Tom Tom Waits Club Club president
chrispb.bsky.social
Tom Tom Waits Club Club president
@chrispb.bsky.social
Future Criterion closet thief. Poetry and songwriting. Toronto Raptors fan. Ottawa, ON, CAN. Shawarma connoisseur. Older than some dirt. Open to kindness.
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The fact that not a single reporter tells Mike Johnson “let me read it for you” or “here it is” when he claims he hasn’t seen or doesn’t know a thing about the psychotic ramblings of the head of state is not only a dereliction of journalistic duty, but a display of pure cowardice.
December 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.
December 13, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party.

Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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December 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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When @dfriedman.bsky.social discovered a Goodreads page tied to the email of a top Pentagon official featuring “Asian wife sharing” books and other pornographic works, he did what any reporter would do: ask the Pentagon questions.

The very next day, a threatening email from Jack Posobiec arrived.
I asked the Pentagon about Pete Hegseth's mentor. Then the threats started.
Journalism in the second Trump administration gets personal.
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.

Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.

Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.
December 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Three offensive rebounds by the Knicks just embarrassing #Raptors
December 10, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Hey everyone the #Raptors suck. Blow it up Bobby you fraud.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The irony of OG owning the #Raptors while RJ and IQ sit should not be lost on media or the FO.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 AM
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Council is set to pass a cobbled-together status quo budget that fails to coherently address the challenges our city faces. We can be more ambitious, to build a city that works for everyone.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Councillors spar over spending as city budget heads to final vote | CBC News
City councillors are divided over funding for police, transit and infrastructure as they prepare to vote on Ottawa's last budget before next year’s municipal election.
www.cbc.ca
December 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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immigrants score the lowest on tests, but they also take all our jobs, while at the same time taking all the welfare and buying all the homes
Stephen Miller: "If you subtract immigration out of test scores, all of the sudden our test scores skyrocket"
December 9, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Everyone in eastern Ontario is writing their names in the snow tonight
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Soup sales stay constant in Depressions, recessions, and wars.
December 9, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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PIERS: “You’re not gay?”
FUENTES: “No. But women are very difficult to be around.”
P: “Should they vote?”
F: “No.”
PIERS: “They should stay home?”
FUENTES: “Yeah.”
PIERS: “So you’re just a misogynistic dinosaur. Have you ever had sex?”
FUENTES: “No.”
PIERS: “Wow. Says the guy who never got laid.”
December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Councillor Tim Tierney is wrong about ‘Chronic No-Voters’ in his Ottawa Citizen Op/Ed on Saturday.
His opinion would be easier to take seriously if the comments weren’t coming from someone with a 15-year track record of being a reliable yes-man for every budget. 1/21
December 9, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
And Darko chooses exactly the wrong lineup to finish. No reward for the bench #Raptors that got them back in the game.
December 7, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Why the f*ck is Walter getting minutes over Lawson. Darko is really starting to piss me the hell off.
December 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In a 20 point blowout by half Darko puts the same five #Raptors starters back in to start the third. Brutal coaching.
December 7, 2025 at 9:58 PM
The #Raptors are three kids in trench coats doing the Kris Middleton zeroes meme.
December 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
December 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM