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Elbows up 🇨🇦 💪 Canadian & Irish novelist of character-driven fiction from horror to sci-fi to contemp. Film school grad. Ottawa dweller. Humanist. Pro-human rights, pro-democracy, pro-science 😷 INFJ www.caramartin.ca | www.ckkellymartin.com
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Canada's foreign ministry is advising all Canadians to leave the Middle East if they can. Ensure travel documents are valid and "leave via commercial options if safe." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Don't look up? Why is so much of the U.S. media staying quiet about Trump protests? Hopefully large participation numbers tomorrow will change that. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Hit the streets tomorrow. Be nonviolent. Be joyfully defiant. Be defiantly joyful. Ridicule him. Condemn fascism. Oppose I.C.E. Affirm diversity. Embody America. Love your neighbor. Refuse to be intimidated. Be safe. Be loud. Be encouraged. #NoKingsDay

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

76-year-old Walton paid for a full-page ad in The New York Times on Sunday calling on readers to “mobilize” on Saturday, June 14. At the top of the ad are the words “No Kings." www.forbes.com/sites/jemima...

Werner Herzog once said, “Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.” What we're seeing now from Trump and his collaborators (all of them being moral black holes at the core) are their repeated attempts to crack away at that ice.

A bad decision that will put swimmers' health at risk. Ottawa Public Health's rationalizations are utter BS. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Disappointed to hear this. I love BOOM 99.7. The music. The DJs (especially Dylan Black). Local news. ottawacitizen.com/news/corus-l...

How about some neutral-leaning-good news? Brooklyn Public Library is making funding available for libraries across the US who want to develop freedom to read programming for young people. It's open to any library, with a note that small and rural libraries are especially encouraged to apply.

Together, we’ve been working to ensure that Mabel’s Fables, one of Canada‘s most beloved, independent children’s bookstores, remains open in our community for many years to come. www.thestar.com/news/gta/mab...

HOW TO PREPARE FOR YOUR PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION! Good information here for your #NoKings rallies. Know what to expect, how to identify risks, how to stay safe. Thanks to @mexigrl1964.bsky.social for finding this resource. #NoKings #June14 linktr.ee/protestsafet...

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

📣 Reminder: If you joined the #CanadianDentalCarePlan before May 1, 2025, don’t forget to renew to keep your coverage! 🦷

Seth gets it

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Dear athletes and citizens of the democratic world: Do NOT travel to the US for ANYTHING. Cancel your plans for the World Cup. Do not step foot in the US. Stay home or go to Canada or Mexico if you want to see it. Enough is enough.

FIXED! We have launched a new geoconfirmed map for the United States tracking the ongoing potential self-coup. It includes protests, civil unrest, military deployments, large ICE/HSI/etc deployments, police deployments, and major incidents of Constitutional due process violations. Please amplify.

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

Happy Pride month! July 20th will mark the 20th anniversary of the Civil Marriage Act's legalizing of same-sex marriage in Canada. 🌈 www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

Lead with your hook: the unique twist, premise, or promise that makes your story different from every other book on the shelf. If you can’t explain what makes your book special in one or two sentences, it might be time to sharpen that pitch. #WritingTips #AmQuerying #PitchPerfect #WritingCommunity

the Uber CEO tells Trump his company supports the MAGA reconciliation bill (that will strip millions of healthcare and food support)

WATCH: “Here’s the big scary LA protest — look: you don’t see the cops or the National guard here… are there any fires or chemical smoke? Wonder why that is.” The people are peaceful. Law enforcement is doing the escalating. Intentionally. This has always been Trump’s plan.

Happy Birthday, Michael J. Fox! Absolute legend. www.thatericalper.com/2025/06/09/6...

We are witnessing the first stages of Trump’s police state | Robert Reich

Stay safe out there, LA folks

Newsom addresses Trump directly: "Where's your decency, Mr President? Stop ... it's immoral. You're creating the conditions that you claim you're solving."

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

There is no bigger story right now than the White House asserting that California residents are in a state "of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States."

The federal government is sowing chaos so they have an excuse to escalate. That is not the way any civilized country behaves." ~ Gavin Newsom www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Climate scientists have predicted an eventual blurring of 'fire season' into year-round burning for decades, but few imagined it would arrive so soon in our northern forests."