jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s about time!!!
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s about time!!!
Reuters (@reuters.com) reposted
Africa is about three times larger than Canada and more than one and a half the size of Russia, yet the Mercator projection has long made students think those countries are comparable in size — or even larger — than Africa reut.rs/4nx5ocj
God (@thegodpodcast.com) reposted
“I refuse to accept this is normal.” - JB Pritzker. Amen, governor. Amen.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Correct. Fascists don’t follow the rules.
Dave Levitan (@davelevitan.bsky.social) reposted
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
kawarthaNOW (@kawarthanow.bsky.social) reposted
Two men charged for fishing in the fish sanctuary on the Ganaraska River in #PortHope. Fishing is prohibited at all times in the sanctuary, which includes the fish ladder at Corbett's Dam. kawarthanow.com/2025/09/02/t...
Andy Craig (@andycraig.bsky.social) reposted
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, I am guessing you are right.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
They sure can be. But those stories had heroes, too. Don’t grow discouraged-the bad guys will, in the end, lose big time.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Ah, poor little Danielle! It must hurt her little feelings when people yell at her and say mean things. Boo hoo boo hoo. You don’t deserve to be the Premier of a province in this beautiful country. And keep your laws off books and libraries. Oh, and maybe read these ‘awful’ books already.
Author Stuart Miller (Indie) 📖✍️🤓 (@authorsmiller.bsky.social) reposted
Video credit: itsjuliencohen Description: "11 and 8-year-old prodigy sisters played Vivaldi Winter with me" This is serious musical talent 🎻🎻🎹🎶🎵 #VivaldiWinter #Song #music #Piano #Violin #Instruments #Instrumental
LisaZed 👩🏻🎨 🌏 🐨🌳 (@lisazed.bsky.social) reposted
#Seaweed farms are a dual solution for climate change & sustainable energy. - don't require freshwater, fertilizer, or arable land to grow, making it one of the most eco-friendly resources - naturally absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through photosynthesis helping 1/...
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes! Well said. Listen to him. He does have something to say.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yep! Get that dumpster ready!!!
Theo Moudakis (@theomoudakis.bsky.social) reposted
Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Well done!!!😫😬😵💫
jorah s 🇲🇽 (@jorahs.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Orange Skull (@hailorangeskull.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Happy Labor Day! Reminder for those who forgot, or never learned, this is how Democrats USED to speak: "My father always told me that ALL businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed it until now". - John F. Kennedy, commenting on US Steel's double-cross of steelworkers, April 10, 1962
Kat Abughazaleh (@katmabu.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
History often rhymes, but sometimes it just repeats. Watch the full video — and see how we can use the Haymarket Massacre and the Pullman Strike as a compass for us today — here: youtu.be/9EYC75wtwCM
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Kat’s video is right on! Well done and full of information about labour history in America. Watch this and learn. Share this video widely. ❤️
Lisa E 🇨🇦 (@lisa1111can.bsky.social) reposted
#WhatIsPoilievreHiding
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Read every banned book you can get your hands on. Give them as gifts. Quote from them every day.
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
“Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Thank-you Big Bird!! Everyone should learn about this.
Aelith Loves Art 𖣂 (@aelith4ever.bsky.social) reposted
“The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children; sacrifice for it brings the deepest peace.” — Gandhi🌹
kawarthaNOW (@kawarthanow.bsky.social) reposted
September 4 marks the 140th anniversary of the #Douro dynamite explosion in #Ptbo County. In 1885, two men were transporting a wagon loaded with dynamite to #BurleighFalls when it exploded. kawarthanow.com/2025/09/01/s...
Dr. Merri (@merri24.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
As a lifelong union, supporter, and frequent member, I’m wondering why the unions are so hesitant to call for a National strike at least in the “occupied“ cities? The only thing these fascist understand is their pocketbook. And it’s the nonviolent way we can fight back.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Apparently, yes they are. 😵💫😵💫😵💫
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
And the stupidest, the most gullible and the most loyal.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
That is many in the party.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I agree. But in the meantime we’ll become very food insecure and poorer and poorer. This doesn’t make good economic sense. Once everyone is sick and demoralized our greatest enemies will invade and we will enter the time of war, famine and disease which will kill millions more.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I said, ‘They want us dead.’
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
And experience, too.
jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) reposted
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
This is, indeed, a HUGE problem. Food insecurity will affect everyone. It is not a pretend problem. It is a major crisis that will touch the lives of all of us. Don-boy does NOT care about you or whether you eat or not.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Shut up Screamin’ Stephen Miller. Your BS is seen for what it is: propaganda. RFK Jr. is a fraud. People will die. Without question.
Dr. Jack Brown (@drjackbrown.bsky.social) reposted
Sure, maybe ten years ago it was, for some, a considerable accusation to make – but not any more. Not for a long while. You'd have to be willfully ignoring so damn many things not to see it now. It sure AF looks like we have a pedofile sexual predator for a president. Release the Epstein files.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
🤣😵💫🤣😵💫🤣Right on!!!
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Fabulous cartoon.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
That’s a great sculpture.
kawarthaNOW (@kawarthanow.bsky.social) reposted
What's open and closed on Labour Day. Holiday hours for 299 selected businesses, organizations, and services in #Ptbo, #Lindsay, #Cobourg, #PortHope, and across the greater Kawarthas region. kawarthanow.com/2025/08/30/w...
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
What are the laws that already pertain to this issue?
Save the CBC 🇨🇦✌️ (@savethecbc.bsky.social) reposted
Alberta’s book ban is cultural vandalism. The Handmaid’s Tale, The Color Purple, 1984 — gone. This is the MAGA playbook in Canada: censor, control, erase. CBC exposed it. Without them, we’d be in the dark. 📖 Defend the right to read. 📺 Defend CBC. 🔗 r.pebmac.ca/https://www....
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Hey, that’s a great idea. Let’s get EVERYONE reading and let’s make the society much more learned.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
So, Robert, what to do? Especially when the whole system of governance is corrupted.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
For what? Another cult. Worshipping a rich dude. Hoping some of ‘that’ will rub off onto you.
CKNXNewsToday (@cknxnewstoday.bsky.social) reposted
This year's campaign theme is "one big family, driven by hope."
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😵💫😵💫😵💫
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, the work on the farm never stops. Fencing is a big deal and a lot of work. 🙃
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Gorgeous!
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
See, now this is what a good and honourable man does. Bless him for taking a stand. ❤️
Lisa E 🇨🇦 (@lisa1111can.bsky.social) reposted
@cbc.bsky.social
M. Kabir (@mkabir.bsky.social) reposted
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
But isn’t cruelty the point??
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) reposted
Conservation advocates said that there is no national security justification for building a wall through the national wildlife refuge. They warn that the wall will threaten wildlife and cut off communities from the Rio Grande.
George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) reposted
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
DaOldGuy🇨🇦🖇️🍁- part owner of Canada (@daoldguy.bsky.social) reposted
1/2 Five today including @katfromthehat.bsky.social at the Justin Wright venue for the #ForeverCanadian petition gathering. Two at the table and the rest of us waving flags and showing signs to bring people in. Close to seventy five signatures in two and a half hours. #AwareMHAB #ABresistance
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
And willing.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I like it. Colours are strong but I think it’s effective.
penboyasgod.bsky.social (@penboyasgod.bsky.social) reposted
At least SOME countries recognize the value of NATURE and all its offerings.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Can’t wait, can you, JD? Shameful human being.
Andrea Love, PhD | Biomedical Scientist (@drandrealove.bsky.social) reposted
Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.
Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) reposted
A couple of months ago, the Navy dishonored civil rights hero Harvey Milk by removing his name from a ship. Now, the Air Force is dishonoring itself by celebrating a domestic terrorist called Ashli Babbitt.
CKNXNewsToday (@cknxnewstoday.bsky.social) reposted
Nearly $800 was raised for Special Olympics athletes through the annual Law Enforcement Torch Run in Perth County. cknxnewstoday.ca/midwestern/n...
CKNXNewsToday (@cknxnewstoday.bsky.social) reposted
Lana Payne has been reelected Unifor National President. cknxnewstoday.ca/midwestern/n...
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Perfect! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) reposted
Watch. If you claim one of these to get a vaccine, they’ll use it later as a preexisting condition to crank up your health premium or kick you off your plan.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Physical inactivity???!!! 🤯🤯🤯
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
God is not a prop to be pulled out for the sake of an argument. God is about relationships. God is above love. God is quite likely sorely disappointed in his creation. We can do better. We must do better especially for the children in the world. Must do better.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
100% As far as they’re concerned, we should all be dead already. This is neither an exaggeration nor a joke.
The Assisi Project (@assisiproject.com) reposted
"Don't tell me that guns aren't the problem, people are. I'm sick of hearing it...We sacralize death's instruments and then are surprised that death uses them." #BishopFlores #PrayForAmerica www.ncronline.org/opinion/edit...
Krassensteins (@krassenstein.bsky.social) reposted
BREAKING: Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey JUST CALLED FOR a statewide and federal ban on assault weapons. Who’s with him?
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Gorgeous!
Jeremy Faust, MD (@jeremyfaust.bsky.social) reposted
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) reposted
CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
What an incredibly stupid waste of resources.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
🤮😫🤮😫🤮😫
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Amen for JB!❤️
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
😵💫😂😵💫😂😵💫😂
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Very sweet.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
When and how and by whom?
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Decided in advance that he wasn’t going to like someone or something.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Take out your earplugs, Susan. These are the people you should be listening to.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
I could say, ‘Get over yourself!’ Or, ‘You’re not that special.’ Or, ‘No one really cares about your personal likes or dislikes.’ Or, ‘The state only sees you as a statistic.’ If you’re not working together to create the country you’d like to have, then what are you doing? Following Jeff Bezos??
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes, 100%. We seem to have lost our empathy. The ‘ME’ generation, in the end, had it all wrong. We don’t succeed in any thing or in any way by NOT thinking of others and regarding their needs, wants and dreams.
Mia Farrow (@miafarrow.bsky.social) reposted
The “national emergency” is that the president is deranged, not rational, incapable of running our country. He has surrounded himself with power hungry sycophants and utterly inept idiots
CHOPPER - Woke Boomer (@unclechopperrip.bsky.social) reposted
SORRY (from Australia) The USA should not be allowed to host the world cup next year 🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️🖐️
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Gross 🤮
Lisa E 🇨🇦 (@lisa1111can.bsky.social) reposted
NOT OK. #DanielleSmithIsGarbage ABResistance.ca
Christopher Webb (@cwebbonline.com) reposted
This hits right on time… My wife and I had the great privilege of visiting the African-American Museum in DC, and let me just tell you if you have not been…It is a masterpiece—go.
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Duh, Mike. 🙄🙄🙄
jratrodgerville.bsky.social (@jratrodgerville.bsky.social) reply parent
Love that!!!❤️❤️❤️
Barbara Neuhoff (@barbaraneuhoff.bsky.social) reposted
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"