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David Graham

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Free software advocate. Train and transport nerd. Small plane pilot. Avowed ruralist. Former MP. SubStack: www.davidgraham.ca

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 2d

With the United States government now shut down for a full month while Republicans take away food assistance and medicare from vast swaths of the American population, Donald Trump has a new distraction: nuclear weapons testing.

Through the noise, you may have missed the announcement that the Uni...

Dry Humour at the End of Empire

How to Gift a Burial Crown and Call It Respect

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 6d

Donald Trump’s tax breaks to Americans add up to about $1 trillion per quarter, and overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest. It is no surprise, then, that the wealthiest are thanking him with relatively modest contributions to the new White House ballroom. There are numerous calls for the next pres...

Keep The Ballroom

Donald Trump’s tax breaks to Americans add up to about $1 trillion per quarter, and overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest. It is no surprise, then, that the wealthiest are thanking him with relatively...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 9d

Doug Ford is playing a long game. He has, in the past, openly supported Donald Trump and, as with so many, discovered that the Leopards Eating Faces Party will eventually come for your face too. For him, though, there is opportunity to become a leopard.

Ford has been positioning himself as a kin...

Doug Ford's Long Game

Doug Ford is playing a long game.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 13d

Last weekend’s massive NO KINGS protest across the United States with shadow protests in several other countries is a funny one for us Canadians. We have a King, after all. A real hereditary king who adorns our money and in whose name all of our official documentation exists, from laws to corpora...

America's Constitutional Monarchy

Last weekend’s massive NO KINGS protest across the United States with shadow protests in several other countries is a funny one for us Canadians.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 16d

On Thursday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that the “leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.” Coming just weeks after the indictment of former FBI director James Comey south of...
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Poilievre's Descpicable Attack

On Thursday, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre said that the “leadership of the RCMP is frankly just despicable when it comes to enforcing laws against the Liberal government.” Coming just weeks af...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 20d

Prima facie, Maria Corina Machado is an excellent choice for the Nobel Peace Prize. But the more I learn about her, the more I realise Trump actually won this round. ...

The Nobel Peace Prize's Big Miss

Prima facie, Maria Corina Machado is an excellent choice for the Nobel Peace Prize.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 23d

This week’s visit by Mark Carney to the White House has brought sharp focus onto the collapsing empire to our south, and the bullet we so narrowly dodged domestically on April 28th. ...

Canada Dodged A Bullet In April

This week’s visit by Mark Carney to the White House has brought sharp focus onto the collapsing empire to our south, and the bullet we so narrowly dodged domestically on April 28th.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · 27d

Donald Trump twice referred to annexing Canada into the United States during a half-hour press conference from the White House yesterday, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting right there next to him. ...

Again With The 51st State

Donald Trump twice referred to annexing Canada into the United States during a half-hour press conference from the White House yesterday, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sitting right there n...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Oct 1

Being a Canadian today feels an awful lot like being in Austria in the mid 1930s, in the years leading up to Anschluss. After watching last night’s performance by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump at Marine base Quantico, I am left wondering how this absurdity will... www.davidgraham.ca/p/how-will-i...

How Will It End?

Being a Canadian today feels an awful lot like being in Austria in the mid 1930s, in the years leading up to Anschluss. After watching last night’s performance by Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump at Mari...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 28

The root cause of the social dysfunction allowing the rise of authoritarian leaders is a fundamental lack of progressive ambition. ...

Progressives Lack Ambition

The root cause of the social dysfunction allowing the rise of authoritarian leaders is a fundamental lack of progressive ambition.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 24

Somewhere around 1000 detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz have disappeared. ...

They're Disappearing Them

Somewhere around 1000 detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz have disappeared.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 21

In the year leading up to his bid for re-election, the president sought to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the voting machines and voting system throughout his country. Following his defeat, he planned a coup and his supporters attacked and ransacked the country’s national legislature. Now he ...

Consequences Are Possible For Coups

In the year leading up to his bid for re-election, the president sought to sow doubt about the legitimacy of the voting machines and voting system throughout his country.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 17

Poland invoked NATO Article 4 last week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace forcing a defensive military response. On the weekend, Romania reported a Russian drone violating their airspace, as well. As a member of NATO, Canada enjoys joint protection, but also shares in joint responsibil...

Why We Need A Strong Military

Poland invoked NATO Article 4 last week after Russian drones entered Polish airspace forcing a defensive military response. On the weekend, Romania reported a Russian drone violating their airspace, a...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 14

This week’s political assassination in the United States was not the year’s first, and the difference in reaction among right wing leaders is terrifyingly stark. ...

Rhetoric And Assassination

This week’s political assassination in the United States was not the year’s first, and the difference in reaction among right wing leaders is terrifyingly stark.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 10

Last week, the United States Navy attacked a Venezuelan vessel in international waters, killing everyone on board under flimsy legal pretext. Like the January 6 pardons and the deployment of the National Guard on American streets, the purpose of the shooting was not so much to intimidate drug car...

The Department Of War

Last week, the United States Navy attacked a Venezuelan vessel in international waters, killing everyone on board under flimsy legal pretext. Like the January 6 pardons and the deployment of the Natio...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 7

This week, we learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team invited Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts to speak to cabinet at a closed-door session for his insight on “Trump’s playbook”. Roberts canceled his own appearance, to the disappointment of our leaders...

Project 2025 Invited To... Cabinet?

This week, we learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s team invited Heritage Foundation president and Project 2025 architect Kevin Roberts to speak to cabinet at a closed-door session for his insight...

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Sep 3

What does Pierre Poilievre want for Canada? Besides the personal prestige of being Prime Minister, he has offered no constructive ambition for the role he has fought so hard to obtain. ...

Pierre Poilievre Back To... Do Something?

What does Pierre Poilievre want for Canada?

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 31

Should Trump die in office, it is not entirely clear that the 25th amendment will be followed when the rest of the constitution is already being ignored. There is, after all, another Donald J. Trump. ...

American Succession

Should Trump die in office, it is not entirely clear that the 25th amendment will be followed when the rest of the constitution is already being ignored. There is, after all, another Donald J. Trump.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 27

With record-breaking forest fires burning across the country as we experience a prolonged drought in the Maritimes, it is time to post a short story I wrote a few years ago. ...

With record-breaking forest fires burning across the country as we experience a prolonged drought in the Maritimes, it is time to post a short story I wrote a few years ago.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 24

Last week, the federal government upheld a ruling by the CRTC that existing fibre optic infrastructure must be shared with resellers in much the same way as cable and phone lines have for many years. The big telecom companies are mad, and I hope we make them a whole lot madder still. It is time f...

The Right Move On Fibre Optic Internet Access

Last week, the federal government upheld a ruling by the CRTC that existing fibre optic infrastructure must be shared with resellers in much the same way as cable and phone lines have for many years.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 20

Dustin Burrows is a name that will one day have his own chapter in the Anthology of American Fascism. Burrows, the Speaker of the Texas state legislature, is the one who issued arrest warrants for Democrat representatives who left the state to prevent quorum to block the vote that would gerrymand...

Texas Is Why Parliamentary Privilege Exists

Dustin Burrows is a name that will one day have his own chapter in the Anthology of American Fascism.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 17

I owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump. His war on Canada gave me the needed impetus to bring my family to the one province we had not yet visited, when we normally would have taken our summer vacation time at least partly in the United States. ...

Rediscovering Canada

I owe a debt of gratitude to Donald Trump.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 13

It's time for the government to issue a travel advisory warnings Canadians to avoid the United States for their own safety, not only as a means of economic protest. ...

US Travel Advisory Required

It's time for the government to issue a travel advisory warnings Canadians to avoid the United States for their own safety, not only as a means of economic protest.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 10

There is no excuse for any employer to pay any full time worker less than the realistic cost of living within reasonable proximity of their place of employment. Minimum wage needs to be reformed, not just as a dollar amount, but as a concept. And it should be en...
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How Minimum Wage Should Work

There is no excuse for any employer to pay any full time worker less than the realistic cost of living within reasonable proximity of their place of employment.

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David Graham @daviddbgraham.bsky.social · Aug 6

The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections. Democrat representatives refused to attend the vote, preventing the legislature from achieving quorum and effectively blocking the bill. ...

Unbridled Corruption In A Fascist America

The state legislature in Texas tried to pass a bill to redistrict the state to gerrymander five more Republican congressmen for next year’s mid-term elections.

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