The Bully Pulpit 🇨🇦
@thebullypulpit.bsky.social
Watch Dogs Keep Score
History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.
History major, ex-advertising creative, keenly aware of how democracy has been hacked; Workshopping ways to fight back.
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Our biggest shortcoming is our lack of imagination.
We struggle with paradigm shifts. That’s why we’re not acting on the climate crisis. We can’t imagine the ship really is sinking. That we have but hours to prepare. We still think we’ll be in NY harbour by Wednesday.
We struggle with paradigm shifts. That’s why we’re not acting on the climate crisis. We can’t imagine the ship really is sinking. That we have but hours to prepare. We still think we’ll be in NY harbour by Wednesday.
A close-up, sober look at the reality on the ground in Ukraine. And a reminder that should Canada ever be invaded, pity the invaders.
"Because of the absolute high level of training in Canada I was already prepared… there wasn't much of an adjustment."
🇨🇦✊🇺🇦
#ElbowsUp #SlavaUkraini
"Because of the absolute high level of training in Canada I was already prepared… there wasn't much of an adjustment."
🇨🇦✊🇺🇦
#ElbowsUp #SlavaUkraini
Canadian female fighter at the forefront of Ukraine's drone war
YouTube video by Kyiv Independent
www.youtube.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:10 AM
A close-up, sober look at the reality on the ground in Ukraine. And a reminder that should Canada ever be invaded, pity the invaders.
"Because of the absolute high level of training in Canada I was already prepared… there wasn't much of an adjustment."
🇨🇦✊🇺🇦
#ElbowsUp #SlavaUkraini
"Because of the absolute high level of training in Canada I was already prepared… there wasn't much of an adjustment."
🇨🇦✊🇺🇦
#ElbowsUp #SlavaUkraini
Don't just sign this. Don't just repost it, either. Forward it. Discuss it with your coworkers, friends, family.
Our future depends upon it.
🌿 PETITION: that federal investment in fossil fuels be matched, dollar for dollar, in renewables-based infrastructure.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ClimateCrisis
Our future depends upon it.
🌿 PETITION: that federal investment in fossil fuels be matched, dollar for dollar, in renewables-based infrastructure.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ClimateCrisis
February 2, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Don't just sign this. Don't just repost it, either. Forward it. Discuss it with your coworkers, friends, family.
Our future depends upon it.
🌿 PETITION: that federal investment in fossil fuels be matched, dollar for dollar, in renewables-based infrastructure.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ClimateCrisis
Our future depends upon it.
🌿 PETITION: that federal investment in fossil fuels be matched, dollar for dollar, in renewables-based infrastructure.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp #ClimateCrisis
Signed. Forwarded. Reposted.
February 2, 2026 at 10:03 PM
Signed. Forwarded. Reposted.
Je suis Charlie.
January 30, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Je suis Charlie.
Then you'll agree that too few in the rest of the country are mobilizing.
It has to be a general strike. The stock market tanking is the only thing that has ever moved Trump's needle.
You aren't just dealing with fascism, but oligarchy. Unless you tackle it at the source, nothing will change.
It has to be a general strike. The stock market tanking is the only thing that has ever moved Trump's needle.
You aren't just dealing with fascism, but oligarchy. Unless you tackle it at the source, nothing will change.
January 27, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Then you'll agree that too few in the rest of the country are mobilizing.
It has to be a general strike. The stock market tanking is the only thing that has ever moved Trump's needle.
You aren't just dealing with fascism, but oligarchy. Unless you tackle it at the source, nothing will change.
It has to be a general strike. The stock market tanking is the only thing that has ever moved Trump's needle.
You aren't just dealing with fascism, but oligarchy. Unless you tackle it at the source, nothing will change.
One more reason to purge society of its corrupting oligarchy.
Tax the rich.
Regulate social media and A.I.
Or perish.
#ElbowsUp
Tax the rich.
Regulate social media and A.I.
Or perish.
#ElbowsUp
OpenAl Showed Up At My Door. Here’s Why They’re Targeting People Like Me
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
One more reason to purge society of its corrupting oligarchy.
Tax the rich.
Regulate social media and A.I.
Or perish.
#ElbowsUp
Tax the rich.
Regulate social media and A.I.
Or perish.
#ElbowsUp
Every American citizen is apparently worried about what it will cost them personally to go on a general strike.
When what they should be asking is what it will cost them—and the world entire—if they don't.
You've run out of time, America. ICE was just the appetizer. This is the main course:
When what they should be asking is what it will cost them—and the world entire—if they don't.
You've run out of time, America. ICE was just the appetizer. This is the main course:
January 27, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Every American citizen is apparently worried about what it will cost them personally to go on a general strike.
When what they should be asking is what it will cost them—and the world entire—if they don't.
You've run out of time, America. ICE was just the appetizer. This is the main course:
When what they should be asking is what it will cost them—and the world entire—if they don't.
You've run out of time, America. ICE was just the appetizer. This is the main course:
No one outside the US needs convincing that MAGA's creating a police state — one where your past opinions single you out for persecution and your most intimate information is accessible for governmental overreach.
None of us need convincing. But apparently y'all are just going to let it happen.
None of us need convincing. But apparently y'all are just going to let it happen.
Why is the US Attorney General demanding access to Minnesota's voter rolls in exchange for getting ICE out of the state?🤔
Gifted article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Gifted article.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Why Is the Trump Administration Demanding Minnesota’s Voter Rolls?
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
No one outside the US needs convincing that MAGA's creating a police state — one where your past opinions single you out for persecution and your most intimate information is accessible for governmental overreach.
None of us need convincing. But apparently y'all are just going to let it happen.
None of us need convincing. But apparently y'all are just going to let it happen.
Apologies: I didn't mean 'you' personally, but rather in regards to the article you were reposting. Character count didn't let me expound on it.
Good on you to be the change we need to see in the world. My point: unless people actively, massively mobilize, this is not going to end well. 🤞✊
Good on you to be the change we need to see in the world. My point: unless people actively, massively mobilize, this is not going to end well. 🤞✊
January 26, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Apologies: I didn't mean 'you' personally, but rather in regards to the article you were reposting. Character count didn't let me expound on it.
Good on you to be the change we need to see in the world. My point: unless people actively, massively mobilize, this is not going to end well. 🤞✊
Good on you to be the change we need to see in the world. My point: unless people actively, massively mobilize, this is not going to end well. 🤞✊
And what are you gonna do about it? Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses & politicians about a general strike—ending only when the regime falls?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
Cause option B? #NoKings? Doesn't work
Freedom isn't free—time to start acting like it, America
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
Cause option B? #NoKings? Doesn't work
Freedom isn't free—time to start acting like it, America
January 25, 2026 at 9:06 PM
And what are you gonna do about it? Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses & politicians about a general strike—ending only when the regime falls?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
Cause option B? #NoKings? Doesn't work
Freedom isn't free—time to start acting like it, America
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
Cause option B? #NoKings? Doesn't work
Freedom isn't free—time to start acting like it, America
We agree that the crop of current leaders is weak AF.
QS are all up into their virtue signaling.
PSPP is cosplaying conservatism.
CAQ incompetence needs to disappear.
PLQ need to stop acting like the Democratic Party.
(Corrupt, inept, backroom dealing, false)
Quebec deserves—needs—better.
QS are all up into their virtue signaling.
PSPP is cosplaying conservatism.
CAQ incompetence needs to disappear.
PLQ need to stop acting like the Democratic Party.
(Corrupt, inept, backroom dealing, false)
Quebec deserves—needs—better.
January 25, 2026 at 8:54 PM
We agree that the crop of current leaders is weak AF.
QS are all up into their virtue signaling.
PSPP is cosplaying conservatism.
CAQ incompetence needs to disappear.
PLQ need to stop acting like the Democratic Party.
(Corrupt, inept, backroom dealing, false)
Quebec deserves—needs—better.
QS are all up into their virtue signaling.
PSPP is cosplaying conservatism.
CAQ incompetence needs to disappear.
PLQ need to stop acting like the Democratic Party.
(Corrupt, inept, backroom dealing, false)
Quebec deserves—needs—better.
Worse than current language policies outside Québec? Not what I've been hearing from my Franco-Ontarien and Acadien fam'.
Pierre Trudeau tried to forge a bilingual (and energy-sovereign) Canada. The backlash feeds separatism to this day.
It hasn't been, as Carney suggested, all good.
Pierre Trudeau tried to forge a bilingual (and energy-sovereign) Canada. The backlash feeds separatism to this day.
It hasn't been, as Carney suggested, all good.
January 25, 2026 at 8:54 PM
Worse than current language policies outside Québec? Not what I've been hearing from my Franco-Ontarien and Acadien fam'.
Pierre Trudeau tried to forge a bilingual (and energy-sovereign) Canada. The backlash feeds separatism to this day.
It hasn't been, as Carney suggested, all good.
Pierre Trudeau tried to forge a bilingual (and energy-sovereign) Canada. The backlash feeds separatism to this day.
It hasn't been, as Carney suggested, all good.
Sovereignty cannot be won without the support of non-ancestral Québécois. It's a waste of time. Everyone (but PSPP's PQ) knows this. It's either a Lévesque-like vision of ambitious and inclusive self-determination, or bust.
I really wish the PLQ would get their shit together. We need better options
I really wish the PLQ would get their shit together. We need better options
January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
Sovereignty cannot be won without the support of non-ancestral Québécois. It's a waste of time. Everyone (but PSPP's PQ) knows this. It's either a Lévesque-like vision of ambitious and inclusive self-determination, or bust.
I really wish the PLQ would get their shit together. We need better options
I really wish the PLQ would get their shit together. We need better options
"L'argent": Just as we deplore Hillary (backed by Goldman Sachs) kneecapping Bernie's bid for the Democratic nomination, dark money influenced a referendum that only failed by 1%. Think about that.
"Votes ethniques": factually true, but saying it in anger only condemned the movement to irrelevancy.
"Votes ethniques": factually true, but saying it in anger only condemned the movement to irrelevancy.
January 25, 2026 at 8:45 PM
"L'argent": Just as we deplore Hillary (backed by Goldman Sachs) kneecapping Bernie's bid for the Democratic nomination, dark money influenced a referendum that only failed by 1%. Think about that.
"Votes ethniques": factually true, but saying it in anger only condemned the movement to irrelevancy.
"Votes ethniques": factually true, but saying it in anger only condemned the movement to irrelevancy.
But to conflate francophone nationalism with MAGA is disingenuous at a time when Ford has cut funding for French Unis and hospitals, NB is openly hostile to Acadiens and Manitoba—which started out as a Métis province—is little better than Louisiana.
Juge. Mais juge égal.
Juge. Mais juge égal.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
But to conflate francophone nationalism with MAGA is disingenuous at a time when Ford has cut funding for French Unis and hospitals, NB is openly hostile to Acadiens and Manitoba—which started out as a Métis province—is little better than Louisiana.
Juge. Mais juge égal.
Juge. Mais juge égal.
Legault has been a disaster.
His linguistic policies aren't only immoral, they're counterproductive. AND they sabotage Montreal's golden opportunity to become the next Boston (speaking of academics). He's sabotaged this province.
PSPP's anti-woke psychosis is bizarre. And worrying.
His linguistic policies aren't only immoral, they're counterproductive. AND they sabotage Montreal's golden opportunity to become the next Boston (speaking of academics). He's sabotaged this province.
PSPP's anti-woke psychosis is bizarre. And worrying.
January 25, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Legault has been a disaster.
His linguistic policies aren't only immoral, they're counterproductive. AND they sabotage Montreal's golden opportunity to become the next Boston (speaking of academics). He's sabotaged this province.
PSPP's anti-woke psychosis is bizarre. And worrying.
His linguistic policies aren't only immoral, they're counterproductive. AND they sabotage Montreal's golden opportunity to become the next Boston (speaking of academics). He's sabotaged this province.
PSPP's anti-woke psychosis is bizarre. And worrying.
Talk is cheap
Weekend protests are useless #NoKings
You either start talking to your employers, neighbors, local businesses and politicians about a general strike, to be ended only when this sham regime has fallen, or you are complicit
Full stop. Freedom is not free
Start acting like it
#ElbowsUp
Weekend protests are useless #NoKings
You either start talking to your employers, neighbors, local businesses and politicians about a general strike, to be ended only when this sham regime has fallen, or you are complicit
Full stop. Freedom is not free
Start acting like it
#ElbowsUp
January 25, 2026 at 8:30 PM
The whole world has taken a more right wing turn. It has to do with how people are being (mis)informed—corporate click-bait news, sponsored social media feeds. It's a problem.
January 25, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The whole world has taken a more right wing turn. It has to do with how people are being (mis)informed—corporate click-bait news, sponsored social media feeds. It's a problem.
Please. Quebec polls as the most anti-Trump province in the country—by far—and why Carney is our PM. GTA ridings broke for the CPC. Were it not for Montréal, PP would be PM.
Quebec-bashing only legitimizes the BQ and PQ. And Blanchette may be a moron—but he is no right-winger.
Quebec-bashing only legitimizes the BQ and PQ. And Blanchette may be a moron—but he is no right-winger.
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Please. Quebec polls as the most anti-Trump province in the country—by far—and why Carney is our PM. GTA ridings broke for the CPC. Were it not for Montréal, PP would be PM.
Quebec-bashing only legitimizes the BQ and PQ. And Blanchette may be a moron—but he is no right-winger.
Quebec-bashing only legitimizes the BQ and PQ. And Blanchette may be a moron—but he is no right-winger.
Question is: What will you do now?
Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses about a general strike? To be ended only when this sham regime has fallen?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
#NotAllAmericans
Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses about a general strike? To be ended only when this sham regime has fallen?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
#NotAllAmericans
ICE is EXACTLY to Trump what the SA were to Hitler.
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
January 25, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Question is: What will you do now?
Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses about a general strike? To be ended only when this sham regime has fallen?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
#NotAllAmericans
Talk to your employers, neighbours, local businesses about a general strike? To be ended only when this sham regime has fallen?
Or keep virtue signaling your disgust?
#NotAllAmericans
The hand-wringing, across the board—the overt minimization of what's being done—is what's been most damning in my view.
Six months ago, I made this. ↓
I am no prophet.
But I do know my History.
Trumpism is following a recipe.
While America stares, in shock.
#WakeUP #ElbowsUP #GeneralStrike
Six months ago, I made this. ↓
I am no prophet.
But I do know my History.
Trumpism is following a recipe.
While America stares, in shock.
#WakeUP #ElbowsUP #GeneralStrike
ICE is EXACTLY to Trump what the SA were to Hitler.
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
January 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
The hand-wringing, across the board—the overt minimization of what's being done—is what's been most damning in my view.
Six months ago, I made this. ↓
I am no prophet.
But I do know my History.
Trumpism is following a recipe.
While America stares, in shock.
#WakeUP #ElbowsUP #GeneralStrike
Six months ago, I made this. ↓
I am no prophet.
But I do know my History.
Trumpism is following a recipe.
While America stares, in shock.
#WakeUP #ElbowsUP #GeneralStrike
Always was.
That nothing has been or is being done about it is what's been most shocking to those of us outside the US.
That nothing has been or is being done about it is what's been most shocking to those of us outside the US.
ICE is EXACTLY to Trump what the SA were to Hitler.
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
It only recruits MAGA goons, glad to do Trump's unlawful bidding.
This isn't about immigration, but political repression. We've seen this movie before. You need to decide your part in it. Actively opposed? Or just passively disgusted?
January 25, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Always was.
That nothing has been or is being done about it is what's been most shocking to those of us outside the US.
That nothing has been or is being done about it is what's been most shocking to those of us outside the US.
This is exactly why poll-driven politics must die.
In an age of misinformation (and wanton disinformation) mere optics DO NOT WORK*: Connections do. @ndp.ca, looking at you.
*Look no further than #NoKings. How's that working out? Now look at Mamdani: the opposite of empty sloganeering. ENGAGE. IRL
In an age of misinformation (and wanton disinformation) mere optics DO NOT WORK*: Connections do. @ndp.ca, looking at you.
*Look no further than #NoKings. How's that working out? Now look at Mamdani: the opposite of empty sloganeering. ENGAGE. IRL
🧵(1/n) Some unsolicited advice for the federal @ndp.ca, after several months of trying to get them to acknowledge the existence of the #longCOVID community. Please repost and maybe they'll pay attention.
@ndp.ca enough with the plastic Left™ machine politics, focus grouped BS, and message control.
@ndp.ca enough with the plastic Left™ machine politics, focus grouped BS, and message control.
a picture of a cartoon character with the words hellooooo anybody home
ALT: a picture of a cartoon character with the words hellooooo anybody home
media.tenor.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Why would Carney say: "The old order is not coming back"?
This is why.
Even now, the US is split on whether MAGA fascism is even a problem.
That won't change once Trump is gone, even if Dems grow a spine and regain some branches of government.
Disinformation has broken you.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp
This is why.
Even now, the US is split on whether MAGA fascism is even a problem.
That won't change once Trump is gone, even if Dems grow a spine and regain some branches of government.
Disinformation has broken you.
#CdnPoli #ElbowsUp
January 24, 2026 at 5:21 PM
