David Hamer
@davidhamer1951.bsky.social
Happily retired after 35 years at the Bar. Husband to one, Dad to two, and Grandfather to four. (Ontario & Merton, 1974) 🍁🇺🇦🍁
Just the perfect bit of indigenous 🇨🇦Canadiana. 🥹
Historica Canada@historicacanada.bsky.social · yesterday#OTD in 1914, Canada entered the First World War. While serving a Dispatch Carrier during the First World War, long distance runner Tom Longboat was escorting an officer who struggled to keep up and complained "Who do you think I am? Tom Longboat?" buff.ly/EE1V9cK
“In London cyclists now outnumber cars in the City by 2 to 1. Paris, where they now outnumber motorists across the whole city, is catching up with Europe’s traditional bike capitals, Amsterdam & Copenhagen…In Copenhagen, bikes account for almost half of commuter trips to work/school.” @economist.com
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
Pedal power is booming, spinning up a new culture war
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🇺🇸USA gun culture is so deeply embedded they can’t even do anything effective to stop suicide by firearm, their leading cause of death by gun. It’s just “cowboy up” for them. The 🍁gun cult wants to bring that culture here. They must be stopped. 🤔🧐😠 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
Opinion | The Suicide Crisis in Wyoming (Gift Article)
Wyoming has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation.
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Sometimes as you move into August, Lake Huron just kind of breaks your heart. August 4, 2026
In which Mr. Coyne demonstrates how unutterably stupid one Tristin Hopper of the neofascist National Post truly is. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼
Happy 65th Birthday, August 4th, to the best President in US History. The black man "they" feared, led with humor, dignity & grace for 8 yrs scandal-free, has a beautiful & accomplished family, and is beloved by millions around the world. @barackobama.bsky.social #BarackObama #ThePeoplesPresident
“Confidence in PM to get a good deal declines,” trumpets far right pollster @AngusReidInstitute.bsky.social. Nowhere in their detailed report do they mention petulant peewee piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s rock bottom approval numbers. 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 angusreid.org/wp-content/u...
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🇺🇸USA judges doing the right thing. 🇨🇦👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇨🇦 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
As retired US judges, we’re not used to speaking out. But we cannot be silent | Michael P Donnelly and Robert F Orr
We joined a recent bus tour of 30 judges, lawyers and advocates fighting not for any partisan aim, but for the rule of law itself
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A storied firm of zealous litigators was transformed by new corporate partners into a troop of Trump toadies. A disgrace for the profession. 😠 www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/u...
How a Top Law Firm Went From Standing Up to Trump to Bending the Knee (Gift Article)
Paul Weiss was a progressive stalwart for decades and led the legal resistance against President Trump in his first term. Then it surrendered without a fight. This is the inside story of its transform...
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That’s the thing about Lake Huron. After a rainy, grey day indoors, she can, at the last minute, produce trails of glory. 🙏🏻🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🙏🏻
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
David Frum Said This July 30 2026. Frum Was The Former Speech Writer For George W. Bush........
Conservatives are all over Twitter having nervous breakdowns about the electorate’s repudiation of petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre. Screaming at Trudeau with 10 year old peeves, yelling at Andrew Coyne, slandering Carney, scratching one another’s eyes out. And they want to run a country. 🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼
A three-part 🇺🇸USA gun tragedy that could easily happen in 🇨🇦Canada too. Especially with our 🍁gun cult working tirelessly to import 🇺🇸USA gun addiction here. 🙄😔🙄 A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
You want to talk pipelines? Well, why doesn’t Enbridge finally bite the bullet and build an all-🇨🇦Canadian line? Enough with this 🇺🇸USA dependency! 🤷🏼🙄🤷🏼 www.thestar.com/news/world/u...
Michigan Supreme Court rejects permit for Enbridge oil pipeline under Great Lakes
The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered state regulators to reconsider a key permit that allowed a planned tunnel to carry an oil pipeline under part of the Great Lakes to
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The den of grifters 👇🏻 at the heart of Reform in the UK. You know, the far-right party of BREXIT, so beloved by petulant piffleswipe Pierre Poilievre’s 🇨🇦Conservatives? 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
Nigel Farage’s £5m gift, the Cottrell family’s links and donations, and Richard Tice’s business dealings form part of an increasingly clear nexus of relationships
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🇺🇸US citizens doing the right thing. 🙏🏻👏🏻 👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻 open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
Sunday thought: Real Patriotism
From Texas to North Carolina
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Now it’s not the reflecting pool, it was the adjacent grass that was vandalized. ‘Distracted from distraction by distraction.’ - T. S. Eliot
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is truly a sick individual.
Mr. Frum skilfully eviscerates all the anti-vaxxers, COVID liars and Fauci persecutors in @TheAtlantic.com. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Anthony Fauci Is Not the Villain in This Story
The doctor was thrust into his pandemic-leadership role because of Trump’s deadly dereliction of duty.
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The 🇺🇸Nazi USA has a lying fool for a president. 😂😂😂😂😂 In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath www.nytimes.com/2026/08/01/u...
In Dropping Reflecting Pool Case, Pirro Draws Trump’s Wrath (Gift Article)
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney in Washington, blamed shoddy construction, contradicting President Trump’s pet theory. Mr. Trump said he disagreed “100%” with her.
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Jeesh: The Conservative caucus in Ottawa continues to advertise itself as the most bizarre collection of nutbar weirdos in the history of 🍁Canadian politics. Here’s one Dean Allison, MP for Niagara West, believe it or not 👇🏻 🤷😉🤭😂🤷
So is Warren Kinsella actually suggesting that Olivia Chow is paying Chris Alexander big $$$ to run for Mayor against her and Brad Bradford? 🤷🏼🤔🤷🏼
Classic 🍁gun cult logic: getting shot in the head by some random stranger is comparable to consenting to a dignified death with the help of a MAID provider. 🤷🙄🤷
Doyenne of the 🍁gun cult, high mucky muck at the Canadian Coalition for “Firearm Rights” and resident of Ottawa, grinds teeth over prospect of far right vote split in Toronto mayoralty race. 🤷🤭🤷
