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Kerry Jaggers 🇦🇺 @kerryjaggers.bsky.social · 10h

Yet we live as though there's a backup planet!

"Scientists are worried that the natural land and ocean 'sinks' that remove CO2 from the air are weakening as a result of global heating, which could form a vicious circle and drive temperatures up even faster."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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SpryOldLorax @spryoldlorax.bsky.social · 2h

Putting global temperatures in context... a visual aid:

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 5h

Not going. I can spend my money here.
#never51
#elbowsUp

Maggie Priceless @maggiepriceless.bsky.social · 5h

Every time I see an ad begging tourists to come back to the US, I think of this shit and think fuck you guys, I'm staying home.

Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 10h

Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”.

Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 6h

There is an especially smarmy man flooding FBs reels with alt right bs. I now recognize him on site and smash the hide reel option. But I wonder how many his hate baiting snares and how many realize how toxic he is. But I will continue to remove his content to my feed.
#never51
#elbowsUp

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 11h

I’m so done with whyte guys making excuses for why students talk shit about other people and thinking that it’s ok to keep doing that. No wonder we are where we are. They don’t know how to be functioning adults.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 15h

On Oct. 15, 1872, 19 people from the USS Polaris became stranded on an ice floe near Greenland. They drifted on the ice for six months and 2,900 km before they were rescued near Newfoundland.
Their survival was thanks to Ipirvik and Taqulittuq.
This is the story.

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The image shows two black-and-white photographs side by side. The left photo depicts a person wearing a fur-lined hood and garment, suggesting traditional cold-weather attire. The right photo shows a person dressed in a plaid dress with a white collar and a decorative brooch, featuring a more formal and structured style.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 14h

Well, he’s consistent. 🤯🤬

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 19h

Poilievre tied directly to Enbridge, Pathways Alliance, Koch Industries & the Cdn Gas Association.
It’s not surprising for a career politician who has voted against the environment 400 times in 20 years Poilievre has capitulated to every one of Big Oil’s demands
cultmtl.com/2025/04/pier... #cdnpoli

Pierre Poilievre is Big Oil’s useful idiot

With an inner circle stacked with fossil fuel lobbyists, it’s no wonder that Pierre Poilievre voted against the environment 400 times.

cultmtl.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 15h

No. I vote no to having a plagiarism machine polluting our ground water.

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16h

#AI is just one of various potential boom industries vying for a piece of B.C.’s limited electricity supply. #bcpoli

How Will BC Power the AI ‘Revolution’? | The Tyee

As the province prepares to capitalize on artificial intelligence, plans to account for its electricity use remain hazy.

thetyee.ca

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 15h

Will they guarantee to allow safe passage across the border? No ICE at the venue? The route back TO the border? No? Then, no.

#never51
#elbowsUp

The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16h

As Canadians continue to stay away from Trump’s domain, desperate U.S. destinations are making pitches to Canadian travellers.

There may be no better pitch than the one coming from the mound in Seattle this week, advises @steveburgess53.bsky.social. 🐦🇨🇦 #uspoli #canpoli

Please Advise! Can I Cheer for the Blue Jays in Seattle? | The Tyee

Boycott the US or back Canada’s team? Dr. Steve is torn.

thetyee.ca

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 16h

The mismatch between wages and rental costs means many health-care workers commute long distances, live in inadequate housing or avoid remote locations where housing is limited, write experts. #canlab

Want More Health-Care Workers? Help Them with Housing | The Tyee

Employers and governments need to work together on solutions that would address shortages.

thetyee.ca

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 16h

I would say this is my shocked face but…duh.

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 22h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17h

F is for fascism. We need to start talking about the disintegration of the rule of law south of the border as the imposition of a modern gangster style fascism.

charlieangus.substack.com/p/f-is-for-f...

F Is for Fascism

CBC called the other day for an interview about the apparent rise in swearing in politics.

charlieangus.substack.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Time to deal with climate change?

Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 1d

Dawson Creek, B.C. has declared a state of local emergency as ongoing drought drops water supply to its last 150 days www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Dawson Creek, B.C., declares state of local emergency amid record drought | CBC News

The small northeastern B.C. city of Dawson Creek has declared a state of local emergency as unprecedented drought continues to drain its only supply of drinking water.

www.cbc.ca

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Oh gag. 🤯🤬

john60612.bsky.social @john60612.bsky.social · 2d

Once again, Jim Jordan proves that he is an idiot.

GOP Rep Claims ICE Agents Are ‘Doing The Lord’s Work’

The GOP rep called the “pushback” ICE has been getting “interesting.”

www.huffpost.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

Finally. Some truth.

🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 1d

Quiet part out loud...

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

They never went for the worst first. They just chase the easy capture. They gotta fill those quotas!

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1d

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids 

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

‘Those Rules Are Gone’: How ICE Is Rethinking its Raids

ICE used to arrest the “worst first.” Under the new Trump administration, the agency is following a different playbook, says a former ICE chief.

www.politico.com

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

What happened to Team Canada? 🇨🇦 because PP is not a team player. 😒

#never51
#elbowsUp

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Laura Fry 🇨🇦 @weaverlaura.bsky.social · 1d

ICE should not exist. Period. Not in a Christian nation. Not in a secular nation. I’m waiting for the day they turn their view ‘north’ and start bombing vehicles flying the maple 🍁

#never51
#elbowsUp

Cen Galdre @cengaldre.com · 1d

"ICE shouldn't use full body restraints"
"ICE shouldn't use teargas"
"ICE shouldn't break into homes without warrants"

ICE shouldn't exist. We don't have to split hairs, energy, and resources. Its a private military that circumvents limitations on deploying military force on citizens.