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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹

@pbnewman.bsky.social
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"Justice, justice shall you seek." Writer, strategist, organizational leader. International management, nonprofits. Haiti. Tikkun olam. Author, 𝙄𝙣𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙮 𝙍𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡, perrybnewman.substack.com

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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Study: Most Excuses for Missing Meetings are BS An unusually high number of "emergencies" precede Zoom calls. It's not your imagination. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/study-most...
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Study: Most Excuses for Missing Meetings are BS
Caledonia University of WNS study examined thousands of scheduled video meetings and “emergency” absences
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In the words of Roy Kent, "FFFFFFF&&&&&&*******kkkkk!" www.ms.now/news/trump-f...
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Trump aides explore attaching president’s name to Ford’s Theatre
The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president’s name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
New, from Increasingly Radical: "The President Butt-Dialed Me." It was much worse than you think. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/the-presid...
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THE PRESIDENT BUTT-DIALED ME
It was much worse than you think.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Trump plans to spend the weekend at Camp David with Melania and his children and grandchildren. BWAA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HAH!
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Moira Rose: As If (Schitt's Creek)
ALT: Moira Rose: As If (Schitt's Creek)
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Mr. Hu, Mr. Robert Hu. Mr. Tapper, Mr. Jake Tapper. United Airlines White Courtesy Telephone, please...
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Cuban Revolution (the second one) brought literacy and healthcare to all Cuban citizens, but it came at a terrible price, one that continues to be paid by those who were traumatized as children. Read: "The Lasting Trauma of a Cuban Childhood." perrybnewman.substack.com/p/the-lastin...
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The Lasting Trauma of a Cuban Childhood
The government turned us into revolutionaries, and so we turned on each other.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This guy is fighting the fight of his life and he is fighting for the life of his country. Putin is immoral, criminal and unforgivable. And the grifters and grafters in Zelenskyy's own government, stealing from their own people while they're under attack? Treasonous and equally unforgivable.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Photos from Maine last night. No filter.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Genius level.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Exciting news! My book (a practical, real-world, non-theoretical guide) to the ups and downs of nonprofit leadership is now available on Bookshop.org. You can order it here *and* support your local bookshop! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
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The Realist's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership
Nonprofit leaders, particularly those who in their work must stare into the abyss of the human condition - health, safety, housing, hunger, abuse, grief  - don't need a guide to running better meeting...
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A reminder for nonprofit leaders in these fraught times that my book is available for download, borrowing or print sales on lotsa platforms, from Amazon (if you must) to Bookshop.org (if you want to support your local store!) books2read.com/u/mvBxRX Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Realist's Guide to Nonprofit Leadership by Perry B. Newman
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Now up on Substack, for your kind consideration. "Elections? How Quaint!" perrybnewman.substack.com/p/elections-...
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Elections? How Quaint!
Voting is essential. But what’s the backup plan?
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Any map services (for US users) keeping the proper name of Lake Ontario in their data/visuals? Hoping to avoid Google Maps henceforth, pending a change back to sanity.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Someday, after Trump is gone (whenever that is) Steven Cheung is going to have to interview for another job. He didn't finish college but he's complicit in tearing down the country.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I must have missed the part where the United States offered to help the Nepalese government in rescue and recovery efforts.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Muhammad Ali was the Greatest. That we know. But who knew that his ring savvy provides insights that might help #Canada prevail in the current trade war launched by the US? perrybnewman.substack.com/p/trade-war-... [read for free]
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Trade War Wisdom from Muhammad Ali
The Greatest knew how to deal with bigger and badder opponents
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Dolly died. Tim Curry died. Et tu, Brute?
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Hoping folks will take time to read this piece presented in collaboration with a friend and observer in Havana. Most of us will never experience the relentless pressure on the Cuban people now. Please do not avert your eyes. This is real. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/cuba-is-no...
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Cuba is not OK ...
... and it’s worse than you think.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
NEW: "Cuba is ... not OK," my latest Substack post written, in collaboration with a local. For the sake of the people in Cuba who are suffering terribly, would you please give it a read? Thank you. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/cuba-is-no...
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Cuba is not OK ...
... and it’s worse than you think.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Fellow Bsky'ers, forgive the shameless self-promotion but I'd be grateful if you had a look at my Substack, "Increasingly Radical." Essays on politics, zeitgeist, issues and more. No paywall, but all paid subscription proceeds are donated to those at risk. perrybnewman.substack.com/profile/posts
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Darline Graham campaign hires Harriet Miers as advisor. (If you're old, you know.)
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
America's Strange Fruit is in Bloom Again. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/americas-s... [read for free]
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Chicken or beef?"
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Well, that didn't take long.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
And they said to me - big, strong men with tears in their eyes - said, "Sir, we've never seen anyone hide in a shipping container so pathetically, sniveling and shaking."
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
While Trump was being (sorta) shipped back to the US in a container, Haitians were actually being shipped back to Haiti as TPS comes to an end. The cruelty in the policy. See my interview and conversation with @terrystackhouse.bsky.social of WMTM-8 in Maine. youtu.be/jKNDLDm3QT4?...
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Maine nonprofit Konbit Sante provides medical support to Haiti amid turmoil
YouTube video by WMTW-TV
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Carlos Ghosn: "Meh." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/u...
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Trump Said to Have Secretly Used Military Jet to Leave Turkey Amid Threats
President Trump hid in an airport catering container and was taken to a military jet for a secret flight out of country after the NATO summit last month.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Donald Trump is no longer President of the United States. But that's been true for some time.
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President Vought Will Be Seeking a Second Term
Donald Trump is President in name only.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Secretary of War (sic) Hegseth orders placement of suggestion boxes in armed forces mess halls world wide to "solicit ideas."
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Secretary Hegseth: "I have NO CLUE what to do."
The Secretary of War has no idea how to wage one.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Please do not avert your eyes. As Temporary Protective Status (TPS) comes to an end, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are at imminent risk of deportation. This is An American Nakba (and one of many we've perpetrated.) perrybnewman.substack.com/p/an-america...
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AN AMERICAN NAKBA
Have dispossession and deportation become America’s brand?
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Have dispossession and deportation become part of the American brand? Read, An American Nakba [free link below]
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AN AMERICAN NAKBA
Have dispossession and deportation become America’s brand?
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Ready to learn something? Ready to laugh? Ready to fight injustice? Ready to share? Scan the QR code and become Increasingly Radical. Subscriptions are free, but all proceeds of paid subscriptions are donated to support those impacted by malevolent policies and politicians!
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
You can't help but notice that ICE agents are ... large. So large that even DHS has noticed it, and they've issues a new food pyramid specifically for ICE agents. Read about it here [no paywall!]
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Dept. of Homeland Security Issues New Dietary Guidelines
Concerns over ICE agents' size raise alarms
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Have you noticed that the Administration is referring to a Communist threat, to infiltration by Communists, to a Communist plot to take over the country ... a lot lately? It’s not your imagination, and it’s not by accident. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/the-new-re... [read for free]
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The New Red Scare
GOP Reboots Fear of Cuba to Create a New McCarthyism
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Don't look now, but the administration is teeing things up to use (wait for it) the Communist Threat (sic) as a pretext for pursuing its enemies. The "Red Threat" is back, and Cuba, of all nations, is in the vanguard (pun intended.) open.substack.com/pub/perrybne... [read for free]
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The New Red Scare
GOP Reboots Fear of Cuba to Create a New McCarthyism
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
So, Trump has threatened *even more* tariffs against #Canada. Would you believe it has something to do with #HeatedRivalries? Read on: perrybnewman.substack.com/p/trump-thre... [no paywall]
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TRUMP THREATENS EVEN MORE TARIFFS ON CANADIAN GOODS
"Unusual" demand raises questions ...
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
First off, these tariffs are probably illegal. to the extent that matters to this administration. Second, I'm buying all the Canadian goods I can get my hands on, whether I need them or not. I know the $ goes to "our" Treasury, but I don't want to give this miscreant a single success.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
To put things in World Cup terms, it's 'Murica 1, America 1. And we're in stoppage time. Find out how this ends. open.substack.com/pub/perrybne...
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'Murica 1, America 1
And we're in stoppage time now
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
So, this appeared on Substack yesterday. Trying to decide if it's, uh, anti-Semitic; or maybe just anti-Zionist. I mean, you can be one without the other, right?
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In the wake of the latest ICE-provoked tragedy, this one in Maine, I profiled ICE agents. I didn't like what I found. open.substack.com/pub/perrybne... [read for free]
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Who the hell are these people?
I profiled ICE agents. I didn't like what I found.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Trump calls FIFA to overturn red card. US crushed by Belgium. JD Vance visits Pope Francis. Pope dies within 24 hours. Trump speaks with Lindsey Graham. Graham dies within 24 hours. CDC advises Americans to avoid contact with Trump or Vance.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Mainers breathe sigh of relief as Lindsey Graham's death creates mass exodus of national reporters and "analysts" leaving Maine for SC.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
BREAKING: As part of a "grand bargain" to reset US-Canada relations, #Canada donates mid-20th century Dash-8 turboprop to Trump Presidential Library in effort to win Trump's favor. Read details of 𝘓𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘴 here/ici [read for free/gratuit]. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/canada-us-...
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CANADA, U.S. ANNOUNCE GRAND BARGAIN
Leaders resolve "all outstanding issues" through stunning agreement
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: Canada, US announce "grand bargain" resolving all open issues between them. [warning: satire!] open.substack.com/pub/perrybne... [read for free]
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CANADA, U.S. ANNOUNCE GRAND BARGAIN
Leaders resolve "all outstanding issues" through stunning agreement
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Twenty years from now historians will confirm that the Qatari 747 was used from 2028 - 2038 as the updated equivalent of Epstein's private jet.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Proud to support this great organization car4ukraine.com that is preparing and transporting kitted out trucks for use in Ukraine. Join your state's "battalion." car4ukraine.com/campaigns/50...
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
@altusaid.altgov.info thought you might appreciate this. perrybnewman.substack.com/p/five-reaso... [read for free]
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FIVE REASONS NOT TO SUPPORT HAITI ...
And all of them are bunk.
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Perry B. Newman 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇭🇹 @pbnewman.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The Lorax has entered the chat and has just been named Minister for the Future.
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