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Mike Dunn

@bymichaeldunn.bsky.social

Lost my hair on account of all the hats I wear. Working class labour philosophy, guitar playing songwriter, concrete formwork carpenter, possibly the zigzag guy

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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧡

30.10.2025 08:06 β€” πŸ‘ 8341    πŸ” 2716    πŸ’¬ 348    πŸ“Œ 797
Police investigating fire at Manitoba cabinet minister Nahanni Fontaine’s office | APTN News
YouTube video by APTN News Police investigating fire at Manitoba cabinet minister Nahanni Fontaine’s office | APTN News

The Winnipeg police Major Crimes Unit is investigating a fire at Manitoba cabinet minister Nahanni Fontaine's constituency office in north Winnipeg early on Tuesday morning.

The fire follows several windows being smashed at the office last week.

30.09.2025 18:06 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

β€œthe core emotional attachment for [the reactionary center] is of being above the political struggle and effortlessly able to synthesise the ideas of the left and right into something better, that always mysteriously appears to be the status quo"

29.09.2025 12:13 β€” πŸ‘ 62    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Blue cities should tear up the roads in front of ICE facilities and then start decades of community engagement and input sessions to rebuild them. Let's harness our core competencies.

27.09.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 8046    πŸ” 1754    πŸ’¬ 155    πŸ“Œ 158

a key reason they see an opening for such a blatant speech crackdown is that they already did one to Palestinian and anti-genocide activists and it got enthusiastic bipartisan approval

18.09.2025 02:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4635    πŸ” 1454    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 52

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say β€œwe’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

18.09.2025 03:04 β€” πŸ‘ 32118    πŸ” 8636    πŸ’¬ 674    πŸ“Œ 432
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DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the β€œradical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence β€œcontinues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

πŸ”— www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

16.09.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10954    πŸ” 6271    πŸ’¬ 349    πŸ“Œ 627

As an American journalist, I really wish the institutions that trumpet a free press had more to say about this administration funding the assassination of our comrades

10.08.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 653    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1

We will have pick-up and drop-off locations for banned books in Edmonton, Calgary & Lethbridge & support you in your city or town too.

Want to organize? Volunteer? Create a drop-off spot? Write to sharealbertabannedbooks@pm.me or *just do it*!

All books will be publicly available & freely shared.

11.07.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

SHARE ALBERTA-BANNED BOOKS!

Principal, librarian, teacher, parent, or your average Albertan who is concerned about the Book Ban?

SAVE & SHARE the Queer, consent-based, healthy relationship & body positive books that the province wants us to give up.

Get involved: sharealbertabannedbooks@pm.me

11.07.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

the thing about "drain the swamp" is that Trump was able to replace special interest lobbyists and foreign agents as the focus of anti-corruption ire with dedicated public servants who do things like maintain school, hospital, and library infrastructure.

20.05.2025 20:17 β€” πŸ‘ 183    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Students/public fought for some type of ceasefire and were treated as anti-semites and terrorist sympathizers. Now the mainstream is granting us its ok after all the shit we took and are still taking to demand to end a genocide
These protests were used a pretext for clamping down on civil rights

20.05.2025 16:57 β€” πŸ‘ 138    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Updated #UCPayToPlay scandal-in-a-tweet:

Premier Smith's former chief of staff allegedly pressured health officials to cut half a billion dollars in contracts to a businessman whose sister was his landlord and who bought them all luxury NHL tickets. And they fired the person ready to reveal it.

20.05.2025 01:53 β€” πŸ‘ 374    πŸ” 244    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 16

Seems like this is fairly under the radar today.

Nothing can change what's happened, but we can change our diplomatic response, and that's a start.

19.05.2025 23:29 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

They're screaming at Muppets.

19.05.2025 23:20 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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What are the odds the FBI just doesn't investigate this at all?

17.05.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

BREAKING

The Mayor of Palm Springs has confirmed to the LA Times that an explosion at a fertility clinic this morning was caused by a bomb in or near a vehicle.

At least one person has been killed.

17.05.2025 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 389    πŸ” 170    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 17
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β€˜It’s Outrageous That You Banned American Products From Your Shelves’ U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra opens up about U.S.-Canada tensions and the signals he hopes to see from new Prime Minister Mark Carney.

American thin-skinned bullshit like this is *exhausting*. Legitimate officials pretend that America is anything other than the aggressor in this situation, belittling us and reinforcing your own propaganda. And then you're upset when we don't just take it lying down.

17.05.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 99    πŸ” 29    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Jump shot was a fckng brick this morning. So annoying.

16.05.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Forcing the world to line the pockets of arms manufacturers.

Which is the bigger racket? Weapons or oil?

16.05.2025 03:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Player accused of sexual assault told teammates β€˜we all need to say the same thing,’ trial hears World junior players maintained in texts between themselves that the woman behind the allegations in the Hockey Canada case had consented to sexual activity

I'll tell you one thing : I've never told my friends "We gotta keep our stories straight and all say the same thing" unless my friends and I were preparing to lie about something we definitely shouldn't have been doing.

The truth does not require memorizing.

15.05.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 242    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2

Geopolitics as a living, breathing Veep episode is incredibly tiresome.

15.05.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Danielle Smith's Electoral Reforms Are Straight from the Trump Playbook And it's no accident they were released today.

In the dead of night, the UCP passed the most comprehensive set of anti democratic reforms in Alberta history.

No public consultation. No meaningful debate.

How bad is Bill 54?

Not horrible if you like Trump-style democracy.

open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...

15.05.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 247    πŸ” 163    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 17
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U of A cuts funding to university-affiliated daycares, effective January 2026 - The Gateway Beginning in January 2026, the U of A will withdraw funding to six university-affiliated daycares in and around North Campus.

The University of Alberta has slashed funding to their affiliated daycares despite the funding only making up .0154% of its operating budget.

These facilities are vital to the community and lives will be permanently changed by this callous decision.

14.05.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1
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Deportation for honking his horn at an undercover ICE officer

13.05.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 9473    πŸ” 3853    πŸ’¬ 298    πŸ“Œ 257
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Hasan Piker’s ICE detainment is a cautionary tale for multiple reasons The progressive Twitch star's account of his experience shows unchecked power, and what *not* to do if detained.

β€œI could explain Hasan Piker’s politics to you, but that’s entirely irrelevant. The bold, all caps, underlined point is that a high profile, US-born American citizen was detained on Sunday by ICE for, it would seem, the crime of speech.”

13.05.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 3392    πŸ” 991    πŸ’¬ 40    πŸ“Œ 50
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Alberta a 'very attractive' target for foreign interference: CSIS presentation Alberta's resources, economy, and sizable ethnic communities make it a "very attractive" target to foreign powers to exert their influence.

You don't suppose they'd mess with a sovereignty referendum, do you?

Perhaps something to ask the Premier as she paves the way for the vote.

edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

13.05.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 159    πŸ” 69    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 13

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