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Michael D🇨🇦
@michaeld249.bsky.social
Canadian dad of two boys, husband, official cook in my household. Urbanism, outdoors, fly fishing, and leaving the earth in better condition that it was given to me. Born @ 323 ppm.
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Congressman Henry Cuellar was indicted for money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy, allegedly taking about $600,000, mostly from Azerbaijan, to influence U.S. policy.

President Donald Trump pardoned Cuellar, because Trump supports money laundering, bribery, and conspiracy.
Trump announces a pardon of Henry Cuellar: "I am hereby announcing my full and unconditional PARDON of beloved Texas Congressman Henry Cuellar, and Imelda. Henry, I don’t know you, but you can sleep well tonight — Your nightmare is finally over!"
December 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!

Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.

City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Whatever.
(That said, delighted to see my pal @aimeemann.bsky.social hanging out there in the photo)
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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With alt text.
Ontario is heading towards another Walkerton disaster. People died. People became chronically ill. It will happen again.
December 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Yes, Trump is also a mobster. He has no loyalty to the United States.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Abandoning Ukraine would cost Europe $1.4–$1.8 trillion. Kyiv's victory is estimated $606–$972 billion, roughly half the price, according to Norwegian study

Kremlin win would shift Russian pressure toward the Baltics, demanding massive NATO buildup
euromaidanpress.com/2025/12/01/s...
Study reveals Europe’s real choice on Ukraine: $972 billion for victory, or $1.8 trillion when Russia comes for Baltics
Abandoning Ukraine will cost twice as much as saving it.
euromaidanpress.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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One Afghan immigrant shoots two National Guard members, MAGA insists that all immigration from "Third World" (Read: Brown countries) is immediately and permanently halted.
Young white American males gun down dozens of school children each year, MAGA insists we make it easier for them to get guns.
December 1, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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We need to criticize and hold our own to account with kindness and honesty. But we need to do it in a way that doesn't cause wider public division or create further divides for the marginalized.

Crabs in a bucket is real. Don't be a crab.
a bucket filled with crabs and noodles with the letters ks on the bottom
ALT: a bucket filled with crabs and noodles with the letters ks on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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Congrats to Paul Meek and Kichesippi Beer on the opening of The Commons at 187 Sparks Street today! Stop by for a beer or coffee and snacks, and be sure to check out their bottle shop, also featuring all-Canadian wines. A great addition to Sparks Street.
December 1, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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The looting of aid in Gaza by "humanitarian rights organisations-backed Hamas" was -of course- actually by Israel, because Israel lies, Western media just prints it, and now a year later the rectification is published after the Palestinians are dead already.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says
Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Pedestrian struck by motorist on Parkside a block from the speed camera that vigilantes kept tearing down that caused ford to remove them from all Ontario. Drive as you wish Ontario. Nobody matters. This is what you voted for.
November 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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The House of Commons UNANIMOUSLY passed the oil tanker moratorium in northwest B.C. in 1972 because they knew how sensitive the coast is and how dangerous the waters are. An oil spill there will be catastrophic. Economic development is one thing - being reckless and short-sighted quite another.
became.law
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Each day a Liberal or NDP representative should call Doug Ford and his government corrupt and be ejected, just to continue driving home the point. Because it’s the truth.
Today, Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles got kicked out of the legislature for calling it like it is. Enough is enough! I followed Marit out, and will stand with all of you, and all of my colleagues until this Government is held to account. If you agree with Marit, sign here: iagreewithmaritstiles.ca
November 20, 2025 at 12:50 PM
BREAKING: Doug Ford is rushing through his attack on renters, Bill 60. No on can afford a place to live and the cost of rent is sky-high. Bill 60 will make it easier for corporate landlords to raise rents and evict you. Join in me in taking a stand. #onpoli
November 20, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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This @clareblackwood.bsky.social sketch is going to keep being relevant.
November 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Good to see restaurant product developers turning to food cultures that know what they're doing, as opposed to VC-funded, influencer-touted SM darlings whose products taste like obfuscated laboratory-produced sadness.
November 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Happy Birthday, Neil!

My first record of yours is still my favourite.

My favourite song from my favourite album.

Acquired as a B-side to "Little Thing Called Love", THIS should have been the single.

You R in control...

#NeilYoung80

youtu.be/hQfgnooX72g?...
We R In Control
YouTube video by Neil Young - Topic
youtu.be
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I...did not know about this danger. But turns out that renewables* are the answer for this, too.

"Unlike..fossil fuels or nuclear power, which add to our waste energy burden, renewable energy sources intercept energy that is already on its way to Earth, rather than producing additional waste heat."
There’s a deeper problem hiding beneath global warming | Aeon Essays
Even if we ‘solve’ global warming, we face an older, slower problem. Waste heat could radically alter Earth’s future
aeon.co
November 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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This one has really struck a chord.

Every government treated physician supply as someone else’s problem, until it became everyone’s.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Was simply riding his bike to school.
What are we doing? Seriously.
This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.
November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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This is abhorrent. We should not be harvesting old growth trees for biomass pellets.
Official data from government of British Columbia, along with satellite monitoring, backs claims that a Canadian subsidiary owned by Drax sourced 250-year-old trees to manufacture biomass pellets as recently as this year

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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meanwhile in Canada
This is the Canadian Premier League soccer finals and we have a bicycle kick goal in the middle of a blizzard … and that’s the most Canadian thing I’ve ever seen 😂
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Government attorneys filed a layout of the Broadview facility and in court, brought up the fact that there are showers at the processing center, but they do not work.

"One is reminded of Auschwitz. There were showers there that didn't work, too." - Judge Robert Gettleman

American Auschwitz is here
Witnesses testify to alleged unsanitary, squalid conditions inside Broadview ICE facility
The question on Tuesday was, what happens inside the walls of the Broadway immigration detention center where attorneys, politicians and protesters have been turned away? The stories from court are sh...
abc7chicago.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Funded by you, the Ottawa taxpayer.
November 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM