Randy Legault
@rjlegault.bsky.social
Dedicated to support of my beloved wife/PhD. student ( @jstweedie@bsky.social ), I am a retired federal knowledge worker, an iconoclastic autodidact, a grand/step/parental unit to 8 young humans that I love. Currently researching Canadian public policy.
If the parallel interests you, check out Maddow's Ultra podcast. These American fascists have been around for a looong time:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | an MSNBC original podcast
Sitting members of Congress aiding and abetting a plot to overthrow the government. Insurrectionists criminally charged with plotting to end American democracy for good. Justice Department prosecutors...
www.msnbc.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
If the parallel interests you, check out Maddow's Ultra podcast. These American fascists have been around for a looong time:
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
My wife calls Bluesky "bisky"
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My wife calls Bluesky "bisky"
When this unstable regime collapses, you will need a new Constitution that provides, finally, for self-government, aka representative and accountable democracy.
October 31, 2025 at 11:14 AM
When this unstable regime collapses, you will need a new Constitution that provides, finally, for self-government, aka representative and accountable democracy.
She was likely too tyro to go for the heroic dose required to achieve neuroplasticity.
October 30, 2025 at 4:46 PM
She was likely too tyro to go for the heroic dose required to achieve neuroplasticity.
Yes, and I believe we would be further ahead as a society if we treated drug abuse as a (mental) health problem rather than as a moral failing. OTOH, Support for fascism is a failing of morals and of historically informed imagination.
October 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Yes, and I believe we would be further ahead as a society if we treated drug abuse as a (mental) health problem rather than as a moral failing. OTOH, Support for fascism is a failing of morals and of historically informed imagination.
See: the war on drugs. Nouns are implacable enemies.
October 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
See: the war on drugs. Nouns are implacable enemies.
Sure, voting happens, but when Rhode Island gets as many Snators as California, it IS NOT a representative democracy.
October 26, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Sure, voting happens, but when Rhode Island gets as many Snators as California, it IS NOT a representative democracy.
I just did the one click block. My wife went downlist to individually block sub-schmuks
October 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I just did the one click block. My wife went downlist to individually block sub-schmuks
I believe he has us citizenship having obtained it to vote against Trump
October 15, 2025 at 5:17 PM
I believe he has us citizenship having obtained it to vote against Trump
I am sure these historic thugs would all try the Nuremberg defense.
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I am sure these historic thugs would all try the Nuremberg defense.
Oops read "5" as "correct"
My kingdom for an edit feature.
My kingdom for an edit feature.
October 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Oops read "5" as "correct"
My kingdom for an edit feature.
My kingdom for an edit feature.
You are partly 5 I made a common error:
Since 1902, the media, scholars and government persistently mistakenly confused Sons of Freedom with all Canadian Doukhobors when reporting their sensational protests.
Only one sub-group engaged in the violence you cite.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhob...
Since 1902, the media, scholars and government persistently mistakenly confused Sons of Freedom with all Canadian Doukhobors when reporting their sensational protests.
Only one sub-group engaged in the violence you cite.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhob...
Doukhobors - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
October 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
You are partly 5 I made a common error:
Since 1902, the media, scholars and government persistently mistakenly confused Sons of Freedom with all Canadian Doukhobors when reporting their sensational protests.
Only one sub-group engaged in the violence you cite.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhob...
Since 1902, the media, scholars and government persistently mistakenly confused Sons of Freedom with all Canadian Doukhobors when reporting their sensational protests.
Only one sub-group engaged in the violence you cite.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doukhob...
Tha AI chip in his head glitched
October 10, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Tha AI chip in his head glitched
A. People have a right to protest a d express their opposition to government policy.
B. Are you saying that the cost of freedom is too high? What would happen if expensive police mobilization were more restrained. How much money would that save (since it appears that is what you care about most)?
B. Are you saying that the cost of freedom is too high? What would happen if expensive police mobilization were more restrained. How much money would that save (since it appears that is what you care about most)?
October 5, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A. People have a right to protest a d express their opposition to government policy.
B. Are you saying that the cost of freedom is too high? What would happen if expensive police mobilization were more restrained. How much money would that save (since it appears that is what you care about most)?
B. Are you saying that the cost of freedom is too high? What would happen if expensive police mobilization were more restrained. How much money would that save (since it appears that is what you care about most)?
1903 in Canada, when members of a Christian pacifist sect known as the Doukhobors (or “Freedomites”) marched nude in Saskatchewan to protest government oppression. The Doukhobors believed in rejecting materialism and expressed their defiance of state authority by casting off all worldly clothing.
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
1903 in Canada, when members of a Christian pacifist sect known as the Doukhobors (or “Freedomites”) marched nude in Saskatchewan to protest government oppression. The Doukhobors believed in rejecting materialism and expressed their defiance of state authority by casting off all worldly clothing.
I am overdue to say - stop blaming voters. If all eligible voters were allowed to cast ballots and all legally cast ballots were counted, Kamala wins.
@gregpalast.bsky.social has the receipts:
www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
@gregpalast.bsky.social has the receipts:
www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
Trump Lost. Vote Suppression Won.
Here are the numbers...
www.gregpalast.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 AM
I am overdue to say - stop blaming voters. If all eligible voters were allowed to cast ballots and all legally cast ballots were counted, Kamala wins.
@gregpalast.bsky.social has the receipts:
www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
@gregpalast.bsky.social has the receipts:
www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...
As a juror I'd not have indicted, but I am glad for the damning facts to be aired again in open court.
September 29, 2025 at 4:14 AM
As a juror I'd not have indicted, but I am glad for the damning facts to be aired again in open court.
Still face punishing Chinese tariffs on oilseed in the prairies. Just let us have Chinese EVs (built in Canada?) at a less prohibitive tariff.
September 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Still face punishing Chinese tariffs on oilseed in the prairies. Just let us have Chinese EVs (built in Canada?) at a less prohibitive tariff.
Criminologists relay on homicide for trend data since reporting is nearly 100% whereas other offenses, not so much.
September 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Criminologists relay on homicide for trend data since reporting is nearly 100% whereas other offenses, not so much.