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Kelly Smith 🍁
@kellymjsmith.bsky.social
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Proud Canadian. 🇨🇦 Quilter, writer, tea and chocolate lover, and amateur genealogist. Feminist, atheist, flaming progressive. Reader of SF, spec fic, and non-fiction. Member of ACES and DRII. Work in business continuity and disaster recovery. She/her.
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The American people deserve a public health system that puts science before politics.

That's why California and 14 other governors are joining forces to launch the Governors Public Health Alliance to protect communities and guarantee decisions are rooted in data and health.
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U.S. business leaders AND politicians NEED TO UNDERSTAND the punishment ISN'T going to end. As long as a lawless GANGSTER is in the #WhiteHouse, it is ONLY going to get WORSE. Either stand UP for #Democracy, or #Canadians will NEVER spend another DIME on your products. 🇨🇦 🇺🇸
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This is beginning to look not very Nobel-worthy.
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Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.
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A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.
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The NYT finally noticed:

"... Mamdani didn’t just beat the odds; he blew the door off the hinges, reshaping the electorate & taking advantage of ranked-choice voting to claim a commanding 12.8 pt victory that reverberated through the country’s politics."

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/m...
Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani
www.nytimes.com
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Current* conditions near St. Ignace, MI:
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People rightly complain that a lot of TV dramas are "copaganda," but those shows have set some expectations in the general public about how law enforcement is supposed to act. Lean into that.
I need a montage of famous cops in movies and TV shows flashing their badges and announcing their names, followed by a stream of masked ICE guys refusing to give theirs.
a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom
ALT: a woman is getting out of a car with the nbc logo on the bottom
media.tenor.com
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As a retired high school English teacher, I agree with this message.
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We’ve been invaded and are now occupied by the fascist regime. Where is our corporate outrage? The communal “NO” should be deafening!
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These are some of the protesters in Chicago arrested by Noem’s secret police.
"The Atlantic Lottery Corporation announced that a winning $15-million ticket, sold in Miramichi and matching all seven numbers, was selected in the main Lotto Max draw on Tuesday."

Hope it's someone I know!
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In the midst of The Ongoing Horrors, there is also Fat Bear Week. Bless these bears and their bulked up bodies.
explore.org/fat-bear-wee...
Fat Bear Week 2025
Fat Bear Week 2025
explore.org
When I was in my early 20s (in the early 90s) I lived in Canada and Walmart bought out the entire Woolco chain and turned them into Walmarts. I had the misfortune to work at Walmart as a cashier. Worst job I ever had. They laid me and my husband off on the same day. No empathy for a young couple.
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It seems fascists only are concerned about how people feel emotionally when you call a fascist a fascist!!