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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪

@ottawakiwi.bsky.social

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Lawyer, social worker, teacher, and writer working where law meets conscience. Montreal born, Ottawa based. Citizen of Canada, Ireland, and New Zealand. Bilingual/bilingue. Pro Oxford comma. ☘️🍁🥝 Saoirse don Phalaistín 🍉

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1h

Touching some grass before an afternoon in Court

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1h

Day 5 after laser dermatology.
Still swollen and all but covered up enough not to scare anyone. Courtroom ready (enough)

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2h

thanks - all the encouragement I can get, PLEASE!

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2h

Historical echos matter: state force against civilians is a pattern, and nothing new. The test is command responsibility when hard is foreseeable.
#MilitarizedPolice #BloodySunday #OctoberCrisis #HumanRights #UseOfForce

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 2h

Command question: when civilian harm is foreseeable, what does real accountability require?

#Necropolitics #CommandResponsibility #CivilianHarm #RuleOfLaw #AccountableGovernment #MilitarisedPolice #MilitarizedPolice #BloodySunday #OctoberCrisis #HumanRights #Trauma #UseOfForce

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 17h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 3h

Happiness is having friend-colleagues with whom you can have deep strategic legal phone calls and sign off with, "Love you."
@chantal4mp.bsky.social
#Professionalism
#Love
#BFF #Friendship

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 3h

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4h

This is what necropolitics looks like.
The casual use of military weapons against civilians — including children — is not security. It’s state violence normalized.
#MilitarizedPolice #ChildrensRights #StateViolence #ChildAbuse #USA

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 4h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Diane Strickland @autisticannie.bsky.social · 4h

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4h

I think we’re more optimistic here in Canada. General but imperfect alliance under PM Mark Carney and the existential threat coming from the USA.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4h

Day 5 post laser treatment. Yep. Lots of makeup before court this afternoon
#recovery #laser

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 4h

You are in USA?

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 5h

Hey kiwi friends: isn’t this just what we’d call a pie? And not even a very appealing one?
#Aotearoa #NewZealand #Pie

Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 5h

Patent people have been dunking on UNCRUSTABLES for as long as I can remember. A lot of the comments I've been seeing here about the new (trademark) lawsuit have been giving me déjà vu.

Sealed crustless sandwich - Wikipedia

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 5h

Some have moved over here but mostly the community has scattered. I doubt that’s unintentional

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 5h

From Patricia Pearson, daughter of Senator Landon Pearson and Geoffrey Pearson, and granddaughter of the Right Honourable Lester B Pearson

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 5h

What I miss most about Twitter is the real debate — on coercive control, children’s rights, public health, gendered violence.
That civic commons is disappearing.
#PublicEthics #SocialPolicy

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 5h

A baby was in the crowd when the gas dispersed.
That is not chaos; it is policy.
Necropolitics isn’t abstract—it’s the moment the state decides whose lungs it can fill with poison.
#Necropolitics #StateViolenceUSA #RightToSeethe #NotCollateral

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 17h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 6h

Almost unbelievable. Completely horrifying.
#RuleOfLaw
#Complicity

goldmartin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 7h

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon’s verdict on terror charges has been delayed because he is flying to Israel “as a guest of the government”
A British court has postponed a ruling in a terrorism-linked case so that a far-right agitator can take a trip abroad hosted by another state.

metro.co.uk/2025/10/14/t...

Tommy Robinson terror verdict delayed because he is 'flying to Israel as guest'

Tommy Robinson has had his verdict delayed because he is going to fly to Israel 'as a guest of the government'.

metro.co.uk

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 23h

whoever did this little bit of magnificence, take a bow

satire: a spirit halloween costume that’s a “violent antifa terrorist” and includes:
- inflatable frog suit
- cape
- pepper spray filter
- a thirst for the blood of the innocent
- air pump

batteries and Molotov cocktails not included

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 19h

It’s divine

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 19h

The first time I had treatment, I had to get a couple of biopsies and a bunch of cauterizing. Got the laser after that healed. Then some more cauterizing and another wait, then this.

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 19h

Touching some grass

JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 20h

Day 4 - post laser skin treatment. Still swollen but starting to look normal. Heavy coat of paint and I can appear in court tomorrow
#recovery #rosacea

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 2d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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JW Roulston 🇨🇦🇳🇿🇮🇪 @ottawakiwi.bsky.social · 1d

Jet-lag of the soul: Ottawa insomniac hours meet Aotearoa morning scrolls. Someone’s always up in the whānau of time zones 🌏🌙✨
#Aotearoa #Ottawa #diaspora #insomnia #whānau #NewZealand