Stuart Chambers

Prof (University of Ottawa), critical thinking, intellectual pluralism, reality-based community, free speech, lover of prog rock, Halloween obsessed.

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@progrocksongs The song "Trilogy."

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@20th_Centurygal The song "The Dead Next Door" by Billy Idol is haunting on the album Rebel Yell.

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@marillion073 Top 4.

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@nookyelur She's Adolf Hitler incarnate.

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@saga_rocks The greatest keyboardist Canada ever produced. Happy Birthday-Day!

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What's astonishing is that Bari Weiss gets goose pimples about a Trump policy but forgets how much destruction his fascist tendencies will cause. Bari Weiss always was and remains a toxic troll.

[Bari Weiss @bariweiss]

"So tumultuous was the first week of Donald Trump’s second term that people have barely noticed, a week on, that last Tuesday he repealed affirmative action by executive order. That is astonishing.

For half a century, affirmative action has been the federal government’s principal instrument for carrying out desegregation, the longest and costliest moral crusade in American history. After the 1970s it was adapted to liberation movements, from feminism to gay rights. Supreme Court justices anguished over the way its call for special consideration of minorities might clash with the letter of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which barred racial discrimination. Over the past decade affirmative action became the hammer of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) movement, which grew so unpopular that it has now brought affirmative action (and much else) down with it.

Trump’s decision to repeal it is the most significant policy change of this century—more significant than the Affordable Care Act of 2010 or anything done about Covid. How can people be talking about anything else? Yet major news outlets treat Trump’s bold move as a detail of personnel management: “Distress and Fury as Trump Upends Federal Jobs,” headlined The New York Times.

Somewhere along the line, the Trump administration came to understand in a sophisticated way how the enforcement of civil rights actually works. Not many Americans do—and it’s worth reviewing."

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How the children of Gaza died: "Many in their own homes, on shaking earth, among the cacophony and screeches of bombs, then either pulverised or smothered, to be pulled out dusted grey in complexion, or in pieces to be gathered in plastic bags." https://t.co/JDeRyREgHN...

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@marillion073 Top 4 albums ever made by Yes: CTTE, Tales, Relayer, GFTO.

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Brilliant melody and chord progressions from the one and only, Jordan Rudess: https://t.co/krFTATQjwi

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Sad to hear about the passing of former Whitesnake and Blue Murder musician John Sykes. He was a great guitarist with a pure voice. He will be sadly missed. The song "She Knows" was a favourite of mine: https://t.co/FIBkQPrTpo

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@mitchlafon @davidcoverdale @ThinLizzy_ @tygersofpantang A brilliant musician. RIP, John Sykes.

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The problem with conservatives like Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, and Charles Murray is that they break every rule of honest dialogue. What they say/write isn't fair, isn't accurate, and doesn't persuade fair-minded people interested in good-faith arguments.

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@iyahmaymusic @dclarkOboro @RealAlexJones I would caution about the source here. Alex Jones is a pathological liar who denied the Sandy Hook shootings, and RFK Jr. is unreliable in many of his claims. The link could be purely correlative. There are bigger fish to fry.

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@iyahmaymusic Wise words.

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Starting with all members of the AfD and its sympathizers.

[Anne-Sylvaine Chassany @ChassNews]

Co-leader of Germany’s far-right AfD calls for mass deportations via @FT
⁦@laurapitel⁩ https://t.co/JCOCp4WjN7

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Canadians never believed a word ever written by the Toronto Sun.

[Toronto Sun @TheTorontoSun]

LEDREW: Canadians no longer believe a word Justin Trudeau says https://t.co/Q9Qfz05vQS

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@marillion073 It's what got me to love YES.

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@marillion073 It's one of their best. Phenomenal music.

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@GenTXer2 Black Doves: crazy spy series.

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More convoy protesters found guilty. Keep it coming! https://t.co/WTwYqbyGbK