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darciasenft.bsky.social
Canadian Lawyer. Former General Counsel and Director of Policy and Ethics at The Law Society of Manitoba. Retired early to pursue a Masters in Public International Law at University of Groningen. Soft spot: Rule of Law.
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Diana, our family: without your support, I wouldn’t be standing here. Without your examples, I wouldn’t have a purpose. Without your love, I wouldn’t have the strength for what lies ahead.

For three years in a row, Ukrainians have to hide from russian attacks together with their pets. Subway stations often serve as places to hide from threats, becoming shelter for everyone. 🧵👇

It was very emotional when our warriors in Balakliia just after liberation were tearing off a russian poster and found a Taras Shevchenko's poem under it. Today, 9th March, is the birthday of Taras Shevchenko, one of the greatest Ukrainian poets 🇺🇦

In Minnesota, we value the people who care for our veterans, even if DOGE doesn’t. If Trump fired you, come work for the State of Minnesota and help take care of our vets.

WATCH: “This is a tragedy for the free world. But first and foremost a tragedy for the United States.” This 8 minute speech by French Senator Claude Malhuret on Trump siding with Putin and what it means for the world is worth your time. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DG9Lj0F...

The Liquor Control Board of Ontario is the single largest purchaser of alcohol in the world. The Premier of Ontario ordered them to stop purchasing American products. No restaurant, no grocery store, no one anywhere in Ontario, can find American booze. FAFO, MAGAts. 🇨🇦

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: They're out there saying 'we just passed a bill to eliminate taxes on tips & taxes on SS benefits.' NONE of that's in the bill. But they deny that they're cutting Medicaid. So they want credit for popular stuff that isn't in the bill but ignore the deeply unpopular stuff.

Bad news for Lindt fans.

Let’s go for it! Tell everyone you know to join @bsky.app and TOGETHER let’s send them packing

With the news coming out that the Trump administration is still transferring trans women to men’s prisons despite court orders telling them not to, I’d like to share what happens to trans women in men’s prisons in this country. But sure, keep telling the trans community that we’re overreacting.

Every. Single. Word. 🎯 🎯 🎯 shorturl.at/SKwi7

Ottawans, there's an Elbows Up rally happening on Sunday, March 9 on Parliament Hill at 1 pm. Please share: www.elbowsup-canada.ca

JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of NLRB board member Gwynne Wilcox, and has some choice language for Trump, whose self-depiction as a king "fundamentally misapprehends the role under Article II of the U.S. Constitution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NBC News confirms: Two federal prosecutors who worked on the case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams were placed on leave by the Justice Department. @msnbc.com

Brazen corruption. 💰

Merci Tutti…French Eutelsat is preparing to replace Starlink in Ukraine and plans to send about 40,000 communication terminals. Vive la France!🇫🇷

BREAKING - Trump just said he doubts whether France or other NATO members would help America if we needed it. WRONG. The Article 5 mutual defense obligation has been invoked only ONCE in the 75 years of NATO. To help America. After 9/11. And our allies answered the call.

Um...in addition to all that is wrong with this, they are banning the use of "females" and "women." What a regime. Incredible.

"The defeat of #Ukraine would be the defeat of Europe. The Baltic States, Georgia and Moldova are already on the list. Putin’s goal is to return to Yalta, where half the continent was ceded to Stalin." - French Senator Claude Malhuret made an excellent speech.

Trump: Gutting National Parks—And Hiding the Evidence National parks hit 331M visits, but Trump officials don’t want you to know. A leaked memo bans the Park Service from promoting the numbers—while firing rangers, closing visitor centers, and cutting safety. This won’t go well—we love our parks.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says House Republicans can't meet their budget targets to pass Trump's agenda without making significant cuts to Medicare or Medicaid.

Even as the Trump administration continues to slash federal jobs, a number of agencies have reinstated some workers and paused plans to dismiss others, sometimes within days of the firings. Here’s a look at some of the back-and-forths so far. nyti.ms/3DqBJzY

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w... Shocking. Not-shocking. An important read. Everything has changed.

Cute...we need to remember to smile every now and again.

Outrageous.

Too funny!

Potentially interesting job for the NOAA crowd - Verisk, one of the biggest modeling firms in the insurance industry, is looking for an experienced atmospheric scientist. Charles Jackson is hiring, who was on my PhD committee and is just a delight to work with, aside from being a kickass scientist.

Someone should actually give him some history lessons...STAT.

I can't believe Big Balls, the Douche and Tommy Tuna could make a mistake like this, given their combined year of work experience.

What a front cover...

This week, Edward Martin, the interim US attorney for Washington, DC, sent a letter to the dean of Georgetown Law School threatening to investigate the school if it did not scrub its policies and curriculum of diversity and inclusion initiatives. Here is the Dean's response....

Logic. Pure and simple.

Wow. Just. Wow.

That's correct.

On 6 June 1944, while Americans were fighting at Omaha Beach, Canadians were fighting at Juno Beach. Our brothers, who fought and died by our side – who helped us defeat Fascism, are not our enemy. They are our true friends. Canadians are our brothers and sisters and I stand with them 100%.

DOGE “seemed unsure” of what USAID programs they cut and is now attempting to reverse some of the cuts, says @propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy. “This is the opposite of a careful review."

Evidence of torture found as detention centre and mass grave discovered outside Khartoum

Well?

It’s another setback for Trump’s goal of expanding presidential power over independent federal agencies that Congress designed to operate without direct control from the White House. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Pentagon has marked 26,000 photos for deletion to purge evidence of diversity. The photos include the 1st black pilots in WWII, the 1st women to pass infantry training & the plane that dropped the Hiroshima bomb because it’s called the “Enola GAY”. This is real. We’re living in a horror story.

NATO is already done. The United States of America is now an ally of the Russian Federation, and an adversary of European democracies.

Russia/putin doesn't want peace - he wants Ukraine... and any other country with natural resources...