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Adam McDowell
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Toronto-based writer turned communications guy. Mayor of Roncesvalles. adammcdowell.com @a_mcdo on Twitter (dormant). Bassist in @seven_thunders_band (Insta)
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adammcd.bsky.social
November 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Nobody who joins ICE has ever had friends, enjoyed sex, or made another person happy in any way. They’re miserable bastards and they only want to spread their misery, to offload it. They will fail at this, too. Their misery will just get worse.

I have scientific proof of this.
September 27, 2025 at 4:56 AM
adammcd.bsky.social
If only the Toronto Police had some way of knowing in advance where the vandals will strike
September 10, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
All the panics & long features about political correctness & “free speech” on college campuses - with real buy in from centrist pundits at prestigious mags - was always a ruse for this: right-wing control over universities
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jul 24
Linda McMahon on Columbia settlement: "This is a monumental victory for conservatives who wanted to do things on these elite campuses for a long time because we had such far left-leaning professors."
July 24, 2025 at 12:55 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
My fantastic four
Black Sabbath, c. 1971
July 22, 2025 at 11:05 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
They should have called this So You Think You Can Swim
July 14, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Reposted by Adam McDowell
radosh.bsky.social
I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it.

Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...
Q: So I wonder what you think about that, about the phrase “globalize the intifada” and what we've seen as some anti-semitism coming from the left-wing protesters. A: The first thing as you were saying is anti-semitism is a real issue in our city and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. It's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. And I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went for Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open. And he turned back with a chill going up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago. And then just a few weeks ago, I had a conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg who told me that the same door he would keep unlocked for decades is one that he now locks out of a fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And I think that this is something that has to be the focus of the next mayoral administration, is not just talking about it, but tackling it. And these are the conversations that have informed our commitment around increasing funding for anti-hate crime programming by 800% in our Department of Community Safety. To the question of language that's being used. I am someone who I would say am less comfortable with the idea of banning the use of certain words and that I think it is more evocative of a Trump style approach to how to lead a country. And- Q: Does that just make you uncomfortable? Like the phrase globalizing intifada. And like the phrase from the river to the sea, does that make you uncomfortable? Or do you think- A: Okay, those are different. Those are super different. Q: They're not really. A: Those are like different genres. Q: I'm sorry, I'm asking so wrong. Then they're not really different to me. And to some people they are not different. A: I know people for whom those things mean very different things. And to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. And I think what's difficult also is that the very word has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. And as a Muslim man who grew up post-911, I'm all too familiar in the way in which Arabic words can be twisted, can be distorted, can be used to justify any kind of meaning. And I think that's where it leaves me with a sense that what we need to do is focus on keeping Jewish New Yorkers safe. And the question of the permissibility of language is something that I haven't ventured.
June 26, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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philklay.bsky.social
“Across military Reddit forums and enlisted meme pages, Hegseth has become a regular target of satire, often referred to with nicknames such as "DUI Hire," "Whiskey Leaks" and "Kegseth."”

www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Hegseth Works Hard to Portray Himself as a Man of the Troops. They Might Not Be Buying It.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News host and National Guardsman, has attempted to reframe the role of the Pentagon's top civilian leader during his first months on the job, casting himse...
www.military.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reposted by Adam McDowell
notdred.bsky.social
God I am so tired of seeing this same weirdo pronatalist couple in the media all the time
Syril Karn and Dedra Meero
May 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode”: no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)
April 26, 2025 at 1:20 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
I like that it's now canon that Mon Mothma did shots and drunk-danced to EDM at her daughter's wedding. #Andor
a woman in a yellow dress is dancing in front of a disney+ logo
ALT: a woman in a yellow dress is dancing in front of a disney+ logo
media.tenor.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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hamiltonnolan.bsky.social
okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line
April 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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junlper.beer
Trump Calmly Reminds Nation That Desire The Root Of All Suffering
WASHINGTON—Seeking to reassure the public after his latest tariffs sent both U.S. and international markets into free fall, President Donald Trump calmly reminded the nation Thursday that desire is th...
theonion.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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ianboudreau.com
Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements
April 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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normative.bsky.social
Another one for the “economic concerns as a mask for cultural concerns” file. This delusion that manufacturing jobs will come roaring back if we cast the right policy spell isn’t really about that being a desirable economic goal, but about romanticizing Manly Work.
onbluskysku.bsky.social Barrista @onbluskysku.bsky.social · Apr 3
The worst part of this is that even if manufacturing jobs came back because of this (they won’t)
and even if Americans retooled for those jobs (they won’t) those jobs sucked! It’s like demanding to return to being a farming society. People fled that life the instant they could, in the millions!
April 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
Love spotting a tktk in the wild. (iykyk)
April 2, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Reposted by Adam McDowell
jessehawken.bsky.social
The Zone of Pinterest
drewharwell.com Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · Mar 26
Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem making content in front of the imprisoned men of El Salvador's notorious Terrorism Confinement Center mega-prison www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
March 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
That's it, play for boondoggle squared!

I'm sure this is smart and will go well

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta mulling plan to ship pain medication imported from Turkey to Ukraine
The drugs are part of a $70-million deal made in 2022 that is under scrutiny
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
February 25, 2025 at 5:14 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
Sounds like ~somebody~ didn't watch Duck Tales episodes to their heartwarming conclusions
February 21, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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jwherrman.bsky.social
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February 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
Will one of you goddamn nerds please just invent a printer that works?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/t...
Microsoft Says It Has Created a New State of Matter to Power Quantum Computers
Microsoft’s new “topological qubit” is not based on a solid, liquid or gas. It is another phase of matter that many experts did not think was possible.
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
adammcd.bsky.social
My lastest for @thehubcanada.bsky.social — looking at Canada's (diminishing) place in the world of AI.

thehub.ca/2025/02/14/a...
Artificial intelligence was made in Canada. How can we be world leaders once again?
thehub.ca
February 14, 2025 at 7:19 PM