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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 2h

Recall the overtly homophobic she ran while she was still running against Lindsay Graham. Her capitulation isn’t really a surprise.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 2h

In the meantime, I recall no less n operative than Warren Kinsella claiming that Grenier’s numbers were actual constituency polls.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, if they would just explicitly say in the post something like, “this is a projection based on extrapolating broader poling data. not an actual poll of the riding” I’d likely be satisfied.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 2h

They have frequently been significantly out in the numbers, even when they have been right about the ultimate winner. As I recall they were quite off in Beaches East York, for example. Low and medium information voters may not be following the account, but they do see reposts.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 3h

They do. But a lot of low and medium information voters miss that important distinction. Indeed, highly placed political operatives have been known to repost this kind of data as if it were actual polling of the individual riding.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 4h

The only “problem” is that can apply equally to the bigoted transphobe financing genocide on the back of mediocre children’s books or the bigoted transphobe dismantling the United States Constitution.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think the words following family”family” or preceding “should” are really necessary.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 4h

All the words following “family” and preceding “should” ought to be removed.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 5h

A little older, but it includes gems like this: “Liturgy doesn’t distinguish between generations. It’s kind of like how I don’t play Xbox with my grandma, and she doesn’t knit with me. But we both know how to sit down and share a family meal.”

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Confessions of a High Church Millennial

I have a confession to make. It will probably be surprising for many to hear from a millennial: I am a high-church liturgy nerd. For many of my 31 years in the church, I have been told that my gene…

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 13h

I was thinking of this very thing not 24 hours ago.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

White American conservative evangelicalism (or Amerevangelicalism) is, at its core, demonic.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

People in civilian clothes is and always has been stupid. It was a stupid Reagan invention, and it really needs to stop.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Given most polls have a margin of error of around +/= 3%, even Mainstreet is within the MOE.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Not so much framing as reality. Carney, who would have sat comfortably in a Mulroney or Harper Cabinet is benefitting from a feckless Poilievre who is rendering the Conservatives unelectable. Carney is perhaps the Lougheed to Poilievre’s Strom.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Conservative Party has lost its raison d’être. Mark Carney is the most effective Conservative Prime Minister since Sir Robert Borden.

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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Watching the culture wars over Christmas heating up on social media. No one gets angrier about “not being allowed to celebrate Christmas ” than a completely secular white person who never attends church, couldn’t accurately tell you the Nativity Story, and who’s favourite carol is “Rudolph”. 🙄

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Both @mark-carney.bsky.social and Pierre Poilievre are quick to condemn antisemitism. Rightly so. But when @nationalpost.bsky.social publishes an editorial openly calling for the murder of the only Jewish federal party leader, @avilewis.ca, it’s crickets. Carney & Poilievre: Profiles in Cowardice

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Text doesn’t always convey tone, and in a thread like that it’s not always apparent who one is responding anyway. No worries.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apparently some people have read my comment (which explicitly says “There really isn’t any logical case for giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Mark Carney”) as being in support of giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Mark Carney. Literacy is apparently dead.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Again, if you think my post (which explicitly says there is no logical reason to award the prize to Mark Carney) is supporting the idea the prize should be awarded to Mark Carney (despite explicitly saying there is no logical reason to do so), then I suggest you go read it again.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I absolutely agree that the prize should mean something. Which is why I specifically said that there is no logical reason to present it to Mark Carney. If you read that post to mean that I support giving it to Mark Carney, I suggest you go read it again.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There really isn’t any logical case for giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Mark Carney (the most effective Conservative Prime Minister since Sir Robert Borden). Really the only argument - which is certainly not *logical* - is that it would give the semi-sentient orange peel a stroke.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If only. For Americans generally, words like “socialism” and “communism” have no objective meaning. They are merely random insults. When the Wall Street Journal says UK PM Andy Burnham is “unabashedly socialist,” it’s like a three year old calling the neighbour kid a “stoopy-poopyhead.”

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

If only. For Americans generally, words like “socialism” and “communism” have no objective meaning. They are merely random insults. When the Wall Street Journal says “unabashedly socialist,” it’s like a three year old calling the neighbour kid a “stoopy-poopyhead.”

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If Senator Schmitt had the integrity God gave a ferret, he’d apologize and acknowledge that he and his staff screwed up. But Senator Schmitt does not have the integrity God gave a ferret.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

2/2 It touches on how King Charles (Bonnie Prince Charlie) prevents the American Revolution by traveling to the Colonies and reminding them that he and his family also had issues with the Parliament at Westminster.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I can’t find a link to the original story, and the link inside this article is dead, but if you can find “If: A Jacobite Fantasy,” I think you’d quite enjoy it. It dates from 1926, but is set in an alternate history where the Hanoverians fled when the Jacobites were at Derby. 1/2

alternatehistory.com

If: A Jacobite Fantasy

This is the title of an article - http://www.jacobite.ca/essays/if.htm - by Charles Petrie which was first published in the January 30, 1926 issue of The Weekly Westminster. Petrie imagined that Ch...

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Some people didn’t believe me when I said all transphobes were fascists. Don’t believe me. Believe the TERFs themselves . . . as transphobe celebrates the success of a neo Nazi party in a recent German state election.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I’m surprised that bigot can type the words “I’m good faith” without his fingers bursting into flame.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

That said, having low expectations of the Democrats will make for less disappointment.

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Ashley Nova — Unfiltered, Unhinged, Uncaring @ashleynova.space · 27/09/2026

Today's Labour party would have supported Mosley's fascist march through Jewish areas of London and condemned the anti-fascist coalition who stood in their way.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching from outside, I’d suggest that’s the secondary question. The primary question is, when does the complete failure of the system (all parties) cease being one president’s or one party’s failure and become a full scale constitutional crisis and the mark of a failed state?

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’m rather pleased with my powers of deduction here. I shall endeavour not to be smug. 😉

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

So I recall somes about beded being an Old(?) English word for prayers, so bedesman would be one who prays with / for or who leads prayers? Am I in the right track here?

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Aida @aidap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

it's not racist, it's 'anti migrant' activist it's not transphobe, it's 'gender critical' activist it's not homophobe, it's 'family values' activist it's not rapist, it's 'boys will be boys' activist it's not an nazi england, it's andy burnham's labour gov

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh no. Mr. Dearmer strongly disapproved of lace.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Mr. Dearmer would *not* approve.

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 24/09/2026

This belongs in the Smithsonian.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Random thought about the “I am” statements in John’s Gospel. The Living Water discourse really should have been the first “I am.” (Am I actually copy editing the author of John? Yes, I believe I am.)

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

People are regularly misled by these projections. I rather think that’s a bad thing. If that’s “asinine,,” so be it.

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Malcolm French @mdfrench.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Also, while they do say “projection,” they graphically present it in exactly the same way as they present actual polls.

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