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@samcaligal.bsky.social

Family historian, travel enthusiast, ret. public health nurse, reader, writer, & researcher, author of two books on early French-Canadian history. California - USA Website: www.tracingsbysam.com

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Her parents owe their lives to the United States accepting them as asylum seekers fleeing religious persecution in Iraq in the 1980s. She wouldn't be here if we had not offered her family safe haven.

The hypocrisy is stunning.

30.11.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7602    ๐Ÿ” 2291    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 329    ๐Ÿ“Œ 94
Two books on early French-Canadian history

Two books on early French-Canadian history

The founding of #Quebec, the founding of #Montreal โ€” from the perspective of the women who were there. These two books are my contribution to Canadaโ€™s early #FrenchCanadian history. Nonfiction. Well-researched. Available on Amazon.

30.11.2025 03:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Not to be forgotten โ€” Slava Ukraini!

29.11.2025 17:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE insteadโ€ฆ

29.11.2025 06:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9715    ๐Ÿ” 3625    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 270    ๐Ÿ“Œ 283
Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump โ€ข November 27, 2025, 11:27 PM
A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being "Politically Correct," and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump โ€ข November 27, 2025, 11:27 PM A very Happy Thanksgiving salutation to all of our Great American Citizens and Patriots who have been so nice in allowing our Country to be divided, disrupted, carved up, murdered, beaten, mugged, and laughed at, along with certain other foolish countries throughout the World, for being "Politically Correct," and just plain STUPID, when it comes to Immigration.

Iโ€™ll spare you the rest of Trumpโ€™s statement where he calls Tim Waltz the R-word & hate mongers immigrantsโ€”

On a day meant for gratitude, he ranted about โ€œvermin,โ€ & vengeance. Itโ€™s the clearest reminder yet โ€” there is no moral bottom too low or autocratic line he wonโ€™t cross

28.11.2025 14:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4781    ๐Ÿ” 974    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 577    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102

Another side project involves researching families living at a certain time in some of the small towns and villages my ancestors called home. The various work, religious, social, and familial connections are a knot worth untying in many cases.

#genchat

29.11.2025 03:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

And we wonder why Democratic veterans felt the need to remind soldiers they didnโ€™t have to follow unlawful orders?

29.11.2025 03:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1273    ๐Ÿ” 390    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 44    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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They apparently forgot to put the crazy uncle back into the basement after Thanksgiving

28.11.2025 20:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4003    ๐Ÿ” 722    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 469    ๐Ÿ“Œ 101
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Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message โ€” and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz โ€œseriously retarded.โ€

28.11.2025 05:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3282    ๐Ÿ” 950    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 894    ๐Ÿ“Œ 253
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Watch this video before you do your Black Friday shopping on Amazon.

28.11.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2840    ๐Ÿ” 1460    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 148    ๐Ÿ“Œ 123

Can Trump be other than seriously deranged?

28.11.2025 14:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So very sad. So needless. ๐Ÿ’”๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ’”

27.11.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate. Enjoy the feasting with family, with friends. Tomorrow we can get back to the business of everything else.

27.11.2025 15:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Steve Witkoff helped Russia derail Ukraineโ€™s access to Tomahawk missiles. He tipped off the Kremlin about Zelenskyโ€™s U.S. visit, giving Moscow time to arrange a call that convinced Trump to block the deal. Witkoff actively works against Ukraineโ€™s defense, in coordination with Putinโ€™s regime.

26.11.2025 08:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1736    ๐Ÿ” 887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 115    ๐Ÿ“Œ 90

I always check the CEO salaries of the charities I am considering for donations. It says a lot about the organizations.

26.11.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The entire world can clearly see that Putin owns Steve Witkoff and yet Witkoff is the one that Trump wants leading the negotiations on a peace deal. If Putin owns Witkoff, and Trump doesnโ€™t care, that means Putin owns Trump - either directly, by proxy, or by stupidity.

25.11.2025 21:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3004    ๐Ÿ” 805    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 156    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31
25.11.2025 12:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10047    ๐Ÿ” 3034    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1181    ๐Ÿ“Œ 390
Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: As a military officer, I was repeatedly trained on the law concerning illegal orders. 

Now, veterans citing this law have been targeted by the president with threats of prosecution and death - because they oppose him politically.

If the government acts against them, it will further display President Trump's thirst for the one thing our Republic cannot abide: tyranny.

Post from Pete Buttigieg that reads: As a military officer, I was repeatedly trained on the law concerning illegal orders. Now, veterans citing this law have been targeted by the president with threats of prosecution and death - because they oppose him politically. If the government acts against them, it will further display President Trump's thirst for the one thing our Republic cannot abide: tyranny.

26.11.2025 03:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13259    ๐Ÿ” 3442    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 277    ๐Ÿ“Œ 93

"It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I have spent two years seeing what shrapnel does to a child's body. It's difficult to think in celebratory terms when I know that my tax money is doing this."

- Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award

23.11.2025 03:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 110    ๐Ÿ” 47    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Genealogy doesnโ€™t have to be overwhelming. Iโ€™ve put all my YouTube teaching handouts into easy digital guides you can download, print, and keep by your desk. From Ancestry + FamilySearch tips to DNA sorting and 1700sโ€“1800s strategiesโ€”browse the full shop: www.etsy.com/shop/ancestr...

21.11.2025 16:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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#Genealogy If youโ€™ve #FrenchCanadian ancestors who settled in early Montreal, your male forebears may have been in the Holy Family Militia, established by Gov Maisonneuve in 1663 to protect the settlement on Montreal Island. This article lists men who served in the militia:
ย bit.ly/MontrealHoly...

21.11.2025 08:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is not our finest moment. We are far from great!

20.11.2025 23:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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To those with #FrenchCanadian ancestryโ€”These two books will provide context for the stories of your pioneer ancestors of 17th century New France. Available on Amazon.

20.11.2025 17:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The occupation of HHS by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has crossed a line that should be UNACCEPTABLE by any American.

Congress needs to DO THEIR JOB and rid of us of this threat to our health, lives and national security. This is not hyperbole.

This is INTOLERABLE.

20.11.2025 03:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1762    ๐Ÿ” 450    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 47    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
Vaccine Safety
MENU V
For Everyone
NOV. 19, 2025
KEY POINTS
โ€ข The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism.
โ€ข Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.
โ€ข HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism,
including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

Vaccine Safety MENU V For Everyone NOV. 19, 2025 KEY POINTS โ€ข The claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. โ€ข Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities. โ€ข HHS has launched a comprehensive assessment of the causes of autism, including investigations on plausible biologic mechanisms and potential causal links.

The U.S. government is now inarguably spreading medical disinformation that is going to kill babies preferentially.

Period.

This is an INTOLERABLE. UNPRECEDENTED. DANGEROUS. ATTACK. ON ALL OF US.

20.11.2025 03:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2953    ๐Ÿ” 1137    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 109    ๐Ÿ“Œ 87

Little to no hope that Trump will do the right thing and release largely intact Epstein files.๐Ÿ˜ฌ

20.11.2025 00:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do you ever look at a photo of an unknown child (especially one from long ago) and wonder what became of her or him โ€” how the childโ€™s life turned out?

19.11.2025 21:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.

The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.

Donโ€™t give up the ship.

18.11.2025 13:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9495    ๐Ÿ” 4315    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 367    ๐Ÿ“Œ 966

I could add to this list. Not everyone is blessed with good health.

19.11.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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