claylorraine.bsky.social
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Higher education: in shambles and mortally wounded
Culture and heritage: defunded out of existence
Health care: being dismantled
Social safety net: effectively dismantled
Innovation: outsourced to feckless billionaires
Climate Change Mitigation: every effective policy abandoned

Elbows up tho!
September 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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"First they came for immigrants, trans people, minorities, the disabled, the unhoused, women's rights, vaccines, science, universities, global public health, free speech, the rule of law, and our international allies, and I did nothing because..."
August 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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August 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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This past semester was the most stressful of my academic career. I had 180 students and about half cheated at some point in the semester

They submit weekly reflections where the questions are opinion-based, graded only on effort, don't care about grammar

SO MANY students submitted ChatGPT essays
June 2, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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Trump: “Immigrants come to America, do drugs, take your jobs, and then start having a lot of kids who will vote Democrat”

Elon Musk: **an immigrant with a raging ketamine addiction who fired 100,000s of US citizens and has 14 children gets gold key to White House from Trump**
Trump: Gives Elon a big fake gold key to the White House

Elon Musk: This is not the end of DOGE but the beginning.

Isn't this incredible, it's stunning, the way Trump has redone the Oval Office, I love the gold on the ceiling

Trump: Thank you Ian
May 31, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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The NDP, in both its federal and provincial iterations, has struggled in no small part because of a misguided notion that it should move to the centre to improve its electoral prospects. This has so far proven disastrous for the party.
The NDP is a spent force in Canadian politics
The New Democratic Party, in both its federal and provincial iterations, has struggled in no small part because of a misguided notion that it should move to the centre to improve its electoral prospec...
canadiandimension.com
April 29, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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Btw folks, what happened is that Québec saved us all from Poilievre. Bloc voters went Liberal this time to keep him out.

Ontario, not so much. Big gains for the Cons.

BC was where the NDP did best last election, and this time it went Lib and Con.
April 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference
April 29, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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The only reason the youth lean towards Pierre is they are to young to remember how fucking horrible Harper and the Conservatives were to Canada.
April 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I don’t always avoid the media, but when I do, it’s because I know my platform and I lack any real substance.
April 27, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Like Trump, Poilievre intends to crack down on govt employees and universities who do not follow his RW ideology. "put an end to the imposition of woke ideology in the federal civil service and in the allocation of federal funds for university research." #ElbowsUp #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Conservatives update platform to include omitted 'anti-woke' promise | CBC News
The Conservative Party has republished the English-language version of its platform after what it says was a "publishing oversight" resulted in the omission of a previous commitment to crack down on "...
www.cbc.ca
April 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Calls political opponents juvenile names
Brags about crowd sizes
Marginalizes unsupportive media
No real success in the private sector
Sells merch to supporters
Wants to cancel public broadcasting
Exaggerates accomplishments
Supports people who occupy nation's capital
Detests social safety nets
April 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Be incredibly pissed off that the conservatives want to interfere with the work of scientists and researchers!

But we've been here before. So, let's use what we know works at stopping their nonsense.
There were scientists literally going into the garbage bins recovering decades of work to keep it. I worked in the area at the time. There were managers that finally LOCKED the bins to prevent it. thetyee.ca/News/2013/12...
Dismantling of Fishery Library 'Like a Book Burning,' Say Scientists | The Tyee
Harper government shuts down 'world class' collection on freshwater science and protection.
thetyee.ca
April 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Glad to see people pissed but let's not be historical revisionists!

In the Harper years, I went to protests in Ottawa with scientists who were fighting against the muzzling of their research and loss of funding due to his policies.

The real difference now is broader societal conservatism.
“I think this is the first time a Cdn poli has crossed that line to officially say they want to interfere to control research topics. It could be a very terrible time for us.” Sound familiar?
In Cdn election, Poilievre vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding www.science.org/content/arti...
In Canadian election, top Conservative candidate vows to end ’woke ideology’ in science funding
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservative Party is trying to topple Liberal government in 28 April election
www.science.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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If I am informed about things then I will not be able to speak about those things in an uninformed manner so I must continue to be uninformed in order to keep Canadians informed about the things no one is telling me. This is just Conservative common sense.
March 25, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Just so we're clear, this will lead to deaths in the US.

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Not to be all, "Harper did it first in Canada" because Trump is in fact more unhinged than our former Prime Minister BUT. Harper did threaten to strip charitable status from groups who engaged in "political activity. "
The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.

FBI ordered Citibank to freeze the group bank's accounts.

newrepublic.com/post/192660/...
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Let’s look back at some accomplishments of Justin Trudeau while he was Prime Minister ❤️🇨🇦

🍁 National Childcare Program

🍁 Covid 19 Response

🍁 Assault Weapons Ban

🍁 Expansion of the Social Satefy Net through Canada Tax Benefit, Dental Care & more

Thank You Justin. You will be missed ❤️🇨🇦❤️
March 10, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Yes, Trudeau has been trying to kill the oil and gas sector so hard that he built them a fucking pipeline, and production is at record levels.
I know that conservatives are addicted to grievance politics, but come the fuck on already.
March 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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RT if you think people should follow me on here for #NHLJets and NHL content.

I'd love to build more engagement over here.
February 23, 2025 at 9:29 PM
movies you’ve watched more than 6 times, using GIFs only
February 21, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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An actual king…
February 20, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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The best way to fight for our country against MAGA threats is to not vote for Canadian MAGA supporters.
February 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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It sure feels like the world’s richest man becoming the world’s foremost vector of far right misinformation should be a bigger story bad-faith-times.ghost.io/elon-musk-ca...
Elon Musk Can't Be Allowed To Shape Our Reality
The American left must remove itself from Musk’s propaganda machine and create a new reality for pro-democracy people and organizations
bad-faith-times.ghost.io
January 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM