Derek Simon

Derek Simon

@dartmouthderek.bsky.social

Father | | Settler | Lawyer working for Indigenous peoples | beard grower | soccer coach | musician | podcaster | I don’t make the rules, I just interpret them | posts, not legal advice | Halisky

2,322 Followers 2,531 Following 1,963 Posts Joined Aug 2023
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Why have I done this to myself.

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29 minutes ago

And she knows a thing or two about strategic blunders.

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37 minutes ago

Waste of a good cast too.

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1 hour ago

Why isn’t paul mescal allowed to use his real accent?

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1 hour ago

So much worse

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1 hour ago

I did!

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4 hours ago
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“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

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2 hours ago

So you don’t like paying 28 cents a litre to governments that actually provide us with services, but you’re cool with paying 23 cents a litre because Trump wants to distract you from the Epstein files? Nice to see you’ve got your priories straight.

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13 hours ago

I think the beginning of the collapse of western civilization can be traced back to around the time Myth Busters ended and Duck Dynasty started.

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2 hours ago

I’m waiting for the folks who complained about the carbon tax to complain about the Trump stupidity tax we are currently paying.

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3 hours ago

And really bad CGI

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3 hours ago

Finally watching Gladiator II and these are among the worst opening credits I’ve ever seen

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5 days ago
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me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

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10 hours ago

Having failed to totally cripple the global economy with tariffs, the Trump administration is determined to do it by waging illegal wars.

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10 hours ago

Since we are dealing in hypotheticals here, the strait of Hormuz is open if the US and Israel had not illegally attacked Iran.

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15 hours ago
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ANALYSIS | War in the Middle East is disrupting supply of key resources — and it'll only get worse each passing day | CBC News Rising oil prices are just the start. By blocking the Strait of Hormuz, global supply chains are at risk. For every day the war drags on, the list of product shortages grows. Shortages of fertilizer f...

Operation Epstein Fury is going really well I see.

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1 day ago

The largely made up issue of “free speech on campus” attracted wall to wall coverage in the corporate media, but when the government straight up bans books they just shrug.

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2 days ago

And if not, then the people who were complaining about Carney’s travel (which is actually part of his job) had better complain ten times as hard about this.

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2 days ago

I hope he’s paying for this out of his own pocket, because there is literally nothing about his role as MP or leader of the opposition that would require this travel.

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3 days ago
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Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

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2 days ago

Someone ask Mark Carney why he can’t issue a statement like this.

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3 days ago
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NEW RELEASE: Arts and Culture: Nova Scotia’s Undervalued Public Good by Sébastien Labelle

This piece emphasizes the contributions of the art & culture sector to NS, and how these sectors will be impacted by budget cuts.

Read the full piece here: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

#nspoli

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3 days ago

I honestly thought we were there when they updated the Regional Plan in 2014. And then council and staff spent the next 12 years ignoring or undermining it.

At this point I honestly think HRM will just have to collapse under the weight of its own poor decisions.

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3 days ago

Growth doesn’t pay for itself because HRM has prioritized growth in areas where service costs exceed tax revenue.

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4 days ago
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Why Halifax musician Ben Caplan’s budget explanation videos have hit a chord with Nova Scotians Most Nova Scotians probably know Ben Caplan for his music but it’s his political videos which are commanding an encore lately.

Why Halifax musician Ben Caplan’s budget explanation videos have hit a chord with Nova Scotians
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5 days ago
CNBC screenshot showing oil currently at $106.77

WELCOME TO THE BLUNDERDOME

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6 days ago
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

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5 days ago

If you want to avoid repeating historical mistakes, it helps if you don’t leave the same idiots who made the mistakes in the first place in positions of authority.

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5 days ago

Most are still allowed to live semi-respectable lives. Useful idiots like David Frum still get regular gigs as pundits.

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5 days ago

It might be because very few of the people responsible for the fiasco of the Iraq war, from the politicians who lied to justify it, to the pundits who manufactured consent for it, to the people who committed war crimes on the ground, were ever held accountable for any of it.

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