Joanne McKinnon

Creative, indie author and blogger

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Pass it on

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Retweet this if you are grateful @MarkJCarney is our Prime Minister. ❤️Canada is so fortunate in many ways. 🇨🇦

[AnnaT 🇬🇧 🫶 🇺🇦 @1AnnaT]

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I love this man, over 4 yrs fighting for Ukraine
Lied to,let down,abused,ridiculed,death threats
He is a living symbol of the indestructible
Spirit of freedom & the embodiment of courage
President Zelenskyy & Ukrainians have
Shown the world what real courage is 💪🫡

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

So proud of them

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump votes by mail. But this week, he signed an Executive Order so you can’t.

Why? Because he is scared of your power, and he is scared of losing the midterms.

[A @bluhue123]

Raise your hand ✋ if you believe he should be fired

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Retweet if you stand with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and her “proposed new motion to oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) involvement in the FIFA World Cup.”
source: NowToronto
I say ICE has zero reason to be in Canada! 🍁

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

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[Jen (ESC) 🇨🇦❤️🦋 @Smil3yAngel]

2 grocery stores in Ontario were fined for mislabelling foods as made in Canada. 5 stores across Canada have been fined in total since last year.

I am still always choosing to buy Canadian, or at the very least, anything but USA.

If you are still buying Canadian, leave a 🍁

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

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[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Happy first day of spring. 🌷Today I got up thankful to be Canadian! To those that have gratitude for Canada, comment our flag. 🇨🇦 It remains the symbol of freedom, sovereignty, unity and hope.

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

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[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Lately, it feels like we’re being pushed to focus on everything that divides us. But if you strip away the noise, the truth is simple: we all love this country. 🇨🇦
Drop a 🍁 if you’re proud to be Canadian today. Let’s fill the feed with some unity.

We share the same backyard, the same resilience, and the same 'True North' spirit. I feel a deep sense of gratitude every single day to call this place home, and I know I’m not the only one.

Let’s stop looking for reasons to be apart and start remembering why we stand together. Let’s bring back that shared pride.

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

Happy Birthday sir 🥳

[🇨🇦 Nico Carney, Purr Minister of Canada @CarneyPurr67561]

On behalf of myself, the Catbinet, all Catnadians and their staff, please join me in wishing a happy birthday to my human @MarkJCarney!

Happy birthday, Mark! 😺🇨🇦🎉🎂 Give my regards to our family across the pond! 🇬🇧

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

🚨BREAKING: Mark Carney And Canada Now Heading A 40-Nation Alliance That Makes Trump Irrelevant

Carney’s 40-Nation Democracy Alliance Is Bigger Than the American Economy — And That’s the Point. Mark Carney engineered a trading architecture that makes economic coercion structurally irrelevant.

My Latest... 🇨🇦

https://t.co/ubYCrziOnk

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Yesterday Trump called @MarkJCarney “future Governor of Canada.” Well let me remind you of Carney’s quotes: "Canada will never, ever be part of America in any way, shape, or form." & "Canada doesn't live because of the United States; Canada thrives because we are Canadians."🇨🇦❤️

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

BREAKING: While Trump was busy calling Carney "Governor," Europe was voting 482-108 to make Canada their most important ally on the planet.
Canada didn't get annexed.
Canada got adopted.
By 450 million Europeans who remember what we did at Normandy.
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My Latest...
https://t.co/G4yRbzgVpF

[Madame Julie @MadameJulie007]

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[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

USA 🇺🇸 is no longer the continent’s success story. From a European distance, it is starting to look like one of its warnings.

For decades, many Europeans viewed the Americas through a simple hierarchy. Latin America was associated with corruption, cartel power, weak institutions, political turmoil, and states that never seemed fully in command of their own territory. The United States and Canada stood apart. They were seen as the adult systems of the hemisphere: stable, predictable, and governed by institutions strong enough to restrain power, enforce the law, and preserve order.

That hierarchy has collapsed.

By 2026, a growing number of Europeans look at the United States and see the very dysfunctions they once associated with the continent’s troubled republics. Corruption is no longer a scandal. It is a feature. Wealth does not merely influence politics. It purchases it in broad daylight. Trust in institutions has collapsed. Courts are increasingly viewed as political weapons. Elections no longer project confidence. They carry the smell of manipulation, pressure, and constant dispute.

Even more damaging is the broader atmosphere. Political life in the United States now feels less like democratic competition and more like a permanent struggle to capture the machinery of the state. Violence sits just below the surface. Public life has become a spectacle of revenge, factionalism, and institutional decay. The old image of America as the responsible guardian of democratic order has not faded. It has shattered.

This is why the comparison to Latin America no longer sounds like cheap provocation. It sounds like a description. When power becomes theatrical, when criminality circles the top of the system, and when the state begins to resemble a prize for rival factions rather than a neutral constitutional order, the United States starts to resemble the very political cultures it once lectured from afar.

Latin America, in that sense, has gained a northern member.

And yet one northern democracy still stands outside that collapse. Canada remains the exception. It is quieter, less theatrical, and less obsessed with its own mythology, but that is precisely the point. It still looks governable. It still looks functional. It still looks like a country where institutions matter more than personalities, where the rule of law retains legitimacy, and where public life has not been consumed by oligarchic decay and authoritarian drift.

So this is the reversal Europe now sees with increasing clarity. The United States is no longer the exception on the continent. Canada is. And in that single fact lies one of the great humiliations of modern American decline: the self-proclaimed model of democratic strength is now discussed in terms once reserved for fragile states further south.

Stay connected,
Follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

At what point does a former superpower stop being admired, or respected, and simply become a cautionary tale?

[Joanne McKinnon @mcfingon]

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[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Who here stands in solidarity with Spain? Retweet and comment the Spain flag 🇪🇸. Canada understands what they’re going through, we dealt with his BS for a year now as well. 🇨🇦
Trump said "We're going to cut off all trade with Spain, we don't want anything to do with Spain."