Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Apropos of nothing… (okay, it’s about Ottawa city politics)… Pro tip from a political theorist: an ideology is a coherent system of ideas. To say that you like ideas but reject ideology suggests that you might just not be all that coherent… or simply aren’t aware of your own underlying assumptions. 060
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Ah, Sign Night—one of the most chaotic, exciting traditions of any election campaign! 🪧✨ At midnight, volunteers and candidates hit the streets to stake out the best spots across the city. If you want to join our re-election crew and get in on the fun, drop your info in our sign-up form below! 👇1/ 231
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Over the past few days, Mayor Sutcliffe has been framing the city’s challenges as something inherited from “previous councils,” while warning against “divisive ideology.” That framing deserves a closer look. 1/ 34715
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception. 11848851549
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 25/01/2026A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 264146836073
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Pedaling Professor @pedalingprof.bsky.social · 25/01/2026This is Minneapolis. Literally every corner along Lake St. packed with people holding candles, many singing, honoring a person who by all accounts was an absolute gem of a human, whose life was tragically stolen by a fascist, paramilitary occupation force. 404450977
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026It’s time for the self-gratifying Pollyannas on here to break out the smelling salts. The obsessive nitpicking and self-satisfied partisan ankle biting is completely pointless right now. It’s exhausting, counterproductive, and uninteresting. Read the room. 1133
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying. 695298496972
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Holly Hoye 🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 25/01/2026“I don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and they just shot him.” 2399
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026America. Enough. You are now alone in the world and no one trusts you. When are you going to wake up and realize *you* are now the murderous villain? 081
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 08/12/2025It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it. 743168594603
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.forever-wars.comTorture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator AlcatrazAmnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison 7891987710589
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025LOL. No. 13346182
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 07/12/2025This was a scurrilous ad hominem attack on the integrity of City Council colleagues by @timtierney.ca. During a Term of Council when we've all sought to avoid the petty divisiveness of the last term, Councillor Tierney sadly brought us all lower yesterday. 1/ ottawacitizen.com/opinion/budg...ottawacitizen.comIs your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | OpinionTim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion 53516
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025There's enough inaccurate or concerning information in the way in which @en.ottawa.ca is communicating about the 2026 Budget that I felt it should be addressed. And it's the concept of $252M in "savings" that I want to talk about, because this information is being used falsely. 1/ 95524
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I can’t believe what I just heard on The Current. This “documentary” pack report is… straight up christo-prop. Just wide-eyed cultist reporting from an indoctrinated “reporter.” What the hell, @mattgalloway.bsky.social? There is a way to approach this subject without it becoming a recruiting drive. 183
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/11/2025Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7... 25794324
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇 211282354
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025This is incredibly well-written… and also maximally terrifying. We have a confused adolescent wielding the power of the “Secretary of War.” What is most sobering is the complete lack of understanding of America’s history and *why* the institutions are the way they are. /1 apple.news/AufIL1uzDQQ2...apple.newsHoly Warrior — The AtlanticPete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon. 164
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Well. I guess we know why Ford wants to get rid of speed cameras. Wow. Whoever this asshat is, they need to be fired, ASAP. globalnews.ca/news/1146702...globalnews.caFord government vehicle recorded at stunt driving speeds on Ontario highways | Globalnews.caAt least one cabinet-assigned vehicle was recorded driving more than 50 km/h over the speed limit multiple times in the past three years, according to documents. 190
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 03/10/2025"Emmy award-winning journalist Mario Guevara was deported today to El Salvador – a country he fled over 20 years ago — in retaliation for filming law enforcement activities." "This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press." #Georgia #USA #ElSalvador #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansingtruthout.orgJournalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump ProtestHuman rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press. 22014
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025BREAKING🚨 Journalist Mario Guevara has officially been deported Friday from the United States back to his native El Salvador. This is a shameful erosion of press freedom in the U.S. — the first time that CPJ has documented this type of retaliation related to reporting. cpj.org/2025/10/jour... 4415254
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2025Just thinking today of all the colleagues who called us alarmists and cranks when we pointed out that Trump was talking and acting like a fascist in 2016 20795152
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/09/2025When they say "enemy within" that's fascism. 371338301
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This seems to be where we are. Pro tip: real bad guys don’t know they’re bad guys. This isn’t a cartoon. It’s up to everyone else to say, “You know, that’s not gonna be okay with the rest of us.” …oh yeah… and then they need to DO something. 2173
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025If George Washington himself had done this as President, he would have been impeached, removed, prosecuted, and imprisoned. This was one of the greatest fears of the Framers. 532312636
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025Over 40% of Americans approve of a President threatening civil war over his fantasy version of his opponents. As a journalist I still feel some obligation to try to understand. As a human I want to stay as far away as possible, and don't know if I'll ever bring my family across the border again. 30516137
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025So… Pete Hegseth is just channeling full War Criminal now, yeah? Great. Fucking great. Might be high time for the senior military leadership to say, “Fuck no.” 061
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 23/09/2025So Disney’s putting Kimmel back on the air. For how long? Pretending this was just a “pause” is not okay. If you want to be taken seriously (and stop the bleeding) you might want to do the brave, honest thing and admit the mistake you made. And then maybe start defending democracy like a grown up. 0201
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19/08/2025The United States could have great things like this. But we like to spend our money on kidnapping people and trafficking them to concentration camps instead. #Priorities 591157765202
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Disney has managed to undermine the most important thing it has: trust. It’s like everyone woke up and realized that Cruella De Vil is actually in charge and the whole business is about making her rich enough to make coats out of every Dalmatian in the nation. Breaking trust this badly is deadly. 0111
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 20/09/2025100% this. People have been warning about these dangerous idiots for years. Have y’all got the message yet? No real journalist would ever sign such a thing. The whole point is to hold authority to account, not kowtow to their demands and feed their unhealthy need for validation. 0104
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Jared Wesley @jaredwesley.ca · 19/09/2025Alberta governments have mused about using the notwithstanding clause before. Albertans have stood up for human rights, forcing the government to back down. Now is that time once again. 28250
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Have any notable and influential celebrities said anything in defense of Kimmel? Sincere question. 125973156
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions. 14567315618650
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 18/09/2025I have loved Star Wars since I first saw it in a theatre in 1977. But the company clearly didn’t absorb the message of the movies or shows it purchased. I won’t be subscribing as long as Disney remains a boot polisher for fascists. Pulling the plug now. 081
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 18/09/2025And here we are. Silencing satirists, now. And the bulk of the mainstream commentators predictably fail to underline how serious this is. Who knew we’d go full fascist quite so quickly? /1 1155
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 31/08/2025trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa 4059571166
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2025“Over the past 20 years, Paris has undergone a major physical transformation, trading automotive arteries for bike lanes, adding green spaces and eliminating 50,000 parking spaces. Part of the payoff has been invisible — in the air itself.” Leadership, strategy, real action, common sense. #Pariswashingtonpost.comParis said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes. 4040741448
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Last month, Anas al-Sharif sounded the alarm on starvation in Gaza. Israel accused him of terrorism. "We warned this felt like a precursor to justify assassination," said Jodie Ginsberg of the Committee to Protect Journalists. Today he was killed in a targeted strike on a tent housing reporters.aljazeera.comIsrael murders five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza, including Anas al-SharifAl-Sharif was killed along with Mohammed Qreiqeh two cameramen and an assistant in an Israeli attack on Gaza City. 13669389
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 08/08/2025Good national leaders sacrifice their time and energies to make their countries stronger. Bad ones use their positions to make themselves richer or to gain personal power. They are vampires, sucking their country's lifeblood. Trumpferatu is our Vampire-in-Chief. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...thedailybeast.comDonald Trump Is Sucking the Life-Blood Out of AmericaAfter just six months in office, the U.S. government—and the nation at large—is being ever-diminished by any number of Trump’s nefarious actions and egomaniacal plots. 18386147
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 06/08/2025It’s REALLY important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against downtown bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of the evidence that they are better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced. Bike-lanes mean business. 10591206
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 03/08/2025Braced myself and tuned into Cross Country Checkup… and, hallelujah, it’s Saroja Coelho today. This is the change we need. She is such a good open line host. Smart, strong, excellent moderation skills, not afraid to handle complex ideas with curiosity and grace. This is the journalism we need. 1110
Reposted by Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 31/07/2025Trump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anywaythebeaverton.comTrump says Canada backing Palestinian statehood jeopardizes U.S. trade deal he was gonna break anywayWASHINGTON D.C. - U.S.President Donald Trump has announced that Canada’s decision to recognize Palestinian statehood will “make it very hard for us to make a Trade Deal with them, which I had no inten... 37734242
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 20/07/2025Another week, another journalistically bankrupt offering from Ian on Checkup. He has no trouble interrupting, nullifying or otherwise discounting views that question his own role in driving the controversy. Key point for those of you who give a crap about media ethics and the role of journalism: /1 1104
Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Leave it to Checkup to rile me up. Ian just tried to dismiss a caller’s fears about the border and having her citizenship stripped by telling her Trump can’t really do that because it’s “illegal.” FFS look around buddy. MOST of what he is doing is illegal. But that does not seem to be stopping him. 1357