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Teacher, progressive, never ever conservative
As Israel continues its campaign to erase Gaza City by systematically bombing residential buildings, schools, homes and tent encampments, we speak with Dr. Mohammed Saqr, the director of nursing at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the south of Gaza.
www.democracynow.org/2025/9/15/mo...
Sick country
11.09.2025 00:39 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0President Donald Trump has repeatedly declared that he has a mandate from the American people to stem immigration, but a new Gallup Poll reveals attitudes have shifted since he took office.
11.07.2025 17:16 — 👍 62 🔁 29 💬 8 📌 1Trump administration will continue a program that allows certain employers to pay workers with disabilities less than minimum wage, effectively ending efforts to bring their wages in line with those of nondisabled workers.
11.07.2025 17:19 — 👍 1584 🔁 542 💬 115 📌 41A 6-year-old with leukemia missed his doctor’s appointment after ICE arrested his mom, sister & him at immigration court. They've now spent nearly a month detained, as his mother watches his health worsen in the Dilley facility, per a lawsuit. Appalling! #MeltICE
11.07.2025 17:20 — 👍 31 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 1Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
07.07.2025 20:17 — 👍 268 🔁 154 💬 26 📌 29Please sign and share widely!
"We call upon the Govt of #Canada to work with international partners, including the UN, to urgently deploy peacekeeping forces to Gaza for the protection of civilians & to support the delivery of humanitarian aid."
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #cdnpoli
Trump and DeSantis donors reportedly helped build out “Alligator Alcatraz,” Florida’s new tent-based detention camp for immigrants in the Everglades.
01.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 312 🔁 158 💬 122 📌 44More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
01.07.2025 19:35 — 👍 521 🔁 208 💬 14 📌 13Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.
28.05.2025 11:16 — 👍 5357 🔁 2138 💬 1829 📌 768Definitely one of the hardest things is to watch the decline a beloved companion and then let them go. Heartfelt condolences on the loss of Bode💔
28.05.2025 14:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Say no to the golden handcuffs.
This is a multibillion scam that will force Canada further into the military "protection" of the authoritarian regime in Washington.
It is about making us a vassal state.
We need to put the protection of our interests as top priority for military investments.
Disgusting
22.05.2025 19:17 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Pierre Poilievre lost his seat and yet he refuses to leave the 19 room mansion that comes with a chef and groundskeepers - all paid for by the taxpayer.
It is for the leader of the opposition "who is in Parliament."
A grifter is going to grift.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZH...
THE piece you need to read on the mega -security risk a Qatar-grifted Air Force One would represent, by @vermontgmg.bsky.social bit.ly/4jSrt3y
12.05.2025 18:11 — 👍 67 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 1Why Buying Canadian Matters In A Tough Economy?
Inflation’s real. Budgets are tight.
But even small Canadian purchases keep jobs alive, help neighbours thrive, and protect our economy from foreign shocks.
Little shifts = long-term resilience. 🇨🇦
#BuyCanadian #MadeInCanada
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
10.05.2025 08:39 — 👍 7986 🔁 2681 💬 320 📌 166ICYMI at @americasvoice.bsky.social: “We are the farmworkers, the construction workers, the custodians, the restaurant workers, & the factory workers … we are the backbone of this country,” said one farmworker. “W/out our work, many industries would be left empty.” #MayDay #InternationalWorkersDay
05.05.2025 14:12 — 👍 366 🔁 114 💬 10 📌 2Fascism is on the move. Trump boasts of "liberation" by trying to destroy the global economy. Today Canada and the Netherlands ponder what true liberation means. We need to remember the huge cost paid to free people from gangster regimes.
Here is my latest:
charlieangus.substack.com/p/a-true-lib...
Do you check the label before buying? Here’s a quick tip:
🇨🇦 “Product of Canada” means 98% of ingredients and production are local.
🇨🇦 “Made in Canada” means at least 51% of the production costs are Canadian.
Choose wisely. Support truly Canadian.
#BuyCanadian #MadeInCanada
If even Switzerland is cracking down on the right to protest… where are we heading? 🙈🇨🇭
➡️ Many governments love to lecture Trump, but behind closed doors, they are shrinking freedoms too. Stay alert — this is an ugly trend! ⚠️⚖️
🔗 www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-po...
🗓️ 28 April 2025
📍The Hague, Netherlands
"Starvation is starvation is starvation." 💔🕊️