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Andrew 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@andrewbarss.bsky.social
Nova Scotian now living in Ontario.

Database application developer; installer & voicer of digital church organs; organist; amateur radio enthusiast (VA3BHO; formerly VE1BHO)

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Senator Kelly is correct.

Plus a Public Service Announcement:

KEY section of Department of Defense's Law of War Manual is 18.3.2.1.

The VERY rule on the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders gives as its paradigmatic example of what is "clearly illegal:
"orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."
November 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators — GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending — Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying to hide?

www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Why Is Trump Hiding Economic Reports?
When a presidential administration abruptly stops releasing the most important economic indicators — GDP, inflation, jobs, consumer spending — Americans must ask a blunt question: What are they trying...
www.dailykos.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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No they can’t and there will be an International Tribunal for the crimes committed by this regime. Hopefully, we’ll still have a functional government and will turn over the criminals responsible - ALL OF THEM.
November 30, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Just think it’s a bit weird that society has been brainwashed in to thinking that rich people and massive corporations having a bit less money is the main thing we need to avoid no matter what.
November 30, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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November 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Home Depot wanted holiday cheer, got a whole-ass choir calling out their partnership with ICE instead…
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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November 30, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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This battle has gone on far too long, my sweet friend.

I’m hoping to help broker a cease-fire today.

I’m trying to stop the bleeding for good.

I’m asking you to cross lines in the war.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/battle-lin...
Battle Lines: A Message to Those Who Self-Harm
This is a message to all the brave, exhausted soldiers out there doing battle right now, those waging a silent, internal civil war.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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No Lies Detected, Ms. Welch......
November 30, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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November 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Six Indiana state senators who have refused to go along with Trump’s redistricting scheme have been subjected to swatting incidents. This is mob rule and it has to end.
November 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Sunday's here, and a good time to take any needed breaks & decompress.

Here's something to help that along, by adding some 🙂🙂🙂 to your morning.
Really American (@reallyamerican)
BREAKING: Canadian TV show brutally mocks Donald Trump and it’s going viral Share widely so everyone sees this
substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Apparently we are now in a situation where people who can write without spelling errors or express themselves in complete sentences are suspected of being AI bots.
Everything is really going great now 🫠👍
September 29, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The entire world, and especially Americans, should be far more vocal in outrage than I’m sensing. Also, I’m deeply concerned that the ICC has not begun and fast-tracked an investigation into Hegseth, Trump and Bondi. Makes me wonder what the delay could be over such murderous behavior.
November 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."
With America on My Last Fucking Nerve, I, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, Dissent
You know me as the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Over the past three years, I’ve tried changing the system from within. I’ve wri...
buff.ly
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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How do people fall for these grifters?
#MAGAisaGrift
November 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Standing outside the gates of the Qu'Appelle Indian Residential School. This is a haunted, dark place. A 5-year-old taken through these gates had a lower chance of survival than a Canadian soldier fighting in WW2.

The red dress and the orange shirt hang on the gates.
We remember. #OrangeShirtDay
September 30, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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WTF:

They are disappearing humans, lying to the public, demolishing the people’s house, courting dictators, blowing up boats and protecting pedophiles.

Donald Trump is corrupt. Everyone in his freak show of an administration is corrupt and yet these congressional Republicans look the other way.
November 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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At the center of Trump’s “plan to end the war” is $300B in frozen Russian assets that Russia wants to give US oligarchs for “investment projects”. Any reconstruction of Ukraine would be “US-led”. Witkoff, Kushner and Russians plan to revitalize Russia’s $2T economy through joint Russia-US ventures.
Ukrainian delegation is set to meet with Witkoff, Kushner and Rubio in Florida on Sunday. Reportedly, negotiations will focus on military aid and security guarantees.

It’s vital to note that any final agreement would require the Russian side’s approval [that has not shown any desire for just peace]
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
Trump Is Boosting MAGA X Accounts Operating Overseas
A new feature on X revealed that many influential MAGA accounts are not actually based in the US. President Donald Trump has continued sharing their posts anyway.
wrd.cm
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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1/ You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what 6 Democratic members of Congress said on video. Trump called it seditious. The FBI launched an investigation. Then came reporting in WAPO about an order SecDef Hegseth gave ahead of the 9/2 attack on a boat allegedly trafficking drugs in the Caribbean.
November 30, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Trump's Increasing Cruelty Signals Weakness, not Strength
open.substack.com/pub/lincolns...
Trump's Increasing Cruelty Signals Weakness, not Strength
Americans need and want the truth. That's why we do what we do at Lincoln Square.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM