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✨keeley✨

@leeleykeel.bsky.social

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anti-violence, anti-racist, artist & gardener. laughter encourager w crispy edges. baffled Buddhist, probably napping, GenXer, over it. Small town Ontario, Algonquin Territory (🇨🇦) she/her I have three kittens to distract me from reality

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · Sep 16

Ori loves you. He softly reminds you to maybe stretch a bit maybe, go get something decent to eat, fill up your water and try and look to the sky tonight if you can. Sunshine is annoyed but nevermind her.

2 cats lay intertwined in a basket . One has his head upside down back looking at you with wide eyes. The other cute cat being snuggled doesn’t care about us - she looks away and seems annoyed. 🐈‍⬛

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Sarah Campbell @mamgu7.bsky.social · 2h

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Charles Richter, in my Crypt Keeper SCARE-a! @richterscale.bsky.social · 1h

a real newspaper might headline this story something along the lines of "Admiral steps down after raising concerns about attacks on alleged drug boats"

Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 3h

"It was unclear why Adm. Holsey is leaving now, less than a year into his tenure....But one of the U.S. officials...said that Admiral Holsey had raised concerns about the mission and the attacks on the alleged drug boats."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Head of the U.S. Military’s Southern Command Is Stepping Down, Officials Say

www.nytimes.com

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 2h

“Older adults don’t have enough saved for retirement” bro I’m subsidizing my adult kids who are both fully employed and this is their exact situation 👇 and yeah I buy them snow tires and phone plans and help out with student loans and medical copays. Neither thinks they’ll ever have kids.

SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️‍⚧️ @skwinnicki.bsky.social · 4h

“Young adults aren’t having enough kids” bro I’m employed full-time with a damn PhD and I’m struggling to afford both groceries and rent.

I love kids but I can barely afford my pets.

Want us to have kids? Try UBI, rent control, universal healthcare, cheaper child care.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 1d

A review of The City of Our Dreaming in the Winnipeg Free Press

Imaginary cities
Themes of justice, reciprocity run through authors’ ruminations on urban life

www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-lif...

Themes of justice, reciprocity run through authors’ ruminations on urban life in The City of our Dreaming

www.winnipegfreepress.com

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10h

An 18-year-old Russian singer, Diana "Naoko" Loginova, who recently performed anti-war songs on Nevsky Prospect in Russia's St. Petersburg, has been brought to court, in handcuffs.

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Meh Pluribus Unum @pluribus-unum.co · 2h

From The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963), a placard held by Samuel Egerton, a marcher who later donated it to the Smithsonian.

"We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now!"

A protest placard from the Civil Rights march on a Washington in 1963.

It reads: We Demand an End to Police Brutality Now!

Additional caption text fom the Smithsonian: “The message after 50 years is still unresolved,” remarks Samuel Egerton, who donated the poster to the Smithsonian after carrying it in protest during the 1963 March on Washington.

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McKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 3h

Over on Twitter, DHS just questioned @nicolefoy.bsky.social's vital @propublica.org reporting on American citizens arrested by immigration agents, calling her story "fake news." But—whoops!—they conveniently forgot the link. Here it is. Check the receipts. www.propublica.org/article/immi...

Screenshot of an October 16, 2025 tweet by the Department of Homeland Security claiming that ProPublica's reporting that more than 170 U.S. citizens have been arrested by immigration authorities since January was "fake news" and that DHS enforcement operations are "HIGHLY TARGETED"

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Jeremy Millar @jeremymillar.bsky.social · 4h

What a time to be alive (derogatory)

Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 4h

Absolute pure chef's kiss. A company called Ugmonk have invented pieces of paper to make notes on as a way to stay offline. One of them is a ring-binder notebook ugmonk.com/en-gb/collec...

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VassB @vassb.bsky.social · 3h

Sometimes NO works from a policy perspective.

The Verge @theverge.com · 4h

New York bans AI-enabled rent price fixing

Renters in the Big Apple could have just caught a big break today.

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Lauren Dobson-Hughes @ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 3h

Banging on about replacement rates and the fertility crisis is a guaranteed way to spot someone who wants to control women

Their solution to the supposed fertility crisis is always removing enough rights from women, that you force them to be pregnant

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 3h

Tonight on APTN National News: The body of 14-year-old Samuel Bird is found following a lengthy search – and police say they’ve made an arrest.

The Prince Albert Grand Council shares findings from an 18-month feasibility study on Indigenous policing.

APTN National News: October 16, 2025 – The body of Samuel Bird is found, Indigenous policing study

YouTube video by APTN News

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 8h

F5 says a “sophisticated” threat group working for an undisclosed nation-state government had surreptitiously and persistently dwelled in its network over a “long-term.”

Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network

Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

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NPR @npr.org · 7h

NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night. n.pr/47rPOsV

Julian Brave NoiseCat's survival story is both personal and ancestral

NoiseCat is the son of an Indigenous Canadian father and white mother. After a cultural genocide, he says, living your life becomes an existential question. His new memoir is We Survived the Night.

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 6h

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 7h

At #FarmAid’s 40th Anniversary Festival, Neil Young, who co-founded the organization alongside Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp, demanded Big Agriculture companies and billionaire farmland investors “give us your money” to give to farmers.

Read more ➡️ buff.ly/afM01ps

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 6h

“Corporate greed among Canada’s grocery monopolies is what’s really driving up food prices. Economists have long argued that grocery monopolies need to be broken up to create more competition, leading to lower prices and improved food security in Canada.” @taylornoakes.com

Observations from Montreal

An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 9h

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

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NPR @npr.org · 10h

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts. n.pr/4nYSLHq

A book vending machine provides an outlet for D.C.-area authors after funding cuts

Washington, D.C.'s vending machine LitBox distributes books, with a serving of hope as local writers struggle with arts funding cuts.

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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 10h

A former MP who vacated his seat for Pierre Poilievre is now registered to lobby for a B.C.-based coal company in Alberta. Read the findings in our report.

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#abpoli

Former MP who vacated seat for Poilievre registers to lobby for coal company in Alberta

Damien Kurek, who vacated his seat as an MP so Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre could run in his place, has registered to lobby the Alberta government

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L'Institut de recherche du CUSM / Research Institute of the MUHC @rimuhc.bsky.social · 12h

🧬 Promising results from the first clinical trial of an HIV immunotherapy published in Nature Medicine.
@cusm-muhc.bsky.social @healthsciences.mcgill.ca
🔗 rimuhc.ca/en/-/immunot...

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 13h

This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 13h

This report examines the human rights, environmental, and climate impacts of nickel mining and processing operations in Indonesia, focusing on Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, and North Maluku, three of the most prominent hubs of the Indonesian nickel industry
cri.org/reports/does...

“Does Anyone Care?”: The Human, Environmental, and Climate Toll of Indonesia’s Nickel Industry

Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of nickel, a key raw material in the renewable energy transition used in batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and for energy storage. It is now a massive par...

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✨keeley✨ @leeleykeel.bsky.social · 11h

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14h

👏 "We've lived here all our lives. And I have never felt so unwelcome in my own hometown as I do since your party came into Caerphilly."

"With all the rhetoric that you bring in, I have to say to my sons, please don't go there. Please don't do this."

"I blame you for that."

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 12h

deploying the editor's note like solid snake with the chokeout

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VassB @vassb.bsky.social · 14h

I’ve written about this! www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: In this economy, can we even afford dogs and cats any more?

Our governments need to do better when it comes to making pet care affordable

www.theglobeandmail.com

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