Ralph Coram

Jazz Clubs Visual History Project; Canadian Jazz Archives Network

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

Honored that my Toronto Jazz Clubs exhibition has been officially nominated for the 2019 Heritage Toronto Awards in the Public History category. Thanks to The Market Gallery and all those who supported and attended the show. #notesinthenight
https://t.co/IuImyTdFiM

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@Anni_24_ Lubricants and additive would not be in plastic containers

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

A revealing take on Trump’s Greenland strategy - it’s all about rare earth minerals!

[Josh Wolfe @wolfejosh]

https://t.co/G7GNgKIdLx

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@joshryanjames @theonly1ghost Grog was a hairy character in the “B.C.” Comicstrip

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@acoyne It’s called a kakistocracy - rule of society by the most incompetent

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

It’s not just Comey. Probably other dissenters will be singled out for intimidation

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Donald Trump Jr. literally redefined what 86 meant and Trump then went on TV to reinforce it just so the administration and MAGA could use their agencies to go after people like me who dissent.

It’s intimidation. It’s what happens in dictatorships.

MAGA has used “86” to call for Biden’s removal. They literally sell t-shirts with 8646 on Amazon.

But now they conveniently redefine it to use lawfare against their opponents.

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@TaraBull808 Most look like they need Ozempic

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@CBCOntarioToday Young voters embracing right- wing parties will lead to austerity and over reliance on markets - the source of the affordability crisis and housing prices

[Allison Smith @QueensParkToday]

NEW: UofT has hired three prominent Yale profs worried about the second Trump administration

Fascism scholar Jason Stanley & historians Timothy Snyder & Marci Shore have taken jobs in Toronto

Shore tells me her & Snyder plan to stay for the "long-term"
https://t.co/hr2wgCaHxY

[Stephen Maher @stphnmaher]

I have decided that we ought to keep an eye on US-owned publications in Canada to see if they seem to be promoting the views of the annexationists who threaten our continued existence

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@politvidchannel Apple and other companies are about to do the same

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is Ann Telnaes, a longtime political cartoonist for the Washington Post. She resigned yesterday after owner Jeff Bezos blocked her cartoon criticizing Donald Trump and billionaires supporting him from being published.

RETWEET if you stand with @AnnTelnaes!

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@peggy_blair Media may not get that purple is symbolic - remember Hilary and Bill wore it at her concession speech

[Brent Erickson @BErickson_BIO]

Timothy Snyder "Imagine that you are a foreign leader who wishes to destroy the United States.  How could you do so?  The easiest way would be to get Americans to do the work themselves, to somehow induce Americans to undo their own health, law, administration, defense, and intelligence.  From this perspective, Trump's proposed appointments -- Kennedy, Jr.; Gaetz; Musk; Ramaswamy; Hegseth; Gabbard -- are perfect instruments.  They combine narcissism, incompetence, corruption, sexual incontinence, personal vulnerability, dangerous convictions, and foreign influence as no group before them has done.  These proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
I do not defend the status quo. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Department of Defense and the Food and Drug Administration require reform.  But such a reform, of these or other agencies, would have to be guided by people with knowledge and experience, who cared about their country, and who had a vision of improvement.  That is simply not what is happening here.  We are confronted instead with a group of people who, were they to hold the positions they have been assigned, could bring an end to the United States of America."

[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@MNecomb @politvidchannel Lots of unusual openings of high level windows

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

“I say all of this not in anger, but in deep and profound sorrow. For centuries, the United States has been a beacon of democracy and reasoned self-government, in part because the Framers understood the dangers of demagogues and saw fit to construct a system with safeguards to keep such men from undermining it, and because our people and their leaders, out of respect for the common good and the people of this country, adhered to its rules and norms. The system was never perfect, but it inched toward its own betterment, albeit in fits and starts. But in the end, the system the Framers set up—and indeed, all constitutional regimes, however well designed—cannot protect a free people from themselves.”

[Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones]

We must not delude ourselves in this moment. Multiracial democracy in the United States is less than 60 years old. It has always been contested, often violently so. It has always been fragile. Since this nation's inception large swaths of white Americans -- including white women -- have claimed a belief in democracy while actually enforcing a white ethnocracy. In the face of shifting demographics where white Americans will lose their numeric majority, we see a growing embrace of autocracy to keep the "legitimate" rulers of this country in power. History teaches us that we are in a perilous moment.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

30 years ago, I gave a speech warning of a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group of Americans left behind, whose anger and whose disillusionment could be easily manipulated.

We're seeing the ramifications of this yet again.

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

In the last 4 years, American food prices have gone up by 22%. Like I'm sorry, but running a campaign on the threat to democracy when people are unable to afford staple groceries was completely bonkers.

[Thread Reader App @threadreaderapp]

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[Ralph Coram @RRCoram]

@frankmagonline Should be Pee-Pee