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Russell McOrmond

@russellmcormond.bsky.social
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White cis-hetero male settler-Canadian #ActuallyAutistic He/him (but don't believe in binary, so they/them fine) See flora.ca for links to all other social media. #RankedChoiceVoting #STV #NoPartyLists

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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 11h
Unlikely, as I note the gender expression (not female) and hair colour (not blond). But other than that....
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
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Nobody should be surprised the USA will publicly execute a person in a wheelchair on the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities
I have noticed many people writing about US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announcing the plans to televise an execution by firing squad later this year - again, fixating on individuals vs systems.
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FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Alaska’s open primaries & ranked choice voting "have brought legislators together to tackle hard challenges. We've proven disagreement doesn't have to lead to paralysis." – AK state Sen. Cathy Giessel, & state Reps. Bryce Edgmon, Ky Holland, & Zack Fields
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Opinion: We govern across the aisle. Alaska’s open primary makes it possible
Governing requires compromise, and Alaska’s election system helps elect leaders willing to find it.
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FairVote @fairvote.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Honolulu Star-Advertiser Editorial Board endorses ballot measure to bring RCV to Honolulu's elections ⬇️ "Ranked choice voting encourages more candidate & voter participation: Voters can choose less-well-known candidates matching their views w/o fearing a 'throwaway' vote."
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Editorial: Study voting policy, food security fund | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
As general election ballots arrive via mail this week, we urge Oahu voters to take time to closely review the 20 proposed amendments to the City Charter. Many have complicated sentences, so they will ...
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Autie-biographical Comics @autiebiographical.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Day 15 of Auctober! Having so many neurodivergent people in my circle makes it easy to hang out with them, since they understand and appreciate parallel play! Sometimes you want to hang out with someone, you just don't want to do something cooperative with them, and that's totally okay. #auctober
A one panel comic titled "Auctober" and subtitled "Parallel Play".
Honeydew plays on their Switch while their friend reads a book. They glance over at each other and Honeydew says "You're so fun to hang out with!" The friend responds "So are you!"
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
You will hear groups talking about their “right to self determination”. Westphalian sovereignty is an exclusivity over land and life, and when combined with other Western worldviews has largely become a mechanism to deny self-determination. r.flora.ca/p/free-real-... #TurtleIsland #Palestine
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Free Real Estate? Lockean property and Westphalian exclusivity
And --dangerously -- discussing the connection to Zionism
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
No One Gives A Fuck About October 7 No one cares. They used to, but then Israel spent three years showing the world why October 7 happened in the first place. After witnessing the cruelty and savagery of the state of Israel, people get it now. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/no-one-giv...
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No One Gives A Fuck About October 7
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'm curious how cheap or expensive context switching is for other people? I've come to undertand that this isn't across all Autistic people, but specific to some Autism profiles. r.flora.ca/p/context-sw... #ActuallyAutistic #AskingAutistics
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Context switching is expensive with my Autism profile
“Change may not be A→B. It may be A+B, followed by the work of rebuilding the whole.” - Jaime Hoerricks.
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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life It’s like spraying yourself with asshole repellant. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/being-forc...
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Being Forcefully Pro-Palestine Weeds The Terrible People Out Of Your Life
Video reading by Tim Foley:
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Everyone Should Watch Naza
YouTube video by BadHasbara
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Orange Shirt Day 2026
Also, the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (NDTR)
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Treaty 8 Renames Itself Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations, Signs Water Pact With Dene Nation Amid Alberta Separatism open.substack.com/pub/indigeno... ----- The false notion that a "Canadian Province" can separate from "Canada" without FPIC of treaty nations must end! #InternationalLaw #Treaty
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Treaty 8 Renames Itself Treaty 8 Sovereign Nations, Signs Water Pact With Dene Nation Amid Alberta Separatism
Why the name change, the Dene Nation MOU, and the fight over tailings water in the Athabasca River are all part of the same stand.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
I didn't experience this personally with my own parents, but I have seen this way too often with others...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Re-adjusting to the need for lossy compressed communication: If I don't have the energy to communicate, then I need to relax and let things go. r.flora.ca/p/need-for-l... #ActuallyAutistic
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Re-adjusting to the need for lossy compressed communication
If I don't have the energy to communicate, then I need to relax and let things go.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
TL;DR Jewish people are “Indigenous” to Palestine in the same way that Puritans, now morphed into Evangelicals, are “Indigenous” to North America. r.flora.ca/p/from-turtl...
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From Turtle Island to Palestine (or Levant, Greater Israel) – Decolonization is not a Metaphor
"Are Jews Indigenous"? What about the Metis? What about the Puritans?
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/walking-wo... Article by @brandimorin.bsky.social
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Walking Wolf: A Tribute to Chief Wilton Littlechild
A Founding Architect of Reconciliation
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A 900-Year Old Way To Bewail Scapegoating - Jews had a way to collectively grieve harm; we could, again-- in solidarity with everyone targeted by hate www.lifeisasacredtext.com/p/725e6482-e...
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A 900-Year Old Way To Bewail Scapegoating
Jews had a way to collectively grieve harm; we could, again-- in solidarity with everyone targeted by hate
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
One thing at a time 🤓 . Most loyalists to USA or Canada don't recognize them as Christian governments built on Christian doctrines (Doctrine of Discovery, etc). There is a specific rebranding of Protestantism that is claimed to be "secular", even though it is only semi-non-denominational.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
We need to normalize talking about Athabasca separating from Alberta. substack.com/profile/8563... #alberta #abpolitics #AlbertaSeparation #cdnpoli #quebecseparation #BlocQuebecois #partiquebecois
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We need to normalize talking about Athabasca separating from Alberta.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Tuesday, June 17 · 6:00 PM MT · 8:00 PM ET · Substack Live Upcoming live stream by the author of Our Voice of Fire : A Memoir of a Warrior Rising substack.com/@russellmcor...
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Tuesday, June 17 · 6:00 PM MT · 8:00 PM ET · Substack Live Upcoming live stream by the author of Our Voice of Fire : A Memoir of a Warrior Rising You need to be a subscriber first to get the link, s...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Are Provincial Separatist movements "White Nationalist"? It felt obvious to me that they are, but I figured out one possible reason the average Canadian loyalist can't see it. r.flora.ca/p/provincial... #Alberta #ABpoli #cdnpoli
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Are Provincial Separatist movements "White Nationalist"?
It felt obvious to me that they are, but I figured out one possible reason the average Canadian loyalist can't see it.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Canadian politicians have been condemning an effigy strung up at a recent pro-Palestine protest. To hear them tell it, it was vile antisemitism: a Jewish person hanging from a noose. But that’s a lie -- one now being used to criminalize protest and vilify protesters. Let’s talk about the truth:
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
London (England), Ottawa (Canada), or Edmonton (Alberta) abusing Western legal fiction called "democracy" Western European and/or Northwestern territorial Canadian politicians and political elites abusing the phrases "democratic" and "anti-democratic" r.flora.ca/p/legal-fict... #cdnpoli #abpoli
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London (England), Ottawa (Canada), or Edmonton (Alberta) abusing Western legal fiction called "democracy"
Western European and/or Northwestern territorial Canadian politicians and political elites abusing the phrases "democratic" and "anti-democratic"
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
r.flora.ca/p/if-canada-... #Wexit #AlbertaSeparation #QuebecSeparation #Quebec #Alberta #Cdnpoli
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If Canada is severable, then so are its provinces
Debunking one of the more nonsensical aspects of Canada's White Nationalist/Separatist movements
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
"May 2026 marks 78 years of ongoing Nakba and 31 months of genocide in the Gaza Strip: ongoing Israeli crimes that are enabled and bankrolled by Western, colonial states, exposing the extent and depth of their complicity." badil.org/press-releas...
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Accountability through Sanctions to End the Ongoing Nakba
A statement by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights and the Global Palestinian Refugee and IDP Network (GPRN). The statement is also available in:Franais | Deutsche|It...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day
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Nakba Day - Wikipedia
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
CANADA INC.-THE TRAILER IS HERE The world’s mining landlord has blood on its hands-Canada sells the world human rights. Then ravages the land from under it. indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/canada-inc... #Canada #Cdnpoli www.instagram.com/p/DYFK4cKOmF1/
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CANADA INC.-THE TRAILER IS HERE
The world’s mining landlord has blood on its hands-Canada sells the world human rights. Then ravages the land from under it.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“I am a surgeon!” --- well, I was a Systems Engineer and Software Developer. A controvercial episode of "The Good Doctor", memes, and the emotional connection I have to it. r.flora.ca/p/i-am-a-sur... #ActuallyAutistic
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“I am a surgeon!” --- well, I was a Systems Engineer and Software Developer.
A controvercial episode of "The Good Doctor", memes, and the emotional connection I have to it.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
These are precedented times: My many decades of "warning" about US/Canadian policy. Thinking about why I blog and participate on social media.... r.flora.ca/p/these-are-... Are you "kin"?
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These are precedented times: My many decades of "warning" about US/Canadian policy.
Thinking about why I blog and participate on social media....
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Why asking “why don’t they just move” is not valid for Fort Chipewyan Putting "Alberta" and "Canada" into a more appropriate context of conflicting concepts of sovereignty. r.flora.ca/p/fort-chipe...
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Why asking “why don’t they just move” is not valid for Fort Chipewyan
Putting "Alberta" and "Canada" into a more appropriate context of conflicting concepts of sovereignty
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
So, you didn't read the article and stayed within your silo?
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
“Canada is cooked”? Many settler Canadians support of the same worldviews as Elon Musk. r.flora.ca/p/canada-is-... Stop trying to use Western European worldviews to justify the inevitable harm from seeking to impose Western European worldviews. #MMIWG #MMIWG2S #LGBTQQIA+ #MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA
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“Canada is cooked”? Many settler Canadians support of the same worldviews as Elon Musk.
Stop trying to use Western European worldviews to justify the inevitable harm from seeking to impose Western European worldviews.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Wait, what?!? Being honest about the greatest threat to Jewish peoples. Note the plural for "peoples", and don't fall for Christian Zionist antisemitic tropes. r.flora.ca/p/greatest-t... #ChristianZionism #ChristianNationalism #Canada #Iran
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Wait, what?!? Being honest about the greatest threat to Jewish peoples.
Note the plural for "peoples", and don't fall for Christian Zionist antisemitic tropes.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Below I am including something written by Gemini, to bring together a co-authored response to a co-authored article written by @jamesgerman.bsky.social and Claude AI (his typist/assistant). r.flora.ca/p/letter-to-... #ActuallyAutistic
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Letter to Lord Stretch and Claude: Deconstructing the Westphalian Overlay
"Our" thoughts after reading another amazing article on Lord Stretch's Substack...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I know many participated in the so-called "No Kings" feel-good parades last weekend, but I hope people will move from attending parades to actually interrogating the mythologies and narratives. tadstoermer.substack.com/p/telling-am...
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Telling America’s Lies
Trump is enlisting academics and influencers abroad to use American propaganda to fight the truth
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I am still learning who I am. Part of that has been listening to Jaime, as someone who is aware that they are Autistic and have a Gestalt mind. Am I also Gestalt? I was certain in the past that I was not, but now I’m less certain. r.flora.ca/p/doing-a-th... #ActuallyAutistic #MaybeGestalt
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Doing “a thing”, non-dualism and Jalebis
Podcasts, time travel, spirituality and food
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Canadian Zionism, built on Christian Zionism which predates Jewish Zionism by centuries, rots peoples brains such that they can't determine what antisemitism means any more. karynpugliese.substack.com/p/two-cases-... I'm surprised when Jewish people side with antisemitic Christian Zionists.
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Two cases of IP tracking in Canadian media
Comparing Canadaland’s recent actions with the Ottawa Citizen’s 2012 case
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Canadian Zionism, built on Christian Zionism which predates Jewish Zionism by centuries, rots peoples brains such that they can't determine what antisemitism means any more. karynpugliese.substack.com/p/two-cases-... I'm surprised when Jewish people side with antisemitic Christian Zionists.
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Two cases of IP tracking in Canadian media
Comparing Canadaland’s recent actions with the Ottawa Citizen’s 2012 case
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I assume you are aware that Jesse Brown has fallen down the Canadian Zionist black hole. karynpugliese.substack.com/p/two-cases-... While he may personally be Jewish, Canadian Zionism is built upon Christian Zionism which predates Jewish Zionism by a few centuries.
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Russell McOrmond on Karyn S. Pugliese - How I Managed
If Jesse reads this, yes I'm the same guy you interviewed back in the Search Engine days. No unethical unmasking is required, and I’m always going to be a Free/Libre and Open Source communicator. As ...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Forming the USA was never #NoKings , but a fork of violent colonial empire where the fork used different corporate branding. There is way too much Manifest Destiny ideology within many alleged/performative opponents to what the Christian settler-colonial US government continues to do!
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
My ongoing learning about Inuit Homelands (Inuit Nunaat) This time allowing myself to use an LLM that has been primed with a Gestalt Perception. r.flora.ca/p/inuit-nuna... #Inuit #Greenland #InuitNunaat
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My ongoing learning about Inuit Homelands (Inuit Nunaat)
This time allowing myself to use an LLM that has been primed with a Gestalt Perception.
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
There is so much of a desire, especially within the self-identified “left”, to promote US and Canadian myths so that institutions they continue to identify with are never allowed to be questioned. substack.com/@russellmcor...
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There is so much of a desire, especially within the self-identified “left”, to promote US and Canadian myths so that institutions they continue to identify with are never allowed to be questioned. Ev...
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Israel's desire to launch an illegal preemptive strike was the alleged "imminent threat" that the USA is using to justify its participation in attacking Iran. www.youtube.com/shorts/4uGX9... substack.com/profile/8563...
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The “imminant threat” that is alleged to be the reason for the illegal preemptive attack on Iran was that Israel was going to attack anyway, so the US joined in that illegal attack in order to protect...
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
NeuroDivergent Rebel put out a call on their Substack for submissions for a questionnaire, from which some quotes will be pulled for a new workbook. I thought it might be interesting for me to publish some of my answers.... r.flora.ca/p/autistic-w... #ActuallyAutistic
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My contributions for consideration for an Autistic Adults Workbook
A questionnaire sparked thinking I wanted to share
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
This week’s One Dish One Mic has Karldockstader discussing the life and death of Captain Kook on this day (February 14’th) 1779. substack.com/profile/8563... #OneDishOneMic #BadBunny #DecolonizationIsNotAMetahpor #Decolonization
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This week’s One Dish One Mic has @Karldockstader discussing the life and death of Captain Kook on this day (February 14’th) 1779. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_James_Cook And the song: LO Q...
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Shava Nerad @shava23.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I posted this two years ago today, but it still makes me smile. Could have been me, as a kid. #actuallyautistic
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Aliya Rahman is a resident of South Minneapolis. They are Bangladeshi American, born in Northern Wisconsin and a disabled person with autism and a traumatic brain injury. substack.com/@russellmcor... #ActuallyAutistic
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Russell McOrmond @russellmcormond.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I see so many people talking about the 25’th amendment to the US constitution. I am wondering — do people actually believe James David Vance would be better than Donald John Trump as President of those theoretically United States? substack.com/profile/8563...
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I see so many people talking about the 25’th amendment to the US constitution. I am wondering — do people actually believe James David Vance would be better than Donald John Trump as President of t...
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