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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social wrote, Trump’s directive yesterday stated, “To the extent that protests or acts of violence directly inhibit the execution of the laws, they constitute a form of rebellion against the authority of the Government of the United States.” Any thoughts re Jan 2020?

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Tom Fletcher, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, told BBC Radio that there are “14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.” Speaking of the need for humanitarian relief in Gaza to prevent further genocide. Save the children, feed the children.

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

#no2AlbertaSuccession “Smith has said she doesn’t endorse separating from Canada, but separatists should not be demonized for their frustration with Ottawa.” It is not demonizing to say that you deeply disagree and see the entire conversation as wrong minded. A waste of time and money.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

Blessed to once again be joined by @davidarobertson.bsky.social discussing David's new book released May 13, 2025 bit.ly/3S1ZKkv, I started reading this morning (May 13), #1 Movie Night totally resonates with my family patterns. #52 is share the book, We talk about #28 & the #shareyouraction Enjoy!

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

#Albertans wondering if Alberta "separates" from Canada, are you thinking we are a "standalone" nation, or were you thinking you'd "apply" to join, say the USA, as a "state" like Alberta would be the 51st? Think you aren't heard now...try being Louisiana? 2 Senators and 6 of 435 reps in Congress.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Hmmm wonder how the start of @richeisenshow.bsky.social will go tomorrow morning lol.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

It's unlikely he has read this, given his statements that he doesn't read books. Yet, given his speech patterns and frequency of certified falsehoods uttered over the past decade-plus, he understands this principle very well. Don't repeat even part of a lie. #TelltheTruth #CalloutFalsehoods

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

1989 Stephen R Covey wrote, "Our perceptions can be vastly different. And yet we both have lived with our paradigms for years, thinking they are 'facts,' and questioning the character or the mental competence of anyone who can’t “see the facts.” I still have work to do understanding many paradigms.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

During his mortal ministry, Matthew recorded Jesus Christ speaking of the importance of "becoming as a little child." He taught the importance of humility, trust, love, forgiveness..." Of note, he was not talking about little child behaviours like pitching a fit when I don't get my way...😂.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

I feel like it’s very important to support this statement from representatives of Nations in Canada. It is also important as a descendant of settlers in Alberta, Canada that any talk of separation is indefensible. Do not waste time or money on political games.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Lessons to learn from US collapse: support local news, support investigative reporting, keep your public broadcasting going.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

FWIW Mr. Trump et al "You keep using that word 'antisemitism.' I do not think it means what you think it means." Criticizing military actions ≠ hating Jewish people. In a democracy, we must be able to discuss policy without false accusations. Let's talk with clarity, respect, and honesty. #opentalk

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

In a world increasingly filled with people who claim to be leaders, nationally and internationally, applying dehumanizing labels to members of mankind, striving to make others “less than” - even alien to mankind, the best cure is actually knowing “others”. 💙📚 #greatread @peterbeinart.bsky.social

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The opening paragraph reminds me of an early scene in "Stand and Deliver," though probably a bit of artistic license as a High School Teacher; I chuckle every time. youtu.be/L7yADmUIvJc?... We must teach all of history, including what was and what needs to be. #reconciliation Know Better Be Better

Sex for Homework | Stand and Deliver (1988)

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Not directly going to the source but a pretty good dramatic rendition to review - youtu.be/uDJTRC6LIOk?... (10 min mark on) Individually, we must examine our core virtues, which should be readily identifiable by those who truly know us. Empathy is a strength, a skill in leadership and life for all.

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7)

YouTube video by The Chosen

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

As I read this, what looks like an internal memo, it demonstrates what true leadership and collaboration looks and feels it should in sharp contrast to what one regularly observes from the VP, Defense Secretary, etc. International teams, all teams really work best following Col Meyer's model. IMO.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

@pkrugman.bsky.social ”It’s hard to overstate the craziness of announcing a radical tariff plan, then announcing a quite different but equally radical plan just a week later.” Paul’s newsletter’s are must read. Thank you sir.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

#socialstudies #k-12education #Indigenouswaysoflearning #aplc A visit with Kim and Jason, who have led the work developing an amazing website: indigenousculturebasedlearning.ca, supporting teachers in their work to expand understanding and knowledge. podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/a...

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Indigenous Culture Based Learning with Kim Barker Kay and Jason Bigcharles

Podcast Episode · APLC Change Maker Conversations in Education · 2025-04-08 · 1h 7m

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

When can the families of those wrongfully sent, keep in mind some were teenagers, expect to have their family members returned to them? Having been on the planet for 66 years, I recall America (and Canada) being appalled by Central and South American strong-arm nations disappearing people.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/04/2025

People packed the streets across the U.S. on Saturday to protest against President Trump, his administration's cutbacks, financial turmoil and more. nyti.ms/43GRvS7

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I don’t know if this will work but two YouTube Videos the first for sadly necessary comic relief but not wrong youtu.be/X_wHBlouFSc?... Thank you Ferris… The second the CBC (from Canada 🇨🇦🤓) shows the math in a great lesson. youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?... Enjoy.

YouTube video by John Kessler

Voodoo Economics

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Having left the former Twitter and being very reluctant to join a platform that attempts to tell you it is dedicated to truth and “retruths” I am not surprised, Don Jr and Eric are a far fall from the son in-law the first time Don Sr was President. What is Don Sr’s list of leaders he admires again?

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Larry, I was going to hit the ❤️ button and while I love the information the message is just so sad, wrong-minded even shameful. How much money & time will be required to read and make available the truth? Did you see the list of banned books the Military Academies had to pull? “Oh say what is truth?

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

@larryferlazzo.bsky.social I know we’re English and Social Studies folks, our math teaching friends might “enjoy” this youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?... about 2.4 minutes in the calculator comes out - wow. Plenty of class material to go around and this from a Gov’t trying to shutter the education dept.

The bizarre way Trump’s team calculated reciprocal tariffs | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

youtu.be/PWhv-06DNjE?... Watch this to the end, the 10% nations comment just adds to the Crazy, the international reputation of the government of the United States (note please that’s different than the vast majority of the US people) is plummeting.

The bizarre way Trump’s team calculated reciprocal tariffs | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

💙📚The #booksky group is invited to get into this. In the last couple of days all military schools have been ordered to ban some 380 books and now museums and libraries are under attack. Not everyone can buy books amazon or otherwise. Who benefits who loses? www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/...

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Book Club: With NPR under threat, a colorful new history shows why it matters

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Moral leadership does invite those who have to be #helpinghands however they can for those who have not or have significantly less. Even in the US you have witnessed politicized assistance for disasters of late. If red state can’t hold compassion for blue it’s not a reach to see the ❤️ close here#sad

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

The response from Singapore. Come on folks in the United States (law firms, universities, Senate, Congress, electorate on all sides) is this the path you really want to take the world down?

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

youtu.be/G0swAZQeZRc?... A very reasoned message to the people of Singapore and warning to the rest of the world. Time for reasoned rationale actual leaders to speak and for citizens to truly listen and understand. Trump and his team $$ (not the voters) are in it for what?

Singapore PM’s Chilling Warning To World Amid Chaotic Trump Tariffs: ‘Trade Wars To Armed Conflicts’

YouTube video by Hindustan Times

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This is not surprising and feels long overdue, now if a few major law firms would backbone up, and others follow Senator Booker’s example, ….a guy can dream. Thank you New York Public Schools - Stay Awesome.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I’ve never had personal money to put in stocks, I do have a pension fund I contributed to for 45 years that certainly invests on behalf of thousands. Any chance this Trump fellow has friends who knew a) what was going to happen and b) will know a day or two early when the tariffs will be pulled?

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u... Labels like "bastions of left-wing thought" repeatedly labelled against institutions of higher learning by extreme right-wing politicians are disconcerting and inaccurate. Is it possible that those who do not see what DT sees are more centrist than left or right?

Comment from the Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon. Universities "bastions of left-wing thought" can lose funding if they do not adhere to civil rights law. from the NYTIMES Article

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/u... Perhaps "what it considers to be antisemitism" is the problem here. More than one thing can be true: Hamas is a terrorist organization. The destruction of Gaza, with massive loss of life, targeting women & children, is unacceptable and saying so is not antisemitism.

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Trump Administration Set to Pause $510 Million for Brown University

The administration has now targeted five schools’ federal funding as part of a pledge to combat what it considers to be antisemitism on university campuses.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What is it Donald calls all non Fox News agencies? Truth matters, is it fair to say Fox News is totally on board with #P2025, totally on board with all things Trump (until they had to pay for their election fraud stories) and just not trustworthy news? Remove the channel(s) from your options?

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

It’s 900 pages - I am thinking Americans sure should read it and any Canadians concerned with statements from the Alberta Premier saying Conservative leader is 'in sync' with Trump, this seems to be Trump’s playbook. Homework time. #disconcerting static.heritage.org/project2025/...

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Love seeing what you help bring out of your students. Stay awesome

Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Where does the money go? Every crime movie in history of time says “follow the money”. I feel like there was a time a president & VP couldn’t receive gifts without declaring them and ensuring they weren’t “corrupt”. Today 5million gets you face time with DT at Mara lago? True? #sad #demandBetter

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Opens the door for examining the “on the record comments and actions” of so many. Some of whom don’t even put their hand on the bible, while theoretically vowing to uphold a constitution all the while musing how to break it. Actions & words matter, the gospel matters but in school, not the answer.

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

RE: USAID from George Packer “This is the infrastructure and architecture that has given us a doubling of the human lifespan,” Atul Gawande, the writer and surgeon who was the most recent, and perhaps last, head of the agency’s Bureau for Global Health, told me. “Taking it down kills people.”

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Rick Gilson 🇨🇦 @rickgilson.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Timothy Snyder writes, “Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers.” The USA is the only NATO member to invoke Article 5 - Denmark responded - Now the US is saying they should take over Greenland. Wait…what? Greenland ignored the visit of the VP. Yep