Cathie from Canada: National Indigenous Peoples Day

June 21 is National Indigenous Peoples Day – here are some tweets that I liked about this important day. Here is Trudeau;s speech: “such strength, such resilience” Miigwich PM @JustinTrudeau for this. It brought tears to my First Nations eyes. A’ho!πŸͺΆπŸ‘ŠπŸ½πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ’”πŸ§‘#IndigenousHistoryMonth #IndigenousPeoplesDay pic.twitter.com/nFW6ic9BND β€” Indigenous Voices MatterπŸͺΆπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ§‘πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ’™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ’› (@Voic6Indigenous) June 21,

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Cathie from Canada: Today’s News: Updates

A batch of updates tonight – here we go Juneteenth: Drew Litton, The Colorado Sun #juneteenth2022 pic.twitter.com/EHo0SjG7v7 β€” Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Steve Sack, The Minneapolis Star Tribune @ThatSteveSack #juneteenth2022 #CRT pic.twitter.com/idsnMwgQ1F β€” Editorial & Political Cartoons (@EandPCartoons) June 19, 2022 Pride: This observation from Peggy

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Cathie from Canada: Two solitudes

Justin Ling’s column today made this observation about the Jan 6 hearings “We’re trapped in a  hall of mirrors” What’s novel and disconcerting is the degree to which an emerging far-right ecosystem tooled itself into a totally insulated rapid response organ. A real-time streaming funhouse hall of mirrors…. What is big

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Cathie from Canada: Animal crackers

Busy day today so just some funny animal tweets to enjoy: pic.twitter.com/kxBADuoqhj — Cathie from Canada πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ πŸ˜·πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ (@CathieCanada) June 7, 2022 Bear sits next to guy πŸ­πŸ’ž pic.twitter.com/0mkauOqsaL — 𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐑𝐚𝐝 (@farhad55526050) November 8, 2020 Paraglider meets a black vulture. 😎 pic.twitter.com/ogIsUvg87Y — Paul.Nelson (@batsy09) June 5, 2022 This little

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