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John Moxin

@johnmoxin.bsky.social
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Stagehand, voracious reader, enthusiastic skeptic, currently broken and awaiting replacement parts. Usually wrong.

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 4h
my god and now jim bakker…why do the good always die so young…
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 3h
Him and Jeffrey Archer. Yay. Rest in piss.
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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 5h
Too soon/late
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 4h
Midnight rides in Saskatchewan. Still happen. Often in the winter.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 17h
I think about this more often than I'd like to.
A side-by-side of two head shots: at left, Gavin Newsom smiles, baring top and teeth in a strange expression; at right, Elizabeth Holmes smiles in an oddly similar way.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
Well, yeah.
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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 15h
they should invent effective 8pm bedtimeism
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Ben Holt @beanjammin.bsky.social · 18h
I'm very excited to announce that I am running for the BC Green Party in North Vancouver-Seymour in the Oct 24 provincial election! We have a fantastic leader in @emilylowan.bsky.social and an excellent platform. Believe in better! bcgreens.ca/our-plan/
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Our Plan
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17h
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCKK YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUU
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
If I were Frank Magazine, I'd say he gets high sniffing his own farts.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
For me, it's that it is so much "received wisdom," and so little actual reporting of new information. They're smug bloviators pretending they have something of value to offer us.
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🔬🔭🧭👨‍💻🏞️👾🤖🌡️ @dcrinyyc.bsky.social · 19h
Just the other day I was thinking, boy I sure wish I had a pipeline to ship this barrel of oil I've been holding onto in ... 😵‍💫
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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 16h
To my fellow members of Toronto—St. Paul's: I emailed my MP Leslie Church tonight about her endorsement of Brad Bradford. While I don't expect a reply, here is my email in case you'd like some inspiration for your own. Always tell your representatives how you feel! They work for you!
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Natty Moher @nattymoher.com · 16h
Unless you're one of about 2000 people in BC that have wealth levels above $50 million (note: you are not), you will not be affected by the BC Greens wealth tax and it would raise $22 billion in the first year. Seems like a good deal to me (also not one of those 2000 people).
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 05/10/2026
Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
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Trump admin demands Canada not meddle in midterms so they can meddle in separatist referendums
WASHINGTON D.C. - Trump Administration trade advisor Peter Navarro is accusing Canada of interfering in the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, unfairly distracting from American efforts to interfere in ...
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
Is it just me that I can't force myself to listen to more than five minutes of Hotel Pacifico at a time? Intolerable is the only way I'd categorise it.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 05/10/2026
Wow. Must be nice to be the only university in Canada with money.
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 19h
We're paying for our own extinction
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Club Saanich @thesaanichdaily.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Emily Lowan gets it. Tax wealth not income. #bcpoli #cdnpoli #BcGreens
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18h
Oyster fishing is a way of life on PEI, but disease is threatening to wipe out the sector that has sustained communities here for generations. In an unstable world, we need to protect Canada's industries. I spoke with fishers in Charlottetown to learn what the federal government can do to help.
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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This morning, I sent a letter requesting an emergency debate in response to the demonstration at Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc by a dangerous white nationalist hate group, and the UN Permanent People’s Tribunal ruling, released on Sept 30, 2026, calling on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism
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NDP MP Leah Gazan requests an Emergency Debate on White Nationalism and Anti-Indigenous Racism
MP for Winnipeg Centre
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 21h
Canadians will officially never recoup the costs of ***TMX*** and the government is going to drive the orcas to extinction for ANOTHER oil pipeline. Isn’t Carney supposed to be a great economic brain or something?? Why are we killing the whales for nothing?!
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Colin Campbell Design @ccdesign.bsky.social · 20h
Beautiful early Autumn hike up Mt. Erskine, Salt Spring Island.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 20h
Carney sucks.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
I honestly feel so played. I'm 63, and this is a first for me. I wasn't cynical enough to see through him.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
Are Canadians forgetting our judges are appointed through a careful vetting process, instead of being elected through party machinery?
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Andrea Woo @andreawoo.bsky.social · 18h
Statement from Connor Bildfell, president of the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch, on personal attacks on judges following last week's ruling re: the Drug User Liberation Front
Some recent media commentary on the Supreme Court of British Columbia’s decision in R. v. Kalicum has moved beyond criticism of the decision to attacks on the character and fitness of the judge who made it.

 

Court decisions can and should be subject to careful scrutiny and vigorous debate. People who disagree with a decision may speak out and challenge its reasoning, and our justice system gives parties an appeal process for challenging decisions where appropriate.

 

But attacking a judge’s character or fitness—even calling for their removal—goes too far. These kinds of personal attacks risk eroding public confidence in our justice system and collapsing the important distinction between criticizing a decision and attacking the judge who made it. Judges speak only through their decisions and are unable to respond publicly to such personal attacks, making them particularly inappropriate.

 

Judges must make their decisions based on the law and the evidence before them, after lawyers present arguments to them. While a healthy debate about the merits of those judicial decisions promotes democracy and the rule of law, personal attacks do not.
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Shannon Waters @sobittersosweet.bsky.social · 23h
Today on the BC campaign trail 10:30AM, Victoria: Emily Lowan unveiling "BC Greens’ plan to make the ultra-wealthy pay their fair share" 11AM, Victoria: David Eby making an announcement 11AM, 100 Mile House: Lorne Doerkson making a policy announcement #bcpoli
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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 18h
Yesterday, we launched our plan to address the crisis facing B.C.’s forests and the forestry sector. (bcgreens.ca/announce-pla...) youtu.be/WjcVC5uTQMg
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Policy Announcement: Protect our Forests (w/Raj Sahota)
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 15h
It's Eby's fault for punting on proportional voting.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h
Holy shit.
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 21h
I emailed top USA Today editors on Friday, in the hopes that there was some misunderstanding. No response. Unilaterally feeding entire interviews into an AI slop machine is not OK. It has to stop.
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Rosemary Mosco @rosemarymosco.com · 05/10/2026
Spooky bird stories. My Halloween comic from 2024.
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, A screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
In '09, Carleton's then president (who was both our first ever woman president and a professor in women's studies) threatened to sue me for the activism I was doing on campus re: sexual assault. She also rearranged the entire convocation ceremony so she wouldn't have to acknowledge an award I'd won
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 22h
Please share this with every "send a message" Alberta voter in your life. #abpoli #cdnpoli www.readtheline.ca/p/jen-gerson...
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Jen Gerson: Oh, so you want to send Ottawa a message, eh?
Vote to stay and send Washington the right message. Namely, don’t fuck with us.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 22h
I've been raped. Your work is spotless.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t know about you, but seeing Jack Smith in the crowd at yesterday’s Power to the People festival did something profound for my deeply battered faith in this country. There he was at Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland, wearing a black Bruce Springsteen shirt with two simple,
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House and a serial child molester who sexually abused teenage boys, has checked into hell at 84. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/o...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ten years and I have never taught THICK, which means I have never taught the class I want to teach. We may be close to pulling this off thanks to my friends in creative writing. Fingers crossed.
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Molly Coleman @mollycoleman.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This week marks 10 years since I had an abortion. It wasn’t traumatic or heart wrenching—I just didn’t want to become a parent while 24 and living in a shoebox in Brooklyn. I will never be able to convey the rage I feel at the men who have spent the last decade making women less free and less equal.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
While our pledge was to Fred's wellbeing, it seems we are the ones with the boon of Fred's love and trust, and this is a gift I never expected. That is all.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Fred was horribly abused in her first few months of life, and the emotional scars are still evident. Lillie and I pledged Fred would only ever know gentleness and love from us, and we've been good to our word.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Every winter, my wife and I brace ourselves that this will be the last with her. So far, we're always wrong. We're bracing ourselves again.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
She has a little demitasse cup for affection: she will demand to sit on my chest for pats, and after a brief while, she will insist on leaving. On my days off, this will happen several times a day. She will yell for me.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
She has a hard time with stairs, and this is becoming an issue because her litterbox is in the basement, and our bed is three floors up, we've put an ottoman at the foot of our bed so she can climb up, and we're wondering if she's losing her mind.
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John Moxin @johnmoxin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I have a cat. Fred. She's black, has a sagging primordial pouch, doesn't like anyone (especially men), is pushing 20, has kidney and pancreatic issues, her piss smells like maple syrup, and sleeps roughly 20.5 hours a day.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Please, for the love of God, leave me behind with all the books because you don’t read. I want to be left behind!
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/10/2026
There are new and specific numbers in this story, so it’s worth reading. I continue to resent the lack of credit to Nick Schwellenbach at @pogo.org, Dan Friedman at @motherjones.com, and me, who have previously reported every other aspect of this story, including that the sale prices were very high.
Kristi Noem's Agency Gave Her Donor a Lucrative Contract Just Before She
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The Homeland Security Department signed a multi-million dollar agreement to buy five aircraft from a company owned by a political contributor of the secretary on her last day, documents show.
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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was in a bad mood, then I drew something so unflattering that I actually like it, and now I'm in a better mood.
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Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
we fucking loved it, even when there was basically nothing on it, and let me tell you something else: we loved it because of human connection, human diversity, human creativity. WE DON'T NEED A SINGLE THING ANY OF THESE COMEMIERDAS HAVE MADE AND TRIED TO SELL US IN ORDER TO HAVE A GREAT INTERNET.
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