Richard Barry
@richardbarry58.bsky.social
Retired from various jobs in and around politics in Canada; lefty; cultural affinity for mid-20 century America: music obsessed: jazz, roots, vintage pop; 🎷🪕🎸#BlueJays #NewYorkGiants
With all the talk of the 50th anniversary of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Lightfoot’s song, it’s a good time to mention @nicholasjennings.bsky.social fabulous bio of Lightfoot. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/541324... A great read. #GordonLightfoot #TheEdmundFitzgerald
November 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
With all the talk of the 50th anniversary of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Lightfoot’s song, it’s a good time to mention @nicholasjennings.bsky.social fabulous bio of Lightfoot. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/541324... A great read. #GordonLightfoot #TheEdmundFitzgerald
May not help me with the cool kids but I’m a big Carpenter’s fan. Karen was rated as one of the greatest voices of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, BTW. Played the hell out of this album when it came out in 1971, especially the Bacharach/David medley. #thecarpenters #popmusic
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
May not help me with the cool kids but I’m a big Carpenter’s fan. Karen was rated as one of the greatest voices of all time by Rolling Stone magazine, BTW. Played the hell out of this album when it came out in 1971, especially the Bacharach/David medley. #thecarpenters #popmusic
For any long-suffering @newyorkgiants.bsky.social fans out there, great to see reports that Jameis Winston will be tapped to go this weekend if Dart can’t. Wilson has had a great career, but it’s over. #NewYorkGiants. giantswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Report: New York Giants will start QB Jameis Winston vs. Green Bay Packers in Week 11
The New York Giants are naming Jameis Winston the starting quarterback in Week 11 against the Green Bay Packers.
giantswire.usatoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
For any long-suffering @newyorkgiants.bsky.social fans out there, great to see reports that Jameis Winston will be tapped to go this weekend if Dart can’t. Wilson has had a great career, but it’s over. #NewYorkGiants. giantswire.usatoday.com/story/sports...
Subbing in with these guys for a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Toronto this weekend. Hoping for tolerable weather.😄
November 12, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Subbing in with these guys for a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Toronto this weekend. Hoping for tolerable weather.😄
Has a song ever painted a more vivid picture, tragic though it was?
Great story.
"A half-century later...“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” stands as a crucial work of historical preservation for an incident that might have otherwise faded from collective memory."
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
"A half-century later...“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” stands as a crucial work of historical preservation for an incident that might have otherwise faded from collective memory."
#GiftLink 🎁
www.thestar.com/entertainmen...
November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Has a song ever painted a more vivid picture, tragic though it was?
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This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting
www.nytimes.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.
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MAGA ambassador Pete Hoosktra is telling Canada that he doesn't like the term "elbows up." He says it's anti-American.
Sorry Pete, your president might be able to fire Jimmy Kimmel but you don't get to tell Canadians how to talk.
Elbows up Mother-stucker.
Sorry Pete, your president might be able to fire Jimmy Kimmel but you don't get to tell Canadians how to talk.
Elbows up Mother-stucker.
September 18, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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A Palestinian film about a little boy won an award and Israel cut off the funds immediately.
Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists.
This is about standing up to genocide.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists.
This is about standing up to genocide.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Israel cuts funding for national film awards after Palestinian story wins top prize
‘The Sea’, which follows a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, won several awards at the Ophirs
www.independent.co.uk
September 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
A Palestinian film about a little boy won an award and Israel cut off the funds immediately.
Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists.
This is about standing up to genocide.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Meanwhile we are subjected to whiny articles about how unfair it is to boycott Israeli films, academics, artists.
This is about standing up to genocide.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Reposted by Richard Barry
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.
September 19, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.