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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋

@canadacheryl.bsky.social

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#Woke #Liberal, #pro-democracy, #pro-choice, #feminist, formerly lived and worked in USA, #anti-fascism, anti-MAGAt, political junkie, #cancersurvivor, #worldtraveller, Nana to 5 precious little ones, #VancouverIsland, #BC, #Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · Nov 17

I used to live and work in USA. We loved life in Greenville DE and Chadds Ford PA. Leaving was sad, but thankfully our move back to Canada was:
- prior to my cancer diagnosis (8 yrs of treatments haven’t cost us a dime… yay free healthcare!)
- prior to retiring
- prior to the insane Trump shitstorm

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Marty Taylor @realmartyt7.bsky.social · 19h

www.mediaite.com/politics/top... #ProudBlue. When Trump loses MTG. He is about to lose a significant number of his rapidly diminishing base. Greene has always been more of a populist than most Republicans so her split with Trump on Epstein and health care makes sense. Is she “enlightened”? Hope so.

Top Democrat Praises MTG For a ‘Surprisingly Enlightened Few Weeks’

"Marjorie Taylor Greene breaking with the party on a couple of issues. One of them is the Epstein files, and the other one, again, are these healthcare subsidies and costs."

www.mediaite.com

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 22h

“These are not benign investments in the open market by corporations. These are investments by government entities in the US… when we have a difficult, tense relationship with that government."
“the current US administration already has policies against Canadian interests”
www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

ANALYSIS | The Trump administration is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies. But Ottawa can stop it | CBC News

The Trump administration has purchased a stake in two Canadian critical mineral companies, a move experts say is unusual, and which raises questions about whether Ottawa should block the deals in the ...

www.cbc.ca

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Thanksgiving Canada!
🍁 🦃 🇨🇦 ❤️

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 1d

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Along with Obama

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Fiction.”

@cnn.com
www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

👏👏👏

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

🇨🇦🍁 Fellow Canadian here. Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁 🇨🇦

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 2d

FROGS TOGETHER STRONG!

Bless The Frog Proving Kristi Noem Wrong

It's raining frogs! Hallelujah!

www.thegodpodcast.com

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

I think you’re right about this.

🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

🤔… hmm… makes sense

Happy Thanksgiving, Canada!
🇨🇦 🍁 🍂 🥮 🍽️ 🍗 🦃 🍁 🇨🇦

#Canada #Thanksgiving #CanadianThanksgiving

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Spudislander45 🇨🇦❤️🌎💪🫡 @spudislander45.bsky.social · 3d

Disdain with a side of cranberry #Canada?

When I consider the corrupt and incompetent #U.S.officials with whom #Canada has been saddled under this administration, it is astonishing what we have endured with grace. #Cdnpoli

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Lutnick The Loser Threatens Canada. Our Answer? Bring It On.

This isn’t a negotiation. It’s a threat from the sitting U.S. Secretary of Commerce, who thinks Canada will just roll over. He’s about to find out how wrong he is.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 2d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d

Cartoon by John Deering.

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Cinjaa @cinjaa.bsky.social · 3d

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 2d

🐀 Mike Johnson caught lying using the receipts he directed us to use. Jen Psaki for the 🎯

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

Hahaha 😝 😜 😂

Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 2d

Hello Idaho, we’re here to keep your potatoes safe from Antifa.

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ArizonaTerry.bsky.social @arizonaterry.bsky.social · 3d

Don’t stop saying it

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 2d

This is way beyond alarming! How did America fall this f**ing far, to such a disgusting, disgraceful, despicable low⁉️

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

ICE IS DISAPPEARING PEOPLE TO WORK CAMPS

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maga-crime-watch.bsky.social @maga-crime-watch.bsky.social · 3d

“We took the freedom of speech away”.

And they will unironically defend him hearing this.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

{ gift article } www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

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🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 3d

Exactly!

God @thegodpodcast.com · 3d

Peaceful assembly isn’t an insurrection.

Storming the Capitol to hang your own vice-president and end democracy is.

🦋💙🩵CHERYL🇨🇦🇺🇸🦋 @canadacheryl.bsky.social · 3d

Oh. My. God.
This is not okay.
America is not okay.
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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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God @thegodpodcast.com · 4d

Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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