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Dan 🇨🇦
@veloveritas.bsky.social
Retired executive with 🇨🇦's federal public service. Full-time cyclist. Here on Bluesky looking for sensible perspectives on the existential threats facing us all.
Ottawa. 🏳️‍🌈 ally always. ✌️
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An introduction: I grew up in Hamilton, not far from the steel mills. My dad provided for a family of four working three shifts at International Harvester before the company offshored its manufacturing. My opportunity to find work as a labourer evaporated when conservative neo-liberalism… 1/8
Another dump of snow in Ottawa. I shovel, while Izzy-E supervises.
January 16, 2026 at 1:59 AM
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Anyone with a shred of class and decency would have politely refused it, so naturally Trump took it.
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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REVEALED: Danielle Smith is working with the Trump official who wants to annex Greenland.

Read our report about how the Alberta premier belongs to a U.S. group called the Governors Coalition for Energy Security that’s led by Jeff Landry, Trump’s envoy to Greenland.
Danielle Smith Working With Trump Official Who Wants to Annex Greenland
The Alberta premier belongs to a U.S. group called the Governors Coalition for Energy Security that’s led by Jeff Landry, Trump’s envoy to Greenland.
buff.ly
January 15, 2026 at 6:32 PM
Trump is the personification of a man-child. Sure he gets the trinket as a pacifier, but the dummy is too stupid to realize that it means fuck all.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Machado presents Trump with her Nobel award at White House meeting
Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, calling it "a wonderful gesture of mutual respect".
www.bbc.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:44 AM
January 16, 2026 at 1:41 AM
January 16, 2026 at 1:40 AM
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Ask not what your country can do for you - ask what saturated fats you can consume for your country.
January 16, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Bored of this piece of shit.

#Moron
January 16, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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French President Macron: "Ukraine was overwhelmingly dependent on [USian] intelligence capabilities a year ago, today two thirds are provided by France. Two thirds."
January 15, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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Can you even imagine terrorizing an entire city, shooting and brutalizing its residents, then waltzing into one of its restaurants and expecting to get served a nice hot meal? WTF?
January 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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Trump called off strikes on Iran after a Chinese plane landed in Tehran (special cargo?); Israel secretly called the Iranian regime to assure them they won’t participate in the attack. The official claim is that Trump stopped for a tactical reason. It’s likely the US saw itself alone.
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
There is a dearth of empathy in this world.

Our elders deserve more, and that includes the basic necessities of life, such as windows in Joyce Taylor's home during the cold of a Canadian winter.

#CDNPoli
#Canada
January 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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That putrid pile of orange excrement and his gang of grifters need more countries to exploit their natural resources. Canada, Greenland, Iceland, and others don’t want to be part of the US expansionist agenda. All together now: Fuck Trump!
January 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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Europe has begun to send troops from the following countries to defend Greenland:

France 🇫🇷
Germany 🇩🇪
Norway 🇳🇴
Sweden 🇸🇪
United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Finland 🇫🇮
Netherlands 🇳🇱

Canada already has troops on the ground. 🇨🇦
January 15, 2026 at 7:21 PM
With those hands he must have a hell of a time finger fucking his iPhone.

I've never disliked a world leader more than this fuckin' clown. He is as repulsive as his looks suggest.

#Moron
January 15, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Read your comment section, NYT.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 PM
An unhinged lunatic avoids incapacitation at a state prison to then become President of the United States. Remind me, where's that "shithole" country located?

#Moron
January 15, 2026 at 3:43 PM
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Danish and allied special forces have begun arriving into Nuuk, Greenland's capital. Any attack on the Island would result in Article 5 of NATO being activated and a 31 country military response towards the aggressor country.
January 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM
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Overnight winter weather parking ban in effect for Ottawa on Thursday, January 15 from 7 pm to 7 am.
January 15, 2026 at 2:23 PM
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CBS News releases photo proving ICE agent’s serious injuries.
January 15, 2026 at 12:52 AM
Bahahahahahahahahahahahahah
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Denmark has begun deploying special elements and heavy military equipment to Greenland to establish defensive positions and logistical infrastructure ahead of a larger Danish Army deployment, with additional European forces expected to follow, including Sweden that is deploying forces today.
January 14, 2026 at 6:53 PM
"...much of what Trump and his team continue to say about Greenland is untrue, including Trump’s often repeated claim that Greenland is crawling with Russian & Chinese warships. There has not been a Chinese warship in the Arctic for a decade.

Quelle surprise.🙄

www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Denmark, Greenland failed to win the Trump team over
The U.S. allies hoped meeting senior Trump officials would diffuse tensions and tough talk on Greenland. It didn’t.
www.politico.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 11:23 PM