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Fierce defender of labour rights.
Human Rights advocate.
Working hard.
Reclaiming all of my time.
Always getting into good trouble.
On Tyranny
No. 5
REMEMBER PROFESSIONAL ETHICS

When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It’s hard to subvert a rule-of-law state without lawyers, or to hold trials without judges
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November 24, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In this ongoing education series we are gonna keep talking about this because we clearly forgot our history lessons.

How Fascism Works
No. 5

HIERARCHY
Fascist politicians attempt to prove natural divisions between “us” and “them.”

~Prof. Jason Stanley
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
The very LAST words ✊🏽💉
November 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
#onTyranny
No.4 Take Responsibility for the Face of the World
November 2, 2025 at 12:41 PM
#HowFascismWorks

No.4 UNREALITY
Facts are debased, and without a common understanding of reality reasoned debate becomes impossible.

From Prof. Jason Stanley
November 2, 2025 at 12:37 PM
🇨🇦 💙 I loved seeing this ginger cutie and his great signs almost more than I enjoyed the game.
I didn’t shed a tear until I saw his despair.
I hope he gets to meet the team and sees World Series win in his lifetime.
#BlueJays #WorldSeries
#WantItAll #Vladdy
November 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
#HowFascismWorks

No. 3 Anti-Intellectual
Universities are branded as incubators of liberalism, Marxism and feminism.
Expertise no longer has any value.

By Jason Stanley
October 17, 2025 at 6:56 PM
20 Lessons From the 20th Century by Professor Timothy Snyder
#onTyranny

No.3 Beware the One-Party State
October 17, 2025 at 6:51 PM
20 Lessons From the 20th Century by Professor Timothy Snyder
#onTyranny

No.2 Defend Institutions
October 6, 2025 at 11:39 AM
#HowFascismWorks

No. 2 PROPAGANDA
The language of democratic ideals takes on corrupted, opposite meanings. Corrupt politicians run anti-corruption campaigns; freedom of speech claims are used to suppress speech.

From Prof. Jason Stanley
October 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
20 Lessons From the 20th Century by Professor Timothy Snyder

Lesson #1 Do Not Obey In Advance

#onTyranny #HowFascismWorks
October 5, 2025 at 5:26 PM
How Fascism Works
A list by Professor Jason Stanley

1. The Mythic Past
“We descend from a glorious, patriarchal past; “they” threaten that legacy.

#HowFascismWorks
October 5, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Beloveds, today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation aka Orange Shirt Day.

On both sides of the colonial border.
I raise my hands to my relatives in the south. May the ancestors watch over them especially today.
🧡🦅🧡🐢🧡
September 30, 2025 at 4:15 PM
I chalk this up to being a lapse on my part.

But I did not have CEO’s of revered American institutions being cowards on my 2025 bingo card.

The Cowards.
Whew lawd, that Ken Burns doc is gonna have to be 40hrs long.
September 22, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This came up in my memories from 2012.

Funny & pathetic all at the same time.

God
Guns
Gays &
Gynaecology
The Republican 4G Network

Some things never change.
September 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The substitution of the word ‘justice’ for ‘accountability’ is sooooo problematic.

It’s what I think Prof Timothy Snyder means by Lesson #9 “Be Kind to Our Language” in 20 Lessons.

We demand justice.
#20Lessons
September 13, 2025 at 11:25 PM
My Bluesky algorithm is a trickster.
September 12, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I’ll just set this here.
September 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I’m old enuf to remember when Stephen Harper defunded any organization that included “advocacy for women” in its mandate. The YWCA said a big FU to that nonsense.

That’s the kind of energy we need right now.

bit.ly/4oczKBK
July 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
A few more companies to add to the BOYCOTT list

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u....
July 30, 2025 at 1:52 AM
FFS, I was just thinking about 5 mins ago “do I need to bring my protest gear when I go to Ottawa next week?”
July 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
July 16, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Happy Juneteenth Fam
💛❤️💚🖤
June 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Hooooollllddd on!!!

The whole what??
Where??
Should be what??

Well, well, well. 😶
May 8, 2025 at 10:59 PM
From 2017 and it is still applicable.

“If u voted for Trump and u tryna celebrate cinco de mayo u better cinco de mind yo fuckin business and leave Mexican culture alone.”

Consider yourself warned.
May 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM