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Ed Michalik
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Kadak.
I have been taking antidepressants and benzodiazepines to treat my mental illness since 1989. The toll they exact on my body and mind far exceeds whatever benefit they offer. There has to be a better way.
#mentalhealthawareness
June 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Happy Father’s Day, Da! You are the DNA of my body and soul. You follow me like my shadow. Be well wherever you roam. Love, Eddie.
June 15, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Love is the only cause of happiness
Its nature is pervasive like space
Love is the sunlight of the mind

~Garchen Rinpoche
June 13, 2025 at 4:22 PM
From here it’s a slippery slope to fullbore autocracy.
Another video of Senator Padilla’s violent arrest at DHS Sec Noem’s press conference in LA. You can see him thrown to the ground by FBI agents and handcuffed.

(video shared by Padilla’s staff with Elex Michaelson of Fox LA and posted on X)
June 12, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Happy S.A. Cosby New Novel Release Day to those who celebrate! @blacktopkid.bsky.social
June 10, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Play it, Jimi. Make it howl; make it wail. Play The Star Spangled Banner.
youtu.be/1CcWlKtBzgs?...
Jimi Hendrix - The Star Spangled Banner - Woodstock - 1969
YouTube video by cp03
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June 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
This is the best Trump 2.0 take in circulation.
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Donald Trump's revenge tour against the American people.
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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May 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
So, what’s the deal with this Jeffrey Rath character and his Alberta referendum ballot question? His ambition seems to be “transformational.”
May 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
An apt metaphor for the reign of a Mad King: a palace in the sky.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump administration poised to accept 'palace in the sky' as a gift for Trump from Qatar: Sources
President Trump poised to accept "palace in the sky" as a gift from Qatar: Sources
abcnews.go.com
May 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
As one of Canada's "owners,” I am proud of the job Mark Carney did representing the country in Washington today. The Prime Minister more than held his own with the Orange Menace.
a man in a red suit is clapping his hands in a crowd of people .
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May 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I voted for Mark Carney and the Liberal Party because I roundly reject the notion that Canada has ever been "broken" and the rest of Mr. Pollievre's fatuous slogans. Keep the Trumpy stuff south of the 49th parallel. Whatever our shortcomings, I believe in the true north, strong and free.
April 28, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Props to my brother @berniemichalik.ca for putting me on to Slow Horses! A superb espionage drama.
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April 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Paraphrasing Hemingway: How does democracy die? Gradually, and then suddenly. The US has passed the “suddenly” threshold.
February 11, 2025 at 9:54 PM
The greatest threat to liberal democracy now is not Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping. It is, I fear, Donald Trump. #USpolitics
February 5, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Reposted by Ed Michalik
When your buddy doesn’t keep his word and doesn’t care if it hurts you… you find some new friends.
It’s a big world.
February 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Allies don’t start trade wars with their allies. #USTariffs

Signed, a Canadian whose wife’s first cousin, a Canadian soldier, died in Afghanistan fighting alongside American soldiers in America’s War on Terror (2002).
February 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Our last evening in San Miguel de Allende was a dream. Our hearts are in this city. We’ll be back. ¡Feliz año!
January 8, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Margaret Atwood, here for a writers’ conference, walked directly past me in a crowd of thousands in the central plaza of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, this evening. My jaw dropped — a legend in my midst.
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ALT: a woman is smiling in front of a big think sign
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January 7, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Feliz navidad a todos!
December 24, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Stairwell (bottom & top).
December 1, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Bursts.
November 27, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Orange and pink.
November 26, 2024 at 5:35 PM
My neighborhood shrine room. #Mexico
November 25, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Thirty-five thousand up, listening to yacht rock — Mexico-bound with my honey. Bustin' out of the chains I bound myself in — freedom’s on my mind.
November 23, 2024 at 7:23 PM