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Retired midwife and professor, socialist, feminist, settler trying to live lightly on stolen land. Fighting for reproductive justice. Louise Penny lover. Knitting and gardening. Pissy ol' woman. 🚫 DMs 🚫 porn 🚫 crypto
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🤣🤣🤣 We can wear galoshes!
And that all his care providers are trans women of colour.
The dancing on his grave would cause an earthquake.
Maybe Slug should have consulted them...
On first look I thought you said "verify" and was "wut"? How? But then I put my glasses on and smiled 😃
"The greatest idea ever devised" = exceptionalism -> Amerikkkan fascism. Modesty and humility were never part of the equation.
Mayo. Mayo with fries is da best.
I woulda fuckin punched him.
Watch that past tense, woman. I had a really bad moment there and had to Google that he's still alive and well.
As long as guns are easily available to crazy people, mass killings directed at so-called soft targets will continue. This is a fact. Countries where it's more difficult for crazy people to obtain guns have less shootings. This is also a fact. Do with these facts as you will.
My favourite actors have absolutely no presence on social media. (Nods to Rossif Sutherland and Shaun Evans). Makes people focus on their craft. They'll neither of them be super rich or famous, but they are dedicated to their work. Makes me happy.
This kind of racism may be acceptable in Amerikkka but has no place in Canada or at the Stratford Festival. Please vet your playlists. Thank you. PS Dolly Parton's "Jolene" is vastly superior.
@stratfest.bsky.social I am really disappointed to hear Beyonce's music playing in the Tom Patterson theatre. In her last tour, she promoted a troop of Black soldiers commissioned to commit genocide against America's Indigenous peoples, describing them as the "enemies of peace, order and settlement"
Your Amerikkkan dollars at work.
I would point out that I posted this before today's repetitive and tragic news. It's unfortunately fucking evergreen.
I am really fucking sick of baseball players using the anti sun glare face block as war paint. The goddamned roof is closed, #RoyceLewis, there is no sun. Go fuck yourself with a fork. That goes for the whole Twins org who support this racist crap.
How does Amerikkka think it's going to solve its crime problem without solving its Second Amendment problem?
If one takes out Mar-a-Lago we will need to name it Stormy Daniels.
A nuke is a helluva negotiating tactic.
Well, yeah. That is an accurate summation, I'd say.
You were a teen in the 80s? Oh shit, I really am old.
And the entire world is asking how she knows that...
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
If you didn't, you should have.
@stratfest.bsky.social does the same thing! It's a bit more, $35 now, I think.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Isn't what Dump is doing essentially martial law? Doesn't anyone care?
This made me snort. I do love word humor.
how to say ‘fuck my loyal liberal Apple customers’ without saying it
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Oh bullshit. We have many Muslims in my city, and have had for over 100 years. Oddly enough, nobody has been beheaded. However a whole Muslim family was killed by a fucking fundamentalist Christian incel whack job who them down with his big balls truck (because he had none).
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"I'm glad his dreams came true." SGA grew up practicing across the street from Hamilton Stadium, yesterday he returned home as an NBA Champ & got the key to the city that made him!
I have never liked or used Apple products with the exception of an iPad years ago which I found clumsy, annoying and fairly useless and a Nano which, as per Apple policy, died way too quickly. Now that they are supporting a fascist government, I feel even more justified in hating them. #androidgirl
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u... Excuse me. Isn't this mob style extortion and protection money?
Alas, poor Murica! Where be your checks and balances now?
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It's always booze and fast cars with Ford. We have a stunted teen as premier forever stuck in his version of glory days www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Always fun spending a morning watching the markets in frantic spasm.
My minor media problems complaint today: it is NOT pronounced fentanALL. The last vowel is a "y" and that syllable is pronounced "ill" (and in some places it's spelled that way). Repeat after me: fentanILL, fentanILL. Fentanyl. Also, don't abuse it.
He probably can't even see his manhood.
Yeah, so do I and many are terrified about their futures. Tell me on thing you're best at, other than gun-related deaths. Every other indicator sucks. BTW, physicians and scientists are leaving the US in droves. Have a nice life.
You do realize that the Yankee version of the terrifying "far left" is centre right in other countries. That's your problem, along with exceptionalism. The US isn't broken. It was never okay to begin with.
And then came the Reign of Terror. Bring on the guillotines. I'll take a front row seat and get the knitting needles going.
And absolutely no discussion of the fact that with respect to sexual assault, the system fails abysmally. Which they have no interest in fixing. There will never be justice for women as long as lawyers control the so-called justice system.
Okay, but. What about the legal bright star who fucked the first trial by blabbing in public in front of jurors and triggered a mistrial? What about the legal bright stars who acted unprofessionally towards the second jury and caused the jury to be dropped altogether? The entire thing was a shitshow
How does one crazy racist child fucker get the power to single handedly disrupt the world's economy? Looking for answers.
How did 3M’s “forever chemicals” end up in all of us? Sharon Lerner reports the inside story of the corporate scientists who discovered—then helped to conceal—the dangers of its chemicals.
The NYPD officer killed by the active shooter was an immigrant from Bangladesh. He had 2 kids and a 3rd on the way. The US State Dept travel advisory for Bangladesh is level 3; “Reconsider Travel” for violence, crime and terrorism. He died here, for us, shot with a Colt M4 rifle. Think about that.
Don't forget mental health/addiction services as part of the package. Iceland has a staged approach that includes these, and there are no people on the streets in Reykjavik.
Yesterday CBC published an article quoting Stephen Harper 🤨 A reminder of who they were quoting--- neglected to mention ⚠️ "Harper, Serial Abuser of Power: The Evidence Compiled" A list of 70 Harper government assaults on democracy and the law #ShameOnCBC #Canpoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015...
Question: if his name is spelled incorrectly, does that spoil the ballot?‽‽
'May His Memory Be a Revolution': Palestinian Peace Activist Killed by Israeli Settler After Being Deported by Trump www.commondreams.org/news/hathale...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Some history of anti-fascism from @charlieangus104.bsky.social
The "oh poor me" gaslighting is getting tired. It's not Canada's job to save you. And if you see yourself as victims, that's exactly what you'll be. But the US is threatening us and we are hurting you. Sorry (not sorry)
Fans and a couple of dish pans of cold water to set in front of them
"What was shocking, she said, is the way in which the judge seemed to attack the complainant in the case, a woman known publicly as E.M." This piece of it was beyond upsetting.
It's not a justice system. It's a social management system. I was told by 2 lawyers last year that what happened to me was neither right nor just but I just had to suck it up, essentially. There's a reason there are so many lawyer jokes.
Two kids from my hometown who skated together for 20 years and are still the best ice dancers in the world.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Awesome New Yorker cover.
And the "correct" answer is marginally an actual word.
'The System is Rigged': CEOs Made 285 Times More Than Their Workers in 2024: AFL-CIO Report www.commondreams.org/news/afl-cio...
Quebec man warning Canadian boaters after he was detained by U.S. Coast guard, put in jail cell Cant even fish in our own waters without these U.S. terrorists coming at us dangerously www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.instagram.com/p/DMOk3c8xtU...
There isn't one bit of this that isn't deserved. I am aiming for maximum pain. $90B is not a bad start. www-cnbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.cnbc...
I was a late-night writer. Colbert’s cancellation hurts American comedy – and sanity | Jill Twiss
Stopped watching the asshole since before the pandemic.
Agreed. Who would want to risk being arrested simply for being from another country.
www.cbc.ca/sports/trump... Any more proof that this is a white supremacist fascist? He also wants the Guardians to change their name back.
www.facebook.com/share/165chn... Horrendous.
www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cbx...
They are sublime in Canada's Bloody Caesar. And no, you didn't go overboard.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
When a network lays off one of America’s greatest satirists, it’s not because he failed. It’s because he succeeded too loudly.
www.instagram.com/p/DMQQ4vNMpm...
The moment Stephen Colbert said I don’t give a flying f**€k to Paramount and CBS.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Damn straight she's a traitor and a hater. She needs to be gone.
Fucking gaslighting. Yeah, no.
This was the order of events: 1. Paramount acceded to Trump’s extortion by paying a bribe. 2. Stephen Colbert calls his employer out for doing that. 3. Paramount fires Stephen Colbert for being honest about Trump. 4. Proving Trump’s bribe worked.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b... Well CBS has no fucking balls, that we know. But not surprising -- been waiting for this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u... Jesus Christ on a bicycle. This is what the USA is reducing themselves to. I'd say it is to weep, but this is beyond something that can be changed or fixed by tears.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea...
Because of extractive capitalism. I remember that one reason Bill Clinton refused to get involved in the genocide in Rwanda was that the only thing there was people. And, apparently, human lives weren't worth fighting over.
Wow. What is remarkably missing always is the fact that the land was inhabited by longstanding (probably 30,000 years) Indigenous people. That is not immigration, and calling it that is a way of negating the fact that their nations were colonized and destroyed, and genocide enacted in both 🇺🇸 and🇨🇦.
And that, in a nutshell, is what is fucking wrong with 🇺🇸.
Respect.
apnews.com/article/king... Keir Starmer can go fuck himself - right up there with Neville Chamberlain. I hope that Britons hit the streets and identify Trump as the Nazi he is.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea... It's time for 🇨🇦 to get tough and realize that you cannot negotiate with a sociopathic monster. They don't need what we have? Then why don't we prove that. -- including by shutting off energy wherever we can in 40 degree weather.
Need to Photoshop him into a picture of the flood with the sign "Mission Accomplished" (if you remember Dubya and hurricane Katrina...)
I'm at a 3x3 bball 🏀 tourney that is a fundraiser for sarcoma research for @sickkidsvs.bsky.social. Now about the biggest in 🇨🇦. To learn more about it: youtu.be/Cke-On2EyhI?... This is what community here does. Nobody is bidding on 🇺🇸 auction items, except the Boston Celtics signed basketball.
What I learned at the Meighan Forum @stratfest.bsky.social this morning: Mahatma Ghandi, revered by many, was an anti-Black racist. This is given me something to ponder on.
I'd like to point out that #Canada 🇨🇦 actually *has* a king. And we're certainly better off than the US. Stop with "No Kings" and call it for what it is - "No Dictators".
LHSC alleges $50M fraud scheme involving former executives and contractors share.google/dkRHmRclTPfV... Well, some of us aren't actually surprised. Although, at the same time, holeee shit. Someone got a LOT of 'splainin to do.
open.substack.com/pub/charliea... Be that person. Do something.