Lawrence Kootnikoff🇺🇦🍁

Writer, journalist, former foreign correspondent, Elon Musk hater, romantic hockey fan, Canadian expat, organizer, ex pol, husband, stay-at-home dad.

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You won't find me much here these days. #Twitter was nice while it lasted, but #ElonMusk’s "X" is not worth the stress and increased, bad-tempered MAGA-ness. Life is too short...

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@chakzN07D @zenzele Tell me you’re stupid without using the word “stupid”…🤓

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https://t.co/DH7nTvrPUA via @upi

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“Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

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Scott Peters, an old friend and comrade-in-arms from my youth, died rather suddenly earlier this month. We first met in Vancouver, BC - 40 years ago - when we were both active in the youth wing of the New Democratic Party. We were going to change the world.

We organized…

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…for it directly in the partisan arena.
After I learned of Scott’s passing, there was a poem that came to my mind, that Tennyson wrote after the death of his friend:

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From the grave, Charlie thanks the Yankees for honoring him…

[KP @Kpop_Prince_]

@Yankees thank God I'm a Mets fan. Absolutely embarrassing

[Antifa_Ultras @ultras_antifaa]

Daniel Raab, a former college basketball player from a Chicago suburb who became an Israeli sniper, brags about killing two brothers in Gaza. One of the Palestinian youths only wanted to retrieve his brother’s body.

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@TheRoyGreenShow Much better to vote for a Maple MAGA Trump Tory who will do Trump’s bidding?

[ADC National @adc]

BREAKING: Trump’s executive order cancels visas of pro-Palestine student protesters, enabling deportations. Zionist groups are using AI surveillance to doxx activists and report them to ICE. ADC warns this is an unconstitutional attack on free speech. Fight back. Defend student rights.

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@BWalkerTTAGGG @Kasparov63 It is the official anthem of the 2nd International, an organization that includes such dictatorial and radical parties as the governing UK Labour Party, the German Social Democrats, Canada’s NDP, Spain’s governing PSOE, Greece’s PASOK and many others.

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@BWalkerTTAGGG @Kasparov63 I think you folks need to get educated. The “International” is not a communist anthem or a song that praises dictators. 1/2

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Oh, for God's sake...🤨

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If the people of Greenland want their territory to join America, we should accept them!

[Lawrence Kootnikoff🇺🇦🍁 @kootnikoff]

@PiperK Wow, Piper! Seems like you hit a sore spot!😎

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Let’s see if this will rattle any of the Elon-Muscovites that have taken over this place…

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@ThunderChicken @geno_kusa Doesn’t matter, Chicken - parents’ status is irrelevant, if you’re born here, you’re a citizen.

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@MyHealtyPatriot @howsthat1959 @geno_kusa Dude, wrong! Fourteenth Amendment: Doesn’t matter who his parents are - if you’re born here you’re an American citizen, period.

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@howsthat1959 @geno_kusa Fourteenth Amendment: Doesn’t matter who his parents are - if you’re born here you’re an American citizen, period.

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@TimothyDSnyder Prof. Snyder: Wondering why you are still using "X"? I and many others (mainly progressives) gave up on it long ago, and it seems to have a lot more MAGA types than ever. Do you still find it useful?