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John Faithful Hamer

@johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social
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Teacher of the Humanities — Department of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religion — John Abbott College (Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Québec)

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 02/07/2025
Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
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Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
They just… blocked me. Like I’m some kind of annoyance, rather than the iconoclastic and fascinating truth-teller which I know myself to be.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
“It is a cliché, but a cliché that seems to be a cliché because it is so true, that almost all billionaires I have met . . . despite the astonishing opportunities for growth in their lives, have the emotional intelligence of tedious, privileged adolescents.”—David Whyte, Consolations II (2024)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
They knew. And they didn’t care.
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Opinion | These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
“The good thing about everything being so fucked up is that no matter where you look, there is great work to be done.”—Derrick Jensen
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“The fact that we’re no longer Robin to America’s Batman, and that Batman has certainly turned into the Joker, means that we have to get our act together in a way that we never, ever have had to do.”—Stephen Marche, “Is Canada Leading the Anti-Trump ‘Resistance’?” CANADALAND (May 5, 2025)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“Remaining open to the powers of conversation—to new evidence and better arguments—is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.”—Sam Harris, Lying (2013)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
French nails it. Again.
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Opinion | The Anti-Woke Right and the Free Speech Con (Gift Article)
DeSantis walked so that Trump could run.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Why do we love Carney? Because Canadians have a weakness for boring nice guys who look like they refill the ice cube tray without having to be asked.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Damn! That was quite the spanking. Bill Maher isn’t going to be able to sit down for a week.
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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Yet another reason to love Ryan Holiday. This guy really walks his talk.
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Opinion | The Naval Academy Canceled My Lecture on Wisdom (Gift Article)
How a lecture to the U.S. Naval Academy on censorship was censored.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Highly recommended. Thanks for recommending it, @aaunio.bsky.social
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The Podcaster Asking You to Side With History’s Villains (Gift Article)
Darryl Cooper is no scholar. But legions of fans — many on the right — can’t seem to resist what he presents as hidden truths.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
I wonder if they’re tired of winning yet.
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Live Updates: Trump Tariffs and Inflation Concerns Spark Stock Market Turmoil (Gift Article)
Markets reeled from worries about the trade war, overshadowing some good news about the U.S. labor market. President Trump insisted that his policies were working.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
“The work of our lives is to go from dependence to dependability, from being taken care of to being a caretaker—but not just for our own children if we choose to have them, but for others, for ideas, for causes, for justice itself.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now (2024)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“For government to do more—or even for it to just do what it is already doing—sometimes it first needs permission to do much less.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
“‘The environmentalist movement evolved to stop bad people from destroying the world, and so we have perfected the art of saying no,’ says Larry Selzer, the president and CEO of the Conservation Fund. ‘But we can’t “no” our way to the kind of growth we need.’—Klein & Thompson, Abundance (2025)
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... Every accusation is a projection, autopen/ didn’t know what he was signing edition
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If Trump didn’t sign the Alien Enemies Act proclamation, who — or what — did?
Did Trump misspeak? Is he trying to deflect a decision under heavy legal scrutiny onto Secretary of State Marco Rubio?
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“In the time California has spent failing to complete its 500-mile high-speed rail system, China has built more than 23,000 miles of high-speed rail.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025) #ezraklein #derekthompson #abundance
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“In the same progressive zip codes where homeowners press signs into the soil of their front lawns bearing the message Kindness Is Everything, affordable housing can’t be found—and homelessness is endemic.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025) #ezraklein #derekthompson #abundance
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“If liberals do not want Americans to turn to the false promise of strongmen, they need to offer the fruits of effective government. Redistribution is important. But it is not enough.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025) #ezraklein #derekthompson #abundance
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“Liberals should be able to say: Vote for us, and we will govern the country the way we govern California! Instead, conservatives are able to say: Vote for them, and they will govern the country the way they govern California!”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025) #ezraklein #derekthompson
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
“Democrats cannot simultaneously claim to be the party of middle-class families while presiding over the parts of the country that they are leaving.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025) #ezraklein #derekthompson #abundance
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“History tells us what happens when people let evil act with impunity, when suffering is ignored or allowed to happen. It doesn’t work out well . . . including for the people who turned away or dallied when they could have made a difference.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now (2024)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“When you shrug at the suffering of someone else, you invite it, inevitably, on yourself and people you love down the line.”—Ryan Holiday, Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values, Good Character, Good Deeds (2024) #ryanholiday #dailystoic #thedailystoic #rightthingrightnow
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“The story of America in the twenty-first century is the story of chosen scarcities. Recognizing that these scarcities are chosen—that we could choose otherwise—is thrilling. Confronting the reasons we choose otherwise is maddening.”—Ezra Klein & Derek Thompson, Abundance (2025)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
People talk about Trump taking away their freedoms. But what about the President’s freedom to imprison his political enemies?
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Probably the best thing you’ll read today.
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Opinion | There Is a Liberal Answer to Elon Musk (Gift Article)
Right-wing populism thrives on scarcity. The answer is abundance. But a politics of abundance will work only if Democrats confront where their approach has failed.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“It’s a sad spectacle to see a law firm …rendering itself into an instrument for lawlessness. It’s also a cautionary example of how lawyers should not conduct themselves as the Trump regime proceeds with its effort to replace the nation’s justice system with one governed by cronyism and corruption.”
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“There is little evidence of racism in Viking society and, as far as I am aware, not a single example of a denigrating epithet or attitude on the basis of skin colour.”—Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings (2020)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Like James, I agree with almost everything in this article. Highly recommended.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
“One of the greatest gifts we can give our friends, our partners, our children or our colleagues, might be to forsake anxiety: to realize how much we use our worrying as a barrier to our becoming and a protection against real intimacy . . . .”—David Whyte, Consolations II (2024)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
“The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot. . . . At the end of a day of walking, the wealth of a single day is past counting.”—Werner Herzog, Every Man for Himself and God Against All (2023)
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I keep trying to think about best case scenarios instead of worst case ones, and the best case scenario is the bottom dropping out of Trump’s support, ala post Jan 6th or W in 08. The problem is it’s hard to see that happening absent some big catastrophe that also causes huge amounts of human misery
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Montreal Gazette @mtlgazette.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
As anger grows over tariffs, Canadians cancel U.S. travel plans www.montrealgazette.com/news/canada…
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As anger grows over tariffs, Canadians cancel U.S. travel plans
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.“—Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow (1921)
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Urging Canadians not to "buy Canadian" so much as "buy not-US." We benefit from being integrated in a global trading order, and if the US is withdrawing from that, we have reason to strengthen trade with the rest of the world.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“How did the US-led liberal international order collapse?” “Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.”
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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Welcome to the resistance, Wall Street Journal Editorial Board!
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
OPINION
Trump Takes the Dumbest Tariff
Plunge
He says the 25% levies on Mexico and Canada will begin Tuesday. Stocks fall.
President Donald Trump
By The Editorial Board
March 3, 2025, 5:36 pm EST
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If being constantly contradicted makes you crazy, being rarely contradicted makes you stupid.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
“Canada, Mexico and China are the three largest trading partners of the United States, accounting for more than 40 percent of both U.S. imports and exports last year. The three countries supply the bulk of crude oil, beer, copper wire, toilet paper, hot-rolled iron, cucumbers and chocolate”
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Trump’s Tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China Snap Into Effect (Gift Article)
President Trump imposed hefty tariffs on the United States’ largest trading partners on Tuesday, roiling global relations and sending shock waves through industries that depend on trade.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
“In a way, we represented the first true, damning proof of how badly things can go wrong in a social media–driven world where kids are content and content is king.”—Shari Franke, The House of My Mother: A Daughter’s Quest for Freedom (2025)
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Those who amass knowledge without perspective are like fish who learn a great deal about the things in the sea, but nothing about the sea.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The exceptionally vicious and the exceptionally virtuous have at least one thing in common: they tend to believe that, deep down, we’re all like them. Those who deny it are either lying or in denial. This is a failure of the imagination.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
At the point on our timeline where millions of lives are put at risk because one person must insist on the truth of lies the internet taught him.
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David Avrom Bell @davidavrombell.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, the USA is becoming the Amerikanskaya oblast.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This guy is the new deputy director of the FBI. America has become such a joke. Such a bad joke.
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John Faithful Hamer @johnfaithfulhamer.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
I’ll keep you posted, @chrislhayes.bsky.social
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