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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈

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Living on the unceded territory of the Okanagan/Sylix people. Wife, mother x 2 Political activist, Retired RN, forest grower, guerilla tree planter, unpublished author. Anti MMP. Reformed "Red" Tory with leftist bent since the election of Harper.

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · May 1

Here we go, my followers.

Now that the election is over and people are once again talking about electoral reform, I'm going to start promoting my preference.

This lovely Aussie explains this system beautifully.

It still produces majority governments and also blocks the fringes.

Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · Apr 30

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Hey Canadian 🇨🇦 friends
This is how our voting system works
Compulsory and on a Saturday to maximise voting and preferential, not first past the post

Voting 101: What is Australia’s preferential voting system and how does it work?

YouTube video by Guardian Australia

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 2h

So very funny!! 🤣🤣

Knights of Ni @dinozo69.bsky.social · 1d

I knew it!

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 17h

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 2h

Same here! I can’t believe Reynolds chose to post it there instead of Crave, which is also Canadian.

There’s no way we are going back to Bezos for shipping or video streaming.

So until it gets posted elsewhere, we won’t see it.

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 2h

What the ever loving fuck are things coming to with this orange turd at the helm?

What’s next? A national law lowering the age of consent in every state to 10…….?

I sincerely hope things turn around soon.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 6h

I sense a pardon on its way.

A tweet by Jacob Shamsian reads: “The Wall Street Journal reports that Ghislaine Maxwell had a meeting with an unknown person in her new prison camp, during which the entire prison was on lockdown. Inmates say she’s getting unusually favorable treatment by the prison.”

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 3h

Tuesday, October 14 designated George Floyd Day in Pittsburgh

Tuesday designated George Floyd Day in Pittsburgh

Several advocacy groups came together to honor George Floyd. Oct. 14 would have been Floyd's birthday.

www.wtae.com

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 8h

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

We live in fucked up times!

Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 4h

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

How scary does it have to get?

What is the boiling point here?

JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 7h

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

Man Trump must lose his shit when Newsom posts. This is a Killer slam! 🤣🤣

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 6h

Holy Crap!. This is amazing! Newsom certainly has a great social media game.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 6h

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 8h

This idiot keeps bragging about the 20 hostages being released in another country while he's kidnapping thousands of people a day here in America.

Fuck him and the fascism he rode in on.

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Joe Public 🇨🇦 @joepublic.bsky.social · 3h

BC Premier David Eby :: 'This additional tariff means that Canadian softwood has a higher tariff rate going to the US than Russia does. I want to let that sink in.'

#uspoli #importtaxes #tariffs #trade #canadastrong

globalnews.ca/news/1147787...

B.C.’s softwood lumber U.S. tariffs now higher than Russia’s: ‘Let that sink in’ | Globalnews.ca

'This additional tariff means that Canadian wood has a higher tariff rate going to the United States than Russia does. I want to let that sink in,' Premier David Eby says.

globalnews.ca

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

Boy that ear of his sure looks great.

Kinda makes you wonder! 😉

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

Please take care of him first. We can’t keep up this level of anticipation forever!!

I just hope it’s before some widespread extremely bad stuff happens.

Just in case you’re taking requests😉

Oh, and please take the whole gaggle of them so their shit can’t persist past his death!

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you for sharing this with me! I have been very concerned about loss of pollinators for a few years now.

I tried getting my city council to ban leaf blowers, but they declined to agree and proceed.

I wish someone near me was doing similar studies.

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 5h

I just can’t believe there are this many people in the country who want to abuse little kids. There’s something rotten with a population that does this.

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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly 40% of young men don't see sexual assault as domestic violence. This shocking statistic from a national survey highlights a dangerous gap in understanding abuse.

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 8h

And another. Thankfully there’s a list, so i don’t have to track all 1472 of them!

No wonder i keep saying that finding them is like shooting fish in a barrel!!

Professor Darkness @professordarkness.bsky.social · 12h

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 8h

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Morten 🇩🇰 @mortenc.bsky.social · 18h

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Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 8h

So very good, you just have to watch!
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 9h

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 8h

Including the Marijuana party back in the day when activists like me were trying to get it legalized.

This Saturday on No Kings/Dictators Day, it will be 8 years since it has been legal country wide!

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 8h

Somewhat, yes.

TBH, the whole concept of having to register your leanings is just insane to us.

Most of us change our leanings as we go through life.

I’ve voted for all varieties of political party up here, other than extreme right wing.

I’ve been moving left as i age.

Reformed Reformer and Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇵🇦🏳️‍🌈 @reformedreformer.bsky.social · 8h

Well folks, here’s a running list of Republican Pedophiles.

I started scrolling the list thinking there must be a few hundred, when the list just kept going and going and going.

At current count, there are 1472 confirmed Republican pedo’s listed.

1472.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES UNREDACTED!!!!

Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 8h

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