Justin Sutton 🇨🇦
@justinsutton.bsky.social
Raising strong daughters, spoiling good dogs, and telling stories for a cause. History grad, MSM escapee, nonprofit communicator. Art is everything.
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The never ending austerity loop is the result of policy decisions sold as “for the people.” Populist slogans don’t make for good governance.
Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The Never ending Austerity Loop
Cut taxes, starve services, blame government, repeat
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February 3, 2026 at 6:49 PM
The never ending austerity loop is the result of policy decisions sold as “for the people.” Populist slogans don’t make for good governance.
Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
Public services are crumbling in Ontario because Doug Ford wants them to fail, not because we cant afford them. It doesn’t have to be this way.
The decay of our public institutions is the result of an ideological turn that began more than 40 years ago.
I look at how we abandoned the post-war consensus for a cutters mentality in the 1990s that prioritized the balance sheet and led to our current mess.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
I look at how we abandoned the post-war consensus for a cutters mentality in the 1990s that prioritized the balance sheet and led to our current mess.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
The Narrowing of the Possible
How the West Traded the Post-War Consensus for the Logic of the Market
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January 29, 2026 at 2:33 AM
The decay of our public institutions is the result of an ideological turn that began more than 40 years ago.
I look at how we abandoned the post-war consensus for a cutters mentality in the 1990s that prioritized the balance sheet and led to our current mess.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
I look at how we abandoned the post-war consensus for a cutters mentality in the 1990s that prioritized the balance sheet and led to our current mess.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
The decay of our public institutions didn't happen by accident. It's the result of an ideological pivot that began more than forty years ago.
My latest piece looks at how the West traded a "builder" consensus for the logic of the market. #NeoliberalTurn
justindsutton.substack.com/p/the-narrow...
My latest piece looks at how the West traded a "builder" consensus for the logic of the market. #NeoliberalTurn
justindsutton.substack.com/p/the-narrow...
The Narrowing of the Possible
How the West Traded the Post-War Consensus for the Logic of the Market
open.substack.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The decay of our public institutions didn't happen by accident. It's the result of an ideological pivot that began more than forty years ago.
My latest piece looks at how the West traded a "builder" consensus for the logic of the market. #NeoliberalTurn
justindsutton.substack.com/p/the-narrow...
My latest piece looks at how the West traded a "builder" consensus for the logic of the market. #NeoliberalTurn
justindsutton.substack.com/p/the-narrow...
Is there a single person who still thinks this is about immigration? It was never ever about that and you know it in your heart of hearts.
You’ve been swindled by a fetid carnival barker who’s a front for a deranged Christo-fascist movement backed by men who pray at the alter of money.
You’ve been swindled by a fetid carnival barker who’s a front for a deranged Christo-fascist movement backed by men who pray at the alter of money.
January 24, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Is there a single person who still thinks this is about immigration? It was never ever about that and you know it in your heart of hearts.
You’ve been swindled by a fetid carnival barker who’s a front for a deranged Christo-fascist movement backed by men who pray at the alter of money.
You’ve been swindled by a fetid carnival barker who’s a front for a deranged Christo-fascist movement backed by men who pray at the alter of money.
Canada, Ontario, the world, none of it is broken, which doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do, only that we need to keep our bearings when everything feels unstable and overwhelming, because losing perspective has never helped us get through the seemingly impossible
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The Long History of Carrying On
Why crisis is real, apocalypse is not, and panic has never been a way forward
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January 20, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Canada, Ontario, the world, none of it is broken, which doesn’t mean there isn’t work to do, only that we need to keep our bearings when everything feels unstable and overwhelming, because losing perspective has never helped us get through the seemingly impossible
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
Trying something new because posting on social media doesn't feel like enough and I need a constructive outlet.
We can affect change, together.
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We can affect change, together.
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The Work and the Wonder
What It Takes to Build Power Without Losing Who We Are
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January 14, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Trying something new because posting on social media doesn't feel like enough and I need a constructive outlet.
We can affect change, together.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
We can affect change, together.
open.substack.com/pub/justinds...
Stop normalizing talk of a Trump third term by saying, “well if he can run, so can Obama.”
Third terms are not legally possible.
Fighting fascism 101 - refute their ideas, don’t expand them.
Third terms are not legally possible.
Fighting fascism 101 - refute their ideas, don’t expand them.
October 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Stop normalizing talk of a Trump third term by saying, “well if he can run, so can Obama.”
Third terms are not legally possible.
Fighting fascism 101 - refute their ideas, don’t expand them.
Third terms are not legally possible.
Fighting fascism 101 - refute their ideas, don’t expand them.
This is an astonishing piece of video for a few reasons. 1/7 🧵
September 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is an astonishing piece of video for a few reasons. 1/7 🧵
PP’s win is not inevitable.
Let’s go Battle River - Crowfoot, support a 5th gen service member, retired after 22 years in the Canadian Army.
Bonnie Critchley actually lives and works in the riding and she’ll represent you, not a big party machine that thinks nothing of circumventing your will.
Let’s go Battle River - Crowfoot, support a 5th gen service member, retired after 22 years in the Canadian Army.
Bonnie Critchley actually lives and works in the riding and she’ll represent you, not a big party machine that thinks nothing of circumventing your will.
June 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
PP’s win is not inevitable.
Let’s go Battle River - Crowfoot, support a 5th gen service member, retired after 22 years in the Canadian Army.
Bonnie Critchley actually lives and works in the riding and she’ll represent you, not a big party machine that thinks nothing of circumventing your will.
Let’s go Battle River - Crowfoot, support a 5th gen service member, retired after 22 years in the Canadian Army.
Bonnie Critchley actually lives and works in the riding and she’ll represent you, not a big party machine that thinks nothing of circumventing your will.
May Day: born from the blood & hope of workers fighting for the 8-hour work day in 1886. It’s about justice, equity, & democracy from the ground up.
This year, it lands just after a major political shift. Let's all push Carney & the Liberals to meet this moment & deliver what they promised.
This year, it lands just after a major political shift. Let's all push Carney & the Liberals to meet this moment & deliver what they promised.
May 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
May Day: born from the blood & hope of workers fighting for the 8-hour work day in 1886. It’s about justice, equity, & democracy from the ground up.
This year, it lands just after a major political shift. Let's all push Carney & the Liberals to meet this moment & deliver what they promised.
This year, it lands just after a major political shift. Let's all push Carney & the Liberals to meet this moment & deliver what they promised.
Canadian Conservatives: your dalliance with Alliance/Reform Party ideology needs to end.
The majority of Canadians are not anti-state, anti-science, and hostile to collective social programs like universal healthcare.
Builders like Davis, Lougheed, Clark, & Stanfield offer another way.
The majority of Canadians are not anti-state, anti-science, and hostile to collective social programs like universal healthcare.
Builders like Davis, Lougheed, Clark, & Stanfield offer another way.
April 29, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Canadian Conservatives: your dalliance with Alliance/Reform Party ideology needs to end.
The majority of Canadians are not anti-state, anti-science, and hostile to collective social programs like universal healthcare.
Builders like Davis, Lougheed, Clark, & Stanfield offer another way.
The majority of Canadians are not anti-state, anti-science, and hostile to collective social programs like universal healthcare.
Builders like Davis, Lougheed, Clark, & Stanfield offer another way.
Story time 🧵
Reminder: Trump is the most visible figurehead of a much larger project that began, arguably, with Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Before Goldwater, conservatism was marginalized and seen as reactionary and fringe. It was incoherent and unorganized as a movement.
1/7
Reminder: Trump is the most visible figurehead of a much larger project that began, arguably, with Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Before Goldwater, conservatism was marginalized and seen as reactionary and fringe. It was incoherent and unorganized as a movement.
1/7
April 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Story time 🧵
Reminder: Trump is the most visible figurehead of a much larger project that began, arguably, with Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Before Goldwater, conservatism was marginalized and seen as reactionary and fringe. It was incoherent and unorganized as a movement.
1/7
Reminder: Trump is the most visible figurehead of a much larger project that began, arguably, with Barry Goldwater's 1964 presidential campaign. Before Goldwater, conservatism was marginalized and seen as reactionary and fringe. It was incoherent and unorganized as a movement.
1/7
Now they’re arresting judges.
April 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Now they’re arresting judges.
I think God is right.
I’ve been kicking around for a while now & one thing I’ve loved is seeing our circle of concern expand. Actually hearing voices that have always been there. As diagnostics & tech advances we’ll likely get to hear & learn from more ppl who are currently left out. That’s fab!
I’ve been kicking around for a while now & one thing I’ve loved is seeing our circle of concern expand. Actually hearing voices that have always been there. As diagnostics & tech advances we’ll likely get to hear & learn from more ppl who are currently left out. That’s fab!
Autism isn’t an epidemic. It's not a disease. It’s a natural variation in how people think…which, frankly, is a relief in a world where most people don't think at all.
April 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I think God is right.
I’ve been kicking around for a while now & one thing I’ve loved is seeing our circle of concern expand. Actually hearing voices that have always been there. As diagnostics & tech advances we’ll likely get to hear & learn from more ppl who are currently left out. That’s fab!
I’ve been kicking around for a while now & one thing I’ve loved is seeing our circle of concern expand. Actually hearing voices that have always been there. As diagnostics & tech advances we’ll likely get to hear & learn from more ppl who are currently left out. That’s fab!
Rapid fire Q&A session (they are not debates) left you feeling empty?
Want to hear Carney actually demonstrate his expertise?
Listen to this.
@profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Want to hear Carney actually demonstrate his expertise?
Listen to this.
@profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Canada’s Role in a Shifting Global Order — with Mark Carney
Podcast Episode · The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · 2025-04-17 · 1h 14m
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April 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Rapid fire Q&A session (they are not debates) left you feeling empty?
Want to hear Carney actually demonstrate his expertise?
Listen to this.
@profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Want to hear Carney actually demonstrate his expertise?
Listen to this.
@profgalloway.com
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...
Please, Carleton, vote this shameless sloganeer out, for a change.
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Please, Carleton, vote this shameless sloganeer out, for a change.
Here’s a great example of normalization. “You know who” isn’t just trying to “stir things up back in D.C.”
It’s literally not safe for any one to cross the US border.
You need to stop denying reality. You must confront it and stop him. Cutsie ads aren’t the solution.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
It’s literally not safe for any one to cross the US border.
You need to stop denying reality. You must confront it and stop him. Cutsie ads aren’t the solution.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here’s a great example of normalization. “You know who” isn’t just trying to “stir things up back in D.C.”
It’s literally not safe for any one to cross the US border.
You need to stop denying reality. You must confront it and stop him. Cutsie ads aren’t the solution.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
It’s literally not safe for any one to cross the US border.
You need to stop denying reality. You must confront it and stop him. Cutsie ads aren’t the solution.
@gavinnewsom.bsky.social
Something I learned from the late great historian of WWII, Dr Carolyn Kay - Germans turned their neighbours in to the Gestapo for virtually no reason at all.
Petty revenge, greed, jealously, grudges, or just having "suspicions" about a neighbour was enough to hand them over.
1/3
Petty revenge, greed, jealously, grudges, or just having "suspicions" about a neighbour was enough to hand them over.
1/3
April 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Something I learned from the late great historian of WWII, Dr Carolyn Kay - Germans turned their neighbours in to the Gestapo for virtually no reason at all.
Petty revenge, greed, jealously, grudges, or just having "suspicions" about a neighbour was enough to hand them over.
1/3
Petty revenge, greed, jealously, grudges, or just having "suspicions" about a neighbour was enough to hand them over.
1/3
My sincere hope is that, if Carney wins, he delivers on his big ideas (housing plan, national defense, dropping inter-provincial trade barriers etc.). If he does, he will energize this nation in a way unseen before. If he does not, the consequences will be unspeakably ugly.
I hope he gets this. 🙏
I hope he gets this. 🙏
April 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
My sincere hope is that, if Carney wins, he delivers on his big ideas (housing plan, national defense, dropping inter-provincial trade barriers etc.). If he does, he will energize this nation in a way unseen before. If he does not, the consequences will be unspeakably ugly.
I hope he gets this. 🙏
I hope he gets this. 🙏
Wrong.
All of us are at some point. Admitting you got it wrong may cause discomfort but it's not usually a big deal if you confront it, learn more, make amends if necessary, & change course.
Certitude leads to intolerance leads to violence. That's the kind of wrong we all want to avoid.
All of us are at some point. Admitting you got it wrong may cause discomfort but it's not usually a big deal if you confront it, learn more, make amends if necessary, & change course.
Certitude leads to intolerance leads to violence. That's the kind of wrong we all want to avoid.
April 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Wrong.
All of us are at some point. Admitting you got it wrong may cause discomfort but it's not usually a big deal if you confront it, learn more, make amends if necessary, & change course.
Certitude leads to intolerance leads to violence. That's the kind of wrong we all want to avoid.
All of us are at some point. Admitting you got it wrong may cause discomfort but it's not usually a big deal if you confront it, learn more, make amends if necessary, & change course.
Certitude leads to intolerance leads to violence. That's the kind of wrong we all want to avoid.
You know you’re in a cult when you actually believe you should listen to someone - support them even - when their actions are actively and purposefully hurting people.
It’s not just okay to withdraw your support, it’s actually necessary.
It’s not just okay to withdraw your support, it’s actually necessary.
April 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
You know you’re in a cult when you actually believe you should listen to someone - support them even - when their actions are actively and purposefully hurting people.
It’s not just okay to withdraw your support, it’s actually necessary.
It’s not just okay to withdraw your support, it’s actually necessary.
Still astounded that anyone voted for this. Or, worse, didn't bother to vote at all. And they absolutely did vote for it. The warnings were legion and they were ignored.
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Still astounded that anyone voted for this. Or, worse, didn't bother to vote at all. And they absolutely did vote for it. The warnings were legion and they were ignored.