Paul Racher
@paulracher.bsky.social
Dad. Husband. Dog wrangler. Archaeologist. Beekeeper. In more or less that order.
My latest piece in The Hamilton Spectator. When politicians complain about “Red Tape” in the development process, we would do well to remember what it was like BEFORE we put these rules in place. (DM me if the paywall snags you).
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
‘Red tape’ professions are important for our province
Legislation to boost construction jobs by undercutting skilled, knowledge economy employment is short-sighted.
www.thespec.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My latest piece in The Hamilton Spectator. When politicians complain about “Red Tape” in the development process, we would do well to remember what it was like BEFORE we put these rules in place. (DM me if the paywall snags you).
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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I bet after the 18th bahahahahahah
October 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
I bet after the 18th bahahahahahah
“How to Use an Emergency to Do Once Unthinkable Things”
Once some leaders start using emergencies as an excuse to run roughshod over the constitution, the strategy starts looking really attractive to others…
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Once some leaders start using emergencies as an excuse to run roughshod over the constitution, the strategy starts looking really attractive to others…
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Ford’s Bill 5 reads like Ontario’s own ‘Project 2025’
How can the 158-year-old government of Ontario decide which elements of the 13,000-year-old Indigenous archaeological legacy can be bulldozed away?
www.thespec.com
October 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
“How to Use an Emergency to Do Once Unthinkable Things”
Once some leaders start using emergencies as an excuse to run roughshod over the constitution, the strategy starts looking really attractive to others…
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
Once some leaders start using emergencies as an excuse to run roughshod over the constitution, the strategy starts looking really attractive to others…
www.thespec.com/opinion/cont...
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They love to throw words like communist, socialist, Marxist like grenades.
Propaganda 101: make equality sound dangerous, make fairness sound radical, make compassion sound naïve.
If people ever broke free of that conditioning, they’d realize socialism isn’t the enemy, it’s perfect democracy.
Propaganda 101: make equality sound dangerous, make fairness sound radical, make compassion sound naïve.
If people ever broke free of that conditioning, they’d realize socialism isn’t the enemy, it’s perfect democracy.
October 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
They love to throw words like communist, socialist, Marxist like grenades.
Propaganda 101: make equality sound dangerous, make fairness sound radical, make compassion sound naïve.
If people ever broke free of that conditioning, they’d realize socialism isn’t the enemy, it’s perfect democracy.
Propaganda 101: make equality sound dangerous, make fairness sound radical, make compassion sound naïve.
If people ever broke free of that conditioning, they’d realize socialism isn’t the enemy, it’s perfect democracy.
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You don’t have to be an “evil genius” anymore. It turns out you can be an evil moron, as long as you’re completely ruthless.
September 27, 2025 at 4:22 PM
You don’t have to be an “evil genius” anymore. It turns out you can be an evil moron, as long as you’re completely ruthless.
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Capitalism is designed to fail.
An economy built on exploitation always collapses under the weight of its own greed.
#socialistsunday
An economy built on exploitation always collapses under the weight of its own greed.
#socialistsunday
September 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Capitalism is designed to fail.
An economy built on exploitation always collapses under the weight of its own greed.
#socialistsunday
An economy built on exploitation always collapses under the weight of its own greed.
#socialistsunday
Every time this man takes a plane, for the rest of his life, he will have to worry that it might develop mechanical trouble and have to land in a country that recognizes the International Criminal Court.
Good.
Good.
September 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Every time this man takes a plane, for the rest of his life, he will have to worry that it might develop mechanical trouble and have to land in a country that recognizes the International Criminal Court.
Good.
Good.
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Stable genius alert!
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Stable genius alert!
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Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
September 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Yes, release the Epstein files!!!
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The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You’re right. It’s our fault. Just a difference of opinion. Nothing to see here. Move along, everyone. Also. Bible, or something.
You’re right. It’s our fault. Just a difference of opinion. Nothing to see here. Move along, everyone. Also. Bible, or something.
September 15, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
You’re right. It’s our fault. Just a difference of opinion. Nothing to see here. Move along, everyone. Also. Bible, or something.
You’re right. It’s our fault. Just a difference of opinion. Nothing to see here. Move along, everyone. Also. Bible, or something.
I’d like to note that my family and I were homeless over the summer of 1978. We had lost our farm so we put everything we had in a schoolbus and drove it to Athabasca, Alberta. My dad had a vague notion that he might be able to find work in the oil patch. (1)
September 14, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’d like to note that my family and I were homeless over the summer of 1978. We had lost our farm so we put everything we had in a schoolbus and drove it to Athabasca, Alberta. My dad had a vague notion that he might be able to find work in the oil patch. (1)
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The people renaming the USNS Harvey Milk are telling us we should fly flags half staff for Charlie Kirk out of respect.
September 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The people renaming the USNS Harvey Milk are telling us we should fly flags half staff for Charlie Kirk out of respect.
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When governments start rounding up people based on race, history has a name for it: ethnic cleansing.
America is walking a dark road.
Silence is complicity.
America is walking a dark road.
Silence is complicity.
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
When governments start rounding up people based on race, history has a name for it: ethnic cleansing.
America is walking a dark road.
Silence is complicity.
America is walking a dark road.
Silence is complicity.
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It's exhausting just thinking about them.
Sad.
Sad.
August 28, 2025 at 11:17 PM
It's exhausting just thinking about them.
Sad.
Sad.
With AI on the rise, and Russians and Ukrainians killing one another with semi-autonomous drones, it’s worth remembering that Isaac Asimov started thinking about this future in his 1942 short story “Runaround.” His Three Laws of Robotics would make an excellent framework for a new UN Convention.
August 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
With AI on the rise, and Russians and Ukrainians killing one another with semi-autonomous drones, it’s worth remembering that Isaac Asimov started thinking about this future in his 1942 short story “Runaround.” His Three Laws of Robotics would make an excellent framework for a new UN Convention.
Convicted liar lies as quid pro quo for convicted liar.
Shocker: Lying liar lies www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Ghislaine Maxwell, who wants a pardon, says she never saw Donald Trump ‘in any inappropriate setting’
Maxwell, who is serving a 20-year prison sentence, makes unfailingly flattering references to Trump, according to transcripts of the conversation released by the Justice Department on Friday.
www.politico.com
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Convicted liar lies as quid pro quo for convicted liar.
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Canada: Walk away from negotiations. Don't retaliate. Diversify. Find new markets. Buy European military equipment. Reinstate the digital services tax. Let Americans pay more for the things they want from us. Keep up the public boycott. Welcome American refugee talent. Be Canadian. #cdnpoli #USpoli
August 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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