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Amir Attaran

@amirattaran.bsky.social
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Professor. Litigator. Scientist. Bicyclist. Husband. Father. Son. Wrecks grifters, creeps, anti-vaxxers & scientific illiterates. Personal account (not @uOttawa, not legal advice).

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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 6h
Canadian doctors do dozens of MAID cases daily and a botched death NEVER happens. Q: So why did it happen in America? Why does it keep happening? A: Because they wanted to torture her. The “death penalty” is really about torture. That’s the plan.
theguardian.com
Calls grow for US death penalty halt after ‘torturous’ botched execution of Christa Pike
Pike alive but in critical condition as experts call ordeal that unfolded in Tennessee ‘unimaginably barbaric’
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 6h
Be careful, Mr. Noem! She could divorce you like she did that puppy!
nytimes.com
Kristi Noem Files for Divorce After 34 Years of Marriage
Ms. Noem, a former homeland security secretary and governor of South Dakota, filed court papers there seeking to end her marriage to Bryon Noem, an insurance salesman.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 7h
Interesting that the two separatist provinces are against vaccination and helping their people separate from life itself.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 7h
X shareholders would like a word.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 9h
The torturers appear to have brain damaged her badly.
nytimes.com
With Christa Pike Unconscious, Another Execution Attempt Is in Doubt
Her condition raises questions about whether Tennessee could attempt to execute her again if she is incapable of understanding what is happening.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 15h
Thanks but Canadians ask Americans to reconsider letting ICE agents murder foreigners.
globalnews.ca
U.S. mayors ask Canadians to reconsider U.S. travel boycott - Winnipeg | Globalnews.ca
Some American mayors are trying to encourage Canadians to reconsider boycotting travel across the border.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 17h
How one badass fought off Trump, Musk, and DOGE pretty much single-handedly. Awesome read. 🎁
wsj.com
Essay | Exclusive | Michael Lewis on the Lone Security Guard Who Resisted DOGE
In an exclusive excerpt from ‘Blockers,’ the inside story of the high-stakes D.C. standoff where security chief Colin O’Brien fought off DOGE operatives.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Americans having a normal one again.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Because most Americans are trash who embrace torture and killing?
nytimes.com
Most Americans favor the death penalty, but support has declined.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In a country where dozens of innocents are murdered by guns daily, Tennessee and the Supreme Court are too incompetent to do it right with decades of planning.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s not a “botched execution”. It’s an attempted murder and torture.
nytimes.com
What Did Christa Pike Do? What to Know About the Botched Tennessee Execution.
Ms. Pike, 50, survived two doses of a lethal injection in Tennessee. She was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of a classmate.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Governor Voldemort of Tennessee frustrated by The Girl Who Lived. (America is a torture state…pass it on)
washingtonpost.com
Tennessee halts scheduled executions after inmate survives lethal injection
Christa Pike, who was convicted in a brutal 1995 killing, continued breathing after she was given two doses of lethal injection drugs, her lawyers said.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Imagine being strapped down, the government injects you with poison, but you live. That’s torture, American style.
nytimes.com
Tennessee Death Row Inmate Christa Pike Still Alive After Attempts to Execute Her, Lawyers Say
Christa Pike was convicted of murdering a classmate in 1995. It was not clear what went wrong in the execution or what her current medical condition was.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Your reminder on the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation that beating children is still legal in Canada. Fucking primitive, isn’t it?
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
THE IRAQ WAR: The American terrorists came looking for weapons of mass destruction, found none, killed half a million innocents, and left 23 years later.
washingtonpost.com
U.S. withdraws forces in Iraq as balance of power shifts to Iran
U.S. military forces departed from bases in Iraq on Wednesday, a milestone in two bloody decades of American involvement.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This article nails it. Alberta is pandering to an untaxed, unvaxxed fringe. They should not be indulged, or even tolerated, but destroyed by all lawful means.
theglobeandmail.com
Opinion: We must call Alberta separation what it is
It is not a movement of grievance politics. Something far more sinister is at work
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Her party bungled COVID, denied racism exists, and treated Anglo and Indigenous minorities like shit. Good riddance to Christine Fréchette and the God-awful CAQ. 🗑️ 😘
theglobeandmail.com
CAQ Leader Christine Fréchette’s fresh start withers in the end
François Legault’s successor tried to set herself apart, and it seemed to be paying off. But she and the Coalition Avenir Québec are now fighting for survival in Monday’s election
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When Arabs bring their money to sport, it becomes corrupt. Surely Man City is not the only Emirates-sponsored team which is cheating, and surely it’s not just football.
theguardian.com
Disguised funding and dishonest witnesses: key findings in Manchester City case
After the Premier League published the ‘core decision’ of its independent commission, we pick out the key elements
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is a story to make you extremely proud of the essential goodness of Canadians. Can you imagine this in the USA? Never! www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3662d42...
theglobeandmail.com
B.C. Supreme Court rules drug law unconstitutional
Lawyers argued two individuals who tested illicit drugs for fentanyl before reselling them offered a safer alternative to toxic supply
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pay up rapist! 😘
theguardian.com
Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case
The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does this mean the party of “Genocide Joe” Biden has, you know, morals?
nytimes.com
Democrats in Congress Embrace a More Punitive Posture Toward Israel
Nearly every Democratic senator voted to advance a measure calling for a human rights report on Israel’s conduct in the West Bank, as some in the party propose punishing settlement activity with sanct...
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So I’m supposed to believe it is an Iranian plot where the so-called terrorists themselves called the police?
theguardian.com
Suspect in RAF Fairford case called police to report incident
Man dialled 999 before he and four others were arrested near military base in Gloucestershire, it has emerged
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Quebecers seem poised to elect a super-racist who enjoys flinging the N-word around. Alabama of the North, just in a different language.
cbc.ca
Why using the N-word was a tactic during the Quebec leaders' debate | CBC News
During the provincial election campaign's first leaders' debate, a white party leader used the N-word and dared his opponent to do the same.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If the Americans want to play this game, close the Alaska Highway.
theglobeandmail.com
Truck carrying supplies to isolated N.B. island blocked by U.S. customs
Vehicle turned back at border crossing as U.S. bans of Canadian alcohol and other goods take effect
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And 🤡 Marco Rubio 🤡 still swears it was a terrorist plot.
cbc.ca
British police say no explosives found in vehicles near U.S.-run base | CBC News
A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has prompted ...
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great decision. Now wait for the MAGA maggots to lose their minds over this.
theglobeandmail.com
B.C. Supreme Court rules drug law unconstitutional
Lawyers argued two individuals who tested illicit drugs for fentanyl before reselling them offered a safer alternative to toxic supply
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remind me please: Which one is the “shithole country”?
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The next major terrorist is likely to be AI.
wsj.com
Exclusive | OpenAI Scraps Release of New AI Model Over Safety Concerns
The model, dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, was due to debut inside ChatGPT and Codex in October.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Albertans will *always* choose corporations over people. In this case, by having the largest workplace COVID outbreak in North America. They even fucked up worse than Trump.
theglobeandmail.com
Alberta’s response to COVID-19 outbreak at Cargill plant was ‘catastrophic failure,’ report says
More than 950 workers at High River plant were infected in 2020, leaving two workers dead and spreading to the community
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RexLibris @rexlibris.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As always, the labour is essential but the workers never are.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The fact they’re out on bail is proof that the claim they are “terrorists” is bullshit.
theguardian.com
Five UK nationals arrested near RAF Fairford released on bail
Police say alleged offences could have been committed ‘knowingly or unknowingly’ on behalf of a foreign state
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
MASSIVE STORY. Team Trudeau helped Trump spy on Cuba, and Team Carney is covering it up in court. If Trump invades Cuba, Liberals are 💯 complicit.
theglobeandmail.com
Canadians were spying for U.S. in Cuba at time of alleged sonic attacks: source
Ottawa invokes rare law to keep details in lawsuit by injured diplomats secret, denies Canadians engaged in spying
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Butthurt Israeli captain says his country is “10 times better than Ireland” after losing 3-0. 🙄 www.theguardian.com/football/202...
theguardian.com
Israel captain stokes feud by saying ‘our country is 10 times better than Ireland’
Manor Solomon has reacted angrily to the Republic of Ireland team’s behaviour before their Nations League match in protest at Israel’s military action in Gaza
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Doug Ford says he’s “laughing his ass off” at a fatal cycling accident. What a monstrous dick.
thestar.com
Graeme Bayliss: His cyclist friend was killed. Why did Doug Ford’s response include ‘lmao’?
No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Stable Genius move. Wouldn’t the Chinese love to reverse engineer American weapons!
theguardian.com
Trump asked Xi Jinping if China would like to buy US weapons, American ambassador says
David Perdue’s remarks come after a Taiwanese minister spoke of the ‘severe’ military threat posed by Beijing to the self-ruled island
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Here is the ONLY concession Iran should make: It will not be the first to use nuclear weapons. That’s the same commitment the USA has made.
wsj.com
Iran Pressed to Make Nuclear Concessions to Revive Peace Talks With U.S.
Mediators described it as a long-shot bid to revive negotiations to avoid all-out war after President Trump rejected a seven-day truce.
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Les Perreaux @perreaux.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Congratulations to the 260kms of Quebec road that is pothole free.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Pope should zip it. Medically assisted dying is more compassionate than, say, Catholic priests raping children.
theglobeandmail.com
Assisted dying is ‘false compassion’, Pope says at French shrine of Lourdes
Pope Leo XIV also met survivors of clergy sexual abuse, in what has now become a regular appointment for popes on foreign visits
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Americans: “Let’s illegally bomb Iran, kill its leaders, and murder some schoolgirls too!” Also Americans: “Why isn’t Iran negotiating in good faith?” 😐
theguardian.com
UN ambassador Waltz says Iran was not negotiating ‘in good faith’ to end war
Waltz says Trump rejected Iran’s proposal to end war because they ‘were asking for everything up front’
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So the cycling world championship is in Montreal. CBC is broadcasting it. Why do the announcers have annoying British accents?
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yet another Boeing cover-up. Why is American engineering so bad?
wsj.com
Exclusive | New Boeing 737 MAX Software Glitch Could Disrupt Navigation Feature
The issue is prompting concerns about a potential safety risk while planes are landing. Boeing is working on a procedure for pilots and a software fix.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Almost a rule: Every lame White guy tries to look better by emulating Black guys.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If this doesn’t convince you A.I. has jumped the shark, nothing will. Data centers in space fail the high school physics test: it’s *impossible* to cool things cheaply in a vacuum which doesn’t conduct heat.
nytimes.com
Google Is Sending an A.I. Data Center to Outer Space
Next Thursday, Google is sending an experimental satellite into orbit that will have enough computing power to answer simple A.I. queries from space.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you can measure people by the bravery of their art, this is high level.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
OF COURSE Iran should build a nuke: 1. Israel and the USA attacked it illegally - and will again. 2. They both have the bomb. 3. Neither follows the Non-Proliferation Treaty. 4. So why should Iran? (BTW, Canada should build one too, or someday we really will be the 51st state.)
wsj.com
In Iran, Talk of Whether to Build a Nuclear Bomb Bursts Into the Open
Iran’s top officials still say the country will forgo nuclear weapons, but they are warning that could change.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you an Ottawa cyclist? Here is where the candidates stand on making the roads safe. HINT: Don’t vote for Mark Sutcliffe.
bikeottawa.ca
Candidates for City Councillors and cycling
Bike Ottawa sent a few weeks ago a questionnaire to candidates to learn about their stance regarding biking in the city, and how they plan to tackle this issue if they get elected. Nine questions w…
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jeff Rath is inching toward prison. When he gets there, I suggest separating his cell from Canada on an ice floe. Give the man what he wants.
globalnews.ca
$11.5M from Sturgeon Lake trust helped fund Rath firm’s Tallcree payment: receiver | Globalnews.ca
Alberta separatist leader Jeffrey Rath’s firm took $11.5 million from one First Nation trust to help him make a court-ordered refund to another First Nation, court documents show.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Violent antisemitism is real, but it’s not the fault of politicians, scholars, or journalists calling Israel genocidal and illegitimate. It’s lunatics like this anti-vaxxer with a troubled past.
globalnews.ca
Former soldier who shot at synagogue was suing military for $1M over vaccination policy | Globalnews.ca
Documents obtained by Global News show Sean Ward declined the COVID-19 vaccine and was deemed “unsuitable for further military service.”
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
You can always count on upper class Brits to be both arrogant and racist.
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Amir Attaran @amirattaran.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow, Carney saying this! Those comments on the multilateral system could have come from an anti-WTO protester in Seattle in the 1990s.
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