Jerry DeQuetteville

Retired. Teacher, unionist, cook, traveler, wine snob, fiercely political and partisan, opinionated, grumpy at 6 am before coffee. 🏳️‍🌈

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

My twitter days are soon coming to a close. You can follow me on bluesky. @jdeq64.bsky.social.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

@AAC0519 @MarkLevineNYC A smart ground campaign pours all the resources it has to the areas where it is needed. Getting workers out to help is how elections are won.

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

@RN_Atheist A good friend of mine is a tiny blue dot in Birmingham. You are not alone.

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

@Sflecce @YRP You know, it is possible to be a decent human and express sympathy without twisting it into a cheap political point. That is just shameless.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

TOMORROW:

[Rick Steves @RickSteves]

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist.

With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America.

If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

[The Saurus @TheSaurus831]

Really is a tough call.

On one hand - every Nobel prize winning economist is adamantly stating that Harris has a significantly better economic plan

But on the other hand - the dumbest people I’ve ever interacted with say Trump is a good businessman

Quite the dilemma

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

Murray Sinclair was a great Canadian, a great Manitoban, a great Anishinaabe. 

His career stands as a legacy of public service and a deep commitment to truth, fairness and dignity for all people. 

He was the first Indigenous person to be named to the Manitoba provincial court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba. He was the first, but he will be remembered as one of the best. 

He was appointed co-commissioner of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry, which laid bare systemic racism within the justice system and is considered a foundational perspective on the system’s relationship with Indigenous people. He led the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Inquest and his report spurred systematic change in the delivery of pediatric cardiac care in our province. 

The penultimate moment of his career was his work as chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada. He approached a process that could have been divisive and instead transformed it into Calls to Action for the future of our country, helping all Canadians to learn to walk together into a future of respect and understanding where we live up to the phrase residential school survivors taught us – Every Child Matters. 

It will be a long time before our nation produces another person the calibre of Murray Sinclair. He showed us there is no reconciliation without truth. We should hold dear in our hearts his words that our nation is on the cusp of a great new era and we must all “dare to live greatly together.” 

On behalf of the people of Manitoba, I extend my condolences to his family and to all Canadians for the loss of Mazina Giizhik. 

A sacred fire will be open to the public on the north side of the legislative building grounds until Murray Sinclair’s funeral later this week.

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.

[Rep. Casey Weinstein 🇺🇸 @RepWeinstein]

“Pro-life” would be 20 Sandy Hook students voting for the first time this election.

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

A great loss for Canada.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Murray Sinclair, former judge, TRC commissioner and senator, dies at 73
https://t.co/vEA8IBydIN

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Donald Trump is a mean, mad, cruel, sad, pompous, puny, lonely, loony, horrible, terrible, no-good, very bad, dippy, disturbed, dopey, deranged, distorted, demented, delirious, delusional, MAGAlomaniac, psychopathic, sociopathic, lead-the-whole-world-down-the-garden-pathic, egoistic, egotistic, narcisstic, solipsistic, chauvinistic, jingoistic, nihilstic, terroristic, antagonistic, opportunistic, animalistic, cannibalistic (unproven), racist, sexist, classist, ableist, isolationist, segregationist, white supremacist, homophobic, transphobic, galeophobic, bathmophobic, shameless, shameful, pitiless, pitiful, helpless, hurtful, friendless, foeful, serial defaulting, sexual assaulting, criminally addicted, thirty-four-count convicted, justice obstructor and document-hoarder and subject of court order after court order, buck-passing, bus-throwing, dog-whistling, fear-sowing, race-baiting, rage-stirring, all-hating, omni-slurring, spirit-crushing, money-hushing, secrets-blabbing, pussy-grabbing, climate-denying, Putin-complying, fast-food-scarfing, soda-snarfing, slush-fund-diverting, Epstein-frequenting, Kim Jong Un-flirting, NATO-dissenting, tchotchke-shilling self-styled Messiah, diplomacy-killing global-pariah, rebellion-provoking, complicity-cloaking, coup-stoking, bear-poking, election-losing, falsely-accusing, republic-destroying, Giuliani-employing, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, designing, dissembling, duplicitous, dubious, devious, untrusted, untruthful, treacherous, treasonous, Roget’s-thesaurus-exhaustingly traitorous, awful, unlawful, eats-crow-by-the-jawful, vain, insane, got-rocks-in-the-brain, hypocritical, parasitical, horrible-stain-on-the-body-political, bullying, bullying, bullying, stop bullying!, self-absorbed, self-admiring, self-concerned, self-important, self-obsessed, self-conceited, self-involved, self-regarding, self-seeking, self-serving, self-defeating, self-fulfilling, apparently self-loving, actually self-loathing, abusive, befuddled, corrupting, destructive, embittered, fallacious, grotesque, horrendous, indignant, judgmental, kowtowing, lethargic, malicious, neurotic, obnoxious, pathetic, quick-tempered, resentful, sadistic, tormented, upsetting, vindictive, washed-up, xenophobic, yammering, zombified, awkwardly autocratic, fecklessly fascist, totally-not-ready-for-totalitarianism, strongman except for the strong part, Mussolini without the muscle, Needy Amin, intellectually bankrupt, spiritually bankrupt, morally bankrupt, literally bankrupt, leather-jerkined, crystal-buttoned, knot-pated, caddis-gartered, sodden-witted, elvish-marked, rumbumptious, disloyal, unworthy, discouraging, unhappy, dismissive, unpleasant, disdainful, unhealthy, disinterested, uncaring, disorganized, unfeeling, rage-tweeting, misspelling, ALL CAPS ABUSING!, flat-footed, weak-kneed, yellow-bellied, lily-livered, stony-hearted, tiny-handed, sticky-fingered, “yeti-pubed”, “toadstool-penised”, thin-skinned, cold-blooded, bone-unspurred, stiff-necked, bald-faced, slack-jawed, double-tongued, foul-mouthed, snot-nosed, shifty-eyed, beetle-browed, soft-brained, narrow-minded, where-do-you-even-begin-haired, wolfish, boorish, waspish, sheepish, apeish, piggish, sluggish, slothful, catty, fishy, squirrely, weaselly, snake, skunk, cuckoo, chicken, one-term, twice-impeached, three-far-right-Justice-appointing, four-time indicted, Fifth Amendment-cowering, six-time insolvent, G7-detested, eight-year-term-limited, 9/11-valor-stealing, Ten Commandments-exploiting, Chapter Elevened, 12-member-jury convicted, angry, broken, clueless, dreary, eerie, feeble, gutless, heartless, idle, joyless, klutzy, leery, morbid, nasty, oafish, painful, queasy, rabid, shabby, tiresome, unstable, vicious, whiny, X-rated, yapping zero.

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

When MAGA loses on Tuesday.

Canada:

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

@ItsDeanBlundell There is no law on the books that legalizes abortion. The law that said it was a crime was ruled to be unconstitutional but nothing replaced it.

[Richard Todd Ivey @rtoddivey]

Texas OB-Gyns Release Letter After News of the Deaths of Josseli Barnica and Nevaeh Crain as a Result of Texas Abortion Ban

[Jerry DeQuetteville @jdeq]

@CastanetNews Yes.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

I know who I’m voting for on Tuesday.