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Donald Trump is weaponizing The American Dream against us

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 8d

Another #Antifa headquarters we toured this last month: Bergen-op-Zoom Canadian War Cemetery near the Belgian border. Most of the nearly 1,000 graves of Canadian soldiers here lost their lives in the fight to clear the north bank of the Scheldt estuary of invading Nazi German forces.
#fightfascism

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 11d

Joy-Ann Reid’s fearless, informative analysis must be shared:

open.substack.com/pub/joyannre...

God forbid anyone but one of his cronies buy property to leave a legacy for their families.

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 12d

Learning to resist
#MakingIsConnecting
#artblog #resist #JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes

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#keepportlandweird #artinaction #creativeresistance
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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · 15d

From the DailyShow community on Reddit: "The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised." (Daily Show Social Media)

Explore this post and more from the DailyShow community

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Andy Elrick @andyelrick.bsky.social · 17d

I'm a little late to party, but fully back on my Ezra stuff.
Please forgive me for invoking Baudrillard, I promise I'm not that pretentious IRL.

Pleasure as always to work with @dennycarter.bsky.social.

Ezra Klein Is Mourning The End Of The Civilacrum

Klein wants a simulation of politics without conflict. Ascendant fascism won't allow that.

badfaithtimes.com

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 21

I’m just going to leave this here:
(The Montreal Star, Feb 4, 1939)

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 18

And yet she persisted

#anntelnaes #politicalart #politicalcartoon #makingisconnecting #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Censoring the satirists

ABC suspends "indefinitely" Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show

Small, quick gestures spark creative action

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 15

Creative action beats despair

#creativeprocess #artblog #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes #lyndabarry #makingisconnecting

open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...

Back to basics

Jackie: First of "Firsts"

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 10

For all fans of baseball and civil rights…

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No. 1 of limited edition set of baseball cards

Sheer volume of objects turns up the visual volume

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 9

Lessons from a wasp invasion

#artblog #artwriting #creativeprocess
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When more is more

Jackie Robinson started it all

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 9

A series of “Firsts”!

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A series of paintings... and an unique set of baseball cards

Time for a modern-day Salon des Refusés

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Sep 1

More ‘improper ideology’ art, please!
#smithsonian #usauthoritarianism #improperideology

open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...

On hope and progress

Another tussle with the Inner Critic

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 25

Another tussle with the Inner Critic

#artblog #creativeprocess #makingIsConnecting #innercritic #joyfulmakinginperiloustimes

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Picture imperfect

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%.

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 22

Canada can play a peacekeeping role as Blue States begin their ‘soft secession’
#fightfascism #never51st #canadaproud

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Once they win elections, it's already too late.

Inspired by hosers and hobs

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 19

Good day, eh! Here’s my latest #artblog on Making Stuff and Writing About It:

open.substack.com/pub/carlynya...

It started with a Canadian camping classic

This is no time to play it safe

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 12

This is no time to play it safe

#JoyfulMakingInPerilousTimes #MakingIsConnecting #artblog #politicalart

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Silly satire and kidding around builds resilience

It's no way to work a community-garden plot

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 9

Flaw in the fantasy: Trump is still alive in 2028. Not with those cankles.

substack.com/@beverly143/...

Beverly (@beverly143)

Brilliant

substack.com

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Aug 5

The art of abundance
#artblog #forage #vancouverartist #fibreartist

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The art of overabundance

Makers gonna make (good trouble)

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 28

US-linked corporate sponsors dropping Vancouver Pride? Whatever shall we do?!
#MakingIsConnecting #pride2025 #makersgonnamake #goodtrouble

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Forecast is for fresh, rambunctious Pride parades

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 26

Nuff said. 🇨🇦

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 24

Assignment: Illustrate the conspiracy-plagued White House culture. Till Lauer (for The New Yorker) nails it.
#politicalart #artmatters

Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 22

Ground murals on Arbutus Greenway: another sign that this city is getting better, not worse (screengrab source: r/vancouver.

#makingisconnecting #vancouverart #summerinthecity
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Mural painters bring summery colour and pattern to the bike and walk Greenway on the Arbutus Corridor

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Carlyn Yandle 🇨🇦 @carlynyandle.bsky.social · Jul 20

Nice, easy Sunday morning start at #VancouverFolkFestival #summerinthecity