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Karen Markle
@skirri.bsky.social
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😷, 💉x7, 🦠x2, 🐕x1, 🐔x25, 🐓x1 Skirri is a blue squirrel in a superhero costume. Currently, he's disguised as Frida Khalo.
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You can now search our database of 3.5 million U.S. political, election, and social issue ads on Facebook and Instagram, dating back to October 10, 2023. Discover who’s running these ads and who they’re targeting. app.polidashboard.org/meta_ads?cou...
@aptnnews.bsky.social is covering the #Alaska typhoon.
One person is dead and two are missing after a typhoon off the western coast of Alaska flooded streets and washed away homes in native villages over the weekend.
One dead, two missing after typhoon floods native villages in Alaska | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News
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We can kiss any vestige of autonomy or local representation goodbye.

#NoPrison #SaveFarmLand #BuildCommunitiesNotCages

@northgrenville @nancypeckford @leedsgrenville.bsky.social @cappkemptville @ontariondp.bsky.social @ontarioliberal.bsky.social
Any Ontario minister in Doug Ford’s government could soon have the power to create law-free zones — and decide what gets built there.

Ontario reporter @fatimabsyed.bsky.social explains:
I suspect it's closer to home than that.
Doug, himself, got dinged and now he has his knickers in a twist.
Exactly this. A national postal service is a matter of sovereignty not a tool of capitalism.
For reference, see the demise of Greyhound/Voyageur. Small & remote communities are stranded.
Without a postal service, they'd be less connected.
Increase & improve services, instead. Internet, banking, etc.
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To get clean air infrastructure everywhere, we need as many governments, states, cities, nonprofits, schools, businesses etc. to sign on as possible. Please read the pledge, share it, and push your local orgs to join!

Link to Global Pledge for Healthy Indoor Air: aas.eventsair.com/healthy-indo...
Pledge
aas.eventsair.com
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Yesterday, history happened at the UN: For the first time hundreds of orgs signed a global pledge declaring that healthy indoor air is a human right.

Healthy indoor air is a key tool for preventing pandemics, building climate resilience, and increasing health equity. We need it everywhere!
This piece is phenomenally well written and horrifying.

"In the case of extreme warming, the niche moves sharply toward Canada, leaving much of the lower half of the U.S. too hot or dry for the type of climate humans historically have lived in."
New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States
According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North America...
projects.propublica.org
In Gr 6 (1973), Mr Hawkins told us about the massive amount of petroleum in the Tar Sands of AB but that it would never be exploited because the cost of removing the bitumen would remain too great.
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Now you understand why TikTok isn’t being shut down. 🫣
NEW: Tonight, this is all that remains of Nepal's seat of government in Kathmandu.

Singha Durbar was the largest palace in Asia; home to the Prime Minister & government offices.

A 48-hour revolution, led by Gen Z protestors, has toppled the government & left large parts of the capital in flames.
Authoritarian regimes always target academics.

Critical thinking is the enemy.
*sigh*

It's not a tax grab unless it applies to everyone.
A speed ticket only affects people who break the law.

Ford is announcing that he's broken the law (surprise, surprise) and has actually had to pay for it.
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After a disappointing first 100 days of Canada’s 45th Parliament, the federal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney must change course and reverse the declining state of human rights protection in Canada.

amnesty.ca/human-rights...
Thanks, Dale.
I learned a lot.
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The City of Atlanta is opening its first municipal grocery store today.

The city is spending $3.5 million in partnership with a neighborhood grocery chain in an effort to eliminate a downtown food desert.

www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
City of Atlanta opening grocery store to clear up downtown food desert
The Azalea Fresh Market opens on Friday.
www.wsbtv.com
Ew.

(But that's where my brain went, too.)
He'd have to get past the US gate to get to the Canadian gate.

But I hope CBSA is preparing for hoards of refugees. We CANNOT go into another winter like when Haitians walked here and lost limbs to frostbite. Some died.