David A. Barry
@d-bear.bsky.social
In training to teach English as a Second Language to newcomers to Canada. Feel strongly that it’s okay to use the “F” word.
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The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
January 26, 2026 at 4:17 PM
The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember:
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
- Organized a city wide general strike
- Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence
- Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE
- Flipped public opinion against ICE
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota
On January 7, 2026 ICE agents shot and killed Renee Nicole Good amid a sweeping immigration crackdown. On January 24, ICU Nurse and legal observer Alex Jeffrey Pretti was also shot and killed by ICE a...
chuffed.org
January 26, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Support frontline organizers demanding justice and shutting down ICE in Minnesota chuffed.org/project/supp...
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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The inclusion of Kyle Rittenhouse in this @deadder.bsky.social cartoon really brings home the deep hypocrisy
January 25, 2026 at 8:15 PM
The inclusion of Kyle Rittenhouse in this @deadder.bsky.social cartoon really brings home the deep hypocrisy
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😂😂😂
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdami advises New Yorkers to stay home and read ‘Heated Rivalry’ during the winter storm
via hearts530
via hearts530
January 25, 2026 at 8:49 PM
😂😂😂
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They should give next year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the people of the Twin Cities.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
They should give next year’s Nobel Peace Prize to the people of the Twin Cities.
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On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
January 23, 2026 at 10:29 PM
On a downtown street in Minneapolis, as people stream out from the massive march, Mary Tyler Moore says “fuck ice.”
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Canadians deserve to have a say over if, how, and to what extent AI is part of our future. The government is only listening to industry voices and that needs to change.
That's why I'm participating in the People's Consultation on AI, and I *strongly* encourage you to do the same.
That's why I'm participating in the People's Consultation on AI, and I *strongly* encourage you to do the same.
A civil society initiative to advance AI law, policy, and regulation centred around human rights and the public interest
www.peoplesaiconsultation.ca
January 22, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Canadians deserve to have a say over if, how, and to what extent AI is part of our future. The government is only listening to industry voices and that needs to change.
That's why I'm participating in the People's Consultation on AI, and I *strongly* encourage you to do the same.
That's why I'm participating in the People's Consultation on AI, and I *strongly* encourage you to do the same.
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This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
January 17, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This week’s Just for Skeets and Giggles is out! Have a great weekend. open.substack.com/pub/statusku...
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You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
✅ @icegov.bsky.social has been verified by @bsky.app.
January 16, 2026 at 11:59 PM
You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Rick Steves is one helluva guy...
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.
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December 21, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Rick Steves is one helluva guy...
The Swedish Academy should confuse the living hell out of Trump by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
October 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
The Swedish Academy should confuse the living hell out of Trump by awarding him the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Come for the pancake breakfast, stay for the measles!
Keep babies, high risk Albertans away from Stampede due to measles, doctors caution | CBC News
As the Calgary Stampede kicks off, health experts are warning about the risk of measles exposure and are urging parents with babies and unimmunized children – along with other vulnerable Albertans – ...
www.cbc.ca
July 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Come for the pancake breakfast, stay for the measles!
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“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter. To count. To stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
- Leo Roston
- Leo Roston
June 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be honourable, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter. To count. To stand for something. To have it make some difference that you lived at all.”
- Leo Roston
- Leo Roston
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hey! Haymarket is making our book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement FREE in ebook form for the next 12 days!
hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!
hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!
FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police
In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...
www.haymarketbooks.org
June 9, 2025 at 8:06 PM
hey! Haymarket is making our book No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement FREE in ebook form for the next 12 days!
hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!
hopefully it's very clear this book is not about making money (& it won't 😂) lol so please tell everyone to download it if they want!
And while there, he will unilaterally declare Alberta’s independence.
May 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
And while there, he will unilaterally declare Alberta’s independence.
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Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
Rock’n’roll legend makes series of blistering speeches on stage in Manchester, targeting ‘corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration’
Bruce Springsteen has made a series of rousing, splenetic speeches castigating Donald Trump and his administration, calling the president “unfit” for office.
In what amounts to one of the most sustained attacks on Trump and American lawmakers from a cultural figure, he made the speeches on stage in Manchester, as he opened his Land of Hope and Dreams tour with the E Street Band.
There’s some very weird, strange and dangerous shit going on out there right now. In America, they are persecuting people for using their right to free speech and voicing their dissent. This is happening now.
In America, the richest men are taking satisfaction in abandoning the world’s poorest children to sickness and death. This is happening now. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Bruce Springsteen says Trump is running ‘rogue government’ and ‘siding with dictators’
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Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
May 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Pedro Pascal reshares video which says the U.S. has become a police state
A state where there is no higher authority
A state where there is no higher authority
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TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
TANK vs TESLA
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
"We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again"
- WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
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Our most devastating weapon as a people
Mark Carney deployed unbelievable levels of blandness in defence of Canada. Blandness like you've never seen.
May 6, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Our most devastating weapon as a people
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Last year I did my episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Pierre Poilievre style.
Turns out the guy isn't entitled to the 19 room mansion, the personal chef and groundskeepers.
#stornowaysquatter
#packtheshack
#punttherunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZH...
Turns out the guy isn't entitled to the 19 room mansion, the personal chef and groundskeepers.
#stornowaysquatter
#packtheshack
#punttherunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZH...
Pierre Poilievre's 19 Room Mansion - Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous (Otawa edition)
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
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May 2, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Last year I did my episode of Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous - Pierre Poilievre style.
Turns out the guy isn't entitled to the 19 room mansion, the personal chef and groundskeepers.
#stornowaysquatter
#packtheshack
#punttherunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZH...
Turns out the guy isn't entitled to the 19 room mansion, the personal chef and groundskeepers.
#stornowaysquatter
#packtheshack
#punttherunt
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ZH...
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This new special edition of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK sucks
March 28, 2025 at 8:29 PM
This new special edition of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK sucks
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From the 1982 MDA telethon, I challenge you to keep the surreal dissonance of this performance of “Jessie’s Girl” from burrowing deep into your brain…
March 25, 2025 at 3:51 AM
From the 1982 MDA telethon, I challenge you to keep the surreal dissonance of this performance of “Jessie’s Girl” from burrowing deep into your brain…