Matt Hodgson
@mhodgson6.bsky.social
Criminal defense lawyer Former Naval Officer Twitter refugee Movie and book nerd Springsteen super-fan Oxford comma proponent Student of History. Hoping to avoid repeating it. ELBOWS UP 👊🇨🇦🔥
Greece is burning. Spain is burning. Sicily, Wales, Türkiye, Canada, the US— the entire planet is engulfed in flames. Decades of warnings ignored. Decades of corporate denial exposed. The science was right all along: our home is on fire. We need immediate, radical climate action.
Started an Andor re-watch. Fantastic show. Watching the opposition to the fascist state begin to coalesce is heartening. #Andor #StarWars
The SWU 🔜 #RebelScumCon@theswu.bsky.social · 2y ago#Andor continues to be relevant.
Putin's Fate Could Be Tsar Nicholas II's Yes, there are some parallels. I can't say I'm confident this will happen, but I'm certainly hopeful.
Putin’s Fate Could Be Tsar Nicholas II’s
Today, Russia is on a collision course with economic and military reality. While Putin continues his maximalist demands for total control of Ukraine and to turn it into a vassal state for his Neo…
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Systems are crumbling – but daily life continues. The dissonance is real
Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it
Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for
theguardian.com
A Chilean salmon farm now draws about 57% of its power from panels laid over the water, cutting roughly 136,000 litres of diesel a year and silencing the generators. With the noise gone, thousands of salmon have gathered in the shade beneath the arrays. Ecoportal buff.ly/CwczkbP #ShareGoodNewsToo
An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home
An island in Chile covered its waters with floating solar panels. Soon, thousands of salmon had turned them into their home and were all thriving.
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"Just as Putin and Netanyahu will live out the rest of their days knowing the threat of arrest could lie just around the corner, Trump fears this might be his fate. He cannot be allowed to escape it."
Trump says he will dismantle the ICC ‘brick by brick’. It could be his most chilling move of all | Steve Bloomfield
The US is aligning itself with dictators and autocrats to prevent those accused of genocide, ethnic cleansing and war crimes from ever facing justice, says Steve Bloomfield, former international edito...
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Canadian premiere Scott Eby: I feel sorry for Americans. If you can't be friends with Canada, you don't have a friend anywhere in the world".
Has David Brouillette been charged with the murder of Johan Guerrero yet? #ICE
Saw Buddy Guy at Massey Hall tonight. At 90, he still put on great show. With a twinkle in his eye and a smile on his face.
Meanwhile in America, summary headshot executions of brown drivers continue apace.
Witness says Biddeford shooting victim told police ‘I tried to stop’
One resident says he heard the shots and saw as agents pulled the man out of the vehicle.
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Every GOP hack as a distance glazes their eyes: “Lindsay Graham was the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I have ever known.”
Our Conservative politicians are becoming more MAGA-fied every day with their faux-macho posturing. And treason.
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · 4w agocan't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."
It really seems like Trump is setting up the US for an attack. Intelligence dismantled. Military leadership sacked en masse. Weapons systems depleted. Allies alienated. Comms and intelligence systems opened wide to foreign governments. Entire regime open to financial extortion.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING on MS NOW: Dozens of intel officials have started receiving notice of their terminations under Trump's unqualified acting DNI, Bill Pulte. The individuals are officials "who they believe are deep state" and whom leadership claims have not provided complete pictures of available intel.
Frak off, MAGA. You'll find a wall of maple...with us on the other side. Happy Canada Day from Bryan Adams!
Bryan Adams - '51st State' (Official Lyric Video)
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Dred Scott v. Sandford. 1857 Plessy v. Ferguson. 1896 Trump v. Slaughter. 2026 This court will be long remembered.
Fox News normalizing the idea of invading Canada for millions of Americans.
Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · last mo.Watters: Iran was never supposed to be a forever war. It was a precise and lethal operation. Trump took a shot, got the deal, and got out. Now we can book our next excursion. Cuba. Greenland, maybe. Or our 51st state, Canada.
This is a crime. They are running down protestors with impunity. Your news networks cover less and less...self censorship has become the norm. Where is the justice? Meanwhile, Renee Good's murderer has become a millionaire through online fundraising and walks free.
Malena-PRO-CHOICE 🌊 🟦🟧Fighting Tyranny!@malena.bsky.social · last mo.A woman who's an advocate from Minnesota was run over yesterday at Delaney Hall in New Jersey. Protesters were honoring the fathers imprisoned there. Those who witnessed the attack say that the vehicle belongs to a security guard at the facility. Talk about #ICELawlessness with everyone you know!
She speaks a lot of truth. Is intelligent, articulate, and rational. Should be in higher office.
Mack Butterfield@mack2114.bsky.social · 2mo agoNo lies detected.
Incredible. Strongly suggest that you read the article.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis is bombshell stuff.
What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
What Desperate Regimes Do Before They Fall
Donald Trump is already telling us he’s going to try to steal the 2026 election, and the fact that he’s saying it now, months in advance, is the whole tell. Back in February he stood up and declared…
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"The World Cup host is simultaneously bombing the second-ranked country in Group G, having recently murdered its head of state...has initiated six military conflicts, and brutally divisive immigration policies have now led to the barring of the reigning African referee of the year."
Welcome to Trump’s World Cup, a depressingly angry version of football uniting the planet | Barney Ronay
Ted Lasso will deliver a message of hope before the USA’s first game, in an America that is not a fit or desirable host right now
theguardian.com
We need ~30 years of data from the AMOC to be able to finally determine if it's actually collapsing. We're at 20 years of data. Removing this now means we can't definitively determine a potential AMOC collapse that could result in substantial climate disruptions. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
Tump administration to remove 900 deep sea monitoring instruments that would have studied the collapsing Atlantic current
The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade
livescience.com
Wish I could go, but I don't think I'll visit the USA again in my lifetime. Bruuuuuuuuce!
"Say something! Do something!": Bruce Springsteen’s tour is a call to action
The "Land of Hope and Dreams" tour is a rock 'n' roll narrative about collective action in dangerous times.
salon.com
