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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apropos 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.

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Ah, 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/

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Over 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/

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

They erroneously charged me for a policy renewal that I explicitly declined (their own notes say so), on an expired credit card, and claim to be unable to issue a refund by electronic transfer (they have agreed the money needs to be refunded), and—wait for it—are sending a cheque by courier…

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Winnowing out uncommitted voters and narrowing the field to committed partisans makes campaigning easier. You can focus on the people you want voting and focus on getting them out to the polls. That’s a lot easier than aiming for mass appeal.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

…the current hostile climate is turning them off the whole shebang. In my research, voters were significantly put off by attack messaging and gravitated strongly to the next remotely positive thing they heard. But that climate is partly by design.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

But the shorter list is: lack of connection with real issues; unappealing candidates; a sense of futility (they never listen/my vote doesn’t really count); systemic barriers (timing, location, etc.); and, the one that came up strongly in my research…

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

How much time have you got? That question was a key part of why I went down the research rabbit hole I did. As the potentially over-researched crowd would say: that’s a multi-variate problem.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Criticizing someone who just burned down the Lord’s manor, (in full public view, no less) for not then providing a proper critique of the estate’s repressive, imperialist hedge trimming technique is just… weird. If you hate Carney, have at it. But stop with the distracting, nonsense hand wringing.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

One more point of clarification: criticizing policy is 100% necessary in a democratic system. But, in a time of profound global crisis, do try to keep it focused and coherent. That would help a lot.

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 25/01/2026

A 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...

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Pedaling Professor @pedalingprof.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

This 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.

A group, one of many, holding candles in honor of a community member executed by an unaccountable paramilitary invasion force

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Be clear about what you stand for and defend it. Help. Do. Support. Collaborate. We can fight about which specific version of public health care we want a bit later on, if you don’t mind. Right now, the world is cracking apart and we’re lucky to be on one of the most seaworthy life rafts. Now row.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

It’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.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You know what I’m like: honest, direct, and non-combative. You have lost the plot.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Which part is offensive? It’s time for adult talk.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

You’re kidding with this nonsense, right?

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

By 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.

NYT push alert: "A person was shot dead today during a struggle with federal agents in Minneapolis, according to officials."

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Ghouly 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.”

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

America. 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?

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

It is newsworthy that the president of the United States is increasingly verbally abusive of women reporters and he should be asked about it.

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

They'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.com

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

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Stephanie Carvin @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

LOL. No.

News story from The Register from July 2025 which says

“Microsoft admits it 'cannot guarantee' data sovereignty
Under oath in French Senate, exec says it would be compelled – however unlikely – to pass local customer info to US admin”

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

This 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.com

Is your councillor a chronic no-voter on city budgets? | Opinion

Tim Tierney: Ottawa has traded safety and security for policing alternatives – experiments that have repeatedly failed. | Opinion

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

There'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/

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I 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.

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Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 14/11/2025

Is 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...

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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

The most helpful phrase of 2025 👇

Schrödinger’s Douchebag. A guy who says offensive things and decides whether he was joking based on the reaction of people around him.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

I can’t believe this where we are. It’s madness. /end

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

His is a common misunderstanding. Secular institutions are not there to irradicate faith, they are there to protect individual conscience, including personal spirituality and faith. What he’s really advocating for is Crusade in the worst possible, join-us-or-die sense. /5

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

What Hegseth and others are pushing is a 400-year rollback to an era where those who held sovereign power also wielded religious authority or derived their power from it (see, Europe pre-17th c.)—for a quick reminder of what that looks like, try the opening minutes of “Elizabeth” (1998). Yeah. /4

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

“Secular” institutions are intended to help keep the peace and, to paraphrase Hume, to make sure a system of laws is put in place that is grounded in common understandings (killing people is bad) and not niche religious dogmas (killing *those* people is okay). /3

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The Christian Nationalist movement propagates an ahistorical understanding of the U.S.’s foundations. The primary reason for the separation of Church and State was to keep various sects of Christians from persecuting *one another*—the fate that had driven many colonists from their home countries. /2

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This 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...

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Holy Warrior — The Atlantic

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

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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 #EthnicCleansing

truthout.org

Journalist Mario Guevara Deported After Reporting on Anti-Trump Protest

Human rights organizations have condemned Mario Guevara’s deportation as an authoritarian attack on the free press.

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Committee to Protect Journalists @pressfreedom.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

BREAKING🚨 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...

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 30/09/2025

There we are.

“Secretary Hegseth’s misogynistic lethality screed was disqualifying. His continued railing against women in combat roles shows his deep personal inadequacies,” said the first defense official. “It shocks the conscience to hear the Secretary of Defense — he is no warrior — endorse bullying and hazing of service members. How dare this former National Guard major lecture our military leaders on lethality when he’s focused solely on his own cult of personality.”

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Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 30/09/2025

Just 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

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

That’s the cartoon. The reality is much much more complicated.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When they say "enemy within" that's fascism.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

This 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.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

If 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.

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Over 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.

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So… 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.”

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Tim Abray, PhD 🇨🇦 @timabray.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

So 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.

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