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Christopher Dornan

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Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics. Click here: www.educatedguesses.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Is it time for a Chris Dornan starter pack? Do you need to know what is happening to what used to be called the “news media"? Here’s an immodest reading list to get you started, whether you are a high school media literacy teacher, the incoming president of the CBC, or the CEO of Postmedia. 👇👇👇

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 9h

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 8h

Actually being broadcast. First the Chicago cyclist and now the Portland inflatables. Who knew "Yakety Sax" would become our freedom anthem

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 7h

Apprehension in Canada has been shifting from "God, what if these guys invade us?" to "God, what if we have to send peacekeeping forces down there?"

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 13h

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

theintercept.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 7h

Speaking of which, how do you get neo-Nazi groups to go defunct? That seems like something we should be trying.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 8h

Ontario man, member of now-defunct neo-Nazi group, pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Matthew Althorpe admitted to producing white-supremacist propaganda that prosecutors say may have inspired several attacks around the world

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Queen NomNom De Plume @stinginthetail.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, but what is it in English?🤭
Etymologically, it's emigrants (to USA) holding onto an archaic pronunciation.

In UK English (& most colonial variations) primer is as rhymer. Prim meaning someone who is narrow minded,goes with primmer (not primer, pronounced as dimmer).

Language, she's funny.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 1d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 1d

The meme "girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa" sprouted today, because of something Kristi Noem said. Everyone now coming up with comical suggestions for what the Trump administration thinks "girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa" might look like. I think I've nailed it.

Patty Hearst holding a guy for the Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974

Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 1d

If it's news that Trump is vague on habeas corpus, imagine how much bigger news it would have been had he demonstrated a clear grasp of the writ and delivered a coherent argument for how he intends to interpret it. Because that would mean the real Trump had been replaced by a doppelganger.

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Michael Iantorno 🍂🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 1d

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

A photograph of Alejandro Kirk, a stocky player for the Blue Jays, running the bases

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

On the sentencing today of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, here for background is the Wikipedia entry on the Freedom Convoy. It is very detailed and admirably even-handed. Now imagine the same story told in such a way as to make heroes of Lich and Barber. Musk's Grokipedia is on its way.

Canada convoy protest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Just FYI, for the young, impressionable children: Lee Greenwood is 82 years old and has been married five times to four different women.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 2d

I took up drinking just so that I could purposely not buy American booze.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 2d

They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada

abcnews.go.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

I have a new (crackpot)) theory about Trump. The only people who’ve ever really intimidated him are bankers, because he has depended on them for loans. They’re the only ones who saw past the smoke and mirrors of his businesses and they could ruin him with a pen stroke. Carney is a banker. Ergo …

ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...

www.cbc.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

The US news media pay far more attention to homicide as a cause of death than disease. No surprise there. What's surprising is how US news outlets across the political spectrum don't differ much in how they report on what kills us. Fox News and New York Times basically have the same emphases.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

What do Americans die from, and what do the New York Times, Washington Post, and Fox News report on?

ourworldindata.org

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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 3d

What Americans Die from?

And what the media reports on...

Our World in Data ourworldindata.org/does-the-new...

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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea.bsky.social · 3d

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

Suddenly starting to get real interested in how the territory of Canada handled the turbulence of being right next door to the United States of America the last time it had a civil war. Much of what I know about what happened in US-Canada relations in the late 1800s comes from Murdoch Mysteries.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

I get that Canada must be careful not to rile the beast next door. I understand that we can do something without saying anything. We can make trade deals with other nations and otherwise hold our tongue. I regret it, but I get it. There will come a time, though, when we'll have to say something.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

Here's one for you. I adore this building at the University of Glasgow. It's a nondescript cube except for its facings. There is no doubt about the department therein and no one would ever remember its official name. That's just the Math Building.

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iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 4d

Even funnier tell the University you’ll give them 50 million dollars so long as a faculty building has to use the name of a town in Wales in its name.

The Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Faculty of Architecture!

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Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch!

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NeWest Press @newestpress.bsky.social · 5d

Edmonton’s NeWest Press seeks an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Learn more about the qualifications we are looking for and how to apply by visiting our website.

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#NeWestPress #NowHiring

We're Hiring! NeWest Press is seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic General Manager to provide operational leadership. Submit your cover letter and resume to president@newestpress.com not later than Friday, October 17, 2025.

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

I imagine a generic university, where all the buildings are named Donor Hall, Donor Centre, and Donor House.

iTunes Brian 🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇷🇸 🇺🇦 @itunesbrian.bsky.social · 4d

I had this same problem before I retired from U of T. I could never remember the specific names of each of the buildings.

To me it was just the Faculty of Pharmacy Building but it was actually the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.

Who the hell is going to remember that?

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

I'm sufficiently old that the Robarts Library was known to me and my contemporaries as Fort Book.

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Bailey McCann @baileymcc.bsky.social · 4d

Nothing makes me feel good like scrolling through multiple TikTok videos of medical school students going through their newly minted AI generated textbooks and making slideshows of all of the errors including completely made up muscles and tendons - can’t wait to age in this hellscape

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Amber @risettemd.bsky.social · 9d

I thought Batman destroyed this

Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 9d

New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-t...

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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