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Patrick Hutchinson

@patrickndg.bsky.social

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Musician (trad to noo wave), accidental sound tech, writer who should write more, occasional educator, former bike courier and rubber-stamp maker, immigrant, Montréalais, has always had an accent from somewhere else, son, father, etc.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 14m

Miller has been showing us who he is since 2016. He first came on my radar - on Canadian tv - when trump was picking his team first time around, and he openly said chilling out & out fascist things back then.

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 15h

There was some idiot at their anti-NTFA round table this aft, saying the dangerous terrorist org anTEEfa dates back nearly a century…to Weimar Germany. (Posobiec, I think it was.)

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 15h

I had never heard of Eswatini until now: apparently the former Swaziland, and Africa’s last absolute monarchy.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16h

Last weekend, the Trump administration sent 10 more people to an Eswatini prison, joining five other ICE detainees sent there in July.

None of the 15 men sent to the nation are from Eswatini. But they are now under the authority of its king.

Read Noah Lanard's full story: https://bit.ly/47gNtB1

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 17h

As always with these idiots, it’s hard to tell what’s stoopid and what’s evil, but safe to say it’s dangerous amounts of both.

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 19h

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

That first clip is incredibly strange, it really looks like someone (Vought?) yelled in his earpiece. It’s deeply unsettling that they edited it out for the re-run version.

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

12 sides of Sandinista!!

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Sandinista! is one of only a handful of albums I have on both cd and lp, I must confess I tend to put on the cd out of conveniences (it’s only 2 CDs, 3 sides per)

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Elegant mystery neighbour cat says no passaran!

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Now that’s a deep cut! Side 6 was always definitely for after the drugs kicked in.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Fair enough, we must stick to the high road and all that. However, with instances like this and the Mississippi hanging, it’s not surprising that people would react that way. As someone once said, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you….”

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Mr R would’ve been in his 80s already, had just lost one son to addiction and his other was in the grips of it, so understandable that he’d want to call it a day.

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 1d

Russell’s, along with everything else on that block, was expropriated by the QC govt in 1999, for the Palais de Congrès expansion. Central Stamp, my workplace, took a deal that paid moving expenses; whereas Mr Russell took the buy-out deal, that was the other option offered.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 2d

I somehow missed that one, phew! I’m a sucker for those editions and their woodcuts, though, and I spent a decade where I didn’t even have to step outside to visit Russell’s Books.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 3d

FFOL!! That is one unhinged individual, absolutely barking.

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 4d

The mask comes off Maga’s bullshit weaponisation of anti-semitism….

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Elon Musk, the Anti-Defamation League and the right: what’s behind the latest blow-up?

The Jewish advocacy and anti-hate group is at the center of a rightwing backlash campaign led by Musk over the ADL’s online database on extremism

www.theguardian.com

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, ‘twas Burroughs! There was a UK rock band in the mid ‘70s called The Heavy Metal Kids, who got their name from the naked lunch monitor (much as Steely Dan named themselves after his steam-powered dildo.)

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 6d

Sadly true, assholes large & small have been empowered the world over, and integrity devalued.

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 6d

Heartwarming indeed, don’t hold back!

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 6d

A very timely take on the unedifying Riadh comedy fest, from a colleague of the journalist murdered by the regime there a few years back.

Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 6d

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory.

They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth.

But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi.

RIP, Jamal.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jamal Khashoggi, the Washington Post, and the Cost of Speaking Out

As Saudi Arabia hosts comedians and courts gamers, the silenced voice of Jamal Khashoggi still echoes.

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 8d

Ayoye!

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 8d

Oouff…..

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 8d

He actually said that?! Ffs!!

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Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 9d

What’s the source & context for this ridiculous sanewashing bothsidesing quote? Not that any source or context could justify it…

Patrick Hutchinson @patrickndg.bsky.social · 10d

Excellent piece, thanks Charlie. It’s important that we know our history, and that we see its relevance to our present.