Theo Dyck
@theodyck.bsky.social
Anabaptist Christian, social democrat, Canadian, infrastructure & urban planning nerd
Here is the SS United States. Built in 1951 to be the world's fastest transatlantic ocean liner, it is pictured here on February 19, 2025 (the day before Trump's inauguration) leaving Philadelphia under tow, on its way to Florida where it will be deliberately sunk to form an artificial reef.
March 15, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Here is the SS United States. Built in 1951 to be the world's fastest transatlantic ocean liner, it is pictured here on February 19, 2025 (the day before Trump's inauguration) leaving Philadelphia under tow, on its way to Florida where it will be deliberately sunk to form an artificial reef.
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A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S.
It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks.
The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore
It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks.
The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore
«Es ist schrecklich»: Deutscher Tourist wollte mit einem Esta über Mexiko in die USA einreisen – jetzt sitzt er in Abschiebehaft
Der Deutsche Lucas Sielaff befindet sich in US-Abschiebehaft. Er wollte mit einem Esta einreisen. Es ist der zweite Fall dieser Art innerhalb kurzer Zeit. Seine Verlobte äussert sich besorgt.
www.tagesanzeiger.ch
March 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A second German tourist is being held in a detention centre after having her Visa revoked by the U.S.
It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks.
The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore
It’s the same detention centre holding Jessica Brösche, the German tattoo artist who spent 8 days in solitary. She’s been held for 6 weeks.
The U.S. is not a safe place to travel anymore
Hey 🇺🇸, the world needs you to put sand in the gears of your government. Any sand you can grab, any gears you can reach. Even something as seemingly minor as this counts.
March 4, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Hey 🇺🇸, the world needs you to put sand in the gears of your government. Any sand you can grab, any gears you can reach. Even something as seemingly minor as this counts.
Earlier this week my family buried my grandmother. She was born in the Ukrainian SSR right into the teeth of the Holodomor, and remembered always being hungry as a child. Today, her village in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast is near the front line in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Earlier this week my family buried my grandmother. She was born in the Ukrainian SSR right into the teeth of the Holodomor, and remembered always being hungry as a child. Today, her village in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast is near the front line in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
The Concert of Europe (1815-1914) mostly kept Europe's borders stable for 99 years, and facilitated unprecedented economic development (and brutal colonialism!) as the scale of armed conflicts during this time was limited.
March 1, 2025 at 6:08 PM
The Concert of Europe (1815-1914) mostly kept Europe's borders stable for 99 years, and facilitated unprecedented economic development (and brutal colonialism!) as the scale of armed conflicts during this time was limited.
This gives me anxiety. 🇺🇸 considering moving to 🇨🇦 for safety, you may need to look overseas. Remember that Otto Frank moved his family from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933 for safety, and that didn't work out well for them at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Trump's talk about Canada parrots Putin's claims on Ukraine | CBC News
Donad Trump's threats and claims about Canada may be unprecedented in the history of U.S.-Canada relations. But they have a strong precedent elsewhere in recent history: They closely resemble remarks ...
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February 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
This gives me anxiety. 🇺🇸 considering moving to 🇨🇦 for safety, you may need to look overseas. Remember that Otto Frank moved his family from Germany to the Netherlands in 1933 for safety, and that didn't work out well for them at all.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
February 18, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
February 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
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Canadians are resolute on buying more Canadian products and less American, but get this: 9/10 of people who vote Liberal, NDP and EVEN BQ will buy more Canadian… while 75% of Cons will. Even separatists are more patriotic than Cons!
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
MSN
www.msn.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Canadians are resolute on buying more Canadian products and less American, but get this: 9/10 of people who vote Liberal, NDP and EVEN BQ will buy more Canadian… while 75% of Cons will. Even separatists are more patriotic than Cons!
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
www.msn.com/en-ca/news/c...
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"Don't say that, people might despair!"
Look, if telling the truth about liberal democracy -- it's gone, we gotta start over -- encourages people to give up on liberal democracy, then they don't deserve liberal democracy.
Look, if telling the truth about liberal democracy -- it's gone, we gotta start over -- encourages people to give up on liberal democracy, then they don't deserve liberal democracy.
February 12, 2025 at 4:19 PM
"Don't say that, people might despair!"
Look, if telling the truth about liberal democracy -- it's gone, we gotta start over -- encourages people to give up on liberal democracy, then they don't deserve liberal democracy.
Look, if telling the truth about liberal democracy -- it's gone, we gotta start over -- encourages people to give up on liberal democracy, then they don't deserve liberal democracy.
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Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon an exasperated general bangs a table with his fist and says to his assembled co-conspirators "Damn it, 500 extremely detailed plans on how to remove a President who has gone insane but every single one of them requires the President to be a socialist"
February 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Somewhere deep in the bowels of the Pentagon an exasperated general bangs a table with his fist and says to his assembled co-conspirators "Damn it, 500 extremely detailed plans on how to remove a President who has gone insane but every single one of them requires the President to be a socialist"
"Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!"
(The Simpsons, S06E05 Sideshow Bob Roberts, 1994)
(The Simpsons, S06E05 Sideshow Bob Roberts, 1994)
February 10, 2025 at 11:43 PM
"Your guilty conscience may force you to vote Democratic, but deep down you secretly long for a cold-hearted Republican to lower taxes, brutalize criminals, and rule you like a king!"
(The Simpsons, S06E05 Sideshow Bob Roberts, 1994)
(The Simpsons, S06E05 Sideshow Bob Roberts, 1994)
Christian Nationalism is like trying to baptize a bald eagle.
It’s not what Jesus asked us to do, it’s probably illegal, and it hurts everyone involved.
(H/T @sethjpierce.bsky.social)
It’s not what Jesus asked us to do, it’s probably illegal, and it hurts everyone involved.
(H/T @sethjpierce.bsky.social)
February 8, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Christian Nationalism is like trying to baptize a bald eagle.
It’s not what Jesus asked us to do, it’s probably illegal, and it hurts everyone involved.
(H/T @sethjpierce.bsky.social)
It’s not what Jesus asked us to do, it’s probably illegal, and it hurts everyone involved.
(H/T @sethjpierce.bsky.social)
1/ At the beginning of 2025, only two presidential republics had maintained uninterrupted democratic governance since 1945: the USA, and Costa Rica. Right now, I think it's reasonable to say that only Costa Rica belongs on that list, as the separation of powers in the USA appears to have collapsed.
February 6, 2025 at 3:11 AM
1/ At the beginning of 2025, only two presidential republics had maintained uninterrupted democratic governance since 1945: the USA, and Costa Rica. Right now, I think it's reasonable to say that only Costa Rica belongs on that list, as the separation of powers in the USA appears to have collapsed.
Brave Sir Donald ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When others' tariffs he did see,
His own tariffs did suddenly flee.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When others' tariffs he did see,
His own tariffs did suddenly flee.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
February 4, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Brave Sir Donald ran away.
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When others' tariffs he did see,
His own tariffs did suddenly flee.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
("No!")
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!")
When others' tariffs he did see,
His own tariffs did suddenly flee.
("I never!")
Yes, brave Sir Donald turned about
And gallantly he chickened out.
("You're lying!")
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NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.
February 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.
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I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I will be thinking about this tweet for the next four years
The idea that the private sector can do everything the public sector does, but better and cheaper, is the Right's Lysenkoism.
Privatize everything so they can make money off everything and gouge the people for everything. The dismantling of our government and society and leaving behind the most vulnerable.
February 1, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The idea that the private sector can do everything the public sector does, but better and cheaper, is the Right's Lysenkoism.
You know how abusers isolate their victims from supportive friends and family?
Anyhow, the Trump administration is damaging ties with most of America's traditional trade partners with tariffs right now. Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Taiwan…
Anyhow, the Trump administration is damaging ties with most of America's traditional trade partners with tariffs right now. Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Taiwan…
January 31, 2025 at 10:08 PM
You know how abusers isolate their victims from supportive friends and family?
Anyhow, the Trump administration is damaging ties with most of America's traditional trade partners with tariffs right now. Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Taiwan…
Anyhow, the Trump administration is damaging ties with most of America's traditional trade partners with tariffs right now. Canada, Mexico, Europe, Japan, Taiwan…
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This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
January 30, 2025 at 12:14 AM
This Hannah Arendt quote feels appropriate right now
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty."
The first North American abolitionist document, the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery, opposed the existence of slavery partially on the grounds that it led to family separation among enslaved people, thereby violating the Golden Rule.
January 28, 2025 at 10:22 PM
The first North American abolitionist document, the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery, opposed the existence of slavery partially on the grounds that it led to family separation among enslaved people, thereby violating the Golden Rule.
What are the odds that ICE was trying to deport Venezuelans to Colombia, and that's why Colombia wouldn't accept the American deportation flight? (And then, in a fit of pique, Trump started a tariff war with Colombia…)
January 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
What are the odds that ICE was trying to deport Venezuelans to Colombia, and that's why Colombia wouldn't accept the American deportation flight? (And then, in a fit of pique, Trump started a tariff war with Colombia…)