Max Fawcett
@maxfawcett.bsky.social
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Lead columnist for Canada's National Observer, winner of both a National Newspaper Award (2023) and National Magazine Award (2021) for column writing. Other: Mariners fan, crypto skeptic and descendant of Canada's worst prime minister (no, not him)
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billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
www.cbsnews.com
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marisakabas.bsky.social
FUCK ICE FOREVER
cmgiulini.bsky.social
After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him
Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.
www.miamiherald.com
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.
aricohn.com
Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.
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veryimportant.lawyer
If anyone to the left of Richard Nixon was behaving like this administration in any other natural resource-rich country the CIA would have overthrown it five times by now
aphclarkson.bsky.social
If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure
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djchocolatemlk.bsky.social
"Three time trump voters don't understand why they no longer have any export markets"
changethesystem.bsky.social
🫣Trump’s trade war backfires again: China’s 🇨🇳 buying soybeans🫘 from Argentina 🇦🇷 and with the shutdown, farmers get zero ❌ bailout. Two hits, no help.
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adactivity.bsky.social
It’s all happening on x dot com where I do my banking
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audiosand.bsky.social
Journalism 101: if someone says it's raining & someone else says it isn't - the journalists job to go THE F OUTSIDE and find out.

But I guess the tattered remains of journalism is now just giving a group of proven, notorious liars with power equal billing, and who cares about objective truth.
kenwhite.bsky.social
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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irhottakes.bsky.social
It’s kind of hilarious that “RIP to Númenor, but I’m built different” is the ideology of the world‘s most influential and powerful Tolkien superfan.
motherjones.com
They say the only things certain in life are death and taxes.

But America’s billionaires, having taken care of the latter, are now trying to disrupt the former—and make sure nobody can pry their fortunes from their cold dead hands.
These billionaires want to disrupt death—and keep their fortunes forever
Sci-fi meets Silicon Valley meets the trust industry.
www.motherjones.com
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davelevitan.bsky.social
“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument
maxfawcett.bsky.social
Something something Hunter Biden
robertscotthorton.bsky.social
Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...
Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job
US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board
www.telegraph.co.uk
maxfawcett.bsky.social
I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet....

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: The tech oligarchy poses a unique threat to democracy
Today’s uber-rich have converted their obscene wealth into outsize power, wielded in the name of bizarre millenarian ideologies
www.theglobeandmail.com
maxfawcett.bsky.social
*the legal/technical details
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danjoncon.bsky.social
LOL the first few seconds of this are pure chaotic joy and it's perfect.
maxfawcett.bsky.social
A friendly word of advice to my friends at the CBC: if there was ever a time to include a perspective with either lived experience in BC or meaningful expertise on then legal/technical details of a west coast pipeline, it was this episode.

Swing and a miss, folks. www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...
Dodging and diplomacy | West of Centre | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen
There are now two proposed pipelines without private proponents on the table. The first: Alberta's idea for a bitumen pipeline to northern British Columbia has become a political hot potato. The secon...
www.cbc.ca
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grantbrisbee.bsky.social
Not even a Medbed can heal the hurt in Kid Rock's heart right now.
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chrisberube.bsky.social
"Oh yeah? You like baseball? What if I make you smoke *an entire pack* of baseball?"
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celebrityhottub.bsky.social
baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other