Elaine Anderson

Elaine Anderson

@chipati.bsky.social

Librarianship, theology, books, history, art, knitting and other fibre arts, photography, theatre, Niagara, Ontario politics.

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Overlooked Residents - Part 1 57 acres of farmland with Carolinian forest are in danger from Welland Council. Cooks Mills is a sensitive environmental area. This bald eagle makes Cooks Mills its home. As of 2025, Ontario protected the Bald Eagle and its habitat protected #HandsOffOurFarmland

Why is this upcoming meeting is important? Visit cooksmills.com. Is the polluter Saint-Gobain Ceramic Materials interested in farmland? Decisions may be made in Tuesday's in-camera Welland Council meeting that could affect generations in Welland. #handsoffourfarmland #cooksmills #Welland

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According to the Wine Growers of Ontario, “The Ontario wine and grape industry has an economic impact of $5.49 BILLION and over 22,300 jobs.” Farmland supports employment. #HandsOffOurFarmland #CooksMills #Welland #Niagara #Ontario

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Everyone needs to stop what they’re doing and watch this video. “It seems like there’s a lack of diversity here today, and it’s mostly people who look like you and me, and I just…?” This lady’s response is🔥

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It feels hard now, but Keep getting in Good Trouble™ Before it’s too late #Haiku #NotMyPresident #ElbowsUp #AbolishICE #ReneeGood #JeffreyPretti #GoodTrouble

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Minneapolis groups call for ‘general strike’. "...several local unions—including Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, and St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28—have lent their support to the strike." www.commondreams.org/news/minneap...

commondreams.orgMinneapolis Labor, Community Leaders Join Call for Jan. 23 General Strike to Demand ICE Out | Common DreamsMinneapolis labor unions and community groups call for a general strike to push out federal immigration agents.

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I love this song so much: 🎵 Now it's making sense to me. 🎵 An acapella duet called "Build A Ballroom" 👀 sung by Ken Sandberg & A Gift From Todd An extraordinarily creative way to say that Trump is building a 350 million bunker funded by his elite tech friends for when shit hits the fan.

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Rep Al Green from Texas is reintroducing articles of Impeachment against the criminal Donald Trump. Green tried earlier this year but all other reps were too chickenshit to back him. Support him this time. Call your reps & tell them to join him. #3E #EndImpunity

Now that Pupo's has put up a new store sign, they've gone back to the handpainted signs in the windows. Isn't this becoming a lost art? They are done by hand. #signs #signpainting #grocerystore #localbusiness

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the CBC was founded as a bulwark against US cultural imperialism, to ensure we had canadian news and canadian culture. there should be a renewed emphasis on that mandate, particularly to stop reporting so much on what happens in the US for eyeballs and ad dollars.

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Heinrich: And what was really stunning to me as someone who has been in a lot of these press conferences a few things very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. Soil here

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Yeah JD, we remember. We will never forget your boss was best friends with the guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring. And then that guy was "silenced" forever. And now we will just not talk about anything else until they... #ReleaseThe_EPSTEIN_Files

The value of monthly U.S. wine exports (Jan 2023–Jun 2025). Year over year, Canada (-96.8%) has all but disappeared as an export market for U.S. wine. China (-35.9%) and the UK (-6.1%) are down as well. Overall, U.S. wine exports declined by US$38.8 million (-37%) compared to June 2024.

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Quantifying the Profiling: 1/5 ICE Arrests Are Latinos on the Streets with No Criminal Past or Removal Order. My new analysis of ICE arrest location data show that ICE is arresting staggering numbers of Latin Americans off the streets who they had no reason to target... 🧵

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This is not a coding error.

Library of Congress@librarycongress.bsky.social

It has been brought to our attention that some sections of Article 1 are missing from the Constitution Annotated (constitution.congress.gov) website. We’ve learned that this is due to a coding error. We have been working to correct this and expect it to be resolved soon.