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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD

@westernwriter.bsky.social

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Journo, writer, lover of stories that end abruptly. Find me at Ricochet Media, The Canadian National Observer, Capital Daily, Women’s Media Centre and Watershed Sentinel.

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 5m

I imagined, yes. I just can’t see how you can even compare what he’s doing and people’s deep anger and frustration about it to nimbyism.

It’s not just the roses.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Nimbyism?! OMG.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 2h

Stunning. Wow! 🍁

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 5h

What if they never get called back? Trump is making decisions unilaterally. He doesn’t even need congress to do what he’s doing.
What if he’s waiting to get enough boots on the ground to just say, that’s it folks, show’s over.
No more government for you.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 6h

Meet my fabulous editors at the Watershed Sentinel.

I love working with these amazing women.

Watershed Sentinel @watershedsentinel.ca · 2d

Meet some of the incredible people behind the Watershed Sentinel! In this clip, Delores Broten, founder and Zoe Blunt, editor, chat about the mag’s 30+ year of grassroots environmental journalism in B.C.
Full conversation : tinyurl.com/p248xye8
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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 8h

Well, the Nobel committee gave it to a proxy of his so the righteous tone rings a bit empty.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 12h

There are.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 13h

I was interviewed by my friend @shaneburley.bsky.social about Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis. "Refusing to give up in apocalyptic times is an act of love, and in some ways, it’s an act of faith — it’s about making a commitment to what’s sacred to us."

The World Is Falling Apart. In a New Book, Activists Help Us Piece It Together.

“Sometimes we rescue each other with words,” says organizer Kelly Hayes, discussing her powerful new anthology.

truthout.org

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Moody city. Vancouver, 2025
#photography
#urbanlandscape
#EastCoastKin

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Moody city. Vancouver, 2025
#photography
#urbanlandscape
#EastCoastKin

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 20h

Night mind.
#photography

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Wonder Mutt @wondermutt.bsky.social · 1d

“If you are still breathing and trying, it’s not over. It’s not too late, because too late is a fake idea. The people around you will always be worth fighting for, as will your community, as will your humanity.”

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 1d

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

We Have to Move

"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

organizingmythoughts.org

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

So what do you think Trump now owes the Zionists in this list, by way of development opportunities in the context of his Gaza-West Bank plan?

Trump’s middle name is quid pro quo.
The official White House emoji 🏦

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Here are the companies destroying the east wing of the White House

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

If a temporary resident of the White House can totally demolish the East Wing to build a gaudy ballroom, without any authority, approval, or regulation, he can tear down the rest of the White House to build a Walmart. That this destruction is allowed underscores how off the rails our country is now.

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Go Jays!!

Wallpaper design by Kate Golding.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Right?

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Arizona is way too red.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I agree. I didn’t draw the map. Is for sure include them. 🙂

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

I think the world is also acknowledging what many nations and people already knew, that American democracy was precisely that, purely symbolic both domestically and abroad.

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Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

🫡 You bet!

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

How long do you honestly think it will be, before Trump moves to make good on this threat of our bring the 51st state? Water, critical minerals, fibre, land, access to the Baring sea for more drilling and a great northern shipping route. We’d be naïve to think he’d just leave us alone.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

It’s his Versailles

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

They don’t care. They think only the weak and less than can be in the position of needing those benefits in the first place. This is inflicted social Darwinism aka eugenics.

Sidney Coles PhD, PhD @westernwriter.bsky.social · 1d

Nice’. 👍🏻