Rod @roddlyyours.bsky.social

What can I say, my sisters were hippies, and somehow I’m still living off that optimism. … and did you know that you can never have a sensible conversation with someone you belittle?

You can never have a sensible conversation with someone you belittle
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Under Biden, the US was at least trying to keep pace. Now they are led by a fossil fuel fossil. The transformation of Chinese energy is the model for the future. The non-oil producing countries are on the path to independence. The president is a fossil fuel fossil.
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Definition of stupid: a super power that drops out of the race towards the future, ie green power and the electrification of energy, cedes victory? Insists on using yesterday’s technology?
Wouldn’t that be stupid?
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‘God does not bless any conflict’: pope issues new rebuke over Iran war www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/pope-leo-criticism-iran-war?CMP=share_btn_url
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Today is a day of unhappy firsts: first time I’ve seen someone shooting up heroin (in a public washroom outside of Toronto City Hall).

Young man and woman. Sad.
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Prof.Alex @profalex.bsky.social
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Regarding my post on car loans, now this...
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Yesterday in Gaza this also happened...

🔗 www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2026/4/8/israeli-attack-kills-al-jazeera-journalist-mohammed-wishah-in-gaza
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Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
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Israel killed 254 people in Lebanon today in what Trump called a “separate skirmish.” Some “skirmish” that. The language itself shows how little value Trump holds for life.
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There was a lot of craziness today, but let it not be lost that the Vice President of America spoke in person at a political rally for a brutal autocrat and said “I love Viktor.”
Trump and Vance want to do to America what Orbán has done to dismantle democracy in Hungary.
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I love the headline to the latest Rest is Politics USA podcast: Trump Concedes Defeat to Iran. Game Over.

www.youtube.com/live/xCHTWMm44zo?si=M1v_1QuoUfUQdV3_
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Thank you Pakistan!
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What a relief!
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In honor of Vance's visit to Hungary, where he will campaign for Viktor Orban, I am reposting my article from last year. I argued that Orban's Hungary is one of the poorest countries, and certainly the most corrupt and least free country, in the entire EU.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/viktor-orban-hungary-maga-corruption/682111/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK32uPZaoE7Ct1Y4eO32UmAHo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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#Discover @paulinsc.bsky.social @hermes61.bsky.social #Women #WhiteChristianNationalism #AtheistSky #Atheist/Atheism #Atheism+Humanism #Humanity #ReligionHarms #EduSky🍎 @potatoe.bsky.social #ChristianNationalism #BibleBelt #TheBibleBelt @antitheist-atheist.bsky.social

www.yahoo.com/news/articles/experts-warn-shocking-number-women-193102598.html
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Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation:
"When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”
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The right accuses the left of imposing a nanny state, yet it polices what we read, seeking to suppress any sexuality that does not conform to its norms.
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Noem should stand by her man and say “I’m proud of my husband for dressing up as a woman. He is getting in touch with his feminine side. All men should get in touch with their feminine side. Embrace it. Have fun with it, too.”
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youtu.be/3mUjzl_E7zY?si=oQ9sXn-41YXaEbf8
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In the meantime the Trump Crime Regime marches us in the opposite direction. Drill baby, drill.

Damn the pollution.
Who cares about the environment.
Or forever wars.
Global climate change.
Or the growing fiscal advantages of alternative energy.

Nope, little donald has a love of destruction.
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The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru

www.v-dem.net/documents/75/V-Dem_Institute_Democracy_Report_2026_lowres.pdf
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“Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too”
John Lennon

aje.news/g1skj9
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Horrific. As an American, I am sad for our country’s continued loss of morality and doing the right thing—that’s what “great” countries do. I’m devastated for the people of Zambia.

U.S. Considers Withholding H.I.V. Aid Unless Zambia Expands Minerals Access www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/health/zambia-hiv-aid-minerals-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Music for meditation

youtu.be/sfDtfz7vXkY?si=9tk5r6Tk3Qiilph_
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NEW: A Canadian taxpayer advocacy group is calling on the Ford government to “immediately backtrack” on controversial changes to transparency legislation it announced just before the weekend. #OnPoli
globalnews.ca/news/11730443/taxpayer-federation-foi-law-changes/
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Ross @jrossthomson.bsky.social
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Given the wanton cowboy melée in Iran, this should be getting more attention. They are ignoring policy, US Law and international law.

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Trump DoD Axed a Program Meant to Limit Civilian Casualties — ProPublica share.google/4L97rZObRpHDROLxL
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