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Into Good Trouble, Interesting Facts, & Oxford Commas
Maple syrup runs in my veins.
Psarah Psmith 🇨🇦
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Positively ID'd my first Cackling Goose today. It took them swimming past a Canada Goose for me to feel confident that I was seeing what I thought I was seeing. Distance across a lake can really make size and proportion tricky.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Cackli...
Well, poop de la poop.
I went to introduce my son to one of my favourite blues artists and found out he passed away mere weeks ago.
What a bummer.
His Nobody But You album is probably one of my top ten faves.
Thanks for all the fabulous music, John Hammond.
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At the link, "Corrective for a Broken Heart" – a poem: mailchi.mp/themarginali...
Bird nerds, White-fronted Swifts nudged me up to 686 on the old life list today. Respect. To the swifts. They were harder to find than I anticipated.
ebird.org/species/whts...
A politician with the guts to say it:
"No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War."
- Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.
Conan O'Brian put it well recently--parody doesn't work when reality is absurd. This is esp. true when people are hurt.
NYT's the Daily spoke with people at a gas station in Jacksonville today. A veteran and his wife are skipping dinners to feed their kids. Nothing funny about that.
“An investigation has found Service Alberta Minister Dale Nally violated an election law in his official response to a recall petition targeting him”
#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
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“With a furious, heart-breaking 43-34 vote, the provincial government decided to dismiss thousands of Albertans with disabilities, essentially telling desperate parents that their children just do not matter enough to warrant a simple legal framework.”
#abpoli
edmontonsun.com/opinion/tait...
“It’s unprecedented for the commission to release dueling reports with different maps.”
We should applaud this transparency from the Boundaries Commission, and their rejection of the UCP’s gerrymandered submissions. #Democracy
#EmojiSounds 🎨
It’s the 🇨🇦 JUNO Awards this w/e & best wishes to all nominees incl golden-voiced, indigenous artist William Prince
I love this song (& the whistling). Also ft #GoldieHawn & Joni
🎼She’s a picture in the gallery
Music, Pink & Blue Georgia O’Keeffe
m.youtube.com/watch?v=_zVT...
