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gaylenef.bsky.social
Victoria BC, Alberta ExPat, politically liberal,concerned about the environment and human rights. Also I love animals.
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Nice to see the Bluesky icon on emails from Mark Carneys Team.

Wow! Congrats to Bluesky for passing the milestone of 32 MILLION users. Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

People claiming that we don't know if vaccines are safe are committing the square one fallacy: either they are willfully ignorant or they are lying. Here's how we know that vaccines are extremely safe. My latest for McGill OSS. www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

Make it make sense! 🤦🏻‍♀️

There are 3 special elections coming up and those 3 seats are the keys to stopping the Congressional Republicans doing Trump & Musk’s evil bidding. We need just 1 seat to block them, 2 seats to stop them, and with all 3 we can FLIP THE HOUSE. Join us!! Monday 2/24 @7:30 EST. 👇👇 mobilize.us/s/Y9NrBb

Also if you feel strongly about Eric Adams, you should call your city councilmember to express that and ask for their position. You’d be surprised. Hochul’s stance is highly disappointing but it doesn’t come from nowhere. Press all your electeds. City elections are in 5 months. Ask candidates too.

In case you haven't checked lately how much has been raised to fight that corrupt fuck, Sam Mraiche, we are closing in on $200k. #UCPCorruption #FuckoffSam #ResignSmith gofund.me/4a0e9206

Get. Him. Out. Of. Our. Government.

He nails it.

The White House is TROLLING US! Don’t let it work… #thewhitehouse #donaldtrump

NEW: Minnesota was just ranked a top state both to retire and to raise a family.   By investing in the things that matter – economic opportunity, health and safety, and strong communities – we’re building the best state for all Minnesotans from childhood through retirement.

We need to bet big on an independent economic path for Canada, based on a clean environment, writes Nick Pearce #tradewar #Canada #ClimateAction #jobs #energytransition #UnitedStates #decarbonization www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/21/o...

Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.

I Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦

Our game, our country.

Hillary was right about this fucking puppet.

It's Friday... And on Fridays we dance 💃🕺 🎥 danceparty5

Never forget.

If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott

I was touched to stop in at Munro’s Books in Victoria and find my book, Crushed Wild Mint, is a staff pick! I signed their copies too, so if you’re after a copy — you could stop by Munro’s! They always have the best fancy pens for authors to sign. 😌

If you go to www.elections.on.ca and type in your postal code you can find your polling station. There is a rumour Doug Ford delayed voting cards because he no longer has the support of seniors, who rely on their voting card, so look it up for them. #onpoli

#ProudBlue Let’s show the MAGA regime & corporations that we are stronger than they think. We can hit them in their pockets! If you must buy a necessity, go to a local small business! scratchpost.news/2025/02/18/t...

AHS requested full accounting of MHCare’s work and spending prior to CEO’s firing: documents #ableg #abpoli www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

This.

She Knows How To Play It Cool: I have so, so, much respect and admiration for this lady. The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, knows just how to handle Donald Trump. She doesn’t get rattled, no, she is calm, cool, and collected through his ridiculous crap. She is polite but firm. How many…

Obama, Bush, Clinton, Biden staying silent on Trump dismays some Democrats https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1iu3kcu/obama_bush_clinton_biden_staying_silent_on_trump/ https://www.reddit.com/r/democrats/comments/1iu3kcu/obama_bush_clinton_biden_staying_silent_on_trump/

Spineless, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, weak-kneed, pusillanimous chickenshits.

Advance polls are OPEN in Ontario starting today You don’t need a voter card if you didn’t receive one yet Bring ID and get out there vote

Gotta say, out of all the provincial newspapers I reviewed (including the big 4 in EDM & CGY), the Lethbridge Herald's coverage was the most balanced, speaking to the issues rather than parroting UCP presser talking points. BONUS: Both written by a local reporter. Nice!!

Danielle Smith calling a press conference to announce basically nothing is definitely not gonna turn this story around. What a mess.

This is true. @bsky.app is the app of the people. We may not all agree. We may not even all like each other. But we can engage and disagree and agree with our hate That makes the platform the future of social media

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

So I’m walking to work in the beautiful city of New York and I see a swasticar and I swear to god I have no control over the faces I make when I see one. 😬🙄🤐😠🥴🤮 Btw, you never see a woman driving one I’ve those trucks 🤨

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Could someone show this to our government? Rather than trumpeting the Farage/Jenrick rhetoric maybe we should explore genuine ways to grow our economy.

📢 let’s call for an Alberta election. Smith and the rest of the corrupt UCP must go! 🤝👏👍 #abpoli #ableg chng.it/RPnr2mgTxM

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

There are too many people that can't muster the energy to walk into a voting booth telling me they are going to engage in a revolution. That math doesn't math people. Vote. That's step 1. If you can't do that you can't change crap.

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President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

Political dissension getting suppressed in Alberta. Getting a little dangerous to be an opponent of this gov't. Feels wrong, for a liberal democracy. Que pasa? www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

3rd day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn’t even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Admin resigned, and didn’t know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA/DOD, and claimed Medicaid wasn’t being cut when it’s being cut massively.

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

I can’t stop thinking about these two headlines