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Michael Houghton

@houghtmusic.bsky.social

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Husband, father of three amazing adults, music lover 🎸 and proud Canadian 🇨🇦 and these days an embarrassed Albertan. Sadly these day, a bit of a political geek. Love is love 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 💙💛🇺🇦

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 8h

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 1d

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

NDP House Leader Christina Gray ripped into the flaws of the Eyant report as well today…

She highlighted the shortcomings of the report, how that was by design to allow Smith and her cabinet to avoid accountability & that the judge felt he wasn’t able to get full answers.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · 1d

Rakhi Pancholi came out swinging on the Wyant Report and highlighted all of its flaws and shortcomings…

It’s worth remembering she’s a lawyer as she takes Danielle Smith’s spin apart.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 1d

Pierre is MAGA. He freely and willingly uses trumps playbook and he is starting to say the quiet things out loud.
For those who believe that he is an acceptable option for Canada need to pay attention. He is not.
#neverconservative
#cdnpoli
#cadpoli

Montreal Mike🇨🇦 @mikemontreal.bsky.social · 2d

In tonight’s clip from “The Real Pierre” he attacks the federal police force as corrupt and says he would jail his political opponents— including Trudeau who is no longer in office.
Seeing a pattern yet?
#cdnpoli #uspoli

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 3d

On Monday, Pierre Poilievre shared his party’s petition to “end DEI” and “restore the merit principle.”

Just before that, another Conservative MP posted that “Canada must now place restrictions on birthright citizenship”

If it all sounds a bit Trump-y, that’s probably because…it is:

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 3d

Considering this government and premier are afraid of books, drag queens, unions, the educated, and more, strong is questionable. And unless the 2SLGBTQ+ are given the same rights as everyone, I do not see Free as being appropriate.
Again and again this government virtue signalling!
#ableg #abpoli

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 6d

Crimes against humanity!

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 12d

I am in shock and so happy.
#Rush back on tour. Thanks Dirk and Lerxst, And there will not be a dry eye in the arena during the tribute to Pratt.

#FiftySomething

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 12d

I support Alberta’s Teachers!

#ableg #abpoli

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 13d

“All I can think of is being 5 years old, following behind you at the beach, tracing your footprints in the sand, trying to Walk Like a Man.”

Hits me hard every time I hear it.

Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 13d

If your preferred candidates in the civic elections are supported by take back Alberta, you are backing right wing Christian Nationalists.

So if your rights are being taken away know that was your choice.

#yyc #abpoli

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 15d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 17d

“Heroes often fail“

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So I hear that the #AlbertaNext panel kept cutting the mics of Albertans that brought forward things they did not want to hear.
#Coward is another description for Danielle Smith and what an awful person Bruce MacAlister seems to be.

#neverconservative
#abpoli #ableg

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 21d

At the Ryder Cup, just know that when they chat u.s.a. they are calling themselves the Unruly Stupid Americans.

However at 11 1/2 to 3 1/2 🤣🤣🤣🤣they ain’t gonna be chatting on Sunday. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

#TeamEurope

Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 24d

Eric, why??? Were you hacked?

Candace Cameron Bure famously stated that Great American Family would keep "traditional marriage at the core"

Is this something you support?

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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 25d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26d

OLIVER: “In Russia, when Putin rose to power, TV satirists were among his first targets… Putin was driven to madness by how he was mocked on a puppet show… the lesson is it’s not safe to let one show slide because there are currently others.”

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 27d

A Palestinian life has the same worth as the life of a political activist. Where is the same empathy for over 65,000 lives, mostly women and children, taken by a government’s illegal actions.

Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · 27d

Charlie Kirk’s memorial is not news it is propaganda.

CBC do better.

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The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Sep 18

There’s a group of folks that are super Take Back Alberta adjacent and are “definitely not coordinated despite all of the evidence to the contrary”…

Anyways…

Here’s a great article from The Sprawl you should send to everyone you know.

#yyc #abpoli

www.sprawlcalgary.com/cbe-election...

The push to ‘conservatize’ Calgary’s public school board | The Sprawl

Not a slate, candidates say.

www.sprawlcalgary.com

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Michael Houghton @houghtmusic.bsky.social · Sep 18

Too late usa, your media is feckless, laws mean nothing, congress has no power, scotus is bought and paid for, enemies are being silenced. Will you even know when martial law is enacted?
Your democracy has died. The house on the hill, burned to the ground. All for a convicted felon and pedophile.

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · Sep 18

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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