Dr. Barry Cooke
@barrycooke.bsky.social
Insect Ecology.
PhD from U. Alberta.
M.Sc. from U. Laval.
B.Sc. from U. Toronto.
I speak for myself.
I code in R.
Warned about emerging fascism before it was cool.
PhD from U. Alberta.
M.Sc. from U. Laval.
B.Sc. from U. Toronto.
I speak for myself.
I code in R.
Warned about emerging fascism before it was cool.
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"Quiet Piggy". A children's book by Donald Trump.
High level mockery.
CBC is Canada's publicly funded vnational broadcaster. The program is This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
High level mockery.
CBC is Canada's publicly funded vnational broadcaster. The program is This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
November 30, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"Quiet Piggy". A children's book by Donald Trump.
High level mockery.
CBC is Canada's publicly funded vnational broadcaster. The program is This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
High level mockery.
CBC is Canada's publicly funded vnational broadcaster. The program is This Hour Has 22 Minutes.
Pay attention to this Canada, because this is what the separatist fascists want to do to Canadian provinces.
The current government of Honduras accomplished a big thing:
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
They ruled ZEDEs (Zone for Employment and Economic Development) unconstitutional. Retroactively.
Prospera, a ZEDE = Unconstitutional
Network State = Unconstitutional
You need a coup to reverse that.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/5/...
November 30, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Pay attention to this Canada, because this is what the separatist fascists want to do to Canadian provinces.
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The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike.
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
November 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
The house and senate have both expressed interest in investigating the strike on survivors of the first boat strike.
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
Both Hegseth and adm Bradley will need to answer some questions.
This is why a reminder to not follow illegal orders is important
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best in 2020
November 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social said it best in 2020
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Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Ummmm, seems like whiskey Pete maybe shouldn’t have tweet about the war crimes.
Canadians should be goddamn thankful that we don't have Maple MAGA running a parallel grift up here. We came within inches, again and again and again.
November 30, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Canadians should be goddamn thankful that we don't have Maple MAGA running a parallel grift up here. We came within inches, again and again and again.
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The White House says their peace plan didn’t come from Russia — the problem is it reads like Putin’s wishlist. We need a deal to end the war that actually protects Ukraine and doesn’t reward the war criminal who started this.
November 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
The White House says their peace plan didn’t come from Russia — the problem is it reads like Putin’s wishlist. We need a deal to end the war that actually protects Ukraine and doesn’t reward the war criminal who started this.
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But remember, drug smuggling is such a threat to the U.S. that it merits summary execution without due process.
At least according to this administration.
At least according to this administration.
DOJ press release from 2024:
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
Juan Orlando Hernández, Former President of Honduras, Sentenced to 45 Years in Prison for Conspiring to Distribute More Than 400 Tons of Cocaine and Related Firearms Offenses
The former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, 55, also known as JOH, was sentenced today to 540 months in prison and 60 months of supervised release for cocaine importation and related weapons offenses. The former two-term president was in office until weeks before his extradition to the United States in April 2022. Hernández was convicted on March 8 following a
www.justice.gov
November 30, 2025 at 1:58 AM
But remember, drug smuggling is such a threat to the U.S. that it merits summary execution without due process.
At least according to this administration.
At least according to this administration.
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There is no doubt that Hegseth has ordered our troops to commit war crimes. He fired all the TJAGs his first week for a reason. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
Ordering our troops to commit murder is a crime. Period.
The Washington Post story on the 'take no prisoners' order from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is clear evidence that the Trump Administration is giving illegal orders to our troops
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
There is no doubt that Hegseth has ordered our troops to commit war crimes. He fired all the TJAGs his first week for a reason. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/fpwellma...
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
November 30, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
It doesn’t get anymore textbook than this:
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Bradley, more than Hegseth, just shot straight to the top of the list of people most likely to be prosecuted. Not because a future Dem administration will necessarily have strong political will for prosecutions. Because the military itself will be chomping at the bit to nail his ass to the wall.
Hegseth's not the only war criminal here. "The [USSOCOM] commander overseeing the operation from Fort Bragg in North Carolina, Adm. Frank M. 'Mitch' Bradley, told people on the secure conference call that the survivors were still legitimate targets... He ordered the second strike."
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 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Bradley, more than Hegseth, just shot straight to the top of the list of people most likely to be prosecuted. Not because a future Dem administration will necessarily have strong political will for prosecutions. Because the military itself will be chomping at the bit to nail his ass to the wall.
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Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
US admiral to retire amid military strikes in Caribbean and tensions with Venezuela
Alvin Holsey just took over the US southern command late last year for a position that normally lasts three years
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Remember 6 weeks ago when Admiral Alvin Holsey, head of the U.S. military’s southern command, abruptly decided to retire?
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
Makes me think at least one top-ranking officer knows what a war crime is.
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Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
November 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Trump: "SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!"
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
The White House: He's not calling for their execution and anyone who says so is biased.
Truly Orwellian.
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Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Russian Kirill Dmitriev met to discuss how to profit off the war
Sanctioned Russian billionaires Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk, Boris & Arkady Rotenberg and others such as Gentry Beach, Stephen P. Lynch, Exxon execs - are all circling
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Sanctioned Russian billionaires Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk, Boris & Arkady Rotenberg and others such as Gentry Beach, Stephen P. Lynch, Exxon execs - are all circling
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and Russian Kirill Dmitriev met to discuss how to profit off the war
Sanctioned Russian billionaires Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk, Boris & Arkady Rotenberg and others such as Gentry Beach, Stephen P. Lynch, Exxon execs - are all circling
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Sanctioned Russian billionaires Gennady Timchenko, Yuri Kovalchuk, Boris & Arkady Rotenberg and others such as Gentry Beach, Stephen P. Lynch, Exxon execs - are all circling
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
If you are going to enter the domain of duplicitous weaseldom, you better be good at duplicitous weaseling.
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
If you are going to enter the domain of duplicitous weaseldom, you better be good at duplicitous weaseling.
Do the folks who hate Carney now finally admit they never had it so good as when they had Trudeau?
November 29, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Do the folks who hate Carney now finally admit they never had it so good as when they had Trudeau?
I guess you idiots still don't understand it was Buffalo separatists and MAGA that took out Trudeau?
November 29, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I guess you idiots still don't understand it was Buffalo separatists and MAGA that took out Trudeau?
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I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:28 AM
I hope folks realize that between Trump, Kushner, Hegseth, Witkoff, Noem, RFK, Jr., Kash Patel, and Tulsi Gabbard, this country is almost entirely undefended.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoin’s declining price is an indicator of Trump’s declining dominance over the G.O.P..
November 29, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Bitcoin has become a Trump trade, and Bitcoin’s declining price is an indicator of Trump’s declining dominance over the G.O.P..
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Trump has shut down the airspace surrounding Venezuela.
Legally he can't.
Yet airlines will redirect because they know Trump is as psychotic as Escobar and will order a plane to be shot down.
Flightradar24 has already shown that the airspace has been avoided by most airlines the past few days.
Legally he can't.
Yet airlines will redirect because they know Trump is as psychotic as Escobar and will order a plane to be shot down.
Flightradar24 has already shown that the airspace has been avoided by most airlines the past few days.
US says Venezuela’s airspace ‘closed’ as fears of armed conflict rise
No immediate response from Venezuela after President Trump’s makes the announcement on social media on Saturday.
www.aljazeera.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Trump has shut down the airspace surrounding Venezuela.
Legally he can't.
Yet airlines will redirect because they know Trump is as psychotic as Escobar and will order a plane to be shot down.
Flightradar24 has already shown that the airspace has been avoided by most airlines the past few days.
Legally he can't.
Yet airlines will redirect because they know Trump is as psychotic as Escobar and will order a plane to be shot down.
Flightradar24 has already shown that the airspace has been avoided by most airlines the past few days.
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UCP AGM 2025, baby
November 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
UCP AGM 2025, baby
Provincial mistrust of federal intent starts with provincial misunderstanding of economics. The only adult in the room is trying to clarify the *economic* barriers in operation by removing *perceived* policy barriers. If a child mistrusts a trustworthy parent, there is no partisan solution.
Last point, then back to Saturday things for a while: if your take is "Carney signed this without actually intending to get a pipeline built" you are validating the mistrust that populist Albertans and their allies hold.
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
If that is true, they are right to mistrust this agreement, and "Canada".
November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Provincial mistrust of federal intent starts with provincial misunderstanding of economics. The only adult in the room is trying to clarify the *economic* barriers in operation by removing *perceived* policy barriers. If a child mistrusts a trustworthy parent, there is no partisan solution.