James Keelaghan
@jimmykeelo.bsky.social
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I’m a Juno and CFMA award winning Canadian Singer Songwriter, with a passion for history and travel. My web presence is www.keelaghan.com
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Stay calm, be brave, wait for the signs.
-Jasper Friendly Bear
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It’s like waking up to fireworks every autumn with this lot in the back yard.
Fall foliage in a backyard in Perth Ontario
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BFcrazy.
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Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
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I’ll never steer you to Spotify if I can help it!
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Thank you. I think it really comes through on my typing!
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mehdirhasan.bsky.social
Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.
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thegodpodcast.com
Every predator movie is about how the prey must turn the tables and become the hunter.

In a time dominated by predators, there’s a lesson there.
jimmykeelo.bsky.social
Out there making drama, not watching it!
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I’ve missed entire swaths of popular culture. I’ve never seen an episode of SNL, or love actually, or big bang theory. Just to name few.
hannahfearn.bsky.social
Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.
jimmykeelo.bsky.social
Yes but what IS folk music?
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kellyscaletta.bsky.social
Somewhere in America, a young Hispanic girl is hiding in an attic writing a diary.
jimmykeelo.bsky.social
This 10 times over for Canada. As things start to slide even more in the US we should be considering the flow of Mis/disinformation into this country.
gmbutts.bsky.social
French President Macron speaking on German reunification:

“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”

🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇪🇺
jimmykeelo.bsky.social
A famous and inspirational episode in my mum’s old neighbourhood. And a lesson for us all.
thismanyyearsago.bsky.social
89 years ago, on the 4th of October 1936, antifascist counter protesters stopped a British Union of Fascists march through London’s East End. The Metropolitan Police tried to clear the way for the fascists resulting in violent clashes known as the Battle of Cable Street. #otd #history 🗃️
The mounted police conduct a charge against the dense crowd to clear the way to Cable Street.
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It is Bandcamp Friday! On October 3rd, from midnight to midnight PST, @bandcamp.com waives their revenue share and passes the funds directly to artists & labels.
You can find me here

bitly.cx/WwzHs
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aoc.bsky.social
Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.
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AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social : "We need to not conflate the Jewish community & the ongoing genocide in Gaza.. you can both be absolutely clear that antisemitism & Islamophobia in our country is totally unacceptable & you can stand against the genocide & our govts complicity.."

Well said Zack.
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History has many painful lessons.
A screenshot of an X post by Q. Anthony Ali (@NobleQAli
, 12h ago) featuring a black-and-white historical image of a person lying on the ground while others, including a woman kneeling and several standing figures, are around them in what appears to be a park or open area. Below this, a reply by Antonio Benetto (@Tony_Benetto
, 1d ago) to @drmistercody
 states: "I don't believe US troops will fire on American citizens."
jimmykeelo.bsky.social
And WTF would escalation look like? Is they’re anything left to bomb?
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Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.
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stereogum.bsky.social
from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’
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Even in his most fevered, drunken dreams, Richard Milhous Nixon couldn't possibly have even imagined doing a tenth of this shit.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
What if the rapture happened a long time ago but only Amelia Earhart made the cut?
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan failed to report direct admissions of rape by multiple priests, lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse, and moved money off the church books to hide it from victims of sex abuse. In case you were wondering.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"