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Max Fawcett

@maxfawcett.bsky.social

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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer, winner of both a National Newspaper Award (2023) and National Magazine Award (2021) for column writing. Other: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 2d

In which I debunk some very common (and popular) myths about renewable energy and the energy transition.

Warning: It's long, pedantic, and full of charts.

open.substack.com/pub/maxfawce...

When "blindingly obvious" facts about the energy transition are anything but

Debunking Don Wright's well-meaning interventions on the subject

open.substack.com

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 25m

Ha, fair enough. Their wines are lovely but I find them a bit overrated/over-priced by comparison.

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It’s very hard to get good Ontario reds in Alberta.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 34m

One of our favourite discoveries has been South African reds.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 40m

Yup.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1h

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 1h

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1h

I get it. They're delicious!

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justin (boo) @wcfk.bsky.social · 1h

It sucks that this kind of thing happens so little that it's refreshing to see when it does happen. This should be the norm.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

STEPHANOPOULOS: I didn't insinuate anything. I asked you whether Tom Homan accepted $50k as was heard on an audio tape recorded by the FBI in September 2024. You did not answer the question. Thank you for your time.

VANCE: No, George, I sai--

STEPHANOPOULOS: We'll be right back

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1h

N=1 and all that but I'm not buying American wine or spirits until that country gets its shit together. It'll be Japanese whisky and Spanish/Italian/Australian reds for this boy from here on out.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 3h

85% drop of American liquor sales to Canada.
We were their biggest market.
Now we're done.
Bye bye mon cowboy.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 1h

a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

ALT: a man in a yellow shirt is sitting in a chair holding a cup and pointing

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 3h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 20h

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 10h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 5h

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

www.cbsnews.com

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Doug Aoki @nantanreikan.bsky.social · 4h

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Nice recap

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h

FUCK ICE FOREVER

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 16h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 17h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 18h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 1d

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming

The Frog is owning the president.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 23h

If anyone to the left of Richard Nixon was behaving like this administration in any other natural resource-rich country the CIA would have overthrown it five times by now

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1d

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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djchocolatemlk.bsky.social @djchocolatemlk.bsky.social · 23h

"Three time trump voters don't understand why they no longer have any export markets"

Change The System @changethesystem.bsky.social · 1d

🫣Trump’s trade war backfires again: China’s 🇨🇳 buying soybeans🫘 from Argentina 🇦🇷 and with the shutdown, farmers get zero ❌ bailout. Two hits, no help.

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 21h

It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking

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Sandhya Dirks @audiosand.bsky.social · 20h

Journalism 101: if someone says it's raining & someone else says it isn't - the journalists job to go THE F OUTSIDE and find out.

But I guess the tattered remains of journalism is now just giving a group of proven, notorious liars with power equal billing, and who cares about objective truth.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 20h

It’s kind of hilarious that “RIP to Númenor, but I’m built different” is the ideology of the world‘s most influential and powerful Tolkien superfan.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

They say the only things certain in life are death and taxes.

But America’s billionaires, having taken care of the latter, are now trying to disrupt the former—and make sure nobody can pry their fortunes from their cold dead hands.

These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever

Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.

www.motherjones.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 21h

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 23h

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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