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James Keelaghan
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I’m a Juno and CFMA award winning Canadian Singer Songwriter, with a passion for history and travel. My web presence is www.keelaghan.com
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Stay calm, be brave, wait for the signs.
-Jasper Friendly Bear
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Archaeologist here. For 99.5% of human history (ca 300-400,000 years), we were peaceful (no war). There was conflict and smaller scale violence, but countless studies on the 119 known modern hunter gatherer groups show cooperation, negotiation, and peace instead of conflict. Please read books.
Revenge/physical combat was how people settled things for literally millions of years, it's normal human behavior, we're wolves not sheep, the government project trying to social engineer us and domesticate us into sheep has been unsuccessful
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If I was an American, especially a Democratic American, my sense of betrayal would be hard to repress. The gang of 8 are a disgrace
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A vicious, low intelligence thug. Yet the majority of Americans voted for him knowing full well who he is. A complete and utter disgrace.
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Again, as an artist, I’m calling for the Butlerian Jihad.
Excellent essay here on the slow strangling of mass literary culture in the West - most clearly in the US, but it's obviously happening here too
November 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Trump responds to Reagan ad with own commercial featuring Jean Chrétien strangling protestor

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/11/trum...
Trump responds to Reagan ad with own commercial featuring Jean Chrétien strangling protestor
Shawinigan, Quebec - US President Donald Trump has responded to Ford’s anti-tariff commercial with his own anti-protestor commercial featuring previous Canadian prime minister Jean Chrétien.
www.thebeaverton.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Busy busy time for many folk musicians rehearsing/preparing for their autumn/winter tours. The best way to support them is by getting your tickets well in advance both for the artists and the amazing venues and staff - they all work so hard together to bring us the joy that is live music.
October 31, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Great thread! * hums Bandiera Rossa* puts “Matewan” in the DVD player.
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. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
In other words, prepare to sell all that stock you bought at the bottom.
RFK Jr. now says there's 'not sufficient' proof to show Tylenol causes autism https://ca.news.yahoo.com/kennedy-health-chief-says-not-221846948.html

𝗚𝗲𝘁 𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗸𝗹𝘆 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca/newsletter
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Agree
I'm definitely becoming a year zero guy for social media. shut it the fuck down. go back to RSS feeds and vbulletin forums. it should be more costly run a social media platform, doing so should involve more legal exposure, and it should be more difficult to access them.
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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October 27, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Any other way is clearly insane.
When I make a sandwich using bread from a sliced loaf I insist on it being made with two adjacent slices from the loaf. Those dudes have been through a lot together on the way to my plate, so it's only right that their last journey is together, into my gob.
October 26, 2025 at 10:30 PM
I’m not your Average American but, uh, 20 out of 20.
October 26, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yes
Is this country so fucked up that it has no LEGAL means to stop this madman?
October 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Thank you, Chicago.
October 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
People say he’s completing the work of Putin or Xi. But he’s actually finishing the work of Jeff Davis and Robert E Lee.
October 25, 2025 at 12:47 PM
If I may appropriate a Shaw nugget…We are rasped beyond all endurance by Trumpism and its contempt for us, for human happiness and common sense…
October 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
That’s basically what it is going to be it in terms of making music..rich kids. The music industry is not a place you can earn a living any longer.
It wouldn't be so annoying that only the rich kids get to make movies and music if it wasn't so boring. Rich kids simply have nothing to say. Have you sat through the comedy? Just saying nothing! The observation is even so bland. No POV, just beautiful cinematography.
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Take the top rate to 90 percent, where it was when things were”great”.
October 21, 2025 at 5:06 PM
He’ll die the way most tyrants do. His back against the wall.
October 17, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Past Time
October 16, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Canada?
via @marydudziak.bsky.social The Germans are basically funding 3 year asylum professorships for US academics seeking to flee the country for the remainder of the Trump Administration.
New opportunity for professors in the humanities & social sciences in the US: Our Transatlantic Bridge Professorships support research & exchange in Germany & the US (€300,000 for up to 3 years). Apply from Jan 15, 2026. 🌉🇩🇪🇺🇸 More: 👉 www.volkswagenstiftung.de/en/funding/f...
October 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM