Dr. Barry Cooke
@barrycooke.bsky.social
Insect Ecology.
PhD from U. Alberta.
M.Sc. from U. Laval.
B.Sc. from U. Toronto.
I speak for myself.
I code in R.
Warned about emerging fascism before it was cool.
PhD from U. Alberta.
M.Sc. from U. Laval.
B.Sc. from U. Toronto.
I speak for myself.
I code in R.
Warned about emerging fascism before it was cool.
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The oligarchs want political power to advantage their businesses. The autocrat wants key businesses to be controlled by allies in service of strengthening his regime.
These arrangements work out nicely for everyone until the oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
These arrangements work out nicely for everyone until the oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The oligarchs want political power to advantage their businesses. The autocrat wants key businesses to be controlled by allies in service of strengthening his regime.
These arrangements work out nicely for everyone until the oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
These arrangements work out nicely for everyone until the oligarch accidentally falls out of a window.
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It’ll always be insane and despicable that the orange convicted felon was given full power of the US govt instead of being sent to prison forever where he belongs and is now using that power to try throwing his perceived enemies in prison for fake crimes.
December 12, 2025 at 4:06 AM
It’ll always be insane and despicable that the orange convicted felon was given full power of the US govt instead of being sent to prison forever where he belongs and is now using that power to try throwing his perceived enemies in prison for fake crimes.
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“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
December 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
“The world’s 7 richest individuals are all now powerful media barons, controlling what 🌎 sees, reads, and hears, marking a new chapter in oligarchical control over society and striking another blow at a free, independent press and diversity of opinion.” www.mintpressnews.com/the-seven-ri...
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“The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, appears to be a Bitcoiner.” (No wonder Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is a fan.) 10/11/25… 1/ decrypt.co/343891/lates...
The Latest Nobel Peace Prize Winner Is a Bitcoin Supporter - Decrypt
This year's Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, previously spoke about Bitcoin as resistance money.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
“The 2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, appears to be a Bitcoiner.” (No wonder Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale is a fan.) 10/11/25… 1/ decrypt.co/343891/lates...
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Trump's "Golden Age" is finally belonging to the Axis of Evil.
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Trump's "Golden Age" is finally belonging to the Axis of Evil.
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And as long as there's zero consequences for those lies, she'll do it again.
Ramirez to Noem: "You lied on the record and you lied to members of this committee. You violated court orders by not turning around deportation flights bound for El Salvador where we know that hundreds of people under your leadership reported they were raped, beaten, and nearly died."
December 12, 2025 at 3:03 AM
And as long as there's zero consequences for those lies, she'll do it again.
How do people maintain followers when they have a shitty take a day?
December 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
How do people maintain followers when they have a shitty take a day?
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The Knife.
Fordie, y'er up next.
Fordie, y'er up next.
FIFE: "[Poilievre's] playing to inside the Ottawa bubble with this how clever you are in sloganeering and partisan sniping in the House of Commons. And when you contrast that with a technocrat as this Prime Minister who's trying to actually do things, he doesn't come across as serious."
December 12, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Knife.
Fordie, y'er up next.
Fordie, y'er up next.
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Openly pining for dictatorship.
Trump: "We have to be unified. China is unified because they have one vote -- that's President Xi. He says 'do it' and that's the end of that. We have a different system."
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Openly pining for dictatorship.
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JUST IN: Tesla sales have dropped to a nearly 3-year LOW, despite launching cheaper models of its Model Y and Model 3 cars.
December 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
JUST IN: Tesla sales have dropped to a nearly 3-year LOW, despite launching cheaper models of its Model Y and Model 3 cars.
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Quite the day for Trump: The defeat below, the defeat in Indiana, the defeat on the latest Letitia James case, the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, really bad poll numbers (his handling of the economy numbers threatening to fall into the 20s) He's losing it politically as fast as he is mentally.
Say it again for the folks in the back: "The first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term." 🙌
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Quite the day for Trump: The defeat below, the defeat in Indiana, the defeat on the latest Letitia James case, the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, really bad poll numbers (his handling of the economy numbers threatening to fall into the 20s) He's losing it politically as fast as he is mentally.
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I sincerely want men to fuck off into the sun. Just mind your own fucking business. These same assholes are withholding vaccines from children and telling people to cure their cold and cancers with chlorine. They’re all “parent’s rights” until it’s a woman’s body they’re legislating.
Florida, Texas sue federal government, saying abortion drugs interfere with state laws
Florida and Texas have filed a lawsuit challenging more than two decades of federal-government decisions that cleared the way for the use of abortion drugs, saying mail-order availability interfere…
www.orlandosentinel.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I sincerely want men to fuck off into the sun. Just mind your own fucking business. These same assholes are withholding vaccines from children and telling people to cure their cold and cancers with chlorine. They’re all “parent’s rights” until it’s a woman’s body they’re legislating.
"Shut up and accept techbro rule"
It's a shitty take every single day, isn't it?
It's a shitty take every single day, isn't it?
December 11, 2025 at 10:54 PM
"Shut up and accept techbro rule"
It's a shitty take every single day, isn't it?
It's a shitty take every single day, isn't it?
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Every Republican is responsible for this. Every fucking one.
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
President Donald Trump was under fire from critics on Wednesday who accused him of killing tourism in the United States with a new policy that would require visitors to undergo social media inspection...
www.rawstory.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Every Republican is responsible for this. Every fucking one.
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
'Death knell': Internet blasts Trump for 'decimating' tourism with social media crackdown
www.rawstory.com/reax-trump-t...
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CORRUPT Rep Maria Elvira Salazar went on Fox Business & accidentally said the quiet part out loud, admitting that one of the real motivations behind a U.S. invasion of Venezuela is that it would be a “field day for big oil” & they would make trillions. ITS ALL ABOUT BIG OIL
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Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
CORRUPT Rep Maria Elvira Salazar went on Fox Business & accidentally said the quiet part out loud, admitting that one of the real motivations behind a U.S. invasion of Venezuela is that it would be a “field day for big oil” & they would make trillions. ITS ALL ABOUT BIG OIL
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More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
More people need to just call them on their lies immediately. They melt like this guy.
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“I call on you to resign,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday. “Do a real service to the country.” https://to.pbs.org/4pYKLGR
WATCH: Rep. Thompson calls on Noem to resign for 'making America less safe'
“I call on you to resign,” the Mississippi congressman said. “Do a real service to the country.”
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December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“I call on you to resign,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the ranking Democrat on the Homeland Security Committee, told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday. “Do a real service to the country.” https://to.pbs.org/4pYKLGR
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For the second time in a row, a federal grand jury has rejected the Trump administration’s request to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Justice Department fails to reindict Letitia James for a second time | CNN Politics
A grand jury, for a second time, declined to bring a new indictment against Letitia James, the New York attorney general who defeated President Donald Trump and his company in court, according to mult...
www.cnn.com
December 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For the second time in a row, a federal grand jury has rejected the Trump administration’s request to indict New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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This morning, I was thinking about how one’s perspective on problems depends on what one has already lived through.
I know I can’t even imagine what people who have lived through years in war zones have experienced. 💔
I know I can’t even imagine what people who have lived through years in war zones have experienced. 💔
Instead of a thousand words.
A Ukrainian Defender, leaning on a cane, is standing silently by the Black Sea in Odesa.
📹: panolla2/TikTok
A Ukrainian Defender, leaning on a cane, is standing silently by the Black Sea in Odesa.
📹: panolla2/TikTok
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
This morning, I was thinking about how one’s perspective on problems depends on what one has already lived through.
I know I can’t even imagine what people who have lived through years in war zones have experienced. 💔
I know I can’t even imagine what people who have lived through years in war zones have experienced. 💔
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We are now seeing this every day: a conscious policy of deceit by Trump and his DOJ.
🚨BOMBSHELL: Federal judges caught the U.S. government lying in over 35 court cases; falsified records, fake declarations, and sworn statements built on fiction.
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
This isn't clerical error. It's institutional deceit.
Even legal scholars now say it looks intentional.
📺60 Minutes
December 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
We are now seeing this every day: a conscious policy of deceit by Trump and his DOJ.
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Of course, normal handshakes don't involve the back of your hand in any way, shape, or form, so this is an obvious lie even by Trumpian standards.
What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?
What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?
Q: Can you explain what's going on with the bandages on Trump's hand?
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
LEAVITT: We've given you an explanation. The president is literally constantly shaking hands.
December 11, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Of course, normal handshakes don't involve the back of your hand in any way, shape, or form, so this is an obvious lie even by Trumpian standards.
What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?
What health issue does Trump have that the White House is so desperate to cover up?
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I would go as far as to say that they believe they are already safe from the law, safe from Congress and the Senate, and more importantly safe from the electorate because they have already planned to avoid elections, or just right the results.
December 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I would go as far as to say that they believe they are already safe from the law, safe from Congress and the Senate, and more importantly safe from the electorate because they have already planned to avoid elections, or just right the results.