Crary
@crary.bsky.social
He/him. Originally from the Finger Lakes, moved to the Canadian prairie. Not because it rhymes with my name, but I don't mind that. Lawyer in two countries, competent adult in neither.
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Hellllll yesss
Taiwanese ambassador to Finland performs with his metal band at Taiwan-Finland cultural event! 🤘✊️
That's what I call great ambassador
That's what I call great ambassador
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Hellllll yesss
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It’s also coming from a guy who at times doesn’t know what documents he’s signing or who he’s granting executive clemency to
It should go without saying, but the president has no authority to do this, and anyone reporting the story needs to say as such.
November 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
It’s also coming from a guy who at times doesn’t know what documents he’s signing or who he’s granting executive clemency to
He's going to pull the Putin maneuver of running as vice president, if he's physically able (at this point I think those odds are less than 50/50). This Supreme Court will let him. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Trump Says He’s Barred From Running for Third Term After Weeks of Speculation
The president’s comments come after his allies promoted the idea of another term.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:39 PM
He's going to pull the Putin maneuver of running as vice president, if he's physically able (at this point I think those odds are less than 50/50). This Supreme Court will let him. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
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It’s wild how the default category of racial politics is ignored by “heterodox thinkers.” this was my main criticism of Yascha Mounk‘s Identity Trap:
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November 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s wild how the default category of racial politics is ignored by “heterodox thinkers.” this was my main criticism of Yascha Mounk‘s Identity Trap:
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medium.com/3streams/the...
Obviously more insanity, but I can't be the only one who hears this in Uncle Leo's voice?
Trump posts an image of him holding a sign that reads, “Trump 2028, yes!”
November 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Obviously more insanity, but I can't be the only one who hears this in Uncle Leo's voice?
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Similar energy. 😐
a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him
ALT: a man sitting at a desk with a box of boise paper in front of him
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November 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Similar energy. 😐
I am convinced that he has been forced to change up his dying/tanning routines because of something medical. To be clear, I am about the farthest thing from a doctor.
November 28, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I am convinced that he has been forced to change up his dying/tanning routines because of something medical. To be clear, I am about the farthest thing from a doctor.
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Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
My chat with the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social on Ukraine and the United States. Was meant to be 30 minutes and ended up going for an hour. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/o…
November 27, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Do yourself a favor and listen to Weiss and Snyder:
Capitalism is fundamentally broken. How do I know? Because a person can set $44 billion on fire for no reason at all and suffer zero apparent consequences.
www.thedailybeast.com/users-flee-m...
www.thedailybeast.com/users-flee-m...
Users Flee Musk’s X as It Falls Behind Rival Platform
X has slipped among U.S. users while Reddit soars in popularity, new research finds.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 28, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Capitalism is fundamentally broken. How do I know? Because a person can set $44 billion on fire for no reason at all and suffer zero apparent consequences.
www.thedailybeast.com/users-flee-m...
www.thedailybeast.com/users-flee-m...
If the Hegseth reporting isn't enough to make you want to chew on barbed wire, this will do it: www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
Police didn’t believe a 12-year-old who said she'd been raped. Then she hit record.
“If I didn’t find the evidence for them, I wasn’t too sure they would find it.”
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November 28, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If the Hegseth reporting isn't enough to make you want to chew on barbed wire, this will do it: www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
I keep saying, as someone who had a cheap seat to the inner workings of the 2008 crisis, we are in for it. Professor Krugman puts it a whole lot more eloquently than I ever could: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/getting-re...
Getting Ready to Party Like It’s 2008
Trump’s cronies are undermining financial stability
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
I keep saying, as someone who had a cheap seat to the inner workings of the 2008 crisis, we are in for it. Professor Krugman puts it a whole lot more eloquently than I ever could: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/getting-re...
Wow. Fast approaching the Longwell Line--named in honor of @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social who thinks 32% is the target. Don't think we will be there any time soon, but then, I didn't think we'd be here this fast.
Gallup poll | 11/3-11/25
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
President Trump approval
Disapprove 60% (+6)
Approve 36% (-5)
news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...
November 28, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Wow. Fast approaching the Longwell Line--named in honor of @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social who thinks 32% is the target. Don't think we will be there any time soon, but then, I didn't think we'd be here this fast.
Best Thanksgiving movie: The Lion in Winter. Sure, it takes place at Christmas, but it will make your family breakdown seem SO minor in comparison.
November 28, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Best Thanksgiving movie: The Lion in Winter. Sure, it takes place at Christmas, but it will make your family breakdown seem SO minor in comparison.
Fun fact: in Arabic, bitumen was called mūmiyā, which is the origin of our word "mummy" since it was often used in Egyptian embalming.
This is all a way of proclaiming that Canada wants to create a Mummy Pipeline.
This is all a way of proclaiming that Canada wants to create a Mummy Pipeline.
The MOU states a new “bitumen pipeline to Asian markets” is a priority for Canada, and that if a new pipeline is ultimately approved under the Building Canada Act, the federal government will exempt it from the oil tanker moratorium.
BREAKING: Alberta gets its way in deal with Ottawa
A newly signed memorandum of understanding gives Alberta almost its entire list of demands, from the removal of regulations to the fast-tracking of a pipeline.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Fun fact: in Arabic, bitumen was called mūmiyā, which is the origin of our word "mummy" since it was often used in Egyptian embalming.
This is all a way of proclaiming that Canada wants to create a Mummy Pipeline.
This is all a way of proclaiming that Canada wants to create a Mummy Pipeline.
This is really the issue for me with "USian." I have no issue with it on theoretical or linguistic grounds, but the way I usually see it used in context is problematic.
November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is really the issue for me with "USian." I have no issue with it on theoretical or linguistic grounds, but the way I usually see it used in context is problematic.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: free speech absolutism
I guess it’s a good thing we were so concerned about the right to speak our opinions being outlawed by a ruling class that we guaranteed it by making it the very first amendment in our Bill of Rights when we formed the country.
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: free speech absolutism
Want to turn a fruit into a Lovecraftian horror? Well....
To all those celebrating today, a very happy #Thanksgiving! If you are in need of some last minute improvised table decorations this could be of use... The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling, from 1910: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-ornamental-orange-peeling-1910
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Want to turn a fruit into a Lovecraftian horror? Well....
This is the content I need today.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is the content I need today.
There's a famous anecdote about John Coltrane, where he said to Miles Davis "I'm sorry I play so long, but I just have so many ideas" and Miles replied "Take the horn out of your mouth." I feel like this is somehow applicable to Nolan, especially as to Tenet.
it might be the most Nolan movie ever in that it's got the most insanely cool set pieces and aura moments in film but the actual plot and characters are made of tissue paper
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
There's a famous anecdote about John Coltrane, where he said to Miles Davis "I'm sorry I play so long, but I just have so many ideas" and Miles replied "Take the horn out of your mouth." I feel like this is somehow applicable to Nolan, especially as to Tenet.
Dogs really are the best people.
...and I married a bird person.
...and I married a bird person.
November 27, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Dogs really are the best people.
...and I married a bird person.
...and I married a bird person.
As an old dude who still plays in rock bands, I naturally love the Dead. But also, as a child, my grandmother gifted me a small, soft leather-bound copy of Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát. While I now know how inauthentic it is, it is still a work near and dear to my heart.
From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26
From T. S. Eliot to the Grateful Dead: echoes of FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:26
it was used by Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley for a Grateful Dead poster in 1966, and for the cover of the group's second live album in 1971
dlvr.it
November 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
As an old dude who still plays in rock bands, I naturally love the Dead. But also, as a child, my grandmother gifted me a small, soft leather-bound copy of Fitzgerald's Rubáiyát. While I now know how inauthentic it is, it is still a work near and dear to my heart.
Both of these are great books, but I found "Oathbreakers" had the kind of cinematic sweep that allows me to recommend it to even the (few) non-history nerds in my life.
And our @lollardfish.bsky.social recent OATHBREAKERS - this one about a medieval empire that devolves into brutal bloodshed between brothers when elites abandon the public good and only care about enriching themselves
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Oathbreakers
“Fascinating.” — The Wall Street Journal
“An enlightening portrait of the medieval mindset.” — Publishers Weekly
The authors of The Bright Ages return with ...
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November 27, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Both of these are great books, but I found "Oathbreakers" had the kind of cinematic sweep that allows me to recommend it to even the (few) non-history nerds in my life.