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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

I would love to see the difference between an anonymous vote and a recorded vote. Curious to know what the conscience of lawmakers vs the leadership signalling is.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Qualified immunity is a concept that came out of the judiciary post-emancipation. They were too cowardly to convict violent racist officials and the concept settled into American law and expanded to where we see it today.

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C.M. Lewis 🦬⚔️ @thehousered.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I think Carney should "look into" the use of the Magnitsky Act for the Venezuela boat strikes and illegal ICE raids.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The part everyone should be concerned about is that any competent analyst could have told him that. Exactly how far has Trump isolated himself from expertise? What does that mean for future policy decisions impacting not just America, but the world?

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

He wants to increase the military not to protect you, but to crush you.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

#ClimateChange deniers be like "it's a hoax". FFS, the planet would be -18°C (0°F) without greenhouse gases and we've added 50% more. You think it's not going to have an impact? If you were comfortable at two blankets and someone added a third, would you still be comfortable? How about two?

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

It's dementia, hubris, and blinders. I don't think he even realizes the money and power he'll personally lose instantly. American strategic losses would take generations and trillions to recover from. The only way he could come out ahead would be to end democracy in America.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

I tried the Beyond Steak "plant-based seared tips" today. 226g package is about CDN $11. Probably enough for three meals. Taste is like beef. Mouth feel is somewhere between fatty chunks of beef and yuba. I stir-fried it with broccoli, garlic, onions, mushroom sauce, and tamari. I ate too much. 😋

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Hey America. When you helped Israel do aweful things to Palestinians without consequence, you created a culture of permission - that the strong may kill the weak because they can. That permission is spreading - to America. #Minneapolis

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

“The preferences of the average American appear to have only a miniscule, near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy.” Gilens & Page, Perspectives in Politics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core

Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens - Volume 12 Issue 3

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Does he wake up every day and ask himself "how could I most effectively vandalize the planet?"

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In my job, we often try to quantify risk using probability and severity, and I find it really unintuitive. I wonder if there could be better communication on this.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Maybe it's about risk perception. The chance of getting hit by lightning is low, but the outcome can be fatal. And we _do_ often see news saying that climate scientists or the IPCC underestimated this or that. Even if the consensus isn't changing that much, it's a bit alarming.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

"According to @UNICEF, Gaza’s newborns are entering the world already weakened by starvation, stress, and the total collapse of maternal care." #Gaza #GazaNews #GazaStrip #Israel #Palestine

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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The Drawdown Explorer is making it easy to find the best climate solutions — and avoid the ones that don't work. And it's 100% free! youtu.be/HRG4xJ49gdU?...

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So yes, Canada’s system is different. But the real reason ICE is so awful isn’t modern politics or incompetence. It’s that parts of U.S. law were built to SURVIVE EQUALITY WITHOUT ENFORCING IT — and they’re still doing their job. 9/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

That retreat hardened into doctrine. Each time rights enforcement threatened the social order — Reconstruction, civil rights, mass policing — courts raised shields. Qualified immunity is the legal memory of that fear. 8/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

After emancipation, Congress empowered courts to punish state officials who abused power. Southern officials resisted. Violence followed. Rather than fully enforce equality, courts narrowed remedies, softened liability, and insulated officials. 7/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

So where did that instinct come from? It didn’t appear out of nowhere. It emerged when the U.S. first tried to hold officials accountable for violating the rights of a newly freed population — and the courts panicked. 6/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Canada never adopted this doctrine. There, the assumption is: if the state violates your rights, the state answers for it. In the U.S., the assumption quietly became: officials must be protected from the people. 5/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Enter qualified immunity. In the U.S., officials aren’t liable unless they violate “clearly established” law. Novel abuses don’t count. Courts dismiss cases before evidence is heard. Impunity isn’t a bug — it’s engineered. 4/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

The U.S. model is different. ICE does visible interior policing. Wrongful arrests rarely lead to meaningful consequences. Even clear rights violations often go unpunished. This isn’t just culture — it’s law. 3/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Canada still detains and deports people. But enforcement is mostly administrative: hearings, reviews, court oversight. Officers and the state can be sued. Abuse happens — but the system is designed to be checked, not theatrical. 2/9

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Why doesn’t Canada have an immigration agency like ICE? We enforce immigration law, but without routine raids, “papers please” policing, or an agency that seems to operate above the law. It looks like Canada is just more reasonable. #IceRaids #USPoli 🧵

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Composition fallacy. You’re cherry-picking one drawback to ignore the full-system benefits. Next step will be "moving the goal post" fallacy. Let’s face it, ICE vehicles are probably a part of your identity and you're resistant to the change. Drive one. You might like it.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Remember not just their courage, but the care we owe them — and the care we must demand when their lives are risked. #LestWeForget

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

TL;DR: Dems made a coordinated move to end shutdown but risk giving up power if they treat short-term deals as wins. GOP's internal chaos is deliberate - it shifts power toward the exec and weakens Congress. The fight is really about whether democratic institutions or Trump chaos controls the purse.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Americans sometimes ask how, as a Canadian, I feel about Mr. Trump. I generally reply that it must be tremendously reassuring to live in an age when so many of one's national problems have chosen to manifest themselves in a single individual. #USPolitics

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

"Israel has arrested former military prosecutor Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi over her leaking of a video showing Israeli soldiers abusing a Palestinian detainee at the notorious Sde Teiman military base last year." www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8Ev... via @ostegrogno.bsky.social

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Meanwhile, in South Korea: "Starting at the end of November, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. This obligation applies not only to newly constructed parking lots but also to existing ones." cm.asiae.co.kr/en/article/2...

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Mandatory Installation of Solar Panels in Public Parking Lots to Apply Retroactively to Existing Facilities

Starting at the end of November this year, public parking lots with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar power generation facilities. ...

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Democratic Party created Trump. They slipped right with the Overton window. And with it, for many, the American dream dissolved. When there's no hope under democracy, Trump’s loyalty pyramid looks inviting. He shows that impunity can trickle down. That's a heady drug to a powerless person.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The poison of tyranny is not fear but permission. When a leader teaches that power absolves, he releases millions from a burden of conscience. They mistake impunity for freedom, domination for strength, and chaos for destiny. So begins the undoing of the republic - not with tanks, but with applause.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/10/2025

Mexico Versus Nazis is a theme that’s really resonating with me of late

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In short: When we hear “Aunt” in this sense, it’s not an error - often it’s an embrace of extended-family logic.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

What green-lights it socially? - Someone you feel affection/respect for from your parent’s generation. - Cultural or community norm that lets “Auntie/Aunt” = elder friend. - Comfort with non-blood ties being treated as family.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

So, Mamdani using “Aunt” isn’t a slip-up; it’s part of a rich tradition of naming elders for closeness, respect, and community-feel - not just kinship.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

- In Hawaii, Indian-diaspora networks, West Africa… the same pattern shows up. - On screen: from “Aunty Entity” in Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome to the legion of “aunties” in Crazy Rich Asians -- relation optional, respect mandatory.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

- In many Asian families, kids call their parents’ friends “Auntie/Uncle” as a sign of respect and belonging (think the novel The Joy Luck Club). - In Black American communities, “Auntie” has often been used for admired elders - though the history is layered.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Seeing lots of chatter about Mahmood Mamdani casually calling his close relative “Aunt” - which got folks pausing. But here's the thing: calling someone from your parents’ generation “Auntie/Aunty/Aunt” doesn’t always mean blood relation. It’s a long-standing cross-cultural habit.

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Folks would have to be pretty credulous to think Trump cares about whales at all (other than as an excuse to back up his climate denial).

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Ryan K @rachunzero.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

You know hiw ChatGPT keeps context about you so it can better interact? I really have to wonder what it thinks about you now. 😂

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents. I did it because the government isn’t. This is what I found.

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

When I ran a coal plant we kept 7 - 14 days of coal in the pile to accommodate rail volatility. When we got below 3 we started curtailment planning to ensure critical loads were served. Anyway, please tell me more about how PV can’t work because it requires overnight on-sight energy storage.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 06/10/2025

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

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UNRWA @unrwa.org · 06/10/2025

#Gaza’s war: 2 years too long. 🔴 Over 66,100 people reported killed 🔴 Nearly all of Gaza’s residents have been displaced 🔴 Nearly 80 per cent of structures damaged or destroyed UNRWA continues to provide critical services. Read UNRWA response here: www.unrwa.org/resources/fa... #UNRWAworks

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus. A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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