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Shannon Gormley

@shannongormley.bsky.social
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Journalist, dingo-attendant.

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 13/12/2025
When fascism came to America in 2025, it wore a red baseball cap and carried an AR-15 #Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
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Shannon Gormley: When fascism came to America in 2025, it wore a red baseball cap and carried an AR-15
It took 11 months for a full-blown fascist state to rise in earnest from where U.S. democracy once stood.
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Akaash Maharaj @maharaj.org · 02/12/2025
Mark Carney says Canada will no longer describe itself as having “a feminist foreign policy”. Is this a change in the deep substance or superficial branding of our diplomacy? I spoke with @jeyantvo.bsky.social and @shannongormley.bsky.social on @therundowntvo.bsky.social . 📺 youtu.be/VW1VpdMwpI4
In the TV Ontario studio, for The Rundown discussion of Canada's foreign policy posture
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 21/11/2025
So apparently this is fine but Canadian governments using advertising to share views with Americans about trade is completely inappropriate. Got it.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Attn: Toronto/GTA folks - please share. 🐶
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 15/11/2025
No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does #Opinion from @shannongormley.bsky.social
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Shannon Gormley: No ‘official’ portrait could capture Donald Trump’s presidency like this one does
Next to the scene of collapse around him, the President of the United States cuts a solitary and disdainful figure.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
My travel destinations will now be based off this photo
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Caption this photo? I'll start: Knights of the Round Table in Kyiv. Your captions ⤵️
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Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
"What if Trump insisted the tariffs are to take effect unless Canada listed water as a tradable good?... Nice little economy you have there, Canada; shame that your refusal to turn on the faucet could wreck it." @ereguly.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Trump’s possible not-so-secret agenda: Canadian water exports and lots of them
Water may be the real reason, or one of the top reasons, propelling Trump’s desire to turn Canada into Minnesota North
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victrix2028.bsky.social @victrix2028.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵
Tomi Lahren on Twitter writes: "Can you think of a Canadian product that’s better than an American one?

Honestly curious."
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
In a TV panel on Tuesday, and I joked that Canada's promised "24/7 eyes on the border" should be some hockey sticks with googly eyes jammed in a snowbank. Aaron and his mom KJ, in Winnipeg, liked the idea, so they made us some truly amazing border sentries. I hope Mr. Trump feels more secure now.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think something broke in Canadians this weekend. Everyone has had enough - but will it be enough for us to finally get our act together on defence, foreign affairs, and finally nixing internal trade barriers?
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/02/2025
If Trump keeps up this 51st state shit, I think Canada should ask its other NATO allies to station *their* troops along our border.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I believe it says explicitly in the treaty text that this is not an "EU border". We'd have to change the text of the treaty, but that's very doable....
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 03/02/2025
We don't even have to complete shut off the taps to start with. Just throttle back supply, and watch prices rise. We can hurt them AND keep our own economy turning over, and leave something in the tank (ha) to demonstrate measured resolve.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 03/02/2025
never have i felt so seen by a 50-year-old book
Acknowledgements page of a book. It reads:

"If anyone says 'tariff' to you," an exasperated editor advised
in 1894, "shoot him on the spot." Such advice probably would
strike a responsive note among those who had a part in the
development of this book. My family and friends have had remark-
able patience. Or they were poor shots.
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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I think the worst thing Canada can do right now is be complacent. Continue to plan for the worst case scenario. Remove interprovincial trade barriers. Broaden our export markets. Support Canadian business and each other. LFG.
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Shannon Proudfoot @sproudfoot.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This is very funny, but I’ve always thought Canada isn’t as friendly and polite as we seem, more repressed. Which means when you push the wrong button, it’s like in A Christmas Story when Ralphie loses it and beats the absolute snot out of Scut Farkus. Somebody better hold onto our glasses.
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
For Americans, it was one of 100 shocking headlines during Trump's first 15 days of office. For Canadians, it was a nation-transforming event of historic proportions
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I’m being so serious, this is a great chance for countries to do their own brain drain visas, especially in western countries that are struggling with birth rates
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Economic nationalism has never been good for Canada. But for the moment some of it is necessary
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
No they don’t. Canada and Mexico want none of this. They want the president of the United States to respect and abide by the trade treaty he negotiated with them - and not make up bogus pretexts for plunging us all into a gratuitous no win economic debacle.
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Kevin Milligan @kevinmilligan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Looks like this is happening. This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening. But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate. A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....
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Stewart Prest @stewartprest.ca · 01/02/2025
My piece from yesterday: surviving in a world in which America recognizes no friends, and doesn't care about credibility. open.substack.com/pub/stewartp...
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Five Principles for Surviving Our Predictably Uncertain Future
How can Canada (or anyone else) survive in a world without trust?
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you
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Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I’ve spent every day of the last hundred days scribbling down what Trump has said and done. Here, for the @thestar.com, I write a chronology that I hope gives some order to the chaos. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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What will Trump do in his first hundred days? Just look at what he’s said in the past hundred
Trump has made his priorities clear. Here's what his first 100 days in office might bring.
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Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
“Whatcha got here, some Graham Greene? More of a Malamud guy, myself.”
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Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
“Eventually, every woman must learn that being nice to an egomaniacal bullshit artist won’t long protect her from him.” My latest, on men who masquerade as feminists, for @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Shannon Gormley: Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props
Donald Trump's sexism is hideous, but at least it's honest in its hideousness. Justin Trudeau’s sexism can feel worse because he pretends to be better.
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 28/12/2024
Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props, @shannongormley.bsky.social writes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at Nationalnewswatch.com
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Shannon Gormley: Canada’s fake feminist prime minister is running out of women to use as props
Donald Trump's sexism is hideous, but at least it's honest in its hideousness. Justin Trudeau’s sexism can feel worse because he pretends to be better.
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Ryan George @theryangeorge.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
This was my biggest tweet over in the bad place. It will live here now. 🧙‍♀️🎄
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
No one can answer why I subsidize my local taco joint to the tune of over $2000 a year. What am I getting out of this? I man, aside from hundreds of tacos, quesadillas and bottles of Jarritos. They should become members of my family!
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 15/12/2024
Donald Trump and Barack Obama agree on this one thing. They’re both catastrophically wrong, @shannongormley.bsky.social writes. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... Find out more at Nationalnewswatch.com
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Donald Trump and Barack Obama agree on this one thing. They’re both catastrophically wrong
Trump, like his predecessors, has vowed to stay out of the suddenly hopeful, perilously volatile Middle Eastern country. The whole world will pay, again, if he does.
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maria georgieva @mariageorgieva.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
”When I was arrested by #Russia’s security forces in 2023—the first foreign correspondent charged with espionage since the Cold War—I never stopped reporting. On my release I set out to identify the man who had taken me, and to learn more about the spy unit that had carried out his orders.”
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Tracking Putin’s Most Feared Secret Agency—From Inside a Russian Prison and Beyond
The spy unit that arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter is leading the biggest campaign of internal repression since the Stalin era.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/12/2024
Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government @chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...
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‘Enormous heist’: Hayes on the ‘audacious scheme’ to reward big donors
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Thomas van Linge @thomasvlinge.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Just checking on YouTube how to fly this captured regime helicopter. #Syria
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Birds Are Dinosaurs @birdsaredinosaurs.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
At its heart, Star Trek is a utopian fantasy about a society so advanced that they are capable of holding productive meetings that last no longer than three minutes
A TNG scene. We're in the Enterprise conference room, where Picard is holding a meeting with Data, Troi, and Dr Crusher. Barclay is also there, for unknown reasons. Maybe he wandered into the meeting and just sat down, and everyone was too polite to mention it. That happened to me once. I was visiting an office location I didn't normally go to and I wasn't quite sure which conference room I was supposed to be in. I walked into one and sat down and it took me five minutes to realize I was in the wrong meeting. From the perspective of the people in that room, halfway through that meeting, a stranger walked in, sat next to the boss, took notes for five minutes, then walked out without saying a word.
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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 30/11/2024
imagine being a cat outside the Parliament building in Tbilisi tonight.
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Marci Shore @marcishore.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
"History helps, because everything that has happened was something that could have happened. And those things that could have happened, usually unexpected at the time, stretch our minds about what might happen."-- @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 30/11/2024
Like ships in the night
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I have about 500 missed calls from Assad.
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Shannon Gormley @shannongormley.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This may be a problem Georgian protesters need to fix (I’m no strategy expert). Reporting on 2019 HK protests though I repeatedly heard that its centralism weakened the Umbrella movement, creating easy targets. In 2019 they adapted to be more diffuse and spontaneous. Thoughts?
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
“Numerous studies support the power of individual acts of connection to drive larger-scale change.” theconversation.com/an-upward-sp...
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An upward spiral – how small acts of kindness and connection really can change the world, according to psychology research
A psychologist and human connection researcher explains how individual acts of kindness and connection can have a real impact on global change when these acts are collective.
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Vitek Latzel @vtec.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili on Freedom Square in Tbilisi.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/11/2024
Clarifying: In 2021, Musk clearly stated that he was interested in doing business in Russia, something he has repeatedly denied ever since. “I think we’re close to establishing Tesla presence in Russia and that would be great." edition.cnn.com/2021/05/21/b...
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Elon Musk says Tesla is considering a plant in Russia | CNN Business
Elon Musk said on Friday Tesla may soon come to Russia.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Classic move: authoritarianism is about undoing checks and regulations that prevent elites' ability to plunder societies and treat people as assets to exploit.
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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
I head someone explain this as “Good weird is being weird about your own business, bad weird is being weird about other people’s business” and I thought that summed it up pretty well.
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