapping and murdering with impunity. (cont.)
The 0.04 kg m² increase in water vapour is the equivelent of 20 trillion litres of additional water, or 20 cubes of water, each a kilometre wide, high and deep.
We are playing with very dangerous forces.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
⚠️ Be careful with VoteSafe .org. It is NOT an official voting website. It’s tied to Elon Musk’s America PAC and collects a lot of personal information from people who use it. Before you hand over your name, address, phone number, email and voter information, know who you’re giving it to.
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If not now, when?" 1st-century BCE Jewish sage Rabbi Hillel.
I can't believe the childishness of the imbecile occupant of the whitehouse. He makes Idi Amin seem sane by comparison.
He is nothing but a demented figurehead for the Epstein class. A useful idiot controlled by the Nerd Reich Nazis. The only solution is to make billionaires illegal.
We must make sure that enough Canadians refuse to buy US produce that it's completely unprofitable for grocers to carry it.
No more maple washing either. Just because a company prints a maple leaf on the label doesn't mean it's a Canadian product.
vt.tiktok.com/ZSVqxFgVE/#BonAppétit#AmericaFirst? I don't think so.
95% of US chicken used to be washed in chlorine. Now they use peracetic acid. The concentrated ingestion effects are...
Severe corrosion of the mouth, throat, and stomach, resulting in nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.
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This is insane. If he thinks this will break us he's sorely mistaken.
Calling on democratic nations to join us boycotting all US goods.
www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...
Did some grocery shopping today. Everyone was studiously reading labels. Heard more than a few people saying don't buy that...it's from the US.
Canadians will only buy products from Democracies.
Tariff or no tariff...We won't buy your crappy products until you become a democracy.
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So, Nutlick thought Canada would roll over, but instead we rolled up our sleeves. We will never bargain away the tiniest bit of our sovereignty or give in to US blackmail. Canadians are asking the democratic nations of the world to join us in the largest boycott of US goods the world has ever seen.
Why are supposed left wing channels like Meidas Touch running ads for a company strongly connected with Peter Thiel and Palantir? This is highly disturbing!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ebg...
Self-enrichment corruption under Trump 2.0, however, is—to borrow his pet refrain—“like nothing we’ve ever seen before.” Here’s a non-exhaustive catalog.
www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
Happened on Aug 4
:1961 Spokane, Washington reaches an August record of 108°F (42.22°C)
:1964 Bodies of civil rights workers are discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam
:1967 Pink Floyd releases their first album "The Piper at The Gates of Dawn
:US performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site