Frank’s Mild Spurs 🏆
@markscrivens.bsky.social
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Lawyer (the government kind), Ottawa guy, Saskatchewan expat, pronoun libertarian, Tottenham Hotspur bore. Personal account. Non-partisan at work. Views are not those of my employer, obviously.
Hans Island
Lawyer (the government kind), Ottawa guy, Saskatchewan expat, pronoun libertarian, Tottenham Hotspur bore. Personal account. Non-partisan at work. Views are not those of my employer, obviously.
Hans Island
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Dear Legal BlueSky: It will be my mission, in part, to convert you into becoming a fan of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
If you are #Spurscurious, welcome!
If not, also welcome, but may I suggest muting the following words: Spurs, Tottenham, COYS, Ange, and Sonny.
If you are #Spurscurious, welcome!
If not, also welcome, but may I suggest muting the following words: Spurs, Tottenham, COYS, Ange, and Sonny.
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Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
Yep. You know who told me this? A Bell/Virgin salesman.
Whenever I hear about how Canada is the most expensive in the world, part of it is simply that people stay in their old plans for far too long.
November 29, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Yep. You know who told me this? A Bell/Virgin salesman.
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Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal.
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Black Friday Plans - Nov 28 2025
docs.google.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Remember this is the time to change cell phone providers even if you like the one you have. Switching, not threatening to switch, is how you get the best win back deal.
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Here are some of the offerings I found online. Not exhaustive and might be better ones.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
I started Stranger Things, Season 5. Realized I couldn’t follow it.
So I went back to watch the last episode of Season 4.
Now I am realizing that I really don’t care?
So I went back to watch the last episode of Season 4.
Now I am realizing that I really don’t care?
November 29, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I started Stranger Things, Season 5. Realized I couldn’t follow it.
So I went back to watch the last episode of Season 4.
Now I am realizing that I really don’t care?
So I went back to watch the last episode of Season 4.
Now I am realizing that I really don’t care?
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Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
Let me get this straight.
Danielle Smith says she knows that her belief in a "strong and sovereign Alberta within a sovereign Canada" is controversial within her own party, and then a deal she struck which basically gives Alberta everything it wants and caused Stephen Guilbeaut to quit is booed?!
Danielle Smith says she knows that her belief in a "strong and sovereign Alberta within a sovereign Canada" is controversial within her own party, and then a deal she struck which basically gives Alberta everything it wants and caused Stephen Guilbeaut to quit is booed?!
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Let me get this straight.
Danielle Smith says she knows that her belief in a "strong and sovereign Alberta within a sovereign Canada" is controversial within her own party, and then a deal she struck which basically gives Alberta everything it wants and caused Stephen Guilbeaut to quit is booed?!
Danielle Smith says she knows that her belief in a "strong and sovereign Alberta within a sovereign Canada" is controversial within her own party, and then a deal she struck which basically gives Alberta everything it wants and caused Stephen Guilbeaut to quit is booed?!
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Here's video of that moment, accompanied by a few WOWs from @davidwcochrane.bsky.social and me bsky.app/profile/saro...
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Here's video of that moment, accompanied by a few WOWs from @davidwcochrane.bsky.social and me bsky.app/profile/saro...
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3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."
November 28, 2025 at 6:15 PM
3/ "Even if the U.S. were at war with the traffickers, an order to kill all the boat’s occupants if they were no longer able to fight 'would in essence be an order to show no quarter, which would be a war crime,' said Huntley, now director of the national security law program at Georgetown Law."
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2/ "Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
2/ "Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats 'amounts to murder,' said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
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Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
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Danielle Smith tried to sell her federal-Alberta energy deal to the UCP convention crowd: tepid applause.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Danielle Smith tried to sell her federal-Alberta energy deal to the UCP convention crowd: tepid applause.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
She told them that this proved Canada can work well for Alberta’s interests: loud boos.
This ain’t a base that wants Smith to work with a Liberal PM on a better industrial carbon tax.
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Where are my "Eliot Higgins is a tool of the CIA" folks???
I joined @cwarzel.bsky.social on the Galaxy Brain Podcast to explain some of the reasons why America, and a lot of other Western democracies, are sliding into authoritarianism and why it's probably inevitable
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvFh...
America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy with Eliot Higgins
YouTube video by The Atlantic
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Where are my "Eliot Higgins is a tool of the CIA" folks???
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Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Post claims Hegseth ordered survivors of boat strikes - who would be hors de combat - to be killed & that the SOCOM commander followed this order on the basis that "they could theoretically call other traffickers to retrieve them and their cargo"
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Good for Ukraine for pursuing these allegations. What might be lost in the smoke is that NABU and SAPO have already arrested and/or jailed politicians, prosecutors and even judges in a strong anti-corruption campaign.
More than can be said for their Russia and, ahem, American counterparts.
More than can be said for their Russia and, ahem, American counterparts.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-corruption investigators. https://to.pbs.org/48FIxX5
Zelenskyy's chief of staff resigns as Ukraine corruption investigation widens
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Friday the resignation of his powerful chief of staff, Andrii Yermak, whose residence was searched earlier in the day by anti-cor...
www.pbs.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Good for Ukraine for pursuing these allegations. What might be lost in the smoke is that NABU and SAPO have already arrested and/or jailed politicians, prosecutors and even judges in a strong anti-corruption campaign.
More than can be said for their Russia and, ahem, American counterparts.
More than can be said for their Russia and, ahem, American counterparts.
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Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
“permanently pause”?
This is going to go very badly.
This is going to go very badly.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
“permanently pause”?
This is going to go very badly.
This is going to go very badly.
Got a bit nauseous reading this. So much cruelty.
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Got a bit nauseous reading this. So much cruelty.
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I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
A Babson College student wanted to surprise her family for Thanksgiving. She was deported instead. - The Boston Globe
Any Lucia Lopez Belloza was at Logan to catch a flight to Texas when immigration authorities detained her as she was about to board the plane.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.
More straight-up racism.
TRUMP: If you look at Somalia, they are taking over Minnesota.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
REPORTER: What do the Somalians have to do with this Afghan guy who shot the National Guard members?
TRUMP: Ah, nothing. But Somalians have caused a lot of trouble. They're ripping us off.
November 28, 2025 at 1:36 AM
More straight-up racism.
