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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦

@umbradog-tim.bsky.social
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British Canadian; one-time musician (well, drummer...); classic car rally driver; seeker of logic, fairness and equality. Toronto

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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
‘Refusing to meet Trump was an easy no’: Colin Kaepernick on being ‘blackballed’ for taking the knee, racism, and why he’s still ready to play www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...
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‘Refusing to meet Trump was an easy no’: Colin Kaepernick on being ‘blackballed’ for taking the knee, racism, and why he’s still ready to play
Ten years ago, the San Francisco 49ers quarterback refused to stand for the national anthem. He was accused of disrespecting the flag, the game, and America. In a rare interview, he talks about inspir...
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A beautiful, heartbreaking and profound telling of living with sudden grief. Well worth your time. When my husband died in a surfing accident, life as I knew it was destroyed. Ten years on, this is what I’ve learned about grief www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
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When my husband died in a surfing accident, life as I knew it was destroyed. Ten years on, this is what I’ve learned about grief
One crashing wave on one single day changed everything for our family. How would I keep going?
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Autumn Olive.
Ripe, red Autumn Olive berries on a bush in sunlight, in front of a blue sky.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Looking west this evening.
Dark rural scene with a post-sunset glow over the horizon and warm glow of lights on the gateposts.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you only care when the leopards eat YOUR face, it's too fucking late. You cheered this on and encouraged more and more of it. Do the work to change minds in the USA or go away. Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Deported Milo Yiannopoulos says he is ‘ashamed’ of support for Trump
British far-right pundit breaks silence on ICE arrest and deportation and says he was ‘really, really terrified’
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
As some may know, my favourite sports photo is the black power salute in Mexico 1968. This action was no less profound. Colin Kaepernick knelt 10 years ago. America responded with a clear warning to Black people | Howard Bryant www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/s...
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Colin Kaepernick knelt 10 years ago. America responded with a clear warning to Black people | Howard Bryant
A decade after Kaepernick’s quiet protest shook the NFL, his exile looks less like an aberration than a blueprint for the culture war that followed
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
JFC He is incapable of acting like an adult and supporting his allies and positions that the USA has held for decades. He only knows how to be a disrupter with a "look at me" focus. Twat. Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump suggests he is reviewing US support for UK over Falkland Islands
Comments signal president prepared to use dispute to push UK to raise defence spending and Nato contributions
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Sounds right!
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Dutchy Patrick @dutchiepatrick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hunter is on fire 🔥 🔥🔥
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Monarch on a thistle, taken by my partner this afternoon.
Monarch butterfly on a purple thistle flower.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Leif Vollebekk Bjork Genesis Blue Rodeo Charlotte Cornfield Deacon Blue Bon Jovi Bryan Adams Joe Jackson Camel
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Full moon hiding...
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
First, I love this. Second, we are serious about the boycott. Elbows up, Canada!! ‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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‘If it’s made in the US, I don’t buy it’: Canadians on boycotting Trump’s America
Avoiding US goods and services – from tech to whisky to air travel – has forced many to find a new way of living
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Classic abuser (or worse) rhetoric. "If I can't have her, NO ONE can..." He keeps telling us who he is. Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if $250m renovation not done www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump threatens to demolish Kennedy Center if $250m renovation not done
US president’s lawyers in court filing say Washington arts complex must undergo repairs or risk demolition
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Cannot happen too soon.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is supposed to be a master deal-maker. What a fuckwit. He couldn't make a deal at a garage sale.
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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Repeat it over and over.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Good god almighty. Trump faces backlash over reports US navy carrier could be named after him instead of Black war hero www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump faces backlash over reports US navy carrier could be named after him instead of Black war hero
Sources say US navy is working to rename carrier originally planned to honor second world war sailor Doris Miller
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Heads-up, Canadians. Do not buy American produce at the grocery store.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Glasses. (And underwear that I no longer wear)
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A society that protects its trees and water is investing in generations it may never meet.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is very important, and very well done, by @jamellebouie.net. I encourage you to watch it and share it. 
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/08/2026
We could've made this montage of liars an hour long but you get the point
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm so sad. I started to listen to some of his songs, like I'm sure many have, but I had to stop in floods of tears.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Hay field
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Absolutely brutal indictment of Trump's epic failure here, made even worse by his inability to grasp how monumentally he failed.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Evening.
Large grey cloud looms over a sunny countryside scene.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Why would anyone trust this man? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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When does Nigel Farage 'speak for the nation'? When it suits him | Marina Hyde
Compare his response, or lack of, to three murders over the past decade – Jo Cox, Sarah Everard and Henry Nowak, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Stopping for breakfast at Stonehenge on the way to a Cornish holiday...and sitting on the stones to eat my sausage sandwich.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
"It is true that many voters do see immigrants as the source of all economic woes, but they are wrong and it matters that they are wrong." This is about the UK but it could equally be about Canada or, obviously, the USA.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 10/05/2026
Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.
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Feds greenlight $673M to keep Canada Post afloat this year | CBC News
The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/05/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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ReadJack🇺🇸 @readjack.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
When the UK voted for Brexit, I thought it was the most stupid self-inflicted harm a country could do to itself. If they vote in Reform and Farage, it will be worse.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What appalling priorities do you have to have when you COMPLAIN that teen pregnancies have gone down by 81%? Repugnant.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Some folk do not care for nuance. Or even basic facts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/04/2026
I’m not sure it has broken through to the general public that the president is a megalomaniac crazy person. Hopefully posts like this help.
Trump TS post featuring an illustration of himself as a Christian faith healer
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
It's basically worthless negotiating with the USA right now. Nothing they agree to can be trusted.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Irony alert...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Great thread on total distinction.
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Tim Burgess 🇨🇦 @umbradog-tim.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
My great friend Kevin recently retired from a varied and fascinating career. It has been such an interesting journey, one of Toronto's newspapers wrote a column about him... torontosun.com/sports/hocke...
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Hockey Hall of Fame's Forrest Gump, Kevin Shea, calls it a career
From Guns n' Roses to Stephen Harper to almost falling to his death with the Stanley Cup, Kevin Shea is a Canadian original. Read more.
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
picture, thousan words, etc etc
An ICE agent inside an airport, leaning against a pole and fucking around on his phone. He's next to a window, which looks out at a huge line of people waiting to even get inside the terminal to stand in a security line.
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