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Christopher Dornan

@chrisdornan.bsky.social

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Ahora, jubilado. Formerly, School of Journalism and Communication & Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. 🇨🇦 Writing on disinformation, the twilight of the news media, and politics. Click here: www.educatedguesses.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · Nov 19

Is it time for a Chris Dornan starter pack? Do you need to know what is happening to what used to be called the “news media"? Here’s an immodest reading list to get you started, whether you are a high school media literacy teacher, the incoming president of the CBC, or the CEO of Postmedia. 👇👇👇

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 15h

You'll notice that the further away from the United States, the greater the interest in pursuing a science doctorate. As proximity to the United States increases, interest diminishes.

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

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Charles Mire 🇨🇦 @charlesmire.bsky.social · 16h

Canada puts up a strong talk, but the funding just isn't there. Sure, a few elite scientists get various funded chairs, but to really progress science, you need many more perspectives.

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Raywat Deonandan @deonandan.bsky.social · 16h

USA is understandable. What's up with Canada?

Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30

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Momus "Bones" Jones @boyq.bsky.social · 16h

Trudeau/Perry current events are precedented.

Momus "Bones" Jones @boyq.bsky.social · Jul 29

lmao, I can't resist posting this SCTV clip

The Trudeau/Prickley affair

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 16h

Crowd sourced information almanac, but only about all things Winnipeg. Winnipedia. Curated by Guy Madden.

Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 16h

I don't object to former Prime Minister Trudeau canoodling with pop star Katy Perry. I do object to him vacationing in the United States. Elbows up, Mr. Trudeau.

TVA Nouvelles @tvanouvelles.ca · 16h

Justin Trudeau et Katy Perry aperçus en train de s'embrasser en Californie

Des photos de Katy Perry et Justin Trudeau en train de s’embrasser portent à croire qu’ils se fréquentent bel et bien, selon le Daily Mail

www.tvanouvelles.ca

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 18h

When hundreds of thousands of Americans turn out for more than 2,000 No Kings protests across the US on Oct. 18, where will MAGA imagine George Soros bussed them in from?

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

Robert De Niro: “Now we have a would-be king — King Donald the First. Fuck that. I’m Robert De Niro and I’m asking you to stand up and be counted in the nationwide No Kings protest on October 18th”

👉👉 nokings.org

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 20h

When it was released, someone of my acquaintance ran from the cinema at a screening of Reds, weeping "at the bourgeois betrayal of the Revolution." Yes, I was a graduate student at McGill in the 1980s.

Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 22h

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 21h

Whew! Thanks, New York Times. Top-flight use of journalistic resources right there.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 22h

A pencil cup drenched in sunlight is turning your supple, bendy erasers into hot garbage. (And, frankly, it’s not great for your pens, either.)

Your Pencil Cup Is Trash

A pencil cup drenched in sunlight is turning your supple, bendy erasers into hot garbage.

nyti.ms

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 21h

The first film Diane Keaton directed was Heaven (1987), an exploration of people's beliefs in, or hopes for, a paradisical afterlife, intercut with depictions of heaven from the movies, Just sayin'.

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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 1d

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 2d

Hedge fund Alden Global Capital gobbles up newspapers & guts them. Journalist Julie Reynolds investigates. Her findings trigger journalist rebellions at Alden-owned newspapers nationwide. Watch the battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America, free until 10/31:

www.pbs.org/show/strippe...

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 2d

Marc Thiessen is so fucking stupid, willfully or not, that he argued waterboarding couldn’t be torture because Christopher Hitchens agreed to be waterboarded to find out how bad it was for a iirc Vanity Fair article and video, even tho Hitchens was all: it’s torture I felt like I was being tortured…

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 2d

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 2d

Actually being broadcast. First the Chicago cyclist and now the Portland inflatables. Who knew "Yakety Sax" would become our freedom anthem

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Apprehension in Canada has been shifting from "God, what if these guys invade us?" to "God, what if we have to send peacekeeping forces down there?"

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: An @theintercept.com analysis finds that almost all Republican-led states — 23 of the 27 with Republican governors — have deployed National Guard troops in support of Trump’s war on immigrants or military occupations of Blue cities

theintercept.com/2025/10/09/r...

Republican Governors Eagerly Join Trump’s Military Campaign Against Blue Cities

An Intercept analysis finds nearly every Republican governor has deployed National Guard members to aid Trump’s domestic military agenda.

theintercept.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 2d

Speaking of which, how do you get neo-Nazi groups to go defunct? That seems like something we should be trying.

The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 2d

Ontario man, member of now-defunct neo-Nazi group, pleads guilty to terrorism charges

Matthew Althorpe admitted to producing white-supremacist propaganda that prosecutors say may have inspired several attacks around the world

www.theglobeandmail.com

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Queen NomNom De Plume @stinginthetail.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, but what is it in English?🤭
Etymologically, it's emigrants (to USA) holding onto an archaic pronunciation.

In UK English (& most colonial variations) primer is as rhymer. Prim meaning someone who is narrow minded,goes with primmer (not primer, pronounced as dimmer).

Language, she's funny.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

She's Canadian, you wouldn't know her.

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 3d

"the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

The meme "girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa" sprouted today, because of something Kristi Noem said. Everyone now coming up with comical suggestions for what the Trump administration thinks "girlfriend of one of the founders of Antifa" might look like. I think I've nailed it.

Patty Hearst holding a guy for the Symbionese Liberation Army, 1974

Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 3d

If it's news that Trump is vague on habeas corpus, imagine how much bigger news it would have been had he demonstrated a clear grasp of the writ and delivered a coherent argument for how he intends to interpret it. Because that would mean the real Trump had been replaced by a doppelganger.

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Michael Iantorno 🍂🕹️ @michaeliantorno.com · 3d

This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

A photograph of Alejandro Kirk, a stocky player for the Blue Jays, running the bases

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

On the sentencing today of Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, here for background is the Wikipedia entry on the Freedom Convoy. It is very detailed and admirably even-handed. Now imagine the same story told in such a way as to make heroes of Lich and Barber. Musk's Grokipedia is on its way.

Canada convoy protest - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

Just FYI, for the young, impressionable children: Lee Greenwood is 82 years old and has been married five times to four different women.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 4d

Mike Johnson isn't happy that Bad Bunny is performing at the Super Bowl: It sounds like he's not someone who appeals to a broader audience. There's so many eyes on it. A lot of young, impressionable children. In my view, you would have Lee Greenwood or role models doing that. Not somebody like this.

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FuzzyWuzzy in Toronto🇨🇦 @fuzzywuzzyto.bsky.social · 4d

I took up drinking just so that I could purposely not buy American booze.

Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 4d

They still don't get it.
They think they can come up to Canada and sweet talk us into buying their shit.
Ain't gonna happen.
Donald Trump said that there was nothing Americans needed from Canada.
We can start with you not needing money from our booze purchases.
abcnews.go.com/Business/wir...

Cold shoulder from Canada is costly for American distillers struggling with global trade tensions

American distillers have gotten a costly cold shoulder from Canada

abcnews.go.com

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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 4d

I have a new (crackpot)) theory about Trump. The only people who’ve ever really intimidated him are bankers, because he has depended on them for loans. They’re the only ones who saw past the smoke and mirrors of his businesses and they could ruin him with a pen stroke. Carney is a banker. Ergo …

ANALYSIS | Trump's tone shifts on Canada. What does that signal for tariffs? | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke more positively about Canada on Tuesday than he has at any time since winning the election last November, but whether that signals any imminent relief to punishing ta...

www.cbc.ca

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