Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Dan 🇨🇦

@veloveritas.bsky.social

4.6K followers 4.3K following 5.4K posts

Retired executive with 🇨🇦's federal public service. Full-time cyclist. Here on Bluesky looking for sensible perspectives on the existential threats facing us all. Ottawa. 🏳️‍🌈 ally always. ✌️

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

Pinned

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · Nov 18

An introduction: I grew up in Hamilton, not far from the steel mills. My dad provided for a family of four working three shifts at International Harvester before the company offshored its manufacturing. My opportunity to find work as a labourer evaporated when conservative neo-liberalism… 1/8

9 30 140

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 8h

Such small hands.

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 10h

More cuts at the Pentagon, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

More cuts at the Pentagon

Pete Hegseth

open.substack.com

6 40

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 8h

Digital entry takes on a new meaning.

1 1

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 8h

He really is.

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

Truth Social(ist) @twitterrefugeeog.bsky.social · 9h

Tom Homan deserves the same due process as those fishermen in Venezuela.

47 420 1.6K

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 13h

Unless the source for the photo is cited, I call bullshit. I have been fact checking these sorts of posts over the last month or so. Many originate from that cesspool, Fakebook.

Note that I did an image search to find the source for the above photo. I came up with a goose egg.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

But isn't the #wankpanzer rated for off road? Just because you can buy a vehicle with the kinetic energy of a combat vehicle doesn't mean you should.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

😂 Texas, of course.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Autumn.

Ottawa Arboretum.

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Your eldest is not wrong. 🙂

1 1

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

Denial @denialbarbour.bsky.social · 1d

My eldest just arriving in Prague:

2 1 2

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

Trump tried to pull the UAE investor towards him, but failed spectacularly. I am laughing my ass off at the stupidity of Trump's power plays.

What a #Moron.

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 1d

Peace, by @deAdder open.substack.com/pub/deadder/...

Peace

The Globe and Mail

open.substack.com

1 22 78

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

💯

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

🙄

2 1

Dan 🇨🇦 @veloveritas.bsky.social · 1d

He is a fucking moron that nobody has ever seen before in human history. "Peace through strength?" Nah, ethnic cleansing through state sponsored violence. I am disgusted by this new crop of "leadership".

3 6

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 1d

110 930 4.2K

Reposted by Dan 🇨🇦

Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 1d

⚠️WOKE CONTENT⚠️

🧵 Yesterday, was the 53rd anniversary of a race riot that took place on the USS Kitty Hawk on Oct 12, 1972. Would you believe me if I told you it started over a sandwich?

Yep.

#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

www.navytimes.com/military-hon...