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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Week 89 (of 208) 🧵 Winter Is Coming. The War In Ukraine Is Heating Up. It’s obvious to just about everybody now that the Trump administration is aiding Putin in his war against Ukraine, even as Putin is aiding Iran in its fight against the United States. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Week 88 (of 208)🧵 Marco Rubio Reveals the Truth About the New American Mission After the Second World War, the United States assumed the mantle of global leadership, creating programs and institutions intended to foster a peaceful and prosperous future... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Week 87 (of 208) 🧵 To Be Or Not To Be…Did Greenland Just Surrender Its Sovereignty? Is it better to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune – though protected by NATO – or to succumb to Donald Trump’s demands? 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Week 85 (of 208) 🧵 The Fight Is On Mail-in ballots are already being distributed in some states. America’s midterms are less than 60 days away and by all indications, the Republicans are going to be trounced. Deservedly so. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Week 85 (of 208)🧵 Celebrate Labour Day While You Still Can On August 5, 1981, less than 8 months into his first term as president, Ronald Reagan began the process of firing 11,345 air traffic controllers just 48 hours after their 13,000 member union had gone on strike... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Week 84 (of 208) 🧵 Babble On I say Lake Ontario, you say Lake America. The inability to use the same words to indicate the same thing is what happened in Babel. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Week 83 (of 208) 🧵 No Is the Answer Mark Carney, Canada’s Prime Minister, brought home Canada’s trade negotiators from Washington when the Trump team tried to use the urgency of a deal nearly done under the pressure of absurd looming tariffs, to absolutely subvert our sovereignty. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Week 82 (of 208) 🧵 Bring Our Negotiators Home! Dominic LeBlanc and Canada’s team of trade negotiators are burning the midnight oil trying to come to a deal with Donald Trump’s America that will avoid a further – and obscene – ratcheting up of tariffs on Canadian goods exported to the US. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Week 81 (of 208) 🧵 Blanche Wins, You Lose Late Friday night, senators in DC confirmed Todd Blanche as Attorney General by a vote of 50 for and 49 against. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Week 80 (of 208)🧵 Injustice Denied (But Don’t Hold Your Breath) When Donald Trump endorsed Ken Paxton for the Texas Senate seat up for grabs in the midterms, he did so against all common sense, denying the incumbent and much more electable John Cornyn, an opportunity to serve a fifth term. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Week 79 (of 208) Checkup on the Trump Corollary The Trump administration often sets out ambitious agendas that end up falling far short of their goals. Think containing inflation. Think re-establishing US manufacturing dominance. Think Iran. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Week 78 (of 208)🧵 Trump’s Pursuit of Impunity Goes Global Donald Trump has been evading justice in America by any means possible for decades now. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Week 77 (of 208) 🧵 Trump’s Worst Changes to DC: Not the Ballroom. Not the Arch. The Bureaucracy. Each week, each day, sometimes each hour even, brings a new crop of outrages from the Trump administration. The machine gun velocity never stops. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Week 76 (of 208) 🧵 Celebration or Wake? This day, 250 years after the Declaration of Independence, may well go down in history not as a joyful celebration of the triumph of democracy over tyranny, but as a testimony to how easily the former can be subverted... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Week 75 (of 208) 🧵 Here Comes the Antifa Dragnet A man who shot a police officer in the shoulder during a late night protest in front of an ICE facility in northern Texas on July 4, 2025 has been sentenced to 100 years in prison. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Week 74 (of 208) 🧵 A Reflection on the Trump Presidency I would guess that more words have been written about the reflecting pool between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in the past weeks than in all of the years since it opened in 1922. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Week 73 (of 208)🧵 As Trump Surrenders in his War on Iran, He Cements Another Victory in His War on Truth America is an information desert. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Week 72 (of 208) 🧵 Albertans Need A Think Less than 14 months ago, Canadians elected Mark Carney as Prime Minister. Carney took over leadership of the Liberal party at the nadir of its popularity, and in a little over six weeks turned the party’s fortunes around to form a new government. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Week 71 (of 208)🧵 Donald Trump Is Having a Cage Fight to the Death with Democracy 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

WEEK 70 (of 208)🧵 Trump Announces Pardon & Tax Fraud Insurance Subscription In an effort to help America’s wealthiest – and thus most deserving – citizens build a better future for themselves and their families... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

WEEK 69 (of 208) 🧵 So This Is How It Ends? The success of the Republicans party in undermining democracy is undeniable. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

WEEK 68 (of 208) 🧵 Two Birds, One Choice I listen to a lot of podcasts, many of which are pretty left-leaning. I usually skip the ads, but if I am driving or just out for a run, this can be too bothersome, and so I let the ads play. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

WEEK 67 (of 208) 🧵 SCOTUS Decides for White Supremacy This week, the Supreme Court of the United States significantly set back the struggle for racial equality in America – more or less by denying its existence! 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

WEEK 66 (of 208)🧵 Take Off, Eh! They really don’t get it. They threw away their leading global position and initiated a downward spiral that has resulted in a total abdication of respect, fealty, and power. And then they demand respect, fealty, and power. Hey Donald, it doesn’t work that way. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

WEEK 65 (of 208) The Ninth War He Ends 🧵 He’s ended eight already, in case you haven’t heard. This ninth one, the one he started because his friend/blackmailer Bibi realized he was about to lose his last opportunity to bomb the living shit out of one of his many enemies because, god forbid... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Orban is out! One for the good people.

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

WEEK 64 (of 208) 🧵 Too Stupid to Live? I’ve met a few people in the course of my life for whom it seemed a miracle they had not drowned while brushing their teeth. Humanity as a whole is rife with people who really shouldn’t be entrusted with a butter knife. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

WEEK 63 (of 208)🧵 The Trump Legacy If by some miracle Donald Trump was to wake tomorrow to govern in a sound and reasonable way, to advance the interests of his nation and humanity, history would still record that his most notable achievement... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

WEEK 62 (of 208) 🧵 Reflections on a Witless Slogan Yesterday, while driving through a well-heeled neighbourhood in Toronto’s west end, the rear window of the car in front of me bore a number of prominent stickers that I couldn’t make out at first... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

WEEK 61 (of 208)🧵 Putin Wins, America Loses, Iran Suffers, We All Pay the Price The war in Ukraine might have been over some time ago had Trump not abandoned America’s post-WWII commitment to stand with European democracies and help keep Russia at bay. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

WEEK 60 (of 208) 🧵 America May Not Survive, But He Will Survival of the fittest is the simple rule by which life has evolved over billions of years. Fittest means different things depending on the circumstances in which one finds oneself. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

WEEK 59 (of 208) 🧵 About Your Cuck-in-Chief It’s been a week since the United States and Israel began their assault on Iran, already killing more than a thousand, including 160 children in a school. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

WEEK 58 (of 208) 🧵 Trump’s Not Saving Iran, He’s Saving Himself On the eve of America’s latest military misadventure, Badr Albusaidi, the Omani Minister of Foreign Affairs who had been conducting negotiations between the United States and Iran... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

WEEK 57 (of 208) 🧵 The Damage Done Is there anyone with even an undergrad economics degree in the White House? (Trump U honours excluded!). 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

WEEK 56 (of 208) 🧵 Canafornia Dreamin’ As far as I know, no survey has assessed the appetite of Californians to secede and become a province of Canada. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

WEEK 55 (of 208) 🧵 Coming Soon, Melania 2: Ascension to the Throne Trump supporters hailed Melania, the movie, a great success after its US opening weekend box office was reported as $7 million. Of course, documentaries don’t usually have a $35 million promotional campaign! 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

WEEK 54 (of 208) 🧵 Trump the Enshittifier Corey Doctorow, a leading thinker on the devolution of internet-based services, coined the term ‘enshittification’ to describe a pattern typical of how such businesses attract and lock-in their audience... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Week 53 (of 208) 🧵 Alex Pretti On January 24, a government sanctioned gang of thugs murdered Alex Jeffrey Pretti on the street in Minneapolis. 1/

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20/01/2026

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Week 52 (of 208) 🧵 Killing Democracy for Fun and Profit On June 14 of this year, as part of America’s 250th anniversary celebration, and to mark his own 80th birthday, Donald Trump will host on the lawn of the partially demolished White House... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Time to Maduro the entire Trump admin.

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Week 51 (of 208) 🧵 A Rabid Dog Must Be Put Down The past week has illustrated just how dangerous Donald Trump and his regime really are. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Are we all going to just sit around while an old pervert with frontal temporal dementia causes WWIII?

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Why haven’t we cancelled the balance of F35s today?

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Week 50 (of 208) 🧵 An Attack on Venezuela Is an Attack on All of Us In an attack on Venezuela that contravenes both international law and the US Constitution, Donald Trump has put an end to the Maduro government... 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Week 49 (of 208) 🧵 When the Invisible Hand Becomes a Fist Since the end of the Second World War, on the whole – and despite many horrendous exceptions – the world had been moving in a more or less progressive direction. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Week 48 (of 208) 🧵 Rotting from Within Instead of Rotting in Jail Freedom of expression, so central to the concept of America, is the idea that everyone is entitled to views that are theirs regardless of whether or not others agree, and to express them without fear of harm or restraint. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Week 47 (of 208) 🧵 Through the Looking Glass and into the Abyss When lies form the basis of your reality, you are, inevitably, delusional. 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Week 46 (of 208) 🧵 200 Years Later, it’s the Monroe Doctrine All Over Again – and This Time, They Really Mean It! 1/

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admansky.bsky.social @admansky.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Week 46 (of 208)🧵 200 Years Later, it’s the Monroe Doctrine All Over Again – and This Time, They Really Mean It! 1/

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