Shannon Gillies
@shannongillies.bsky.social
Southern Ontarian who'd rather be at the beach. Digs books and rabbits. Dislikes fascist maniacs.
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A reminder that none of this is true about AOC, it’s demonstrably and provably untrue, and it’s being pushed by the kind of C-list (ok, D-list?) celebs who flock to Trump and MAGA:
May 28, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A reminder that none of this is true about AOC, it’s demonstrably and provably untrue, and it’s being pushed by the kind of C-list (ok, D-list?) celebs who flock to Trump and MAGA:
So. Much. Corruption.
"With trade negotiations intensifying, Vietnamese officials have allowed the Trump project to break ground without completing at least a half-dozen legally required steps."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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"With trade negotiations intensifying, Vietnamese officials have allowed the Trump project to break ground without completing at least a half-dozen legally required steps."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
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Why Vietnam Ignored Its Own Laws to Fast-Track a Trump Family Golf Complex
www.nytimes.com
May 25, 2025 at 9:21 PM
So. Much. Corruption.
"With trade negotiations intensifying, Vietnamese officials have allowed the Trump project to break ground without completing at least a half-dozen legally required steps."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
@nytimes.com
"With trade negotiations intensifying, Vietnamese officials have allowed the Trump project to break ground without completing at least a half-dozen legally required steps."
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...
@nytimes.com
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Even North Korea is like, "Whoa, whoa, easy, this is gross."
Bondi: "President, you first 100 days has far exceeded that of ANY other presidency in this country. Ever. Ever. Never seen anything like it. Thank you."
April 30, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Even North Korea is like, "Whoa, whoa, easy, this is gross."
FFS!
To try to stave of tariffs, Vietnam is expediting approvals of a $1.5 billion Trump Organization resort www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
Anxious Trading Partners Promise to Buy American to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs
Countries are offering to buy more American goods in a bid to eliminate their trade deficits with the U.S., but not everyone is splurging.
www.wsj.com
April 18, 2025 at 3:13 AM
FFS!
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Maher got Played like a fiddle 🎻
April 12, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Maher got Played like a fiddle 🎻
Everybody realizes China will have the last laugh here, right?
while the markets anticipate (pray for) a pause, trump threatens 50% additional tariffs on china by tomorrow.
April 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Everybody realizes China will have the last laugh here, right?
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Some context for the post-"Liberation Day" market bloodbath: This table shows the largest two-day S&P market drops in history, going back to 1945.
Past two days were worse than the days immediately following the Lehman failure.
Past two days were worse than the days immediately following the Lehman failure.
April 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Some context for the post-"Liberation Day" market bloodbath: This table shows the largest two-day S&P market drops in history, going back to 1945.
Past two days were worse than the days immediately following the Lehman failure.
Past two days were worse than the days immediately following the Lehman failure.
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Updated after market close. S&P 500 is down >15% since Trump took office. See chart for how this compares to same period to date under prior presidential terms.
April 4, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Updated after market close. S&P 500 is down >15% since Trump took office. See chart for how this compares to same period to date under prior presidential terms.
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You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.
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The extent to which the business community has not listened over the last year to precisely what Donald Trump has said is astounding. Like this is the most consistent and foreseeable promise he made:
April 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The extent to which the business community has not listened over the last year to precisely what Donald Trump has said is astounding. Like this is the most consistent and foreseeable promise he made:
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Sign of the day…paid for by the government of Canada in Washington, D.C.
March 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Sign of the day…paid for by the government of Canada in Washington, D.C.
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Greenland is not a failing business ripe to be scooped up by any vulture capitalists who happen by. It doesn't have a price tag; it's not a revenue-generation machine. Out of all the awfulness of the past two months, seeing framings like this from other journalists is among the most heartbreaking.
Scoop: White House officials are studying the costs of taking over Greenland, attempting to determine price-tag to maintain & what revenue could be gained, per sources
Government officials working on Greenland
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Government officials working on Greenland
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump’s sights
It’s the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Greenland is not a failing business ripe to be scooped up by any vulture capitalists who happen by. It doesn't have a price tag; it's not a revenue-generation machine. Out of all the awfulness of the past two months, seeing framings like this from other journalists is among the most heartbreaking.
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Elon Musk couldn't buy the people of Wisconsin. Good day for democracy.
April 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Elon Musk couldn't buy the people of Wisconsin. Good day for democracy.
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I was in a Hyundai auto dealership today. I eavesdropped on some fellow shoppers. Few seemed even slightly aware of what President Trump intends to do to the auto market on April 2. I wonder if any of us have adequately reckoned with the political shock to follow.
March 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
I was in a Hyundai auto dealership today. I eavesdropped on some fellow shoppers. Few seemed even slightly aware of what President Trump intends to do to the auto market on April 2. I wonder if any of us have adequately reckoned with the political shock to follow.
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Look who finally learned the words “Prime Minister”
March 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Look who finally learned the words “Prime Minister”
Oh wow. Fantastic news.
www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...
“Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.”
“Bestselling author Timothy Snyder and historian Marci Shore are on leave from Yale and joined UofT earlier this year.”
UofT hires three prominent Yale professors worried about Trump
Fascism scholar Jason Stanley and historians Timothy Snyder and Marci Shore have taken jobs at the University of Toronto amid concerns about the second Trump administration
www.torontotoday.ca
March 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Oh wow. Fantastic news.
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Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
March 27, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.
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I have just asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election on April 28.
We need to build the strongest economy in the G7. We need to deal with President Trump’s tariffs. Canadians deserve a choice about who should lead that effort for our country.
We need to build the strongest economy in the G7. We need to deal with President Trump’s tariffs. Canadians deserve a choice about who should lead that effort for our country.
March 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I have just asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and call a federal election on April 28.
We need to build the strongest economy in the G7. We need to deal with President Trump’s tariffs. Canadians deserve a choice about who should lead that effort for our country.
We need to build the strongest economy in the G7. We need to deal with President Trump’s tariffs. Canadians deserve a choice about who should lead that effort for our country.
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I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.
Compared to Hungary, Turkey, Venezuela, Poland, Trump is moving MUCH faster, more aggressively, and with broader claim to power. We're not in danger of becoming those autocracies--we're very quickly surpassing them. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook (Gift Article)
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I have said this from the start: the pace and scope of change in America resembles a post-coup situation.
“Think of authoritarianism as a sort of disease: you’ll find ‘preoccupation with the minutiae of the arts’ is on the symptom checker, because authoritarians are prickly and afraid of the potency of the arts, how they affect hearts and minds.”
Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian playbook | Charlotte Higgins
Trump’s weird obsession with the arts is part of the authoritarian playbook | Charlotte Higgins
His focus on the Kennedy Center fits a pattern. From Augustus to Stalin, strongmen have sought cultural control for their own ends, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins
www.theguardian.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Think of authoritarianism as a sort of disease: you’ll find ‘preoccupation with the minutiae of the arts’ is on the symptom checker, because authoritarians are prickly and afraid of the potency of the arts, how they affect hearts and minds.”
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For two decades, John Roberts has methodically plowed the path that allowed us to reach this authoritarian takeover of the country.
BREAKING: Chief Justice Roberts issues a rare statement:
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."
"For more than two centuries, it has been established that impeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision. The normal appellate review process exists for that purpose."
March 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For two decades, John Roberts has methodically plowed the path that allowed us to reach this authoritarian takeover of the country.
I mean....
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
ICE's deportation actions signal that anyone who isn't a US citizen is 'at risk – period,' immigration attorney says.
www.usatoday.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I mean....
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Trump is dismantling democracy right in front of us. He operates on the principle that people will think that if he does it openly and in public, there can't be anything wrong with it. Do not be deceived.
March 15, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Trump is dismantling democracy right in front of us. He operates on the principle that people will think that if he does it openly and in public, there can't be anything wrong with it. Do not be deceived.
Hey, U.S.tourism agencies. You’re missing the whole point. Don’t reach out to us Canadians; reach out to your members of Congress and tell them Trump’s recklessness is losing you money.
#USTourism #travelagencies
#Disneyworld
#FloridaTourism
#usatravel
#travelboycott
#FloridaVacations
#Expedia
#USTourism #travelagencies
#Disneyworld
#FloridaTourism
#usatravel
#travelboycott
#FloridaVacations
#Expedia
March 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Hey, U.S.tourism agencies. You’re missing the whole point. Don’t reach out to us Canadians; reach out to your members of Congress and tell them Trump’s recklessness is losing you money.
#USTourism #travelagencies
#Disneyworld
#FloridaTourism
#usatravel
#travelboycott
#FloridaVacations
#Expedia
#USTourism #travelagencies
#Disneyworld
#FloridaTourism
#usatravel
#travelboycott
#FloridaVacations
#Expedia