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In Canada, all prisoners have had the right to vote since 2002, thanks to the long and hard advocacy of Rick Sauvé, a former inmate. Voting is a right of everyone in a democracy, and in Canada we try to make it as easy and accessible as possible.

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Gayle King Katy Perry Be more like @realdollyparton.bsky.social Dolly Parton didn't spend her dollars on space travel or a trip to the titanic because she was writing checks to put 150 million books in the hands of children.

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On this day in 1906: the M 7.9 San Francisco Earthquake. I get chills every time I see this ShakeMap. Publicly funded science is how we learn about quakes in CA and beyond, and how we prepare for future ones. Current federal attacks on science are an abandonment of communities facing these hazards:

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You have to wonder what's next in his arsenal of threats.

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People want institutions to stand up www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

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Left untreated, autism can cause dangerously antisocial behavior including dumping bears in Central Park, mulching animals in a blender, fondling babysitters, and injecting massive amounts of heroin. by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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While it is not true that I have autism, it is true that I pay no taxes. by Elon Musk

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THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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I've managed crises my entire career: I led the Bank of Canada through the 2008 financial crisis, and the bank of England through Brexit. I’ve been here before — and I have a plan to see Canada through this. #Debate2025

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In an article entitled “A University President Makes a Case Against Cowardice,” @newyorker.com interviews Michael Roth, author of The Student and president of Wesleyan University

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Great interview between Mark Carney and Scott Galloway. youtu.be/V11qNDDElZw?...

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Appears US Secret info and doc’s are being shared with Russia. Russia is calling the shots behind this administration. Prove me wrong!

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For Holy Thursday: Rembrandt sketches part of Da Vinci's Last Supper c. 1635 (BM)

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The current spelling 'marijuana' appears to have been an English invention.

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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one. Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1114 comments

Remember the THREE C's of LIFE: 1) Commitment 2) Compassion 3) Communication I'll use it in a sentence: I made a commitment to show compassion every time I engage in communication; show love, peace & understanding.

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I think what’s most striking about the last few months is how rarely anyone in the GOP applies this simple test. A lot of checks and balances rely on this kind of worrying about precedent but it’s now totally absent, as if they don’t think they’ll ever be out of power again.

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I won’t share RFK Jr.’s lies about autism. It’s disgusting and dangerous. If he had a shred of decency, he would apologize and resign. Autistic people contribute every day to our nation’s greatness. To every kid with autism, I’m in this fight all the way for you.

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For eff's sake! Stop with you folksy "y'alls" and, instead, do something noteworthy. All of you richer-than-rich women now need to take your photo ops to El Salvador and demand justice for Juan Garcia Abrego, and all those others, too. Do something worthwhile, or fade away from sight. Parasites.

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America, get off the train!

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Can’t stop thinking about the fact that this Nazi POS Musk made all of his money off the backs of hard working Dems and Gov subsidies. He’s now abandoned the people that made him rich, took away subsidies and is trying to take away social services for all of those that enriched him. This has to end.

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Love both! (Neil Young and Mark Carney)

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I hope all this fraternizing with the Russians nonsense means that Ed Martin is burnt toast (although, given the spineless Republicans, he could slide through...ugh).

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I've always wanted to go to the tidal isle and abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel; so ethereal and Medieval.

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An emormous transmogrification: from hopefulness and "Camelot" into grotesquerie, ignorance and bottom-feeding life-forms like Marge T. Greene. Disgusting and sad.

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Beautifully explained why Trump's cruel and petty attack on Harvard will affect many lives. youtube.com/shorts/QL162...

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Hats off to @mark-carney.bluesky.social for RUNNING our country like a boss, all while campaigning AND improving his French. Debates be damned. If “some”Canadians can’t figure out that we already have a brilliant mind at the helm, that’s on them. 🇨🇦 - lets solidify this. #NeverVoteConservative

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None of these demonic sons-a-bitches who are serving in Trump’s administration (including the fat orange fuckface himself) should ever be allowed to hold a position in government ever again, not even as a fucking receptionist or janitor.

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French-language leaders’ debate moved to an earlier time (now 6 pm Wednesday) to avoid conflict with Habs game that will see the Canadiens’ battle it out in their third and final chance to clinch a playoff spot. Most Canadian thing ever. 🥰 🇨🇦

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The GOP is a malignant cancer.

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Kudos to Steve!

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Neil Young endorses Mark Carney for PM! neilyoungarchives.com/news/4/artic...

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Please watch and share youtube.com/shorts/IralC...

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“Something bad is happening.” 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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Amazon’s union-busting attempts resulted in the closing of all QC warehouses. Jon Milton @policyalternatives.ca shares some of the ways to fight back: canceling govt contracts & subsidies, banning exploitive practices associated with the gig the economy & nationalizing abandoned warehouses.

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The past ten days have been more like the humiliation of the Suez Crisis than the liberation of D-Day open.substack.com/pub/braggb/p...

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As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

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I was all sympathetic, until he opened his mouth...

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