Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦

Criticizing someone who just burned down the Lord’s manor, (in full public view, no less) for not then providing a proper critique of the estate’s repressive, imperialist hedge trimming technique is just… weird. If you hate Carney, have at it. But stop with the distracting, nonsense hand wringing.

One more point of clarification: criticizing policy is 100% necessary in a democratic system. But, in a time of profound global crisis, do try to keep it focused and coherent. That would help a lot.

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN:

"I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind."

and

"The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back."

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A group, one of many, holding candles in honor of a community member executed by an unaccountable paramilitary invasion force

This is Minneapolis.

Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force.

Be clear about what you stand for and defend it. Help. Do. Support. Collaborate. We can fight about which specific version of public health care we want a bit later on, if you don’t mind. Right now, the world is cracking apart and we’re lucky to be on one of the most seaworthy life rafts. Now row.

It’s time for the self-gratifying Pollyannas on here to break out the smelling salts. The obsessive nitpicking and self-satisfied partisan ankle biting is completely pointless right now. It’s exhausting, counterproductive, and uninteresting. Read the room.

You know what I’m like: honest, direct, and non-combative. You have lost the plot.

Which part is offensive? It’s time for adult talk.

You’re kidding with this nonsense, right?

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

“I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.”

America. Enough. You are now alone in the world and no one trusts you. When are you going to wake up and realize *you* are now the murderous villain?

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

LOL. No.

Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion

This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...

There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/

I can’t believe what I just heard on The Current. This “documentary” pack report is… straight up christo-prop. Just wide-eyed cultist reporting from an indoctrinated “reporter.” What the hell, @mattgalloway.bsky.social? There is a way to approach this subject without it becoming a recruiting drive.

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Schrödinger’s Douchebag. A guy who says offensive things and decides whether he was joking based on the reaction of people around him.

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

I can’t believe this where we are. It’s madness. /end

His is a common misunderstanding. Secular institutions are not there to irradicate faith, they are there to protect individual conscience, including personal spirituality and faith. What he’s really advocating for is Crusade in the worst possible, join-us-or-die sense. /5

What Hegseth and others are pushing is a 400-year rollback to an era where those who held sovereign power also wielded religious authority or derived their power from it (see, Europe pre-17th c.)—for a quick reminder of what that looks like, try the opening minutes of “Elizabeth” (1998). Yeah. /4

“Secular” institutions are intended to help keep the peace and, to paraphrase Hume, to make sure a system of laws is put in place that is grounded in common understandings (killing people is bad) and not niche religious dogmas (killing *those* people is okay). /3

The Christian Nationalist movement propagates an ahistorical understanding of the U.S.’s foundations. The primary reason for the separation of Church and State was to keep various sects of Christians from persecuting *one another*—the fate that had driven many colonists from their home countries. /2

Holy Warrior — The Atlantic Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

This is incredibly well-written… and also maximally terrifying. We have a confused adolescent wielding the power of the “Secretary of War.” What is most sobering is the complete lack of understanding of America’s history and *why* the institutions are the way they are. /1

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Ford government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.ca At least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents.

Well. I guess we know why Ford wants to get rid of speed cameras. Wow. Whoever this asshat is, they need to be fired, ASAP.

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