Michael Markwick

Michael Markwick

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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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In honour of Catherine O’Hara, keep the #Oscars with this: The “Moira Rose” Maple Cosmo • 45 ml vodka • 15 ml Cointreau • 20 ml fresh lime juice • 15 ml unsweetened cranberry juice • 7 ml dark maple syrup • 1 drop orange bitters Shake hard with ice and fine-strain into a chilled coupe. 🇨🇦

“Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize […] I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace.” The tyrant’s “high grade morality”. Trump is Putin’s fifth column.

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THIS WAS AN ACT OF WAR AND A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW. But put that aside for a second… What’s wild is that Marco Rubio isn’t even pretending anymore. He’s not hiding that the invasion of Venezuela is about oil. This is going to end up a dumpster fire…

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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.

nyti.msOpinion | Trump Revives Foreign Aid, Helping Needy BillionairesAs children die for want of cheap medicines, the U.S. spends billions on Argentina — thus rescuing rich investors who made bad bets.

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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.

aol.comFederal appeals court rules Trump administration can't end birthright citizenshipA 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...

There’s no question now that Trump is taking Putin’s path to suffocate democracy in the United States. The legacy they’ve authored together is the death of the Declaration of Independence in its 224th year. Trump’s brought the republic to its first months of subservience.