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Lauren Carter

@lcarterwrites.bsky.social

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Writer. Knitter. Founder of Wild Ground Writing Retreats (https://wildgroundwriting.com). Latest books: The Longest Night (Fall 2025); Places Like These; This Has Nothing To Do With You.

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DHS and ICE are going to dig up everything they can on Johnny Noviello to absolve themselves of any responsibility for his death. Don't fall for it. A Canadian is dead because of the inhumane conditions that ICE detainees are subjected to.

Mark Carney needs to raise hell over this. We all should.

26.06.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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26.06.2025 22:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cartoon by Pierre Ballouhey, France πŸ‡«πŸ‡· PoliticalCartoons.com

26.06.2025 04:21 β€” πŸ‘ 30    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He just dropped $280,000,000 worth of artillery in a war that’s not ours, but our grandparents have to live on Ramen noodles because America can’t afford Meals on Wheels anymore.

Make it make sense.

22.06.2025 20:27 β€” πŸ‘ 50502    πŸ” 14709    πŸ’¬ 1122    πŸ“Œ 481
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Take note.

22.06.2025 10:47 β€” πŸ‘ 40420    πŸ” 13306    πŸ’¬ 887    πŸ“Œ 519

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:

1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money
3) We won’t need a lot of troops
4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) We’ll find WMDs
6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It won’t take long

All lies.

22.06.2025 02:47 β€” πŸ‘ 66642    πŸ” 20575    πŸ’¬ 1607    πŸ“Œ 1037

I was briefed on the intelligence last week.

Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

22.06.2025 04:58 β€” πŸ‘ 14091    πŸ” 4306    πŸ’¬ 463    πŸ“Œ 199

May Mark Carney display the same courage displayed by PM Jean ChrΓ©tien when he refused to declare war on Iraq. The Intel did not support what Bush and Blair were saying.

22.06.2025 02:23 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

22.06.2025 01:44 β€” πŸ‘ 36912    πŸ” 7820    πŸ’¬ 398    πŸ“Œ 309
Elon Musk @ X @elonm... 

We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors.
Then retrain on that.

Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

Elon Musk @ X @elonm... We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.

It’s time for a major shift toward thinking about preserving knowledge in hard copy for the Canticle For Leibowitz -scale long term, before this guy turns all our accounts digital information into self-reinforcing White Genocide propaganda.

Buy books, is what I’m saying.

21.06.2025 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 1023    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 43    πŸ“Œ 64
Cat with face squished against catio screen and arms extended

Cat with face squished against catio screen and arms extended

Cat yawning on the other side of catio screen

Cat yawning on the other side of catio screen

Cat on other side of catio screen

Cat on other side of catio screen

Lots going on, I know. But here’s the cat, loving the catio. Oh, such a pleasant life….

20.06.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A Tennessee woman is studying to be a nurse and works nights cleaning buildings. ICE recently deported her husband, leaving her alone with three kids and another child on the way. She's about to lose her car and home. Would you consider donating to help?

www.gofundme.com/f/urgent-hel...

15.06.2025 04:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2310    πŸ” 1077    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 12
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DOGE Is on a Recruiting Spree While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their break-up, DOGE shows no signs of slowing downβ€”and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

While Elon Musk and Donald Trump post through their breakup, DOGE shows no signs of slowing downβ€”and potential recruits are being told they can make up to $195,000 a year.

06.06.2025 16:20 β€” πŸ‘ 391    πŸ” 182    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 15

Hey, if the media is interested in a cover-up of a senile president who's not really in control of his White House, there's one going on right now?

22.05.2025 00:10 β€” πŸ‘ 9520    πŸ” 2461    πŸ’¬ 157    πŸ“Œ 53
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Canada has raised concerns over the genocide in Palestine. The Israeli army responded by firing on our diplomatic team. Israel is a terror regime.
Canada needs to bring in full sanctions, suspend all trade and ensure investigations into any Canadian who serves in the IDF.

21.05.2025 21:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1011    πŸ” 336    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 21
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This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a β€˜summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

20.05.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 13004    πŸ” 3839    πŸ’¬ 775    πŸ“Œ 1888

πŸ˜‚

16.05.2025 12:43 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i hope the orcas learn to fly the f-18s

07.05.2025 23:38 β€” πŸ‘ 980    πŸ” 155    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 11

I will never understand how we are collectively allowing this catastrophe, which somehow gets worse and worse, to happen. This is the editorial board of the Financial Times.

07.05.2025 14:17 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump says Trudeau 'wrongly' pushed Russia out of G8 β€” when Harper was in power | CBC News U.S. President Donald Trump said former prime minister Justin Trudeau led the effort to have Russia removed from the G8, even though the decision took place more than a year before Trudeau came to pow...

Trump says Trudeau 'wrongly' pushed Russia out of G8 β€” when Harper was in power www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

07.05.2025 17:06 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 5
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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter.

They graded it.

Bwahahaha.

07.05.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 45426    πŸ” 13037    πŸ’¬ 2217    πŸ“Œ 1924

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07.05.2025 16:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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And then they come for the artists 😭😑

07.05.2025 14:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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UPDATE: Earlier reports that Jeff Bezos and Amazon were acting on principle were incorrect.

29.04.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1827    πŸ” 404    πŸ’¬ 126    πŸ“Œ 36

I've never seen so many Americans follow a Canadian election.

We feel seen.

29.04.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6754    πŸ” 515    πŸ’¬ 415    πŸ“Œ 40

Same πŸ‘ŠπŸΌ

29.04.2025 01:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I guess PP’s wife wasn’t allowed to cast her own private ballot. Makes sense since that’s how the Conservatives view women…. πŸ€·β€β™€οΈπŸ€’ #CanadaVotes

28.04.2025 14:28 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Elections Canada cannot be tampered with by the likes of Elon Musk or others. They are a strictly non-partisan body. Specially designed paper ballots are marked with an X in pencil or pen and are hand counted. The counting is strictly supervised to ensure there are no irregularities.

28.04.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 196    πŸ” 46    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4

Words fail. Deep sympathy to all who are grieving… β€οΈβ€πŸ©ΉπŸ˜’

28.04.2025 12:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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