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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 17h

Cool, now you can be as shitty and ridiculous as we are in Alberta

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Mike Luckovich @mluckovich.bsky.social · 21h

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freedomseeder25.bsky.social @freedomseeder25.bsky.social · 21h

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Slim @retireolddemocrats.bsky.social · 21h

Kidnapping agents selecting/choosing women should be shot on site.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 21h

⚠️ Warning: these back-to-back scenes are hard to watch unless you’ve got a depraved heart.

These are thugs, not officers with any real training. We keep seeing it again and again, and at this point, it’s clearly the op.

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Steve Hofstetter @stevehofstetter.bsky.social · 18h

A leaked Young Republican group chat from included horrific violence, racism, sexism, antisemitism, and homophobia.

The thing about it that really surprises me is that anyone else was surprised.

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 19h

I love that they've captured her emerging turkey neck.

Even Russian hookers get old like the rest of us.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 19h

Many countries use money similar to Canada's. Most gov't's have realized it's better for a host of reasons.

Like SO many things, from health care to gun laws to the metric system to money, "normal" is not American.

Backwards, archaic, fucked up, and frankly, kind of stupid is American.

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 19h

With the untrained and violent escalation of some of these pigs, I'd say that's a good idea.

They should absolutely be tried. If any other members of law enforcement acted this way, we'd see them on trial, too. As well we should

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 21h

If you are looking for a way to support Alberta teachers, or donate your $30, here's the link to the donation page.

It's verified, more info is on the local 38 teachers page here: local38.teachers.ab.ca/Pages/index....

The donation page is here: local38.teachers.ab.ca/About%20the%...

Local 38 - Calgary Public Teachers

local38.teachers.ab.ca

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · 3d

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Froggles 🇨🇦 @froggles42.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah. I'm thankful there aren't hate fueled masked goons arriving in helicopters in the night to tear frightened little kids from their beds and ziptie them, and we still have our healthcare & our sovereignty.

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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 3d

Explaining Canadian Thanksgiving to Americans

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

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Ty Young @tyyoung617.bsky.social · 2d

"Can someone explain?"

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

I hear this all the time in conservative Alberta.

"University is a waste of money."

Because keeping us uneducated and working up north on their oil rigs is all they want us to do.

Stay untrained, uneducated and unable to find other work.

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

This. It's the same in Canada with conservatives.

I hear it over and over.

Wild.

Ty Young @tyyoung617.bsky.social · 2d

"Can someone explain?"

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

The problem with America (ha ha ha. *The. ha ha ha!) is that they SO easily believe, over and over again - despite the warnings of hundreds of years of fables and stories and parables and illustrations - that the rich give a fuck about them.

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 2d

no quarter given lmao

Matt Stoller & @matthewstoller • 2h
UPS had seven months of warning about the de minimis change, but is still taking packages w/o getting required customs info & is making tariff charge errors.
Nice use of passive voice though!

derek guy
@dieworkwear • 2h
i apologize using a passive voice. i was not born in london to a wealthy bank executive, sent to an exclusive private prep school in new hampshire, and then studied at harvard before larping as a champion of the people. you have to work with my low upbringing.

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

America.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

Was Roseanne busy? Why isn't she opening with the US anthem thing-y? 🤣

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 2d

Ha ha ha. Get fucked, losers.

You put the lipstick on the pig, you take it to the dance.

Anonymous Canadian 🇨🇦 @aarwalk.bsky.social · 2d

Fuck you, that’s why. trump is doing this to you, not us. Shame on #CNN.

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

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🇨🇦🇨🇦 Proud Canadian 🇨🇦🇨🇦 @beppil007.bsky.social · 3d

These are so good.
Becky Barnicoat, British Cartoonist.
Series of 5 1/ #TrumpIsUnfit

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🍁Seff P. 🇨🇦 @sherryeff.bsky.social · 3d

Those soft bellies, spilling out over the pants and under the vests? Took years of training on American cheeseburgers and pizzas.

You think people just look like that without good ol' American know-how?

No other country has so many men who look so like... um... that 😬

Chico Escuela @blaqdocdown.bsky.social · 3d

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