Rusty Idols
@rustyidols.bsky.social
Canadian former Journalist, former union activist and lobbyist. He/Him. Refugee from the bad place.
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So although the bulk of my account can be expected to be angry sweary politics I am also an old school geek who loves comics, old horror movies and Doctor Who, so there will be geekery.
And kittens because who doesn't like kittens.
And kittens because who doesn't like kittens.
Went to a local comic show today and found a quest item in a $3 box. One of Tom Sutton's earliest covers for Charlton.
February 8, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Went to a local comic show today and found a quest item in a $3 box. One of Tom Sutton's earliest covers for Charlton.
He's always loved bullying people with litigation but have you noticed that there is ONE thing he never sues over no matter how increasingly often he's accused of it?
You'd think he was scared of the discovery process that would ensue if he did or something...
You'd think he was scared of the discovery process that would ensue if he did or something...
February 7, 2026 at 4:54 PM
He's always loved bullying people with litigation but have you noticed that there is ONE thing he never sues over no matter how increasingly often he's accused of it?
You'd think he was scared of the discovery process that would ensue if he did or something...
You'd think he was scared of the discovery process that would ensue if he did or something...
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production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
February 7, 2026 at 12:40 AM
production of The Muppet Show should not be dependent on petty vulgarities like “ratings” or “revenue.” it should be preserved as a vital function of american culture. it should have a taxpayer-funded budget rivaling the CIA
The Conservative Party membership doubled down on Pierre Poilievre on Friday.
This is Conservative friendly pollster Mainstreet. This is, like it or not, how the wider electorate reacted to that choice.
Conservatives, whatever you do, don't say we didn't warn you.
This is Conservative friendly pollster Mainstreet. This is, like it or not, how the wider electorate reacted to that choice.
Conservatives, whatever you do, don't say we didn't warn you.
February 4, 2026 at 9:25 PM
The Conservative Party membership doubled down on Pierre Poilievre on Friday.
This is Conservative friendly pollster Mainstreet. This is, like it or not, how the wider electorate reacted to that choice.
Conservatives, whatever you do, don't say we didn't warn you.
This is Conservative friendly pollster Mainstreet. This is, like it or not, how the wider electorate reacted to that choice.
Conservatives, whatever you do, don't say we didn't warn you.
Stop making cops feel cool.
Don't give them bad-ass names like 'Scorpion Unit' or black paint jobs on their cruisers or black gloves on their hands to make them look menacing.
Dress and treat them like social workers who are expected to deescalate every chance they get.
Don't give them bad-ass names like 'Scorpion Unit' or black paint jobs on their cruisers or black gloves on their hands to make them look menacing.
Dress and treat them like social workers who are expected to deescalate every chance they get.
January 31, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Stop making cops feel cool.
Don't give them bad-ass names like 'Scorpion Unit' or black paint jobs on their cruisers or black gloves on their hands to make them look menacing.
Dress and treat them like social workers who are expected to deescalate every chance they get.
Don't give them bad-ass names like 'Scorpion Unit' or black paint jobs on their cruisers or black gloves on their hands to make them look menacing.
Dress and treat them like social workers who are expected to deescalate every chance they get.
If you claim that Israel is held to a different standard you are absolutely correct.
There's a standard of behaviour we expect from democracies from the one we deplore from dictatorships.
The price for claiming that you're the only democracy in the region is being expected to act like it.
There's a standard of behaviour we expect from democracies from the one we deplore from dictatorships.
The price for claiming that you're the only democracy in the region is being expected to act like it.
January 28, 2026 at 9:30 PM
If you claim that Israel is held to a different standard you are absolutely correct.
There's a standard of behaviour we expect from democracies from the one we deplore from dictatorships.
The price for claiming that you're the only democracy in the region is being expected to act like it.
There's a standard of behaviour we expect from democracies from the one we deplore from dictatorships.
The price for claiming that you're the only democracy in the region is being expected to act like it.
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Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
January 25, 2026 at 8:24 PM
Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
Christopher Lee told Hammer he wouldn't make another shitty Dracula sequel forcing studio head Michael Carreras to admit he'd already pre-sold it to Warner Bros - but predicated on Lee starring and if he pulled out hundreds of people would lose their jobs. It was emotional blackmail but it worked.
January 25, 2026 at 10:01 PM
Christopher Lee told Hammer he wouldn't make another shitty Dracula sequel forcing studio head Michael Carreras to admit he'd already pre-sold it to Warner Bros - but predicated on Lee starring and if he pulled out hundreds of people would lose their jobs. It was emotional blackmail but it worked.
The Trump Administration says the Second Amendment doesn't apply in any situation where a government agent decides that it shouldn't.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
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Bovino argues Second Amendment did not apply to Pretti
Anti-ICE protesters were already marching in Minneapolis this weekend, and tensions in the city have been inflamed by another fatal shooting by a federal officer. Follow for live updates.
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January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
The Trump Administration says the Second Amendment doesn't apply in any situation where a government agent decides that it shouldn't.
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
www.cnn.com/us/live-news...
I think we should assume that most of the statements and moves that world leaders in Canada and Europe are making right now are aimed at one audience: Republican Senators.
And Trump, sulkily and unwillingly, climbing down from military threats to Denmark suggests that strategy might be working.
And Trump, sulkily and unwillingly, climbing down from military threats to Denmark suggests that strategy might be working.
January 21, 2026 at 5:16 PM
I think we should assume that most of the statements and moves that world leaders in Canada and Europe are making right now are aimed at one audience: Republican Senators.
And Trump, sulkily and unwillingly, climbing down from military threats to Denmark suggests that strategy might be working.
And Trump, sulkily and unwillingly, climbing down from military threats to Denmark suggests that strategy might be working.
Prime Minister Carney just angered his Ontario manufacturing base to help Alberta Canola farmers while you fools whine about communism.
Ready to shut up?
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Ready to shut up?
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Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products
Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products.
apnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Prime Minister Carney just angered his Ontario manufacturing base to help Alberta Canola farmers while you fools whine about communism.
Ready to shut up?
apnews.com/article/chin...
Ready to shut up?
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The message from American Nazis is clear - shoot more people and you will be financially rewarded.
ICE is now officially a death squad.
The oligarchs just declared war on their own people.
ICE is now officially a death squad.
The oligarchs just declared war on their own people.
January 13, 2026 at 1:06 PM
The message from American Nazis is clear - shoot more people and you will be financially rewarded.
ICE is now officially a death squad.
The oligarchs just declared war on their own people.
ICE is now officially a death squad.
The oligarchs just declared war on their own people.
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On Jan 7, 2026 six Minneapolis moms subdued an ICE agent, took his gun, dragged him down the stairs, tased and beat him till unconscious. He suffered a heart attack and traumatic head injury.
Oops, my mistake, that’s what pardoned peaceful protesters did to me Officer Mike Fanone on Jan 6, 2021.
Oops, my mistake, that’s what pardoned peaceful protesters did to me Officer Mike Fanone on Jan 6, 2021.
January 13, 2026 at 12:19 PM
On Jan 7, 2026 six Minneapolis moms subdued an ICE agent, took his gun, dragged him down the stairs, tased and beat him till unconscious. He suffered a heart attack and traumatic head injury.
Oops, my mistake, that’s what pardoned peaceful protesters did to me Officer Mike Fanone on Jan 6, 2021.
Oops, my mistake, that’s what pardoned peaceful protesters did to me Officer Mike Fanone on Jan 6, 2021.
It turns out 'Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' still only works on 28% of Americans - making up 61% of the Republican Party.
And even Republicans don't want panicky heavily armed ICE agents going into their kids school.
And even Republicans don't want panicky heavily armed ICE agents going into their kids school.
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
It turns out 'Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?' still only works on 28% of Americans - making up 61% of the Republican Party.
And even Republicans don't want panicky heavily armed ICE agents going into their kids school.
And even Republicans don't want panicky heavily armed ICE agents going into their kids school.
If a church held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
If a Mosque held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
The double standard is demanding that Synagogues be treated differently.
If a Mosque held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
The double standard is demanding that Synagogues be treated differently.
January 11, 2026 at 4:59 PM
If a church held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
If a Mosque held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
The double standard is demanding that Synagogues be treated differently.
If a Mosque held auctions of stolen land I would support protesting it.
The double standard is demanding that Synagogues be treated differently.
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The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
January 10, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
Bryan Passifiume is the Toronto Sun's Ottawa bureau chief and chortles over a 37 year old mother getting shot in the face.
January 10, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Bryan Passifiume is the Toronto Sun's Ottawa bureau chief and chortles over a 37 year old mother getting shot in the face.
ICE agents are doubtlessly taking their cue from the Trump administration's full throated defense of cold blooded murder, but they should ask themselves if angry juries will convict anyone defending themselves from them with any force up to and including lethal after last week.
January 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
ICE agents are doubtlessly taking their cue from the Trump administration's full throated defense of cold blooded murder, but they should ask themselves if angry juries will convict anyone defending themselves from them with any force up to and including lethal after last week.
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A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The essential core ideology behind Libertarianism:
“Don’t tell me what to do Gary, you’re not the boss of me - you’re not even my real Dad!”
“Don’t tell me what to do Gary, you’re not the boss of me - you’re not even my real Dad!”
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The essential core ideology behind Libertarianism:
“Don’t tell me what to do Gary, you’re not the boss of me - you’re not even my real Dad!”
“Don’t tell me what to do Gary, you’re not the boss of me - you’re not even my real Dad!”
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JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:50 PM
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
@zeteo.com
Renee Good was murdered because she clearly felt neither fear nor respect for a man who became a jackbooted masked thug because he was desperate for both.
The satisfied 'Fucking bitch.' after he shot her in the face and her car rolled away was the purest giveaway of his motivation.
The satisfied 'Fucking bitch.' after he shot her in the face and her car rolled away was the purest giveaway of his motivation.
January 10, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Renee Good was murdered because she clearly felt neither fear nor respect for a man who became a jackbooted masked thug because he was desperate for both.
The satisfied 'Fucking bitch.' after he shot her in the face and her car rolled away was the purest giveaway of his motivation.
The satisfied 'Fucking bitch.' after he shot her in the face and her car rolled away was the purest giveaway of his motivation.