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shimonides
@shimonides.bsky.social
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Thoughts and prayers mostly. Passionately Jewish, legally wed, on the verge of becoming a minor poet or something. Languages! Converted to Minnesota some years back. Founder of http://roguehebrew.org. 🇨🇦
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In my other country, there is a whole museum dedicated to human rights
June 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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Very pleased to cast my first vote ever. Go @chrystia-freeland.bsky.social 🇨🇦 @liberalca.bsky.social
April 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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From @timothysnyder.bsky.social's “On #Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”
3. Beware the one-party state. The parties that remade states and suppressed their rivals were no omnipotent from the start. They exploited a historic moment to make political life impossible for their opponents. Vote in local and state elections while you can.
January 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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From @timothysnyder.bsky.social's "On Tyranny" #2: Choose an institution you care about and take its side. For all their flaws, I have to go with @rollingstone.com @newyorker.com @nytimes.com among many others for their commitment to investigative journalism.
2. Defend institutions. Institutions do not defend themselves. They fall one after th eother unless each is defended from the beginning. Choose an institution you care about -- a court, a newspaper, a law, a labor union -- and take its side
January 21, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Also happened today
A dozen eggs for US$5.69
January 20, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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From Timothy Snyder's On Tyranny: Twenty Lessions from the Twentieth Century.
1. Do not obey in advance. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
January 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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#Octavia is my spirit guide
September 17, 2024 at 12:49 AM
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Thank you, Mom. Thank you Grampy. Thank you Prohibition!
September 9, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Proud, relieved, excited, honoured. I owe it all to Prohibition! My granddad was a rum runner in Maine who moved the family to New Brunswick when the feds started closing in on him. My mother was born there and 92 years later, her son got the affirmation that he has always been 🇨🇦
June 19, 2024 at 5:55 AM