Michael Markwick reposted
Michael Markwick
Michael Markwick
@profmarkwick.bsky.social
Aristotle was right: Tyrannies are destroyed from within. Time to be all in for the democracy-to-come. Accept no substitutes. (Ocean swimmer, I mean serious distances.) I am CANADIAN🇨🇦
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Michael Markwick reposted
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www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/u... “It was Mr. Trump who called Ms. Zacharia an “attorney,” and she certainly never corrected the record. She called herself “general counsel,” which was misleading at best.” #illegallyblonde
My big take away from tonight’s BC Election debate: If Doerkson was premier a) he’d likely be displaced by someone else in his caucus by Easter, and b) we’d be dealing with a Danielle Smith-grade referendum on DRIPA and “foreigners”. #bcpoli @davidebybc.bsky.social
Stand tall, Prime Minister. The world needs the True North, strong and free. 🇨🇦 @mark-carney.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
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Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice Singing through the bloody mist We’ll take our stand for this land And the stranger in our midst Directed by Thom Zimny Edited by Thom Zimny and Samuel Shapiro Production Footage: Pam Springsteen and Thom Zimny
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free
New Video Analysis Reveals Flawed and Fatal Decisions in Shooting of Pretti www.nytimes.com/video/us/100... Mother of God.
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SANDWICH GUY NOT GUILTY.
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The commercial ran again during the #WorldSeries2025 game after Turnip’s announcement. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Who knew you could play a whole season of baseball in one night. #WorldSeries2025 GO @torontobluejays.bsky.social GO
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In Opinion “The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.
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The foundation started by billionaire George Soros, long a target of conspiracy theories, could soon be under investigation. Its president says it is "ready for whatever comes."
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A federal appeals court in Boston ruled on Friday that the Trump administration cannot withhold citizenship from children born to people in the country illegally or temporarily, adding to the mounting legal setbacks for Trump’s birthright order.
So much for Danielle Smith’s burn baby burb approach to fossil fuels. The nation-building projects Canada needs *now* must be green. @mark-carney.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/c...
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So, the #TOTUS is set to impose on US voters an election regime he’s taken from Putin. What constitutional safeguards still exist to prevent the implosion of the American republic? @podsaveamerica.crooked.com @katiephang.bsky.social @weissmann.substack.com @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
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Let’s all agree that a security guarantee for Ukraine to be real, and not another Trump lie, it must make sure it has the capacity *now* fully to defend itself against Putin, as a necessary condition for and before any negotiations with the authoritarian invader. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
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“It was grandiose. To win everything and lose nothing, only Aleksandr III could do that.” First Donbas, then Alaska. Putin’s playing Trump has no limit. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/17/w...