Ernest Walker
@emwalker.bsky.social
Nova Scotia and Canada eh, politics, history and music turn my crank
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It's an artisanal recession
April 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It's an artisanal recession
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Worst Dallas Fed manufacturing survey since 2020:
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
April 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Worst Dallas Fed manufacturing survey since 2020:
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
New orders collapse.
Prices paid soars.
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April 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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Hey Marco ...
April 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Hey Marco ...
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“Department of Government Efficiency.”
April 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
“Department of Government Efficiency.”
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From a cousin in red Virginia
April 18, 2025 at 6:12 PM
From a cousin in red Virginia
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How do you send an innocent man - Abrego Garcia -to an El Salvadoran prison, get ordered by the highest court to return him and then simply refuse to.And get away with it.It’s unfathomable how people are just ignoring this human rights crisis.
Wake up America.This could be anyone - including you.
Wake up America.This could be anyone - including you.
April 15, 2025 at 1:54 AM
How do you send an innocent man - Abrego Garcia -to an El Salvadoran prison, get ordered by the highest court to return him and then simply refuse to.And get away with it.It’s unfathomable how people are just ignoring this human rights crisis.
Wake up America.This could be anyone - including you.
Wake up America.This could be anyone - including you.
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Canada has a chance to turn U.S. brain drain into brain gain: CMA #Canada
Many American medical professionals, feeling undervalued due to mass layoffs & cuts to health programs and research positions under the Trump administration, may be seeking new opportunities.
globalnews.ca/news/1112503...
Many American medical professionals, feeling undervalued due to mass layoffs & cuts to health programs and research positions under the Trump administration, may be seeking new opportunities.
globalnews.ca/news/1112503...
Canada has a chance to turn U.S. brain drain into brain gain: CMA - National | Globalnews.ca
Canada should seize the opportunity to turn the U.S. brain drain of doctors and scientists into its own brain gain, the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) said.
globalnews.ca
April 10, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Canada has a chance to turn U.S. brain drain into brain gain: CMA #Canada
Many American medical professionals, feeling undervalued due to mass layoffs & cuts to health programs and research positions under the Trump administration, may be seeking new opportunities.
globalnews.ca/news/1112503...
Many American medical professionals, feeling undervalued due to mass layoffs & cuts to health programs and research positions under the Trump administration, may be seeking new opportunities.
globalnews.ca/news/1112503...
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Carney:
"The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership, when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of goods and services, is over."
"The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership, when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of goods and services, is over."
April 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Carney:
"The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership, when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of goods and services, is over."
"The 80 year period when the United States embraced the mantle of global economic leadership, when it forged alliances rooted in trust and mutual respect, and championed the free and open exchange of goods and services, is over."
Not only incompetent but analytically lazy
ayfkm
james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
"...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."
April 3, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Not only incompetent but analytically lazy
Liberation day must mean - you are being liberated from your retirement portfolio.
April 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Liberation day must mean - you are being liberated from your retirement portfolio.
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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 9:19 AM
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 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Come to Canada and enjoy the free health care and sanity in politics and governance
The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
March 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Come to Canada and enjoy the free health care and sanity in politics and governance
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The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The human capital flight from the U.S. is well underway.
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When you've lost Brit Hume....
March 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
When you've lost Brit Hume....
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Good god.
-The new PM of US's neighbor, NATO ally, and #1 trading partner. This PM was also a college hockey goalie—in the US. [Harvard]
-Making a flat-out ridiculing video about who is "really" Canadian. On his official account.
-And knowing it will pay off
Heckuva a job, Trumpie!
-The new PM of US's neighbor, NATO ally, and #1 trading partner. This PM was also a college hockey goalie—in the US. [Harvard]
-Making a flat-out ridiculing video about who is "really" Canadian. On his official account.
-And knowing it will pay off
Heckuva a job, Trumpie!
March 22, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Good god.
-The new PM of US's neighbor, NATO ally, and #1 trading partner. This PM was also a college hockey goalie—in the US. [Harvard]
-Making a flat-out ridiculing video about who is "really" Canadian. On his official account.
-And knowing it will pay off
Heckuva a job, Trumpie!
-The new PM of US's neighbor, NATO ally, and #1 trading partner. This PM was also a college hockey goalie—in the US. [Harvard]
-Making a flat-out ridiculing video about who is "really" Canadian. On his official account.
-And knowing it will pay off
Heckuva a job, Trumpie!
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The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The UK has now issued a travel warning for the US: possible arrest or detention for failing to meet entry requirements.
There are literally thousands of these stories being told.
“A tourist held in the US for 19 days was removed in chains like Hannibal Lecter …
Parents Paul and Andrea Burke, of Portskewett, Monmouthshire, said their daughter was "traumatised" after being taken in "leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs".
There are just no words.
Parents Paul and Andrea Burke, of Portskewett, Monmouthshire, said their daughter was "traumatised" after being taken in "leg chains, waist chains and handcuffs".
There are just no words.
Welsh tourist in US chained 'like Hannibal Lecter'
Becky Burke's parents say her legs, waist and hands were secured by US immigration officers.
www.bbc.com
March 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
There are literally thousands of these stories being told.
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Proceeding apace into the "find out" phase. Trump's decisions have undermined 70 years of American investment in a matter of weeks, leading to significant economic and security declines for the US.
BREAKING: “United States arms-makers are being frozen out of the European Union’s massive new defense spending plan, which aims to splash the cash for EU and allied countries, according to defense spending plans released Wednesday.”
EU slams the door on US in colossal defense plan
Bloc aims to build up military-industrial complex to deter Russia and brace for the U.S. shift away from Europe.
www.politico.eu
March 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Proceeding apace into the "find out" phase. Trump's decisions have undermined 70 years of American investment in a matter of weeks, leading to significant economic and security declines for the US.
They are coming after anyone with views not consistent with MAGA. America is no longer a democracy - buckle up for the upcoming rebellion and civil war in the coming months.
From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
They are coming after anyone with views not consistent with MAGA. America is no longer a democracy - buckle up for the upcoming rebellion and civil war in the coming months.
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Today in “The Big, Beautiful Bill” newsletter —
Yale Budget Lab stacked cuts to SNAP + Medicaid on top of extending the Trump tax cuts.
Result: Major transfer of wealth to the richest taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Yale Budget Lab stacked cuts to SNAP + Medicaid on top of extending the Trump tax cuts.
Result: Major transfer of wealth to the richest taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
March 19, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Today in “The Big, Beautiful Bill” newsletter —
Yale Budget Lab stacked cuts to SNAP + Medicaid on top of extending the Trump tax cuts.
Result: Major transfer of wealth to the richest taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Yale Budget Lab stacked cuts to SNAP + Medicaid on top of extending the Trump tax cuts.
Result: Major transfer of wealth to the richest taxpayers.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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ANY REPUBLICAN: so let me get this straight… you want ME… to go fuck MYSELF?
CROWD: [roars in approval]
CROWD: [roars in approval]
NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!”
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
@USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?”
NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY*
(not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)
March 19, 2025 at 12:19 AM
ANY REPUBLICAN: so let me get this straight… you want ME… to go fuck MYSELF?
CROWD: [roars in approval]
CROWD: [roars in approval]
This is great
The view from Australia of today's announcement by Prime Minister Mark Carney. h/t @socialmedialab.ca
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Australia's 'biggest defence export' was meant for the US first, but Canada snuck past Trump
For months, senior officials have been discussing exporting Australia's world-leading JORN radar technology to the United States, but after Donald Trump's return to the White House, Canada saw an oppo...
www.abc.net.au
March 19, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This is great