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Darklene McBoo!

@darlenemcleod.bsky.social

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uOttawa PhD student specializing in ritual studies; researching ritual in Christo-fascism in Canada and abroad; if I pin you, it's probably research; granola aficionado; bike commuter; 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ally; probably posting with a dog in my lap 🇨🇦

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Darklene McBoo! @darlenemcleod.bsky.social · Nov 6

"And the devil said to him, ‘To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’" - Luke 4:6-7

And a majority of America bent the knee to the devil.

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 10h

portland is incredibly annoying (complementary)

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 10h

Un-presidented brass band at city hall in Portland tonight celebrating the release of their clarinet player from federal custody

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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 23h

@fathernathan.bsky.social

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Tom Flood @tomflood.bsky.social · 2h

Enough.

Awesome to see this billboard up in Vancouver.
Was really incredible to work with the people at @visionzerovancouver.ca to bring this to life.

an outdoor blllboard There will never be a bell loud enough, a helmet strong enough, or clothing bright enough to make up for poor infrastructure. Picture of child biking in a painted bike lane

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Darklene McBoo! @darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 2h

Would definitely explain some things that didn't really need explaining.

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 18h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Sandy Ernest Allen @sandyernestallen.bsky.social · 3h

I love watching from afar these hubs of West Coast weirdos get pissed off by these fascists and do in response ... their fucking weirdest. As is, I want to emphasize, to be expected.

My people know how to fight with comedy and music and flowers and absurdity. We're less into guns and such.

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ill tempered cobra chicken🇨🇦 @andgracetoo.bsky.social · 3h

Good Morning Bluesky!

Sign on the window of a bookstore that reads: Fuck social media. Marry Books. Kill AI.

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Samuel Perry @profsamperry.bsky.social · 3h

Fellow Social Scientists,

When your grad students say they can't co-author with me because they're too busy grading for your classes, that's a problem. Yes, TA help is awesome. Yes, training includes learning how to manage time. But we gotta free/encourage students to prioritize their own research.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3h

I mean, that's a top 10% New Yorker cover.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 3h

I wanna see wall-to-wall coverage of kids holding clever homemade signs. My 11-year-old finished hers last night, and she's excited and ready to go.

My daughter holding a hand drawn sign featuring a rainbow colored pawn toppling an orange and yellow-haired king piece with checkmate written in NYT font above

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 3d

yeah man, trans reporters, whom the ny times derogatorily calls "trans activists" so that normies won't listen to them, have been reporting on ADF activity in the UK since 2018.

bigotry in journalism makes you late to the story.

Max Colbert @mc00.bsky.social · 3d

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship'
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 19h

Delayed thing about this: The pastor who was shot in the head with pepper balls is from the PC(USA), the largest Presbyterian denomination in the U.S.

You know who else used to be a member of that tradition?

Donald Trump.

But in 2020, he stopped IDing that way, saying he's now non-denominational.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 19h

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 19h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Darklene McBoo! @darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 19h

I definitely think the years and life experience are a huge advantage; the teen drama (and melodrama) are certainly not helpful. But it's no longer *my own* drama/melodrama, so I have that going for me.

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Darklene McBoo! @darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 19h

This thread might not go where you think it will. And it's delightful.

RevDaniel 🇨🇦 @revdaniel.bsky.social · 1d

Out walking Chester and a group of school children - obviously a PE class -all ran by us.

One girl was half walking - half running behind everyone, clearly struggling.

Another girl looked back, saw them and slowed down, then walked alongside the slower child, saying “Let’s walk together”.
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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 20h

To find the assumed age of a white Republican you have to divide the cardiovascular age by the number of presidential elections they’ve voted in

MB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 20h

Here are the grown “kids”. That one guy looks late 40’s. These are the Hitler lovers.

Vermont state senator Sam Douglass. Bland white guy with glasses and beard. Brown hair.

Man in poorly fitting dark suit with glasses and dark hair. Yes he’s white. William Hendrix who is the communications assistant to vile Kris Kobach, Kansas AG.

Bobby Walker, dark hair and dressed exactly like trump. Not a kid at all. He’s vice chair of New York State young republicans. I guess young means under 50.

Peter Giunta looks like he’s in his 40’s. I don’t know his age. Also dressed like trump in an ill-fitting suit. He has one of the worst combovers I’ve ever seen. Beard and mustache. He’s the chair of the NY state young republicans. He looks like the type of guy that looks through your windows at night.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20h

not to repeat the obvious but: if they are doing this to one of the most famous Western activists alive, imagine what they are doing to the people whose names we will never know

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 20h

Greta is an immensely impressive human being and despite her well-intentioned downplaying of her experience what she endured was torture. www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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Frank Domenic @frankdomenic.bsky.social · 20h

Why are so many criminal cases in Ontario being dropped and why did this spike start under Doug Ford? #ontario #onpoli #dougford #canada #frankdomenic🍁

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 20h

Look at this good news!

Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 1d

At a raid on the drop-off line at a local elementary school, hundreds of parents had ICE surrounded within three minutes. ICE gave up and fled.

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 20h

So has the Charlie Kirk Show now become state-run media?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Darklene McBoo! @darlenemcleod.bsky.social · 20h

He's just the worst. Such an embarrassing, bellicose fool of a man. Lord, but he is humiliating.

Premier Ford says he told Home Depot shoplifter, 'I'm going to kick your ass' | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he threatened to beat up a Home Depot shoplifter over the summer.

www.cbc.ca

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 22h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 22h

men love to tell women why their ideas won't work

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

First they came for the woodwind section, and I said nothing ...

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 1d

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 1d

In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going
(2) on how much the driver earns.

One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US).

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