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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

I there may be a problem down south, with ripple effects here, as we, as PM said, set aside the rules based irder and ride the ‘great’ hegemon’s wave.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

I’ve long thought this paragraph from Raymond Williams’ Modern Tragedy pretty lucid regarding the disavowal of our own complicities.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

@mark-carney.bsky.social Italy and Spain are sending naval vessels to protect and support the humanitarian flotillas to Gaza. PM Carney: you should too.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Boycotting and divesting works. Case in point? Disney sidelined Kimmel, people cancelled subscriptions, Kimmel reinstated.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Austerity is a lie. They tell us, ‘No money for education, housing, health care, early childcare, transportation…. ‘ It is a lie. Wealth continues to be created by the many and hoarded by the few.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Seems our government doesn’t want the horror to end. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

My OpEd was posted on Facebook, leading the app to send me this. Proof positive that AI is really, really stupid.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

A beautiful Friday late afternoon. I’m going to drink a beer and operate a couple power tools.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Let’s make a lot of money by starving people and destroying homes, hospitals, schools, and everything else,’ says the psychopaths running our western ‘liberal’ democracies.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Dr. Power is of course right here. We need public engagement. MUN also just killed public engagement office.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

In a couple months, when this comes out, @adamkotsko.bsky.social ‘s citation index score will soar.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Jennifer Frey is dead on. She also has an oped in NYT well worth your time.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Parenthetical: early 17th century: from Latin parentheticus, from Greek parenthetos ‘interpolated’, from para- para-1 + enthetos ‘capable of being put in’. Carney’s book: premise is $ value & human values can be reconciled; that values are capable of being put in to capitalism.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Genocide and profit. Blood money.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

We used to invest in education. Now, education is a site of investing. It has been folded inside the market, to it’s ruin.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

The oligarchs of any era don’t want universities.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

From the Royal NWMP report of 1907. Prairie forts had tennis courts.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

@mark-carney.bsky.social A clear, decisive statement and firm action are called for.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Canada is signatory to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which includes this (though we’ve gone in the opposite direction). There are many, many countries with free higher education.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

President Truman, speech in Syracuse, New York on October 10, 1952.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Now MUN is a company with company culture, I guess. End of days for the university, the ‘s second oldest institution.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Spending a few days with friends in Zurich. The haze over the city is smoke from the fires across canadian prairies, and an unhealthy air warning has been issued here.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Let’s recall the 2023 auditor’s report, which should have made considerable waves, but didn’t. As the university’s educational mission and service to the people of the province continue to be gutted, this kind of stuff carries on.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“Let’s make this country safe again.” Let me think… where have I heard this before? Oh, right. Same playbook.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The Trifecta President: misogynist, narcissist and fraudster all wrapped up in an orange-dyed blob.

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

pressprogress.ca/pierre-poili...

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I read > 100,000 in Boston. I think of Nixon, surrounding WH with busses. Worried the people were coming for him. They had the National Guard or airborne or something ready. It may well come to that. What happens when Trump deploys federal troops?

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Barry Stephenson @bstepmun.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Now that we’ve properly identified the enemy, is it not time for Canada to join the rest of the world & recognize Palestine? Whatever is left of the Left must avoid centrism, which is to avoid extremes. Trump proved extremism is a winning strategy, though, clearly, extreme emancipation is needed.

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