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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦

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Bending bits into businesses. Built RingCentral, Tingle, RosterBot & more. Motorcyclist, Guitarist, Hockeyist. Support the Royal Canadian Navy as a #CLaS member. twitter.com/ianb or ianbell.com on your browser..

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Nov 13

"The inescapable fact is that when we build a society based on greed, selfishness, and ruthless competition, the fruits we can expect to reap are economic insecurity at home and
international discord abroad."

- Tommy Douglas

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · 6h

Anything built on top of SMTP is always going to get gamed.

Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · 8d

Elon has run out of douchebags

Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · 8d

Looking forward to watching Last Week Tonight on Netflix next year..

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · 11d

In short: no.

But also: no.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 16d

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

www.nytimes.com

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · 16d

“We are documenting the actions, statements, and plans of President Donald Trump and his administration that may pose a threat to American democracy, since the start of his second term in January 2025.” www.trumpactiontracker.info

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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 21d

I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

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#RESIST

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · May 31

Elon Musk’s black eye can only mean that we have finally found someone that Stephen Miller is tougher than.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 20

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Sep 10

All out of empathy.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Jan 29

This is brilliant. A declassified World War II guide for citizen saboteurs on how to fight fascism is going viral

www.404media.co/declassified...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

www.404media.co

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Sep 2

Imagine this: you’re just an ordinary tin-pot dictator cruelly mismanaging your petro-state when you wake up one day to find a few thousand Marines floating off your coastline -- all because the POTUS raped teenage girls on his buddy’s private island a few years back, and needs a distraction...

TRUMP’s NEXT FAKE WAR

Imagine this: you’re just another tin-pot dictator cruelly and ineptly mismanaging your petro-state when you wake up one day to find several battalions of Marines floating off your coastline becaus…

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · Aug 21

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

The Desperation of Donald Trump’s Posts

Trump’s social-media habits are different when he can’t control the narrative.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Aug 20

Merkins is dumb, yup

Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Aug 20

Posting because this just feels good.

Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Aug 20

The Gavin Newsom Trump trolls are so awesome.

Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Aug 15

Oops. Faux News actually told the truth for a second.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Aug 15

Fox News Reporter Jacqui Heinrich: The way that it felt in the room was not good. It did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steam rolled, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Aug 6

… and why, with all those employees, he knew her name.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 2

a sarcastic Bernie Sanders: "Why not? When you get bad news, fire the guy who delivered the news. I think that's sensible policy."

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Ian Andrew Bell 🇨🇦 @ianbell.com · Jul 29

Not one member of the crack presidential press corps pauses to ask why Trump was employing an underage girl at his spa.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jul 29

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here.

Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre?

Trump: I think so. He stole her.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · Jul 29

Scoop: The Freedom of the Press Foundation is formally asking the Office of Disciplinary Counsel at the D.C. Court of Appeals to probe and consider disbarring FCC chair Brendan Carr.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/brendan-ca...

Chasing the Runaway Carr

The Freedom of the Press Foundation is turning the tables on Brendan Carr, filing a complaint to investigate and potentially disbar the FCC chairman over his moves to punish Donald Trump's media criti...

www.status.news

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