Darlene McLeod
@darlenemcleod.bsky.social
uOttawa PhD student specializing in ritual studies; researching ritual in Christo-fascism in Canada and abroad; if I pin you, it's probably research; granola aficionado; bike commuter; 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ ally; probably posting with a dog in my lap; frequently swearing 🇨🇦
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"And the devil said to him, ‘To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.’" - Luke 4:6-7
And a majority of America bent the knee to the devil.
And a majority of America bent the knee to the devil.
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JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.
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I’m old enough to remember when conservatives would have called this Soviet, or foreign totalitarianism, and condemned it. Now, they are the totalitarians.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I’m old enough to remember when conservatives would have called this Soviet, or foreign totalitarianism, and condemned it. Now, they are the totalitarians.
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If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.
November 13, 2025 at 11:48 PM
If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
You’re working at a state propaganda factory.
I need this Lucy Lawless quotation on a sticker and I need to stick it on my laptop like yesterday: "Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
November 13, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I need this Lucy Lawless quotation on a sticker and I need to stick it on my laptop like yesterday: "Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot."
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I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I want to very gently say something, and I hope nobody will be mad: If somebody on the internet says something that is NOT about politics and NOT about how terrible everything is, it’s a kindness not to reflexively make a comment (in jest or not) that brings it back to those things.
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I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win. Please do repeat this insight.
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The Epstein list isn’t like team sports
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 AM
The Epstein list isn’t like team sports
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
We don’t care if it takes down Democrats
We don’t care if it takes down progressives
We don’t care if it takes down our fave celebrity
If you raped children, you must be held accountable
If you trafficked children, same
I don’t care what side you’re on
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I show this tweet to my Guns, Money, and Politics class. and we walk through section by section of US govt institutions/processes to analyze why reform hasn't happened yet or is slow to come about.
What's it gonna be, America?
What's it gonna be, America?
November 13, 2025 at 12:17 PM
I show this tweet to my Guns, Money, and Politics class. and we walk through section by section of US govt institutions/processes to analyze why reform hasn't happened yet or is slow to come about.
What's it gonna be, America?
What's it gonna be, America?
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Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
What the hell did Trudeau do to PP that has him SO obsessed with Trudeau?
CANADA: May correctly calls out Poilievre for stealing from the Trump/Project 2025 playbook again.
Oh, and it’s ANOTHER good day to remind everyone that Poilievre STILL hasn’t done the normal security check, still hasn’t received the standard security clearance that EVERYONE in his position gets.
Oh, and it’s ANOTHER good day to remind everyone that Poilievre STILL hasn’t done the normal security check, still hasn’t received the standard security clearance that EVERYONE in his position gets.
November 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Nothing. Poilievre is just very aware that attacking Trudeau is literally the only thing in politics he’s ever been successful at. So it’s a variation of the old saying “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
Plus, get your security clearance, Poilievre. If you actually can.
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Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.
in case you're wondering how the cope is going www.mediamatters.org/megyn-kelly/...
November 13, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Okay, so, we’re all going to have to agree that it’s wrong to have sex with children. Like, if you don’t agree with me inside your own head, you should keep that inside until you tell a therapist. Also, people who defend pedophiles can not be trusted with your children. At all. AT ALL. EVERRRRRRRRR.
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A quality option for lifting the spirits if you're confronting a first draft this #AcWriMo!
#highered #academicsky #academicchatter #resdev #phdchat
#highered #academicsky #academicchatter #resdev #phdchat
November 12, 2025 at 11:37 PM
A quality option for lifting the spirits if you're confronting a first draft this #AcWriMo!
#highered #academicsky #academicchatter #resdev #phdchat
#highered #academicsky #academicchatter #resdev #phdchat
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Is it significant that many emails highlighted today are from a position of opposition to Trump?
I know that there was animus between these two, but gosh, it sure seems weird that the pedophile rapist king of blackmail who talks about blackmailing the president ended up dead in a federal prison.
I know that there was animus between these two, but gosh, it sure seems weird that the pedophile rapist king of blackmail who talks about blackmailing the president ended up dead in a federal prison.
Ken Starr signed an email to Jeffery Epstein with "hugs"
November 13, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Is it significant that many emails highlighted today are from a position of opposition to Trump?
I know that there was animus between these two, but gosh, it sure seems weird that the pedophile rapist king of blackmail who talks about blackmailing the president ended up dead in a federal prison.
I know that there was animus between these two, but gosh, it sure seems weird that the pedophile rapist king of blackmail who talks about blackmailing the president ended up dead in a federal prison.
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Gender, class, race.
Race, gender, class.
Class, race, gender.
The order doesn't matter but the full house does.
Race, gender, class.
Class, race, gender.
The order doesn't matter but the full house does.
November 12, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Gender, class, race.
Race, gender, class.
Class, race, gender.
The order doesn't matter but the full house does.
Race, gender, class.
Class, race, gender.
The order doesn't matter but the full house does.
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What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
Like I dunno, maybe the reason it took a lady to break open the story of all the men protecting the dude trafficking underage girls is because the male journos were all emailing him making jokes about it?
November 12, 2025 at 9:09 PM
What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks.
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?
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Notably, Canada's 1970s immigration policy allowed Nat Thakkar to set up a factory in Ontario, which is now run by his son Amit. The factory has created countless jobs for Canadians. Unfortunately, Trump's tariffs have hurt their business, which also harms US farmers since Roopa uses US cotton.
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Notably, Canada's 1970s immigration policy allowed Nat Thakkar to set up a factory in Ontario, which is now run by his son Amit. The factory has created countless jobs for Canadians. Unfortunately, Trump's tariffs have hurt their business, which also harms US farmers since Roopa uses US cotton.
Did some woman seriously just block me getting down the fully crammed bus aisle because she needed TO SPRITZ COLOGNE?!
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Did some woman seriously just block me getting down the fully crammed bus aisle because she needed TO SPRITZ COLOGNE?!
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Yay! Thank you @400footghost.bsky.social for this wonderful illustration of my post! bsky.app/profile/mira...
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Yay! Thank you @400footghost.bsky.social for this wonderful illustration of my post! bsky.app/profile/mira...
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This is, again, another meeting at the White House about how to prevent the release of FBI documents about child rape. Think for a second, if you were accused of raping children, would you be convening multiple meetings about how to prevent the release of documents that prove your innocence?
Exclusive: Top Trump administration officials plan to meet today to discuss House efforts to force the release of the Epstein files. https://cnn.it/3WSyk2Y
November 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
This is, again, another meeting at the White House about how to prevent the release of FBI documents about child rape. Think for a second, if you were accused of raping children, would you be convening multiple meetings about how to prevent the release of documents that prove your innocence?
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OPS should not receive another dime until there is documented, judicially reviewed proof they have learned or done a goddamn thing about the Clownvoy
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
OPS should not receive another dime until there is documented, judicially reviewed proof they have learned or done a goddamn thing about the Clownvoy
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Good follow ups would be:
"What reforms have you put in place as a result of the failure to protect this city in 2022?"
"Have officers who sympathized with white supremacists and neo-nazis been purged from the police force?
"What reforms have you put in place as a result of the failure to protect this city in 2022?"
"Have officers who sympathized with white supremacists and neo-nazis been purged from the police force?
November 12, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Good follow ups would be:
"What reforms have you put in place as a result of the failure to protect this city in 2022?"
"Have officers who sympathized with white supremacists and neo-nazis been purged from the police force?
"What reforms have you put in place as a result of the failure to protect this city in 2022?"
"Have officers who sympathized with white supremacists and neo-nazis been purged from the police force?
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Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.
November 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Rape is the distillation of the far-right worldview that Trump embodies: a gleefully sadistic act of domination carried out as fulfillment of a supposedly natural hierarchy. It would be weird if Trump wasn’t a rapist, given his ideological commitments—which is before you get to all the accusations.
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After the third Malibu and Coke...
November 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
After the third Malibu and Coke...
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So many of us probably have intuited this but it bears repeating that the these fools really believe they can overwrite history and facts and gaslight us into believing their version of events that we lived through and witnessed ourselves while insisting on the infallibility of this tech
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
So many of us probably have intuited this but it bears repeating that the these fools really believe they can overwrite history and facts and gaslight us into believing their version of events that we lived through and witnessed ourselves while insisting on the infallibility of this tech
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Rohit Gupta, the TDSB supervisor, will earn $350,000 a year +$20,000 in expenses to get the board “back on track” despite an auditor finding no evidence of financial mismanagement.
supervisor@tdsb.on.ca
rohit.gupta@tdsb.on.ca
A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.
supervisor@tdsb.on.ca
rohit.gupta@tdsb.on.ca
A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Rohit Gupta, the TDSB supervisor, will earn $350,000 a year +$20,000 in expenses to get the board “back on track” despite an auditor finding no evidence of financial mismanagement.
supervisor@tdsb.on.ca
rohit.gupta@tdsb.on.ca
A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.
supervisor@tdsb.on.ca
rohit.gupta@tdsb.on.ca
A former Metrolinx advisor getting things back on track is just perfect.